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How can a person have their name on the Book of Life and still be lost?

May 2, 2025 Leave a comment By theliving

Brother Branham, one of the tapes of the Seven Church Ages you mentioned that Judas had been justified, sanctified. Were these genuine…(There’s a good one.)…explain…experience, genuine experiences of the grace that he received? You also mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life, and yet, we know he went to hades and was lost. How can a person have their name on the Book of Life and still be lost? Or why does God put persons’ names on the Book of Life when He knows that they will be lost at the end?

271 Now, that’s a good one, isn’t it? Now, this would be good. Now, I’ll just have to depend on the Lord to answer this, ’cause I’m just prowling out, probing out, rather. Look! First, in the…our churches, I mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life. That’s true. We know that, ’cause Jesus told them when all of them was sent out (Matthew 10), to cast out devils, to preach the Gospel, freely receive, freely give; and they returned back rejoicing, because the devils was subject to them. Is that right? And Jesus told them, and He called their names (which ones they was, how many was sent out); and they come back and Judas Iscariot which also betrayed Him…See? They come back rejoicing, because the devils was subject unto them. Now, see, the attitude was wrong there. See? You mustn’t rejoice ’cause I got power to make a devil move. See? You mustn’t do that, you must rejoice because you’ve even received enough grace to be saved. See, see? You mustn’t rejoice…That’s how people…

272 Usually people that has gifts are people who don’t want gifts. See? Paul tried to run from the thing, so did Moses. Great leaders like that try to run from the job; they know what lays before them. God… See, if you take a guy that always, “Oh, Lord, fill me with power, and I’ll go out here, and I’ll cast devils.” He’d never do it. God knows better than trust anybody like that. See? He’d never do it.

273 It’s that guy that don’t want nothing to do with it. You see? That’s the guy that God can take him and teach him something sometime. You see? So then, Judas come back rejoicing, all of them, that the names…He said, “Don’t rejoice that the devils is subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the…on the Book of Life.” Now, if you notice and take Daniel also. The Bi-…See? Because your name is on the Book of Life (because it is in Heaven, your name has been recognized), that still doesn’t means that you are saved. See? You’re not converted, until you receive the Holy Ghost. Remember that. You’re only potentially converted. See? You’re not…

274 If–if you ask me for a–for a oak tree and I give you an acorn, potentially you have an oak tree, potentially, but it isn’t developed yet. That’s the reason I believe in the security as the way I do. If I–if I ask for a cornfield, and I see corn up about that high, potentially, I have a field of corn. Not it isn’t developed yet, something could happen. See? Now, you’re on your road through justification and sanctification to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But when you’re genuinely baptized with the Holy Ghost, you’re in the Kingdom. Now, you say, “Brother Branham, is that true?”

275 Now, I haven’t got time now to–to give you Scripture; you just look it up when you get home, ’cause I don’t know…my mind. Have to look back here in my concordance to pick it up. Jesus told Peter, who had been both saved and sanctified…He believed on Jesus, was sanctified. Saint John 17:17, Jesus said, “Sanctify them, Father, through the Truth; Thy Word is the Truth.” And He and the Word is the same. They were sanctified, potentially, through the Truth, the Word, the Truth. And then, Jesus told Judas…or–or Peter the night of the betrayal, He said, “After you are converted, then strengthen your brother,” after you’re converted.

276 The man had followed Him for three years and had name on the Lamb’s Book of Life, and had cast out devils, and done great works, and healed, and done all kind of…preached the Word, and everything, and still wasn’t converted. See the…You’re leading to conversion. See?

277 The baby that…When the act is taken place between the–the egg and the sperm, or the gene…But when they…Potentially, the baby’s there when the act is done. Then the body is developed, second stage; but the baby has to be born here, and then it receives the breath of life. It is not yet the breath of life. You say, “Oh, it’s alive!” No, it isn’t! That’s little nerves jerking, muscles. See? The baby hasn’t received life till it’s born. And you may jump and jerk, but you’re not…See, see? You got to be born. You know what I mean? All right.

278 Now, now, he said then that take… “You mentioned that Judas had his name on the Book of Life, and yet, we know that he went to hades and was lost. How can a person, then, have his name on the Book of Life and still be lost?” Now, let me get one more little thing in here for this dear person.

279 Now notice, the Bible said when Daniel saw…He–he wrote the first Book of Revelation, Daniel. And we notice, in the vision he saw Him come to the Ancient of time whose hair was as white as wool. How many remember reading that? And did you notice, John in Revelation came to the same thing, Revelation 1? And He stood there; His hair was as white as wool, His feet and the way it looked–Ancient of time. Ancient of time, that is, had no time; the Eternal One. And He came…Now watch! And the saints come to the earth and the books were opened, and another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life, one book. They came to the judgment, and the…He came, and with Him came ten thousands times ten thousands. Is that right? Ministered to Him, the Bride, the Queen and King…

280 Who is your little queen in the home? She ministers food to you. Is that right? (What you’re late on now.) But when she–when she ministers to you. That’s what the Bride ministers to Christ, the Word. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but every Word.” See? She ministers the Word to the King, manifesting His promise Word in the age that She’s living in. Amen! Ah, I said something then, you didn’t get it, but…

281 Notice! Oh, my! That was a good one. See? Ministering in the age, the Word. Now notice! And She came…He came, and ten thousands times ten thousands came to Him; and judgment was set, and the books were opened; and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life; and they were judged thus. Who was this that come? The Bride which did not have to come to judgment, She’s free from judgment.

282 Another book was opened which was the Book of Life, and those who had their name on the Book of Life had to be judged out of that Book. And Judas Iscariot professed to be a believer, and he had his name written among them on the Book of Life. Is that right? He claimed to have Eternal Life. And his name was put on the Book of Life. So he has to…Why, he has to be judged then to see why did he condemn the Word of Lifethen, sell out for thirty pieces of silver. Some sells out to be a Methodist, Baptist or whatmore. Sold out his position from the Book of Life. And he’ll judge…he’ll have to be…stand there and judged by that, by the Word. See? That’s why Judas had to do it. See? Judas has to come to the judgment. His name wason the Book of Life, but that don’t mean he’s saved. He has to stand the judgment.

283 The sleeping virgin will stand right there under the same–same things. Notice, Jesus said in Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth My Word.” That’s he that can receive It; not he that just hears It preached and go on saying, “Nonsense.” See? “He that receiveth My Word, He that heareth My Word and believeth (not make-believeth, but truly believe) on Him that sent Me (which was the Word) hath everlasting Life and shall not come to the judgment; but hath” (past tense) “passed from death unto Life.” See? That’s it.

284 So Judas had his name there on the Book of Life (that’s exactly right), but he was condemned, because what did he do? He sold out his birthrights. Esau was born in a family with the promise of God. The oldest son had the birthright. How many knows that? By a promise of God, Esau’s name was on the book for the birthright (is that right?), but he swapped it for a mess of wild gourds, or peas. Hungry to fill his belly, his meal ticket, he swapped his birthrights for a meal ticket and could find no place to repent.

285 Those spies that went with…over to spy out the land, came and even eat the grapes that Joshua and Caleb brought back. And yet, what did they do? Sold out their birthrights.

286 Jesus said, or Paul speaking with the inspiration of Christ in Hebrews the 6th chapter: “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the Power of the world to come; if they shall fall away, to renew themselves again unto repentence, seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God, and count the Blood of the covenant, wherewith they were sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace…” It’s impossible for that person to ever come back.

287 Them, every one besides Joshua and Caleb, died and perished in that wilderness, yet they were believers, yet their names were on the books.

288 And here, Paul speaking, if a man ever comes to a spot that he’s been saved, and sanctified (the Blood sanctifies; Hebrews 13:12 and 13 says the Blood sanctifies), and then comes right up to the gate of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and because of prestige or denomination refuses to walk in It, said, “That person is lost and can never be saved” (see?); for he’s done despite even to the very works of grace that’s called him upto that place and shown it to him, and then turn around, walk away from it. He counts the Blood of the covenant wherewith he was crucified…Christ was crucified as an unholy thing. Because the Blood that saved him, and justified him, and sanctified him brings him up to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And then walks away and leave it…

289 Now, watch that pattern. I’m taking a lot of time, but look! Judas Iscariot followed those same tracks. He was justified by believing on the Lord Jesus and then accepting Him as his personal Saviour. He was sanctified and give power to cast out spirits; put his name on the Lamb’s Book of Life. But when it come to Pentecost and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the fullness of the Word, he showed his colors. That’s exactly what the Canaan spies did; that’s exactly what Esau done.

290 That’s exactly what Satan done to Eve in the garden of Eden: “Surely God will not…”But she said, “God said…”He said, “Yeah, I know it says that; I know it says this, but surely…” See, the same thing all the way down through, and so is it today.

291 The church has followed through Justification, Martin Luther; through Sanctification, Wesley. But it, when it comes to the time of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, they show their colors; they want nothing to do with It. Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Church of God, all those there who believe in sanctification, you can’t lay a finger to it; it’s truth. But when it comes a borderline, come right up to that spot to receive the Holy Ghost for the new birth, then what’d the devil do? Come around and try to twist it around. Oh, he’s…he’ll do everything that’s in his known power to keep people out of there.

292 They brought around on, and say, “You have to speak with tongues. You have to have a sensation. You have to do this.” You have to be borned into it. Don’t let no one tell you that sanctification and the Holy Ghost is the same thing, ’cause it is not! Certainly is not! Listen at this Nazarene back here hollering, “It is not.” See? He knows there’s a difference in it, ’cause it certainly is. Brother Capps, our gallant brother. See?

293 Sure, Nazarene…There’s nobody can say a word against them fine religious people; they’re just as nice as they can be. Church of God, Nazarene, Free Methodist, those people are real, but when it comes down to the works of the Spirit, they say, “Oh, oh, that’s the devil.” And what’d they do there? Blaspheme the Holy Ghost. When they do that…

294 Now, what is blasphemy? There’s no forgiveness. Is that right? “He that once enlightened, made partakers, and tasted of the heavenly gifts.” Par-…Tasted–tasted of God’s sanctification: cleaned up from cigarettes, and filthy women, and all kinds of life like that. “And tasted of the heavenly things.” To see that they walk up to that borderline like those spies did that eat part of the grapes. But what do they have to do? They had to break up their denomination to come over into this. See? Say…See? “Tasted of the heavenly gifts; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh; and count the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing.”

