<TITLE>21. Par 172-177</TITLE>L-172   Now, there he stands, holding his right hand over his heart (standing like this) where the hidden secrets of redemption had been hid since the foundation of the world. Here's why shepherds. Jesus is God's right hand, we all know. There's Moses portraying Him exactly. He held the secrets of the Father, and has showed them to us. Notice, watch him pull from his bosom his right hand smitten with deadly leprosy. Showed what God would do with His Right Hand. Notice, the leprosy has no cure. Notice, again, it wasn't just common leprosy, it was in its last stage, white as snow; his hand was smitten with a horrible thing. How Moses must have felt when he pulled his right hand from over his heart, out of his bosom, and his hand was smitten with leprosy! Leprosy symbolizes sin, incurable, and especially in its last stage.

L-173   And, brethren, that's where the world was when God pulled His Right Hand from His bosom! The world was smitten with deadly leprosy, and no cure at all for it. So is it tonight, because they won't receive the remedy. The remedy was made at Calvary, but people wants to take some man-made prescription in the stead of God's prescription for sin.

L-174 Notice it never gradually come on, as the course of leprosy does, but all at once! When he pulled his hand, it was smitten, it was full of leprosy. Notice what God said, "Now, you won't gradually drift into sin; but the day you eat thereof, that day you die." And that's right, "The day you eat of it."

L-175   Notice, it was the prophet-shepherd that smote himself. He took, by the commandment of God, and put his own hand into his bosom, and pulled it out smitten with leprosy. The prophet-shepherd did it himself. And the Great Prophet-shepherd, Jesus, did it Himself, "I lay My life down, no man takes it from Me." He was the Great Shepherd, the Great Prophet-shepherd, "No man takes it from Me, I do it of Myself." Notice it didn't gradually come, it come in a minute. The Great Shepherd, Himself, took our guilt and smote Himself, took our sins and laid it upon Himself. No wonder the poet wrote:
Mid rendering rocks and darkening skies,
My Saviour bowed His head and died;
The opening veil revealed the way
To Heaven's joy's and endless day.

L-176   That secret had been in God's bosom all these years, covered by His right hand, Jesus. The Great Shepherd took upon Himself our guilt for us. Isaiah 53:6, said, "He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed." The secret of God's healing laid in the bosom of Jesus Christ, or God, He was on the right hand of God, that's the only sheep that held in His bosom the secret. That's the reason the foreshadows of It had to always be a sheep! The first was a sheep, the last was a Sheep. That's the reason It had to come to a shepherd, to know how to take care of his Sheep. You get It? Notice, "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace upon Him."

L-177   Notice, it came quick; and it left quick, no sooner the right hand was drawn from the bosom the second time. The deadly disease was gone, when he drew it the second time. And when the Great Shepherd, the Sheep-prophet, when He said... On Calvary's cross, when He had paid the penalty of sin for us all, He said, "It's finished." Sin was over, the penalty was paid, debts were settled! It didn't take a year, or finally come into it in the days of some other reformer or something, it was finished right then!


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