22-0701A_THE ENTOMBMENT Pt-3 (REST ASSURE UNTO GOD)
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
*FOR GOD'S WORD COULD
NOT FAIL. HE WAS PROMISED FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE SEED THAT WOULD BRUISE
THE SERPENT'S HEAD.
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68 And when He did, when He bowed His head, this old earth had a shiver run over its back. It must've had a nervous prostration, for the Bible said that the whole earth, from the sixth to the ninth hour, was dark, was over the whole face of the earth. And the earth shook, and the rocks rent. And the temple veil tore from top to the bottom; the sacrifice blocks turned over. The Son of the living God died. He was so dead until the sun recognized it. He was so dead till the moon recognized it. He was so dead till the stars recognized it. He was so dead till the earth recognized it. He was so dead till the elements recognized it, the atmospheres recognized it. Everything had to know that was the Son of God. For God's Word could not fail. He was promised from the garden of Eden, the Seed that would bruise the serpent's head.
*WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE, THAT HAVE TO GO THROUGH A LITTLE SUFFERING? WHAT HE DID FOR US, THINK OF IT, FRIENDS; STUDY ON IT.
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69 Now what happened to Him? Where did He go
when He left the cross and went in Joseph of Arimathaea's tomb?
He was so poor He had not a place
to lay His head. He was born in a manger, with a black name behind Him, as a illegitimate child. He was laughed at,
made fun of, scoffed at in the earth. He was made fun
of and rejected. And when He died, He had to die through capital
punishment, between two thieves. And did not even have a place to bury Him, and
He was buried in another man's grave. The very God of heaven coming to earth... Who do we think we are, that have to go through a little
suffering? What He did for us, think of it, friends; study on it.
*THE SINNER HAD TO
RECOGNIZE IT…THE WHOLE EARTH RECOGNIZED IT.
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71 The Roman soldier said, "Truly, that's
the Son of God." The sinner had to
recognize it.
Judas said, "I have betrayed innocent Blood." He
had to recognize it. The whole earth
recognized it.
Then where did He go? When a man dies, does that finish it?
No, sir. He had to die that way because God's
Bible said that He would die that way. And He trusted
God's Word. That's the reason He could say in His life, "Destroy this
temple, and I'll raise it up in three days."
For David said one place, only in the Bible, under the Inspiration, when David, the man of God, the prophet that was anointed with the Word, said, "I'll not suffer My holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell."
* REST ASSURE THAT
THOSE THAT ARE IN CHRIST WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM.
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74 Jesus said, "You destroy this body, and
I'll raise it up in three days." He knowed that God's Word could not fail.
Oh, my.
If He could rest
solemnly upon that, believing that God's Word could not fail, how much more can
we rest as solemnly that we have been borned again by the Holy Ghost, and It a
witness in our heart right now that we know that our Redeemer liveth and will
come again someday. Rest assure that those that are in Christ will God
bring with Him.
Now notice. There He was. He knew that not one cell of that body would corrupt. Seventy-two hours, corruption sets in. That's the reason He never stayed the three days. He died on Friday afternoon, was up Sunday morning. But it was within them three days. Within those three days He was to rise again, because He trusted God's Word.
*ONE GOING DOWNWARD, ONE GOING UPWARD; THE TWO SPIRITS ARE
HERE ON EARTH, INFLUENCING THE PEOPLE OF THIS EARTH.
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77 Here He goes. Where did He leave when He
left? The Bible said, "He ascended. He went and preached to the souls that were in
prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah."
His soul, His Spirit, His Theophany of His Own Being, went down. Let's
follow Him. Would you like tonight to follow Him a few minutes? Let's see where
He went.
Just below the regions of mortal beings lays the realm of demon power; below that--just above that lays the souls of the unjust; below it lays the very domain of Satan: hell. Then just above us lays the Holy Spirit; then under the Altar lays the souls of the just men; the next is God Himself. One going downward, one going upward; the two spirits are here on earth, influencing the people of this earth.
Regions of the lost.