295 Sanctification is when your name goes on the book as a believer. Your word…Your name is wrote in His Blood. See? Sanctification does that; and you come up, when He’s trusted you up to this far, and then come up…They say, “Well, would He know it?”

296 Yes, He knowed it. He knowed you wouldn’t do it in the beginning. He knowed Judas wouldn’t do it. He knowed him from the beginning; he was the son of perdition. But them thing has to be fulfilled. See? The Word has to be fulfilled, all, though types and shadows. Oh, my! We could stay on that for hours.

William Marrion Branham
64-0830M Questions And Answers 3
Question 369 (COD Page 1119)

How does one know their rightful position in the Body of Christ?

April 30, 2025 Leave a comment By theliving

48  That’s a good one, very good, “How does…” That’d be the kind of question amongst many of us here tonight, “How do you rightfully know?” Now, I’m presuming that this brother wants to know “What position, what in Christ, what part of Christ do I play?”

49  Now, for instance, I’d say like this, brother, to give you the best answer I know. Your position is…in Christ is revealed to you by the Holy Spirit. And then if you want to know whether it’s the Holy Spirit or not, find out whether He blesses what you’re doing, or not. And if He blesses it, then that’s Him. If He doesn’t bless…

50  Like someone said to me not long ago, said, “The Lord called me to preach.” I said, “Well, then preach.” See? And so he–he…

51  I really think it’s so…Satan, if he can just get somebody to–to act like that and then deceive them, that’s just what he wants to do. Then the whole world points their finger right there. Somebody thinks they have a gift of speaking in tongues and interpretation; some has the gift of Divine healing; some has these things like…Sometimes they’re mistaken in those things, see. And sometimes they think they haven’t got it when they have. So it’s very tricky.

52  So always do this, brethren, whenever you feel that you’re supposed to do a thing, first find out if it’s Scriptural for you to do it (if it’s in the Scriptures). Not just wrote in one place, but I mean completely Scriptural through the Bible for you to do it, your position, say if you’d be an evangelist, pastor, teacher, prophet, whatever that God might have called you to be. You see? Or if you have the gift of tongues, gift of interpretation, gift of any–any kind of the nine spiritual gifts in the church, and the four spiritual offices of the church, any position, first see if God called.

53  Then, usually, way I watch it for myself, just…this is me, I watch the nature of the person and see what kind of a gift that they’re professing. See, God will work with His creature the way He’s made him. See? He’ll make a creature…

54  If you see him real flighty and going on, you…and he says, “The Lord called me for such-and-such, to be a pastor.” Now, a pastor can’t be a flighty person. A pastor’s solid, sound. See?

55  “God called me to be a teacher.” And watch him how he interprets the Word. See? He gets It all mixed up and everything, then you can tell. See?

56  But, then, the thing to do, your position is usually known whether you can do it or not.

57  Now, when God called me to be an evangelist, I wanted to be a pastor. And I thought staying at home here would just be fine. And the Lord called me. And finally all the people got together…There’s not a one of them left tonight in here, that they cried and went out there on 1717 Spring Street. And the lady, Mrs. Hawkins over here, met me and said (crying, during the time of depression, when one in the neighborhood would cook a mess of beans and we’d all come in and eat from that), and she said, “I’ll allowance my children at the table if you’ll only build a tabernacle.” See?

58  And my calling was an evangelist. The morning…Laying right here at this cornerstone, if we could burst in there tonight, you’ll see a flyleaf off of my Bible where He told me to be an evangelist. See? And I wasn’t a successful pastor, never would be, because I haven’t got the patience and what it takes to be a pastor. See? So therefore if I tried to pastor, I would just be as far out as a pastor is trying to be an evangelist.

59  See what I mean? You can see the way the Lord calls you, what your position is in the Body. Is there a question?
William Marrion Branham
61-0112 Questions And Answers
Questions 109 (COD Page 519)

Is it true that you are not saved unless you have received the Holy Ghost?

April 27, 2025 Leave a comment By theliving

43  There could take about a good five hour discussion on that. When you accept Christ as your Saviour and you are then ready for baptism in water, you have not yet been converted; you’re only believing unto repentance. Conversion means “to be changed.”
44  Now, to make this efficient, Jesus said to Peter who had also followed Him for three and a half years… And in the Book of Matthew the 10th chapter Jesus gave Peter power against unclean spirits, to go out and cast them out, to heal the sick, and to preach the Gospel. He had power to do this. And in Saint John 17:17 Jesus sanctified Peter through the Truth, said the Word was the Truth, and He was the Word. And then at-before Pentecost He said. “After you are converted, then strengthen your brethren.” You are only taking steps to conversion as you believe and are acting.

45  Now, I know many of you, my Baptist and Presbyterian friends, disagree with that, because you go back to this Scripture… Now, here’s where I say I have to nail it down. See? You go back to the Scripture: Abraham (Romans 4) believed God, and it was imputed unto him or imparted unto him for righteousness. Abraham believed God, and God imputed it to him for righteousness upon the basis of his faith to believe. But to prove to Abraham, He gave him (the impution, that he was imputed from his sins, then He had-imparted him from his sins), because he had believed, He gave him a sign. And there’s where you, my dear Presbyterian and Baptist friends, fail to see it. See? He gave him the seal of circumcision as a witness, as a proof, that He had received his faith in Him. And that’s why Paul in Acts 19 said to those Baptist brethren, who had Apollos as their pastor, believing the Gospel as John had preached It, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” You see, they had believed but had not yet been converted.

46  Now, we take the wrong-in the word of conversion today. We say that a man that’s converted is a man that’sstopped drinking and everything and goes to church, or joinsthe church. He might join the church, but that’s no sign he’sconverted. He isn’t converted until his old life is dead, and heis buried in Christ, and is risen with Him in the resurrectionof newness of life, when the Holy Spirit has created in him aliving hope of Eternal Life which only comes through the HolyGhost. See?

47  Now, now, I knowed that great Scripture, I use It myself-I’ve got It written here-Saint John the 5th chapter, 24th verse. It’s a pet Scripture to me. For Jesus said this: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, ‘He that believeth on Me has Eternal Life.’” Let me read it, so that I’ll get It just perfectly right. Saint John 5, and I want you to listen close now as we go into this Scripture, 5 and the 24th verse.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my words, and believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

48  “He that believeth on Me.” Now, the Scripture says that no man can say Jesus is the Christ only by the Holy Ghost. So you cannot believe that Jesus is the Christ until you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You’re only testifying or saying what the Scripture says, saying what the pastor says, saying what mother says, or some good preacher says. But you don’t know it yourself until He has witnessed His resurrection to you. No man can call Jesus the Christ until by the Holy Ghost.

49  Therefore, the question is, that a man is saved, I believe, if he’s looking towards to Calvary, and dies in that estate. Certainly, I believe he’ll be saved; I believe he’d go through if he had not the opportunity before. But depends on… You go back to the dying thief at the cross. But remember, that was his first and last chance. You got one tonight. Don’t wait till that time, ’cause it might not be that way with you. You might not have a deathbed confession. I tell you, they’re all right, but they’re too much of a chance to take a chance on. Don’t you wait for deathbed; you let this be your deathbed right now, that you die out now and be borned again of the Holy Spirit. Now, on this next question…
 Now, if there’s a question on that just raise your hand. I’d be glad to do the best I can.


William Marrion Branham
59-0628E Questions And Answers

When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time?

April 26, 2025 Leave a comment By theliving

In Genesis the 5th chapter and the 16th verse, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife.

576  Now, that’s a-a wonderful question. Now, we are taught in the Bible… And many times these… sometimes we have carelessly… I used to put on a little slip of paper, and say, “Ask. Answer any Bible question.”

577  And someone said, “Well, who was Cain’s wife?”

578  Oh, I’d little joke with it or something, I’d say, “Oh, that was his mother-in-law’s daughter,” or something like that, you know, or-or “She was Mrs. Cain.” But that don’t answer the question. There’s…

578  Oh, I’d little joke with it or something, I’d say, “Oh, that was his mother-in-law’s daughter,” or something like that, you know, or-or “She was Mrs. Cain.” But that don’t answer the question. There’s…

578  Oh, I’d little joke with it or something, I’d say, “Oh, that was his mother-in-law’s daughter,” or something like that, you know, or-or “She was Mrs. Cain.” But that don’t answer the question. There’s…

Was there other people on the earth when Adam and Eve had their children in the garden of Eden?

580  Now, if you notice, in the Bible it’s very seldom ever recorded about a woman being born. It’s always the man child is the one that they record in the Bible, not the woman. Seldom is it ever mentioned about the birth of a girl baby, in the Bible. Or, frankly, I don’t know as I can recall one right straight off now, in mind, where it ever recorded the birth of a baby; said, “They begot sons and daughters.”

581  Now, the Bible only gives record of three children being born to Adam and Eve, and that was Cain, Abel, and Seth. Now, if all three of those being man, if there wasn’t any females borned, and then when the only female (Eve) died, the human race would have ceased to exist right then, because there’d been no way for them to-to have any… the human race to have furthered, because there would been no females left. Eve would have been the only one. But, you see, they don’t record the-the births of girl babies, in the Bible, so therefore they had to have girls the same as boys.

582  Now, the old writer, one of the most ancient writers we got, Josephus, claims they had seventy children, and Adam and Eve; one of the oldest writers, “seventy children, and they were both sons and daughters.”

583  Now, if… And then if Cain went to the land of Nod… Now, if you notice, the writer was very, very brilliant writing here. Did you notice how he quoted it? In Eden, when they had their children in Eden… Now, not in the Garden of Eden, the writer knew that. Ever who, wrote the note here, said: When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden…

584  Not in the Garden of Eden, because they’d been driven out of the Garden of Eden. But they were still in Eden, and the Garden of Eden laid east in Eden. But Eden was like a county or-or what… or a state, and then Nod was another state or county next to it.

