Topic: The Bible

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Please explain First Corinthians 13:8-12. Now that the perfect Word is restored to the Church are—are these verses fulfilled?

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Now, I think I just went through that, didn’t I? “And when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away with.” Paul said, “Though I speak with tongue of man and angels, and I do all these things here…But when that which is perfect is come…” Now, is there anything perfect...

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Brother Branham, when Isaiah spoke to the daughters of Zion (or spoke to, I mean, I guess they meant “spoke of”) the daughters of Zion about the crisping pins, curling hair, and instead of a well set hair, baldness; instead of a…Will that apply to today or is the old Bible of no effect as some say?

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The old Bible is always in effect, and every word that God says is in effect. Yes, sir! Only thing it does from the new Bible to the old Bible, it just magnified. Jesus said, “You have heard them say, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’ (you had to be in the act); but I say unto you, whosoever looketh...

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I would know what the—the following is: First Timothy, the 2nd…Second Timothy the 2nd chapter and the 16th verse.

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Just a moment. Second Timothy…[Blank space on tape—Ed.] We get together. Maybe you won’t agree with what I said. Take you home…Then, you’ll go home and study real much, and then that’ll help you get spiritual. All right, Second Timothy 2 and 16 reads like this: But shun profane and vain babblings: f...

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Is the Apostles Creed found in the Bible?

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We got today the Apostle’s Creed. I challenge that to the Bible. There is no such a thing as Apostle’s Creed. If there’s any Apostle’s Creed in the Bible, it’s found in Acts where He said, “Repent every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. You shall...

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How can you tell whether what a prophet or a seer says is from God?

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Now, God has spoken His Word to us. Just believe Him and watch what happens. Now, when He speaks something…This is His Word initially first, and any other word that’s contrary to This is not God’s Word, it has to come from this Bible. Now, this is His Word to the nations. Now, He sets after that, in...

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What should a teaching be measured against to know whether it is of God?

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I want to get this on God’s Word, for after all, This is the only foundation that anyone can build on, correctly. God will never recognize any foundation but this Word. “For no other foundation can be laid than that which is already laid.” Is that…? And this is God’s Word in the beginning, if anythi...

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How did Jesus answer Satan during the three temptations?

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Jesus said—never said, “Now, I have power to overcome you,” He said, “It’s written, man shall not live by bread alone,” the Father’s Words, see, “But by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Satan took Him up on the pinnacle and said, “If Thou be the Son of God…” Jesus said, “It is wr...

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Is the Apostles Creed found in the Bible?

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And there stands them bunch of fellows, out there moaning and groaning and saying, “Why, we’re older than you are. We know more about it,” saying the Doxology, and repeating the Apostles’ Creed. Where you ever find that I…I challenge anybody to show me the Apostles’ Creed in the Bible. The Apostles’...

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What foundation can a person rest his faith on?

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Now, here it is. I want you to get it. How much more foundation could you place your faith on any level than the Word of God? What more could you put faith in? When He said, “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.”… Then it is a fact that God’s Word is eternal. And the...

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What should be done with a vision or a message that contradicts the Bible?

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Now, the way that I have faith in God is first by His Word. And if any vision, or any person, would speak anything that was contrary to the Word, then don’t hear it. This is the fundamental foundation of all God has said to His Church. And every person’s faith must be built sovereignly upon the Bibl...

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What was the world made out of?

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You got to get the man right in his heart first, before he can believe. He ain’t got nothing to believe on. He ain’t got nothing to believe with. I’m sure the little, infant brain of a man knows nothing about belief. He’s got to have something in there stimulates his faith and makes him look yonder...

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When Satan tempted Him, did Jesus use the power and gifts He had?

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He’s one that doesn’t even have a prayer line. He just stands there with the Scriptures and explains It in such a way, till the people just have to see it. That’s all. And listen. That is the initial way of Divine healing. You know that? The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, on any c...

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What is God's Urim Thummim today?

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Now, if the man…As we been studying this week, about the ways that God answers…God in the Old Testament answered either by prophecy, by the prophet, by a dream, or by the Urim Thummim. And if the—if the prophet said something and the Urim Thummim did not record that right, the Voice of God flashing...

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What did Brother Branham mean by saying Joel's prophecy has a compound meaning?

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During this time of Joel’s prophecy here, the Church was in a terrible condition: backslid, just prior the coming of the Lord, the first time. And how that the Spirit come upon this prophet and he—he foresaw things. And he saw the—the condition of the Jews. And he saw the condition of the Church in...

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How can a dream or a prophecy be tested to know whether it is true?

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And when a prophet had give a prophecy, and they spoke, and wanted to see if that prophecy was true, they put it before the Urim and Thummim. And if the Voice of God throwed the lights on the Urim and Thummim, then it was absolute, the Truth. And if a man gives an interpretation, gives a dream, give...

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Which comes first, God's Word or what God speaks through a servant's gift?

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Come to God sincerely. Don’t doubt nothing. Have faith in God. Now, when God shows, God will do. What God says, God’s under obligation to His Word. Now, Christian friends, this is first. This is God’s Word. Any kind of a ministry that’s built upon anything else besides This, is in error. That’s God’...

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What was the Urim and Thummim a type of?

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Did you ever read of the—of the Urim in the Bible where they looked up on it, that breastplate that give the…where God would talk through that breastplate? Now, the devil made a crystal gazer for his substitute for that. The Urim and Thummim, you—you brethren know it, they looked up on it and the Li...

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What should a religious doctrine be based on?

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Now, that is God’s Word. This is first always. In any religious doctrine that’s not based upon the Word of God, through the entire Word of God, I’m afraid of it. You can make the Word say anything by twisting It around, but it must be proven to be the truth. And now, as…If I come and told you, I cou...

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Did Jesus use His own power to defeat Satan in the temptation?

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I want you to notice how simple this is. When Jesus co—was here on earth, He was Emmanuel. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. God was manifested in the flesh in Jesus Christ, and He was the Emmanuel. And when He walked along here on earth, He had powers. What the Father was, He’d ma...

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What are the 'three Bibles' God wrote?

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God’s wrote three Bibles: one, the Zodiac, one in the pyramids, one on paper. Now, He’s writing His first, the Zodiac. It starts off with a virgin, ends up with Leo the lion: Jesus’ first coming and His second coming. If we had time to run down through it, you’d see it. But He writes that because He...