Topic: Old Testament figures

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Why did Aaron's priestly garment have bells and pomegranates on its hem?

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Why, when Aaron, the great priest, when he went into the Holiest of holies, packing the blood, they had to dress him a certain way, and he had to walk a certain way. He had to be a witness for God. And he took the blood and he went forward. And on the hems of his garments, at the bottom, was a bell...

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What did David's five stones and five fingers spell out?

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Little David starts. When he gets about in the sling throw, he had…Watch, he had five stones, J-e-s-u-s, wrapped up in five fingers, f-a-i-t-h. Brother, he got the thing to working right, around and around and around.

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What did David foresee when he said God would not suffer His Holy One to see corruption?

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I think of David, when he was getting old. Being a great king that he was, God had swore to him, according to the fruits of his loins he would raise up Christ to sit on His right hand. Then I see David, when he was old, getting down to the end of his road, and all the physical strength was just abou...

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Was it the nature of the Holy Spirit when Elisha cursed the children who mocked him?

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Look at Elisha, that young prophet, young fellow went baldheaded. Little children begin to laugh at him, said, “Baldhead, why didn’t you go up?” And that angered prophet turned around and cursed those little children, in the Name of the Lord. And two she bears killed forty-two little innocent childr...

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What did Balaam fail to see about Israel?

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But where Balaam failed, to see that Brazen Serpent and that smitten Rock going before Israel, making atonement. It was God’s calling, God’s election. They were God’s people. Hallelujah! God had called them and separated them, and put a Serpent before them (as an atonement) and a smitten Rock, and B...

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Why did Jonah look toward the temple while he was in the whale's belly?

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Jonah said, “They are lying vanities.” He said, “Once more will I look to Your holy temple,” told God. Because when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, “If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look to this holy place and pray, then You hear from heaven.” And he believed, Jonah believed that God...

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Did Elijah act on his own when he called down fire on Mount Carmel?

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Then let’s just stop on that Scripture, which we could take it through the Bible, through the prophets, through the ages. And there never was any person did anything without God first showing. The prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel, looked like he just went up there and got angry with the people and cal...

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What happened to Abraham's faith while he waited for the promised child?

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If there ever was a time the church of God needs some more Marys, it’s today: taking God at His Word. When God says anything, He means just what He said. Abraham looked at Him; he said, “I know He’s able to—to do that what He promised to do. I’m old, a hundred years old, but that’s all right. Sarah’...

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What happened to the prophet in 1 Kings 13 who obeyed another prophet instead of God?

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You remember one time where there was a—a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, and God told him what to do. And He said, “Don’t eat or drink, nor it…” First Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, “The Lord said to come back here.” And he minded the prophet in the ste...

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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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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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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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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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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...