585  Now, the only person that Cain could have had, or married, would have had to be his own sister. He had to. Because there’s only one male and female that they could have come from, see, and he had to marry his own sister. Now, that was legal in those days.

586  And Isaac married his own first blood cousin, Rebekah, ordained of God. Sarah was Abraham’s sister, his blood sister; not by his mother, by his father. See, a blood sister that-that Abraham married; a different mother, but same father.

587  So, you see, to marry in relation then, before the-the stream of blood was weakened in the human race, it was legal and all right. Now it isn’t. If you’d marry your sister today, and have children, they’d probably be… well, they’d just be deformed and everything. Even down to a first and second cousin should never be married, see, because the bloodstream becoming low and running low.

588  But the only thing then that Cain could have done, would been, marry his own sister. And that’s where the children was that… He got his wife, went to the land of Nod and knew her, and from there come the-the children. See, the…

589  And if you notice, out of the line of Cain come the smart man. Out of the line of Seth come the religious man, I mean, the-the vine of righteousness. Right there, those two, brought forth the very line that we’re living in today.

590  If you’ll notice today now (just in finishing this question): that lineage of Cain still exists, and the lineage of Seth still exists. They both come down just the same. Cain’s children is here in Jeffersonville tonight, and Seth’s children is here in Jeffersonville tonight. As the bloodstream weakens and goes out, but that lineage still hangs on.

591  591 Now, watch. Cain’s children were always… and before the antediluvian destruction, they were the smart people: the scientist, the educators; and very religious, but was the condemned bunch. See? Now watch, they were just like their father Cain. Cain, he was a religious man. He built a beautiful altar, and made a beautiful church, and tried to make it look prettier than that little mission that Seth had down there. Did you know that? He sure… He decorated the altar with flowers, and fixed it beautiful, and made it pretty; and made a great, big, swell church, because he thought that he could find favor with God by doing so.

592  And Abel went over and got a little lamb, and started pulling it over to the altar, and laid it on a rock and killed it.

593  And now, if God being just, if all He required was worship, Cain worshipped God with just as much sincerity as Abel did. Both of them were sincere. Both of them was trying to find grace with God. They were neither one of them infidels. They were both, absolutely, believers in Jehovah. Now, there, that gives us something to think of.

594  Some here tonight I’ve never seen, people; I’ve never seen you before. But you must realize this, and keep this in your mind. See? No matter how religious you are, that don’t have one thing to do with it. You might live in church, you might be ever so sincere, and you’re still lost! See?

595  And you say, “Well,” you say, “our pastors are the smartest, they come through the seminaries to get the best education. They’re theologians, they know all-all the theology and so forth. And they’re smart, trained, the very… the elected best that we know of.” And they could still be lost! See?

596  Now Cain, on his line: they were, every one, very religious; a very famous people; and they were scientists, and doctors, and builders, and workers, and smart man. But all that lineage was rejected, from Cain all the way down.

597  And on Abel’s side: they wasn’t builders nor educators or smart man; they were a, more or less, humble, sort of sheep raisers, and peasants, that just walked by the Spirit.

598  Now, the Bible said, “There’s no condemnation to them that’s in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.” The spiritual man has a spiritual soul that can never die. And the carnal man has a religious atmosphere around him (and wants to worship and so forth) but is carnal; not an unbeliever, but a carnal believer; and it was the kind was rejected.

599  Now, from there, Cain went and married his wife in the land of Nod. Now, it doesn’t say who Seth married, or who others married. And the very beautiful thing of that is to know that-that, Cain marrying, we have the answer to it. Cause he had to marry his sister, or he… or there’d been a…

600  There was no more women on the earth, but just had to come from Eve. She was the mother of all living. That’s, all the people that was living, she was the mother of it. That’s the reason that she was… The word Eve means “the mother of the living.” So she came and brought this child. And Cain married his own sister, would be the only way that I could see out of it. So there was people living in that day, truly. See? Well, and… When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden… Now watch, that’s the question: When they had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time? No!

Then in Genesis 5:16, you see, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife. Sure. See?

601  That’s Genesis 1, where He created man in His Own image, which was in the theophany. And in Genesis 2, He made man out of the dust of the earth, which was the human man that we have now. And then, in 3 was the fall, and was kicked from the Garden of Eden; and then the children begat children. And Cain took his wife and lived with her in the land of Nod, outside, because God had separated him from the fellowship with his own brother (because of the death of-of Abel). And that’s who he had, his own sister, and married her; is the only way that I can, myself, can see how that-that he married.

602  Now, it’s been said… And I hope that my colored friends that’s in here will excuse this remark, because it’s absolutely not right. The first time I ever met anyone in my life, after I had been converted… I was… met Brother George De Ark and them down there. And I was walked, and the Lord led me to a little place. And they was discussing where the colored man came from. And they were trying to say that the colored man… That Cain married an animal like an ape, and through there come forth the colored race. Now, that’s wrong! Absolutely, that’s wrong! And don’t never stand for that. Cause there was no colored or white, or any other different, it’s just one race of people unto the flood. Then after the flood and the tower of Babel, when they began to scatter out, that’s when they taken their colors and so forth. They’re all come from the same tree. That’s exactly right. Adam and Eve was the father and mother, earthly, of every living creature of human beings that’s ever been on the earth. That’s right. Black, white, pale, brown, yellow, whatever color you might be, that’s absolutely the place that you live in, and the way that-that the… Just like…

603  I think I might express this while I’m on it. The people here now in these segregations and laws and things they’re passing, I think it’s ridiculous. I really do. Listen, just let those people alone, they know what they want. God made a man a colored man, and he’s happy about it. Absolutely! If God made me a colored man, I’d be happy about it; if He made me a brown man, I’d be happy; if He made me a white man, I’m happy; if He made me a yellow man, I’d be happy. God made us in our colors, and He made us the way He wanted us, and we’re all His children. Absolutely! And they oughtn’t to fuss and carry on like that. That’s wrong to do that. They shouldn’t do it. God made us… the way we want it.

604  And the colored man, he don’t want to get out there and break up his-his generation or his color, and mix it in the white and everything like that. I don’t blame him. I don’t. The colored man has things that the white man don’t even possess. Absolutely! That’s exactly right. And God never intended them to be that way.

605  Well, look. The colored man is… he’s-he’s a… he’s got a-he’s got a disposition about him that the white man never does have. He’s got a happy-go-lucky, a “trust God, and just let the rest of it go”; whether he’s got it or whether he hasn’t, he’s happy anyhow. I’d like to have a whole lot of that, tonight, I sure would. Well, he’s got it, and that’s his possession; they don’t want to mix it up with some other race and break it out, either. That’s exactly right.

606  I think the lady down there at Shreveport made one of the best-best comments I ever heard in my life. She made a comment, and they put it in the paper. She walked up, she said, “The way these things are going in here, in this segregation, I don’t want my children going to school over at that white school.” Said, “They won’t get the attention they’d have if they had a colored teacher.” That woman’s a smart woman. She knowed what she was talking about, they get a better education. That’s exactly right. So I think the people do wrong by doing that.

607  And then they say, “Cain and Abel… ” and so forth like that. No, sir! The color had nothing to do with it. It’s the spirit inside of there that has something to do with it. That’s exactly right.

608  So Cain knew his wife, and that was his sister. And they… he took her to the land of Nod, and there come forth the great tribes of the earth: the religionists and worshippers.

April 26, 2025 Leave a comment By theliving

Questions & Answers On Hebrews, Part 3 Questions 65 (COD Page 303)

When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time? In Genesis the 5th chapter and the 16th verse, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife.

576 Now, that’s a-a wonderful question. Now, we are taught in the Bible... And many times these... sometimes we have carelessly... I used to put on a little slip of paper, and say, “Ask. Answer any Bible question.”

577 And someone said, “Well, who was Cain’s wife?”

578 Oh, I’d little joke with it or something, I’d say, “Oh, that was his mother-in-law’s daughter,” or something like that, you know, or-or “She was Mrs. Cain.” But that don’t answer the question. There’s...

579 There Cain had a wife, because the Bible said he did. And if Cain had a wife, he had to get her somewhere. And this would line right into it here: Was there other people on the earth when Adam and Eve had their children in the garden of Eden?

580 Now, if you notice, in the Bible it’s very seldom ever recorded about a woman being born. It’s always the man child is the one that they record in the Bible, not the woman. Seldom is it ever mentioned about the birth of a girl baby, in the Bible. Or, frankly, I don’t know as I can recall one right straight off now, in mind, where it ever recorded the birth of a baby; said, “They begot sons and daughters.”

613 Now Second Peter 2:4. All right, sir, here we are:

William Marrion Branham
57-1006 Questions And Answers On Hebrews 3

Adam and Eve, were there others?

April 16, 2025 Leave a comment By theliving

Questions & Answers On Hebrews, Part 3
Questions 65 (COD Page 303)
When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time? In Genesis the 5th chapter and the 16th verse, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife.

576  Now, that’s a-a wonderful question. Now, we are taught in the Bible… And many times these… sometimes we have carelessly… I used to put on a little slip of paper, and say, “Ask. Answer any Bible question.”

577  And someone said, “Well, who was Cain’s wife?”

578  Oh, I’d little joke with it or something, I’d say, “Oh, that was his mother-in-law’s daughter,” or something like that, you know, or-or “She was Mrs. Cain.” But that don’t answer the question. There’s…

579  There Cain had a wife, because the Bible said he did. And if Cain had a wife, he had to get her somewhere. And this would line right into it here:

Was there other people on the earth when Adam and Eve had their children in the garden of Eden?

580  Now, if you notice, in the Bible it’s very seldom ever recorded about a woman being born. It’s always the man child is the one that they record in the Bible, not the woman. Seldom is it ever mentioned about the birth of a girl baby, in the Bible. Or, frankly, I don’t know as I can recall one right straight off now, in mind, where it ever recorded the birth of a baby; said, “They begot sons and daughters.”

