Topic: Satan

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Where do sickness and disease come from?

Answer

Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody’s life before you. The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or afflictions. But, when Satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions.

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Brother Branham, please explain how a person knows if he is thinking his own thoughts, or if the devil is placing thoughts in his mind to make him think wrong, especially, if you know you do not want to think them.

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Then, if it’s contrary to the Word, it’s the devil’s thinking. If it’s with the Word, it’s God thinking. If it’s the wrong thoughts, it’s the devil. If it’s good thoughts of the Word and of God, it’s God’s thinking.

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If the case may be that the devil is placing thoughts in your mind about a certain thing, how may it be overcome or got rid of?

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Take the very vice versa from it. If the devil makes you think that—that—that you are…If you know you’re a Christian, and he tries to make you think you’re not a Christian, just take the versa, say, “I am a Christian.” As long as your experience matches in God’s Word say, “I’m a Christian.” Anything...

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Why will—why will Satan be loosed a little season after the thousand years of Revelation 20 and 3, and Revelation 20:27?

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Why will he be loosed? Is to go to gather up his people on the second resurrection, ’cause Satan has to stand the—the judgment also. See? He has to be condemned. Oh my, this is a—a book full of them. I don’t believe…And here’s another letter full of them. Let me get some real, real, quick here now.

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Would you please explain about Satan being bound a thousand years, and being loosed for the battle of—battle of Revelation 20:8? What relationship does this have with the Battle of Armageddon as mentioned in the Fourth Seal? Will Gog and Magog be gathered from the people of the new earth?

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Well, this is a long one, and I—I’ll just have to hit the spot of it, see. Now, the first thing, “Will…?” Now, maybe I can’t explain it. I’ll do my best. Will you please explain how Satan is bound a thousand years, being loosed again for the battle of Revelation 20:8? That is not the Battle of Arma...

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Is it possible for a Holy Ghost filled person to be driven by the—driven by the—to do minor things…influenced to do minor—minor things that he doesn’t want to do?

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Oh, yes! Yes, sir! Yeah, a Holy Ghost filled person…You’re right in the place then to be—to be drove by these things. You just put yourself up a target. When you’re down there serving the devil, he just lets you slouch around anyway you want to. But you once take a stand for Christ, you’ve got on th...

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Question. Now! Brother Branham, is it true that Satan was once in Heaven and was cast out, he and his angels come down to earth, or is it a vision like John saw on the isle of Patmos? Why I ask this, is, I was told that it was a vision.

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John saw it as a vision, but it was a literal happening. If you’ll turn to Isaiah 14:12. Now, these go slow, but to me, they’re—they are lessons. And it’s something that…Maybe you think, “Well, I don’t have no need of that now.” You just don’t know how that Holy Spirit feeds on the Word of God. It’s...

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What can a born-again person do about a sickness that Satan has put on him?

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Well, anything that Satan’s put upon you in the way of sickness, or whatever it is, you, every borned again person, has an abstract warrant—has a warrant from God. And the Holy Spirit is here to put any devil out. No matter if he is cancer, tumor, cataract, whatever he is, the Holy Spirit will put h...

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Who controls the nations of the world?

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And now, if you need healing, just climb up. God’s got here in the variety store tonight. Don’t you believe it? Just reach on up and get a hold of it. It’s yours. God promised it to you, but you can’t stand back here and say, “Yes, I believe it’s right. Uh, huh. I—I believe if I went over there I co...

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Who does the Bible say controls the kingdoms and nations of this world?

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Now, I’ll make this statement which seems very bitter to begin with. And I—I wanted it because it’s the truth. That every kingdom of this world is controlled by Satan. The Bible said so. Satan is the prince of the power of the air, and every nation is under his domination. The Scripture says that. S...

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Does the devil take notice of loud praying and anointing with oil?

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Now, you couldn’t have poured enough oil on her, anointed her with oil. You couldn’t have stomped, or hollered, or…devil don’t care how loud you holler. He don’t pay no attention to that. That’s right, but he will recognize faith. Yes, sir. He will have to know where truth lays, and he will recogniz...

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Where does sickness come from?

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Well now, for instance, a cancer…Now, a cancer comes from a bruise, and it’s a—it’s a—it’s a growth too. So’s tumor, cataract and oh, we could spend hours on it, of what it is. Now, those…Let’s say cancer. Now, first it’s a teeny little cell, and it begins to develop cells. It doesn’t have any form....

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Does Satan know all things?

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Now, I suppose that we’re strangers, are we, lady? We are. All right. Now, I want you tonight, each one in the line, I don’t believe there’s anyone crippled or anything, standing very—to stand very long. Let’s just take our time. Everyone just let your nerves down now, and let’s just talk to the peo...

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What does the existence of a counterfeit prove?

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The devil has just got a…The devil has a pattern of everything God has real. The Babylon was made a pattern of heaven, all the natural. See? Just exactly. There is a real genuine Christian, filled with the Holy Ghost; there’s a whole lot of hypocrites that just act like it. See, see? But that really...

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Can the devil heal the sick?

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But watch here, brother. Let me tell you. He said that—that Simon the sorcerer was down there healing the sick and bewitching the people. And that’s misquoting the Scripture to the public. I challenge that in the Name of the Lord Jesus: that Simon the sorcerer did not do any healing, and the devil c...

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Does sickness come from God?

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Now, all sickness, we have to find first that all sickness came from the devil. God is not the author of sickness. No sickness comes from God. God sometimes permits Satan to put sickness on you, as a whip to bring you back to the house of God, when you’ve disobeyed. But sickness, in its beginning, c...

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Can the devil heal?

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And Jesus said, “If Satan cast out Satan, then his kingdom is divided against.” He can’t do it. He can’t cast himself out. So all healing, no matter where it comes from, comes by God alone.

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Can the devil heal diseases?

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Who was that guy the other day, trying to penknife the Bible, in saying, “The devil could perform miracles of healing”? That’s wrong. God said, “I’m the Lord thy God Who heals all of your diseases.”

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Is God the author of sickness?

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Whew. I can’t see that. And I don’t say…And I don’t believe that’s intelligent. I don’t believe that’s…That’s not the Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ. And God is not the author of sickness. You can’t pin that on my Father. He come to heal us. The devil is the one who makes us sick. Absolutely. If tha...

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How should a person respond when Satan says they are not healed?

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The faith that taken away unbelief, will resurrect it again. When you take your stand for Jesus Christ, stay there and die by it. What God says is the truth, and don’t you fear what…Satan hasn’t got anything to do about it. Don’t argue with him; don’t fuss with him. Just ignore him and walk away. If...