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79 And when Jesus died, He goes up, down
there. I can see Him on that Friday afternoon, after His death, [Brother
Branham knocks--Ed.] knock on the door of the regions of the lost. Let's
follow Him a minute. The door opens. There was women; there was men; there
were young ladies; there were old; there were all together in that hideous
place called the prison of the lost souls.
If I had time, I'd like to tell you. And it might be just a vision. But one time I visited that place and screamed for mercy, when I was a sinner going under an operation. When I come out, I was standing in the west, with my hands up towards the heaven, and a cross shining on me.
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81 But in that mournful place there, Jesus walked to the door. Everything had to witness that He was the Son of God, because they had been preached to in the long-suffering of the days of Noah. Knocks at the door, He said, "I am He Who Enoch spoke of. I am the Seed of the woman, that was to bruise the serpent's head. Every Word of God has been fulfilled; I've just died yonder at Calvary, and I have purchased My Church. And the One that Enoch spoke of, I'm He." And they was without mercy, without hope, because they had transgressed. And the door was shut in their face.
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82 On down into the regions of demons, on
down to the very gates of hell, He knocks at the door. [Brother Branham
knocks--Ed.]
This is when He's in the tomb, His body is, waiting
the resurrection. He visited the places that the just and unjust goes; where you'll go
one of these days, to one or the other places.
And He knocks [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] at the door of hell. And when He did, the devil come out. And I can just hear him say, "Oh, so finally you arrived. I sure thought I had you when I killed Abel."
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85 You see, when that Seed was promised
in the garden of Eden, the devil has constantly tried to destroy that Seed.
And the death of Abel and the coming of Seth was just a death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. That
Seed must continue. And he tried to destroy It.
He said, "I thought I had You when I destroyed Abel. I thought I had You when I destroyed the prophets. I was positive I had You when I beheaded John. But now, after all, You've arrived. I've got You now." Oh, my.
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87 I can hear Him say, "Satan, come
here." He's Boss now. Reaches over, grabs that key of death and hell off
his side, hung it on His Own side. "I want to serve notice on
you. You've been a bluff long enough. I am the virgin-born Son of the living
God. My Blood is still wet on the cross, and the full debt is paid. You have no
rights no more. You are stripped. Give me those keys." That's right.
Turns around and gives him a good healthy kick, and slams the door together,
and say, "Stay in there. I'm Boss from now on."
Now, He didn't have the keys to the Kingdom, 'cause He give them to Peter; we get on that in the morning in water baptism. But He had the keys to death and hell, and He took them; after His resurrection He said, "I got the keys of death and hell." Peter had the keys of the Kingdom. Satan had the keys of death and hell; but now Jesus has got them; He's Boss.
WHERE'S THOSE FELLOWS THAT TRUSTED
GOD'S WORD?
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89 Here He starts up. It's getting
Easter; time's passing fast. But there's another group. Where is Job?
Where's Abraham? Where are they at? Where's those fellows that trusted God's
Word? Has He forgotten them? Did death annihilate them? Was that all of it?
Never, never; God has to keep His Word.
I can see Him. Let's take a little
peep into Paradise, and look over there. And I see Sarah and Abraham walking around there, and after while
[Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] something on the door. Abraham goes
and opens the door, said, "Honey, come here. Looky here. Looky
here; that's the very same One that stood with me under the oak that day."
He's Abraham's God.
Just then I can see Daniel
look over his shoulder and say, "That's the Rock that
was hewed out of the mountain, just as certain as I am standing here."
I see Job raise up, said,
"That's my Redeemer that I said I knew that lived, and someday He'd stand
upon the earth. My body may not be but a little
spoonful of ashes, but in fifteen minutes from now I'll be in it again. That's Him."
Ezekiel looks over the top, and said, "I seen that same Person as a Wheel in
the middle of the Wheel, turning, way up in the middle of the air." Oh, my.
Then up comes Enoch. Enoch said, "I saw Him coming with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment."
THERE WAS THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS
WAITING
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95 There was the Old Testament saints waiting; sure
they was. Under the atonement of blood they could not go in the Presence of the
God--God of heaven, because goat and sheep blood could not take away sin.
