The Three Covenants Of God

... always aware that we're growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, toward the full measure of the full stature. I want to read this again tonight. I read it ever so often as a reminder. Let me say this to you by way of remembrance. It might help in our little exposition tonight. The other night we had a little discussion on the dispute over the body and tonight I'll make mention, the good Lord being willing, of a little bit concerning the body because it's of great importance. I don't have time when I come up here to really minister. I know that doesn't sound right but I don't, even a five hour sermon which is a lot of time for preaching. Three hours is fairly good for preaching but even then you don't have nearly enough time to really preach a sermon. You can preach what called a sermonette in about three to five hours but to really preach a sermon, as to a sermon of revelation, you just can't do it. It takes hours and hours and hours just to get over just a few thoughts, as to one stream of revelation. That's why the Bible uses the terms great is the mystery of godliness. Great is the mystery of godliness. And that's why Jesus used the terms that I have many things to say unto you, seeing that we're dull of hearing and He can't. But so many things would brighten our life and so many things would make a world of difference even when we go to do, as they say in the world, when we go to lay down to die. Just to know certain things would be so consoling. It would be so rich. It would be so wonderful. But reading from chapter one in the book of Revelation it says, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." Now some wonder why we talk about the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And some of you have heard this. We have it on tape but we've read from this little chapter and verse and we refer to this, but one tape may go to Africa, one tape may go to India, one may go to the Carolinas, one may go to Texas, wherever, and in all of that where I said this on one tape it may never get around to the other people. If I say it on another tape it may still get to just a fraction of the people. If I say this ten times on ten different tapes it will still barely scratch the service as getting to the people. So we say this and bring it back that it might be on this tape and this tape and this tape and this tape, as a little bit of this and a little bit of that, a little bit here and a little bit there and line upon line and precept upon precept, the writer said. So, chapter one, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ". That's why we call it the Revelation of Jesus Christ. "which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: who bear record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." Now it really seems strange there that He would say this was shortly to come to pass when this happened about 96 AD while John was exiled to the Isle of Patmos off the coast of Minor Asia. As a matter-of-fact, you can find this place on the map; I've looked it up. A little rocky island called Patmos. It's strange that this should happen, that He should say this because this particular prophecy, as to the fulfillment of it, points to the end of the world which is way over here in the end time. And yet what can we say when Peter said ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. And it was shortly after he made that statement that these things came. For it is said here the revelation, the time is at hand. Undoubtedly this revelation, as to this reference, has reference to Calvary, the rent veil. Now you are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come, now the time is here. The time is here. And so then the expose at Calvary was wrote and it was called the revelation of Jesus Christ. So then, as to the fulfillment of this, as we would think of it way over here in the end time, we see these things taking place as to the revelation. And it was said they must shortly come to pass. So when we think of the time with God as a day with God as a thousand years and a thousand years, you know, being as a day then we realize it would not have been more than two days with God, which would be a short time. And time, if we said six thousand years, that would be few days and full of trouble, swifter than a shuttle, a vapor that appeareth for awhile and then vanishes away. What is six thousand years? What is six thousand years compared to eternity? Six thousand years. What would six million years be compared to eternity? So, I know when we talk like that so often, I say for the sake of the ones that don't understand and the little ones, the little ones in Christ or the new comers, that when we speak of time then people they get fuddled up in their minds. It's besetting to them because they are creatures of time. Their stability depends on the acknowledgement of of time and they can only tell where they are, where they've been and where they are going by time, as to following from point A to point B, as to a numerical system, or a continuous thing as to a continuity of what they define as hours and minutes and days and weeks and months and whatever. And they, of course, come up with all of this, you know. God didn't come up with the days and the times and the hours. He didn't reveal to man that he might grasp to be able to set this in order. But really time amounts to one thing and that's the old Indian death march. Like a dog running around after his tail because if you start with one o'clock you just go around in a circle until you get back to one o'clock. And then you start all over again and you go around in a circle until you get back to one o'clock, and back to one o'clock, and back to one o'clock and back to one o'clock. And as a consequence of that when you get ready to die you may be back at one o'clock. So you didn't get anywhere. You're caught within the radius of time and the confines of your life is as to your thinking. And because you have given your thinking, or your thoughts to this particular way of life then you are caught within the radius of time and you cannot escape it and you continue to do this until you are used up and you go back to the dust. From the dust thou art to the dust thou shalt return. And we thought we might comment just a little bit on that tonight. But I don't know. It just depends of how the Spirit moves as to where we can go with this, because, as I say, things that we would like to do sometimes is a little difficult. Now, the question arises, will we actually see the coming of the Lord? Well, it says in the seventh verse of the first chapter, "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. I am alpha and omega," (Which means the first of the alphabet to the Jews and the last. The first is alpha and the last is omega.) "I am alpha and omega,the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was to come, the Almighty." In our language we say that's from A to Z. So we know then that He really will come with clouds. So we see this. We see this in the end of the world, the end of the Bible, the last part of the Bible which is the book of Revelation. And then we find in Genesis in the very part, first part, that is, chapter one. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning was the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divided the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. And God saw that it was good." All right. We've read this to you before, how that God created the earth, set the lights in the firmament and these kind of things. Then He said in the twenty-sixth verse, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Remember that now, Let us make man in our image. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:" In our image and after our likeness. Okay. So he made this. And "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every thing that moveth upon the earth." Remember that now. Man had dominion. And we spoke the other night about the things that happened in the garden that should never have happened because to begin with Adam and Eve had dominion over the beast in the garden including the one that caused the problem. Had dominion over them and that should never have happened. It had to be a submission, as to a submissive thing, for that to happen, that on Eve's part. And then when the heavens and earth was finished God blessed it and He brought it to pass and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. All right. That brings in the day of God's rest. This is the thing that they never entered into, as to the Jews. The Jews never entered into this rest. Why is it that they did not enter into this rest? There was a reason for that. All right. So then, He made the garden eastward in Eden. As I told you, the garden was a place that He made in Eden. We always speak of the garden of Eden and to us that settles it. But that's not it. Eden was a place and there was an eastern part of Eden just like I would say the eastern part of Georgia, and here He made a garden. And this was to be kind of like an altar in our day, that this was where man met with God. All of the rest of the animals, all of the rest of the trees and whatever, throughout Eden, the seas, whatever, it made no difference; they were scattered abroad. But man's little home and little dwelling place was in the east of Eden, a beautiful garden out of which went those four rivers that we spoke of. We spoke of these before, as to Pison and of these four rivers as to Hiddekel, Pison and Euphrates and the different rivers that run out. There was four of them that ran out from here. We name them on tape every once in a while and these had a great significance. Those rivers are still around like I said; you can find them. Even the river Euphrates. You can go and find it. And the other rivers, they've just changed the manes of them. And along some of those rivers if they look, if they search they find gold. As a matter-of-fact, they find the onyx stone. They find gold, bdellium. They find these things because they are along those rivers. Great mighty wealth, unbelievable and they can find it. But then the garden they cannot find. Why can't they find the garden? If they can find the gold and they can find all the other and they can locate the rivers, and following the river back to find the heads of these rivers, why then can they not find the garden? Well, there's a reason for that. All right. Then the Lord told them that they could eat of the tree of life but not the tree of knowledge. Now, we commented the other night on that, that you can't eat of something that you can't see, that you can't get to. We explained how that God, Himself, was the great eternal Spirit, as to the tree of life. And thus manifested Himself in the times of the Lord Jesus as that tree in the earth. And Jesus acknowledge that by saying I am a green tree, full of the wonderful love, or sap of God, as to life. And all of the rest were dry trees except those that He