<TITLE>15. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 When Abraham... When He was confirming the oath, you notice He said, "Take Me a sheave--a sheep, a ram; give Me a ram, and also give Me a heifer of three years. And take these..." And he split them in half, laid them on the side. He said, "Take ye a turtledove and a young pigeon."
But did you notice... I wish we had time to go into it. I'm watching that clock. And I'm... I don't want to get away from my subject, but Abraham took...
Said, "Take the two... or turtledove and the pigeon."

L-55 Now, the turtledove was always, represented or was an atonement for sickness. See, the doves was not separated; the others was separated, because the--the covenant with the Gospel was changed from law to grace, but Divine healing has always remained the same. For leprosy cured, they took a pigeon or a dove, and cut its head off, and poured the blood over on the other one, and it went forth for the cleansing of leprosy, sprinkling, crying "Holy".
Now, notice in this, the doves wasn't separated. Now, notice the symbol Oh, my. I hope you get this. On... When God... Abraham watched all the birds off of it, the fowls of the air, until it--the sun begin to go down. And when the sun went down, meaning time shall be no more. There a deep sleep fell upon Abraham, as does every mortal that's born in the earth: We go into the sleep of death. You do not die; you just go and change your dwelling places.

L-56 Now, a deep sleep fell upon Abraham, and he looked, and before him went a--a smoking furnace. Every sinner that dies and every man that's born in this world comes through sexual birth; it's subject to death. We're all sinned and come short of the glory of God, and every man is born in this world a sinner. I don't care how holy your parents was, you come to this world the same way a sinner or anybody else comes. We are... You are sinful. "We are born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies," says the Word. You're--you're--you're whipped to begin with.
And then, every mortal that dies, hell is his resting place. That's all the rest he gets; that come before Abraham. Notice, then beyond that, after death comes hell, but beyond hell come a little white Light. Oh, my. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. That little white Light passed up-and-down between those sacrifices.
He said, "You see, Abraham, what I'm going to do?" He was confirming the covenant with Abraham. Now, maybe I'll explain that quickly.

L-57 Now today, we Americans, how do we do when we confirm a covenant? We go and make a business deal; the first thing you know, I'll reach out and grab a hold of the fellow's hand and say, "Shake on it." That's the way we make a covenant: "Shake. Shake hands. We confirmed it; that's right; we'll agree upon that." That's a covenant.
Now, in Japan... You know how they make a covenant there? They talk it all over, and then get a little saucer full of salt and throw salt on one another. That's a covenant in Japan.

L-58 But in the days of Abraham in the Orient, the way they made a covenant was to take a beast, like a sheep or something, and kill it and cut it apart; and each one went in between these two pieces of the beast. Now, see what the little white Light was doing? And they wrote this covenant: "I do agree to do such and such, and such and such."
Now, when they held this covenant between them, they said, "If we break this covenant... If we break this covenant, let our bodies be as this dead beast that we take it over." Then they took the covenant, and they tore it apart like that, one taking one piece and one another. They could never be duplicated.
You can never duplicate that piece of paper, no matter what you do. It's got to come right back and coincide, the pieces of letter that's tore between. You'd never be able to do it. One carries one and one the other. And when this covenants is confirmed and brought--the oath is confirmed, then they bring these two pieces back together, and they match piece by piece.


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