Topic: Bible characters & history

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What led Abraham to seek a city whose Builder and Maker was God?

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I think of when the Abraham left the city of Ur…Era…Ur and the land of Chaldean, he was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God. Now, there was something in Abraham that he could see that great city of Ur, and he knew that that very thing that made people colonize together, there was bound to...

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

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Another one, they taken handkerchiefs from his body and aprons, and laid upon the sick people, and evil spirits went out of people. Not because it was Saint Paul; he was a man who lived in flesh like you and I. And he died. He had to be redeemed by the Blood of Christ just like we do. It wasn’t the...

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What did the fig leaves in the garden of Eden represent?

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Man has always wanted to make his own way. In the garden of Eden, God made a man so he didn’t have to shift for nothing. God made him perfect, but man wanted his own way. He wanted to tamper. He wanted to find out. And then as soon as he fell…We’ve went through that this week, in the studies of the...

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Why did Martha believe Jesus could still help after her brother had died?

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The woman, Martha, knew that the Shunammite realized that God was in His prophet. And if God was in His prophet, surely God was in His Son. So if she could get to Jesus, she would have the remedy. So she runs and falls down before Him. She said, “Lord, if,” that’s what He was, Lord, “if Thou would h...

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What did Brother Branham believe would happen when the Lord finishes with the Gentiles?

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If I was God, if they couldn’t take my word for it, that would settle it. But people still don’t take the Word, then signs and wonders are added into the Church, as Jesus Christ promised to do. And to my honest belief, I believe He’s finishing up right now with the Gentiles, and will turn to the Jew...

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Where do we find where Noah preached for a hundred and twenty years and built the ark in a hundred and twenty years? Did I answer that?

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A generation, or a lotted time, a man’s lotted time on earth was one hundred and twenty years, which took Noah, the period, to build the ark, which was considered a generation in that day. One hundred and twenty years was a man’s lotted time. And he preached, according…Genesis 6:3, he preached to th...

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In Malachi 4, this Elijah is to take the hearts of the fathers to the children, and then the hearts of the children to the fathers. Is this the same person?

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Yes, the same person. All right. Oh, wait a minute. No! Pardon me, I’m sorry. Just…See the Holy Spirit catch that for me then? No! I thought it said the…See? What it was in Malachi 3, there, “I send My messenger before My face,” which was Elijah. In Malachi 4 it turns back around and said, “Behold...

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Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him—test him to find out for herself if the—if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not? (I don’t believe I get that. Just wait.) Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him to find out for herself if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not? (I—I don’t maybe understand this one. Just…Excuse me just a minute. Let me read it again.) Did not the queen of Sheba come to Solomon to test him to find out for herself if the name of the Lord was truly Solomon or not?

Answer

No! She never tested to find out if—if God’s name was Solomon. Solomon was a king. She come, and she said, she—she said, “Truly God is with His king and with His people.” See? She come and was tested…She tested Solomon about his gift, because she had things in her heart that Solomon revealed to her,...

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Brother Branham, please explain Acts 9 verse 7 and Acts 20…Acts 22nd verse. (Would you get it for me, Brother Neville.) Please explain Acts 9 verse 7.

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Now, while he’s getting that, I’ll see if I can get another one right quick. Are you getting tired? I know you are. Please explain the mystery of the translation of the Bride. How it will take place and where, the place, the Bride goes. Isn’t them lovely questions? That’s really nice. I’d just stand...

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Was Daniel the fourth man in the fiery furnace because he was the prophet in that age?

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No, it was Jesus. The fourth Man was the…like the Son of God. I don’t think it was the prophet, ’cause he was in the lions’ den; but I—I wouldn’t believe that Daniel was in the fiery furnace. I—I can’t hardly…Now, there you could be right, but then that’s just my opinion.

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Where are we to gather ourselves together? And you said to gather yourselves on the Trumpets.

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I believe, pardner, Sister, whoever it is, you’re—you’re wrong there. I never said gather yourselves on the Trumpets. I said Israel gathered on the Trumpets, not the Gentile Bride. No, no! The Trumpets, the sounding of the Seven Trumpets was to gather Israel (how many know that?) from all over the…Y...

