AFTER HE HAD MADE THIS MASTERPIECE, HE PLACED IT UP HERE ON THE EARTH
51 So we see that--that He, after He had made this masterpiece, He placed it up here on the earth, and put it in the most beautiful place there was, in the garden of Eden.He placed His masterpiece, the two being one, in the garden of Eden. How it must have pleased Him, that He saw this masterpiece was well. He, after that, we find out that He rested; He was so well pleased with His work.
AND IT WAS THE STROKE THAT CUT THE SIDE OF HIS MASTERPIECE, THAT BROUGHT OUT THE BRIDE.
52
Now remember that, my opinion, the
masterpiece is the stroke that marred Saint Angelo's Moses masterpiece in the
monument.
And it was the stroke that cut the side of
His masterpiece, that brought out the bride.And now we see them as a masterpiece family in the
garden of Eden. How beautiful it was! And it so pleased Him, till He--He took
rest then. He said, "I, I'll rest."
53 But
while He was resting and trusting to His masterpiece, His enemy come in and
found this great masterpiece. And he, by deceit, he--he crawls under the--the
garden walls, and then he--he marred this beautiful masterpiece. He--he marred
it, so that it--it fell.
THIS MASTERPIECE WAS WALLED BY THE WORD, GOD'S WORD.
55
Now notice, then, this
masterpiece. When Satan got a hold of it, the deceiver, broke through the
walls, and--and he marred this masterpiece. Because that the way he did it,
what... How did he do it? I'll go more in detail of it. How he done it, was... This masterpiece was walled by the Word,
God's Word.And the masterpiece, itself, of the family,
was fortified by this Word.But the broken part, that was broke off of
the original, went out beyond that wall, it gives Satan a chance to mar it.
And now as you know what I believe on those things, so I won't have to say
that. But the masterpiece was broke.
HE WENT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY AND BEGIN TO BUILD, AGAIN, UNTO HIS OWN IMAGE, A MAN.
56 But, the great Sculptor, when He seen the fall of His family,
the masterpiece, He wasn't willing just to leave it lay there, face down, and
ruin.He went to work, immediately, to build it up again.He wasn't willing that it should perish, lay there like that
all the time. Because, He is God, and He will not be defeated.
So, He went to work immediately and
begin to build, again, unto His Own image, a man.
IT'S JUST WHAT YOUR
DESIRE IS AND WHAT YOU TRY TO DO. AND IF YOU REALLY LOVE THE LORD, YOU TRY TO
SERVE HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART
57
Now, we find that the antediluvian
world come along and destroyed the whole thing, because the covenants that was
made, was made conditionally, "If you will not do this, or if you
will do that."God, the great Sculptor,
seen that man could not--could not keep a covenant. He just can't do it. There
is just no way at all.
On the interview a
few moments ago I was speaking to a person in the room, that's present now.
Said, "But, Brother Branham, I have
so many things that I--I know that's wrong," and a--a godly little
woman.
58 I said, "But--but, look, sister, you
don't look at yourself. It's just
what your desire is and what you try to do. And if you
really love the Lord, you try to serve Him with all your heart, and then all your mistakes is hid in the Blood of the Lord
Jesus." See? See, He made a way.
HE IS REBUILDING THIS MASTERPIECE THAT HAD FALLEN.
59 So He begin now, taking man from His
covenants, of--of saying that, "If you will, I will."And He begin with the man called Abraham,
and give to Abraham a covenant, unconditionally.Every time He would
start a masterpiece, Satan would get it, because the Word... But when He started
with Abraham, He said, "I have already done it.Now this is
unconditionally, not what... that--that, 'If you will, I will,' but I've
already done it." Now He, the--the
Sculptor, is determined to have this masterpiece.
60 Then, from Abraham, come the patriarchs.
And the patriarchs really... Now what's God doing? He is rebuilding this masterpiece that had fallen. So, in the
patriarchs, the first we find was Abraham.
GOD, IN PREPARING THIS MASTERPIECE, HE PUT IT ON A FOUNDATION OF THE PATRIARCHS.
61
Now watch, every masterpiece is
put on a foundation, a sculpture. Angelo's monument of Moses is on a three-
or four-foot piece of marble. It's got a foundation. So, God, in preparing this masterpiece, He put it on a foundation of
the patriarchs.And the patriarch foundation, first, was Abraham, then Isaac,
then Jacob, then Joseph, the four corners.
62 And, now, Abraham was the foundation of
faith. Let's say it had four foundations. The
foundation of faith was Abraham. The
foundation of love was Isaac. The foundation of grace
was Jacob, God's grace to Jacob;
anyone knows that. But in Joseph was perfection,
there is where He could set the monument; upon not the first foundation,
the second foundation, the third foundation, but on the fourth foundation.
THE FOUNDATION MUST ALSO BE A MASTERPIECE
63
Abraham portrayed Christ, of
course; so did Isaac, in love.Abraham did, in faith;
Isaac did, in love; Jacob
did, by His grace. Because, Jacob
means "deceiver," and that's what he was, but God's grace was with
him. But when it come to
Joseph, there is nothing against him, just one little scratch, for the foundation must also be a masterpiece. When he told his father, the prophet,
"Say to Pharaoh that your people are--are cattle raisers and not
shepherds, because a shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptian."
64 But
when the old prophet got before Pharaoh, he said, "Your servants are
herdsmen." So it scratched it, see, that's why it still makes it the
masterpiece.
BODY WORK THAT COME
ON TO THIS GREAT MASTERPIECE WAS THE PROPHETS, WHICH WAS THE WORD.
65 Now the
foundations is laid, through
faith, love, grace, and to perfection, through the patriarchs.
66 Now the body work that come on to this
great masterpiece was the prophets, which was the Word. I hope you can read
it. See? The prophets; not the laws! The
prophets, for the prophets was the vindicated Word which makes the body; not
the patriarchs. The prophets, they were the Word.
67 Finally,
as He started way back in the days of Moses and come down through the prophets,
to each one. And, finally, building up the body, coming closer all the
time.And the greatest of all of them was John. The Bible said so. Jesus said it.
"There is not a man, ever born of a woman, as great as John the
Baptist," for he was the one that could introduce the Word.
GOD HAS THE PERFECT MASTERPIECE AGAIN.
68 And then come, finally, the great Head,
the Head of all of it. The rest of the body just spoke of It. The foundation
was laid by the patriarch; but
the body was built by the Word, which was the prophets; and
here comes the Head of all of it, Jesus came on the scene. There, when this Head piece was put upon it, we
find in Him the entire handiwork of God. We find in Him the perfect reflection of the Word, for He was the Word,
the fullness of the Word. Now, again, God has the perfect Masterpiece again.
HIM, THE WORD, REFLECTED IN THE MASTERPIECE IN HIS OWN LIKENESS, GOD BACK AGAIN IN HIS OWN LIKENESS
As Isaiah said, "Behold My Servant, My Masterpiece,
that I have portrayed through all the ages of this perfect One coming. And here
He stands right before Me, a perfect!" There, in His Own image, reflecting God! For He
said, in Saint John 14, "When you see Me, you see the Father."
69
And, then, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,"
and the Word was hewed out and reflected
what the Word was at the beginning. Him, the Word, reflected in the Masterpiece in His Own
likeness, God back again in His Own likeness, the Word form being reflected in
the image of a man, the Masterpiece.
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