<TITLE>08. Par 58-65</TITLE>L-58 Now, I'll bypass right here for another lesson sometime, on the seed of the serpent. Which they asked me to recall that. Let me see somebody come and show me something different. That's what I want to know. See?
Now, but then after all this, then when sin set in, what takes place?
Way up yonder above, a million, hundred million miles, there's a space that big, and that is perfect agapao love. Every time you make a step this way, it narrows a inch. And you know how little it would be time it got to the earth. It's a shadow of the shadow of the shadows. That's what you have; that's what I have: a shadow of shadow of shadows of agapao love.

L-61 There's something in you; there's something in every woman in here past twenty; there's something in every man in here past twenty, that would long to remain. You've only got five years; that's from fifteen to twenty. After twenty you start dying. But from fifteen, you're just an adolescent child till then. And then you mature up to you're twenty... And after twenty, oh, you say, "I'm just as good a man." You just say that, but you're not. You're dying and you're burning away, no matter what you do. God made you up to that age, but then you're going to die. Now, what happens? Now, you start dying, but in there there's something in you that says, "I want to be eighteen again."

L-62 Now, I want to ask you something. What if you was born five hundred years ago and you remained eighteen years old until today? If you wouldn't be an antique with your ideas of five hundred years ago, before the pilgrim fathers ever come over here, and you were a young lady with that kind of an idea. Why, you'd be better off just to went ahead and got old and lived five hundred years. See, there's something wrong.
You say, "Well, right now I feel pretty good, Brother Branham. Oh, I'm--I'm--I'm eighteen; I'm sixteen, I feel good." Honey, let me tell you something. How do you know that your mother's a-living at this minute, if she's not in this church? How do you know that your boyfriend didn't get killed just a few minutes ago, or your girlfriend? How do you know that in the morning you won't be a corpse in your house? How do you know you're going out of the church tonight alive? It's such an uncertainty. There's nothing certain. If you're fifteen, twelve, nineteen, seventy-five, or ninety, there's--everything's uncertain. You don't know where you're standing. But yet you long to go back to fifteen, eighteen. What makes you do that?

L-64 Now, if you go back to eighteen and remain there, and never be sick and never be... You'd have to have other people with you, because you'd outgrow it. See? People would go on in other ages and you'd be an antique. You'd be worse than it--you would be if you went old with them. But there's something that calls for you to be there. That's that little agapao, that little shadow that makes you... Something above here...

L-65 Now, the other night, or the other morning, at seven o'clock, when the Holy Spirit, by His goodness and His grace, taken me from this body, I believe (I believe. Yes or no, I don't say.), and entered into that land and saw those people, and they were all young. And I seen the prettiest people I ever seen in my life. And He said to me, "Some of them was ninety years old. They're your converts. No wonder they're screaming, 'My brother, my brother'"
Now, that is a celestial body, that when we die we don't become a myth; we become a body. If we'd every one die, if the atomic bomb would blow us up at this minute, in five minutes from now we'd be shaking one another's hands and hugging their neck, and screaming, and carrying on, and glorifying God. Yes, sir. And Brother and Sister Spencer setting here, I guess one of the oldest couples in here, will be eighteen, twenty years old. Brother Neville will be just a young boy, and I'd be a young kid. And we'd just all be... That's exactly this truth. "If this earthly tabernacle of habitation be dissolved, we have one already waiting."


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