581  Now, the Bible only gives record of three children being born to Adam and Eve, and that was Cain, Abel, and Seth. Now, if all three of those being man, if there wasn’t any females borned, and then when the only female (Eve) died, the human race would have ceased to exist right then, because there’d been no way for them to-to have any… the human race to have furthered, because there would been no females left. Eve would have been the only one. But, you see, they don’t record the-the births of girl babies, in the Bible, so therefore they had to have girls the same as boys.

582  Now, the old writer, one of the most ancient writers we got, Josephus, claims they had seventy children, and Adam and Eve; one of the oldest writers, “seventy children, and they were both sons and daughters.”

583  Now, if… And then if Cain went to the land of Nod… Now, if you notice, the writer was very, very brilliant writinghere. Did you notice how he quoted it?In Eden, when they had their children in Eden… Now,not in the Garden of Eden, the writer knew that. Ever who,wrote the note here, said: When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden…

584  Not in the Garden of Eden, because they’d been driven out of the Garden of Eden. But they were still in Eden, and the Garden of Eden laid east in Eden. But Eden was like a county or-or what… or a state, and then Nod was another state or county next to it.

585  Now, the only person that Cain could have had, or married, would have had to be his own sister. He had to. Because there’s only one male and female that they could have come from, see, and he had to marry his own sister. Now, that was legal in those days.

586  And Isaac married his own first blood cousin, Rebekah, ordained of God. Sarah was Abraham’s sister, his blood sister; not by his mother, by his father. See, a blood sister that-that Abraham married; a different mother, but same father.

587  So, you see, to marry in relation then, before the-the stream of blood was weakened in the human race, it was legal and all right. Now it isn’t. If you’d marry your sister today, and have children, they’d probably be… well, they’d just be deformed and everything. Even down to a first and second cousin should never be married, see, because the bloodstream becoming low and running low.

588  But the only thing then that Cain could have done, would been, marry his own sister. And that’s where the children was that… He got his wife, went to the land of Nod and knew her, and from there come the-the children. See, the…

589  And if you notice, out of the line of Cain come the smart man. Out of the line of Seth come the religious man, I mean, the-the vine of righteousness. Right there, those two, brought forth the very line that we’re living in today.

590  If you’ll notice today now (just in finishing this question): that lineage of Cain still exists, and the lineage of Seth still exists. They both come down just the same. Cain’s children is here in Jeffersonville tonight, and Seth’s children is here in Jeffersonville tonight. As the bloodstream weakens and goes out, but that lineage still hangs on.

591  591 Now, watch. Cain’s children were always… and before the antediluvian destruction, they were the smart people: the scientist, the educators; and very religious, but was the condemned bunch. See? Now watch, they were just like their father Cain. Cain, he was a religious man. He built a beautiful altar, and made a beautiful church, and tried to make it look prettier than that little mission that Seth had down there. Did you know that? He sure… He decorated the altar with flowers, and fixed it beautiful, and made it pretty; and made a great, big, swell church, because he thought that he could find favor with God by doing so.

592  And Abel went over and got a little lamb, and started pulling it over to the altar, and laid it on a rock and killed it.

593  And now, if God being just, if all He required was worship, Cain worshipped God with just as much sincerity as Abel did. Both of them were sincere. Both of them was trying to find grace with God. They were neither one of them infidels. They were both, absolutely, believers in Jehovah. Now, there, that gives us something to think of.

594  Some here tonight I’ve never seen, people; I’ve never seen you before. But you must realize this, and keep this in your mind. See? No matter how religious you are, that don’t have one thing to do with it. You might live in church, you might be ever so sincere, and you’re still lost! See?

595  And you say, “Well,” you say, “our pastors are the smartest, they come through the seminaries to get the best education. They’re theologians, they know all-all the theology and so forth. And they’re smart, trained, the very… the elected best that we know of.” And they could still be lost! See?

596  Now Cain, on his line: they were, every one, very religious; a very famous people; and they were scientists, and doctors, and builders, and workers, and smart man. But all that lineage was rejected, from Cain all the way down.

597  And on Abel’s side: they wasn’t builders nor educators or smart man; they were a, more or less, humble, sort of sheep raisers, and peasants, that just walked by the Spirit.

598  Now, the Bible said, “There’s no condemnation to them that’s in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.” The spiritual man has a spiritual soul that can never die. And the carnal man has a religious atmosphere around him (and wants to worship and so forth) but is carnal; not an unbeliever, but a carnal believer; and it was the kind was rejected.

599  Now, from there, Cain went and married his wife in the land of Nod. Now, it doesn’t say who Seth married, or who others married. And the very beautiful thing of that is to know that-that, Cain marrying, we have the answer to it. Cause he had to marry his sister, or he… or there’d been a…

600  There was no more women on the earth, but just had to come from Eve. She was the mother of all living. That’s, all the people that was living, she was the mother of it. That’s the reason that she was… The word Eve means “the mother of the living.” So she came and brought this child. And Cain married his own sister, would be the only way that I could see out of it. So there was people living in that day, truly. See? Well, and…
When Adam and Eve had their children in Eden… Nowvwatch, that’s the question: When they had their children in Eden, was there other people on earth at this time? No!

Then in Genesis 5:16, you see, Cain dwelt in the land of Nod and knew his wife. Sure. See?

601  That’s Genesis 1, where He created man in His Own image, which was in the theophany. And in Genesis 2, He made man out of the dust of the earth, which was the human man that we have now. And then, in 3 was the fall, and was kicked from the Garden of Eden; and then the children begat children. And Cain took his wife and lived with her in the land of Nod, outside, because God had separated him from the fellowship with his own brother (because of the death of-of Abel). And that’s who he had, his own sister, and married her; is the only way that I can, myself, can see how that-that he married.

602  Now, it’s been said… And I hope that my colored friends that’s in here will excuse this remark, because it’s absolutely not right. The first time I ever met anyone in my life, after I had been converted… I was… met Brother George DeArk and them down there. And I was walked, and the Lord led me to a little place. And they was discussing where the colored man came from. And they were trying to say that the colored man… That Cain married an animal like an ape, and through there come forth the colored race. Now, that’s wrong! Absolutely, that’s wrong! And don’t never stand for that. Cause there was no colored or white, or any other different, it’s just one race of people unto the flood. Then after the flood and the tower of Babel, when they began to scatter out, that’s when they taken their colors and so forth. They’re all come from the same tree. That’s exactly right. Adam and Eve was the father and mother, earthly, of every living creature of human beings that’s ever been on the earth. That’s right. Black, white, pale, brown, yellow, whatever color you might be, that’s absolutely the place that you live in, and the way that-that the… Just like…

603  I think I might express this while I’m on it. The people here now in these segregations and laws and things they’re passing, I think it’s ridiculous. I really do. Listen, just let those people alone, they know what they want. God made a man a colored man, and he’s happy about it. Absolutely! If God made me a colored man, I’d be happy about it; if He made me a brown man, I’d be happy; if He made me a white man, I’m happy; if He made me a yellow man, I’d be happy. God made us in our colors, and He made us the way He wanted us, and we’re all His children. Absolutely! And they oughtn’t to fuss and carry on like that. That’s wrong to do that. They shouldn’t do it. God made us… the way we want it.

604  And the colored man, he don’t want to get out there and break up his-his generation or his color, and mix it in the white and everything like that. I don’t blame him. I don’t. The colored man has things that the white man don’t even possess. Absolutely! That’s exactly right. And God never intended them to be that way.

605  Well, look. The colored man is… he’s-he’s a… he’s got a-he’s got a disposition about him that the white man never does have. He’s got a happy-go-lucky, a “trust God, and just let the rest of it go”; whether he’s got it or whether he hasn’t, he’s happy anyhow. I’d like to have a whole lot of that, tonight, I sure would. Well, he’s got it, and that’s his possession; they don’t want to mix it up with some other race and break it out, either. That’s exactly right.

606  I think the lady down there at Shreveport made one of the best-best comments I ever heard in my life. She made a comment, and they put it in the paper. She walked up, she said, “The way these things are going in here, in this segregation, I don’t want my children going to school over at that white school.” Said, “They won’t get the attention they’d have if they had a colored teacher.” That woman’s a smart woman. She knowed what she was talking about, they get a better education. That’s exactly right. So I think the people do wrong by doing that.

607  And then they say, “Cain and Abel… ” and so forth like that. No, sir! The color had nothing to do with it. It’s the spirit inside of there that has something to do with it. That’s exactly right.

608  So Cain knew his wife, and that was his sister. And they… he took her to the land of Nod, and there come forth the great tribes of the earth: the religionists and worshippers.

609  And just think today, friend, just stop and think just for a moment. That there are tens of thousands times tens of thousands and thousands of thousands, of absolutely church going people, just as sincere and consecrated to that church they can be, that’s just as far lost as Cain was. See? It’s God who chooses! It’s God who elects! See? God who gives mercy! The clay can’t say to the potter, it’s the potter over the clay. That’s right.

610  Now here’s a beautiful one, the next one here: In Second Peter 2:4-2:4…

611  Somebody got a Bible, want to turn to these scriptures right quick while I’m reading them, if you want to. And kind of help me along here, while we get this question.

612  Now, on this Cain and-and so forth, if that don’t satisfy it now, you just let us have it. We’ll be glad…

613  Now Second Peter 2:4. All right, sir, here we are:

William Marrion Branham
57-1006 Questions And Answers On Hebrews 3

What connection does this Genesis 1:26 have with Genesis 2:7?

October 11, 2024 Leave a comment By theliving

1. “God created man, male and female. Created man, male and female.” Now that’s, I think, the first point. Now in Genesis 2:7, it says, “He formed,” (underscored) “but first He created.” He’s got then…he’s got that underscored. “And He formed” (underscored) “man out of the dust, and breathed into his nostrils,” and so forth. Now, what is the difference, or where is the connection in the above Scriptures?

10 Now, this is…Now, if you’ve got it wrote down, Genesis 1:26 to 28, and Genesis 2:7. Now, it’s a very touchy thing, and I—I may not…I just have my own idea of it, so I’ll just give it to you the way that I feel that it is. And if you different, well, that’s just fine.

