<TITLE>08. Par 78-87</TITLE>L-78   Why do we have to accept organizations, and so forth, that will write that off of the Book? See, it--it becomes a thorn in the flesh. And here at the end time, we meet the thing again, face to face, it's up to the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and whatmore, see. You, you can't go on; you've got to come back to the entire full Gospel. It was made for the full man, by a complete God Who was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we know that those things are true.

L-79   Now if we notice, then, their journey in the wilderness is where they got their greatest mistake that Israel ever made, until Calvary, was when (in the Exodus 19) they accepted law instead of grace. They had grace. They had a prophet. They had--they had a sacrificial lamb. They had redemption. They had been brought through the Red Sea. They had been healed of their diseases. They had had water from a smitten rock. They had--they had manna out of heaven. Everything they had need of had been supplied, and still they wanted something else.

L-80 Now that's a perfect type of our Ephesians today, exactly. We come out under Luther; we went through sanctification, under Methodist; and came into the restoration, under Pentecost. Exactly like it was, the wilderness journey. And when God brought us out, we did very well. But what did we do? Wanted to be like the rest of them. Now we find out that grace is the only thing that takes us through, never law.

L-81   Joshua here is a type of the last-day ministry. See? Now remember those three stages of the journey. All of it ceased, first the law and everything had to cease, so that Joshua... And Joshua is the same word as Jesus, "Jehovah-savior," that took them from their wilderness into the promised land. Now I know many hold...

L-82 And I don't want to disagree with the scholars, but many hold that the promised land represents Heaven. It could not represent Heaven. It could not, because they had wars, and troubles, and flustration, and everything, in the promised land. It does not represent the promised Land.

L-83   But you notice, just before they entered the promised land, all of the--the differences that--that had rose up among them. They... One of the great things was Korah. He didn't want this one-man leadership. Dathan, and how they come up before Moses and tried to tell him that "the--the message had to mean this," and put a different interpretation to it, their own ideas of what it was. And they every one perished! Every one!
Jesus said, "There wasn't none of them but what perished."

L-84 They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for the space of forty years," Saint John 6.
Jesus said, "And they are every one dead."

L-85 Dead means "Eternally separated." They're all dead, yet they enjoyed hearing the message, yet they enjoyed the manna that fell. Not another manna; the genuine manna!

L-86   But when it come to the time of when Balaam come out with his false doctrine, and said, "We're all one. Why don't we just go together and let our children marry one another? We're a great nation. We'll make you great with us." Now anybody with common spiritual understanding can see exactly that same thing even today, marrying all of them together. And it was an unforgiveable sin. It was never forgiven Israel.
But then Joshua raised up for the exodus.

L-87   Now we're taught, in Revelation the 6th chapter, I believe, yeah, 6th chapter, of the Seven Seals. That's supposed... The Book to be sealed up with seven mysteries, or Seven Seals, Revelation 6. And in the last day, Revelation 10, in Revelation 10, we find out that the Laodicea, last messenger of the last age, and during the time of his prophecy, that the Seven Seals would be opened, the seven mysteries, sevenfold mysteries that had been left off.


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