<TITLE>05. Par 35-44</TITLE>L-35   And we see in here, that God give us a picture of something. I would like to try to bring this picture before us, as I realize that it might be the last time that some of us ever meet together. We may never see each other again as we are now. Therefore, if we have gathered for this purpose, not to be seen or to be heard...

L-36 But we've had our fellowship with each other as we have served this wonderful meal tonight, across the table, as we fed our physical bodies, and now we'd like for God to feed our soul on His Manna that's hid. Only for those priests who has entered into the Holiest of holies is permitted to eat of His Food.

L-37 And if we noticed, tonight, our--our steak. I don't believe I've ever had a--a banquet yet, in all the places I've held the meetings, like tonight, that I have had such a fine piece of steak as they served tonight. Now, you see, because that we had to have this; if we live, something had to die so we could enjoy this time of fellowship, and also sustain our lives.

L-38   I was talking to a man that was a vegetarian, not long ago, and he said to me, "Well, I--I don't agree with you." Well, he--he kind of give me a letter, wanted to meet me privately. And he said, "Brother Branham, I always regard you as a holy man." He said, "But when I heard you say you had ham and eggs for breakfast," said, "that--that downed me."

L-39 Well, that, I wouldn't put the stumbling block to his way. Now, that's his way of believing. But I said, "Well, sir, if I don't eat, I don't live."

L-40 He said, "But, you see, you had to eat a hog, and--and kill a chicken."

L-41 I said, "Sir, we only live by dead substance. I don't care what you eat. You eat vegetables. You eat. You eat bread, the wheat died. If you eat corn, the corn died. If you eat beans, the bean died."

L-42 Whatever you eat, you can only live physically because something died that you could live. Now, whatever you do, even drink milk, the bacteria, whatever, you have to live by dead substance. And it only goes to prove, if we have to live this natural life, and can only do it by dead substance, something had to die so we could live Eternally. That's Jesus Christ, that God gave for us as a ransom.

L-43   And now, when I first met with the Pentecostal people, I--I went to California, just the joining state here, across the river. And I was at Los Angeles. I was never lived in the days of this famous lady minister, Mrs. Semple... Aimee Semple McPherson. I got to meet her son, Rolf, a fine Christian gentleman, and--and his wife and his family. They're certainly lovely people, and Dr. Teeford and many of the staff at the Angelus Temple. And I preached the Jubilee of the Pentecostal, fifty-year Jubilee there, few years ago, and certainly had a wonderful time.

L-44   So in respects of this woman that set forth an example as she did, of trying her best, and to--to present what was in her heart, I paid a tribute to her to go to her grave up at Forest Lawn. And as I stood there with my hat off, and--and bowed my head and gave thanks to God for a noble life of this little handsmaid, I was then asked by the crew that I was with, a group of ministers, if I would take a trip through the... for all through Forest Lawn. And on the inside of the mortuary there, or whatever you call it, I was looking at the different designs, and saw the Lord's Supper, and stayed. A many of you has noticed it, when they put the lights on it, the Last Supper, and heard the story of it.


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