11 I want to compliment Brother Neville on the fine answers he give to those questions there. Now, they’re fine.

12 Now, in this, Genesis 1:26, God made man in His Own image. And if you’d notice, we’ll get it so you can read it, and 26…If you’d like to read along with us, we’d be glad for you—for you to do it, check me up.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,…over the fowls of the air,…over the cattle,…of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

13 Now, that’s…I’ve heard that discussed many times, and around the world, discussions come up on that. Now in Genesis 2:7, watch what He did here. All right, here It is:

And…God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

14 Now, what kind of formation…? The—the questioner wants to ask:

What connection does this Genesis 1:26 have with Genesis 2:7? God created two men. And which was the man, and which…What connection does that have? What…? How does it connect up in the Scripture?

15 Well, now, if you’ll notice close now, in Genesis 1:26, let’s get the first part first. God said, “Let Us.” Now, “let Us,” us is a…“Let Us make man in Our Own image.” Our, course, we realize He’s talking to Someone, He was speaking to another Being. “Let Us make man in Our Own image after Our likeness, and let them have dominion over the cattles of the field.”

16 If you notice, in creation, the first thing that was created, of course, was light. You come on down through the creation, the last thing was created was what? A man. And the woman was made after man. All right, the first…Last thing that was created, of God’s creation, is mankind.

17 But when God made His first man, if you noticed, He made him in the likeness of Himself, he was made in the image of God. And what is God? Now, if we can find out what God is, we can find what kind of a man He made.

18 Now in Saint John, the 4th chapter, and I’ll…you read this, Jesus speaking to the woman in the…if you’d like to turn to it. I…not having much time, I just didn’t write them right down, just have to take it by memory. And you look them up now, if I can find it right quick. Now let’s begin about the 4th chapter, and the 14th verse:

And whosoever drinks of this water that I shall give unto him shall never thirst;…and be wells of water springing up into everlasting life.

The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I…come not hither to draw.

Jesus said…Go, and call thy husband,…

The woman answered…

19 I believe we have to get a little above that now, to find out, find out what—what I want you to see here. Maybe not, maybe I can find it on down here, and what I want to see. What say? 23rd and 24th verse. All right.

Ye worship…(that’s it)…Ye worship and you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (and that’s right, see)

But the hour cometh,…But the hour cometh, and now is, that the true worshippers (Jew or Gentile) shall worship the Father in the spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

20 Now, the next verse is where I want:

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

21 Now, if God created man in His Own image and in His Own likeness, what kind of a man did He create? A spirit man. Now, if you’ll notice, after He had made all the creation, and created a spirit man, the close reading of this now (to the one that asked the question) will find this, that God give dominion of the cattle and the fishes and everything to the man. But, in His making up there, He made man in His Own image to lead the cattle, lead the beasts of the field, just like the Holy Spirit leads the believer today. See?

22 He was, in other words, Adam, the first man in the lower creations of God. The first creation was God Himself; then out of God came the Logos, which was the Son of God; then out of the Logos, which was the Word (“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”), out of the Logos came forth the—the man.

23 Oh, I got a beautiful picture in my mind now, if you can take a little trip with me. I believe I’ve talked on it before, but to get this to the place where you’ll be sure to see it. Now, let’s take a little trip and go back for a little while. Now, don’t think about how hot it is, let’s get our minds right on what we’re going to talk about and think now.

24 Let’s go back a hundred million years before there ever was a star, moon, or anything in the world. Now, there was a time when there wasn’t nothing here, it was just all forever and Eternity. And all of ever and Eternity was God, He was there in the beginning.

25 Now, let’s go out here on the edge of this banister and look over and see these things happen.

26 Now, “No man has seen the Father at anytime.” No man can see God in the bodily form, because God is not in body form, God is a Spirit. See? All right. “No man has seen the Father, but the only begotten of the Father hath declared Him,” 1st…John, see.

27 Now, but notice now, there’s nothing, there’s just space. There’s no light, there’s no dark, there’s no nothing, it’s just seems nothing. But in there is a great supernatural Being, Jehovah God, Who covered all space of all places at all times. He was from everlasting from everlasting, He is the beginning of creation. That’s God. Can’t see nothing, can’t hear nothing, not a move of an atom in the air, not nothing, not no air, no nothing, but yet God was there. That was God. (Now let’s watch for a few minutes, and after a while…) No man has seen That, now, That’s the Father. That’s God, the Father.

28 Now notice. Then after while I begin to see a little sacred Light begin to form, like a little halo or something, you could only see it by spiritual eyes.

29 But look now, while we’re looking, the whole church now. We’re standing on a great big banister, watching what God’s doing. And we’ll get right down to this question here and you’ll see how He brings it in.

30 Now, no one has seen God. And now, the next thing we begin to see, by eyes of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light forming out there. What is that? That was called, by Bible readers, “Logos,” or “the anointed,” or “the anointing,” or the…as I was going to say, the—the part of God begin to develop into something so human beings could have some type of an idea what It was. Was a little, low…a little Light, moving. He…That was the Word of God.

31 Now, God gave Himself birth to this Son which was before there was even an atom in the…or air to make an atom. That was…See, Jesus said, “Glorify Me, Father, with the glory that We had before the foundation of the world.” See, way back in yonder.

32 Now, in Saint John 1, He said, “In the beginning was the Word.” And the first…“And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” God unfolding Himself, down to a human being. Now watch how He did it.

33 Now, back there, then, when this little halo comes. Now, we can’t see nothing yet, but just by eyes of just supernatural we see a halo standing there. Now, that’s the Son of God, the Logos. Now, I can see Him playing around like a little child, before the Father’s door, with all Eternity. See? And, now, then in His imaginary makeup He begin to think of what things would be, and I can hear Him say, “Let there be light.”

34 And when He did, an atom bursted and the sun came into existence. She whirled for hundreds of millions of years, forming clinkers, and burning, and forming like it is today; still burning, still breaking atoms. If the atomic bomb would ever get let loose, the atomic chain would take…this earth would be like the sun, yonder, just bursting and blowing. If you could stand over on another continent and look off at this, it would look like another sun, where the atoms was burning this earth, if the chain would ever get let loose and it just start turning, whirling like that. Millions and millions of miles reach these big flames of billions of Fahrenheit, of—of—of heat that goes off that sun.

35 Now, watch this now. Beautiful! Now, He’s made the sun. And then, the first thing you know, a big clinker fell off of it, weighed about…just about like this earth, went “Spew!” Then this Logos here now, the Son of God, is watching it, He lets it fall for a hundred million years and He stops it. Then another one flies off, and He let’s it (flew off) fall for millions of years, then He stops it. Now, we’re standing, watching it come into existence.

36 Now, He’s got something in His mind, and what’s He doing? He’s writing His first Bible. The first Bible that man ever looked to was the stars, the zodiac. And it’s a perfect…just…It dovetailed with this Bible here. It starts off, the first of the zodiac is the virgin. Is that right? The last of the zodiac is what? Leo, the lion. That’s the first Coming of Jesus, He came through a virgin; the second, He comes as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. See? Drawed it all out, the cancer age, and everything down through. Now, He put that all in the sky and placed it out. All these meteors, pieces of earth, or sun, hanging off here.

37 Now, when science goes to looking for those missiles that fall, that don’t disprove God, that just proves it to me. See, that just makes it more real. Now, now notice, all these missiles hanging out there away from that hot sun, and going out through the air, course, they’ve collected. And first thing you know, it began just a iceberg.

38 Now, that was this earth come into existence, just a big old piece of cinder flew off out yonder. Down beneath it now is nothing but a turning, burning volcano, completely, the eruptions come everywhere, volcanic. And science claims that—that this world, the crust on top of it, where we live, is just about like the peeling on an apple. And all the…Now, there’s twenty-five thousand miles around, it’s probably eight thousand miles (that’d be approximately eight thousand miles) thick. And just think, of in there, it’s a burning volcanic.

39 And two-thirds of the earth, better than two-thirds of it, is in water; and one-third of it is in land, about one-third. And this little, this crust that we’re living on, it’s full of dangerous explosives, gas, gasoline, oil, everything. Is that right? And the two-thirds of it, better than two-thirds of it, water. What is the formula of water? Two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen, explosives.

40 There’s enough electricity in every room to separate the heat from the cold, and it’ll make enough electricity to burst a room. You can put enough atoms in a golf ball to blow New York off the face of the earth. And then man, sitting on a pot of hell, hits hisself in the chest and defies God’s Word, and says, “There’s no such a place as hell.” (I got that down here in a little bit, and we’re going to get to that, see.) You’re sitting on a big pot of it every day. And while you’re here you’re sitting right on it, and hell’s just beneath you.

41 And now, notice, but now when this was first found, when Jesus…Now watch the little halo yonder. Now I can see It move out to this earth and get over the top of it and begin to move it over here close to the sun. It’s nothing but a big ball of ice. And when it begins to get melting, then great big glaciers begin to cut through up in the northlands and come down. And when it did, it cut out Kansas and Texas and all them places there, and went on into the Gulf of Mexico. And the first thing you know, the whole thing was covered with water.

42 Then, now we get in Genesis 1, we get to the Bible now, and out of our picture at the Bible. Genesis 1, “The world was without form, and void; and water was upon the face of the deep.” Is that right? “And the Spirit of God moved upon the water.” Now, He separated the water, brought up the hills and the lands and so forth; dried it off. Vegetation and everything, He made it. And He made the moon. And set its boundaries, of the sea, so it could not pass.

43 He got all those things together, made…?…Made all the other things, all the animal life, the birds, the bees, the monkeys, and whatever it was, put all of it here on earth. And then He asked this question now. “Let Us” (Who? Father and Son) “make man in Our Own image.”

44 Now, if a man was made something like that little sacred Light yonder, or something like that, It could not be seen (which is a spiritual Being). He manifested or unfolded Himself a little more, to make a trinity of Himself by Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And here was God, unfolded Himself now, down into “let Us make man,” which was His son, an offspring from Him, “man in Our Own image,” he was a supernatural being. “And let him have dominion over the cattles of the field, and so forth.”

45 Now, the man led the man…led the—the cattle and everything, just like the Holy Spirit leads a real, true believer today. The Voice of God out there…The voice of man, rather, could speak and say…call the cattle this way, call the sheep over in this pasture, call the fishes to this water. See, he had dominion, everything obeyed him.