brought to a fertile state of life. Then it was through the personification of the Lord Jesus that men thus had access to the tree of life. Before that He did not. Now, someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, I think that what it was that they had access to it to start with and then when they fell into their iniquity then they had no more access to it until Jesus came to give them access to it again. And that is true. That is true. But what we don't understand a lot of times is God's way of doing things. See? To begin with they only had access to the tree of life through the image of illumination which was the image in which they were made as in His image and in His likeness. And it was through this that they could get to the tree of life, that is. Now. The tree of knowledge, they had access to that. It was through the beast and that's why they went to it. See? Because there was a tree of knowledge and that tree of knowledge was Satan. I know a lot of people say, Well, I think that was a fruit tree. Well, it was symbolized as a fruit tree; that's right. In the earth we are trees. We're fruit trees. We bring forth fruit. Bring forth fruit. They speak of the fruit of the tree and they speak of the fruit of the womb. They speak of the fruit of the field. See? All of these are fruits but the thing is the Bible speaks of corrupt fruits also. There can be corrupt fruits. There can be good fruits. There can be fruits of perfection. There can be fruits of imperfection. It is God's will that we bring forth much fruit, as to fruit of perfection because we are the trees. And we are as the new birth the tree of life. And our fruits are fruits of life and healing and death is within the tongue. A tongue, a wholesome tongue is a tree of life and by this it's like a leaf, as to the healing of the nations. He sent His Word and healed them for the word is in the tongue and the tongue outside of that is a little member that's set on fire by the course of hell. It is unruly and full of deadly evil and no man has ever tamed it. All right. Well, there is a lot that we'd have to say just on one little subject. We could just go on and go on but when you think of a tree, I remind you one more time, here is the tree of knowledge in the garden that we're speaking of. Now. As to the tree of knowledge, have you ever run across a tree that grew knowledge. Do you know of anywhere in the earth there is a tree that grows knowledge? Can you take me to a tree that grows knowledge? Can you take me to a tree that grows knowledge of good and knowledge of evil? Can you take me to a tree that grows life, as to the tree of life? No. See? It's very evident that these were spiritual things that God was speaking of. Now. Right there I need to comment a little bit. I don't know whether I'll even get into my subject or not. It just depends on how hungry the heart is. But let's just comment there on that little bit. Here we see trees growing. Now the thing is, if this is Eden then there must be some fruit trees with fruit on them. There must be some trees, natural trees, because here man is a natural being taken out of a natural earth composed of natural dust. It is very evident that he is because when he fails to do what God commissioned him to do then the Bible said from dust thou art unto the dust thou shalt return which seems like a harsh thing for God to do. But it really wasn't. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, do you mean that this is just mere people? They were just mere people, that's all. But when the intermingling came, as to the cross up with the beast and with Eve then people marvelled because they say, Now, here is beast cohabiting with human beings. See? But there is really nothing there that is to be alarming about the interwoven, intermingling of these creatures. You say, Why is that, Brother Pike? Because they were all beast to start with. Adam was a beast. Eve was a beast. Just as everything comes out of the dust, from trees and water and animals and everything else. Just the composition of the earth. They were taken out of the earth. They were made that way just like the beast and there was a difference only in the Shekinah covering. God breathed the breath of life into them and they became a living soul. Whereas someone would say, Well, Brother Pike, there is the difference; animals don't have souls. I've said this so often, you don't understand the Bible because if you had known the Bible you would have known that the Bible said animals have souls. And that the soul of the animal goes down and the soul of man goes up. So life was in the soul of the animal just like it was in the soul of mankind. And the difference, differentiating there is as even to our day, as to whether we are a living soul, as to the animal way of life or as to whether we are a quickening spirit, as to God's way of life. So then, it was evident here that the intermingling, as to the conversation as to the captivation was just on a beast level because just as soon as this voice caught the interest of Eve, lead her out of the sunlight, she stepped into the shadows. And so when the illumination was gone they were on equal planes and because of that there was nothing but animal to animal. See? And the problems was, not as to them just being as they were but the problem was it was a insult to God in that the Shekinah image, God had made them in the Shekinah image of Christ, of God, Himself. Not as to the beast of the earth but in this great wonderful image and in His likeness. That is to say, the illumination caused them to function accordingly as God would. To think as God would. See? But the thing is when she stepped into the shadows the sunlight went away and there she was. But God did not make that effective, as to bringing about a transgressional charge until the head consented to it. And when Adam consented to it then the transgression was established. Because the Bible said in Paul's writing that Adam was not in the transgression but Eve, and that as to the original transgression that's true. But as to sin it did not say that Adam had not sinned. It said because of Adams sin that all were unto death. It was because of his sin. It was not charged to Eve. It was charged to Adam because that was Adam's body that did that. And it was Adam's oversight as to have prevented her from doing that. But, nevertheless, because of what she did she lost her right of equality because God had sought to take a woman and make her equal to a man. This is what He had sought to do because the man was the equality of God to the extent he was called the son of God. And that was to be God's glory as to reproduce his image. And the woman was to be the equal of man that she might reproduce his image and that would be his glory. But she forfeited her right to that showing herself to be the weaker vessel by submitting to these things and Paul brings this out seeing that the woman is the weaker vessel. He terms her to be the weaker vessel because of this. And because of what she did then she must serve her husband. She must be under subjection to her husband and now she is nothing but a reflector. Now she is nothing but a human body as to be under the constraint of the male mind because now she has no life of her own. She killed herself. She committed suicide. She done away with all of her human rights and now she belongs to the man as the body. She's right back where she started as one with the body before she was ever taken out to be a body. So this is what Paul was trying to say. And what God was trying to tell us was that the church which was the body that the spirit would have entered into, or the garment that Almighty God would have put on, as to put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. This body had proven itself to be weak, as to the beastly side of it and it forfeited its right to the great spiritual side of it, as to godliness and now was under subjection, as to a headship, and that meant that either Satan would be the head, as to the animal life, or either God would be the head as to the other life. If God was to be the life, as to the head, then man would become equal with God. Or there in the garden he could have become equal with God by obedience but the did not obey. So the woman typically showed that the flesh now was weak. And because of that it had forfeited its life and give up its life, as to committing suicide as to doing away with all of its rights and it fell under the constraint of a beast, as to that which was relative to it, and under the constraint of a spiritual mastermind which was Satan that worked through that part that was relative to man. See? So really the disgusting part was when God said, I brought you from the dust. I illuminated you with the Shekinah glory of Almighty God. I made you God, the Son of God, Adam. I put you in the presence of paradise. I gave you everything and you threw it all away and you chose to drop to a beast level and from now on you are in trouble. You are dead, Adam, because there is no life except in me and the garden and this wonderful place of Eden, as to the home, and this wonderful state of life. Now, I, as the great eternal spirit I'm lifting from you. And away went the garden and there came the briars, and away went all the beautiful things of life. And away went that, because with God's illumination and His presence, the Bible said, there is life. And when His presence withdrew there was no life. Like the song we wrote, For Thy presence, Lord, I long to feel. So then we know that what happened was Eve and Adam realized that they were without a covering. And immediately they were very shameful because people without a covering is shameful. God has made it to be so, so that people in the natural will feel the shame of this to show that spiritually you are naked in the sight of God. He said, I counsel of you to buy, or purchase of me raiment that is tried in the fire that you may be clothed, or don't come in here without the wedding garment. That is, Don't fail to put on the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. As many as have been baptized into the body, or the spirit, or baptized into Christ they have put on Christ. But don't come in here without that. Don't bring your selfish, your beastly image into My presence because I despise it. He said, When the light strikes it I will despise your image because that image is a harlotry image. That image is a perverted image and Adam lost his sonship. He lost that illumination, as to that image in which he was made and that likeness, or that great spiritual illumination in which it was made. And all of a sudden with this Adam went outside the garden, went away and he found himself with the animals. And there also found that his wife had dropped herself to the low level of an animal and then there they were mating together, even man and woman as an animal. And today they still mate as animals. And today they are so ungodly and so unbelievable that they do not marry anymore, got