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In Genesis 6:4, after the flood, where did the giants come from?

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That’s a good one, very good. That’s a sensible question. Where did these giants come from? Adam wasn’t a giant as far as we know, ’cause if it would, the Bible would said so. He was just an ordinary man. Where did they come from? Now—now, this is a great dispute, and this was just handed to me. It’...

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According to the opening of the Fifth—Fifth Seal, Moses and Elijah have—have to die. What about Enoch?

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I don’t know. See? I—I…If I don’t know, I’m just going to tell you I don’t know. See? I—I don’t—I don’t know all the answers, folks. I—I don’t know. And if I don’t know, I’m going to tell you I don’t know. If I do know…I won’t tell you till I do know, see. But I—I don’t know. I’ve often wondered ab...

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Now, Brother Branham, is it true that—that every Jew, born since Christ came, will be saved? And who are the hundred and forty-four thousand? Are they the predestinated ones to be sealed with the Holy Ghost? And what is their mission?

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There’s about three questions in one, there. But, here, first one: Is—is it true that every Jew born since Christ, that came into the world, is to be saved? No. Nothing will be saved, only those whose names were put on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world, Jew or Gentile. See?...

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Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews, the real man who lived on the earth, or will he be the spirit of Elijah in some other man? Now, that’s, I—I’m afraid to say. I don’t know. See? Let me read that again. Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews (oh, yes), the real man who lived on earth, or will he be spirit of Elijah in some other man?

Answer

Now, if I could answer that correctly, I could tell you about Enoch, see. But I—I can’t do it, see. Only thing I know is, just, the Scripture says what it will be. And now it might be that the…Now, I—I’m kind of inclined…Now let me say it this way. And I hope the tape, the brethren on the tapes, wil...

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Concerning the sixty-eight million slain by the Roman Catholic church, what time in history did this take place? And over how long a period of time did this take place?

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Take Schmucker’s Glorious Reformation. I guess some of these scholars have that. And it’s the history of the church. And I forget now just what page it’s on, but it taken place from the time of the—the…the thing was produced, or given to the church, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, Africa. That was A.D....

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Brother Branham, the 19th chapter of…and the 18 verse, “Yet have I kept me seven thousand of Israel, seven thousand in Israel, all haven’t bowed their…bowed to Baalim, and every mouth…or—or bowed to Baal, and every…which has not kissed him, mouth who has not kissed him.” Please explain this for me, about the—about the seven hundred.

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It was seven thousand. See? And that, “kissing Baal,” don’t you know…How many here was formerly Catholic? Sure. See? You kiss images. See? And, remember, in the time of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar, when the Gentile kingdom was issued in, see; when Gentile kingdom issued in, it come in by the worship...

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My dear brother, will the Malachi 4:5 Elijah go to the wilderness, as First Kings 17 tells us the other Elijah did?

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Well, I wouldn’t exactly say that he would, that he would go to the wilderness. But he’ll be this, you see, he was…Elisha and Elijah, did you notice? Most men like that are men who are away; they, they keep away from the people. They’re very odd. They don’t associate too much with people. You notic...

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“Adam knew his wife Eve; and” conjunction “she conceived, and bare Cain.” I believe all you teach, but how would I—how would I answer someone who—who says she didn’t conceive after Adam knew her, because of the conjunction and? “Adam knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain.”

Answer

Now, we adults know what knew means. Now, the question is concerning the conjunction. Now, if you’ll watch, friends, see, you—you just can’t make the Bible say one thing one place and something something else. It’s got to say the same thing all the time. And if you got It saying one thing here and s...

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Brother Branham, what did Jesus mean in Saint John 21:15 through 17 when He asked Peter if he loved Him and told him to feed His lamb, then He said, “Feed My sheep,” and in the 17th verse He said again, “Feed My sheep”?

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Well, that is merely this: See, Christ is the Shepherd, He was going away, and He was leaving the commission of His Sheep, which any shepherd feeds, which is His Flock, His Church, see, He was leading, or, leaving the commission with these disciples to continue to feed the flock, the, to be a shephe...