Ten Thousand Worlds

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. (Psalm 5:1-3)

8 Now, the thing is with the people, is the way God appears. Many times we want to make an idol out of God. We ask God to do something, and then He must do it just the way that we ask it, or we’ll say He never answered. When we do that, we weaken our faith in God. And we weaken our testimony when we do not take Him at His Word.

God always answers. No one never asked… Jesus said, “Ask and you shall receive; seek and ye shall find.” Everyone that asks will receive. Everyone that seeks shall find. Everyone that knocks, it’ll be opened to them.

Now, that’s the only way that I’ve always found it, that I can get anything from God, is take Him at His Word and believe it the way He sends it.

Now, if we do not take it just the way that we think it is… We’ve built God as an idol. He’s got to answer just according to our ways, or, “Well, it’s just no good. He didn’t answer us.” God answers in many ways. He answers in peculiar ways, times, and everything is odd.

9 We’ll take, for instance, Moses. Moses was eighty years old. He was almost, you might think, too old for God to deal with. He was an old man, unexpected in his age to be dealt with with God. Another thing, he was under the Mount Horeb, a unexpected place. God met him at a unexpected age, at a unexpected place, in a unexpected way. God didn’t meet Moses the way He usually met men. He met Moses in an unusual way, in the way that He chose to meet Moses in.

That’s the way he answers our prayer, in the way that He thinks is best. And His way is always right. If we ask for anything, and it doesn’t happen just the way God—or the way we think that God ought to let it happen, then that makes us lose and fall back. Let’s ask God, stand firm on the Word, and say It’s true, and it—just receive it the way He sends it. That’s the way you got to believe God.

It may come disguised; it may come in another way, around about way. But no matter what way it comes, if we have asked we shall receive. God said so. And that settles it forever, if God says so. Now, when you get to taking God like that and believing it…

60-0326 - "The Unchangeable God"

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Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. (John 19:1-12)

171 Did you ever notice an airplane pilot before he goes up in the airplane? He’s got…checks every instrument he can. He’ll take that plane out, he’ll check everything; and stand out there and rev it up, and rev it up, to see if it’ll take off, and everything. Why? He is awful careful. He has got blood on his hands if he don’t watch.

172 Look at a doctor, for an operation, how he checks every tool, takes the x-ray, and everything. Why? He’s got that man on his hands. If he dies, the blood is on him. And he checks everything, to be sure that the blood is not upon him. That’s right. He don’t want no blood on his hands. Human blood don’t want to be on human’s hands.

173 But what are you going to do with the Blood of Jesus Christ on your hands? Now you can’t throw It out, say, “I don’t believe That.” The Bible condemns you. He says He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever; and here He is working, doing the same. The Blood is on your hands, anyhow, and you can’t wash It off.

174 Pilate tried that. There couldn’t be enough water to wash It off his hands. He tried to pass It on to his organization, the higher up, the presbyter, said, “If you would let me do it,” but it backfired.

175 It comes right back to you. See? You can’t get It off your hands, no way in the world but accept It. The only way you can get It off your hands, is get It on your heart. That’s the only way to do it. And when we see Jesus Christ today manifest Himself here just exactly like He al-…when He did here on earth, and promised to do it, we are sure this is the Messiah. Now It’s on your hands, in your lap. What will you do with this Jesus called Christ?

63-1130E - "Go, Awake Jesus"

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And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not. One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew. (John 18:25-27)

327 Peter, after he was out there fishing, he was…his occupation was fishing. I kind of like his occupation. And so, he was out there fishing, all discouraged, know that he had denied Christ. Oh, my! Heard that Prophet stand there and tell him, “Peter, do you say you love Me?”

328 He said, “O Lord, You know I love You.” He said, “I love You. I’m ready to die for You.”

329 He said, “Peter, you think you mean that, but you’ll deny Me three times before…You’ll deny Me before the cock crows the third time. See, you’ll deny Me thrice before the cock crows.”

330 And then seeing that come to pass, when he stood there and said “I don’t know Him. No, I don’t know nothing about them there Pentecostals.”

331 It ain’t time to quit preaching, it’s just my watch having a spell. [The alarm on Brother Branham’s watch sounded—Ed.] See? Said that, “I—I know…” I—I’m supposed to stop now, but I—I can’t stop right at this time, see, so I got to finish this up here just a minute.