46 Now, but then there was no man to till the soil, Genesis 2, no man to till the soil. “And then God formed man” (Genesis 2:7) “out of the dust of the earth.” Now He followed…He formed man out of the dust of the earth, and put this supernatural Spirit…

47 Now, he was laying there. I can have many pictures of it. I can see Adam standing…Let’s take this way, see him standing like a tree. God had made him. He was dead as he could be; his toes, like the roots, sticking in the ground. And God said, “Let there be,” or breathed the breath of life into him, and he jumped, came to himself. He was a…Breathed the breath of life into him, he became a living soul. Now, and he begin to move on, move on.

48 And then God taken from his side a piece of him, a rib, and made a woman. Now, where did He get the spirit, woman? See? When He…Genesis 1:26, He said, “Let us make man in Our Own image, after Our Own—Own likeness, created He them (man) male and female.” He made the burly spirit for the man; He made the tender, little, delicate, feminish spirit for the woman.

49 And when you see a woman acting like a man, she’s got out of her place, you see, in the beginning. See? All right. She’s supposed…I think it’s a shame that women has lost their dainty, feminish place. It’s a disgrace. I tell you, it is. It’s…You know, I’m going to say this. Now, I’m not talking about you women here. But, course, if it hurts, it just does. But, look, let me ask you something. It used to be that women was so feminish till a man would go to talking to them and they’d blush. Huh! What is blushing, anyhow? I haven’t seen it in so long I wouldn’t even know what it was if some woman blushed. They haven’t got any of that dignity anymore, all that there fine feminish spirit. They’re just…They can…They’ll wear clothes like a man, cut their hair like a man, smoke like a man, drink like a man, cuss like a man, vote like a man, work like a man, so, become rough, burly. Oh, my! That shows where you’ve got to. That’s exactly.

50 That little lady-like, you don’t see her much more, she’s a hard person to find. Isn’t that right? Yes, that’s the truth. So a woman is not supposed to stand up and act like a man, big and burly, because she’s dainty. God made her that way. I can prove that by the Scriptures. Yes, sir. That’s right. And…

51 But, of course, we get off this question, but I don’t want to get too many off this question. But, see, there’s where He made His first man, was in His Own image.

52 And then, God, before there even was a star, knew that this world would be. And He knew that I’d be William Branham preaching the Gospel from the pulpit and you would be John Doe sitting there listening to It, before the world ever began. Hallelujah!

53 Now, that’s where people sometimes, in the—the legalists and Calvinists, get all mixed up. See? They say, “Why was some ordained to be lost?” God’s not willing that any should perish. He don’t want no one to perish, but yet, being God, He knows there’s some that won’t accept It. See? See, He’s got…He had to know the end from the beginning in order to be God. Didn’t He?

54 So He knew He was going to have some women, so He just made their spirit right there. The Bible said He did, in 1, Genesis 1:26, “He created he him, man,” in the prefigure, “male and female.” Amen. See? In a prefigure, He made the woman and the man before they was ever formed out of the dust of the earth.

55 And then God made the man, not in His Own image. This body’s not in the image of God, this body’s in the image of beasts.

56 Can I take off my coat? It’s getting hot up here. I got a torn shirt on, but you won’t notice that. Wife told me Jesse didn’t come and get the laundry, so…But, look, we’re on a subject here now that means more than a torn shirt in the pulpit. Doesn’t it? It means Eternal Life.

57 Now, notice man. God knew in the beginning that He was going to have men and women, and He knew that the Saviour would be here and He’d have to bring Jesus, and He’d be crucified. And Jesus told the disciples, when He was here on earth, that He “knew them even before the foundation of the world,” before the world ever come into existence.

58 And God said, also, or Paul speaking, in Galatians, said that “He ordained us and called us in Him before the world was ever formed.” Think of that! That God…Anybody would like to hear what the Scripture says about that, raise your hands. It goes right along with the question. Get with me in Galatians, the 1st chapter. Looky here. I don’t mean in Galatians, I mean Ephesians. Listen closely now what God said, Ephesians 1:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Jesus Christ.

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

59 Now, here it is, notice:

According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,…(whew!)

60 That’s pretty good. Isn’t it? That’s not pretty good, that’s real good! Before there was a foundation of the world, God knew Orman Neville and knew that he would preach the Gospel. Isn’t that wonderful? “Has chose…” Why, he’s a member of the Church, and God knew He was going to have that Church. And he said, Paul speaking to the church of Ephesus, said, “He has chosen us in Him.” Now, we’re all the members of the Body of Christ. Is that right? And God, before the world was ever formed, chose you and I in Him before the world was ever formed. Whew! My! Isn’t that wonderful?

61 Now, the first man, now, He made the first man in His image, and we are returning back to that image, that’s right, to our first created image.

62 When God created me, William Branham, I was before the foundation of the world, He made my being, my spirit. I wasn’t conscious of anything as far as I know of, but the…I was there. Oh, I—I don’t believe you’re getting it. But now, just a minute, Jesus told the disciples that He “knew them before the foundation of the world,” and Paul said here that “He chose us in Him before the world began.” Now, there was some part of me, Orman Neville, and the rest of you all here, that’s in Christ Jesus before the world ever began. And here’s to my analysis of that. I think that the people today that are possessed with this Spirit, or the spirit, a part of these angelic beings, spirits which rotated off of God, that never fell in the beginning and resisted the devil’s lie in Heaven.

63 And two-thirds of the earth is in sin, and more than that, which two-thirds of the angels was kicked out. And those demon spirits come into people and habitate their body. See what I mean? They’re demons that once…they was once existed and they come into the people and give them a nature. Jesus cast seven of them out of Mary Magdalene. Pride, boast (big people, you see), unclean, filthy, vulgarity, emulations, strife. All these things, see.

64 Them was spirits that was made up back there when God began to make man off of there in His Own image. Created those supernatural beings, those spirits.

65 And then He put man in the dust of the earth, which was the first man, Adam. And that man was made after the image, this human man here, is made after the image of an animal. These human bodies are made in the image of animals.

66 We got a hand just like a monkey, and—and got a foot like a bear. Take a little cub bear, strip him down, pull the skin off of him and put upside of a little baby girl and look at the difference. Huh! Brother, you sure have to look close. The whole diaphragm, the makeup, is almost the same, the way it’s made and the form of it, and everything just exactly. It’s in the image of animal life because he was made something on the order of an animal, because that was his duty to lead the animal.

67 And you take the Holy Spirit off of a man, he’s lower than the animal, he’s worse than the animal. That’s a hard thing to say. But you take a man that’s unregenerated in his mind, without the Holy Spirit to direct his thoughts, and—and things like that, he would throw a baby out of a mother’s arms and ravish her for beastly lust. That’s exactly.

68 And a woman that’s no good. You take an old mother hog or an old dog, we’ve give it all kinds of names for…But her morals are just her puppies, and the hog for her piggies, but an ornery no-good account woman is just as…just filth all the time. That’s right. So remember, that you’re…without Christ, your morals are…can drop down to below a dog. That’s right.

69 The dog don’t have to wear clothes to cover hisself, no other animal. It was man that fell, not the animal life. But, the animal life being under the man (the human life), was subject to it because man was his guide and his supreme leader. And every beast of the field fears a man.

70 Somebody was asking me, sometime, about hunting, “Are you afraid of it?” Why, every animal was ever created fears a man, because that’s got to be from the beginning back yonder. See? Sure is. You run and he’ll run after you, that’s right, but, a dog or anything you want to. All right.

71 But now, notice now, that man when he come down here…Now look, here…You say, “Now, what about it now, Brother Branham?”

72 Now, here you get God in just exactly, and between the Oneness and Trinity you’ll get the thing just exactly right now. Now look! When God dropped, unfolded Hisself, unfolded Himself down till He come down to this man. Now, man sinned not in his spirit, but in his body, lust, passion. Then when he sinned, he separated hisself from his Maker. And then God, the Logos, the very Creator of him, came down and was made in the image of man. Man was made in the image of God, and then he was made in the image of beast, and he fell. And God came down in the image of man, in the Man Christ Jesus, to suffer pain. God could not suffer pain in the Spirit. How could He suffer physical pain in the Spirit? He couldn’t do it. So God unfolded Himself and was made in the image of man, to redeem the man that was lost. See?

73 And then God suffered in the flesh. First Timothy 3:16, “Without controversy,” that’s argument, “great is the mystery of godliness. For God was manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, preached on, to the Gent-…and believed, and received up to the right hand of the Father.” Is that right? God Himself came down and lived in a human body and suffered temptation. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” See what love is? The Love of God!

74 Now, now, I think that would get that, man and woman. Now, a woman is…Let me get this in right good now, so you can see it, see. Woman is subject to her husband. And the Bible said that “A man should rule over his wife.” But how they’ve changed that! The woman rules over the man, “Now, you stay home, John! You’re not going!” And that settles it, “Yes, my dear.” See?

75 But let me tell you something, mister. You are going to have to answer for your wife, but your wife is never going to have to answer for you. You are the head of the woman, and God is the head of man. Therefore He said, “Let the man cut his hair because of Christ. And let the woman have her hair, for if she cuts her hair she dishonors her husband.” See? You see what I mean by what the Scripture says?

76 I had a hot one on that, down the other day in Shreveport. They was talking about the women, and should women wear long hair. And I said, “A woman that bobbed her hair, her husband had a right and a Bible right to divorce her.” That’s right. That’s what the Bible says. That’s exactly right. Oh, my! Holy Ghost women sitting there, just the way they been taught, that’s all. See? Just, that’s slipped loosely.

77 He said, “Now, if they would cut it, if there’s something wrong they had to cut their hair,” said, “let her take a razor and shave it all off,” and make her hair real slick, until it comes out her head. That’s right. That’s what the Scripture said. It says, “If she cuts her hair, she dishonors her husband. And a woman that’s dishonorable has a legal right to be put away and divorced.” But, he can’t marry again, now. But he—but he can put her away in divorcement. That’s right. That’s Scripture. Oh brother, what we need is some question nights! That’s right. That’s First Corinthians, the 14th chapter, if you want to read It. All right. Now, that—that…Now, this woman…

78 God—God created man, male and female. You see what He done? He made the man. He made…Now, that’s the first question, see, “Created He them,” and so forth, Genesis 1:26. Genesis 2:7, “He formed them out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils.”