But He said, "My brethren, I am the One that you think I am. I am the Seed of the woman. I am the Son of David. I am the Son of God. I am the virgin-born One. My Blood has atoned for it. You waited under the blood of sheep and goats, but now My Blood atones, and you're free. Let's go up; it's getting almost Easter." Just think, that was just about nineteen hundred and something years ago tonight.
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97 I can hear Abraham say,
"Lord, when we get up in our body again, Sarah and I just loved it so
well, do You mind if we make a little whistle stop, kind of, on Your road?"
Why, I can hear Him say, "Why,
no, certainly not. I'm going to stay with My disciples for about forty days.
Look around and see how everything looks."
On that glorious Easter morning
(where we'll take up in the morning, the Lord willing) when He rose from the
dead, the Bible said according to St. Matthew 27, that "Many of the saints
that slept in the dust of the earth, rose and come out of the graves." Who
was it? Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, those who by spiritual revealed revelation
knowed that the Redeemer would stand on the earth someday. That's them, the
firstfruits of those that slept.
There they walked in the city. I can see Sarah and Abraham, young, and full of--and handsome, and--and full of life, never to be old no more, never to be sick no more, never to hunger no more, walking around in their body.
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100 Caiaphas standing there,
saying, "You know what? There was something happened the other day, just
look at this mess this temple's in. There's... We're going to have to get
someone to sew that curtain up. Look at those, sacrifice box turned over. What
happened? Was that guy an astrologer? Was He a witch? Or, what happened? Say,
come here, Josephus, who is that young couple standing there?"
Abraham said, "Sarah, we're
recognized. We better get out."
"Appeared to many." That
wasn't all of it. In closing, watch. One day when after He had, they'd visit:
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all of them had visit the homeland. When Jesus
ascended up...
You say, "Brother Branham, is
that mythical?" No, sir. I'll show you the Scriptures in a minute.
When He begin to go up, they only seen Him, but the Old Testament saints went with Him, for the Bible said that He led captivity captive and give gifts unto men. And I can see Him as He goes up, and joins with His church.
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104 Two Angels out of the band
that were playing the music, come back there, and said, "Ye men of
Galilee, why stand you looking up? For this same Jesus, that was taken up, is
coming again." Certainly. They hurried back to join the procession.
And down through the skies Jesus and
the Old Testament saints went. They passed the moon; they passed the sun; they
passed the stars. And when they got in sight of that great, beautiful white
heavens, the Old Testament saints screamed out, quoted the Scripture,
"Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up. Lift up, ye
everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up. And let the King of Glory come
in."
All the Angels gathered up on the top
of the banisters of heaven, and said, "Who is this King of Glory?"
The Old Testament saints said, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle. He was a Conqueror."
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108 The Angel pressed the
big button, and the pearly gates swung open; right down through the City of
Jerusalem come the great, mighty Conqueror, bringing the Old Testament saints.
The Angelic bands a-playing, as the Angels a-shouting... He was the mighty Conqueror. He had the keys of death and
hell hanging on His side, going right down a past the palaces of Glory till He
got to the throne. And He said, "Father, here they are. They believed in faith on Your
Word, that I'd come someday. I have conquered both death and hell." What was it, brother? He had the scars in His hand to
show that He had been in the battle. Glory to God in the highest. He is that
mighty Conqueror. "Here they are, Father; Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob."
I can hear Him say, "Son,
climb up here by My side, and set down until I make every enemy Your
footstool." Brother, someday He will come again, and what a day it
will be.
He wasn't idle when He was in the tomb. We think He was just laying there, dead. But He was down still conquering, He went down and took the keys away from Satan, He's got the keys of both death and hell tonight. He said, "Because I live, you can live, also."
HE WENT AND PREACHED TO THE SOULS THAT WERE IN PRISON
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77 Here He goes. Where did He leave when He
left? The Bible said, "He ascended. He went and preached to the souls that were in
prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah."
His soul, His Spirit, His Theophany of His Own Being, went down. Let's
follow Him. Would you like tonight to follow Him a few minutes? Let's see where
He went.
