<TITLE>07. Par 62-69</TITLE>L-62 Now, there's one outstanding point that I would... (I think they've taken my--the blackboard down.) But I would like to emphasize on it a little before we strike this vital thing. Oh, this is glorious. It's a wonderful, wonderful chapter.
And then the very next chapter begins with opening up these seals. Oh, my. And then we have to skip from there and go different places in the Bible to get these seals when they opened and what the mysteries of them are. Oh, they are glorious, just rich with spiritual vitamins.

L-64 Now, we see that one of the great outstanding things I'd like to bring your attention to, was the living creatures of the last part of the 4th chapter, that John saw watching that ark of the covenant. You remember how they were fixed just like Israel in its march? They had... Now on... There was a face of the living creature. And we found out that these creatures were not Angels, neither were they men. They were Cherubim. And we found them in the Old Testament with the ark. We find them in the New Testament. And then we find them over in the coming of the Lord again: Cherubims guarding the mercy seat, the mercy seat which no one could approach unless there was an atonement there for that person. Only way that the sanctuary, when it was sprinkled of the blood, then it became a mercy seat. But after the blood was taken off, then it became a judgment seat.

L-66 And, oh, my, no one could stand the judgments of God. The only thing that we can look for is mercy, not judgment, not righteous--righteousness. We cannot approach His justice; because His justice, He'll have to keep His Word; and keeping His Word, "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." Who would want justice? I don't want justice. I call for mercy. My, let the mercy of God... And the mercy seat's sprinkled.
But there was a time of the cleansing of the sanctuary, when it was a judgment seat as long as the blood was off of the seat. Now, we're approaching that time now. We are now approaching in this age a cleansing of the sanctuary and the judgments coming upon the earth. See? As long as Blood is there, God cannot destroy the earth; long as Blood is there, nobody's a sinner before God. Everybody's right, because there's an atonement for everybody. But if you fail to accept that atonement and go into His Presence, then you are a sinner; you're beyond that mercy. Then you've judged yourself. But now while there is mercy... But when the cleansing of the sanctuary comes, the Blood goes off the mercy seat and then the wrath of God falls upon the earth. Oh, my. God, be merciful to us, that we be not in that day found without mercies of God.

L-69 Now, we see in there... I'll try to kind of spiritualize it here, or draw it for you by my hand, that there were four corners how Israel camped themselves. They put the--the ark in the center, and on the four sides of the tent was three tribes of Israel, and three fours is twelve, or four threes, rather, twelve. And each three had a head. And each head of the tribe...
One of them was Reuben; he always camped to the--the south. He was the head of man. And Ephraim was to the west, with three tribes, he was the--the ox. The... Then on the east was Judah, which is the lion. And on the north was Dan, which was the eagle. Now, notice. You remember them? All of you remember them well, how we had them drawed out: the eagle, and the ox, and the--the man, and the lion.


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