Marriage And Divorce (65-0221M)

 

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Let us bow our heads now for a moment of prayer. Most gracious Father,
we thank Thee this morning for this privilege of being here in this
auditorium, facing the outcome of the day. But we don't know what the
day holds, but we know Who holds the day. So we pray that He Who holds
today and tomorrow and all eternity will bless us today as we assemble
together in His Name, that we might know better how to live to serve
Him. This is our full intention, Father. God, Who knows our hearts,
knows this true. We commit ourselves to You with the–the future part
of the day for Your service, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Be seated. [Brother Branham speaks to someone on platform–Ed.] Same thing… Here's another one…?…

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Good morning, visible audience and also invisible audience across the
nation and where we're hooked up this morning. This gives me a great
privilege to come here and to speak this morning on this a vital
subject. To the visible audience, it's indeed a little confusing,
because there's–just in front of me is curtains, then I have to speak
to the right and to the left. And to the invisible audience, I have the
auditorium to my right and also the gymnasium to my left, and I'm on
the floor with the curtains open between, making my right hand and left
hand. And we've got overflow this morning through the auditorium, also
the gymnasium, and also the church–church down there on 8th and Penn
Street. And in the overflow places the telephone system is taking it
down to the other places.

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We've had a tremendous time in the Lord, and we're under great
anticipations for this service this morning. And now, tonight being the
closing time of this a–four days of campaign, why, we certainly invite
all that can to be here. We're trusting that the Lord will give us a
great climax tonight by doing something extremely extraordinary;
insomuch, that He'd heal all the sick and do the great things that He
usually does. And we're under great anticipations for the evening. The
public is a-cordially invited: everybody, every church of every
denomination; you don't even have to be a Christian. We certainly are
calling for sinners to come in, set among us; and we do our very best
to teach them what is the way of the Lord, that we might live.
Now, I hope that the audience will not be nervous, and I'll–trusting
to God that I will not be nervous, for I've had a tremendous night, a
lot of strain, for I realize that the things that I say this morning
will be held against me in the day of the judgment. And I–I couldn't
sleep. And I know if I don't say them, it'll be held against me in the
day of judgment. So it–it makes it hard. You can't explain it.

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And now, this morning is that great subject we're to discuss on
"Marriage and Divorce." And the reason I've made it Sunday school, so
that we could talk about it and take our time. Instead of preaching a
sermon on it, it's a teaching from the Scripture.
And I–I want to say that if any minister or ministers, anyplace,
should this tape ever fall into their hands (if we release this
tape)… I don't know what the church will do about it. I'm asking
Brother Fred to see the church board before he releases this tape. And
to you people out across the nation that's got tape recorders setting,
please don't let the tape out unless you hear from Brother Sothmann
about it.
Now, and if it is let loose, and any of my minister brothers or any
Christian anywhere, that would disagree upon the things that I am
saying about this subject, I–I trust that you will not criticize it.
If you don't understand it the way that I teach it, well, you have a
right to that as a minister, as a shepherd, and I respect anything that
you believe.

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And there's two great schools on this. And if there's two questions,
there's either one of them got to be right or neither one of them's
right. So we're going to try to look to the Word of God this morning to
settle this. To me, if it's a Bible question, the Bible surely has the
answer to it.
And now, just before we have these–start this subject, rather, before
I pray over the Word, I want to express to each one of you that I–you
Christians especially–that I desire, I–I want you to pray for me this
morning. And all out in the unseen audience that's listening in this
morning, pray for me, because I want to be honest and truthful.

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Now, we realize in making these statements, somebody, if it's only one
person, will hang on to it like it was between life and death. There's
many of you here will go away believing. 'Course, many of you, perhaps,
won't. But I know in my ministry there's people who come to listen at
me, listen to what I've got to say, from a… Well, they're setting
right here this morning internationally, from many of the United
States, Canada, and across the sea. And you can imagine the strain that
it puts you to know that that man's eternal destination lays in your
hands, 'cause he's going to hold on to what you say. So God would make
me answer for it. And I want to approach this just as sincerely as I
can.

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Now, I–I ask our sisters, and I altered some of my words so that I
could speak it before them. Billy has in his pocket this morning, out
there, some things that could not be said out before a–a mixed
audience, and some that I probably will say, you must understand. Take
it as from the–from your brother. To the best that I know, you'd set
in a doctor's office and listen to him, he'd have to say very plain
words to you. And some of you young ladies and young men, I don't want
you to get the wrong impression; I want you to believe and just set
still. Remember, Truth has got to be stated Truth.
And now, no doubt, but there'll be many of you disagree with what is to
be said, but I want to prove it to you by the Bible. And then I believe
if you'll just be reverent and listen, then you'll have a better
understanding and conception of what I've been hammering at all along.
I believe this will explain it. And I trust that it will.

^3-3 Now, we may be a little lengthy, an hour and a half or maybe longer on this. I don't know how long it will take.
And
now again, I'd like to say that in this time, that knowing that people
holds to your words… They do to their pastor, and of course I've been
a pastor; and they hold to a pastor's words just like it was between
death and life. They hold to their priest's words just like it was
death and life. And of course the pastor, perhaps with all that he
knows how to do, he's teaching his people just exactly like he was
taught in the seminary. No doubt but what the priest also in the
different religions that have priests… 'Course the pastor really is a
priest; it's an intercessor. So if the priest in all that he's taught
in his–in the seminary, in the monasteries, a man with deep sincerity
is telling just exactly what he's taught… Well, then I don't have any
seminary experience or monastery experience. And nothing against it at
all, but I have a very peculiar life.

