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1. THE SERPENT’S SEED — 1958-09-28

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• ¶144–¶148 The Chinese; the colored man can’t say now, the black man can’t say now, that, “That Chinaman, he—he is yellow, I ain’t going to have nothing to do with him.” He’s your brother. And you white man can’t say to the yellow man or the black man, either one, “I have nothing to do with you.” He’s your brother. Exactly right. Notice, now, here is what taken place. I believe, and can support it by the Bible, that it is the serpent that did it. The serpent is that missing person between the chimpanzee and the man. Cause, listen, notice this now, that the serpent was not a reptile. He was most “subtil” of all the beasts of the field. Now, I went and got dictionaries, today, from everywhere, to look up this word, what the word of subtil meant. It means “to be smart, to be crafty,” and, the best interpretation of the—of the Hebrew (from m- a-h-a-h, mahah) means “having a true knowledge of the principles of life.” Now let’s watch this just a minute. He is smart, crafty, yet he is called the “serpent.” But, remember, he was the smartest thing there was, and the more like the human being than anything else that was on the field; closest to a human being. He was not a reptile. The curse made him a reptile. And he was the…The Bible said he was the most beautiful of all. And even the curse didn’t take all of his beauty away; yet the glorious colors of a snake is beautiful, and his grace and his shrewdness. Even the curse didn’t move it off. But, you remember, God told him that his legs would come off and he would go on his belly. And you can’t find one bone in a snake that looks like a human being, and that’s the reason science is lost. But there he is.

• ¶157b–¶163 And the devil comes down, now, he says, “I can inspire.” Now, when you go to looking at women and the action of women, you remember, you are anointed of the devil (and it’s not your own wife). Notice, now, the devil come down and got into the serpent. And he found Eve in the garden of Eden, naked, and he talked about the fruit in the midst. The midst means “middle,” and so forth; you understand, in a mixed congregation. And he said, “Now, it’s pleasant. It’s good to the eyes.” What did he do? He begin making love to Eve, and he lived with her, as a husband. And she saw it was pleasant, so she went and told her husband, but she was already pregnant, by Satan. And she brought forth her first son, whose name was Cain, the son of Satan. “Now,” you say, “that’s wrong.” All right, we’ll just find out whether it’s wrong or not. “And I will put enmity between thy Seed and the serpent’s seed.” What? The serpent seed! She had a Seed, and he had a seed. “And He shall bruise thy head, and you shall bruise His heel.” And a bruise, there, means “to make an Atonement.” Now there is your “seed” of the serpent. Now, notice, here comes these two men out. Now, this serpent, when he stood there, this great big giant of a fellow stood up there, he was guilty of committing adultery with Adam’s wife. Where’s sin lay today? What makes things the way they are today? Now, I—I…Surely you can catch what I’m talking about. And there it was. And when he did, God said, begin to call for Eve and Adam. And he said, “I was naked.” And He said, “Who told you you was naked?”

• ¶164–¶171 Then they begin to, the army fashion, passing the buck. Said, “Well, the woman You give me, done it. She was the one who persuaded me.” And she said, “The serpent give me an apple”? All right, preacher, get next to yourself. She said, “The serpent beguiled me.” Do you know what beguile means? Means “defiled.” The…she…the s-…devil never give her an apple. “The serpent has beguiled me.” And then the curse came. He said, “Because you listened to the serpent in the stead of your husband, you took Life from the world. And you’ll—you’ll multiply your sorrows; and your conception shall be to your husband,” and so forth. “And because you listened to your wife, instead of Me (I’ve took you from the dust; the highest specie), back to the dust you go.” “And, serpent, because you did that, off goes your leg. Upon your belly you’ll go, all the days of your life. And you’ll be hated. And dust shall be your meat.” There you are. There is that missing link. Now here comes Cain. Let’s watch the natures. Here comes Cain. What is he? He’s a shrewd businessman. He tills the fields. Smart, intelligent; religious, very religious; watch his—watch his attributes now. Just move with me just for a few minutes longer. Here he comes up. He knows he’s moral. He wants to go to church. He builds him a church, makes him an offering. Brings an altar, and all. Built an altar, put his flowers on it. Put the field…the fruits of the field, offered it to God. Said, “There You are, Lord. I know we eat apples, that’s what caused it.” Some of his offsets has got the same kind of an idea. Shows where it come from. Brought his apples in, out of the field, laid them on there, said, “This will make an atonement.” God said, “It wasn’t apples.”

• ¶251–¶255 And her husband looked at me, said, “Brother Branham, say a prayer, ’cause she wanted to see you.” I said, “A prayer for her now would do no good.” “The way the tree leans, that’s the way it falls.” See? “Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.” Do you see where it is? Now what’s happened? Look at a woman would do that. Look at women who lived back yonder, the chorus girl, what was her daughter? A flapper. What’s the flapper’s daughter? A rock-and-roll teenage. What’s her daughter going to be? Hum! What is it? See the seed of the righteous? Look at you Baptists. Go back a little while ago. Go back to John Smith, your founder, you Baptists. When, he prayed for the iniquity of the people, until, he cried and prayed for the people until his eyes swoll’ shut, and his wife would have to feed him at the table, his breakfast. And you Methodists, around here, with jewels in your nose and over your ears, and look like sidesaddles for the devil; and going out, wearing shorts, and things like that! When, old John Smith, one of the elders of the Methodist church, before he died at eighty-five years old, preached a short sermon four year, or, four hours. They had to pack him and set him in the pulpit. And here was his last words. He said, “I am so shocked at the action of the Methodist church.” Said, “Even the daughters of the Methodist church are wearing gold rings upon their fingers.” What would he say now, with shorts on, singing in the choir?

2. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE — 1965-02-21

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• ¶194–¶195 Now notice. Now, after the beginning, after the beginning, after time began; back in there, it was Eternity, is over. Notice, after that fall was made by Eve, after the fall, there was need to be another covenant made. Now this is going to stumble you, but I’m going to give you the Scripture to prove that this is the Truth. Now notice after the fall, Jesus said…God, at the beginning, made one of a kind; but now, after the fall, now we’re going beyond that. The covenant was co-equal; but now, after the fall, there is another covenant made. Now she was no longer ruler with him, each must have a separate covenant. Now let’s see if that’s right. Let’s take Genesis 3, and find out if this is right, now as we go along, ’cause we want to be positive of these things, they are taught out and brought out exactly true. So that maybe right here we have a little time, ’cause we’re not too far from the end now, to get to the closing part of the subject, to show why and what about divorces, and so forth. Now in Genesis the 3rd chapter, and we will begin now with the 3rd, and the 16th verse. Let’s begin at the 14th verse. And the LORD…said unto the serpent, (now He is going to curse it), Because thou hast—thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all the cattle,…above every beast of the field; and upon thy belly thou shall go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and the woman’s seed; and it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel. (The promising, “coming through the woman,” the Messiah, to redeem.) Unto the woman he said,…

• ¶286–¶289 Now I’m going to say this to you. I am very careful what I say to you. I don’t mean to be rough with you people. I don’t mean to be rough with you, my pastor brothers. I don’t mean that. But I am responsible, realizing that this has been given into my hands, and if…I can’t hold It, and I don’t know how to give It out, and I know that this tape will… Oh, my, I’ll just get ready, the office open up, ’cause here it comes. See? Just like it was on The Serpent’s Seed, but it’s absolutely proven to be right. I got papers right here, out of the paper, where women right now…and even in—in the great…Some of the great dioceses has got the pictures of the original, a snake crawling on a woman’s leg, and just in how it goes around her; she has all kinds of sensations and things, something a man could never touch her with, with this huge snake wrapping around her, and so forth. That’s exactly the truth. And it’s going worse and worse, and will get worse. Serpent, which he was not…he could not have had the sex affair with her when he was a serpent, but remember… I was having a debate the other day with a…not a debate, just an Assembly of God minister and associate, said, “You’re wrong, on That.” I said, “Well, I may be. I’d like for you to tell me.” He said then, he went ahead and begin to talk about it. First thing you know, he got hisself lost. And one thing he said, he said, “Brother Branham, where is that specie? God said ‘one of his kind.’ Now where is that specie you said was between man and beast, that science can’t find now? Where is he at?” Said, “Is he on the earth? Was he a chimpanzee?”

