Topic: The Word of God

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What does brass symbolize in Scripture?

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The children of Israel had come up out of Egypt. They got into the wilderness, begin to murmur. God sent fiery serpents among them and bit them, they were dying, by the thousands. And then He made an atonement, a brass serpent. Oh, how beautiful! That brass serpent, speaking of judgment, “Divine jud...

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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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What did the smitten Rock in the wilderness represent?

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On up they come, into the smitten Rock. Notice when they come to the Rock, they had need. Now, Moses smote the Rock with the rod. That’s where we left last night. Smote the Rock with the rod, and the rod was God’s judgment rod. And he smote the Rock, and there was a cleft in the left side of the Roc...

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In the brass serpent, what did the serpent and the brass each represent?

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Brass, the serpent being made out of brass, meant “Divine judgment.” Now, the serpent was “sin already judged,” and the brass meant “Divine judgment.”

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What do Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph each represent?

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Call, election, in—in Abraham. Justification, in Isaac. Grace, in Jacob. Anybody that ever read Jacob’s life, know you have to believe in grace. It’s grace, in Jacob. And perfection, in Joseph, nothing against him, in the Bible; perfect man, perfect of Christ. Then we find out that the patriarchs al...

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Which Bible translation does Brother Branham use, and why?

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Maybe sometimes the—the great words that scholars and so forth try to give the Bible Its—Its terms or pronouncings. I’m satisfied to take the King James for mine. It’s waved the storms longer than any translation yet, and I just believe it that way.

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Is every word of the Bible inspired?

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But Simeon had a grounds to believe because it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he wasn’t going to die until he seen Christ. Now that’s the good way to believe: when the Holy Spirit reveals it to you, believe it. There’s just a whole lot in this Book that I—much, that I don’t know anythin...

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Does the Bible call it the 'highway of holiness' or the 'way of holiness'?

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No, every one of them that says that, rushes to the hospital as hard as they can when they get sick. They get out here in an accident, and break their leg, or something another, away to the hospital right quick. First thing you know, as soon as they get a little cramp in their stomach, call the doct...

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Why did Jesus meet Satan's temptations with 'It is written' rather than the gifts God gave Him?

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As I was speaking this afternoon of the Deity of Jesus Christ, the Father in Him, all God was—give His gifts into His Son that it might be manifested in the earth. When He met Satan, He never used one of them. He brought it down to show that the weakest of Christians… Satan comes in and says, “If…”...

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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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What was the manna kept in the holiest of holies a type of?

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Notice. Yes, on with this manna a minute. That manna was a type of the Holy Spirit. That’s right. God told Aaron, now, said, “You go out and pick up several omer fulls of it. Take it into the holiest of holies, and there keep it there. And every generation that comes down after this generation, one...

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Are the Scriptures meant to be argued over?

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And I said, “Now, I won’t argue,” because the Scriptures are not to argue, They are to be lived. That’s—that’s, you live me a sermon. That’s the best thing. I’d rather see one lived, than I would to hear one preached. Wouldn’t you? Live a sermon. “You’re written epistles, read of all men.”

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What is the adoption of a son, and how is it different from being born one?

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A son was born in Israel, and then after eight days he was circumcised and become an Israelite; but he was borned of the father. And then, if that child was given a tutor, Galatians teaches us, then after he was raised up to a certain age, and he become very faithful to the father’s work and everyth...

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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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Why was Jesus born in a stable?

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Now, before this Redeemer could come in the days of our text, when Jesus had become very popular. Although He was born with an awful scorn, He came in by the way of a stable door and went out the way of capital punishment (Did you know that?), considered a fanatic, laughed at, spit upon, made fun of...

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What did the brass serpent on the pole in the wilderness cure?

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And in the days when the children of Israel were journeying through the wilderness, God had a message of a brass serpent on a pole, provided for a compound reason: for forgiveness of sin and healing of their body from a snakebite, which their medical aids would not touch. And Moses was learned in al...

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How is the Word of God related to the Gospel?

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Now, the Gospel, commonly believed, is the Word of God, and that is true in one sense. But the Word of God is not Gospel alone. The Word of God is the Seed that produces the Gospel. Jesus said a sower went forth and sowed seed. And some fell onto the stony places, and some fell by the wayside, and t...

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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...

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What did the brass serpent in the wilderness represent?

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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...

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Does knowing the Bible well do a person any good if the Word has not been quickened to them?

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Now, in here, His written Word. And…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…bring forth of its kind if you’ll just receive It in your heart and believe It. You can’t…you might read the Word and be such a scholar till you know all the—the ins and outs of the Word, but that will never do no…you no good until It firs...