<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Some good friend that loved him, and he pleaded for him, and he couldn't get no answer. So he went to the highest source that he could. He went to Mr. Lincoln. They said that Mr. Lincoln was getting out of the carriage. And he fell down before him and said, "Mr. Lincoln, sir..." told the case. And he said, "He's a good man."
I think he had run away in time of something, battle, or...?... didn't obey his charge or something, and so, or... And he said, "He was just nervous. He come out of a good home." And said, "He was just nervous and tore up. Mr. Lincoln, he didn't mean to do that. And day after tomorrow morning they're going to shoot him. He dies by a firing squad day after tomorrow morning."
Said, "Mr. Lincoln, you are a Christian." Said, "You... One signature of yours would pardon that man's life." And said, "He didn't mean to do that, I'm sure." Said, "I beg for him as a friend."
Mr. Lincoln picked up a piece of paper, and just wrote on it, said, "Pardoned by Abraham Lincoln."
He taken it to the man in prison. He would not receive it. He said, "You present it."

L-27 He would not receive it. He said, "No. If it was Mr. Lincoln's, it would have to be sealed by the seal of the United States," and so forth, and all like that. Said that how the polish would have to be on it. And because he rejected it, he was killed. Because he rejected that... There was Mr. Lincoln's seal... or, name signature, but he rejected it.
And then it was tried in court, because there was his name. Said that--that he pardoned the man, and the man was shot. So when it was tried in federal court, here was the decision of the federal court: A pardon is not a pardon unless it be accepted as a pardon. So that's the way God's Word is. It's the Word of God to all those who will accept it as the Word of God. If it's not, well then, it isn't.
So we believe the Word, and that's the reason we're watching for the sign of his appearing. We don't want to be wrong in that. We don't want to take somebody's thoughts about it. We want to read it right out of the Word.

L-28 So Jesus had strictly, and straightly, performed every sign that he had supposed to be. Now, we also know, before we leave this part of the subject, that the Jews seek signs (See?); Greeks, wisdom. And Paul said, "We preach Christ crucified." Now, the Jews... seeking a sign because they--they put the sign above their theology. And it was a good thing. If...
You might say, "Now, that sounds kind of strange, Brother Branham."
Well, Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not." See? If He didn't confirm the--the Word of God, then don't believe Him. But He said, "If you can't believe Me, then believe the Word."

L-29 Now, we notice in the Bible, if a prophesier, or a dreamer, had a dream and they was uncertain about it, they'd take them down to the temple and put them before the Urim Thummim. And you notice, if the Urim Thummim didn't answer back... Now, the closest study that I can find on that, what that Urim Thummim was, was this breastplate of Aaron's. I picked it up the other day at one of the conventions up at the American Baptist grounds, up in Green Lake, Wisconsin, where the Full Gospel Business Men was having a convention. And they had the pattern of the stones there... all.


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