one wife or two wives. They don't even care if it's a wife, or a husband, or not because they are beast. And some of them are brute beast and made to be taken and burned. And science, of course, as traced their origin back to the beast and they know that they are the beast. And the only thing is they cannot connect it together. They don't know why that now they cannot link the animal blood with the human being, because you can't do that. It would kill a human being. But it is because God has smitten that thing that made the connection between man and between animals. God did that still in hope to bring out of mankind, as out of the natural people of this life, an image that would be a God image and not lose his act of creation. See? So He allowed Satan as a reflector. We used the terms today as we were talking as to a mold. We've used that term a lot of times as to melt down, a spirit has to have a mold, a fleshly mold, and as a reflector to pour man into, or pour God into, as God freely gave Himself as love unto man to spare him. Putting the blood on the Seat of Atonement bringing about grace that He might preserve these human beings until the day that he could make the change. And that's why that we refer to the battle over the body and why the body is of such great importance. The body is absolutely not worth the powder it would take to blow the brain ... (State tape one, side two.) .. They're not even equal to that. As a matter-of-fact, I think the powder would cost more. They were worth, I think, about ninety-eight cents and they've probably decreased in value since then, as to all their chemicals put together. So, and I imagine the shell would cost you that much more now. But, anyway, they're not even worth the powder to blow their brains out unless they are in God. But if they are in God then being in God they are an eternal being that there are no words of expression for, there is not description for. No one can describe them. They are so great that they outshine the brightness of the noonday. All right. So, in this Adam and Eve finds that they have become nothing more than animals. When the Lord comes to look for them they hide themselves. And when they hide themselves, the Lord comes they're lost. He can't find them because God can't look on iniquity. Therefore they're not in His presence anymore. And He says, Adam, where art thou? And He's walking in the garden in the cool of the evening. Surely Almighty God knows all things. He would have known that they were in the garden. But He said, You are lost, Adam. He was trying to say to you and I that they are lost. Though we're in the same garden they're lost. God can be in the same room where two or three are gathered together in the midst, or in the name of the Lord, or the midst of the saints of God, then God gets right in the midst of all of them if two or three of them just has a mind and an inclination and a desire toward God. And two or three just get in the midst of the saints if they come in the name of God, not all of the saints but just two or three, and the Lord is in the midst of them. Because with His name it brings Him present, as to a true heartfelt condition of acknowledgment toward the great eternal Spirit. That's why when you pray for the sick, say anything in the name of Jesus, if you really believe then the power of God come through that name and that thing begins to happen. All right. So, now here they are trying to cloth themselves and they've gotten together and they pulled fig leaves. Because fig leaves are big leaves. They stitched them up and they put the fig leaves on them and now they have the fig leaves. Okay. Now, having the fig leaves they feel comfortable to the extent they feel they are covered. But see? There was a covering because it was not a natural nakedness to begin with because they were already in that condition. I say again, there is absolutely nothing, not one thing that is wrong, or unsightly, or ungodly about the exposed human body. Not one thing. Had it been God would never have left it in that condition. But it is a thing of the mind. It is the degraded, devilish, filthy mind that Satan projected into Eve, as to her thinking and as to the defilement. Irregardless to the fact that things took place otherwise concerning the body has nothing to do with it to the extent that animals are animals. And like we are in this day you can't find none of them good. The Bible says not any of them are good. All of them have defiled themselves. All of them are corrupt. Every man has turned to his own way. All flesh has corrupted it's way before God. See? So that's not it. It's a state of mind that they were illuminated with a mind of Christ and when they stepped out of that illumination, as to Eve, then she stepped into the shadows of the evil thinking and when this bedauchery of filth came to her mind then she carried it to Adam and Adam did eat, the Bible said. So Eve saw that it was fruit to make one wise because it was the tree of knowledge. And then she shared it with Eve. All right. So, that means that both of them were in that kind of condition. That's why I said the other night, when you speak of the seed of the serpent getting over the flood the only way the seed of the serpent got over the flood was in Adam, as to Adam's seed. Someone would say, Well, I don't believe that because I believe that was God's lineage and I believe that Cain was the beast lineage. And here we go, you know. But if that's true why did Jesus say to the Jews, I know that you are the seed of Abraham but you go about to kill me, a man that has told you the truth. Why do you do you do this? And then He said, You are of your father the devil. How could they be of their father the devil and still be the seed of Abraham? See? The same way that Esau and Jacob could have the same father, as to Isaac, and one be as losing the birthright and one be as to receiving the birthright. Or as it was with Cain and with Abel. See? As I said, indeed he was the son of Adam. As to the son of Adam you would say, what do you mean by that? Well, by virtue of family rights, as to fatherhood, Adam was fathering Cain until he grew up and committed murder. And as to the death of Abel, it's obvious that had to do with Jesus and Satan killing him, smiting him. It's very obvious that the replacement of that which was said had to do with Christ which is the beginning of the creation of God, as to that of Adam on the sonship side. So it's very obvious that Adam was not the beginning of the creation of God but the illumination, as to the image that was with God before the foundation of the world came down and man was made in that image. And as long as he was covered with the Shekinah then he was in the presence of that tree of life. And that's the only way that he could see it. But he had no need for it because he was already illuminated with life. He did not understand that he had to eat of that tree that he might continue to live. You know, because as long as he was under the Shekinah he had life anyway. He had everything anyway. He had paradise right there, see? But the thing is when this thing happened the illumination was left and the garden was gone and the garden was nowhere to be found. And until today it's still isn't anywhere to be found. That's why they can't find it. So then, they tried to cover themselves with the leaves. When they tried to cover themselves with the leaves they hid themselves. They hid their nakedness fro one another because they were looking through eyes of lust because Eve had started that. Sin in the world because of the lust of the eyes, lusting after the tree and death because of sin because that was an act of unbelief. So we know then when we are enticed we are drawn away from our steadfastness then it creates an interest and then that alluring that has drawn us away then all of a sudden that interest turns into a desire. And the desire of course, the original rendering is lust, as to an over charged desire. So then it turns into something that is not like God, as to a stimulation, and it is a lust and then lust conceives. Because when we begin to desire then the thoughts of having, and owning, or partaking of that enters into our heart and that's what Satan was after. He put that thought into Eve's heart like that. When it went in like that then Eve was protected only by virtue of one thing and that is that she did not know anything about sin. And where there is on knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed, as to the penalty. And yet they were still under death because of the sin of Adam, not knowing, and the law came later. And the law was added because of transgression, or because man had transgressed God gave the law to Moses to reveal these impurities to the human mind to let them know what their problem was as to their sickness and death. Then once they knew this, this is the worse things that could happen to man from then on. As Paul said, That which was ordained unto life I found to be unto death because when I came to know right and wrong it was required of me. And being carnal sold unto sin I couldn't do what's right, he said, though the law is spiritual and good. But the law was weak through the flesh. The weakness of my flesh toward the law that I could not perform it. And it was the measurements of God. It was the characteristical desires of God as to a performance according to His pleasure. So Jesus  When the law had run it's course Jesus came down, got between the law and between man at Calvary and took the full blast of the curse of that of the disobedience and relieved man of this thing and took it away from man, folded it up, fulfilled every jot and tittle. And then the spirit of this wonderful works of God that had so lived this perfect life to the jot and tittle entered into the heart of man, as to whatever the measure man will allow to be in him. And thus his righteousness is made known through this. All right. So then, we know that this was added because of transgression until the seed should come unto whom the promise was made and the seed was Jesus Christ because four hundred and thirty years before this law ever came God gave Abraham the plan of faith and redemption by faith and told him that it would all be through the act of God, as to love working through his belief and that all they had to do was believe as in our day when the seed come, that in Isaac shall the seed be called. That is, the promised son. And then believing our way unto righteousness with our heart to say, I believe in what He did. And then the confession of this works of God, as to the finishing from the foundation of the world being revealed to me by the wonderful ministry of today, or the preaching of the Word. In this I have drawn nigh with the believing of my heart. I now have faith in that and I now make a confession with my lips unto salvation. Unto salvation because what a man says comes from his heart. Christ is the high priest of my confession, my advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ the righteous is the one that if I do stumble, if I do make a mistake, he's already took care of it. He has already made up for it and there can be nothing charged to me so I do not have to worry about transgressing anything of the Holy Spirit. I do not have to worry about transgressing God's way of life because I cannot transgress God's way of life. If sin by transgression come of one man then life came by the obedience of one man. And now I am free from the transgression. The Bible said free from the great transgression, which was Adam's sin unto death. Now I am free from that now so that means that I am a new creature. I am a new body. I'm in a new world. All things have been made new. Old things have passed away and now I'm not the body that I was, as to know you after the flesh or you to know me after the flesh or to know Jesus after the sinful image. We're not that but now we're the bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We're the very body of Almighty God not by mystic conception of thought but as a living reality. This life is vanity; it's not reality. We define it as reality but it's not reality. But I'm speaking of reality, eternal security, everlasting life, this reality, eternal reality. This spiritual reality. So we see then, as to the covering of these kind of things, we understand that they tried to do that because they had had a covenant of water. This covenant of a water life. As to the world of vegetation there is a stream of water in the earth. It is a life line and all vegetation must have it. All of the natural must have it. The earth will fall apart if it doesn't have it. The Bible said God put a firmament up here. When you say firmament we say that's in the affirmative or that's solid. God put the thing firm to hold the waters above the firmament from the waters, as to below the firmament and so then we see the clouds drifting around above the firmament here, as to whatever degree God decides, whether they are stratus clouds, or whether they are cumulus clouds, or whatever kind of clouds they might be. See? They are above the firmament. And then we see the ocean, we see the rivers, we see the streams that are below the firmament. And the Bible says those that are below the firmament as dividing the waters from the waters He drew them in to places to make seas and make rivers and whatever because they too were, as we would say, floating. All right, now. So then we know that God did this. There is a water life. There has to be a water life to keep the world of vegetation going. That's why man is so disturbed when the drought comes. He's made out of the dust and His body craves water. He has to quench that thirst and God has made all kind of fruits with water in them. In the garden all they had to do was drink from the crystal streams, the four heads coming out of the garden of pure water. No contamination, as to fallout like in our day. No corruptible thing. No death. Nothing thrown into it. It didn't have to be purified. And there was the trees and the trees were so beautiful with the fruit. And man ate of that and that was his life, as to his natural. And then there were the other two trees, as to the spiritual things, see? that was in the midst of the garden. And when you say midst it doesn't mean midst like you and I think of midst. Like when I say up, in the spirit it doesn't mean that way. It's a change of dimension but God does that because of your intellectual understanding as to give you a stability of up and down and in and out and forward and backward and these kind of things. But, anyway, there's a lot to be said there. Let me say this. From four eighty-three, as to the four hundred and ninety years of Daniel over to the seven years of tribulation, the four eighty-three that stops at Calvary. The end of iniquity. The end of sin. We've explained that to you before, the covering of the sin by the blood and the image of iniquity gone. Now. So then, that is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The revelation was when Jesus at Calvary rent the veil in twain. And then the expose of that covenant on the inside, which was Christ, and when you read the book of Revelation if you have the spirit of revelation, it will show you very clearly that in the book of Revelation when it said the veil of the temple was rent in twain there was lightnings and thunderings, voices and no one could enter into that temple, that the train of God, the glory of God filled that temple and no one could enter in until all of this stopped. It goes right back to the little tent, the little tabernacle and this outer court that was around it like a fence, one little tent sitting in the middle of it that was called the tabernacle and it divided into two parts like a twenty and a ten, as to say twenty feet and ten feet. See? And the little ten as to would be ten by ten, supposedly, was the temple part and covered with the Cherubs as signifying the covering Cherubs on the inside, as to that being the needle work that the women had made, the covering, whereby, I told you, they had to pick it up, back up, lay it on the covenant, couldn't look at it, as to the Ark of the Covenant. Back up, pick it up, hang it up here. No one could look upon it except the high priest, signifying the coming of Jesus when the veil would be rent and the Christ would enter right into the holy of holies to intercede for us. So, the Jews didn't know this when Jesus came. They did not understand His mission. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain, the Bible said that as to say of His body, making a mew way into that wonderful world of God. Now. I don't want to get off of my thought there so I'm just going to say this real quick and get back to my original thought as to the original theme here. I'll try not to hold you very long. So then, we see that in this, this high priest, whereas, Aaron could never make the conscience of the comer thereof, as to the offering of blood; yet Christ could with the human, human image because it all was beast and He was made in the image of the beast. And He was smitten as the beast. He was smitten as the head of the serpent, as to the serpent that was hanging on the pole in the wilderness because Adam was the head of that beast. He was the one. The other that would have been the head of the beast, as to whatever act there was in the garden, then with this God put him on his belly because of the evils that had been performed as to the way that men and women mate. So in this, to eat the dust, to the dust thou art. From the dust thou art; to the dust thou shalt return, Adam, because thou art no more, as to now than a generation of vipers and serpents. And so it was, John laying the axe to the root of the tree cut this whole family tree down, all the way back to the garden because Adam had fell from the illumination of that God image, as the son of God image. And when the second man Adam came he came as the second man Adam because this was the image in which Adam was made and this was that first man Adam, as to the only Adam, as he had, Adam had reflected this glory and then had felled, as to the instrument of Satan. And now the beginning of the creation was now to come which was this image that was with God in the foundation that was before the foundation of the world. Restore unto me the joys that I had with Thee before the foundation of the world. And now it was coming because the serpent had run it's serpentine course all the way down from the fall in the garden crawling, as we say, on the belly and crawling up into the upper lintel which was here at Calvary between heaven and earth, coming into this mystic heaven that we now have as a lying vanity, that is a terrestrial glory that is set up through the tree of knowledge and the militant forces of the world today with it's glitter and glamour, the hospitals, colleges and whatever, races, football, sports. See? So he had taken advantage of the temporal life and got himself a kingdom reflecting the great wonderful things of God. And he had pushed man out of his place and put man down to a lower lever. And now, instead of man being up here where God could work through him and control every natural thing in the earth, as to that which emanated from God, he couldn't get to it no more. And now Satan had gotten between him and between God so he was getting the benefits. And God could not destroy him without destroying man. Like they used to have years ago a worm that would get into the body. They could not kill the worm. Something like a fire worm. They had to take a little old  They didn't have much medical aid. They had to take a little old stem like and roll it around the end of that worm and every day just roll it a little bit until they rolled it out of the body because it would kill the man if they didn't do that. And see? Satan is that way. God has to work him out a little bit at a time. So, then we find that because of this we today have to be born again. We have to be born again because as to the first life we are dead because of Adam. In Adam all die. We have to be born again. we are dead as to the first birth. You know, this is not some mystic saying, a perhaps or make believe. You know, you make believe you're born again and you make believe you're going to heaven, and you make believe everything is right when the devil is beating your brains out, as somebody says. And you make believe and you make believe and you make believe. That's not it at all. Folks, you that are doing that really are make believers. You are deceived. You're seeing strong delusions, vainly puffed up by your fleshly mind, as to some religious activity of your own like the Jews were. Going about to establish your own ritualistics you stumble at the things of God that bring life. So we know then that death is here because of that serpent. John cut that family tree down and then came forth, as to the resurrection, as to the new form, the tree of life which was the beginning of the creation of God. Which was the restoration of the lost image which image we are today in the mind of God, not as we look at each other. It doesn't appear as to what we look at each other. That's not it because we are seeing through depraved eyes and our eyes are heavy with the darkened veil of intellectual reasoning and we see through a glass darkly. But by faith we look through the eyes of Christ, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened and we see beyond the veil of humanity and we see a spiritual inner man inside. Paul said, Though the outer man perish as the beast image, as to Calvary, he's dead, he's gone. He's no more. God will never look at him. God despises his image. He killed him at Calvary because this beastly creature that was always popping up before God and in the presence of God by the atonement of that grace that God put there to make allowance until He could change the creature and get the people that was right out from among this thing. See, that thing He despised. He