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What did the brass serpent in the wilderness represent?

Answer

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 at...
Faith Is the Substance, 1951-05-08, Los Angeles, CA, §28 Read more →

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Is it wrong for a Christian to take medicine or see a doctor?

Answer

Now, keep your heart towards God. Now, God used remedies Himself. Isaiah went and got some poultice that was made out of figs and put them on Hezekiah to heal him of his boils. And many things was dipped in water. And Jesus put some mud on a man’s eyes, mud, the very thing that medicine and things c...
Faith Is the Substance, 1951-05-08, Los Angeles, CA, §46 Read more →

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Does it matter who prays for you or lays hands on you for healing?

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You notice in the night I’ll have you stand up and put your hands on one another, and if the person gets healed, then the person say, “Well, Sister So-and-so had her hands laying on me.” See? Or, “Brother So-and-so had his hands laying on me.” Many times a Christian has his hands laying on a sinner....
Expectations, 1951-05-07, Los Angeles, CA, §10 Read more →

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If I feel no better after being prayed for, does that mean I am not healed?

Answer

Daniel, when they told him they was going to throw him into the lions’ den, he was expecting God to be there. He believed that he lived right before God and he had a right. And every day he raised the shades, if there was any in them days, towards the temple and looked towards that holy temple and p...
Expectations, 1951-05-07, Los Angeles, CA, §30 Read more →

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What were the 'lying vanities' Jonah spoke of in the belly of the whale?

Answer

There he is now, backslid, stormy sea, hands tied behind him, belly of a whale. Every time that fish eats it goes to the bottom of the sea and or the…A goldfish, when you feed him, he’ll go down and throw his little swimmers out and rest at the bottom of the water, the bowl. He’s found his prey and...
Expectations, 1951-05-07, Los Angeles, CA, §41 Read more →

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Does a strange feeling in someone's hands mean they have healing power?

Answer

No, I tell you now, you haven’t. The only healing power there is lays in Jesus Christ. That’s right. That’s all. That’s all! The only thing you can do is point people to that. And that’s all I can do, or anyone else can do is to point people to Jesus Christ Who has already healed them. When He died...
My Commission, 1951-05-05, Los Angeles, CA, §60 Read more →

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Is every sickness caused by the sick person's own sin?

Answer

Now, sin is the cause of sickness. Before we had any sin, we had no…Now, sickness is either a direct or indirect cause by sin from the fall; maybe nothing you done, something your parents done, you just inherited their weaknesses, and so forth.
As I Was with Moses, 1951-05-03, Los Angeles, CA, §16 Read more →

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Did Brother Branham claim that everyone he prayed for was healed?

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I do not say that everyone I prayed for was healed, no, don’t get that, no. But I say that everyone has ever come has been told what was wrong with them, and the things of their life, and so forth like that, if I would set and talk to them a little while.
As I Was with Moses, 1951-05-03, Los Angeles, CA, §31 Read more →

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What are the three steps in God's deliverance of His Church?

Answer

Time’s up. Brother, sister, in the Name of our Lord, please get me right now. What am I trying to say to you? That God Who came out in the old days, and led the Church of God out of the—Egypt, the bondage into freedom, has come down again in the same manner to lead His Church spiritual out of bondag...
The Angel of the Lord, 1951-05-02, Los Angeles, CA, §36 Read more →

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Was it the water that healed people at the pool of Bethesda?

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Brother, sister, if I don’t come here tomorrow night, and you never see me again ’less I’m in a casket somewhere, I still say that God has testified that I’ve told the truth. The Church knows it by signs and wonders; the scientist knows it by scientific research. And this same…I believe that’s the s...
The Angel of the Lord, 1951-05-02, Los Angeles, CA, §48 Read more →

Question

Does any man have power to heal the sick?

Answer

I—I know this, dear Christian, friends, that it’s a noted fact that—that God is our Healer, and there’s nothing that any man could do. And now, there may be some of you here from different churches that’s—that’s not full Gospel churches. Perhaps may be some of you are from churches who maybe doesn’t...
Exhortation of Divine Healing, 1951-05-01, Los Angeles, CA, §9 Read more →

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Does God ever use sickness to chasten His children?

