<TITLE>23. Par 198-204</TITLE>L-198 Notice, in a half circle, half's not yet been known. Now, surely these things represent something.
Now, in Exodus 23:13 and in Hebrews 6:12, God made a covenant with Himself and swore by Himself. Hebrews 13 tells us that, or 9:13, that He swore by Himself. There was no greater to swear by when He told Abraham and Isaac, there He told Abraham that He'd make a covenant with him, an everlasting covenant. God...
A covenant is always made by an oath, so there's nobody... You take an oath by somebody greater than you; take an oath by your mother, take an oath by your nation, take an oath by something, take an oath by God. But you can't take an oath unless it's somebody greater than you.
And there was nobody greater than God, so He took an oath Himself, by Himself (Amen.), swearing by Himself that He would confirm this covenant. Amen. Oh. Whew. Swear by it, He would preserve the Seed of Abraham. What is the Seed of Abraham to the Gentile? The baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Seed of Abraham. Swore by Himself, "I'll raise them, every one, up. I'll give them Eternal Life and place them back here on the earth." What we got to hur--to think about?

L-202 So we see Him in the circle bow of green, amber color. This greenish, what does green represent? Life. Green is the evergreen, always stays green, is life. What does it mean? That God has promised, as He took a oath back there in Genesis, that He would no--put the rainbow in the sky, that He would no more destroy this world by water. He also takes His oath and swears by Himself, that all the Seed of Abraham He'll raise up, and this world will stand all of its shaking judgments. The judgments we're going through on the future lessons we got coming, will show you where that this world will belch and turn into volcanics, and blow to pieces, and upside down and everything. But He swears by Himself that He'll not destroy it, but He'll smooth her off again and put His children on the earth for that millennium. Oh, my.
I'm watching for the coming of that glad millennium day,
When our blessed Lord shall come and catch His waiting Bride away;
Oh, my heart is longing, crying for that day of sweet release,
When our Saviour shall come back to earth again.
Oh, how we are longing to see that day; He promised the great millennium would come. And another thing, the reason He was surrounded, He is a covenant-keeping God. He will keep His covenant.

L-204 Now, let's get the next verse anyhow. My, we want to get one more, and we got just about ten, fifteen minutes to do it. Are you too tired? You want to go ahead? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
All right, let's take the 4th verse:
And around about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders setting, clothed with white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
We may not get all the way through that verse, but let's start the 4th verse. Look now, when John saw Him, that emerald color around Him; we got all the colors, the rainbows, and so forth, and what it all was about. Now, on the 4th verse, first thing he speaks of here, on the 4th verse...
And around about the throne...
Watch. It's such a beautiful picture here; don't miss it. The throne...


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