Topic: Bible characters & history

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How was the Son of God conceived in the womb of Mary?

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You have to bring it back till He…God’s the Creator. And God the Creator, created a blood cell in the womb of Mary. Come from the Father, which is God, by virgin birth, and that is the Son of God Who we love and cherish today, Who died and gave His Blood at Calvary, that we might have remission of o...

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How did Mary's response to the angel differ from Zacharias's?

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Notice, but this little woman…Zacharias back there, he had much Scriptures behind him to believe where miracles had happened on the same order. But Mary, there had never been a baby born like that. But notice, instead of fussing at the Angel like Zacharias did, she said, “Behold the handmaid of the...

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How did Jesus know, before He went to the grave, that He would raise Lazarus?

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If you notice at the platform, how close I have to examine. One word within myself would be wrong. It must be perfect, for it’s God; and I have to let Him do it. And then you watch It, watch the expressions. I ask sometimes if He would show me certain things to do, I’ll do it. “But the Son can do no...

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How was Jesus conceived in the virgin Mary?

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What we need today is a good old fashion cleaning out, and getting right with God. That’s exactly right. To bring—to bring it back—people back to a living faith in God, there to say it’s right or it’s wrong. God grant the day when men and women will be what they claim to be. That’s right. It’s… Now,...

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How did Mary receive the Angel's promise differently from Zacharias?

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Now, I want you to notice something closely. Look when the Angel came to the priest, Zacharias, and told him that Sarah…or Elisabeth was going to have a child by him, he had plenty of examples before that. Hannah had had a child past age of bearing. Sarah, near a hundred years old or better, had bro...

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What did Christ restore that Adam lost in the garden of Eden?

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Now, we realize, and everyone knows there is spirits. Then if there’s spirits, there’s bound to be a Master of that spirit, because It changes the nature of sinners into Christians. And there’s bound to be a Master or Head there somewhere, and that’s God. And He sent His Son on earth, made in likene...

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What is the lesson of Peter saying, 'At Thy word I will let down the net'?

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Peter said, “Lord, we’ve toiled all night, and have taken nothing.” That’s discouraging. They were fishermen. They just wasn’t guessing. They knowed where the sea, and how the moon should be, and where the fish was. They was la—ra—raised on that sea, Galilean. And they’d toiled all night through tha...

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Who performed the miracles when Moses delivered Israel?

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This Word that we have just read, was God sending Moses. Moses was born an odd, peculiar birth. It was just time for the prophetic wheel of God, to cause then it to move up and to have something to come to pass that He’d promised Abraham to take His people out, and He did. God always moves just in t...

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According to Brother Branham, why are the nine spiritual gifts being restored to the church?

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And just before God cut off relationship with the Jews, He put nine spiritual gifts into the Church. And just before the Gentile’s age is over, He’s restoring back in the Church those nine spiritual gifts, giving the Gentile church its last call before turning again to Israel. And now tonight, while...

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Whose message from the angel was harder to believe, Zacharias's or Mary's?

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Now, I want you to look at the difference between Mary and Zacharias. Zacharias, that minister, Gospel minister, or a preacher, as it was in that day, priest in the temple, had knowed all kinds of things that had happened before of the miraculous power of God, but doubted the Angel in his case, wher...

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Who performed the miracles in Moses' ministry?

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And we, without a leader, are helpless. And Christ is our Leader. And God was Moses’ Leader, though He sent a—an Angel to lead him. “I send My Angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I have promised.” The Angel was to be his leader. The Angel performed the mir...

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What did Peter mean when he said, 'Nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the net'?

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Now, maybe you have to be educated. Maybe that’s why the sickness is on you, that God has to educate you to a place that He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Maybe that’s what your faith is give to you. That’s why the sickness come upon you, to test your faith. Then you can walk o...

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Why did Jesus call Lazarus by name when He raised him?

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Look at Him. Here it is; get it. I can hear Him scream with a loud voice, way out there in spirit land, “Lazarus.” I believe if He hadn’t have called him by name, there’d been the general resurrection right there. And I believe it. That’s what I think of Him. That’s right. He said, “Lazarus, come fo...

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How could Moses smite the rock the second time if it was against God's will?

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[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?…house is given for the glory of God. Now, as I say, this being our last night together maybe for some time, you heard me make this statement, that from anything…I see nothing left that I did not do if he stayed there, unless I knew that the person was going to die, I would...

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What does it foreshadow that Joshua, not Moses, took the people across Jordan?

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You notice one more thing before I close this series of this. Now, before…Now…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] shadows and types here has come on up to this hour. If that was shadow and type, then the rest of it must come to pass. Now, so that you’ll get this…And I want you ministers especially to get this....

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How is Joseph a type of Christ?

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Notice. They’re going down in there, how perfect it was with the Scriptures. How Joseph, the younger son, rejected of his brethren: Christ, rejected of His brethren. He wore a coat of seven colors, Joseph. And the seven colors, of course, represented seven colors in the rainbow, which was a covenant...

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How does Balaam's story show the difference between God's perfect will and His permissive will?

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Notice. Then when he said that, said he could only speak what God put in his mouth. And God told him to send them back. And he…Notice. Then Balaam, like a lot of hireling prophets now, for usury, for money, he come back again and asked him the second time. And he went to God again. Now look. There i...

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What did Balaam fail to see when he judged the people by their sins?

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And Balaam looked upon that people, and he thought, “Looky here…” Now, listen. He thought, surely, that a holy moral God would have to curse a people like that, that done such things as that. But when looking upon them, he looked; he said, “Now, looky. They’ve done this; they’ve done that. Surely, t...

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Why did God send His Angel through Moses instead of having the Angel come alone?

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Now, notice. Then at the time of the promise drew nigh, there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and they put burdens upon the people. And the people were so burdened that they could not make the—the bricks and things that they were supposed to. And then, would you think that God would pla...

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Why did the people fail to recognize Moses as the deliverer God sent them?

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That’s true. Was it God or Moses that delivered the people? It was God in Moses. See? They cried for the deliverer. And when God sent the deliverer to them, they failed to see it, because it was by a man, but it wasn’t the man, it was God in the man. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]