was only spilling the blood because the life was in the blood and the perversion of the spirit of strength, as to Satan, had gotten into the heart and got a hold of that. And God had only protected them because they had not come to the knowledge of that until the law came. See? Then when it was revealed He made a way of escape afterwards to salvage, to secure. All right. So then, we know then that death was in Adam and all in Adam die. In your first birth you are dead in trespasses and sin and some twice dead, plucked up by the root, which means you've come to the knowledge of sin and you haven't acknowledge God so that killed you spiritually and the worm went into the heart. Because the spirit is the root, as to life to the body. There is no life in the body. Life is spirit and spirit is life. I'm going to explain that in just a few minutes the Lord willing. All right. So then, we know that in Adam all die. We are dead in His sight. He despises our image. He took Jesus made Him into that image, as to the image because the children partook of flesh and blood and was made as in this image of bones. Then the Bible said He also partook. And then in the Greek there is a term that is used. And the terms, we say, this term applying to us as to a Greek term that means partook but not all. Not all. He partook of the flesh and the bones, as to the image. He did not partake of the blood because there is no corruptible blood that is in the body of Jesus, or ever was. See? That blood was a new blood cell. A blood cell of life that came from the inspiration of the great Eternal Spirit that gendered inspiration as it came over Mary and to the divine conception, just like when it came over me. God made me virtuous, as to a virgin. He's called us unto virtue and unto glory. And the Bible speaks of the man's virtue as well as the woman's virtue. And so then, He has made me to be as the virgin, like He has made you to be, which is the body of the Lord Jesus that is sinless. And the conception then is of God and not of the will of man, as to human inspiration. Or as to Satan being a spirit gendering an inspiration through electronic means, as to the quickening. That is to say, as to electrical forces, and that through your human nerve system which is a composition of electrical friction. See? Not as that as unto debauchery to program your spirit as thoughts and minds like you're setting a clock that it might march on into destruction while he has control of it, getting into your body, staying out of the dry places and the tormenting places. But God seeks to program your mind. He seeks to enter into you as to the illumination. This is what he wanted. If man had made the right choice God would have immediately entered into him, set his heart just like a clock. Set his mind just you do when you want to wake up at a certain time in the morning and you set your mind and it happens to you. See? And then God would have programmed him and he would have been programmed with the thoughts of life and eternally he would have automatically functioned within the radius of that and the life of God would have poured into him. But we see that when this thing happened, as unto death  I hope you'll bear with me a few more minutes. I still haven't gotten down the line far enough yet. So, in this we realize that the tree of life, as to delivered for our offenses, as to the tree of death, raised again for our justification. The tree of life. That these are spiritual things but they had to be projected through natural forces of body. And so then, when it went down to the human side of it, as to the tree of death, as to knowledge, from that time man has reproduced unto death. Unto death. Unto death. It's the woman's side of it, all of her children are unto death, unto death. And as quick as they come out, as to the opening of the matrix, the first thing that happens they put them in college. They put them in school. They put them in kindergarten. This kind of things. And they are under a constraint by law now to force them to that, that Satan might not lose his rights. All the government, all of the world, the lust of the flesh, everything is of the devil in this world. Everything is corrupt in this world. There is no good thing in this world. All is the lust of the flesh, the pride of life and the world and the lust thereof passes away but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. And a lot of times people say, Well, I don't agree with, because they are like children; they don't understand. They say, Bless God, I'm in this world. Well, if you're in that world then your are corrupt. If you're in the world I don't care how religious you are you don't have nothing from God; you're corrupt. We are not in the world. The Bible says God has chosen us out of the world, hide us with Christ in God whom the heavens have received and we are there in heaven. And the Bible said you that dwell in heaven rejoice. Not just sitting in heaven; you that dwell in heaven. It's your dwelling. This other things will not come nigh your heavenly dwelling. Okay. So, we realize it's going to pass away. How will it pass away? By the mind of Christ. This great light, which is an understanding, an unveiling of God Almighty. It will come. As it comes the consummation will come and everything will be rearranged, even to the electrons. Everything will pass through the fire stages and be purified. Even the earth will be a mass of fire, even the heavens being on fire and the earth and the elements, as to the atomic particles around you will utterly melt with fervent heat and all therein shall utterly be burned up. And we look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness and all that can pass through this will be the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Anything else will utterly be burned up and we'll tread their ashes under our feet. So, we know then that we are the body of the Lord Jesus. We dwell in the midst of this great light and this great light will not hurt us because we are in the midst of this great light. See? It it cannot hurt us because we are in the midst of this great light. And sitting in the midst of this great light then that means nothing can approach unto us to hurt us. Nothing. Nothing can get near us. Darkness cannot penetrate. Darkness cannot get near light. Light dissolves, causes it to dissipate, as to the darkness. All right. Let's take another look because there are two steps here that I need to make in case you grow weary on me. So why was it that Eve and Adam could not cover up their naked bodies? Because life that was in the water, their substance of life was water. Fruits, as to juices, the tastes, and whatever. And that's all they had to do because they were illuminated with the spirit of life so it didn't require anything except the fluids. And with that, that was the wonderful act of God. And the life and the first covenant of life was water. And when you say covenant that means like life in the blood, or life in the water, or life in the spirit. One of the three coverings. And so this was a water covering. Now it would not do anymore because of sin. There was no innocency in them. They fell now to a beast level and now the life was in the blood because that was the beast level as to life. And so then, in that now their covering, God said, is a covering but it's not of me. It is a Satanic thing that Satan did through a blood life of a beast and now your life is in captivity to that spirit that is in that blood cell. (Begin tape two, side one.) ... as the blood and whatever, see? in those things. We don't have time to break it down. We have broken these down, chemically speaking, in some sermons. But then we see that from this time, as to the great deluge, as to the water deluge, and that done away with the covenant, as to the water life that was the life line of the world of water and vegetation. That was the end of it right there. And they were saved, as to salvation, by trees that were put together of this particular kind of wood, because it was a salvation, as to this water life, and so then they were saved. See? And from that time on there was, as to Moses, when they finally came down to the law, a pillar of fire that was over them. And this pillar of fire indicated that blood. This pillar of fire, the blood covering, that that's on the Seat of Atonement. Like I told you, in our day, if we had time to really preach to you, which would take all night, you know, to bring in a few little things of what's happening now in the spirit. See? As I told you as the vision I had when I saw this great fire in heaven, as to this great pillar of fire and then it came down to stand over my head and as it did the fire went away and nothing but the cloud was there. See? It was a cloud by day. It was a fire by night. And I spoke to you about Brother Branham of how it was a pillar of fire in his day because as I was with Moses, the voice had said to him, and as John you're the forerunner. See? And when this came down, as to Brother Branham, he came down as a pillar of fire because it was as to this eagle age of American, the war age, or as to the blood life and the life in the blood under the covering of the blood. But with the saints of God it won't be that way. It will be the millennium, which is the dove age, which is a peace age and the American age will go out and they'll try to get rid of war and establish a peace age as to do away with the days of David, as to the fighting and bring in the time of Solomon to build this wonderful house where the train of the temple, as in Revelation, shall be filled with the smoke of His glory. See? And so while we're in this age, of the blood age, then the covering is the blood. Because as long as there is blood on the Seat of Atonement it means that blood life can be in the present of God, as to the rain on the just and the unjust. Now. When it is over it will be taken, as to the second step as to blood from the ark all the way down to Calvary from the great water deluge. At the water deluge that ended the first part of it. That first part. See? I have to take my time with some of you like little babies because  And I just kind of stumble around trying to get it out then because you can't perceive very much. It's hard to get you to perceive. Otherwise we could just walk along just like that because in my mind, see: God has put this thing in my mind, made it so clear and took me through it so many times it's just as clear as a bell. But I have to be real careful and just let Him speak a little bit at a time to try to get it over. And then when I finish many of you won't get nothing but fragments. When you go back to look for it it will be gone. Some of you are just reflectors; you won't have anything. But as to three things that bear witness in the earth, the water, the blood and the spirit, these three bear witness. These agree in one. Three that bear record in heaven and these three are one. See? So, in the earth there is a water life, there is