Topic: The Word of God

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What does the wedding garment represent?

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Brethren, there’s no big me and little you then, when you come by the way of the Door. And then He found a man back there that didn’t have a wedding garment on. He come in some other way besides of the door. And Jesus said, “Friend, what are you doing here?” And he was speechless. And you try to cli...

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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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What do the stages of Elijah and Elisha's journey to the Jordan represent in the history of the church?

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First stage: Martin Luther stage: first stage of the journey. Second stage was the school of the prophet. Elijah went up there and he said to Elisha, “Now, you stay here, I pray thee, for the Lord is calling me to Jordan. But Elisha was really a prophet. He said, “As the Lord lives and your soul nev...

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In the type of Moses and Joshua, what does each one represent?

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Looky here. The organized church was Moses, the law-giver. And the law-giver, Moses, glorified himself in the stead of God, and wasn’t permitted to take the children over Jordan. And the church today is glorifying themselves: “I belong to the Assemblies”; “I belong to the Church of God”; “I belong t...

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What is the double portion that was promised to the church?

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Keep your eyes on Jesus. Watch. Jesus was a type of the church. He was standing one day and a woman run up, said, “Well, I want my son to set on one side and one on the other.” Said, “Can you drink the cup that I drink?” She said, “Yes, Lord.” Said, “Truly, you can. But can you be baptized with the...

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What was the manna laid up in the holiest of holies a type of?

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And now, watch, the manna kept falling. Now, Moses told Aaron, go out and take up several omer-fulls of it, and put it back in the holiest of holies around the ark, that after this, that every priest (Get it?), every priest coming into the priesthood could have a mouthful of the original manna that...

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What were the swaddling clothes the baby Jesus was wrapped in?

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Let’s look along the line. But way down there I see a little girl standing, about eighteen, nineteen years old with a veil over her face, holding two turtledoves: a peasant’s offering, poor man. And she’s got a baby in her arm. And some of them says, “Say, that’s that Mary; that—that’s that illegiti...

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What did the brass serpent Moses put on a pole represent?

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Notice, then right in that crucial moment, serpents had come in among the people and were biting them. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and they were boasting positions, far beyond in many things, than what we are today. Had our doctors skinned by hundreds of miles. But Dr. M...

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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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Why was the brass serpent lifted up in the wilderness?

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God provided an ark for the saving of the household of Noah and his family. God prepared twelve stones by Elijah one time, for the preserving of the children of Israel. God’s always made a provided way. When they was in the wilderness, and the first thing you know, sin set in. Now, watch! Here’s one...

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Why did Moses lift up the brass serpent?

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But the serpent was raised up for a compound reason, that they might be forgiven and healed. So help us tonight, Lord. As Thou did say here on earth, “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent,” the same way, be lifted up, the Son of man, same reason, forgiveness of sin, healing of the body. Then if the...

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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...

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What does the land of Canaan represent?

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Now, when He brought the children of Israel out of the wilderness, out into the wilderness, He led them by a Pillar of Fire. Is that right? The Bible said He did, and He went before them. That was the Anointing, the Holy Spirit, Christ, that went before the children of Israel. Well, if He’s the same...

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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 do Gilgal, the school of the prophets and Jordan represent?

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Three places. Justification, Gilgal; sanctification, the school of the prophet; and to the baptism of the Holy Ghost, at Jordan, where Jordan represents death. Notice! Martin Luther; John Wesley; Pentecost, down to the Jordan, dying-out time.