<TITLE>20. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 Now, this Pillar of Fire that went with the children in the wilderness, anyone knows that that was God. We know that that was God, He told Abra--told Moses, "I AM THAT I AM. And I have seen the affliction of My people and heard their groans by the reason of the task masters, and I've come down to deliver them." Now, that was the Pillar of Fire in that bush (You believe that? The Angel of the covenant.) Well it was a... It led it on Mount Sinai and wrote the commandments. Even if an animal touched it, it had to be killed. What was it? Because there was no sin offering, a animal.

L-58 See, when the Old Testament, when they offered a sin offering, they took a little lamb, laid their hands upon it, confessed their sins, and they cut its throat. And when the little fellow was dying, kicking, and bleating, why, the blood got all over the hands of the worshipper. And then he felt the death going out of that animal as it straightened out and died, and he knowed that that animal was dying in his place. But the Bible said he went out with the same desire he had when he come in. 'Cause see, when that blood cell was broke, that animal spirit could not come back and coincide with the human spirit. The animal has no soul. So they could not come back. So therefore he went out with the same conscience. But when a man by faith come lays his hands upon the head of Jesus Christ and feels His suffering for your sins, and when that Blood cell was broke on Calvary, not only the life of a human being come back, but the life of God comes back from it and makes you a son and daughter of God.

L-59 Watch when that Pillar of Fire was made flesh and dwelt among us. How do we find Him the other night, what He did? How they knew Him, by discerning the thoughts of the heart. They knew that was that prophet that Moses spoke of. He claimed to be that. They knowed it was; that's the way He was. Now, He turned back to that again, did you know that? "Oh, no, Brother Branham." Oh, yes, He did too.
He said, when He was here on earth; He said, "I come from God and I go to God." Is that right? And after He was dead, buried, rose, and ascended on high... Saul of Tarsus was on his road down to Damascus one day to put the people in jail that was worshipping. And all at once a great Light flashed before him, and he fell to the ground. And that great Light was so bright, that put out the eyes of Saul; he was blind for a season. And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest Thou Me?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." Went back to the Pillar of Fire again.


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