What is the difference, or—or where is this connection in the above Scripture? What connection does the first man have with the second man?

79 The first man is the second man made manifest in five senses. See? Right now you can’t—you can’t touch God with your hands like that, you can’t see God with your eyes. He didn’t give it to you to do that. You’re…

80 Did you ever hear an old saint dying, when they say, “There’s mother, I haven’t seen her for years”? Did you ever hear that when people…? See, what it is, these eyes are fading away and the supernatural eyes are setting in. See? And then sometimes if we, if God so makes, we see visions where that natural eye fades away. Right in front of us, we’re looking right straight, and there’s a vision before us showing the supernatural things of God. See what I mean?

81 So then, look, “When this earthly tabernacle here…” Now, some of you women and man here are getting old. Look, “When this earthly…” I think of old dad there, ninety-two years old. “When this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, there is a spiritual man, a spiritual body waiting for us which cannot perish.” I’ll see you there. I’ll walk over…

82 I can’t touch Brother Neville in—in up there, ’cause John saw them and they was souls under the altar, crying, “How long, Lord, how long?” You know why, we went through Revelation. And how that in there they desired to return and be clothed upon with mortal bodies. They were crying, “How long, Lord?”

83 Now, they knew each other, but they couldn’t talk and shake hands, or, I imagine they could talk, but they couldn’t shake hands and so forth. Here’s the image to prove it. When the witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel, and Saul looked at him and he recognized him to be Samuel. And Samuel recognized Saul and said, “Why did you call me out of my rest, seeing that you’ve become the enemy of God and God’s departed from you?” Is that right? And there stood old Samuel with his prophet’s robe on, and he looked at him. He was in a suit.

84 The witch seen him and fell on the ground, said, “I see gods raising up out of the earth.”

He said, “Why did you disturb me?”

And he said, “Well, I want to know how the battle’s going.”

85 Said, “Tomorrow you’ll die in battle,” and his sons would, “and by this time tomorrow night you’ll be with me.” See? Now, he was conscious, and he looked just like he did when he was here on earth, to that witch that was standing, looking at him, and Saul.

86 Now, notice. Many times…How about Dad or Mother when they were dying and saw their loved ones standing there? They recognized them. But it’s in the supernatural body.

87 But now here’s the glorious part. On the return of Jesus at the resurrection, it won’t be that body. That body then, that supernatural being that God created in the beginning, that will return to the earth to get another body, not born by woman, but created by God (Hallelujah!), to never get old or have a wrinkle, never have a gray hair on your head, but be perfect, forever! Hallelujah! Oh brother, that would make me shout on a hot night! That’s right! Oh, “this robe of flesh I’ll drop, and rise and seize the everlasting prize!” What in the world we got to worry about?

88 There’s the whole plan laying right there, how God created me in the beginning. I come down here on the earth, taken my place as a Gospel preacher, or you as a man or woman with salvation, we live the life by the grace of God. Hallelujah! And that same spirit leaves here that was back yonder in beginning. I’ll go back to the conscious of knowing I been here, (Hallelujah!) and then wait there under the altar, blessed forever, in rest. And then when returning back, I take up my body in its very peak of best, before death ever struck it.

89 Death strikes you about twenty-two or twenty-three years old, you start failing. You’re not the man you used to be and the woman you used to be, after you get about twenty-five, something set in. Wrinkles begin to come under your eyes. You can’t wash like you used to. Thirty, you can notice it a whole lot. Wait till you get up to forty-four, like me, and then you’re really noticing it. But, Oh brother! Wait till I get eighty, ninety, and on that cane, standing there. What is it? God’s just put me in the race to run. But some glorious day…That’s death setting in.

90 I was once straight-shouldered, had black hair (and a head full of it), and no wrinkles under my eyes; and look at me now, shrinking down, shoulders stooping, getting fat, and wrinkles under my eyes, bald-headed. Why, look what death’s doing to me for about in the last twenty years. Death’s doing that. Wait till I get eighty, if God lets me live, and look what I look like, standing like this on an old cane, shaking like that somewhere. But, hallelujah, some glorious day, death will take its full toll. Then when I rise in the resurrection I’ll be what I was, what God made me here on earth at my very best, in a body not made by Mrs. Branham and Mr. Branham, but created by God Himself; free from temptation, free from sin, free from anything else, never to have a sickness, heartache. Oh, my!

91 Then I’ll take hold of my little wife’s hands and walk down through the Paradise of God like that, anew. You’ll do the same thing. Not the old gray-headed woman you’re leading around tonight, calling your wife, but she’ll be just as beautiful as she was the day you married her at the altar. Hallelujah! Whew! That’s enough to make a fellow shout. Isn’t it? See?

92 All right, that’s the connection. God is determined. When God makes up His mind to do anything, it has to be. Satan spoiled this picture by a sexual desire, by the woman, to bring forth children. He spoiled it. So go ahead and make it, that’s all right. This habitation is to pick up these, ’cause the only thing that you do in this life is pick up your form and image, what you are. If you’re red-headed now, you’ll be red-headed then. If you’re black-headed now, you’ll be black-headed then. See, what you was at your best. And if you…Satan interrupted the picture, you didn’t even get…What God intended for you to be, you’ll be. Oh, how glorious! There’s your man.

    53-0729 — Questions And Answers On Genesis
    Rev. William Marrion Branham

The Revelation Of Jesus Christ!

December 11, 2018 Leave a comment By theliving
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28:16-20)
Now, God at the beginning was the great Jehovah that lived in a Pillar of Fire, hung above Israel and led them. That was God, the Angel of the Covenant. Come down on the mountain, the whole mountain caught fire; fire flew from the mountain, and wrote the Ten Commandments. He was called the “fatherhood of God,” to His children, His chosen race of people, the Jew.

Then that same God was made manifest in a virgin-born body that He created in the wombs of Mary, and lived and tabernacled and stretched His tent (as it was) among human beings. And that same God was made flesh and dwelled among us. The Bible said so. God was in Christ. The body was Jesus. Jesus, in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. Can’t make Him three people now. Don’t baptize to three gods; there’s one God see: one God.

Now, this same God was made flesh; He said, “I came from God and I go to God.” After He had disappeared from the earth by His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, Paul met Him on the road down to Damascus, when he was yet called Saul. And a voice came and said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”

He said, “Who are You?”

He said, “I’m Jesus.”

And He was a Pillar of Fire, a Light that’s put out the eyes of the apostle. He had turned back. The same Jesus had turned back to God the Father again. That’s the reason He said here, “I am the Almighty,” in the same form He was before He was made flesh. And His body that He lived in, called Jesus, the Man that we know: Jesus.

Now, like a lot of you dear Oneness people baptize in the name of “Jesus.” You’re wrong. There’s hundreds of Jesuses in the world today, but there’s only one Lord Jesus Christ.

He was borned a Christ. Lots of Jesuses, I’ve met many of them. But there’s one Lord Jesus Christ; He’s God.

And Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not names; they’re titles that go to one Name. Say, “Baptize in the name of ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost.'” Father’s not a name, and Son’s not a name, and Holy Ghost is not a name; it’s a title, like human, that’s what it is. The Holy Ghost, a Spirit, Holy Ghost. Then say, “In the name of the Father.” Look at the fathers, and your sons’ sons. Look at the humans in here. See? Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not a name. It’s a title that goes to the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That’s the way the apostolic church baptized in the beginning. And I’ll ask anybody to produce one text of Scripture or one time in history that anybody was ever baptized in the Christian church any other way than but in the Name of Jesus Christ until the Catholic church was formed and they adopted “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost” for a creed. Now, bring up your history, some of the historians. Yeah, there’s no such a thing.

( The Revelation Of Jesus Christ
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~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

After 44 Years of Believing William Branham’s Message, Here Is Why I’m Staying With It!