Just below the regions of mortal beings lays the realm of
demon power; below
that--just above that lays the souls of the unjust; below it lays the
very domain of Satan: hell. Then just above us lays the Holy Spirit;
then under the Altar lays the souls of the just men; the next is God
Himself. One going
downward, one going upward; the two spirits are here on earth, influencing the
people of this earth.
Regions of the lost.
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79 And when Jesus died, He goes up, down
there. I can see Him on that Friday afternoon, after His death, [Brother
Branham knocks--Ed.] knock on the door of the regions of the lost. Let's
follow Him a minute. The door opens. There was women; there was men; there
were young ladies; there were old; there were all together in that hideous
place called the prison of the lost souls.
If I had time, I'd like to tell you. And it might be just a vision. But one time I visited that place and screamed for mercy, when I was a sinner going under an operation. When I come out, I was standing in the west, with my hands up towards the heaven, and a cross shining on me.
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81 But in that mournful place there, Jesus walked to the door. Everything had to witness that He was the Son of God, because they had been preached to in the long-suffering of the days of Noah. Knocks at the door, He said, "I am He Who Enoch spoke of. I am the Seed of the woman, that was to bruise the serpent's head. Every Word of God has been fulfilled; I've just died yonder at Calvary, and I have purchased My Church. And the One that Enoch spoke of, I'm He." And they was without mercy, without hope, because they had transgressed. And the door was shut in their face.
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82 On down into the regions of demons, on down to the very
gates of hell, He knocks at the door. [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.]
This is when
He's in the tomb, His body is, waiting the resurrection.
He visited the places that the just and unjust goes; where you'll go one of
these days, to one or the other places.
And He knocks [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] at the door of hell. And when He did, the devil come out. And I can just hear him say, "Oh, so finally you arrived. I sure thought I had you when I killed Abel."
AND THE DEATH OF ABEL AND
THE COMING OF SETH WAS JUST A DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.
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85 You see, when that Seed was promised in the garden of
Eden, the devil has constantly tried to destroy that Seed. And the death of Abel and
the coming of Seth was just a death, burial, and
resurrection of Christ. That Seed must
continue. And he tried to destroy It.
He said, "I thought I had You when I destroyed Abel. I thought I had You when I destroyed the prophets. I was positive I had You when I beheaded John. But now, after all, You've arrived. I've got You now." Oh, my.
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87 I can hear Him say, "Satan, come
here." He's Boss now. Reaches over, grabs that key of death and hell off
his side, hung it on His Own side. "I want to serve notice on
you. You've been a bluff long enough. I am the virgin-born Son of the living
God. My Blood is still wet on the cross, and the full debt is paid. You have no
rights no more. You are stripped. Give me those keys." That's right.
Turns around and gives him a good healthy kick, and slams the door together,
and say, "Stay in there. I'm Boss from now on."
Now, He didn't have the keys to the Kingdom, 'cause He give them to Peter; we get on that in the morning in water baptism. But He had the keys to death and hell, and He took them; after His resurrection He said, "I got the keys of death and hell." Peter had the keys of the Kingdom. Satan had the keys of death and hell; but now Jesus has got them; He's Boss.
WHERE'S THOSE FELLOWS THAT TRUSTED GOD'S WORD?
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89 Here He starts up. It's getting Easter;
time's passing fast. But there's another group. Where is Job? Where's
Abraham? Where are they at? Where's those fellows that trusted God's Word?
Has He forgotten them? Did death annihilate them? Was that all of it? Never,
never; God has to keep His Word.
I can see Him. Let's take a little peep into Paradise, and
look over there. And
I see Sarah and Abraham walking around there, and after while [Brother Branham
knocks--Ed.] something on the door. Abraham goes and opens the
door, said, "Honey, come here. Looky here. Looky here; that's
the very same One that stood with me under the oak that day." He's
Abraham's God.
Just then I can see Daniel look over his shoulder and
say, "That's
the Rock that was hewed out of the mountain, just as certain as I am standing
here."
I see Job raise up, said, "That's my Redeemer
that I said I knew that lived, and someday He'd stand upon the earth. My body may not be but a little
spoonful of ashes, but in fifteen minutes from now I'll be in it again. That's
Him."