3. BLASPHEMOUS NAMES — 1962-11-04

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• ¶40–¶42 And we hope to get the church up, so I can get these Church Ages in, before—before the winter sets in, if possible. If I don’t, or when I have to come back from over there, if the Lord Jesus tarries. I was listening yesterday when I was taking, believe it was day before yesterday, of a tape. I thought I heard it playing out here this morning. Some little Southern brother had…His mother had come into the meeting. She had a malignancy on her breast, and she was shadowed to death. And the Holy Spirit, in one of the recent meetings, at the Southern Pines, I believe it was, or somewhere, told her, said about her malignancy, and who she was, and where she come from. And said she had a boy that was a backslider, and he was going to have an accident, and be for manslaughter. And a whole lot of things like that. And this fellow… It all happened just the way. And her malignant cancer, or malignant growth, rather, left her. Which is, malignant growth is a cancer, you know. So then it—it left her. And the boy was up for manslaughter, and everything just the way the Holy Spirit said it. And he was led to Christ, back again. And he made a tape of it, and I—I heard it playing. Did you enjoy that little, old Southern talk? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Said, “Down here in North Carolin’er,” he said. Oh, I just love that, them old Southern people. And he had…The Lord just blessed him on. He said, “I know you say you don’t preach doctrine, Brother Branham; only to your congregation.” Said, “We’re part of your congregation.” So that was right cute in him, to say that.

• ¶298–¶302 Directly, I noticed the people begin to get like they was physically hungry. And so they had enough spiritual, so they started walking away. And some of them [Brother Branham yawns—Ed.] started walking away. I thought, “What’s the matter with everybody?” And—and I looked, and here some young couples going along, to my side. I thought…I said, “Just a minute, friend! Just a minute! You’ll be back again when the evening shadows fall.” See? I said, “You’ll be back again. But let me give you this first climax. Where does all these things come from, that I’ve showed you? Where are they from?” I said, “Here they are. They are in the Word of God. They are THUS SAITH THE LORD, His promise. Cause,” I said, “all of you bear me record, witness this, that my commission is, ‘Stay with the Word.’” I said, “What’s the matter with all of you? Can’t you understand the Word? You must understand It.” And some of them said, “Man, I’d like to have some biscuits,” and so like that. Well, I just thought, “Well, glory to God! If they want biscuits, let them go get them.” So I—I turned around. I thought, “Oh, but, you know what? The shadows is going to fall, after while, right away.” I said, “Then, tonight, when that congregation gathers in again, I’ll put the climax to them, and told them that the things that they have seen me do is found in the Word of God, not in some mythical book or some organization. It’s found in the Word. See? Every bit of it, in the Word, ’cause I’m commissioned to That.”

4. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶314b–¶318 He had a place for a soul, but what did he do? He sold out to Satan to deceive God, try to. How many gets it now that far? Satan, the serpent, almost had a soul. God knowed they’d look for those bones, and there’s not a bone in a snake that looks like the man. He was…That’s the curse of him. He stood upon his feet just like a man. Notice, then that seed, which was next to the human seed…Satan himself, the spirit, knew that that was the only seed that would pregnate the woman, ’cause the chimpanzee won’t do it. They’ve mixed it and everything else; it won’t do it. But he knowed that the germ of life that was in the chimpanzee would not come to the field of the woman egg; but he knowed the serpent’s seed would do it, so he dealt with the serpent. And Adam had never knew that this act could be done. See? She was made a female. Certainly, she would’ve come to it later; but you see, the sovereignty of God to display Himself as Saviour and—and so forth, as I’ve explained many times. But Satan knew this, for he come to her in the form of this serpent, which was the beast; and a—a beast, and came to her. And she was pregnated by Satan first. And if you’ll notice, there was only two acts done, and there was three children born. Search the Scripture. She gave birth to twins. One of them was serpent’s seed; the other one was Abel. She enticed her husband and told…See? Then she showed her husband what it was, and then he lived with her also, and she bore this child. And I want you…to show she was pregnated with twins by two different…She was a…That’s virgin woman.

• ¶326–¶327a Now, just look and find out if it’s so or not; search it out. And Luke comes over and names it right back again, and puts down from Adam. Not one time is Cain ever mentioned in the whole thing. And if Enoch (see?) was the seventh from Adam, where did Cain come in? Because the Bible said that, in the genealogies, that Adam begot his son, Seth. And Seth begot Jared, and Jared begot So-and-so, on down; and not one time was Cain ever mentioned. Then he could not be the son of Adam. So he had to be the son of the serpent, and he couldn’t be a son without intercourse. Amen! If he wasn’t, he was virgin born, then he’d be a son of God. I want them to get out of that one time. Now, the same God that revealed that, is the same God that told me about your marriage and divorce. When He says those things, my Brother, Sister…I’m your brother, a man. But when He says that, and that strikes down in here, I can’t explain it to you. There no need of me trying to do it, ’cause I couldn’t. But it’s never one time been wrong. Although, I couldn’t see it myself at all, I couldn’t see it, but I just hold on to it; and then He begins to reveal it, then I just—it just floors me. There it was right there, and I didn’t see it. Your—your education is bypassed, and your reasons are bypassed, and everything else; so was Cain bypassed. Now, if we had time to go back here into Genesis and begin to read…Let’s see if I could just pick it up and find it back here. I don’t know for sure whether—whether I could or not. Mrs. Wood, do you remember when I was showing you that the other day? Just what… Was that the 5th chapter? The 5th, uh, huh. All right. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the days that God created man, in the likeness of God created…him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day that they were created.

5. THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH — 1960-11-27

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• ¶30–¶34 And just then I heard that Scripture, “They shall tread on the heads of serpents and scorpions, nothing in no wise shall bother them.” So, I just took off my hat, and I said, “Now, try to be just as easy as you can, Brother Welch, so I can hold my hands over this bite.” And the Heavenly Father knows is true. And then when I put my hand upon his foot there, and, I said, “Father, You are a very present Help in a time of trouble, and You never fail us. And our brother is bitten by this serpent, and it’s written in Your Word that they shall tread on the heads of serpents and scorpions, and nothing shall harm them, and It says, ‘If they take up a serpent, it shall not harm them.’ He was trying to help me, and this evil serpent grabbed him. Now, You’re Lord, Jesus on this bank, here fishing, if You wasn’t, I’d never go fishing, and I know You’re here. And I ask You to be merciful to us, and—and take away this serpent poison from his leg.” And I stopped praying, and I didn’t hear him suffering anymore. And when I got through praying, he was setting there laughing, and he said, “Brother Branham, I haven’t got a pain.” Said, “It’s all gone.” And he got up and walked around. About eleven o’clock that evening, I had caught eleven bass that weighed, averaged, nearly, at twelve pounds apiece, and I—and I got them in, and they was coming around taking pictures of them in a tourist court there. And his brother came up, so we got to testifying about it. And his brother, a sinner, said…had been in the hospital, you see. It’s good to be a Christian. See? “They that believe shall tread on the heads of scorpions and serpents,” didn’t say nothing about the unbeliever. See? But this man was a believer.

6. AN ENSIGN — 1953-06-06

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• ¶13–¶14 Notice, then right in that crucial moment, serpents had come in among the people and were biting them. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and they were boasting positions, far beyond in many things, than what we are today. Had our doctors skinned by hundreds of miles. But Dr. Moses had no cure for that snakebite. Nothing could be done. There they was, way in the wilderness. And Moses prayed and God came to him and told him the remedy for it. I like that. What is He? God, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide, make a way. I love it. Notice, then God told Moses, in this type or symbol; said, “Go make a serpent out of brass and put it on a pole.” Now, the serpent, in a symbol, meant sin. The serpent represented the serpent from the garden of Eden already judged: snake turned from a—a animal. Now, he wasn’t a reptile. The Bible said he was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. He wasn’t a reptile; he was a beast. And he turned to a serpent on his belly. And that snake represented sin judged. And made out of brass meant Divine judgment. Brass means Divine judgment in the Bible. See, the people were sinning because they didn’t believe the prophet. They were chiding against him and against God. They had sinned, and because of sin, serpents had bit them, and they were dying. And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had— before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so. Notice. And so God put up this—had Moses to put up this ensign to Israel. And when he lifted it up, sickness and sin, a compound reason for both sickness and sin. Jehovah-jireh was providing an ensign that represented that their sin was forgiven and a healing for their sickness. You get it? Serpent represented sin judged.

7. BEING LED OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — 1956-02-19

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• ¶70–¶71 And all of them begin to say, “Yes, that’s right.” And I let her up. And when I let her up, she…Them little opossums was gathered, and away she went as hard as she could dragging that leg, and went right up to my steps, and fell down and exhausted there, passed out. I went up. We pushed her. That right? We pushed her and tried to get her to move, and she just wouldn’t. She just laid there. Well, Mrs. Wood come up. She said, “Brother Branham…” And her pocket…’Course when she lay down, let out; the little babies was there a nursing. And said, “Brother Branham,” Mrs. Wood said, being a veterinary, she said, “now look, go kill that opossum. See? Them little opossums, just pick them up and throw them against the ground and kill them,” said, “ ’cause the poor little things,” said, “that old curdled milk and stuff, her dead,” said, “they’ll—they’ll—it’ll…She’ll die, or the little fellows will die, and die an awful death.” Said, “They’re too little to put on a bottle. They got a round mouth anyhow. Said, “You can’t do it.” Said, “You just might as well kill them.” I said, “I—I just can’t do it, Sister Wood.” She said, “You’re a hunter, aren’t you?” I said, “Yeah, but I’m not a killer.” And—and she said—she said, “Well—well, look, Brother Branham, why don’t you go in and get one of your guns and shoot them?” I said, “I just can’t do it.” She said, “Well, let Banks.” That’s her husband. “Let—let him kill them.” And I said, “No, I don’t want him to.” Said, “You mean you’re going to let that poor thing lay there in that sun, them poor little things nurse on that dead mother?” I said, “She’s not all the way dead.” I’d kick her, and every once in a while you’d see a little, kind of a little move in her jaw there. Why, said, “Look at the poor thing. She’s dying. She’s passed out. She’ll never come to.” Well, I said, “I just can’t help it. I just can’t kill her.”

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1954-01-03

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• ¶124–¶128 Now where I think that come from. Now, here’s a little of my own doctrine now. It’s just church folk, see. I think that Cain was the son of Satan. I know you disagree with that, my own church does. But that’s still…Till God shows me different, I—I’ll believe the same thing, see, that he was the son of Satan. Cause I couldn’t place that ungodly, murderous spirit coming out of God. No, sir. He had to be after his daddy, and his daddy was this…here, when the Satan got upon the serpent. And the serpent was not a reptile, the curse made him a reptile. He was just like a man, he walked upright. And he was with this woman out there, and she committed this adultery and brought forth her first son which was Cain, the nature of his daddy. And I believe that big beast was up like a man, and he walked upright, and that’s where these great giants come from. Yeah, that’s exactly. Now, that’s my own thought and I—I could be wrong. That’s my thought, see. But they were great man. And if you noticed, God standing there before Adam and Eve, He says, “I took you out of the dust, dust you shall return. I… “And because you’ve brought your…you listened to your…the beast instead of to your husband, that you took life out of the world, you’ll bring it back into the world.” And He said, “Serpent, off comes your legs, see, you’re not going to walk up no more. And you’re not going to be a beast, you’re going to be a reptile now. And on your belly you’ll go, and dust shall be your meat.”

9. THE CRUELTY OF SIN, AND THE PENALTY THAT IT COST TO RID SIN FROM OUR LIVES — 1953-04-03

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• ¶221–¶221 [Brother Branham continues to quietly pray for the people for two minutes and forty-seven seconds, many of his words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?…

10. BRASS SERPENT — 1953-11-21

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• ¶60–¶64 Now, God showing in the—the type: Now the first thing, the pole represented “the cross,” the wood. The serpent itself, being a serpent, spoke of “sin already judged,” for God had judged the serpent in the garden of Eden. But brass spoke of “Divine judgment,” which was, like the brazen laver. In the days of Elijah, he looked out, said, “The sky looks like brass.” Divine judgment over all the country, no rain; Divine judgment. And notice that these people had to look, or behold that brass serpent; the serpent couldn’t pray for them, they just had to—to look and live. And it was for a compound reason: take away their sin, heal their sickness. And Jesus over here, speaking, said, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, the same reason must the Son of man be lifted up.” Now, if the type done the healing, what about the antitype? If the brass serpent, the shadow, done the healing, what will Christ do, to look at Him? Look and live, my brother, live! Look to Jesus now, and live. See? He is the Antitype. He’s the Positive, where that was the negative. That was a shadow; just like my shadow, and this is, would be myself, and there is my shadow. How much more real this is, than that is. Well, how much more Jesus is real, tonight, in the Holy Spirit, after being lifted up at Calvary for a sinful world, cursed with sickness, and now, through His lifting up, “He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we are healed.” Then besides that: He returned from the cross, went from the cross to the grave, returned back; the Body went up into Heaven, to Father God; and the Spirit returns back to the earth, lives among the people. Anyone knows, in the Old Testament, how that the signs was given for a contract. In the Old Testament… Nowadays, when we make a covenant, we say, “Shake hands on it.” We agree. In China, they throw a little salt on one another. That’s an agreement.

11. I WILL RESTORE UNTO YOU, SAITH THE LORD — 1954-08-09

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• ¶24–¶25a But when His children went to walk away…Let’s take a little drama here for a minute. I can hear something going like this. [Brother Branham claps three times—Ed.] What is it? It’s the old bloody sheepskins beating against Adam’s big manly legs as he went walking out of the Presence of God. God couldn’t stand it. All that great eternity there, come down to four letters, l-o-v-e. God so loved, He couldn’t see His children go out in that kind of a condition, separating from Him. He stopped and said, “Wait a minute. I’ll put enmity between your seed and the serpent’s seed,” promising a Saviour. Let’s turn our camera now four thousand years later. There’s a great carrying on in Jerusalem. We’re setting in a building saying, and we say, “What is all that noise about? Where did it come from?” Look out, somebody say, “Well, there’s a holy-roller out there. They’re going to crucify Him this morning. He’s done nothing but just tear up the churches around here and everything. So they’re going to crucify Him.” Let’s go at the window and look out. There comes the Man down the street over them cobblestones, dragging an old rugged cross. He’s got a garment on wove throughout without seams. As He starts up Golgotha yonder, I begin to look on His back, and I see little red spots all over His coat. I say, “What are those red spots?” I keep watching them. As He goes the spots gets bigger, bigger, bigger; now they all run into one great big bloody spot. I hear something going, [Brother Branham claps three times—Ed.] What is it? The second Adam, the Redeemer, going yonder to Calvary, bearing away, the Lamb of God taking the sin of the world up yonder to Calvary, the most pathetic picture was ever pictured. How could a sinner look in the face of that and remain a sinner, is more than I can tell you. Out of there come two children: one Cain and one Abel. Both of them are men. And Cain was a long ways from being an atheist. Cain was a believer.

12. GOD’S PROVIDED WAY FOR THIS DAY — 1964-02-06

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• ¶1b–¶1b And on those prophetic messages, we would just keep it on and on. And now to cut it down, it’s kind of hard, and it changes the—the ministry altogether. And the reason I’m doing this: because one day, coming down from Canada, just above here in Montana, early one morning, the Lord Jesus…I know it sounds strange, but I was riding in a car, and something attracted my attention. I heard a Voice, as plain as you hear mine, say, “Your name’s wrote on that mountain.” And I looked, and when we stopped, Billy and I, the Lord Jesus said, “Return back now, and start into the evangelism just as you did.” That’s why I’m here tonight, because going right back again praying for the sick. There’s a long story to it, and I’m sure you tape people here, who hear our tapes, knows about the story. I’m here to pray for the sick again. There’s many great gifts in God. God can use any of them He wishes to if we’ll just let Him do so. He is the Lord God. And now, I’m trying to not…keep from laying hands upon the people if I can keep from it, because, there, it looks like (that’s all right), but it looks like someone, would be healed, they say, “Well, So-and-so laid hands on me.” See? I—I like to see you just lay hands on Him, on Christ. My purpose is, we all know by the Scriptures, that Divine healing has already been secured for every believer. It’s part—it’s part of Jesus’ suffering: “He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. As Moses lifted the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” Same cause. And that was the type, Christ is the antitype. And then if—if the old atonement could produce healing, how much more should the new one, which has got better things, produce Divine healing. Now, Jesus was lifted up for the same cause that the brass serpent was (He was made sin): because, the serpent was made out of brass, and brass is “a symbol of divine judgment”; and serpent, showing “the serpent’s curse” from the garden of Eden, where sin and sickness entered.

13. DOCTOR MOSES — 1955-01-14

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• ¶32–¶34 Now, let’s go just a little farther with it. And now, when Moses went and talked to God, said, “God, what can I do about this?” Watch the Holy Spirit, quickly. Said, “Go make a serpent out of brass, and put it on a pole, and lift it up in the midst of Israel. And it’ll come to pass, that ever who looks upon this serpent, believes, will be made well of their diseases.” Now first thing, the brass and the pole, the serpent, is formed and everything spoke of Jesus Christ. Jesus, talking to Nicodemus, said, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up for the same purpose.” Now, what was the first thing they done? The first thing the people had did, was that they disputed with God. They had sinned. That’s the reason that the serpents bit them, and the wisdom of the Egyptian doctors, that they had with them, could not heal the snakebite, because it was a Divine thing. So now, God, knowing if He could get rid of sin, He would get rid of sickness. So he made the serpent. The serpent, the first place, represented sin already judged from the garden of Eden, the serpent that his legs was taken off. The brass represented Divine judgment, as a brazen altar, and— and the brass skies in the days of—of Elijah, when Ahab had ruled the country so long. And the pole represented the cross. Everything represented Christ. Why did He foreshow that? God, in the beginning, He was only letting the children of Israel draw interest on what He was going to do. See? In the mind of God, Christ was already crucified. For He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Back in Eden, Christ in God’s thoughts, which became His Word, had not yet materialized. But He knew it was, for He had promised it. And He let the children of Israel draw interest before the deposit was made. So to show that it was, Him knowing what was going to be, He made something here that represented…So through the serpent, they could see what was going to happen, and through that, they received healing.

14. IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR? — 1962-12-30

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• ¶144–¶148 Now, the Food. The Bride isn’t perfect, but the Bridegroom is perfect. The Bride is not perfect yet, but the Food that was being given was not literal food, it’s the spiritual Food that you’ve been having, all along. Let me stop here on that fourth dream, just a moment. Do you not remember, Brother Fred Sothmann, Brother Banks Wood, when we was out in Arizona last year, when we were out hunting javelina hogs, and the Lord spoke? Don’t you know the things He done perfectly, showing what would come to pass, as we went along the road? If that’s right, you two brethren say, “Amen.” [The two brethren say, “Amen.”—Ed.] Never misses. And I saw in a vision while we were driving, one day, a—a vision of the Lord came to me, and I was getting ready to, at that time, when I come back home, to go overseas. And when I went overseas, well, I saw on the ship…or side of a sea, where the ships went out. And there was a little, short man there, and he said, “I have prepared a boat for you, Brother Branham.” And it was a little bitty canoe, about—about a foot long, but it was snow white. And he said to me, “This is for you to cross in.” “Oh,” I said, “it—it—it isn’t sufficient.” He said, “It will go forty miles an hour, up-and-down this way.” That’s, up-and-down the bank. “But,” I said, “it won’t take me across.” And then he looked down, and said, “Go like they go.” And I looked, and there was Brother Fred Sothmann and Brother Banks Wood, sitting in a canoe painted green, with some camping rigging in the back of it. Brother Banks with a turned-up hat like this; Brother Fred with his pinched on the bill. And he said, “Go like them.” I said, “No. I won’t.”

15. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶106–¶109 So the giants never come from pressing themselves in. These giants were the sons of Cain, whose father was the serpent, who looked in every respect exactly like a man, but was a great, huge fellow, bigger than a man. And that’s where those sons came from, because they were the sons of Cain, because they were Canaanites in the land of Canaan, where they come from; and that’s where Cain went to. And that was…See, that also proves the serpent’s seed. It was a different race of people altogether. That was serpent’s seeds. See? Now, that—that serpent’s seed question’s in here, so we’re—we’re going to get to it, and I want you to bear this in mind. See? Now, just to give this background. See, they were—they were Canaanites, these giants; and they were the sons of Cain, which was the son of the serpent. And the serpent was a giant man, great, monstrous sort of a fellow, not a reptile at all, beautiful. He was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. And he was the only… See, the—the genes from an animal into a women will not breed at all. They tried it over and over; it’s unfertile to the woman’s sperm. And now, they can’t find it. Take a chimpanzee, it’s the closet thing they can find to the man, or the gorilla, or some of those close up to the man. As God in His great evolution begin to make fish; and then He made birds; and then He made other things, animals, and they kept coming on up, till one come out to a chimpanzee, and to a monkey, and on down to a gorilla, and then into the form of the serpent, and then from a serpent to a man.

16. MY NEW MINISTRY — 1959-11-15

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• ¶175–¶181 I said, “That same God,” hallelujah, “that Jehovah-jireh, He’s just as much Jehovah-jireh today as He was on the mount with Abraham.” “He can still produce an animal, to His glory. These squirrels was not a vision. I shot them. Blood came out them. I dressed them and eat them. They wasn’t visions, they were squirrels.” I said, “That same Jehovah- jireh, trying to get His promise over to me, in my thickness and dullness of mind, He could speak my need into existence, the same as He could speak Abraham’s need into existence.” I no more than said that, until, Sister Hattie, sitting there crying now, hadn’t said a word, and she said, “That’s nothing but the truth.” She said the right thing. She said just like Banks said down there. I heard her voice, as It swept from my ears, like up into the woods. Mrs. Wright, sitting back there with her little girl, was trying to interpret what Edith said. I couldn’t hear Mrs. Wright. And that super Anointing swept over me, said, “Tell Hattie that she’s found grace in the sight of God.” Who would have thought? Said, “Tell her to ask whatever she will. Then you speak it, by this gift, into existence. Whatever she asketh, speak it into existence.” I looked to Sister Hattie. The first time it was ever performed on a human being. I said, “Sister Hattie, ask what you will. God is going to give it to you.” What do you think of that? Does it get into you? Seven times He had confirmed it, by an animal. Seven is God’s complete number. Here is the first time on a human being. And, He, what did He choose, some great aristocrat, a great noted minister? A poor little widow woman that could hardly write her name. God knows what He’s doing. Said, “Ask what you will.” Hattie said to me, “Brother Branham, what do you mean?”

17. PRESUMING — 1962-06-10

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• ¶63–¶66 He sent and got his brother, brought him up there, and that morning he went to cut trails. His little wife, sweet little Christian, but she…He got violent, he’d get rashly too. So just, he hadn’t been out of the house more than about thirty minutes down somewhere, and he fell in one of those fits. Usually, the little wife would clear a window, anything, getting away from him, but when she seen him rolling and tumbling, and that devil doing that to him, she happened to remember. And she believed me. Here she come to him, and straddled him, that little bitty woman on that great big, wide-shouldered man, she straddled him, and jerked that shirt off of him, walked over to that salamander, her tears running down her cheeks, said, “Dear God, Brother Branham told us to do this, and I throw this in there, in the Name of Jesus Christ.” He’s never had a fit from then on. When I told him about those visions, and what would happen, coming down the mountain, we shot that caribou on top of the mountain, he said, “Brother Branham, according to that vision,” we was in caribou moss, you know, that you can see for miles and miles, and nothing, just yellow moss, he said, “according to what you told me, now, that man that’s going to have the—the shirt on,” Eddie down there, that checkered shirt, “you’re going to kill a nine-foot silver-tip grizzly?” I said, “That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.” He said, “Brother Branham, I—I—I’m not doubting your word, Brother. How could I doubt your word?” Said, “But look, I can see every speck of the ground and there’s nothing, there isn’t a bush that high, there’s nothing but caribou moss. Where’s the bear at?” I said, “He is Jehovah-Jireh, ‘The Lord will provide for Himself.’” I said, “Did you ever hear the story about the squirrels that time?” He said, “Eddie told me about it.” And I said, “Well, He is still God. If He says it’ll be there…”

18. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-06-28

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• ¶171d–¶173 Of…Quicker and powerful than a twoedged sword, piercing through the sunder of the bone, in the marrow of the bone, and a Discerner of the thoughts of the heart.” There it is. It isn’t me. It isn’t you. It’s Him. That’s the Pillar of Fire that follows. It’s the Holy Spirit; the Lord of Heaven; the Logos; the Jesus Christ; the Alpha, the Omega; He that was, which is, and shall come; the Root and Offspring of David; the Morning Star; the I AM; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost; the Counsellor; Prince of Peace; Mighty God; Everlasting Father; the Wonderful. That’s Him. You couldn’t find enough titles to tell Him…His Name. I’ll hurry on this, this is that big one. 89. Brother Branham: Would you please explain your theory that Eve conceived Cain of the devil? I never said that; I said Eve conceived Cain of the serpent. In Genesis 4:1’s, 1st verse, clearly states that, “Adam knew his wife Eve; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, ‘I have gotten a man from God.’” Absolutely! All life has to come from God. John Dillinger come from God. Adolf Hitler come from God. Every…George—George Whitefield come from God, and so did Bob Ingersol. Every person come from God. But what I said is this: And I want someone to just tear it down. See? The Bible said that He would put (in Genesis 3:8). I…The… When the question was asked when Eve had been—something had happened to her, she met the serpent…Now the serpent was not a snake; he was a beast, the most subtle of everything in the field. There was nothing…

19. WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1957-05-16

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• ¶36b–¶37 Nobody in the world knowed that but him and the woman. Said, “Who told you that.” I said, “Almighty God.” He said, “I now surrender my life to Almighty God. And it’s the truth, Mr. Branham.” There you are. He went and got his old daddy. His daddy come down. He was a reader, whatever it is in, a head, one of the big men in the Jehovah Witness. And he came down and said, “Oh,” he said, “I’m telling you.” Said, “I want to go fishing with you in the morning.” I never met him before. He said, “Well, I’ll tell you, the Jehovah’s Witness say that you’re a false prophet.” I said, “Well, they got the right to say whatever they want to.” I said, “But I want to know what God says about it.” So when we started down the road, I saw a vision. I said, “Now, Mr. Wood, I’ve got THUS SAITH THE LORD.” Said, “What do you mean?” I said, “Every stream of water we pass over, this hundred and sixty miles to this place, is going to be muddy. But when we come to the stream to Dale Hollow where we’re going to fish, there that stream will be perfectly blue. And it’ll come to pass that (I have never caught a catfish in that water yet), but, I’m going to catch a whole string of catfish, and you’re only going to catch one. Mr. Wood is going to catch one. Then I’m going to catch another fish. I didn’t see just what it was. It’s an outstanding fish, but it will be a scale fish. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.” He looked over to his boy and winked, went on.

20. I WILL RESTORE, SAITH THE LORD — 1954-08-29

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• ¶67–¶72 Now, as we notice, in the beginning of Genesis, I want to bring a picture to you, if God willing to, and will help us. After the first sin had been committed from Adam and Eve…We realize that the world was perfect, and then Satan got into the serpent (not a reptile, a beast) and deceived mother Eve. That set in sin, and out of Genesis, begin to spread forth. Let’s take at least two spirits out of Genesis, and run the church down, and find it out where we’re living today. The reason I’ve chose this little thought this afternoon, when God dealt with me yesterday about it, knowing I was to speak, was because of the—of the prestige of the Full Gospel churches, and how easy… Jesus said, Himself, “That in the last days, the two spirits would be so close together, it would deceive the very Elect, if possible. But by their fruit you shall know them.” Now, after Adam and Eve, they brought forth their first son, which was Cain, of the devil. The second son was Abel. You say, “Brother Branham, do you mean to say that Cain was of the devil?” Sure he was, son of the devil. Notice! Say, “Well, Eve said, ‘I have got a son from the Lord.’” That’s true. Certainly. God is the only Creator. But through the spirit that he let come upon him; you couldn’t attach that evil thing of Cain, upon God. Where did he get that nature he had to be jealous? From Satan, his father. Where did he get that spirit of murder, the first murderer? You couldn’t say that come out of God, it had to come out of the devil, he was of the devil. And Abel was of God, out of Adam.

21. COMMUNION — 1965-12-12

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• ¶48–¶50 Then I’d think of how that times, then being out there in the summertime, get my sticks and put them down for a little windbreak, where if it rained; lay there and have the poles sticking in the water, fishing; my old coon dog laying there. I’d say, “Looky here. You know, last winter I camped right here one night, I built a fire right here when I was waiting for my old dog here to tree, and I had a fire here. It was froze five inches deep in the ground. But, little flower, where did you come from?” See? “Well, and where’d you come from? Who come out here and planted you? And what hothouse did they bring you out of? Or—or what about it, where’d you come from?” See? That little flower, I’d say, “Why, it was froze, and everything, and I built a fire on top here. Besides the freezing element, there was a heat element laying here on a big old log where I burned you. And yet here you are, and you’re alive. Where’d you come from?” What was it? There was another William Branham. See? A little spot of Eternal Life down there, from the—the—the genes of God, the Word of God that was placed in there. Each one of you can think of similar things. See, It was working. Then look up to the trees, and I think, “Leaf, I seen you fall off last year, and why are you back there again? Where’d you come from? What brought you here?” See, It was that Eternal Life working in the body.

22. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1956-07-15

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• ¶209–¶211 And now, upon the sovereign grace of God, upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, and upon the vindication of a worldwide ministry that You have granted to Your unprofitable servant, as an unworthy person, and one who is unable, but a believer, I now challenge this mute spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And with a sincere heart, I say, come out of the man. For I adjure thee, by the living God, that you depart from him that he’ll be well. In Christ’s Name, I challenge thee to come out of the man, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Every eye closed, every head bowed. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] Hear me? Hear me? You hear me? He’s hearing. Now just keep your head bowed. Say, “Praise God.” [The brother says, “Praise God.”—Ed.] Say, “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Praise God.” [“Praise God.”] Now, you can raise your head. [The brother says, “Raise head.”—Ed.] Raise your head now. “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Hallelujah!” [“Hallelujah!”] Let us say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Let’s give God praise. Let’s stand up to our feet just a minute. Almighty God, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this children. I pray that You’ll anoint them. Give them the desire of their hearts by filling them with the Holy Ghost. Great signs and wonders might be done for the glory of God, through Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now, you be seated. He—he says, through the microphone, he can hear me a little through the microphone.

23. FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE — 1951-05-08

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• ¶28–¶29 Now, closely, I want you to notice this. God shouldn’t have to have this, but He’s always had to have it, seemingly, some object that people could look to, some object like the brass serpent. Now, they should not have had that, they should’ve believed God. But for a memorial, that there’d been an atonement, or was one coming, which the brass serpent spoke…Serpent spoke of sin; brass spoke of judgment, for judgment already; the brass serpent represented the brazen altar: sin already condemned and judged. Like Elijah went up and looked, and Gehazi said, “Why, the skies are like brass,” judgment. Brass always speaks of judgment. The brazen serpent, serpent spoke of sin. It was nailed to a pole, showing that sin would be nailed to a pole, a tree, someday for a compound cause. When the brass serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, it was for forgiveness of sin and healing of the body. Is that right? Jesus said, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,” for the same cause. One was type, and the other one was antitype. And you mean to say that there were more blessings in the type than there was the antitype? Could not be. So I won’t—we won’t have to go in that ’cause you taught that with these evangelists, and pastors, and so forth, till you know it’s the truth. That the healing is in the atonement. Healing—sickness is an attribute of sin. And when Jesus killed sin, or atoned for sin, He atoned for every attribute. Everything down that was caused in the fall, Jesus atoned for it. Oh, my, that makes us feel our Methodist bones getting tickled up. Look. I don’t want to get started preaching no more. So, my. Now look.

24. THIS GREAT SERVANT, MOSES — 1955-01-22

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• ¶21–¶22 He said, “Moses, throw it down.” And when he threw the stick down, it turned into a serpent. He…And Moses fled. And He said, “Pick it up.” And he took it by the tail, and it turned back to a stick again. Moses, I guess could say, “I seen strange sights today,” so—when he seen that stick turned to a snake. Now, what was that stick? That’s what we’re going to speak on. What was that stick? It wasn’t an ordinary stick any more. For it was the judgment rod of Almighty God. What did it symbolize? The cross. And then… Why…How would it symbolize the cross? Because on the natural it was wood. On the spiritual it was a serpent. And how could the serpent represent Jesus? The serpent, as it was a reptile, a snake, it represented sin already judged. For Satan had sinned in the serpent in the garden of Eden. Which was not a reptile, he was the missing link between men and animal. And he stood there as a—or—or walked upright, and was the most subtle of all the beasts (not reptiles) of the beasts of the field. And when he was cursed, his legs went off of him, and on his belly he went. And that showed that he was already judged, when he became a reptile. And then Christ was sin in the serpent already judged, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. You see it? Now, he picked up the stick, and the supernatural on the stick, was a serpent. Supernatural, it was a serpent in his hand. Natural, it was a stick in his hand; the cross plus Christ, the judgment. Here he goes down to Egypt, as I many times said, “A one man invasion.” Had his wife, run and got his wife, and set her on the mule, and a child on each hip, and here he is going towards Egypt, going down to take over. Could you imagine a one man invasion going to Egypt to take over? But he did it, because God promised him he would do it.

25. THE POWER OF GOD — 1955-10-06

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• ¶51–¶52a And so, I took the rake off of her, and she didn’t hesitate a minute. Up she got and right on up, and laid right down by my steps. Well, I went up there, and I—I punched her a little bit, and she just wouldn’t move. She was gone. They said, “She’s dead.” I said, “I don’t know.” I laid my stick on her. And no, she wasn’t dead. And those poor little baby opossums was nursing from her, trying to. Well, Mrs. Wood, she’s setting here, a lovely God borned again Christian, if I ever seen one. But she’s kind of a veterinary. She said, “Brother Branham, the only human thing to do with that opossum now is to kill it.” Said, “I’ll tell you, Brother Branham,” said, “you see them babies are nursing from her. And she’s perhaps, dead, or will be dead in a couple minutes.” And said, “The babies will die. See?” Said, “It’ll just starve to death.” And said, “The only thing to do is just take the babies and kill them, and kill the old mother opossum; ’cause you couldn’t raise them, they’ll just little bitty things like that.” Said, “You couldn’t raise them.” I said, “Sister Wood, I know that’s right.” But I said, “I just can’t do it.” “Why,” she said, “you’re a hunter aren’t you?” I said, “Yes, but I’m not a killer.” I said, “I—I just can’t do it.” And she…I said, “Them opossums are edible. People eat those things, and they’re food.” I said, “I killed a many one, but I killed it to eat.” But I said, “Not—not just like that.” And she said, “Well, lets Banks do it.” That’s her husband, my dear good buddy. And said, “Let Banks do it.” And I said, “I—I just don’t want him to.” Well, she just went ahead. That’s all she could do. Oh, the day had been long. I tried to feed the opossum. She never moved no more, and them poor little baby opossums and trying to nurse. And then laying there in that hot sun, shining right down on her. I thought, “Oh, my.

26. GOD HAS A PROVIDED WAY — 1954-04-04

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• ¶105–¶110 Beautiful type, again. The brass, the serpent itself, spake of sin already judged; Eden, when God pronounced the judgment upon the serpent, it was already judged. The brass speaks of Divine judgment. On the brazen altar where the beasts bodies were burnt, after the blood was taken, every nine o’clock at morning, twelve o’clock, and three o’clock in the afternoon, gallons of blood was throwed on this altar, over the bodies of the dead beasts, black smoke rose up, every Jew in Palestine fell to his feet, his hands towards Heaven, and as that smoke ascended up, his prayers went with it. All right. Divine judgment; the bodies burnt on a brass altar. Just like in Israel, when Ahab had caused Israel to sin. And Elijah went out to look at the skies; three years and six months, no rain. He said, “It looks like brass,” Divine judgment. In Revelation, when they seen Jesus, in Revelation 1, “His feet looked like brass,” Divine judgment. The serpent spake of Divine judgment, and to appease God. His judgments are Divine. And, then, the pole represented the cross. And the serpent represented Jesus, the lovely Lord Jesus; He came down and was made sin. God Himself revealed Hisself in a body, made like unto sinful flesh, to take away sickness and sin from the world. How beautiful! In there He made a way. Jesus said, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” Now what was the brass serpent lifted up for? For a compound reason. They had sinned and were sick. Now, then, Jesus was lifted up, “wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we are healed,” compound reason. And it’s still just as real, tonight, for Christ to heal the sick, as it is to save the sinners.

27. EXPERIENCES — 1948-03-02

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• ¶13–¶14 Now, remember, you get this. When Brother Branham leaves, don’t…I don’t know what His Name is. He’s never told me. He’s a large Man. He weigh over two hundred pounds, I guess, in human weight, wears a white robe, and got dark hair. And He stands just like this. And He was standing to my right. And He said, “Can that baby live?” And I said, “I—I…Sir, I know not.” He said, “You pray for it.” The father brought it to me. And I laid my hands upon it like this and prayed for it. It dropped out of its father’s arms, and it hit on one of those little crooked legs. And when it hit on that little leg, it just went to unwinding. First leg unwound. It made another step, and another leg unwound, the left leg. And it got into the corner, and it made its next step, and his little body unwound. It come walking back to me and put its little hands up to mine, said, “Brother Branham, I’m perfectly whole.” And I said, “Well, praise the Lord.” And then this Angel walked to my right again. And He picked me up, and I set down on a little old country road. And was standing there, He said…He showed me a graveyard. He said, “Take the numbers off of it.” And I did. He set me down next, and I was at a little place where there’s just a little gasoline station and a store a yellow front store. And there was an old man walked out with a pair of blue corduroy overalls, or blue overalls with a yellow corduroy cap and a white mustache. He said, “He will show you the way.” Then He taken me into a house this a way, turning to from the north coming south. And when I walked in there, there was a…I walked in, there was a old stove setting there, old wood burner, what they call chunk stove. I don’t think you have them here in Arizona. How many knows what a chunk stove is, let…? Are you from Arkansas? That’s where they have plenty of them. How many Arkansas’ers are here, let’s? I thought so. See? All right.

28. HE SWORE BY HIMSELF — 1954-12-12

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• ¶48–¶52 And if the law gave light, if the law gave healing, what will the Gospel do? See? Oh, it would be powerful! Wouldn’t it? Certainly, it would. When did they…See, if, look, Jesus… On the journey, when they were coming through the wilderness, the children of Israel, they got to—to making light and chatting against God and against Moses, and they sinned. And serpents come in, begin to sting them and bite them. And they’re dying, and none of their remedies would help them. And the people died, by the thousands. And God made a type of Christ. He made a…had Moses to make a brass serpent and put it on the stick. Now, that was a type of Christ, (is that right?), the snake. Now you might wonder, some of you children in the Gospel, “Why would a snake represent Christ?” Well, because the snake, the serpent itself, was…represented sin already judged. God judged the snake, in the garden of Eden. He took, give him his judgment there. Took his legs off of him, and made him down from human form, and put him on a—on a—on a level…Well, he was not…See, the—the snake, to begin with, was not a reptile. The Bible said, “He was a beast, and the most subtle of all the beasts of the field.” He walked like a man, and everything, “the most subtle.” But the curse cursed him, and taken away his—his—his subtleness, or his—his beauty; and throwed him onto the ground, and put him on his belly, to crawl. And now the serpent, on the pole, represented sin already judged. And it was made out of brass. Now, brass represents Divine judgment, not earthly judgment or mental judgment, but Divine judgment. See? The brass altar, that…the altar, where the sacrifices was burnt, was made of brass, “the brazen altar.” And it means that it was Divine. That is where the Divine price was paid, at the brass. And Mo-…

29. THE TRIAL — 1964-06-21

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• ¶136–¶140 At the tree, at seven years old, where the Voice spoke to me and said, “Don’t never smoke, chew, or drink, or defile your body.” And me in a bootlegger’s home, didn’t even know what a Bible was, no more than just a word. We might have been able to found an almanac, but not a Bible in our house. Nothing but a bunch of…Not talking against my people, but God knows all about it. There was no way at all, my people before me, back behind that were Catholic. They had all married away from church and gone away, and there wasn’t no religion at all. We didn’t even pay any attention to it. But He—He told me what was going to happen, that I was to not to smoke, or drink, or defile my body in any way, there would be a work for me to do when I got older. Well, it was years and years after that. How did I know I’d be a minister? I hated the thought of a preacher. But it happened, anyhow. It goes to show He keeps His Word. Seventeen years after He appeared to me there in a bush… We find out, next day after that, He showed me a bridge crossing the river, spanning it, showed sixteen man drop off of it. I told mama. Sitting against a tree, looked at it. She said, “You went to sleep, honey.” I said, “No, I never, mama. I watched it.” Exactly seventeen years from that day, the Municipal Bridge at Jeffersonville spanned over to Kentucky, and the seventh…And the sixteen man lost their life on it, just exactly like it said. Ah, so did Mr. Unbeliever has tempted me all along!

30. ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH 4 — 1953-03-28

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• ¶153–¶159 Look, Divine judgment again in the days of Elijah, show that that’s Divine judgment. Eli-…It come a time when there was nothing, the people had got away from God. And Elijah went upon the mountain, and he prayed. He come before the king, and said, “Not even dew will fall from heaven till I call for it.” And for three years and six months, dew didn’t even come on the earth. And when it come to the place, Elijah said, “Let us prove Who is God, the fiery God.” Our God is a consuming Fire. “Let the God that answers by fire.” That’s what I say tonight. Let the God that answers by Fire, the Holy Ghost and Fire, let Him be God! Now they put the…Watch, he went up after they had brought the fire out of heaven, and so forth, and had consumed the sacrifice, they looked up to the sky, and it looked like brass. What was it? Divine judgment over all the nation. And brother, sister, if you’ll look around today, you’ll see the color of brass again. Divine judgment coming upon a nation. Judgment! The fiery serpent, fiery serpents, Divine judgment in there. Now watch, he lifted up this pole that had the—the serpent on it, made out of brass. And whosoever looked upon that serpent, got healed of their diseases. What a beautiful picture tonight of Jesus Christ! He said, “As Moses, just as Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness!” Here it is, now get it. If you’re sick, you’ll find out what will heal you. As Jesus said, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” The same reason, [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] in a compound reason, [Blank spot on tape.] “He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we are healed.”

31. PARADOX — 1961-12-10

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• ¶298–¶303 Well, this great minister of the biggest Pentecostal organization we have, was standing there, and resented It, see, said that I didn’t mean it that way. But I got back and said, “I do mean it that way, see. I said exactly! I take nothing back.” The other day when I spoke about those altars, not knowing, never seeing that in history. I never have said nothing yet, from the platform, under inspiration that I ever had to take back. Now you can call that, Seed Of The Serpent, or whatever you wish to, whatever them Messages was, or, The Great Harlot, that so much kick is against. Just come, and…Why don’t you come to me with the Scriptures, with it? See? See whether it’s right. This man come up there, put his arms around me, and was going to say…He said, “Brother Branham, not to be sacrilegious, but that could have made the 23rd chapter of Revelation. You know, another Book added. Of course,” he said, “that wouldn’t be right, of course, we’re not supposed to add anything to It.” And just as he started to say that, he started speaking in tongues. And the boy didn’t know what speaking in tongues meant. And as soon as he did, right out in front of me was a French woman, from Louisiana, she said, “That needed no interpretation. That was pure French.” And a man over here got up and said, “That’s right.” And way back in the back was the interpreter for the UN, give his name, never been there before. He said, “Correctly. That’s right.”

32. SPEAK TO THIS MOUNTAIN — 1957-12-15

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• ¶16–¶17a But could you imagine (quickly now), that the great power that was in the Son of God…And when He met the devil, He never used it. He just took the Father’s Word to show how simple it was. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth from the mouth of God,” just to show the power of that Word. He also said, “Destroy this body, it’ll be raised up again in three days.” What was it? He was eating that Word that made the promise. There’s no way for the grave to hold Him. That’s right. God’s Word. And could you imagine, if you could only see the simplicity of God’s eternal purpose, and of the sovereignty of His grace. Could you imagine Him using that great power to put a curse on a tree because it didn’t have any fruit on it, and leaving thousands lay unhealed? The tree is part of God’s creation as same as man is part of God’s creation. But to show that He is concerned about trees, about insects…If He’s concerned about those, how much more is He concerned about you? Just some time ago, about four months, I guess, Brother Wood, that lives next door to me; he was a Jehovah Witness, forbidden to go to the church. He had a boy that had a paralyzed leg from—from polio. And at Louisville, Kentucky (where we go next), there was a—a meeting out there at the high school gymnasium. And there was great things the Lord did. His wife is Methodist, or, no, I believe the Anderson Church of God, called the First Church of God. And you probably get the program up here: “Shady Green Pastures.” It’s a nationwide broadcast, Brother Meekler the pastor. Then…Brother Wood did not believe in no such stuff. But when come to the meeting, he seen something take place; his heart was strangely warm. I went overseas, come back. And one night, at Cleveland, Ohio, him setting a city block from me, the Holy Spirit turned and said, “You, your name is Wood, and you’re from a certain city in Kentucky. You’re Jehovah Witness by faith. And you’ve got a boy there that has a paralyzed leg, drawed up underneath.

33. THE FUTURE HOME OF THE HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM AND THE EARTHLY BRIDE — 1964-08-02

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• ¶326–¶335 Now, God didn’t curse Adam; he might have done the same thing, but He cursed the earth, “thorns and thistles.” He didn’t curse Eve, but said Adam would be her “ruler.” From now on, she ain’t trying any preaching or anything, Adam is her ruler. “And all the days of your life, and in sorrow, and you’ll bring your…life into the earth.” But He said, “I’ll put enmity between your Seed…” Now, she didn’t have any seed, she never did have, so, she had to receive a Seed from some way. God gave her a Seed, not by sexual intercourse, but by creation. Can’t you blind people see that’s the “seed” of the serpent? Oh, my! Satan got there before Adam; that was the “seed.” But she received a Seed. What was it? God Himself. “He was the beginning of the creation of God.” Now look when Seth was born, or Abel, he was a just man, from his father. Seth is the same way. Where did that evil fellow come from; murderer, liar? See, see where it come from? It had to be a “seed,” because he was a seed; Cain was a man. Oh, where is them blind people at? “God of this world has blinded them.” Well, no wonder, Jesus said no man can see it. You see? You say, “Why don’t they see it?” Jesus said one time, to His disciple, “It’s given to you to know the Kingdom of God, but not to them.” And that’s the reason you come from fifteen hundred miles square, see, “It’s given to you to know the Kingdom.” Look, fellows come even from South Africa and around, this late hour when the Bride is made up to go into the Kingdom. I just don’t have enough time. Notice. Watch now, see.

34. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SEALS — 1963-03-24

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• ¶129–¶132 Yes, sir. That’s exactly right. All right. Now if there’s any…Now if I’m… If I didn’t answer, to suit you, why, maybe I’m…I could be wrong, see. But, this, it’s the best of my knowledge, you see. This is the best of my knowledge. 181. Brother Branham, as you have travailed or tra-…on the serpent’s seed…(Uh-oh, I never noticed this one. This one slipped up on me.)…serpent’s seed this week, will it be in order to ask this question? My friends have asked me to explain Genesis 4:1, and I can’t. Will you help me? It’s—it’s off of the subject. But, anyhow, I’ll—I’ll—I’ll try my best, by the help of God. Let’s see now. Let me polish up, for just a little bit. I think that’s where she said, “I got a son from the Lord.” I—I believe it is. I think Eve said that there. I’m going to check, be sure. Cause, I said, the other night, seven…instead of…seven hundred instead of seven thousand. So it makes me so nervous, see, and you just have to be watching. And the enemy on every side, and you—you’re conscious of that, you see. Yes, that’s it. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have begotten a man from the Lord{: .smcaps}. Now, I’m just going to answer you a question, my brother, or sister. And now, remember, not—not throwing to you, no. I’m trying to help you, see. I love you, and I love the person who might have been a critic on it. But I don’t think this person is critical. They said, “Help me,” see, because the people believes it, but they’re just not sufficiently posted, by the Spirit, to know what to say to the person that’s asked them that.

35. GOD’S PROVIDED WAY OF DEALING WITH SIN — 1954-03-05

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• ¶41–¶42 How can you turn from Calvary? If you’re sick, look to Calvary. “Look to Me, all ye ends of the earth.” Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus now and live. It’s recorded in His Word, Hallelujah. It’s only that you look and live. If looking at the type…The brass serpent word, the serpent… You say, “The serpent meant Jesus?” Yes, the serpent was Jesus. The serpent, brass spoke of Divine judgment. The brass made into a serpent, spoke of the serpent already judged. And if looking at the type would heal the people, what more will the antitype now do? You can look, as those people looked at the brass serpent and lived, how much more can you look to Jesus Christ and live where the full penalty’s paid. Is there an interpreter to the Indian friends? If there was one that can interpret, I would like to have them come to the platform just for a moment. I want to speak to them just for a moment. If you would, someone who can interpret the Apache language. All right, someone is coming. Now, how many sinners in here tonight wants to look and live? Let’s see your hands will say, “Remember me, brother preacher. I’m a sinner. I want Jesus Christ.” I’ll have prayer for you now. Anywhere in the balconies? Anywhere? God bless you, sir. That’s truth of…God bless you, lady. Somebody else? God bless you. Someone else? Up through the balcony to the right, “Remember me Brother Branham, I am not yet a Christian,” raise your hands. The balconies to the rear, over on the floor anywhere, raise your hand say, “Remember me.” God bless you. I see you, lady, over there.

36. WHO DOYOU SAY THIS IS? — 1964-12-27

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• ¶121b–¶123 Instead of that, we’re off on some tantrum of some denominational something. WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS? 21 But Moses had been attracted, and he come aside. And there was that Pillar of Fire hanging there in that bush. And here stood Moses anointed. No doubt the man didn’t even know what he was doing. The symbols that he was given when he stood there with his shepherd’s staff, and know that that would be a rod in the wilderness. It turned into a serpent, then become an atonement; that serpent did, in the wilderness. All the things that he done…They were signs and voices speaking to the people. See, there was something was connected with him. And Moses might not even knowed it himself, but he was the anointed Word of that day. He was the anointed Messenger. So if he was the Messenger of that hour, he was the Messiah of that hour. He was the anointed one. Now, he, Joshua, and Caleb, was the believers in the group (notice) and tried to teach others the Truth. But see, Satan (Dathan and Korah) caused others to perish in the wilderness. Now, what was the trouble? God had called Moses. He didn’t want to go. Those prophets had such things to do till they—they…It was a hard thing to do. They didn’t want to be going out, and be scorned at. They wanted to have fellowship and go in with the rest of them and—and go along with brothers. But you see, just like…I believe…I forget what prophet it was, said, “If…I don’t want to do this,” (in other words) “but my whole heart will catch afire. God has spoken and I must deliver It.” Whether they liked It; whether they crucified him; whether they stoned him; whatever they did…God has spoke in his heart, and he must say It. Not to be different, but be obedient. “Obedience is better than sacrifice; hearkening, unto the fats of rams.” See, It was in his heart. He must do it. It was his Life. He couldn’t hold It. There was something, a pulsation, that pushed them. They couldn’t bless It or curse It. God had so much complete control of them till He—He was their voice, their action. Hallelujah!

37. GOD COMMISSIONING MOSES — 1953-05-08

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• ¶1c–¶1c Webster; at least he thought he did; he said, “Brother Branham,” said, “your grammar’s very poor.” I said, “Yes, sir, I know that.” He said, “Oh, at the—at the mistakes you made tonight.” And I said, “Yes, sir,” I said, “that’s—that’s right.” I said, “I’m sorry.” I said, “I was raised a big family and I didn’t get an education.” And I said, “I…My father died and I had to work—have to take care of ten children.” I said, “It…Didn’t get a chance to get any education.” He said, “Oh, but that’s no excuse now.” And I said, “Well, that’s right,” I said, “but since this ministry’s come on,” I said, “I can’t even get a chance to eat my dinner at home, let alone study grammar.” I said, “I’m just…people…praying for the sick.” He said, “Oh,” but said, “you could take a correspondence; you could do something.” Said, “I noticed one—one mistake that you certainly made that you ought to correct.” And I said, “What?” “You said, ‘The people coming by this ‘polepit.’” He said, “Your congregation would appreciate you more if you said, ‘Pulpit’ and not ‘polepit.’” He just kinda pull me a little hard. I said, “Look, brother, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but them people out there don’t care whether I say ‘polepit’ or ‘pulpit.’ The only thing they want me to do is to preach the Gospel good and clear in everyday language, and live what I preach. And then if God performs the signs and wonders and takes care of the rest of it…” So that’s right. Isn’t that right? That’s right. So the main thing is produce what you’re talking about. That’s right. If God will back up your word, if the word is “pulpit” or “polepit,” it will be just the same. Tonight, for a few moments, if you will spare the time, I like to read some Scripture out of two places in the Bible, and just talk to you a few moments, and then we will go right in and have prayer for the sick. And I want to read out of Acts, the 1st chapter of Acts, the 8th verse.

38. THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE — 1960-12-05

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• ¶217–¶223 Now, you people that say the days of miracles is past, you’d have to make that Scripture say, “I was the great I was.” See? Not “I was,” or “I will be”; “I AM,” that’s all the time. He’s Eternal. The word “I AM” is an Eternal, all their age, all the time, in all seven golden candlesticks, every church, every place, every heart. “I AM,” (not “I was” or “I will be”) “I am right now as I always was.” See? “Always, I AM.” They said, “Our fathers…We don’t know you. We know you’re a devil.” Said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness for the space of forty years.” And Jesus said, “And they’re every one dead.” That right? “They’re all dead. But I…” Oh! “I am the Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven. If…A Bread of Life. If a man eats this Bread he shall never die.” “Will this man give his body, to eat?” they said. “Now he’s mad, sure enough.” The Bread of Life was from the Tree of Life, where they was eating, from the garden of Eden. He was the Tree of Life. Now, if the Tree of Life was a Person, then the tree of knowledge was a person. Now say the serpent didn’t have a seed! If Life come by Man, death come by the woman. All right, she was the tree of death. As soon as—as this one defiled her, which he did (the serpent), she said, “The serpent beguiled me.” That’s right. Not a snake; he was the most subtle of all the beasts, he was between a chimpanzee and a man. Seed of a animal won’t cross with a woman, won’t do it; but this fellow was, he was the next link to it. And God put such a curse on him He put him plumb back on his belly, and no legs, and took every bone in him and changed it from anything like a man. Science trying to dig it up in a field. That’s hid in the mysteries of God, in the middle of the Paradise of God. There’s your revelation.

39. ELISHA THE PROPHET — 1956-10-02

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• ¶205–¶208 God bless you. Now, you feel better, do you? You do feel better. Well, that’s very fine. I believe you are better, right now. And I believe you’re going to be so much better in the next twenty-four hours, your mother is going to come here and tell about it. Don’t you? And you, too…All right, sir. The Lord bless you, now. All right. God bless you. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] God, I pray that in Christ’s Name, You’ll bless this handkerchief for the woman. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, let me hear. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham again.] Father, grant to this woman her desire. I pray, God, that her heart will be so elated over her daughter, till everything that You have for her will be granted to her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. God bless you. Now, sister, what you want to be prayed for? Oh, God bless you. Heavenly Father, bless this little woman as she stands here waiting for her turn. I lay hands on her and ask for Your blessings to rest on her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. God bless you now, sister. You believe now? Amen. All right. Fine. Your trouble, sir? [The brother speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Stomach trouble. O Father God, I pray for this man’s stomach trouble and ask that he be healed, and maybe tomorrow he will come in and bring a letter, “My stomach never has bothered me since.” In Jesus’ Name, I ask this. Amen. Let’s hear from you, brother. You believe now? All right. That’s good. What’s your trouble, sister? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] What? Oppression. Come here. That’s the devil, of course.

40. GOD’S PROVIDED WAY — 1953-05-13

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• ¶37b–¶39 And I said, “What makes you so happy? Maybe deers drank out of you and that’s what makes you happy?” He’d say, “No!” I’d say, “Maybe bears drank!” “No, that ain’t what makes me happy.” “Well, what makes you bubble? Because I come by every year and drink from you.” “No.” If he could talk, he’d say, “Brother Branham, it’s not me bubbling. It’s me something behind me pushing me and making me bubble.” So that’s the way it is with every man that’s borned again. There’s something in a man that’s got the baptism of the Holy Ghost that makes him believe the supernatural, makes him believe in God. Led by the Spirit, it’s not the man, it’s Something inside of him pushing out. He can’t hold it. And he just can’t stop himself. There’s Something there moving. God provides a way. God provided an ark for the saving of the household of Noah and his family. God prepared twelve stones by Elijah one time, for the preserving of the children of Israel. God’s always made a provided way. When they was in the wilderness, and the first thing you know, sin set in. Now, watch! Here’s one for the unbeliever. When they begin to chide against Moses, and they sinned, God told Moses to lift up a brass serpent. We had time to go in details to see what that serpent meant, what the brass Divine judgment, what the serpent sin already judged, so forth. All the symbols, and when this serpent was lifted up, it was for a compound reason: A reason that man had sinned, and were sick. And they looked, and asked forgiveness and looked on the brass serpent. And whoever looked and believed was made whole.

41. THE HARVEST TIME — 1964-12-12

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• ¶81–¶83 And, you notice, when he come out, at the age of thirty, his sermons wasn’t as a theologian. He didn’t use great swelling words, but it was all on nature. He said to them church men of that day, he said, “You generation of snakes.” That’s what he seen in the wilderness, snakes. He hated snakes. They were poison. In their fangs they had deathly poison, and he pronounced this upon the church of that day, “You bunch of poisoned snakes, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Don’t begin to say, ‘We belong to this,’ and, ‘We’re the—we’re the Jesuites,’ or ‘We’re the so-and-so,’ or, ‘We belong to the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,’ or whatever it is. Don’t begin to say you have that, ’cause, I tell you, God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” See? And also, “The ax,” that’s what he used in the wilderness, “it’ll lay at the root of the tree. And every tree that don’t bring forth good fruit— fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire.” See, he wouldn’t cut a tree that was bringing fruit, ’cause he lived by the fruit of the tree. But, the tree that didn’t bring fruit! Oh, you could just take all the Scripture, is so inspired, till everything in there fits around Jesus Christ. You see, “Every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire,” and so forth. You see, he—he used his message in the realm of nature. And we want to face that now, being that we’ve found that He said, “I’m the Bread. And man shall live by every Word, and I am the Word.” See? So we want to go back in nature. I notice a lot of times I have to do that.

42. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1962-05-27

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• ¶59–¶65 And now we find out, over here again, after He made man in His Own image, after He created him over here male and female, here He makes man out of the dust of the earth. And then, after He did that, after He done made him male and female, then He comes back here and makes a woman for him, after He had already made him. See? See, your conjunction it tying that sentence together. Just the same as it said, now, here, “God created a man in His Own image, after His likeness He created him,” it’s God speaking in His thoughts, in His mind, what He had. Here’s where He actually done the deed. Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; He wasn’t slain for four thousand years afterwards. See? So the serpent had beguiled Eve. That’s truly. Then after the judgment was set, then Adam knew his wife. And then she conceived and brought forth a son, Cain. You get it? See, the conjunction is just carrying on what Adam did, not what was done before Adam. And look here, if you’d like to carry that out, in that great statement here, I believe we find it over here in the…and here in the 4th chapter, I believe it is. And Adam knew…his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and (a conjunction) said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. Then it actually wasn’t Adam, it was God’s son by it. See? See? If you want to put your conjunction where at, see (“and” again), “I have gotten a man from God.” Then saying that God give her that discriminating thing called Cain. Where did that resource of all that vile and filth and things that Cain had, coming from God? Couldn’t be! See? She was beguiled by the serpent, and the serpent…she was already become mother. Then Adam knew her, certainly he did, he went and lived with her as a wife, but she was already to be mother of this child.

43. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶35–¶36 He got in the prayer line, and I was praying for him, and I said, “Do you believe, Chief?” He said, “That right.” And I said, “Well, you believe that God will heal you?” He said, “That right.” I said “You’d be a good boy?” He said, “That right.” I met him about a week later. Brother Fred Sothmann I believe was there. It was when they…and when the tent meeting was going on. It was Phoenix. And I met him a little later on in the week; I said, “Are you doing all right, Chief?” He said, “That right.” Come to find out, I talked to…What was that missionary’s name up there, that old man with a white mustache, up there to the Apaches? I can’t think of his name. Oh, he’s a fine old fellow. His wife was healed of cancer, you know. He said, “Brother Branham, that’s all that he can say.” Said, “I taught him to say, ‘Me sick.’ That’s the only thing he could say, ‘That right.’” So that’s—that’s about it, you see. “That right. Me sick!” Somebody told me he had, one, one time, was converted, received the Holy Ghost, and he said to him, “How you getting along?” And he said, “Pretty good and pretty bad.” He said, “Well, how do you mean pretty bad and pretty good?” He said, “Well, since me receive the Holy Ghost,” he said, “there’s been two dogs in me, and one of them a black dog and one of them a white dog.” And said, “They argue all the time.” Said, “They growl and fight at one another.” And said, “The white dog wants me to do good; the black dog wants me to do bad.” Said, “Well, Chief, which one of them wins the fight?”