<TITLE>14. Par 138-146</TITLE>L-138 Now, watch, here's the first place to the church Jesus ever spoke of, and the--on into the Revelation is the last.
And he said, Some say... thou art John the Baptist: and some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, and other... and--and... or one of the prophets.
He said unto--unto them... (the whole, entire group)... But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (Oh, my.)
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon--Simon Bar-jonas:... flesh and blood has not revealed this to thee, but My Father which is in heaven.
Oh, my. "You never got this from a seminary. There was no other way you ever got this, Simon, the son of Jonas; the only way you got it, was a spiritual revelation that was revealed to you from heaven that I am He." Jesus said, "If you don't believe I'm He, you'll die in your sins. (That's exactly right.) I am He."
I say... unto thee,... thou art Peter,... upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't prevail against it.
What is It? Spiritual, spiritual, the spiritual truth, the Word of the Lord.

L-141 Now, we find out that in this great revelation that God gave here to the church in this last days, that God sent and reveals Himself the open Door between the two ages. It wasn't in the--the Laodicean age; neither was it in this other age, the Philadelphian age; but it was in between, the lapover, 'cause the... I'll prove it in just a little farther down, and you'll get it. You see? We'll make it rich, so sure that you can't keep from seeing it, if you just want to see it. See? All right.
Now, the revelation of Himself is where He's built His church. How many knows that to be true now? He built His church upon the revelation of Himself.

L-143 All right. Now, what did He say? "No man can shut it."
I know Thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door,...
What is the open door? The revelation of the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. What did He say to His first church back here, back in this age? He said, "I am He that was, which is, and shall come. I am the First and the Last. I am the Almighty." He said it three different times, made Hisself Deity to this first church here; before He went into the last church age, He said, "I've set before you an open door." If you want to see the revelation, here it is, where He'd build His church. And the only way He could take His church, is back to the revelation of what He is. Truly.

L-144 Look. When Abraham made a covenant--or God made a covenant with Abraham that day that he said, "How will these things be, seeing that I'm old, and my only heir is--is this Damascus servant I've got here, Eliezer?" Said, "I'm old, and You promised me a child. How will You do it? How will it be done?"
And remember he went to sleep; a deep sleep fell upon him like every man does: death. And then he noticed, before him went a--a smoking furnace; every sinner deserves to go to hell. He had killed a beast, a heifer, a she goat, and a ram, and a turtledove, and a pigeon. He never separated the turtledove and pigeon. And then this little white Light went before there, and went back and forth between these cut pieces of animal, confirming the covenant with Abraham.

L-146 Now, in Japan, if there happened to be a Japanese person here, you know how they make a covenant in Japan? They throw salt on one another. Get a little cruse of salt, and set down there, they talk, "Will you do so-and-so?"
"Yeah, I'll do so-and-so." Then they make a covenant, get some salt, and throw it on one, 'cause salt is a preserver. See? All right. They throw salt on one another; that's a covenant.
In America, how we make a covenant here, we say, "Well, will you do a certain thing?"
"I'll do a certain thing." And first thing you know, we shake one another's hand, "Shake on it." That's a covenant.


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