<TITLE>13. Par 103-105</TITLE>L-103 ... sprinkle it... eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle... the blood with his finger seven times.
Oh, isn't that beautiful? "Seven times towards the east." What is it? The seven church ages shall be covered by the Blood. Hallelujah. Jesus Christ's Blood just as sufficient, yesterday, today, and forever, and to every age, to save every sinner, heal every sick person, bring every miracle, every sign to pass: "seven times." Way back yonder in the Old Testament, fourteen hundred and ninety years before Christ come, think of it. Symbol...
... seven times shall...
Then shall he kill the goat... the sin-offering, that is for the people, and bring His Blood with the... in the veil, to do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock,... sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because the... of the uncleanliness of the children of Israel, and because of their trespasses in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them that is in the midst of their uncleanliness.
What was it? The mercy seat where they knelt? And there inside of the ark was the what? The law. And the law, to trespass one commandment was to die without mercy. But being that you could have mercy, the blood had to lay on the altar. They sprinkled the mercy seat. And the mercy seat is the altar where you kneel and ask for mercy. God forbid that we ever take it from our churches, the old fashion altar where men can kneel and call on God for mercy. And mercy is rich and flowing free from the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Now, also that's the mercy. That's mercy seat.

L-105 But you notice in here, it was not mercy seat, for there was lightnings, and thunder, and voices. There's no lightning and thunders at mercy. That's judgment.
Let's turn to Exodus, 19th chapter of Exodus and the 16th verse. Exodus, 19th chapter of Exodus and let's begin with the 16th verse.
And it came to pass... (Listen what... When God ascended up on Mount Sinai...) And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunder and lightning, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the voice of a trumpet exceedingly loud;... (What is the voice of the trumpet? The archangel.)... so that all the people... (Listen.)... all the people... was in the camp trembled.
Judgment... Whew. They'd marched out there, and God had given them grace to travel by; but they had demanded a law. They... God wanted them to be interdenomination; they wanted to make a denomination out of it, something they could argue about, instead of just following God and living under His jurisdiction, under His power. Grace had provided a prophet; grace had provided an atonement (a lamb); grace had provided all these things, and yet they wanted judgment. They wanted something they could do.
God said, "Assemble them together, I'll let them know what it is. I'll show them what it is." Read. Listen. And the voice of the trumpet got louder and louder until it shook the earth. You see what judgment is? I don't want that. Give me mercy. And the...
[Someone asks, "Brother Branham?"--Ed.] Yes. [The brother asks for the last Scripture reference--Ed.] That was Exodus, the--the--the 19th chapter and the 16th verse, Brother Fred: Exodus 19:16.


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