Ezekiel looks over the top, and said, "I seen that same Person
as a Wheel in the middle of the Wheel, turning, way up in the middle of the air." Oh, my.
Then up comes Enoch. Enoch said, "I saw Him coming with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment."
THERE WAS THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS WAITING
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95 There was the Old Testament saints waiting; sure they
was. Under the atonement of blood they could not go in the Presence of the
God--God of heaven, because goat and sheep blood could not take away sin.
But He said, "My brethren, I am the One that you think I am. I am the Seed of the woman. I am the Son of David. I am the Son of God. I am the virgin-born One. My Blood has atoned for it. You waited under the blood of sheep and goats, but now My Blood atones, and you're free. Let's go up; it's getting almost Easter." Just think, that was just about nineteen hundred and something years ago tonight.
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97 I can hear Abraham say, "Lord, when
we get up in our body again, Sarah and I just loved it so well, do You mind if
we make a little whistle stop, kind of, on Your road?"
Why, I can hear Him say, "Why, no, certainly not. I'm
going to stay with My disciples for about forty days. Look around and see how
everything looks."
On that glorious Easter morning (where we'll take up in the
morning, the Lord willing) when He rose from the dead, the Bible said
according to St. Matthew 27, that "Many of the saints
that slept in the dust of the earth, rose and come out of the graves." Who
was it? Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, those who by spiritual revealed
revelation knowed that the Redeemer would stand on the earth someday. That's
them, the firstfruits of those that slept.
There they walked in the city. I can see Sarah and Abraham, young, and full of--and handsome, and--and full of life, never to be old no more, never to be sick no more, never to hunger no more, walking around in their body.
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100 Caiaphas standing there, saying, "You
know what? There was something happened the other day, just look at this mess
this temple's in. There's... We're going to have to get someone to sew that
curtain up. Look at those, sacrifice box turned over. What happened? Was that
guy an astrologer? Was He a witch? Or, what happened? Say, come here, Josephus,
who is that young couple standing there?"
Abraham said, "Sarah, we're recognized. We better get
out."
"Appeared to many." That wasn't all of it. In
closing, watch. One day when after He had, they'd visit: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
and all of them had visit the homeland. When Jesus ascended up...
You say, "Brother Branham, is that mythical?" No,
sir. I'll show you the Scriptures in a minute.
When He begin to go up, they only seen Him, but the Old Testament saints went with Him, for the Bible said that He led captivity captive and give gifts unto men. And I can see Him as He goes up, and joins with His church.
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104 Two Angels out of the band that were playing the music,
come back there,
and said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up? For this same
Jesus, that was taken up, is coming again." Certainly. They hurried
back to join the procession.
And down through the skies Jesus and the Old Testament saints
went. They passed the moon; they passed the sun; they passed the stars. And when they got in sight of that great, beautiful white
heavens, the Old Testament saints screamed out, quoted the Scripture, "Lift
up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up. Lift up, ye everlasting gates,
and be ye lifted up. And let the King of Glory come in."
All the Angels gathered up on the top of the banisters of
heaven, and said, "Who is this King of Glory?"
The Old Testament
saints said, "The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle. He was a
Conqueror."
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108 The Angel pressed the big button, and the pearly gates
swung open; right down through the City of Jerusalem come the great, mighty
Conqueror, bringing the Old Testament saints. The Angelic bands a-playing,
as the Angels a-shouting... He was the mighty
Conqueror. He had the keys of death and hell hanging on His side, going right
down a past the palaces of Glory till He got to the throne. And He said, "Father,
here they are. They believed in faith on Your Word, that I'd come someday. I
have conquered both death and hell." What was it, brother? He had the scars in His hand to
show that He had been in the battle. Glory to God in the highest. He is that
mighty Conqueror. "Here they are, Father; Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob."
I can hear Him say, "Son, climb up here by My
side, and set down until I make every enemy Your footstool."
Brother, someday He will come again, and what a day it will be.
He wasn't idle
when He was in the tomb. We think He was just laying there, dead.
But He was down still conquering, He went down and took
the keys away from Satan, He's got the keys of both death and hell tonight. He
said, "Because I live, you can live, also."
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