<TITLE>13. Par 136-146</TITLE>L-136 Look. I want to ask you. In the garden of Eden there was no Scriptures written. And then the two boys, Cain and Abel, and they both wanted to make a sacrifice and to find favor with God. When they did so, Cain come and built an altar; Abel built an altar. Well, if that's all God requires, God will be unjust to condemn Cain. All right. Then Cain made a sacrifice; so did Abel. Both of them made a sacrifice. Cain worshipped, and so did Abel. Cain did everything that Abel did.
So if going to church, belonging to church, making sacrifices, and praying, and worshipping God is all God requires, then God would be unjust to condemn Cain for doing exactly what He said to do.

L-138 But, you see, Abel, by a revelation, he knowed that it wasn't fruit that brought them out of the garden of Eden, as many carnal minds think today. Abel come and offered the fruit of the land, and God refused it, but it was revealed... I mean Cain did, excuse me. Cain offered the fruit of the land, 'cause he thought that's what brought them out of the garden of Eden. Watch that revelation. Watch the disagreement with it. Watch how it hurts today. But it was not fruit that brought them out. Eve never eat no apples. Certainly. How did she realize she was naked, if eating apples? It pertained to the sexual life: had to.

L-139 Now, we take that as a study, and we have, get back into... They haven't got one Scripture.
Some of them say, "Well, she said, 'I got a son from the Lord.'" Yes, sir; so did the prostitute; God has to make all life. But it's a perverted life; look at the nature of that boy. He was of his daddy, the devil: hatred, mean, murder. See?
And then how Abel... When they--his parents probably told them that it--it... The trees had fruit on it and so forth. But it was revealed to Abel. Abel went and got a lamb for blood, taking life, not a fruit tree, bringing apples, and bananas and pears. "But Abel, by a spiritual revelation," Hebrews 11, "offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice, God testifying of it, for it was revealed to him by faith."

L-143 That's where God built His church. "For flesh and blood never revealed This to... (You never learned it in a seminary. Somebody never taught It to you somewhere.) But My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you." There the whole thing is on revelation, the whole church, "Upon this rock of revelation of Jesus Christ, I'll build My church."
You might take what the pastor says. You might take what the seminary teaches. You might take what the church says. And it's not right yet. You might be able to explain it with eloquence. But until God has revealed to you that Jesus Christ is His Son and you are saved through His Blood, upon that revelation that "He is my Saviour."...
"Upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against It."

L-146 So then you see why Satan is so against the Book of Revelation. Anything that's revealed, spiritual revelation, Satan's against it. That's why he's so against the ministry today. Because... What is it? The revealing of Christ.
Let the church go on with its great denominations, and organizations, and its little flowerly messages, and so forth. Let them go on; Satan won't bother that. They don't have no troubles. Everybody pats them on the back.
And there comes a time that God, through the Holy Ghost, reveals Christ back in the church with the power and demonstrations of healing the sick, and making the signs that He said would follow the believers come to pass, then Satan turns over in his bed; he does something about it. Until that time, Satan don't care how much church you join. He don't care how much. But when Christ reveals to you that He is the Son of God and the works that He did you do also; not some other works, but the same works...


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