September 12, 2018 12 Comments on After 44 Years of Believing William Branham’s Message, Here Is Why I’m Staying With It! By theliving
By Owen Jorgensen, July 1 2014
Brother Branham said his Message was: Come into Christ.
I became a Christian in 1968 when I was 16, and I first heard William Branham’s message when I was 18. Listening to his sermons brought me closer to Jesus Christ—and they continue to encourage me in the Lord to this day. Here are some of the wonderful things His Message has done for me.
First of all, William Branham elevated Jesus Christ higher than anyone else I have ever heard (outside of The Message). Oh, the other Christians say “Jesus is Lord” and they hail Him as “God in flesh”, and give him other fancy titles; but if you listen to them for a while, eventually they demote Jesus to some lesser position, like “the second person” or some other such thing. William Branham taught me that Jesus Christ is “Supreme Deity.” There is no one higher. You might ask, “But what about God the Father?” Brother Branham taught me that God (the Father) is Spirit, and Jesus (the Son) is that Spirit become human. (John 1:18; 4:24; 14:8-10, and many other scriptures). That makes Jesus fully God, and fully human.
William Branham taught me how Jesus is human. God the Spirit created a human egg and sperm inside the womb of Mary when she was still a virgin. These connected. From that point on, Jesus developed naturally like every other human embryo. But there is more to this equation. How did Jesus recognize His uniqueness even at the age of 12, whereas the rest of us are still floundering at that age? Each son and daughter of God has a spiritual representation in the mind of God, which Brother Branham called a theophany, or spiritual body. When you and I were born, we by-passed our theophany, so we have had to struggle to see God. But Jesus was born with His theophany united to his physical body, so by the time He turned 12 he knew who He was. Understanding that distinction has helped me as I try to live for Christ, and sometimes fail Him.
Brother Branham was not “Oneness” or “Jesus Only”. He taught me that there is a difference between “The Father” and “The Son”. The New Testament often refers to this difference, which many people have misconstrued into a “Two-in-One” or a “Three-in-One” doctrine of God. But there is only one God. Remember the first commandment is, “Hear O Israel the Lord our God is One Lord (Mark 12:29).” Brother Branham clarified this for me. He told me that God is a Spirit, and since we don’t know exactly what a spirit is, none of us can know God in His Spirit form. Therefore God became a man, so we could know Him. (John 1: “No man has seen God AT ANY TIME, but the only begotten Son… he hath declared Him.” Thomas said to Jesus, “Show us the Father… Jesus answered Thomas, “When you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father. John 14:8-10.) In John 21:21 Thomas called Jesus, “My Lord and my God.”
Before I heard of William Branham, I had already accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. But Brother Branham showed me exactly who Jesus is. What greater gift could any minister give to people? And if that wasn’t enough, he then showed me the attributes of Jesus Christ—everything from holiness to the real nature of sin. He said there is only one basic sin, and that is—disbelieving God’s Word. Every other bad thing we do is just manifesting different aspects of unbelief.
He taught me why there is evil in the world. God had attributes that He wanted to express—attributes like “healer”, “ comforter” and “savior”. He created this world so He could express those attributes. He did not create evil—no, He could not do that, because He is all good. But he created a man and a woman with this amazing ability we call “free will”; and then God allowed a situation to occur knowing that Adam and Eve would fail. It wasn’t eating a piece of fruit that caused their fall. God is not that arbitrary. No, it was adultery, which God still considers a sin today. Once I understood that the serpent was at first a mammal similar to man, then the Garden of Eden story changed from an allegorical fairy tale to one rooted in our modern understanding of genetics. Knowing that the serpent left a genetic imprint in mankind’s genetic code helped me to understand the animal-like brutality of human history and the conflicts I see on the nightly news.
I have not yet mentioned the decades of miracles that Jesus did through Brother Branham’s ministry—hundreds of thousands of miracles, some that boggle my mind because they are so utterly fantastic—and many of these miracles are recorded, originally on magnetic tape and now in digital formats. I listen to his prayer-lines with awe—and my faith rises as I contemplate the power of this great Christ whom I serve. More than any other minister of our day, William demonstrated the Gospel, bringing the reality of Jesus Christ visibly before us.
Furthermore, God gave Brother Branham a glimpse of paradise, which he called “beyond the curtain of time”. I have never heard anything more beautiful that his description of that sublime place. To me it was the spiritual equivalent of Joshua and Caleb bringing back giant grapes from the Promised Land and saying to the Israelites, “See, Moses was telling us the truth. Canaan is a good land–and God said we could live there if we only believe Him and persevere.”
Brother Branham did not teach me about grace. I already understood that I am saved by my faith in Jesus Christ alone, and not by my works (Ephesians 2:8) But his message has strengthened my faith immeasurably.
I was so relieved when I learned that hell was not eternal. It’s right there in the book of Revelation—hell is thrown into the Lake of Fire and destroyed (Revelation 20:14)—but until I heard Brother Branham, I thought hell was eternal because that’s what other Christians told me. I’ll tell you why learning this fact meant so much to me. Christians would say, “God is love; but if you don’t return that love, God is going to roast you for eternity!” Huh? That didn’t sound like love to me. But God is love. He is also merciful and just. There will be a judgment day when the deeds and motives of men will be examined. Many will receive His mercy, and the rest… well, hell was not created for man, but for the devil and his demons. However, if people don’t want God, then hell is the only place they can go because it’s the only place devoid of God’s presence. How long they will be there, the Bible doesn’t say—but they won’t live there for eternity. There is only one form of eternal life, and that is in Jesus Christ (John11:25). Brother Branham helped me understand that God truly is love.
I could go on and on… but I want to keep this short.
Let me briefly address the criticisms leveled at William Branham. I spent approximately 12,000 hours researching and writing a biography of him, called Supernatural: The Life of William Branham(available on my website supernaturalchristianbooks.com.) I dare say few people have looked into his life as thoroughly as I have. Certainly he was not perfect. And yet, William Branham was as honorable and sincere a Christian as I have ever heard of. His dedication to helping people went far above and beyond the call of duty. Consider his 1947 faith-healing campaign in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he prayed for a solid line of people for eight straight days and nights, stopping now and then to eat a sandwich or to nap for ten minutes on the platform, while the next patient waited for him to wake and pray for him or her. In the history of the world, I have never heard of anything like this ever being done before. And that’s just one example. He usually fasted and prayed for several days before starting a faith-healing campaign in a city. His heart’s desire was to help people see Jesus Christ. He could have been a multi-millionaire, but he turned down riches, taking just a small weekly salary for himself and putting the rest of the money that came in towards missions, under the name Branham Campaigns. He always acknowledged Jesus Christ as the healer.
He always dealt with people in a Christ-like manner; and yet people (even some Christian people today) still criticize him. Interestingly, every criticism that is directed at William Branham could also be said of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, if one had a mind to criticize. For example, some people say William Branham was a liar; or at least stretched the truth, so you can’t really believe him. The critic of Christianity can say Luke was lying when he said Herod killed hundreds of babies in Bethlehem because he wanted to be sure of killing the baby Jesus. After all, there are no records of such an atrocity in secular history (and we know a lot about the reign of Herod the Great of Judea.) A critic of Christianity could also say Jesus lied in John 7:2-10. He told his brothers he wasn’t going to go to the feast, and then he went. You and I know there is more to the story—but that doesn’t matter to the critics. As far as they are concerned, Jesus lied to his brothers. And how about Paul the Apostle? He can’t seem to get his facts straight. When Jesus speaks to him on his road to Damascus, Acts 9:7 says the men with him heard the voice, but Acts 22:9 says those same me did not hear the voice. The critic can even accuse Jesus of being a false prophet. How is that, you wonder? While standing in the temple at Jerusalem, Jesus said “If you tear this temple down, I’ll build it again in 3 days.”(John 2:19) The Roman army tore that temple down in 70 A.D. and it has never been rebuilt since. We would challenge the critic by saying “Jesus was speaking of the temple of his body.” But the critic would point out that Jesus never said that—John said that Jesus referred to his body; so we are just making excuses (John 2:21).
And then there is doctrine… Jesus put forth a doctrine so repugnant to the Jews that 70 of his closest followers left him over it. Jesus said they had to eat his body and drink his blood to have eternal life. The Old Testament law forbids Jews to eat any meat that still has the blood in it. At this point Jesus didn’t explain the deeper meaning behind his words—he just said it and left it at that—and these 70 men thought, “This guy can’t be a prophet if he preaches unscriptural stuff like that.” After they left, Jesus asked the 12 remaining disciples if they would leave also. Peter, speaking for the group (and for me) said, “Master, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 5:51-69)
None of these criticisms of Christianity shake me, because I’ve met the Lord Jesus personally—so I know He is real and His Word is true, even though I can’t explain every mysterious detail. I could answer most of the criticisms of Brother Branham one by one, but that wouldn’t satisfy a critic, unless he or she had an honest and open heart, and was really desiring to find the truth.
In Brother Branham’s sermon “Deep Calleth to the Deep,” (which is one of the few movies taken of his faith-healing campaigns) Brother Branham said to his audience, “If you came here to criticize, then the devil will give you something to criticize. If you came here to see God, then you’ll see God. It all depends on what you’re looking for.” There were plenty of critics of Jesus when he walked on this earth—and ever since then too. So it doesn’t surprise me that William Branham is criticized, since he walked so close to Jesus that some people even mistook him for being God. It is easy to criticize; it’s much harder to build something of value. Brother Branham didn’t build a denomination. He worked hard to bring people into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
I am one of those people he helped. I am staying with “The Message” because it is a beacon of truth and clarity shinning through the fog of men’s ideas. It has guided me to the genuine Jesus Christ, and in Him I have found love, joy, peace and safety. I have come into Christ, and I am staying put.
–Owen Jorgensen, July 1, 2014

Every Move Of A Christian Is A Fight

September 6, 2018 1 Comment on Every Move Of A Christian Is A Fight By theliving

417 Let’s add to our faith these things, then, that we might come in the full stature of Christ; being joined together with godly love, fear of God, reverence in our heart to one another, deep respect to one another, brotherly and sisterly kindness, never vulgarity, nothing but just the purity of Holy Ghost living. See? Live together, be a Christian. Walk with faith. Let the virtue of God flow through you; let the knowledge of God, when it comes to right and wrong. When the devil presents something that’s not exactly Scriptural, walk away from it. That’s right.

418 I can imagine them apostles never acted liked us. They went around, probably men of few words, till they got in the pulpit. They walked in and they done what they was supposed to do, and walked out. Yes, sir. They had power. They had virtue. They had no arguments with men. They know where they stood. That’s all. They know who they believed. They kept on walking in the Spirit. Doing only…

419 Just as I said the other night. One little nod, that’s all God had to do, then nothing going to stop them. They didn’t question and study, and hum-haw and worry like we do, whether they should do this or that. They went ahead and done it, anyhow. Just one little nod from God, that done it, just as soon. Why? How could they know it was a nod from God? They had all these virtues in here, all these qualifications. And the first little nod of God compared with every bit of this, and with His Word. They knowed it was the Word of God, and away they went. Didn’t have to worry about nothing else. When God spoke, they went. We speak…

420 God speaks to us, and we’ll say, “Well, we’ll start off. We’ll see if we can live this Life.” First thing you know, somebody upsets you. Well, sure, that’s the devil.

421 You ought to seen him trying to keep me away from this meeting this morning. You ought to have that one time. Oh, mercy! I have to fight every time I mention a meeting. And if I’m going to pray for a sick, and somebody dying and not saved, there’ll be thirty calls come in in ten minutes, if they can get that fast, to keep me from it. “Oh, Brother Branham, you got to do this.” But there’s a soul at stake. Sure. Yeah.

422 Other night, I was called to a place. A young man, I talked to him down here in the what-you-call-it, supermarket, few years ago. He become an alcoholic. I knowed the boy, a good fine boy, but he was a sinner. And so his mother called. I think she called Doc a couple times. I…Called, and they called Billy, and—and finally I got the message. And when I got the message, honest to goodness, I never had so much fight in my life, to get to that boy.
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