<TITLE>07. Par 46-56</TITLE>L-46 Now, what was He doing? Making a way, showing, know that Israel, the natural seed, would reject Him; but knowing that the royal Seed, not from the sexual affair with Sarah, but from the faith that Abraham had, that brought forth Christ, that's the royal Seed of all nations, the mixed, the Bride coming out of all nations. Abraham, a father of nations, not because he had to--the--lived with his wife, Sarah, and brought forth the son, but because he believed the Word. Amen. That's it.

L-47 Now, we find after this, this great experience... Now, we're coming over to the 17th chapter. We're going to try to get to the 22nd, if possible. The 17th chapter... Do you love the journey with Abraham? I just love to watch it, because why? Everything that he did was a perfect type of the Church. You believe that? Notice, all the Scriptures type it.
Look at Joel, said, "It shall come to pass in the last days, that God would pour out His Spirit." How that there would come a cankerworm and eat up His church. "What the palmerworm left, the cankerworm; and the cankerworm, the caterpillar..." And it's the same bug, same insect in four different stages. Each one eat a part. Here come the old caterpillar or the cankerworm and eat the bark off, and the other eat the fruit off, and--and then the--come along the others that sucked the life out of it. That's when...

L-49 Christ, that Tree that was in the garden of Eden... There were two trees in the garden of Eden. These two trees were set there for birth purpose. And when Eve, she was the tree of death if she was touched. And Christ was the Tree of Life. Now, by the woman comes death; by the Man come Life.
Now, when He stood here talking to the Jews, He said, "I... your..."
They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness for forty years."
He said, "And they're, every one, dead. But I am the Bread of Life, Tree of Life, that come from God out of heaven, that a man eats this Bread and shall never die."

L-53 God put Seraphims there, guarding that Tree, that no one would touch It. Now, He's got Seraphims out trying to drive them in to the Tree. Them day--they seen the vision, they wanted to the Tree, to get back without an atonement. But now after the atonement's made, the devil's blinding them, turn them this way from the Tree. Notice.
When Christ came on earth, He was God's perfect Tree. David saw Him in the 1st Psalm, said, "Tree planted by the river, rivers of water": many rivers, one Water; many gifts, same Spirit. "His leaves shall not wither."
But when He come on earth, what happened? The Roman power cut that tree down and hung Him on a man-made tree. Then God raised that Tree up and set It at the right hand, and sent the Spirit back to make a Bride for Him, like Adam should've had in the Garden of Eden. And when that tree started off, it was a Pentecostal tree.

L-56 We hear the pope saying, "All the churches, come back to the mother church, to the beginning. Come back to Rome." I want one historian, one minister, or somebody to stand, look me in the face, and show me that the church begin at Rome. The Church begin in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost; that's where. Organization begin in Rome three hundred and something years later. But the Church begin at Pentecost; God raising up a Bride tree for Christ, with the same Spirit was in Christ, raising up a Bride tree. And what happened? When it got to begin groaning--growing, the Roman bug got on it and begin to break it off. What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eat, till it went plumb to a stump.
But God said, "I will restore, saith the Lord." That tree's going to come forth again, for the Bride Tree's coming after the Bride.


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