Topic: Who He is

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Some say Brother Branham is the Son of man. I thought the Pillar of Fire was the Son of man. Am I mistaken?

Answer

Well, that’s a good question, very good. But I am not the Son of man, but a son of man. There’s quite a difference. Jesus Christ was the Son of man, the Son of God, the Son of man, the Son of David. Now, the reason that question probably was asked this person or been said, because people regard me...

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Was Daniel the fourth man in the fiery furnace because he was the prophet in that age?

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No, it was Jesus. The fourth Man was the…like the Son of God. I don’t think it was the prophet, ’cause he was in the lions’ den; but I—I wouldn’t believe that Daniel was in the fiery furnace. I—I can’t hardly…Now, there you could be right, but then that’s just my opinion.

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Brother Branham, we know that you are a messenger sent from God to this church age. The very same signs that followed Jesus we see following you, and we are…understand why some who know you best think you are Messiah. Would you explain the difference in your relationship to God and that of Christ’s?

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Well, I know, brethren, that is true. See, but let’s wait, I got something wrote down on that here, just for a minute. See, many times it’s misunderstood. See? But, now, in the person sometime…And I want some of you to turn with me to Luke, the 3rd chapter and the 15th verse. While you’re doing that...

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Please explain the trinity. How can the Son set at the right hand of the Father, interceeding for the…to the Father, if they are not two persons?

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Well, beloved friend, that’s a…that’s—that’s a revelation. If Jesus said, “I and My Father are One,” then how can they be two? See? Now, they’re not two. A woman once said to me, and I was explaining that, said, “You and your wife are—are two, yet you’re one.” I said, “But, God and the Son is diff...

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Does Jesus weeping at the grave of Lazarus show that He was not Divine?

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She referred to Saint John 11. She said, “Going to the grave of Lazarus, He wept.” And said, “That proves that He wasn’t Divine, because He could weep.” I said, “My, my.” I said, “That argument is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that’s starved to death.” I said, “That thing...

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Was Jesus a prophet, or God?

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And watch when the Jews questioned Him, when He went through all that big pool of people there that was lame, blind, halt, and withered, and all kind of conditions. And He—He said to the person, went to a man laying on a pallet. Just look, Saint John 5, how they was withered. Wouldn’t the critics to...

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How could Jesus be hungry Himself and still feed five thousand people?

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He was a man when He come down off the mountain that night so hungry. He’s trying to find something to eat, looking all around the tree, trying to find something to eat. He was a man when He was hungered. That’s right, but when He took five biscuits, and two little fishes, and broke them, and fed fi...

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Did Jesus ever plainly say that He was the Son of God?

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May our Lord add His blessings to His Word. God in confirmation of His Word, of the testimony of Jesus Christ, was declaring to the people that it was the Son of God. Once in talking to a man, he said, “Nowhere in the Scriptures did Jesus ever say that He was, plainly say He was the Son of God.” The...

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Is 'eternal sonship' a correct way to describe the Son of God?

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And there He come out. There was nothing. And then here come the Logos. That looks like a halo hanging yonder. No man has seen God at any time, now, eye to eye. And here’s the Logos. Looks like It’s a supernatural Being. It’s a Halo. That’s the Son of God. Not “Eternal sonship,” ’cause the words don...

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Does Jesus weeping at the grave of Lazarus prove He was only a man?

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He said, “Why, He wasn’t Divine, Brother Branham,” said, “He couldn’t have been. I can prove to you by the Bible that He wasn’t Divine.” I said, “If you’ll prove it by the Bible I will accept it.” She said, “All right.” She said, “In Saint John the 11th chapter, the Bible said when Jesus was going d...

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Why did God have to become flesh and blood to redeem man?

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Said, “Who is she? Where’d she come from?” And when the harvest was over, the great lord of the harvest, which was Boaz, a representative of Christ to the church…He’d fallen in love with her, and he wanted to marry her. But before he could marry her, he had to redeem Naomi’s lost estate. And before...

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What did the Logos look like when it went out of God?

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And now, the Bible teaches us that the Logos went out of God, or I might say, all of the—the God becoming His first body form when the Logos went out of God. Let’s look what It looked like. No one has seen the Father at any time, nowhere, never did and never will. But then the Logos that went out of...

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Does the verse 'Jesus wept' prove that Jesus was only a man?

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She said, “I can prove to you by the Bible if you’ll just open up your mind that he was only a man.” I said, “Do it by the Bible and I’ll believe it.” She said, “When he went down to that resurrection of Lazarus…” said, “On his road down there, he cried with the rest the people. The Bible said, ‘Jes...

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When the religious leaders called Jesus a devil, who acknowledged Him as the Son of God?

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My first revival, I looked around. I didn’t know. There it was. The businessmen of the city, a group of them met me that afternoon and talked to me after I baptized. I had to baptized five hundred out of my first revival. They said, “What does that mean?” I said, “I don’t know.” I said, “I am a beli...

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Why did God take on a body of flesh in Christ?

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And now, let’s think of the day of our Master. The reading of the text brings it to a spot in His life that where He had become very popular. He was born with a illegitimate accusation against Him, and He came in the way of a stable. Could you imagine it? And inveiled He was Emmanuel. God was in Him...

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How is the virgin birth connected to whether Jesus is the Son of God?

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And you know what? After a survey was made, according to government statistics, after the survey was made, there was seventy percent of the Protestant preachers denied the virgin birth of Jesus. Would you think of it? No wonder we’ve hatched out thirteen million infidels last year. See? Because that...

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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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In what way is Jesus our Kinsman Redeemer?

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Now, when Jesus died at Calvary, He settled the sin question for ever before the Father, because He was a perfect Sacrifice for our sin. He was our Kinsman Redeemer. You Bible scholars know what I’m speaking of, like Boaz, when he was a…had to be a kinsman redeemer to redeem the lost estate of Ruth....

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How was Jesus both a man and God?

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The Bible said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He was a man. When He come down off the mountain that night, hungry, and He was looking for some to eat around a fig tree. He was a man when He was hungry. But when He took five biscuits and fed five thousand, He was God. Halle...

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How was Jesus related to Jehovah?

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He said, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me.” Just as Jehovah…Just what Jehovah was, Jesus was, He was the expressed image of Him. He was God shaped out here, and all the powers of God formed into, and put in a human body. He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works, It’s My Father th...