025 And then, when I see Adam as it was standing
there, and Eve, the beautiful statue of her. And while she's standing there,
these old bloody sheepskins, the blood running down her legs... Adam in his
great fine statue of a man, the blood off these sheepskins running down him,
and God standing there pronouncing death, sorrow, and heartaches, and
destruction. Watch. Then I can see Eve put her lovely head over on Adam's
shoulder and him put his arms around her. They started weeping. Turned around
and started to walking out of His Presence. God depart from him. He sinned.
There's your judgment.
026 Then
when I can hear, going down along that path through the garden of Eden,
something like this [smack hands on thigh.] What is it? Bloody sheepskins
slapping on Adam's leg as he went down. Then I could see all that great
space-less eternity come forming down like a funnel to four little letters
L-O-V-E. He loved His children so much till He couldn't turn them away. Then I hear
Him say, "Stop. I'll put enmity between thy seed and the serpent's
seed," promising a Redeemer, God making preparation to redeem.
027
Let's stop here in the sermon just a minute. Let's go back four thousand
years from then. I hear a hollering mob in Jerusalem,
screaming, the people were going on. We're setting up now looking down through
a window. I hear something dragging on the street. It's an old rugged cross
dragging out the bloody footprints of the bearer. Who is that going there?
"Why, that Nazarene down here, that fanatic, divine healer." What's
all them little red spots on His back? Look at them; all over His seamless
robe, there's little red spots. And as we watch Him going up towards the
capital punishment grounds, they begin to get bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger.
Directly they all run into one, one big solid mass of blood. Then I hear
something. [Brother Branham claps--Ed.] What is it? God's prepared Lamb from
the foundation of the world, going yonder to die for sinners like you and me,
God making ready a preparation that would cleanse the heart of sinful men and
redeem him back to Himself, God preparing, getting ready. No other way could be
done. How ridiculous His ways seem.
028
Somebody say, "Well, why don't you just... Why didn't God just say
a certain thing? Why didn't He just put the leaves around..." See, man can
never understand God. You just got to believe what God says. How could I
explain to my little girl, if she wanted my straight razor to--to rake around
over her face. How could I... could I make her understand what it would do to
her? She's just two years old. She's got to believe me; that's all. I just say,
"You can't have it." What if my little girl was three years old, or
two years old, had my shotgun with the hammers back and two shells in it; she
wanted to play with it; screaming and holding on to it. Don't make any
difference how much she wants it, I can't let her have it. I know better, she
doesn't. I can't make her understand it. She's just got to believe me. Is that
right? And how can God make that woman laying there, and this one here, and
different ones, perfectly well when the doctors had said they can't get well. I
can't understand it. I just believe it. God said so. That settles it.
029 How do you take a sinner like me and like
you and make a Christian out of us? I can't understand it. That's the greatest
miracle that God ever performed, is when He took a--a--a sinner and made a
Christian out of us. And if you can't--if you can't... Looky
here; you believe that God can save anybody from sin, because you've been
taught that. Well, that's a far more of a miracle; that man that was dead in
trespasses and sin, that man is dead and he had to believe or remain dead. And
then after you are borned again, you become a Son of
God, how much more ought you to believe for a lesser miracle, for Divine
healing, if a live man ought to believe more than a dead man. See what I mean?
You've got to believe it. Can't explain it, believe it. That's all you have to
do.
030
Watch. When God... then making
a preparation. The people say, "Well now, Brother Branham, when I believe,
that settles it." No, it doesn't. There has to be a transaction of God
there in a confirmation of your faith, giving you a new birth. How many is...
tell the people here... I'm just so sick and tired of seeing people thumbing
their way to heaven. They just say, "You believe that?" "Uh-huh.
You believe that." "You believe that?" That's a hitchhikers.
Brother, God ain't got such things as that. A man's got to be borned of the Spirit of God a regenerated and made a new
creature, or he's lost. That's all. That's exactly right. We got to believe it.
We got to accept it. You say, "Well, if I believe, that settles it."
No, it doesn't.
031 I told you the other night that Cain was a
believer. And I'll give you a little stronger meat than that tonight if you
want to believe it. The devil is a believer. The Bible says he is. He believes
and trembles. The devil is a believer. Now, if belief and faith in God is all
you have to have to be saved, then the devil's saved according to the Word of
God. That's right. But, brother, it's got to take the Holy Spirit, a new birth,
a regeneration, a new creature in Christ Jesus. When God comes down and puts
His Spirit into you, then you're no more your own, but you're God's. Oh, I
begin to feel religious already.
032 Notice, what I think of God's great program.
And to think that we poor, alie nated,
ungodly, undone sinners have the privilege of coming to His place and accepting
Him and becoming His sons and daughters, why, my... "And it does not yet
appear what we shall be, but we know we'll have a body like His, for we shall
see Him as He is." Won't that be wonderful, eating, drinking, just like He
did?
E-40 Show us the Father 54-0811 Everything that God was, was put into Jesus
Christ. He was co-equal with the
Father. Is that right? Think it not robbery, but He was equal with the Father.
E-12 God’s Servant JOb
55-0223 But God putting Satan almost co-equal with Him, Satan taking the things of
God and perverted them into the evil thoughts, and through there began to
pervert things into evil instead of good. And God, as soon as the first
thing was done, out of His great treasure chest of love, He had a plan of
redemption, that quick. E-13 Now, I believe that the... I do not believe
that Satan is a creator. I believe that Satan is a perverter,
but not a creator, 'cause God is the only One Who can create. And in the beginning when he become a
co-partner to God, the son of the morning, and so forth, when he walked
up-and-down a fiery brimstone, and so forth, that when Satan perverted good to evil, you know pervert to do anything.
[Ezek
28:12] Here we read, “Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the
sum, (It can't be sealed until it is filled) so we see that Lucifer
filled in every detail the pattern of the Son but without life. - token -
pattern, fullnes of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast
been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering,
the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the
sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast
created. Thou [art] the anointed cherub
that covereth; and I have set
thee so]: In other words, every thing he had was
given to him by God. thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou
hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the
day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee. By
the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with
violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane-polluted- -perverted- out
of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy
beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may
behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, Herein lies the wonder of it all. Lucifer was
the first creation of God. He was anointed by God. Anointed = mim-shakh to anoint, in the sense
of expansion. In other words God gave him an elevated place. And what did he
cover? Some say it was the Mercy seat, but since we do not have thus saith the
Lord, we’ll just leave that alone. But we do know he led the angels in worship
along with Michael. [Exodus 25:18,19,22].
Now we know that Moses saw this Mercy seat in a vision which showed the way it
had been in heaven. [Hebrews 8:5]
which is [Exodus 25:40] Notice
further that this Lucifer was full of Brightness = yiphah, splendor, shining,
brightness. this word is taken from the root of the word which describes God’s
Shining forth. [Psalm 50:2] & [Psalm 102:4] and here we see Satan as a
bright and shining light as well. [2 Cor 11: 13-15] [Luke 10:18]
God describes him here as a Cherub that
covereth and we know according to [ Hebrews
8:5] that when Moses was commanded to make the ark of the covenant, He was
to design it after the Pattern that God showed Him in the mountain, and so we
see the Pattern as was established before the framing of the world, back in the
beginning when there were two cherubs, (twins) who were leading the angels in
worship, and according to brother Branham,
One was Christ and the other was Lucifer. So we see that because he was
made a priest he became puffed up, to the place where it got to him and he
exalted Himself to be equal with the One he was ordained to lead the angels to
worship. And so has it repeated itself throughout the ages. Dathan and Korah
were Levitical priests as well, and they became puffed up the same and wanted
their opinions to be heard as well as that of Moses, the One God vindicated.
And in Paul's day we see the same thing
repeat. In fact it has repeated throughout all the church ages because wherever
there have been twins, there has been this exaltation to think they can worship
God apart from God's only provided place of worship which is by
Vindicated Revelation.
[Rev
12:3-11] Here we see a few more attributes of this originator of the
corrupt seed. #1) In verse 3 we see
that his tail drew a third of the stars. Secondly
we are told who this dragon is, he is called the devil or Satan, and he is also called a deceiver in verse 9. #3) Finally we see that there was a
battle in heaven first, and it was with Michael.
Now let’s look at these three points.
#1)
This one is called a “deceiver”
and he “drew” with his “tail” a third of the stars.
A) Deceiver: Planao = to go astray. to err, to
lead away from he truth [Matt
24:4,5,11,24]
[2 Tim 3:13] [Hebrews
3:10] [2 Peter 2:15] [1 John 3:7] [Eph 4:14] [2 Thes 2:11]
B) Drew: Suro
is a Greek word used of a net. [John
21:8] The Gospel net is a type of casting the
word upon the seas of humanity, and Jesus tells us the
parable of this when he says that the
corrupt stuff will be
cast out.
C) Tail [Isa 9:15] So we see here that it was the tale that Satan told. Then it
was by what he said.
D) Stars: [Job 38:7] [Psalms 148:3], [Isa 14:13]
And so the picture we have is that Satan came
forth and actually was a preacher in heaven. Did you know that? from PP. [77 God of this Evil Age ] Notice, Satan not called the god of any other
age but this age. It was his ambition to be like God from the very beginning.
Let's read that. We'll just take our time. Let's go back... Let's see; I got it
wrote down, Isaiah 14. Let's go back here to Isaiah 14 just a minute and see
what God said the god--what Satan did: Isaiah 14:12 and 14. Notice. How art thou falling from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! how art thou cast down to the ground, which did weaken the
nations! For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:... (Sons of God, now)... and I will set
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: It was Satan's ambition to be worshipped
like God. He took two-thirds--two-thirds of the stars of heaven, ascended hisself
above those stars, and preached to them, and deceived two-thirds of them. You see it? All right. Notice,
that's his ambition. And now he is ready with his careful selected, educated
bride by his own knowledge (See?), all painted up in his deceit of big
buildings, and big denominations, and paints of knowledge, and theology, and
smart, and intellectual, and educated, to deceive the whole world and become a
god (That's what he's done.), all heading up into the person of the antichrist,
which is already crowned the vicar of God by his worldly-loving, scientific
bride, all dressed up in pomp of intellectual, religious education. She is made
religious like him, and by his own
interpretation of the Word of God as he did Eve, and as his son Cain did. ... Notice
what he will do, his thoughts. He
thought God dwelled in worldly beauty. He did that in heaven. Sin never begin in the garden of Eden; it
begin in heaven when Lucifer, the son of the morning, exalted himself in beauty
and wanted a more beautiful kingdom than that of Michael. And he thought that
God dwelled in beauty. And notice Cain. He didn't want no blood
sacrifice. He come down and offered the fruit or the fields of beauty upon his
altar. Very religious, done
everything that, just exactly like Abel done, offered a sacrifice, fell down before God in worship, obedient in every
way, but without the revelation of the Word. And the Word was from the beginning, God's plan. But God revealed by
revelation the very thing that He vindicated and punctuated that that was
right: not religion, not an altar, not
belonging to church, not making a sacrifice, not being sincere, but by the
revelation of the Word of God,...
E-17 Seal of the Anti-Christ 55-0311 If you'll notice, just about the time that
Jesus came on the scene, Judas came on the scene, the antichrist, the one was
against Christ. I want you to notice the natures of these spirits now. Judas,
was a religious man. He was not an infidel. And all of us know that he was the
antichrist. He worked the very closest hand to Christ, His right hand man. Did you know that in heaven, that the Devil
was God's right hand man in the beginning, that Lucifer, the son of the morning,
was given power? And the reason that
he brought sin into the world, he was
able to take something that God had created, and pervert it back into an evil
thing, which started all this trouble in the beginning. Then God, back
before the foundation of the world was ever laid, when He seen what Satan
done... In his pride went over in the north, and set up a kingdom, and fought
against Michael and his Angels... Do you see it? PP.
18 The right hand man of Almighty God was
Lucifer, the son of the morning. The first, God granted him almost co-workers
with Him; he was a co-worker, partly equal with Him; only Satan could not
create. God is the only Creator, but Satan took something that God created
and perverted it back into something else, evil. And now notice, when Cain and
Abel, a very beautiful picture of it... Cain and Abel was nothing more than the
prefigure of Judas and Jesus.
E-28
Lamb and the Dove 57-0325 And the Holy Spirit falls into a meeting, and sometimes the believer and unbeliever
worship by the same Spirit; but the fruit of the Spirit proves what you are
(Uh-huh.), not the reaction of the Spirit,... and the fruit of the Spirit is not outward demonstrations; it's an inward
work of grace; love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, faith, meekness,
gentleness, patience; there you are.
E-39 Queen of Sheba 60-0710 You know, great bright things is what blinds
the eyes of the people. Eve was looking for a new light; she got it. The Bible said in the last days that
"The devils would be... turn themselves into ministers of light."
Look at the very first sin was ever performed, was Satan wanted a greater, a brighter kingdom--a great thing--and
went over in the north and set his own kingdom up to outshines Michael. It's
always those bright things.
E-21 Seal of God
61-0216 Adam
was the son of God. Bible said so. Then where did that jealousy come from?
Where did that murderer come from? Where did all that kind of a spirit come
from? Out of Adam? Couldn't have. Come from Satan. It's exactly where it come
from. Now, we find out he was the first
murderer. And he was the first one to have jealousy. And Lucifer got jealous of Michael, brought it right down to the earth
and transferred it into man. And Satan... Cain by taking on this evil, took the
first mark. God marked him. No one was to kill him. Let him alone. But you remember, as soon as He marked
him, he went out from the Presence of God. Hold onto that now.
58-172 Q& A
64-0823M Satan
was the most beautiful angel. He was a cherubim that overshadowed.
1132-319 Q & A 64-0830M Now, if you notice it's always been twins all
along. There was... Cain and Abel were twins, and Esau and Jacob were twins.
Jesus and Judas come out of the same tribe and in the same church. And even the Holy Spirit and the antichrist is
to be twins, so close that would deceive the very elected if possible. Have
you got it? All right.
Marriage and Divorce V-3 N-13
65-0221M Did
you know Satan was co-equal with God one
day? Sure was, all but a creator; he was everything, stood at the right
hand of God in the heavens, a great leading cherubim.