Answer

Now, sometimes, I will admit this, that our heavenly Father sometimes chastens us with sickness, permitting Satan to do it, to try us sometimes to—to bring us back. If we go out of the way, then our heavenly Father might let something happen to us to bring us back. But it’ll only be for the good. Se...
Exhortation of Divine Healing, 1951-05-01, Los Angeles, CA, §11 Read more →

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Why did Jesus spit on mud and put it on a man's eyes?

Answer

Jesus went and spit on some mud and made a little cake and put it on a man’s eyes. He didn’t have to do that. Do you believe that? He…?…another man’s ears and spit and touched His tongue. And He had…He didn’t have to do that. It was for some symbol. Is that right? Naaman was suppose to dip seven tim...
Exhortation of Divine Healing, 1951-05-01, Los Angeles, CA, §23 Read more →

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Did Jesus ever claim to be a Divine Healer?

Answer

Now, this is the…And do you know Jesus our Master never claimed to be a Divine Healer? Did you know that? Now, watch what Jesus said…Now, we’re just going to…Now, if some of you might go away and say, “Well, I don’t know what kind of—that is or what it is.” Jesus said, “Verily, verily I say unto you...
Exhortation of Divine Healing, 1951-05-01, Los Angeles, CA, §34 Read more →

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What does Brother Branham mean by 'the right mental attitude' toward God's promise?

Answer

Now, the right mental attitude…All you along here, do you understand what I mean when I say, “The right mental attitude?” That’s…Your right mental attitude towards God’s Divine promise will bring any promise to pass. Now, maybe you don’t believe that. You say, “Well, my faith is weak.” I wouldn’t co...
The Hour Is Come, 1951-04-15, Phoenix, AZ, §17 Read more →

Question

What should you do if you get sicker after being prayed for?

Answer

That’s what the devil tries to do all the time—burn you up on something, make you sicker when you’re prayed for, make you think you’ve lost your experience with God. He’s a lying to you. The time comes when you have to stand on God’s Word. Stand alone. But when that time comes, stand there. There’s...
The Hour Is Come, 1951-04-15, Phoenix, AZ, §21 Read more →

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Why did Jesus heal only one man at the pool of Bethesda?

Answer

And the time’s come now for this revival to—to come to a close. And dear Christian brother, sister, with all my heart’s love for you, I don’t know how our Lord Jesus could do anything else to bring your faith to where you should be healed. Is that right? Remember, in the days of His ministry, He pas...
The Hour Is Come, 1951-04-15, Phoenix, AZ, §33 Read more →

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Does the reaction Brother Branham feels in his hand heal the sick?

Answer

Now, I believe that at—that tonight, I could say this…Outside I said I would tomorrow night. Now, when we come here to this—your city about five, four years ago, there gifts of healing was only working by holding the person’s hand. And if God will permit a cancer case tonight, I want to show it to m...
The Angel of the Lord, 1951-04-14, Phoenix, AZ, §21 Read more →

Question

Why did the blind man receive his sight when Jesus put spit and mud on his eyes?

Answer

And He’s here tonight just as He was in the days when He stood by Sarah there, and was perceiving her thoughts. Does He…?…? Don’t…When He brought Nathanael to the Son of Man, “I knew you before Philip called you. When you was under the tree, I knew you.” Told the woman at the well her sins. He put H...
Take the Rod and Gather the People, 1950-08-27, Cleveland, OH, §12 Read more →

Question

Does Brother Branham claim to be a Divine healer?

Answer

And now, many of you here, no doubt, is suffering, some to be in my prayer line here. I do not know. When they come and call forth the prayer line…?…go forth from here and…?…That, I cannot say. But I know this one thing, friends. I do not know very much. But what I do know, I know it’s the truth. Th...
Take the Rod and Gather the People, 1950-08-27, Cleveland, OH, §14 Read more →

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