<TITLE>11. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Look at Cain, come up and offered an offering, built an altar, belonged to a church, belonged to a denomination, knelt at the altar and prayed, worshipped God, gave in his tithing. If that's all God requires, Cain was just as justified as Abel was. But you see, the whole secret was--was the revelation. There's where the trouble is; people don't understand that the whole church of the living God is built upon a spiritual revelation of Christ. Jesus said so in Saint Matthew 16. "Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonas: flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven. And up--thou art Simon, upon this rock I will build My church." When the spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ... And He is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." And when that Word comes into you, It's sharper than a two-edged sword, even discerning the thoughts and the intents of the heart. There's the Word coming in. The revelation of every Word of God is true. Hang your soul on any phase of It: revelation.
Oh, I like these things. My, I think it sets the church to where you--you could have a healing service. See? God said so; that settles it; that's--that's all of it. God said so; just stay right with it.

L-32 Now... But how--there was no Bible in that day, so it must've been revealed to Abel. Hebrews 11 said, "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain," testifying of him that he was righteous.
Now, Cain said, "I guess my mother eat some apples and she had to put on clothes." But Abel knew that it was blood, life. There'd been something happen wrong. And he offered the blood of a lamb.
I can see him coming with this little lamb... Oh, Satan's altar was much more beautiful than Abel's. He had fruits and flowers, and all pretty.
But that--that's--that's what I'm trying to tell the church. Sister, you don't have to wear manicure, and all prettied up, and wear a dress like the next lady to be right with God. You don't have to have a church that's got thousand dollar pews in it, and a pipe organ that cost several million dollars, and all this here fancy stuff. That come from hell. That's right. I can prove it by the Bible. That's right.

L-33 Cain thought these things, "I'll offer these things." But I imagine Abel's offering wasn't so good. Probably didn't have any hemp in that day, so must've had a grape vine wrapped around that little old lamb's neck, led it up there and laid it upon the rock. He didn't have a lance or a knife in then, so he must've took a--a piece of rock, pulled its little head back, and begin to chop its little neck. And as it begin to bleat and kick, and the blood going all over him, bleeding, bleating, dying on the rock...
What did it represent? Four thousand years later, the Lamb of God hacked to death on the rock of ages, bleeding, bleating, speaking in tongues as He was dying on Calvary. "Oh, dear dying Lamb, thy precious Blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more." Our educational programs, denominational programs will mean not that [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.]; it'll take the of Blood of Jesus Christ and nothing else to do it. Yes.


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