332 Said, “I—I—I—I know I denied Him. I denied Him in the presence of Pilate. I denied Him in the presence when that little woman come around to me, said, ‘Aren’t you one of them?’ ‘No!’ And even cursed!” Oh, he was in a terrible shape. Said, “I—I—I…” She denied…He had denied Him. And he had seen Jesus stand and look over, then is when the cock crowed, looked over at Peter. He went out. Oh, he was discouraged with himself, said, “Why do I live any longer?”

333 And then, besides that, he said, “I think I’ll go back and go fishing again. I can’t preach anymore, so I’ll just go back and start fishing.” He had throwed his nets in and cast all night long, didn’t have no fish. And he was at a weak spot, he didn’t have nothing, discouraged with himself, come to the end of his abilities.

334 Well, he thought he was a great man, chopped the high priest’s son’s ears off like that. Well, he thought he was a great fellow, you know, he had learned something. But he knowed nothing! He had to forget all about it.

335 And there he was out there, said, “Well, I know one thing, I’m a fisherman. I can still make a living, fishing.” He cast all night and didn’t get nothing. Oh, what a discourage! Every time he pulled it up, an empty net. And he was so discouraged! He was at the weakest point, said, “I just might as well feel like jumping off this boat. I ain’t worth nothing, anyhow.”

He said, “Have you got any fish, children?”

336 Looked out on the bank, and there stood a Man. He said, “No, we’ve toiled all night and taken nothing. I thought I was a fisherman.”

“Is that you, Simon?”

337 “Yeah. Well, I toiled all night and taken nothing. Oh, I—I…We ain’t got no fish out here.”

He said, “Well, cast your net on the other side.”

338 “We’ve done…What?” Then he be-…Said, “On the other side? We’ve been doing that!”

“Cast it on the other side.”

339 He throwed his nets out, and he pulled. He said…Then he become strong. Oh, my! He grabbed up his old fish coat and put it around him, said, “Brethren, that’s Who It is!” And he beat the rest of them to the bank, before they could oar them boats just as fast as they could, he outswam them, with a fish coat on, got to the bank. Why? When he was strong. When he was strong he couldn’t do nothing, but when he got weak then he got strong. Yes, sir.

61-1119 - "Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness"

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalm 2:12)

38 You know, the custom in the Palestine country, the first thing happens when you’re invited to a royal entertainment like that, when you come to the door you’re all dirty, you stink; you’re not—you’re not a fit subject then for entertainment. You’d be embarrassed to walk in those lovely homes with all that on your feet and everything, and the way you look and sweaty and everything. What’s the first thing? When a guest arrives, they got a flunky, the poorest paid man on the job.

When I think that my Lord girded Himself and washed people’s feet, He took the lowest place, when He was the—deserved the highest place. But He took the lowest place, to wash the dung and dirt from their feet, become the humblest of servants. There’s not another servant got as humble a job as the flunky that washes the feet.

But when you come to a—a home of that type in the eastern country, Palestine, the flunky meets you at the door, goes to one of the wells and draws him some—a great basin of—of good clear water, and he removes your sandal, or your shoe, sets your feet up across his knee, and he washes all this dirt, and dust, and dung, and stuff off of your body. And then he takes another towel and wipes your feet, and he washes them, sets them down.

And then he takes your sandals and sets them up on a little—little mantle like, sets them along like this at the door of entrance. Then he goes over, and he finds a pair of fine satin, silk slippers; they’re soft. That’s the compliments of the host. He does that; he has them setting there; he put them upon your feet until he finds one that fits you comfortably.

39 Then your feet’s washed. Then he passes you into another place, and then there’s a man meets you there at the door, and he has a little basin in his hand, a little pitcher like. And you take it and pour a—some of the oil in your hands.

Now, that oil is made of a very fine spikenard. What it is, it’s—there’s a bush that grows in Arabia that they get it from. A little flower blooms like a rose, and then when the rose goes down, it leaves a little bulb like and that hardens like a little apple. And that’s the thing that this tree does, but you can take that and roll it in your hands.

I seen a—a Russian celebrity one time, who had two of them; you could roll them in your hands like that, and the scent would stay on your hand for two weeks. It’s very expensive, costly. And it cost much money. Oil will get old and—and smell bad in a few days, but they put this spikenard in there until it becomes… Oh, it keeps for—that aroma for years. That was some of the treasures that the queen of Sheba brought to Solomon.

40 And they give you that, and you wash your hands with it. Then they give you a towel, and you wipe your hands. Then the next they give you, it’s some more of it, and you put it on your neck, the back of your neck, on your cheeks and on your forehead. Both men and women in Palestine must do this, because the sun rays are so hot. They do that, and then it creates a smell. Then after you wipe the most of it off, you’re refreshed. Your feet is washed; you are washed; your hands are clean; your face is clean.