a blood life, there is a spiritual life. And that water life is the lifeline of all vegetation. That blood life is the blood life of all chemical reactions in the earth, as to the world of chemistry or human anatomy, as to the beast level. And then the third life is spirit life, which is angelic life, or that inner man as the inner being. The inner man which is called  This man on the inside is your angelic being. In heaven ye are as the angels. That is to say in the Spirit because the Spirit is heaven. All right. So then, we see as to the second deluge the first one they could not cover with. Now God had put them on skins so your covering is not a fig leaf. Today you have skins. You are covered with skin because you are in the beast realm. Now, when we come down to Calvary the end of the trail of beast comes. The blood has been spilt, been spilt, been spilt because the animal did it and that's to release the life, release the life, release the life. Go back to God. When you get down to the Lamb you get down to the human image. That ended. That is the human beast, as we say. Jesus being made that. All right. Now, when that life is released and the Red Dragon, as to the blood life, is cast out, the old trail of the dragon, the generation of vipers, the axe is laid to the root of the tree. The family tree is gone. Now the beginning of the creation of God starts. Not the creation of the family of the serpent, or the generation of the serpent but it is the family of God now. The family tree of God; the tree of life. So we are they that are born again. See? Which means not as to a natural body because that is skin. That's the old beast. He rent the veil. He took us out of that mold. He took us out of that veil of flesh and now we are a spiritual being. We are an angelic being. We now dwell in heaven. He chose us out of the earth. We now have the mind of Christ. This is this new world of heaven. This is a new thing. Our conversation is in heaven. All that we do is in heaven. Every thought is brought into subjection to heaven and to the Spirit, that we don't mess with the flesh at all. No provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. So He took the skins off. He rent the veil. He took the skin off because to them that believe in the Lord Jesus now their spirit has come out of that veil, which is the life and it's no more, as it would be, in the water, as to their substance, or passing through the blood realm. But now our life is hid with Christ. Christ is the great Spirit, as to that Shekinah image. And now our spiritual image on the inside which is our life has become interwoven with that life and now it's one life. And this great angelic being is lifted now into the heavenly places. I say up for the sake of your thinking. Went away, as to appear in the dimension there on the Mount of Transfiguration in that great wonderful dimension with Moses and Elijah. The Bible says when Christ our life appears, because the Kingdom of God comes at Calvary and out of the veil we step as Christ and the master piece is unveiled and from four eighty-three all the way over to the seven it is a heavenly dispensation and the seven after that closes to the four eighty-three. The door to the Gentiles closing. The door that Peter opened is closed and the door that was open to John is now closed and the bowels of compassion is now closed because we are the gates of heaven and they are the gates of hell. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, that the King of glory may come in, for the gates of hell shall not prevail against you. One in here is the Kingdom of Heaven. In them it is the world, which is the gates of hell. God has placed the world in our hearts. So when we get down to the spiritual significance now we see that the blood covenant has failed. The blood covenant has failed. It's over. The people for that world are gone. The Jews belong to that covenant. That's why they couldn't understand when they said, Will you at this time restore unto us the Kingdom? Is David's son going to come and sit on the throne? And then the Christ spoke up beyond the fleshly body and said, My kingdom if not of this world. If it was my servants would fight. And they didn't recognize that was the Christ speaking through that human veil and that He was fixing to pull that robe off and then go yonder as the high priest to sit on the throne. And take that robe, pick it up in three days as a blood stained vesture, set it there as to the appeasing of God that God may see that that was the end of all flesh, as in the days of Noah, and that it was all gone now and the beast could never come into His presence, that the missing link, that was that He had smitten that beast and now the only thing that could come in here as that typical thing was as between humanity, as to man and woman and their family, now between God as to what it really represented, the great Spirit and the body, there was not anything in between as Satan, that fallen angel that was both good and bad in his knowledge. As to good to know of this because He'd been there and bad as to know this that to make that connection as He did in the days of Job and come into the presence of God. Never again could he do that, that as to the blood of the Seat of Atonement or coming into the human body that when the Sons of God came to present themselves that he could never come again like that even though he does now, but not in the mind of God. He only comes into the presence of the Son of God because all judgment is as to the Son. And because of the Son's blood then blood life is allowed for but the great Spirit has settled it all. He has entered into His rest because this is the day that the Lord has made. When Jesus did what He did that finished it. That brought the rest of God. So we have entered into His rest in that our spirit has gone into the Holy Spirit and we don't try to work human works anymore. He is the finished work. He is our predestination. He is our glory. He is our God. All we do, we are dead and that body is gone and our spirit now moves as just like you move out of the house on the side of the hill, you decide you don't like it, you want to get in this house. Because this is a rickety old thing you just move over here. Folks, understand what I'm saying. You have been born again. Not as to a myth. Not as to a mystic thing. Not as to something that's going to happen someday. You are the creation of God through Jesus, the limb of that great tree of life, even of that family tree. You are alive forever more. You've passed from death unto life. You're inner man now, always speaking of your inner man. The Kingdom of God, the Spirit of Christ, your spirit has been hid in that Spirit and right now your life is in that Spirit and you are now one with Christ Jesus. And when that spirit went away your spirit, your life, the real you went away because there is no life in the body. That body of death is now gone. That contrary thing is gone that Satan worked through and the blood life is gone. It's killed. It can never be in the presence of God again. God is just running this little thing out as to the last. It's already they that have fallen from grace are under the law. They're already shut out of His presence. You are already caught up into His presence and it's just running on out, as to this time that when the seven years of tribulation comes in, as to another earthly prospective, that He could smite, just like that because He smote that serpent on the head as he crawled up into the upper lentil there at Calvary. The cornerstone came and smote him. The little stone hued out of the mountain that Revelation speaks of, calling to heaven, and came down. And here the prophet said, And the stone came down as a corner stone crying, Grace to you folks, grace to you folks, grace to you folks. Or it came down saying, Grace, grace, grace. When it came down then the great light of God that smote the serpent through that stone as it struck that stone and the light refracted. The world went away and the darkness went away with that great blast of light that had turn dark as sackcloth of hair, which we don't have time to explain. And then the spectrum came and this great rainbow, as we said, over the church ages as over the revelation, it was now the reveling of Christ to you during this period of time. And it wasn't but four hundred and ninety years for the entirety of the work in the earth from the time of Daniel on though the rest of it was heaven. And when that seven years comes it's going to make an end. And that's how the angel came in in the middle of the week. But the thing is that when we get down to Calvary then we step out of the veil and now our spiritual man has another covenant. And this time it is the spiritual covenant and He has now entered into the spirit and his covering now is the spirit and there is nothing that can ever touch him anymore. Never. The life now is within the covering that can never be taunted again. Can never, never be touched again. Can never even be looked upon again by anything, as to eyes of darkness. They cannot see. Their eyes are blind but we're not looking through the glass darkly anymore as to intellectual concept, as to reflection, as to that glow that remained after the fall. But we are the very light itself. We are the light of the world. We are the Kingdom of God made manifest. Now we're praying Father Thy will has come, nor let Thy will be done on earth in our heart and on earth as in heaven. Or that is, the kingdoms of this world have now become the kingdoms of God and of His Christ that they might rule and reign forever and ever. And all of this religious group of people and their fanaticism of wanting to be before somebody and say something and have a ministry, like some of these little girls. I understand, you know. They say, Oh, Daddy, I don't want the end of the world to come. I want to marry first. Let me marry first and then we'll have a little family and everything and then the end of the world could come. See? They're so little and childish, you know. They're like a little tiny baby. They don't understand. You just have to love them and go on. That's all, because they just don't understand. If they had one glimpse, just one glimpse of what they're going to, or what they are in, if they are really children of God they wouldn't even look at a human being, let alone want to marry one. They wouldn't even spit on this world, to even turn back and take a look at it. See? Paul caught up to the third heaven, things I saw, he said, that are not permitted for me to speak. And he said, Whether in my body or out of my body I don't know. And God didn't let him know because the redemption of the body wasn't to come right then. But Paul found the revelation. And that's what you're in, see? Is the revelation. And it's the translation. And though you still don't understand it's the end of the world. You still don't understand it. But some of you are beginning to and some of you are going to. And the