Topic: Bible characters & history

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Was Paul's thorn in the flesh a disease?

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And I will admit there is a sickness unto death. And that’s why prophetic gifts are in the church to know these things. But to say that our Father, that a man had rheumatism, arthritis, say, “Yes, Lord. I’m just glad to have it. Glad You give it to me. I embrace it. I love it. I glory in tribulation...

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Did Paul anoint the handkerchiefs and aprons he sent out?

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Look, if my baby was sick, and I wanted some man, that could come from…Now, many times, you believe in anointing a cloth. That’s all right; that’s perfectly all right. Anything that God will bless, I’m for it. Aren’t you? That’s right. See? Now, many people anoint the cloth, but if you’ll follow me...

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Who was the first woman to use makeup, and what happened to her?

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But there King Ahab had went down and married this little queen, or little princess, and she was a idolater. He married out of the—out of the covenant. And when he did it, brought trouble into Israel. And she torn down. Boy, she was a spitfire, my, if there ever was one. Maybe a beautiful girl, beau...

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When Elisha said to dig ditches in the desert, where did the water come from?

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They started to praying. And Elisha got in the Spirit and he saw a vision. Now, he said, when he saw the vision, he said, “Go out yonder in that desert, right where you’re at, and go to digging ditches. And the—dig them out. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, you’ll not hear any wind, any rain, but there’ll b...

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Why did God tell Job's friends to go to Job and have him pray for them?

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Now, these men who had scorned, and had kinda made fun of Job, God said to them, “You go take an offering and go down to Job, my righteous servant. I won’t hear you, because you got too much folly. You haven’t stood for truth. You haven’t did what’s right. Therefore, you take a burnt offering, and g...

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Why did God reconsider His sentence of death on Hezekiah?

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Look at Hezekiah when…?…and the prophet went up and said, “All right, Hezekiah, you’re not coming off the bed. God’s done said you was going to die right there where you’re at.” And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer…Now remember, you’ve got to give God a cause, a reason....

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Why were the sick healed as Peter's shadow passed by them?

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You believe it? Look. A man, a Spirit filled, Pentecostal born, Holy Ghost man of God, called out, separated, stood under inspiration, knowing nothing about what Ananias and Sapphira had done, but when he came, they came into the building, the Holy Spirit revealed what had happened. And God rewarded...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he expected God to curse Israel?

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Now, what more? Now, look. If the world calls us crazy. If the world thinks that we are just about half off up here…Look. Because that those signs appeared just where I’m at, and this Angel of the Lord, and so forth, that doesn’t mean that it’s just me, friends. What does that mean? What is God tryi...

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Whose faith brought about the miracle in Sarah's womb?

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Now just before coming, I can see them coming away, didn’t tell Sarah where they was going, ’cause she would have screamed out. I believe that it was Abraham’s faith that performed the miracle in Sarah’s womb; because she doubted it, even laughed when—when It said so. It was Abraham’s faith.

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Did Jesus know Lazarus would die when He left Lazarus' home?

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Then I can see back there in them days, when Jesus went forth and demons screaming, signs a following, it got just about the time where our text begins now, and I want you to notice Him. There He was, and He went away from the home of Lazarus. And as soon as He left the home, sorrows and troubles co...

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How did the virgin Mary conceive Jesus?

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I say that He was the virgin-born Son of God, created by Jehovah. I believe that God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Hear the Truth of it and then worship Him in the Spirit. Now, and here’s what I believe: That virgin Mary, was just a little girl, seve...

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In Daniel's vision, who is the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands?

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He’d say, “One day, Brother Branham, I was viewing the ages,” Hallelujah! “I was viewing the ages as God was passing them by me in a vision. I was watching the ages pass by. I seen all the kings come, and the great kingdoms, and so forth. And then I beheld, till there was a Stone cut out of the moun...

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Has God always had a remnant who believe Him, as in the days of Noah?

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Now, tonight, I want to speak just a moment on “Expectation.” Simeon was a man; he was old; he’s way…We’re taught by theologians that he was somewhere in his eighties. But he had a real heart, waiting for God. Sometimes the church has got to a place to just a very few left, believers. But God has al...

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What happened when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God told him?

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Now, the meeting going to end now in two more nights, for this. Someday I hope to come to New York, where I could stay long enough, till you could get spread out far enough till we could get a real meeting. Now, but Moses was a prophet. God made him a prophet. And God trusted Moses, because he was b...

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Why did the wise men see the star when the stargazers in every city did not?

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There’s…I guess you wonder why I’m stalling. See? I could feel that impact of faith moving. Just be reverent, as it’s getting near me. Now, the Angel of the Lord is coming near this platform right now; I can feel It moving down. It’s coming from this side here, right this a way, right down this a wa...

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Did the virgin Mary receive the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost?

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But when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all in one place in one accord, not saying, “I’m Methodist. I’m Baptist. I’m Lutheran. I’m this.” They were in one place and one accord. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound, not up the road, not from the seminary, but from heaven, a sou...

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Why were handkerchiefs from Paul's body laid on the sick?

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Now, look. Here’s where I think Paul got the idea, minister brethren, of laying handkerchiefs on the sick. He said, “You take my staff,” told Gehazi. “You take my staff; and if any man salutes you, salute him not.” That’s what’s the trouble when we get a commission today, we got to stop and do other...

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How is Jonah's looking to the temple from inside the whale applied to a sick person's symptoms?

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And Jonah believed that Solomon’s prayer was heard. And he said, “I’m not going to look to these symptoms; I’m going to look to the temple of God.” And if Jonah in that kind of a condition, could look to a natural temple, where a nat—or a human prayed, how much more ought you setting here, where peo...

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Why did the woman at the well say Jesus told her all she ever did, when He told her only one thing?

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Now, you people coming in the line, by God’s grace I will be able maybe to tell you what’s wrong with you, or so forth. I do not know. But if I—if I don’t know. He—if He don’t show me, I’ll just have to say, “I do not know what’s wrong with you.” Maybe have a word of prayer for you and let you go on...

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What was the significance of Moses striking the rock twice instead of speaking to it?

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Following [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] that was a woman, female trouble, wouldn’t leave her in the meeting. I don’t know why. Richard T. Reed, Reverend Richard T. Reed, the blessed old Bible Hour Tabernacle at Jonesboro, Arkansas, was the one who baptized them into the church, the next morning; you migh...