Then you’re taken into the chamber of where the host is. And then when you meet him, you take—he takes his right hand and puts it on your left shoulder, then you bow. And then he—you take your right hand and put it on his left shoulder, and he bows. Then he kisses you, from one side of the cheek to the other side of the cheek; and that’s the welcome, the right hand of fellowship. When the host kisses you, you are a brother; you’re welcome.

55-0807A - "Pride"

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Psalm 1:1-3)

7 And if a fellow doesn’t know his sheep real well, it’s hard to tell the difference between the bleating of a goat and of a sheep. They’re a whole lot alike. But the nature of them proves what they are. That’s the way with confessed Christians and real Christians. The goat represents the world. They’ll lead you right down the wrong road to your eternal separation from God. They’ll lead you into trouble. So if we are sheep, we better watch what kind of shepherd we got.

Sheep are funny little creatures in one way. Here’s another thing we might learn of sheep tonight. When the weather is real hot, did you ever see sheep? They won’t separate themselves, and one be at one place, and one at another. But right in the heat of the day, the sheep will all stand together. You know what they’re doing? They’re making shade one for the other. They’re having fellowship.

8 And wouldn’t it be good if all God’s sheep, when the heat was on, would stand together. When the trials are real hard, and the heat is on, and everything going on everywhere, if all of God’s little sheep would just stand together, we’d have the coolness of the shade of each other, the comfort, to lean upon each other.

Now, someone said, “Is that necessary, Brother Branham?” It certainly is. There’s nothing like having a real good dependable friend, that when the troubles are blazing, the heat’s on, you can go to this friend, and set down, and just explain it to them, talk it over in personal confidence, and then kneel down and pray together, and know that this person is a good God-saved man or woman that you can put confidence in. Oh, it’s good to do that. “Come, let us reason together,” saith the Scripture. Or, “Come, let us stand together.”

And I noticed another thing when I see sheep in a cold country. And when all the sheep, the blizzards comes, to break the wind all those little sheep will come from one side of the field to the other and huddle up together; it keeps each other warm. The warmth from each body helps warm the other.

9 And I think when the Church gets real cold and indifferent, God’s sheep ought to kinda huddle up together and pray for each other. And the warmth of real good Christian fellowship, oh, it means so much. David spoke of it in the first Psalm, said, “Blessed is the man that setteth not in the seat of the scornful, standeth in the way of sinners. But his delight is in the law of the Lord: and in the law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree that’s planted by the river of water, and his leaves shall not wither; whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper.”

57-0308 - "The Good Shepherd Of The Sheep"

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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. (Numbers 25:1-3)

238 Now, what did Balaam do when he found out that he couldn’t—that he couldn’t curse Israel? He told Balac it would be a good idea, then, for him to invite these people to the festival of the god. They had a—they had a—a great festival up there, they were…where they were going to have. And they…The festival was called “The feast of Baal-p-e-o-r, Baal-peor.” I suppose p-…peor, Baal-peor. It was a—a feast, to worship.

239 And Balaam said, “Now, I’ll tell you, Balac, I’ll give you a good idea. If you’ll just…if you…God won’t curse them, that’s all there is to it, so I’ll tell you what we’ll do. We can’t get rid of them; but if you’ll just invite them over, you’ll swing the whole thing your way.”

240 See, exactly, exactly what Constantine did. Perfectly! That’s the reason “the doctrine of Balaam.”

241 What did they do? They then…Balac’s teaching come down amongst Israel. And they invited all the Israelites up to this big feast, the big blowout they had. Oh, some big party, shindig of a thing up there they had. And when they got up there, why, these Israelite people begin to see these pretty, sexy-dressed Moabite women. Yes, wasn’t like their common girls down there. “Oh, they looked so pretty. My! How they were made and, oh, how they could show themselves.” And they fell for it, and begin to commit adultery. And Balaam knowed if God wouldn’t curse them, he’d take them over on this denominational side and cause the anger of God to kill them anyhow; let God kill them Hisself, if he could ever get them out of the way of the Truth.

242 And as soon as you walk out and join a church instead of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you’re dead! (Not for you, but on here, I’m letting that soak a little while.) Dead! “You have a name,” said to Luther here, of the Sardis Age. The word Sardis means “dead.” “You have a name that you’re alive, but you’re dead!” That’s what God said. Yeah. See?

243 And when they had committed spiritual fornications up there, the church married from the baptism of the Holy Ghost to a denomination, they become dead. There you are. That’s what the Bible said, that’s what God said, speaking to the churches.