righteous does understand, as to the degree that's given to them. And when I say don't understand I mean as going to the full measure of the full stature on to the full reward and these kind of things. So, let's say this tonight. Now the third covenant, the third heaven. The first heaven, the second heaven, the third heaven. See? Now. You are dwelling in the third heaven. And you are not of the world. You are not of the flesh. You don't desire the flesh. You're conversation is in heaven. You're desire is not over money and houses and frocks to project your image and as to what you look like or don't look like. That's not it at all. You're the bodily presence of the Lord that was marred more than any man, as to His countenance. See? You're the resurrected Christ that in that world that God sees you in it's all finished. And this body is forever buried in the darkness of that outer darkness where He cast it out of His presence there at Calvary, as to the Jews and the Jewish head, which was Jesus. You are the Christ and He is the Christ head. As to His membership you are the Christ. See? In this new world. And it's all been made manifest. It's all here. Heaven is here. Everything has already happened. It is finished and all we're doing is moving through a transitional change of the revelation, the revealing of the Holy Ghost showing you thing to come, or the unveiled Christ mind, as to this light to sudden awake and find that it happened. It happened. See? And the way it happens is if there is a withered arm, to get that arm restored you call those things that are not as though they are. When the prophet touched it, like in the water and it became as the skin of a little new born baby. So then, you are dead to that out there and now you are born again. And because you are born again it's the inner spiritual man waiting for the adoption, or to change to wit the redemption of the body, in that it has already been witted through that. See? As when the Jews come back in, as to the hundred and forty-four thousand that will be salvaged out of that. And you that are the children of God are of the new image by the washing of the regeneration through the waters of separation, as we said. And in this you are the new image which means that you never die. There is no such thing. And I know when I say that, you know, it spins in your head, six of one, half a dozen of the other. I know we don't die. I believe all of that, praise God, hallelujah, glory to God, you know. But that isn't the way that it is at all. You don't die. You actually are born again more than you were born as to a natural man. That was fantasy. But this is reality. You have really been born again. You've really been born again and you are now a new life. You cannot die and all you will ever do is move out of this tabernacle into another tabernacle. Somebody says, I know, but you know, death  No. That ain't the way it is. You just don't understand. That's all there is to it. You're still children. All of our life we're in bondage to the free of death. God has moved about in an act of transology, translation of your spirit into His Spirit, transformation of your mind into His mind and an instantaneous transfiguration as to your image into His image. See? And all God is doing is He has smoothly, lovingly, kindly done away with death and the horror and terror of death and your spirit is in His and it's just gliding right through, just like you would put butter on something. Just slick it up to where it would just slide without any problem. See? Like a wheel when you put the grease inside of it, it spins and it doesn't freeze up and the fire and the heat doesn't come. Anyway, I'm just saying this to you. That when the dreaded enemy comes, death, he hath no power over you. God has given you power to come from that beast realm to become a son of God and that power is the Spirit of Christ which will transformate your mind, translate your spirit, transfigure your body, as to the Word speaking you into existence in a new way. See? To that new blood cell and much, much, much in revelation that we have to say or God has to say, but seeing that we're dull of hearing He cannot get it over to us. But, anyway, it means that you're not going to die so you don't have to worry about dying. You don't have to fear death. There is no worry whatsoever about death. Peter said, God has shown me that I must shortly put off this tabernacle. No fear of death. Why would you fear death? Because the you that lives and the you that sees is a spirit and the spirit is life and life is the spirit and the body has no life in it to begin with. If the body has life it in why is it when the spirit departs why don't the dead man talk a little bit? Why don't he do a little bit? Why does he lay there when they put him in the hole and he doesn't even object to it? See? There ain't no life there. That's that dust that we spoke of. From the dust it came, to the dust it shall return. But if this tabernacle be dissolved to the dust I have another eternal in the heavens not made with hands. That is, I'm now a spiritual being. And I now belong to that and that belongs to me and God already sees me in that as this life that went back to that body that's sitting there on the throne to sit down in the throne with Him as it entered into that body, or into the body which is the bodily members of the Lord Jesus Christ in the earth, which is in heaven not in the earth but as to what you think. All right. So, concluding by saying this, now it's just a matter of putting this tabernacle off and moving off into the new house, for in the body of christ, the Father's house, there are many mansions, as to say members. Membership. Many mansions. Your body is an individual house, as to a mansion, a membership in the spirit, a Celestial thing. See? And many of them are there within the house. I go to prepare this new body, He said, a place for you, and I'll return again to receive you unto my own that where I am there you may be also, as to the great Celestial City when John was caught in the spirit, saw this body of people put together as lively stones upon a foundation that was the apostolic people that Jesus chose as the apostles to make this foundation, as Paul the great wise master builder, as Moses, a type and this was Christ, not Paul, building this great wonderful thing through the expose, as to the revelation of this great city. All right. Let's just stand together and sing a little chorus. Don't appear wretched, naked, blind. Put on the body of the Lord Jesus. Make no provisions for the flesh. So, I say to you that thing about Cain being the son of Adam, or of the beast, whether you go into it, as to whatever your concept of it is it makes little difference. And the thing is there that there was the depraved act, those things as to passions aroused, as to a degraded mind and that brought on the multiplication of the generation of the vipers. And God allowed it because they side stepped and did not go to the tree of life. And the Lord said, Now lest man become, lest he partakes of the tree of life and live forever. He hath become as one of us to know good and evil, now I can't let him get to the tree of life because with Satan in him then he'd live forever and he'd have all of my creation and I could never do anything about it. So he put him out. The illumination lifted. And I told somebody today, the things of God will never come to you as an individual. You may be smart. You may be handsome. You may be beautiful. You may be whatever you think yourself to be, rich, whatever, but the things of God knoweth no man and no respecter of persons. It will never come to you but when you get Christ in your heart and it's genuinely Christ and that exuberance and self-will and that thing of the old serpent mind out of you of the flesh then these things will be revealed to you and they'll start coming to you because they know Christ and all of them belongs to Christ. And when you become Christ they all come to you according to whatever your desire is and as to how you yield your body. So you don't have to worry about dying. All of that's taken care of. You just move out of one little house into the other. So, as to the beast, that was done away with. As to the reproduction that was done away with. At the flood anything that that could have been would have been done away with. And you that would say, Well, you can't prove that, Brother Pike. That's your thoughts and my thoughts are thus and thus. No, it's not my thoughts. It's God's thoughts. See? That's where you make a mistake. You get a revelation, you get a theory and you say, Well, bless God, He's just attacking me. It's attacking my theory. No. If he is he's very stupid. That's about the lightest thing I can say for him, any man that would attack God's Word or God's way of life, because I know for sure revelation positively shows that even though, as to the flood, there was a raven and the raven was on the ark. And the raven did represent the spirit of Satan and it did go over to the dry land. But it also was in the bird realm. It was in the third realm which was the spiritual realm. It was a spirit and that spirit through the human being and it also showed as in the days of Jesus when the Holy Spirit was shown as a dove. And that dove right there as Jesus being baptized, the ark in the water, that would rise to the top of the mountain of Calvary between heaven and earth, that everything would be baptized into that body, or in the fullness of time God would gather all things into the door of that ark that was cut through the side when the spear went in, as to the water and the blood, was to be baptized and believe as to the application of the blood. And many things that we could say. See? And so that dove represented that great spirit of life. See? But at the same time He was made the image of Satan and when He gathered all things in that ark and the lower part was the creeping things. And the lower part, as to the earth being the foot stool in that bodily image like unto, and Satan was trapped in that body. And there he went into the realms of darkness. And on that ark there was just a door in the side, as to that animal part, and in the bottom, as to the entrance, there when you get inside the division took place. As to Jesus being the door, when you go through Him, as to this knowledge you reject it, down you go as to the animal, and your soul down. Up you go as to the soul, or the Spirit of Christ, as to that lofty thing, as to that heavenly realm which was where the window was, as to the light. See? So there is a lot there that has to be said concerning the cleft of the rock and whatever. But here it shows that that old raven went out to eat on the bodies floating around on the water, waters of Noah, or waters representing people, or the corruption from Calvary. They are already out of the mind of God. They've already fallen from grace. They are already dead in trespasses and sin. They're already rotten and Satan has been turned a loose to go out there and feed on them. So then, we say, Did he get over the flood? He got over the flood. How did he get over the flood? Calvary positively shows that he never got into heaven. He was cast out of heaven. And Revelation 12 bears it out. And went down in the earth. Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth, to feed on them down there. And the only way he gets over the flood is through the people that have fallen from grace that did not go up into the heavenly realm. He cannot even get near you. He is not in heaven. The fact that you went up, as to the dove, he went out as to the Christ Spirit lifting, as to make the atonement there that automatically did away with him. The man child going up and Satan was cast out. Maybe you understand, maybe you don't understand but, anyway, that is why I say we're not guessing. This is not a guessing game. We go by what the great Holy Spirit tells and shows and it's absolutely, thus saith the Lord, that way. Let's sing this little chorus together, can we? (Singing) Can you sing that with me again? (Singing) Now just think now. You're that beautiful dove. On the wings of a snow white dove God send down His pure sweet love. See? You're that dove. When that body was smitten at Calvary you ascended into the glorious world and there you are in that. Jesus, three days, He came back later for that body. A day is as a thousand years. When that millennium comes around then that will be the third day and the resurrection at the breaking of that great lovely day. See? To enter into that rest, as to the resurrection. As to you and I, the eighty day always means the resurrection, the circumsizing, or the unveiling which will be the Celestial world to where the revealing and the beauty will come. So you are they that dwell in heaven. And the dove returned to the ark. It went away. The raven did not return. He's satisfied. He's feeding on the corruption. But the dove went away and plucked that leaf from the tree of life. That is to say, to show that life had survived and the waters were receding. Now there was a sign of life from the tree of life and it came back to the ark and Jesus did exactly that. Ascended and ten days later as the beautiful dove came back into the body of this ark. When I say the body of this ark it means they that are the true membership of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, even that beautiful ark of God. And we're riding right on over it. See? That tribulation period and the wrath of God poured out and the church ages and whatever. And after awhile stepping out over there in that wonderful new world. We have already gone away, see? Because as to the Jews coming in for that natural restoration, our body will change as to the end of them out there and their grace as to the coming in of the Jews, as to the new body, the resurrection from the dead. If the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead. And so with that coming in there we'll be as to that radiant light of that beautiful dove as it was with Jesus that body glistening as the light, standing on the wonderful Mount of Transfiguration as to your change, the transformation. Your change in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, the mysteries of God being finished will give you the understanding, as to the faith of that kind of understanding that will be God faith, Christ's faith will change you just like that. There are a few little things that need to be said like as to your vision where we went right on into the millennium. We're entering into the rest now. Everything is here. And there remaineth a rest for God's people. See? And the old raven he's shut out into the intellectual darkness. Them that are in darkness cannot see when this light comes. It shines in that darkness but they comprehend it not. As to the heights, the depths, the width and the length of this great wonderfulness of Almighty God. They cannot do it but you comprehend. You are children of light. (Singing) I really do love Him. He's done so much for me. Knowing that I don't have to be afraid to die, knowing that I cannot die, knowing that death holds no terror, whatsoever, not even ... (Begin tape two, side two.) ... or the breadth of a hair, knowing that it's so beautiful to know He's so sweet that He's done this that I might step right through the darkness and it never effect me. The angels came right down and picked up Lazarus when Lazarus fell asleep. The spirit of Lazarus just stepped out of that little ole tabernacle and joined the angels. Because in heaven you are an angels because the inner man is an angel and it just rose right up and joined them angels. And them angels knew the way back to the glory world and away they went. Because at that time, see? the way to the glory world had not been made known. But when Jesus came He said, I'm the way. They don't have to come and do me that way, see? I've got Christ on the inside. I know where the glory world is, see? and the angels are there just encamped round about us. My! How beautiful. You know, I remember one time I got to thinking about dying. I though, Well, maybe He's going to call me, you know. Maybe He's going to call me and I got to checking on the inside and I got to  The joy was just so abundant I thought, Oh, my God! Paul said to be with God which is far better. Lord, I'm fixing to see that. I'm fixing to see that. Oh, my God! how wonderful. And I was so thrilled, you know. It was hard to contain myself because that is so wonderful, so beautiful. It is so radiant. And, folks, though we may not be that way, you know, you may stand, you come into that generation when you don't have to lay down and sleep, as to departing. You know, somebody would say, Well, I'm ain't sleepy, Brother Pike. I don't want to sleep. I'd rather stay awake. I'd rather stay alive. Well, that's great. But, see? When I say sleep I'm just speaking of your body. The body is dead anyway. It's asleep anyway. See? It's dead. There ain't no life in it anyway. It's dead. It's gone. You ain't suppose to be messing with it anyway. It's contaminated. You don't mess with it, see? So I'm not talking about you going to sleep not knowing anything. This man that knows, laughs, talks and sees and eats and drinks and whatever, he'll be just as much alive the whole time. There will never be any darkness to him. There'll never be any death to him. There'll never be any quietness to him. It's the body, as to the dead that know not anything, that lay in the grave. But, after all, he didn't know anything when he was the dust laying there before God ever put him together and put the spirit in him anyway. Or put life in him. God breathed the breath of life there, but, folks, you've had Jesus to say, Whoooo, receive ye the Holy Ghost, He said. Which was eternal life; that's the difference. Life is in the Son, the eternal spirit. And if you have Him you have life. If you don't have Him it's a still birth. You're still in the body. You don't have life and that means you don't have this wonderful eternal joy. One more time together now. (Singing) The altars are open. I've kept you here a little bit to get across a thought or two to you. Whether the son was the son of Adam, as to the starting of this or not it was only symbolic. All of them were beast. You say, Well, he was a beast. All of them were. All of them were. They just came from the dust, they went back to the dust. Folks, where the joy is is in the illumination, as to being a son of God by this wonderful illumination and this inbred life, as to the spirit, you are now going through this. What will you do? Will you fall from that grace, as to this garden, or will you become interwoven with this life? Will you chose the tree of life or will you chose the old educational system, as to the celebrities of this world and as to the terrestrial glory, as to the vain jingles of this life? as to faces and frolics and money and prestige and glamour? Being a dignitary or celebrity? What will you choose? I chose the tree of life. It abides forever. (Singing) The Bible said the promises of God, He hath given us all things that pertain unto life. Great and mighty promises. And the Bible says that this Word of God is a life, words of life to them that find them and health to all their body. Health and healing to all their body. For you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Free from death. Free from sickness. Free from sin. Free from the debauchery of life. Free from ungodliness. Free from all of those things that you could not be free from under the law because of the curse. (Singing) Remember, the curse is gone now. Remember, death is gone now. It was under the curse. Remember you are free now. You are free. Stand fast in that freedom and the liberty wherein God has made thee free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage, as to your human sense and human desire. Crucify the outer man. Let the inner man be renewed day by day and crucify the outer man, that is. Crucify the outer man, not the inner man. (Singing) There is no racial friction in this. There is no fighting in this. People don't fight in this. All are one. They are the sons and daughters of God. There is no color or creed in this. This is angelic. This is spirit. That old body that's doing that fighting is of the devil. It's that old beast. Bury him. Throw the dirty in one him. Get out of that. Stop that foolishness. That's death. (Singing) Somebody said, Well, Brother Pike, I want my rights. The Laodicean age. The woman wants her rights. The children want their rights. The man wants his rights. The blacks want their rights. The whites wants their rights. The yellow wants their rights. The reds wants their rights. Folks, this is the way to have your rights. Did you know that? This is the only true way to have your one hundred percent rights. And this works, all the rest will not. My hand be raised to heaven. I tell you and lie not that there will never be a rest to the people. There will never be rights for any living creature on the earth. Never. It will always a conglomeration of a mess. Satan is the author of it. It will end in a turmoil and a killing and blood to the bridle. But you will never have to worry. You have your rights. And nobody can take them. Praise God, they can't vote in some new pastor or vote in some kind of new president, or whatever. What God has put in our heart through this poor preacher called Brother Pike is there eternally and forever as your heavenly treasure in your earthen vessels and death and nobody else can't take it. And nothing can't separate you from the love of God. Let's give the Lord a hand. Hallelujah! Somebody say hallelujah! All right. Let's sing that together again, can you? (Singing) One more time. (Singing) They say there is thirty-two thousand promises. (Singing) I'm going to ask Brother Mike Engle if he'll come and dismiss us. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christs Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord