<TITLE>34. Par 423-435</TITLE>L-423 Abraham was looking for it. "And he professed that he was a pilgrim and a stranger, for he looked for a City Whose builder and maker was God." That prophet, knowing it was somewhere! John saw it coming down, but Abraham thought it must be on earth right then. Why? He met Melchizedek, the King of it, and give Him a tithe. "Which had no father, or no mother. He had no beginning of life or no ending of life." Abraham met Him, and they took communion right on the literal spot where the City will be raised up, the holy Mountain of the Lord, where the Redeemed will live. Oh, my!

L-424 That time just don't stop. No, we're in time; after a while we'll go to Eternity.

L-425   Oh, holy Mountain! There will be streets of transparent gold, avenues; and houses, and parks. If you want to read this, Revelation 21:18. The Tree of Life will be there; twelve different manners of fruit, one each month, will be bore on it. The people that eat these fruits, they'll change their diet every, every month.

L-426 And it's--it's from... for only the overcomers. Do you know that? It isn't for the denominations.
You say, "You mean that, Brother Branham?"

L-427 Let's turn to Revelations 2, just a minute, and find it. Revelations 2:7. Let's find out now whether it's really the Truth or not. Revelations 2:7 reads like this.
And he that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit...

L-428 Now, remember, He is not talking to the Jews now. This is the Church, the Gentile.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

L-429   "Overcomers only, that overcome the beast, overcome his mark," that's Catholicism, Protestantism, denominationalism, "who overcome the beast, his mark, the letter of his name." "He'll have a right to the Tree of Life, to enter into the gates where nothing that defiles can ever go in." See? Think of it. Now, just a minute now, as we go just a little bit farther. Tree of Life will be for the overcomers only.

L-430 The leaves will be for the healing of the nations. That is, the kings that live in there, bringing their honor in, when they bring their honor in and lay it before the Throne of God. Just like the outside, the ten... the eleven tribes brought in, every one of them, a tenth to Levi, see. When they bring their honor into the... from the blessed land, in that, they'll reach from the Tree of Life, break off a holly leaf... or a Tree of Life leaf, and they'll walk out together. There is no more war. Everything is at peace. The leaves are a memorial, for the healings of the nation.

L-431   The same Tree, not like Adam, he... There was a Tree of Life in the garden of Eden, that he might have eaten from if he hadn't a fell. That Tree of Life reminded him, all the time, that his new... his youth was continually going on. See?

L-432 Same will the nations. The leaves will be for the healing of the nations; notice, not the sickness now. You'd have the same rights that Adam did, like the le-... dove with the holly leaf, it's all... each king taking a leaf.

L-433   Notice, the River of Life, perhaps many little streams making it up. Now, in this earth...

L-434 I'm going to close just in a few minutes. In this earth... Or, I'm just going to stop. That's how much more notes is got, now about thirty pages. Yeah. Look.

L-435 In this--in this life, I have never seen nothing so quenching as to be in the mountains and find, as I preached on the other night, that stream bubbling up, its life-giving resource. You'd be tired and thirsty, fall down by a good stream; way down where germs can't go, way down hundreds of feet in the earth, is bubbling forth pure, genuine, life-giving water. We appreciate that. That's little. Now, the earth has its many streams with refreshing water. When you're thirsting and dying, you get a good, cold drink from that, it'll--it'll help you to live.


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