244 Now I want to just read something here to you, that I…

245 And God, what did He do? And now when they did this evil thing, and they were in adultery, God killed forty-two thousand of them at one time; forty-two thousand, for committing adultery. And what is it spoke of here in the church? The spiritual adultery, that you profess to be a “Christian” and still living like the world. Oh, brother, receive ye the Holy Ghost! Get away from these old creeds and things you…they’re dead; recite the Apostles’ Creed, or some kind of a creed, and say a few prayers wrote out of a prayer book, or something like that. Jesus never did tell His people to say a prayer, He said, “Pray!” Pray! All right.

60-1207 - "The Pergamean Church Age"

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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee. (Numbers 24:3-6)

69 He went on down, and he thought that surely he was going to curse those people. So when he goes down, we find a good picture of it here in Jude, if we’ll just turn over. Listen. When he got down there, he said…Now watch Balaam. And Balak is going to show Balaam Israel, so he goes and builds his altar. He was a prophet, Balaam was. So he just showed him a part of Israel, just the worst part.

70 And that’s just exactly the way the devil does today, he just shows you the worst part of the thing. That’s what the devil shows some of these modern preachers of theology, just say, “Now, look here, you know John Doe that used to live over here, he run off with So-and-so’s wife. We had enough of that bunch of holy-rollers.” He didn’t think about some in his own organization did the same thing. That’s right. But they can cover it up.

71 But, listen, he showed him just so much of Israel, then he took him back and showed him so much here. But when he come to a place, and Balaam, he thought, “Surely if Israel had done wrong…” They did do wrong. They had done everything in God’s calendar, wrong, nearly. But what, and Balaam thought that a holy God would surely curse a people that had done that much wrong. He thought, “Surely God will do it.” So when he got down there, he was so money crazy until he couldn’t see what the reason that God wasn’t cursing them. And everytime he’d try to curse them, he would bless them. He’d throw out his prophecy like that, and go forth and take up his mantle and his parable; and instead of cursing, it would be a blessing fall back to them, “How righteous are thy tents, O Israel,” how great they was. Instead of cursing, it was a blessing.

72 What Balaam failed to see, is what the modern preachers and modern people fail to see in the Holy Ghost Church today. They say, “I know a lot of them call themselves this, that, and the other, and a lot of things they’ve done.” I’ll admit that, brother. They say, “They blow up with this, and they’ve done that, and done this.” That’s true, I’ll admit that they’ve done wrong.

73 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 Balaam failed to see That. In the day the modern preacher fails to see the Power of the Holy Ghost, the smitten Jesus Christ, that we are in His Body, by one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body and become members of that Body. And that’s what the modern man failed to see in there. Before that Holy Ghost church moving on, they fail to see that, that smitten Rock, that Brazen Serpent going before the church, making an atonement. Balaam failed to see It.

53-0329 - "Israel And The Church #5"

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (John 15:12-15)

141 If you’re a member of a church, that’s a good thing, but that’s not good enough. See, the rich young ruler was a member of the church. See? He asked Jesus what could he do to have Eternal Life. He never accepted It. He walked away. What a foolish thing for that young man to do. Don’t take his place. You remember the last time he was identified? A little later, he prospered. He got richer. He got to a place till even his barns bursted. But then we find his last identification, in hell, flames tormenting. Don’t, don’t let that happen to you. Accept Christ.

142 You young people, you young girls, young boys, just at the turning of life, please do that. Hear me, as—as your brother, one who loves you. I’m here because I love you. I love God, and I love you, and I cannot love God if I don’t love you.

143 I would a lot rather, if you had a comment to pass, pass it on my son out there, or one of my children. Let me just…I, I’ll go without it. Any parent will do that; so will God. See? Love His people. Love one another.

144 You say, “What do you scold them for?” Genuine love is corrective.

145 If your child is sitting out on the street; you say, “Well, there sits Junior. He oughtn’t to do that, but I don’t want to hurt his little feelings.” You don’t love him. He’ll get killed there. If you love him, you’ll bring him in and give him a spanking. You’ll make him obey.

146 That’s the way God does. Love is corrective, and that’s genuine love.

147 When a preacher stand and lets you women bob your hair, and wear paint and stuff, and don’t correct you, there is no genuine love there; and won’t call it out. And let you men marry three or four times, and all of these other things, and get by with it, there is no genuine love there. Let you join a church, and pat you on the back, and smother you with some creed, then, “That’s all you have to do, is join the holy church,” there is no love there. Or, either, the man is so totally lost, himself, he don’t see.

148 Genuine love is corrective, and brings you back to the Word of God.

149 Look at Jesus, how, what He said, ’cause He loved them, so much that He died in their place, when they was even calling for His Blood.

64-0322 - "Possessing The Gate Of The Enemy After Trial"

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Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)

109 I’ve never believed that Heaven was a place where there’s a bunch of buildings, where there’s a bunch of houses up There, made with mortar, daubed up with paper, paint on the wall. I’ve never believed that a supernatural Being would have to live in a literal house. I believe, when Jesus spoke in Gen-…John 14 said, “In my Father’s house is many mansions,” He meant, “a body, a dwelling place.”

110 For, the Scriptures verify the same thing, and say, “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” You see it?

111 Mortal beings is the only one who lives in mortal habitations. Immortal beings live in immortal habitations. Then, the place that we go into, until we return back, is not a place of brick, and mortar, and clay, or precious stones, or jewels. It’s a place of condition, that we move out of this dimension that we live into, into another dimension. And it’s a house, a tabernacle, a dwelling place.

112 Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and I’ll raise it up in three days.” And they thought He was speaking of the Solomon’s temple, but He was speaking of His Own body.

113 And He has gone to prepare a place for every believer, that the very moment we step out of these mortal regions, we don’t go out into myth or some supernatural spirit, but we go into a tabernacle, a dwelling place. And that might be right here in this building this morning, in a place that no other radio activity, or nothing could touch. It’s there solely fixed by God alone.

114 Listen. Moses had been dead for eight hundred years. Elijah had been translated for around six or seven hundred years. And there they stood on Mount Transfiguration, both of them, in their mortal looks, talking to Jesus just before He went to Calvary. See what I mean?

115 Then what am I trying to say, that we are looking at some mythical something, a way off, out yonder, a hundred million years?

116 I got a revelation the other day, standing up there on Mount Palomar, at the observatory, and seeing the time, the space, over to Mars, and to the last continents and so forth, and light traveling at so many thousands miles per second.

117 If an Angel started from the farthest star, and coming here, it would take It billions times billions times billions of years to get here. If he started from Mars and come here, flying at the speed of—of light—of light space, or light speed. It would take Him billions of years to get here.

118 I cannot believe that there is a house way out yonder. But, I believe that that house that God was speaking of is right present here now. That, that’s the place where the mortal beings, when we cease to be mortal here, we step into immorality yonder, into a place.

119 And I believe that’s where Jesus is today, the resurrected Lord Jesus; not out yonder somewhere, a million miles away, but right here present with us now.

55-0403 - "Fellowship By Redemption"

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And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. (Numbers 21:5-9)

13 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. Moses had no cure for that snakebite. Nothing could be done. There they was, way in the wilderness. And Moses prayed and God came to him and told him the remedy for it. I like that. What is He? God, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide, make a way. I love it.

Notice, then God told Moses, in this type or symbol; said, “Go make a serpent out of brass and put it on a pole.” Now, the serpent, in a symbol, meant sin. The serpent represented the serpent from the garden of Eden already judged: snake turned from a—a animal.

Now, he wasn’t a reptile. The Bible said he was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. He wasn’t a reptile; he was a beast. And he turned to a serpent on his belly. And that snake represented sin judged. And made out of brass meant Divine judgment. Brass means Divine judgment in the Bible. See, the people were sinning because they didn’t believe the prophet. They were chiding against him and against God. They had sinned, and because of sin, serpents had bit them, and they were dying.

14 And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had—before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so.

Notice. And so God put up this—had Moses to put up this ensign to Israel. And when he lifted it up, sickness and sin, a compound reason for both sickness and sin. Jehovah-jireh was providing an ensign that represented that their sin was forgiven and a healing for their sickness. You get it? Serpent represented sin judged.

15 Brass… See brass is one thing that you can’t tamper with. Brass cannot be tempered. You find some form or a temper brass, your tithings for six months will pay my way for fifty years around the world missionary, if you can find something that’ll temper brass. Can’t be tempered. Goes to show that God’s represented brass as Divine judgment and God’s Divine judgment cannot be tempered. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Here you are. I want you to get it now.

Look. Brass, the brazen altar where the sacrifices were burned: judgment, Divine judgment. And in the days of Elijah, when he went out and looked at the skies, he said they looked like brass: Divine judgment upon a rebellious nation. God have mercy. The skies sometimes look brass around here in America. Divine judgment, hardly can break through. Judgment…

16 Notice, then the ensign was lifted up; a beautiful picture of this, it’s pictured in—in Ruth.

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