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I was called when I was just a little boy. And in this was a visible,
audible sign given me: a–a Pillar of Fire hanging in a bush, at seven
years old, right here on the Utica Pike. My father was working for Mr.
O. H. Wathen, that just recently died. And you've read the book; you
know the story. And from that time… Down on the river then, It
appeared visibly before the people, and now… It's had the picture
taken many times, and it hangs in the Washington, D.C. as a copyright
in the Religious Hall of Art as the only supernatural being that was
ever scientifically proven to be photographed: same Pillar of Fire,
exactly in the same look and every way, that brought Israel out of
Egypt. I believe It's Jesus Christ in Spirit form in the Sonship of
God; for He was called Son of man when He come first; now He's called
Son of God; in the millennium He'll be Son of David. He come Son of
man, a prophet, as was spoke of Him; now He's Son of God, supernatural;
in the great millennium that is to come He'll be Son of David, setting
on the throne of David. As all Bible readers know, that that's a Divine
promise with God to David: He'd raise up His Son to set on His throne.

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And now, in a odd, peculiar ministry, I've been called everything from
God to a devil. And that's just… It always is that way.
That's what this archbishop of the Catholic church said to me the other
night (down there the discussion was), that he said, "Brother Branham,
John the Baptist clearly identified himself in the Scriptures as spoken
by the prophet Isaiah." He said, "Your ministry is clearly identified
in the church." He said, "The Lutherans are in the Bible." He said,
"Lutherans knowed Luther; Wesley's know Wesley, but what about the
Pentecostals?" Said, "They're wandering, don't know where to go."
And I said, "Sir, I appreciate that." And it was that time the Spirit
fell upon the lady (had never seen me in, his wife) and spoke and
identified the same thing.
Now, to be honest before this message I speak this morning, I don't
know. I told him, I said, "Sir, I couldn't say that. That's a great big
thing to say. It looks like it." One thing that I know, that there's
something has took place, definitely. All these things just as
scientifically proven and proven around and around the world, it can't
be just a myth; it's truth. What is it? Let me say confessionally
before I speak to you this morning, I don't know. And I would be
daresn't to make any move until I heard from Him that has talked to me
in the past and told me these things.

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Remember, our Lord Jesus Christ never did identify Himself as the Son
of God. He said, "You said I was; to this end I was born," and so
forth, but He never identified Himself.
And now, that was the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel,
was the Lord Jesus Christ in Spirit form (You believe that?), the Logos
that went out of God. And then when He was on earth, He said, "I come
from God and I go to God." We all know that. And after His death,
burial, and resurrection, Saul of Tarsus was on his road down to
Damascus to persecute the–the Christians because they were teaching
things contrary to what they had been taught. And he was a great
warrior under Gamaliel, one of the outstanding teachers of the day in
their school, their monastery, and a great man and a officer of the
church. And it was there that a great Light, the Pillar of Fire again,
struck him down in the middle of the day. And a Voice said, "Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"

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Now, if you notice when Paul–Saul raised up, he said, "Lord, Who are
You?" Now, that boy being a Jew, he certainly wouldn't have called
anything, 'less it had been something to symbol God, he wouldn't have
called it "Lord." So It was the same Pillar of Fire.
As Jesus said, "I go to God… I came from God, and I return to God."
There He was, back in the form of a Pillar of Fire again. He said, "I'm
Jesus, Whom thou persecutest, and it's hard for you to kick against the
pricks." And we realize that when the Apostle Peter (to who the keys
was given to build the church), we find out that he was in prison, and
this same Pillar of Fire came through the bars, opened the doors of the
prison, and took Peter out mysteriously, without even disturbing the
guards, to me It's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And then you'll always know anything by the nature of it. Anything is
known by its nature, the fruit it bears. And I ask you to watch the
kind of fruit It bears, this Light, which is God, because It always
goes back to the Word of God and proves the Word of God, preaches the
Word of God, and God proves that Word materially so before you. There's
got to be something behind it.

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People has called me a prophet. I don't call myself no prophet, because
I'd be daresn't to say that. But I have say–I can say this, that the
Lord has let me foresee things, tell things that has happened, will
happen, is happening; and not one time has it ever failed in the tens
of thousands of times. Everything that He said would happen, happened.
We all know that. If there's a person in this visible audience this
morning or anywhere could say one time it failed, you're at liberty to
stand up and say so. But if everybody knows that every time, of the
thousands of times it's been perfectly right, say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen."–Ed.] So that would be the same thing around the world.
Something is just about to happen. God never sends these things without being a purpose behind it.

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I was just thinking here (I placed it here, one of my notes) that I'm
wearing this morning a set of cuff links. And many of you have heard of
this movie star, Jane Russell, and her mother is a Pentecostal; and
Danny Henry is her cousin, her first cousin, her mother's sister's
child. He was Baptist. He was standing at the meeting, a businessman's
meeting in Los Angeles, California, two years ago. And I had just got
through speaking of a great, powerful, forceful statement that even the
overseer (one of the general overseers of the Assemblies of God)
stepped down to the platform from up in the balcony where he was
setting, and he said, "I don't believe that Brother Branham meant that."
I said, "I have to mean it, sir. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD." And then… It was about the church in this age.

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And about that time this young man who is a businessman (his brother is
over…), he–he was there taking pictures for television that morning.
(His other brother is–is a–a state road supervisor of California.)
And Danny Henry walked forward after the meeting was closed, on the
platform like this, where the men were all seated, walked down to put
his arms around me, and he said these words: "Brother Branham, I hope
this don't sound sacrilegious," but said, "that could be made the 23rd
chapter of Revelations," (which there's only 22 chapters in
Revelations). He said, "I hope this don't sound sacrilegious."
He had no more than said it (Now, the boy was a Baptist and knowed
nothing about the supernatural.), with his arms around me, he started
talking in a unknown language. And when he got through speaking in an
unknown language, there was a–a heavyset, dark woman setting right in
front of me; she raised up, said, "That don't need any interpretation."
She said, "I'm from Shreveport, Louisiana–or Baton Rouge, Louisiana."
Said, "That is clearly French."
Victor Le Doux, which was a Frenchman, also setting up there, said, "Certainly, I'm a Frenchman, and that was perfectly French."
I said, "Wait a minute. You write down what he said, and you write down
what he said, before you say anything. Write down what you said, and
let's see your notes."
And so one wrote down, and the other wrote down. It was–even the
punctuation was the same. And then, just about that time, when they
brought the notes up, a fine looking young, blond-headed boy come
walking from the back where there's–not enough room for him to set
down. (He was standing up in the back.) He come walking forth, said,
"Just a minute. I'd like to place a note too." He said, "I am the
French interpreter for the U.N." (United Nations.) He said, "I'd like
to leave my note."

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And here all three notes exactly the same–of French. And here's the
way it reads (This is the original notes take-note taken right off.
This is Danny's note hisself. He packed it in his pocket. Of course it
went in the Christian Business Men and so forth):

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Now, this same young man that give this prophecy, not knowing what he
was saying, was in Jerusalem about a month ago. He had the privilege of
going out and–and laying in the tomb where Jesus had died and was
buried. And so while he was laying there, he said I come upon his mind
real strong, and he started weeping. Said how that, "It has been so
hard for Brother Branham to stand against the world and these things
and all churches." Like as it was once said of one of the Billy
Graham's parts, said, "We can see Billy Graham, 'cause all churches are
united together for him; we see Oral Roberts, the Pentecostals; but how
do we ever have anything when it's contrary to what people have been
taught?" It's God.
And Danny, what he does for a hobby, he makes little stones. He walked
out to where the cross had been put down, where they said the cross set
in the rock. No one was around, so he broke off a little piece of rock,
and he put it into his pocket for a souvenir, come home and made me a
pair of cuff links out of it. And strangely, when he made them, they
looked to be bloodstained, and right through each one of them, in
continuity, runs a straight, narrow path right through both of them.
Now, that might be just a… See, I–someone else might not notice it,
but to me it's complimentary to the things I believe. I believe that
everything has a meaning to it.

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And now, in this time, whatever the Lord has… If this isn't the thing
that He prophesied of, of Malachi 4 and of also of Luke 17, and many
other Scriptures that's to happen in this last day (may I say this in
closing), it's laid the foundation for the man when he will come. So I
am very thankful that God Almighty, if it be that way, has let me do a
little something in my uneducated condition to show my appreciations of
His love to me, my love to Him, and our love to the people. Therefore,
in sincerity, I approach this subject of "Marriage and Divorce." May
God have mercy on us all.
And now, listen closely. And sisters, don't get up and go out; set
still just a little while. Brothers, do the same. Don't turn off your
sets out there that's coming in on this hookup. Don't do that. And just
set still for a few minutes until it's over. Listen close. If you
disagree, put down the Scriptures that I use and then study them
prayerfully before you make your decision. God help us as we try to
approach this subject.

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Now, it may be a little lengthy. I don't want you to be in any hurry
and I… Just take your time (all of us) and study the Word of God
truly and thoroughly as we know how to study It.
Let's begin with St. Matthew the 19th chapter, and beginning, I think,
with the 8th verse of the 19th chapter, I wish to start. I might start
also with the first and read down through the 8th verse of the 19th
chapter.
Now, remember, these things that I say must come from the Word of God.
It can't be my own opinion, 'cause my opinion's just like anybody
else's, but it's got to be in continuity with the Word of God.
Remember, God keeps everything in continuity. He never changes. He's
the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that? He's the
same. Now, I shall read from the 19th chapter:

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Now, God help us. This Scripture, this question, confronted Jesus at
the very beginning of His ministry, and it confronted Moses at the very
beginning of his ministry. It's a foremost question in believers'
hearts. The sinner doesn't care. But it's to believers, because the
believer is trying to do all that he knows how to do to live right
before God. Therefore, if any question comes up on religion, then the
marriage and divorce case comes up. Why? Because it is the cause of the
original sin. That's where sin started, and that's the reason it's
brought up every time, because it is the very beginning of sin.
Now, I won't have time to explain all these things, but I'll be glad to
answer your letter or anything I can, or we've got the books wrote on
it and many questions and even cuttings out of newspapers and things
here to prove this. We know that it was Eve… The apple that she was
supposed to eat (for it's not even Scriptural), now they claim it was
an apricot… It was neither one. She committed adultery that brought
forth the first child, which was Cain, Satan's own son. For in him laid
evil. It did not come through Abel. Satan's son was Cain.

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I know your question now: Eve said, "I have gotten a man from the
Lord." That's exactly right. You could take the orneriest woman in the
town, the worst man; if they had a baby, it would have to come from the
Lord, because God has laws set together. And of these laws… Like the
sun to raise: you put a cocklebur in a good field; it'll grow, and it
has to grow because it's God's law. When seed is planted it must grow.
And nothing can grow life but God, because it operates under His laws.
And therefore, when the evil seed was planted in the womb of–of Eve,
it had to bring forth because it's God's law of production. And it
could do nothing else but bring it, and it had to come from God.
That's the reason people say little babies sometime that's not born
with Christian parents, are lost. Jesus Christ's blood atones for the
child, I don't care how much it was born, how evil it was born. He's
the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. The little child
cannot repent, because it has nothing to repent for, and that was the
sin of the world which was taken away by the Blood of Christ. Babies go
to heaven.

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It's the original sin and that's the reason it's–it's question. When
any great phenomena comes from God, about the first thing: "What about
marriage and divorce?" Now, as ever, it still is a question amongst the
people, as it was in the times of Jesus, as it was in the times of
Moses; it's always been and is to this day a question among the people,
because the people want to know what's the truth. But where there is a
question, there must also be an answer. And now, being an answer, as I
have said before this week, there must be a correct answer. And if we
get a answer to anything and it's a–it isn't right, then we know that
it was wrong. But there's… We still ask until the true question is
answered, if you want to know truth. And being this is a Bible
question, it should be a Bible answer.
It's like I said: if I wanted to go east this morning, and the best
that I knowed this… I had to find a certain something in the field,
and it was directly east, and I went east. Somebody said, "Brother
Branham, this is east." It is east potentially, but it's northeast. I
would pass the very object I was looking for; I'd come back knowing it
was wrong. And then if somebody said, "Brother Branham, go this way, to
your right." Now, that is potentially east also, but it's southeast. I
would lose the object that I was looking for, because I went beyond the
boundaries of the perfect and direct way.

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Now, if that be so, we have two schools of thought on marriage and
divorce. And that is, one of them says that a man can only be married
once unless his wife is dead. And that's one of the questions. But you
go to following that, you go overboard. And then the next says, "Oh, if
the wife or the husband (either one) has committed adultery, either one
of them can be put away and married again." You find yourself overboard
with that.
So see, it's neither southeast or northeast; we want directly east. You
run out of Scripture when you go this way. You run out of Scripture
when you go that way. We want to know where Scripture meets Scripture
and know what's the truth of it. Each takes a different way and fail to
bring up the correct answer, but there still must be an answer.

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It's just like today; there is two great schools of doctrine in the
church: one of them is Calvinism; the other one is Armin–Arminianism.
One of them is legalist, and the other one's grace. And we come to find
out that the people who believe in grace (the Calvinists), they say,
"Bless God, it don't hurt me to smoke; it don't hurt me to drink. I can
do these things; I've got eternal security." Then we find the other
side (on the legalists) said, "Oh, I would like to bawl him out; I'd
like to show him a piece of my mind, but I'm a Christian; I have to
keep still."
See, you find yourself on two different roads, and neither one of them
is right. Now, that's hard to say that, but it is the truth. We find
ourselves on two different roads: one going one way; one, another. Now,
let's see what truth is.

^12-3
Now, listen and see if this sounds sensible to you. For instance, if I
get ready to go overseas (Now, I take my own family.), I'll call my
wife up to me, and I will say, "We're… I'm going overseas, dear."
(Now, here is the legalist's side.) "Now, my wife, I'm going to lay the
law down to you. If you flirt with any man while I'm gone, when I come
back, you're a divorced woman. And I don't want you to–making eyes,
don't want you flirting. You understand that? I'm your husband, If you
do it, I'm going to put you away when I come back."
Then she reaches and gets me by the tie and say, "My good man, I want
to tell you something (See, see?), that if you make eyes at any woman,
or take any woman out, or flirt with any woman, you're going to be a
divorced man when you come back." Now, wouldn't that be a happy home?
That's the legalists.
All right. Now, the other side is, that if I go overseas, and I make a
mistake, go over and say, "Well, now look, I'll take this woman out.
Oh, it's all right with my wife; she don't care." My wife say, "I go
out with this man. That's all right with Bill; he don't care." If I
don't care, then there's something wrong with me. I don't love that
woman right. And if she don't care, there's something wrong with her.
She's my wife. I don't want another man fooling with her. She's my
wife.

^13-1
Now, the correct way of it is, there's both of them's got a truth, but
not the exact truth. Now, when I go overseas, to make it right, my
little family gathers around and we pray with one another, and I commit
them to God and they commit me to God. And when we do, we go oversea–I
go overseas. Now, I know she loves me; I have confidence in her. And I
love her; she's got confidence in me. As long as I love her like that,
she don't have any worry about me taking any other woman out. As long
as she loves me right, why, there's no need of me thinking about any
other man going out with her, because she's my wife and I believe her.
I believe if I would actually do something wrong, make a mistake, and
go out with some woman and return back and would confess it to her and
tell her, "Meda, I didn't mean to do that; I just got caught in a trap;
this woman just run right up to me and–and–and grabbed me by the arm
and started so-and-so," I believe she'd be understanding. I believe she
would forgive me for it. But I wouldn't do it for nothing, because I
love her. Though she would forgive me, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't
hurt her for nothing. Though I know she'd forgive me for it, I don't
want to hurt her.

^13-3
And that's the way it is with God. If I–if a Phileo love (which is
human love, fellowship love), can make a man feel that about his wife,
what about Agapao love (the Greek word meaning the love of God), how
would that make me do about Jesus Christ? How… As long as I want to
go do it, it's in my heart to do it. Well, they–I say, as long as it's
in my heart to do it, I–I go do it. Legalism won't let me do it. It's
because that I knowed I'd get punished for doing it. But the real truth
of it is, is when the love of God comes into your heart till you want
to do it, that's the truth of it. There's the two schools. Not legalism
or other, or the Calvinism; it's both.

^13-4
Now, we find out today also, there's many different denominations;
there's the Catholic church, the Protestant church. Each one of them
says they're the way. "See, we have the way; we're the truth." There's
the Methodist, says, "We have the truth"; the Baptist says, "We have
the truth."
Well, to me, as long as they feel that way, it's not so, because Jesus
said, "I am the Truth." See? Therefore, as my sermon last night was
that He is the place where God put His Name, the only place to worship.
You are not a Christian because you're a Protestant; you're not
Christian because you're a Catholic; you're not a Christian because
you're Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal. You are a Christian because
you've been baptized into Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit, not by
water. There's one faith, one Lord, one baptism, and that's Holy Spirit
baptism. Water baptism inducts you into a fellowship; the Holy Spirit
baptism inducts you into Christ. There's the truth.

^14-1
We have also two thoughts of this marriage and divorce. Now, that our
Lord has opened the Seven Seal mystery of His Word to us in this last
day… Now, many of you, this might be Greek to you, but my church
understands of what–when you've heard of the visions and what taken
place. And the question is a Bible question. We are invited here to
believe there must be a true answer to the whole hidden secret that's
been hid since the foundation of the world. And the Bible prophesies
and says that in this day these secrets would be made known,
Revelations 10: "And at the sounding of the seventh angel (the Laodicea
messenger) the mysteries of God would be made known." And this is the
last age, which is Laodicea.

^14-2
Look at all this revival has went on for fifteen years or more, and not
one denomination come out of it. Luther had a revival; there went a
denomination; Wesley, there went a denomination; Alexander Campbell,
there went a denominations. All these other great–John Smith, and so
forth, denominations; Moody, all along. But here's been one… Usually
a revival only lasts about three years, but this has been going for
over fifteen years and not one denomination has sprung up from it, for
this is the seed time. There's no more shuck. After the one shuck's
gone, it's seed. God is ready. If He isn't doing it now, He's going to
call a church to perfection by His Word Jesus Christ.
Notice, there must be a answer somewhere. And being that the seven
sealed mystery of God, Seven Seals… How many understands that, raise
up your hands. Let's see. I think most of them is our congregation from
around. Listen, if not, the books will be out pretty soon upon the
subject. We have books (some books) on it now.

^14-4
Jesus, in our text, invites us to go back to the beginning for the true
Scriptural answer. Now, when He was confronted with this, there was two
things in view. The priest said to Him, "Can a man put away his wife,
marry another for any cause?"
And Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
Then they said, "Moses suffered us a writing of divorcement" (and to put her away for anything they wanted to).
He said that Moses did that because (I'm letting that string
awhile)–because of the hardness of your hearts, but from–or at the
beginning it wasn't so.
The question–the question today like of world peace, is it coming by
politics, union of nations, united? I say to you, nay. It's always
failed and it will again. But there remains a true answer to the
question, "Will there be peace upon the earth?" Yes, when sin is ridden
off of the earth there will be peace. But until that time there will be
no peace. "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against
kingdom."

^15-5
God gave a remedy for sin. (Listen close now.) God gave the remedy to
rid sin off the earth, but men of the earth won't accept God's remedy.
God gave us a remedy and a way to marry our wives and live with them,
but men won't accept God's remedy, won't accept His Word on it.
Jesus, Who said this… And this reminds us of–of His words, knowing
that He said, "Heavens and earth will fail (pass away), but Mine
won't." The question, the true answer that Jesus want us to go back to,
is to go back to the beginning. Then that would be in Genesis, 'cause
the word Genesis is the seed chapter to every question in the Bible.
And you always have to go back to the seed to see what kind of a seed's
in a field to find out what your crops will be.

^15-7
Now, what kind of seed is sown? Genesis, being the seed chapter, we go
back to Genesis. Jesus introduced us to that Scripture at the
beginning. Now, remember, that's when time started to begin. Before
that it was eternity. Now, our question there was… Notice, if we go
back to the beginning… Now, don't fail this. And that's the reason I
want to talk slow, so that the people out on the wires, and that the
tape will say it clearly.
If Jesus said, "Go back to the beginning," there was only one pair of
anything on earth. There was one Adam, one Eve. They were joined by God
alone. One female horse, one male; one female parrot, one male, at the
beginning, as He told us to go back, there was only one pair of
anything. Is that true? Then we find out that everything in the
beginning was running in perfect order and harmony with God; nothing
was out of cater. Everything in heaven's still in order; all the stars,
the galaxies, the solar system, everything is perfectly in order. One
of them move would interrupt the whole program.

^16-1
Now, listen. Do you see? One interruption spoils the entire program.
Now, when human beings was running in continuity with God, with one man
and one woman, this woman sinned. And it throwed the whole earthly
program out of continuity with God. Therefore, one word added to this
Book or one word taken from It throws a Christian out of continuity
with God, throws the church out of continuity with God, throws a family
out of continuity with God. Every believer can be throwed out by not
accepting every Word of God.
Then it was the woman that caused the separation of the lovely home. It
was not a Cherubim that bothered the earth. It was not Adam that
throwed the home out. It was not anything else that throwed the home
out and throwed the whole thing out of continuity, but a woman: Eve.
And it is here, that the beginning that Jesus spoke of, was broken.
Jesus said, "At the beginning God made one male, one female, of each
kind." And now, when this woman, not the female horse, not the female
dog, but the woman, she broke the entire continuity of God's operation
on the earth and throwed everything into death. The woman, not the man,
she broke the covenant. She broke the covenant because why? She stepped
across the borders of God's Word.

^16-3
Now, if she broke her covenant with her husband, she broke her covenant
with God, then because she broke the covenant with God, she broke it
with her husband. And when you break your promise and your covenant to
God's Word, that's what caused so many illegitimate church members,
'cause a group of men got together and said, "Well, it didn't mean
that," and it throws the whole organization out of continuity with the
Word. "Oh, we don't believe that. Dr. Jones said it wasn't so." But as
long as God said it's so, He said, "Let every man's word be a lie and
Mine be the Truth." There breaks the continuity.
Now, we see, being that the continuity is broken, then the lifeline was
broken. Also, the time line was broken. The covenant was broken,
everything shattered. What caused it? A woman. That's what broke the
covenant. Now, if you want to read that, you can read it: Genesis 3.

^17-2
Now, it was then man was made to rule over the woman by God's Word. She
was no more coequal with him. She was coequal in nature, you know. But
when she broke God's Word, God made a man to be a ruler over her
(Genesis 3:16, if you want to put it down). She was no more equal with
the man. She was a breaker of God's Word.
Don't you see she–she, the church down here, the breaker of God's
Word, that throwed her completely out of continuity? And that's what
the church has done and throwed spiritual death upon the whole thing.
Now, you'll understand why I hammer at these things like I do. It's
truth. This is Bible facts.
Notice, why did she do such a thing as this? How could that lovely,
beautiful, perfect woman… I seen a picture one time (I believe it was
in Greece.) of an artist that painted a picture of Eve. She was the
most horrible looking thing you ever seen. That shows what a carnal
mind can look at. But she wasn't; she was beautiful, 'cause she was
perfect woman, all woman.

^17-5
Notice, why did she do such a thing, being in that high order? She was
right with man, coequal with him. But we all know now that she lost her
coequalness with man when she sinned, and God said, "Man will be your
ruler from here out." Now, that's the Scripture. If you want to, we
could read it. I'm giving you the Scriptures so (save time for this big
hookup across the country) that you might read it yourself.
Notice, the reason she did that… How did Satan ever get to her? Did
you know Satan was coequal 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.
Notice, the reason that she did this, she was not in the original
creation. She is not in God's original creation; she is a byproduct.
Therefore, at the beginning, as Jesus referred to it, she was not a
original created being of God. She's a byproduct of a man (when Jesus
referred to the beginning).

^18-1
Remember, Adam was both masculine and feminish in the original
creation: one. But then he was separated by a rib. Notice. But a
byproduct… And notice, the only one of all God's creation of every
animal and anything else, she was the only one designed this way. Every
other female was in the original creation. Every other female was in
the original creation, but Eve was not in the original creation (See?),
that had to be made that way. We'll get to it after while.
Notice, in this creation that she was in, not in the original, but a
byproduct; and in this creation, there is… Now, I don't want to hurt
your feelings, but I want to tell you a truth, and you just set still;
you're doing nice.

^18-3
There is nothing designed to be so deceitful as a woman that's
deceitful. There cannot be nothing else; there's nothing made to be
that way. Also there is nothing that could be so easily deceived as a
woman. Now, the fall proves this statement to be true, the fall in the
beginning.
She was not in the original beginning creation. She was in Adam, but
not in a female sex herself at the beginning. She was a byproduct, made.
Now, there's nothing designed that can deceive and be deceived as easy
as a woman. There is nothing designed or can stoop as low as a woman
can. Think now. There's nothing designed in all creation that can stoop
as low as a woman can. She can tear a man's heart to pieces easier than
anything else there is in the world–is his wife. Let it–that nice
little wife get to run around with some other man. Look at that fellow
setting there with his children, the tears dropping out of his eyes.
She is designed that way. She is designed to do this.

^18-6
There is no hog, no dog, or no other animal designed like her or can
stoop as low as she can stoop. Now, that is true. With regards to my
sisters, I just want you to watch. No animal can be immoral. You call
the dog a slut (the female dog). You call the male–hog a sow, but her
morals is a million miles beyond many a Hollywood stars. That's how low
she's designed to stoop. She can't… Just think of this now: there's
nothing in the world made in God's creation that can be immoral, stoop
that low.
You say, "Wait a minute: and man." We're going to get to that. The woman has to say, "Yes."
Notice, there's nothing designed to stoop so low or be filthy but a
woman. A dog can't do it; a hog can't do it; a bird can't do it; no
animal is immoral, nor it can be, for it is not designed so it can be.
A female hog can't be immoral; a female dog can't be immoral; a female
bird can't be immoral. A woman is the only thing can do it. Now, you
see where Satan went? See? But still she has… She's the one that's
got the power to say "yes" or "no." See? Depends on where she wants to
hold herself. See?

^19-2
Now, here we can see plainly the serpent's seed, where it come in.
There's only one place he could go to. If that wouldn't nail it down,
somebody's blind. See, see? It had to go to that.
Notice, the reason animals couldn't do it, a female animal, they were
in the original creation, but the woman was not in that original
creation. Now, we're going back to dig this up, and then bring it right
down to the modern day in the Testament.
She is designed alone for filth and unclean living. A dog can't; no
other female can. It's just the woman that can. A dog or any other
animals: once a year, and that for her babies, not for sexual pleasure,
but for her babies. The old sow hog, the old slut dog: once a year, one
moment; that's for her babies. But a woman is designed for any time she
desires. (I've got some stuff crossed out here now; you can imagine the
rest.) A dog can't; woman can. (I hope that the Holy Spirit reveals to
you the rest of this I crossed out here.)

^19-5
She is the only specie–specie of female that is made prettier than
the–the male. There's not another specie among anything. All other
creatures of God is beautiful males, such as in animals, birds, and so
forth. Always the male is pretty.
Look at the big buck deer: big fine horns, great specie, and the little
humble doe. Look at the big rooster with all of his pretty feathers and
the little brown hen. Look at the birds: the cock and the hen. Why? Why
was it such of all the creatures of God? Every creature in the male is
the prettiest. Between the sheep, between the–the hogs, between the
horses, between anything else, it's always the big male that's pretty,
and in the birds; but in the human race it's the woman that's pretty,
not the man. If he is, there's something wrong. It's crossed up seed
somewhere, originally it's that way.
Why? Why was it done? To deceive by. Her designer, Satan, is still
working on her too in these last days. Let me stop here just for a
moment.

^20-2
Pretty… Did you know at the first destruction internationally of the
world (or worldwide) was because of pretty women? "When the sons of God
saw the daughters of men were fair, they taken unto them women." Is
that right? Have you noticed the increase of beauty of women in this
day?
I have seen the picture of Pearl O'Brien, which was supposed to be the
prettiest woman in the nation at one time. There isn't a teenage girl
in this school but what would out-shadow her when it comes to beauty.
The increase of the beauty of women is showing the time of deception.
When did a church look any more prettier than it does today? Everything
is featuring great, big, fine buildings and millions of this and
millions of that. Don't you see, "she," the deception?

^20-5
Now, there's nothing can stoop like her, and she is designed so that
she can be deceiving. And Satan is really working on her today (in
these last days), because he is her designer. I could prove that now,
to go right back at the beginning. Who started to work on her, Adam or
Satan? God or Satan? See? That's her designer. It's her chief weapon to
throw men to her filth. Being a pretty woman, she can sway a man any
way she wants to. Brother, it ain't the bootleg joint down here that
gets the man; it's the pretty woman walking down the street twisting
herself, half dressed. That's what takes… That's the deceiver right
there. And she's deadly with it, absolutely deadly. You may question me
about Satan being her designer, but that's the truth. Satan designed
her. He still does it.

^20-6
Let me show you something in the Scripture. I got to take you back to
Scripture and you draw your opinion as you look at it today. Satan is
the one who features that kind of beauty. If we'll notice, he was the
most beautiful of all these Angels in heaven. That right? And he
desired to make heaven a more beautiful place than the kingdom of
Michael's. Is that right? Also to show that Cain was his son, he
offered a more beautiful worship, decorated his altars with fruits and
flowers and so forth. Is that right? Beautiful, sin is beautiful, what
we call beauty today. And sin is deceiving by beauty. You'd never look
at a woman going down the street and tell what's in her heart. See? But
I wanted to say these things so that you could see why that Satan is
her designer. That's exactly right. His own son proved it: Cain.

^21-1
Now, she's beautiful so she can deceive. The world is beautiful so it
can deceive. I mean cosmos, the order of the world. It's beautiful so
it can deceive–great fine places and luxury.
One of–the prophet, Amos, when he come up over, looked down into the
city and seen it like a modern Hollywood, his little old eyes got
little under that gray hair hanging in his face, and he walked down
there with a message and burst it out on that place. He said, "The very
God that you claim to serve will destroy you." Right. Sin is pretty.
They picture Judas as some old drunken sot out here on the street
somewhere, mouth hanging with flies in it, and so forth, as Judas.
Judas was handsome, strong, a deceiver. It ain't that guy to watch
around you. It ain't a guy that–the old farmer come in with a pair of
overalls on to watch around your wife; it's that slicker. He's a rascal.
Sin is beautiful to the eyes of the world. But God is not featured in
that kind of beauty. Did you know that? God is featured in character,
beautiful character.

^21-5
In the Bible… (Isaiah 53, if you want to put some Scripture down.)
I've got rows of Scripture wrote on the side here for it (Isaiah 53)…
The Bible said of our Lord Jesus that there was no beauty that we
should desire Him, and we hid as it was our faces from Him. That right?
We didn't desire Him because He wasn't pretty. He was probably a little
fellow, stoop shouldered, ruddy-looking, and He wasn't desirable to be
a leader. He didn't look like a leader; talked with common street talk
and so forth like the people does (the common people); so therefore, He
didn't look like He was any great scholar, educated, fine, all robed up
and everything; He was just an ordinary man. There was no beauty of Him
that we should desire Him. He walked in and out of men right along, and
they didn't even know Who He was. He didn't look like a god walking
along, what we'd think was a god. But the same, He was.

^21-6
Did you notice when the Lord God said to–to Samuel, "Go up to the
house of Jesse and anoint one of his sons king to take Saul's
place."… Now, the people chose Saul when Samuel absolutely told them
not to do it. He said, "God don't want you to have a king. He's your
King." And said, "Have I ever said anything to you in the Name of the
Lord but what come to pass? Have I ever begged you for money or
something another for my living?"
They said, "No, you never begged us for money, and whatever you said in
the Name of the Lord, it come to pass, but we want the king anyhow." So
they chose Saul. Look what the world chose. Look what Israel chose.
Israel, God's anointed, they chose a man that was head and shoulders
above any man in the nation: great, big, fine, handsome looking fellow;
and he always was a fly in the ointment.
But God said, "I'm going to choose you a king to My choosing." So He
said, "Samuel, I ain't going to tell you who he is, but you go up
there; it's one of Jesse's sons."

^22-3
And Jesse, his wife, and all of them looked around and said, "Yes, our
oldest son, he's a great, tall, handsome man. He'll look just right for
the king's crown. He's smart; he's educated; he's a fine man. I know
he'll be just right. He speaks his word proper."
When they brought him out, Samuel took the cruse of oil and went
towards him; he said, "No, the Lord refused him." So he went all the
way down to six sons, and the Lord refused every one of them. He said,
"Isn't there another one?"
"Oh," he said, "yes, there's one. He's back out there herding the
sheep. He just sets back there and plays songs, and sings it, and
shouts, and goes on; but he's a little old stoop shouldered,
ruddy-looking guy. He would never make a king."
He said, "Go get him." And while David come in the sight of the
prophet, the prophet run with the oil and poured it upon his head,
said, "This is God's chosen."

^22-7
Not pretty, but character, God looks at character. Man looks at natural
beauty. It's deceiving. And that's why a woman was given that beauty
for deception, to deceive. A beautiful woman, if she don't use it in
the right way, it's a curse to her. That'll send her to hell quicker
than anything else I know of. If she just–if… She could be pretty,
sure; as long as she stays with her husband and does what's right, and
that–that's fine and dandy. But she can take that same thing, and, my,
how she can deceive with it, for it was give to her to do so.
Notice now, but God is featured in character. There was no beauty we
should desire Jesus, but there never was a character like Him on the
earth.
Now, we find out today that the–the church character, Satan and his
group, look after big beautiful churches, beautiful things. That's what
the world looks at today. Oh, if the pastor, the great So-and-so times
So-and-so, so priestly and godly, walking out in these big robes and
things like that; they call that beauty. But the real saints of God
looks for the character of the vindicated Word.
That's what the saints did in that day when they seen Jesus. He wasn't
nothing to look at, but they seen God was in Him; they seen God was
with Him.

^23-4
That's how that those a… Joab and those characters with David, a
little old fellow, but they seen the–the man was in him. They seen
that God was in him, and they knowed he was coming into power someday.
They… One slew them other five brothers of Goliath single-handed; one
killed three hundred men. When some women was picking some beans for
dinner, and the army had gone away, and he took a spear and killed
three hundred men: Philistines. Character. Why? They stayed right by
David. They knowed the anointing was upon him, and they knowed he was
coming into power: a pure picture of the church today that'll stand by
the Word. We know It's going to be made vindicated. We know It's coming
into power someday.
Although Saul… He was a fugitive from the rest of the nation, but
they knowed he was coming into power. We know He's coming into power
too, so we'll take that Word and stand right there, no matter what it
costs. If we have to cut Philistines or jump in a pit and kill a lion
(as one did); we go anyhow, 'cause it's the–that's the way God
designed it to be. We look for character.

^23-6
You may now ask me: "Why did He permit her to be designed thus?" (I
don't want to take too much time, 'cause I got a lot more to say here.)
Why? The question might arise then: Why did God make this woman like
this? Why did He permit her to be like that? It was for His own good
pleasure. Sure.
Now, if you want to turn in your Bible just a minute, let's turn to
Romans 9 just a minute and show you something how God does these things
(if you want to–to read it), and we can see here what God does for His
own good pleasure (Romans 9:14).

Now, argue with that awhile. God did it. He had to make it this way. It had to be there.

^25-2
Now, listen. Now, for about five minutes I want to call your attention
to something. What is God? God is a great eternal. At the beginning,
way back before there was a beginning, He wasn't even God. Did you know
that? A god's an object of worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship
Him; He lived alone. And in Him was attributes. What is an attribute? A
thought. (Now, you'll get something that'll border on the lesson for
tonight.) Notice, He was His attributes that was in Him. Now, it was in
Him to be Father; it was in Him to be God; it was in Him to be Son; it
was in Him to be Saviour; it was in Him to be Healer. And all these
things here are just displaying His attributes. There's nothing out of
order. You think God didn't see the end from the beginning? Certainly
He did. There's nothing out of order; it's just displaying His
attributes.

^25-3
Now, He could not be just and make a man to fall. He had to put him on
equal basis of free moral agency to make his own choice but knowing he
would fall. Now, He can't be a Saviour 'less something's lost. He can't
be a Healer 'less something's sick. These things had to be that way.
God make them thus, so that His great attributes could be displayed. If
there wasn't none, He'd never been a Saviour. But we know He was; even
before there was a time, He was a Saviour.
He was a Saviour. So there has to be something lost. How's it going to
be? If He takes and loses it just in order to save it, then it isn't
justice to His judgment. He couldn't send a man to hell and be just.
He's kind, gentle, true, honest, and He's a great Judge. See, He'd be
working against Himself. So He had to put a man out here and make him
on free moral agency so he would–knowing would fall. And the man in
His own image, how could he fall? Now, you seeing daylight? So He had
to make a byproduct, something out of the original creation. Now, you
see it. See? There you come. See? Then that's what fell. He made it,
knowing it would fall. And it's put over in the hands of Satan for a
vessel of dishonor. Where's honor bestowed today? You think on that.

^25-5
Notice closely now. Then again, why she was designed this way and not
like other females? Why was the woman designed so and not other
females? None of the other females was designed like that. They're not
today. They can't. Not being made that way, she can't do it. Why did He
not make this female then, of woman, just like other females so she'd
just be the same way, could just raise her babies? Then she'd have her
husband, live, and when it come time for her baby she'd have her baby.
Why–why did He make her like this?
Now, I can't say these words, and you understand what I am talking about, don't you? If you can understand, say, "Amen." [Congregation replies "Amen"–Ed.]
Yeah. See? (There's young girls setting here and young boys. See?) But
you know, the animal has to come to a certain time of the year, then
her mate; then that's all. But a woman, it's any time.

^26-2
He… Why did He make her like this? Now, watch His great program
unfold as we go on through here now, just as perfect as perfect can be.
(I didn't know this till the other day.) Why didn't He make her like
that in the beginning, like the rest of His females? Because it would
be unbecoming to Him. He's the fountain of all purity. That's the
reason He had to let Satan get ahold of her, what he done in the
perversion. Such a creature would be–would not be a–becoming to Him,
originally designed for.
All His works that He designed in the original is in continuity. All of
His original works was in continuity: the female dog, the male dog
(See?), female cow, the male cow, everything in continuity. All nature
is in continuity. Seed die, go into the ground just like death, burial,
resurrection. The sap goes down out of the tree, drops its leaf, comes
back the next year with the resurrection of a new leaf. See what I
mean? Everything, even nature of God is all in a continuity in one. And
here's one designed out of the continuity of God. Nature's so designed
so it can't sin. Think. The original creation of God could not sin.
Oh, don't you see it now in this view here, the perversion of the
church? The original is God's Word. There's no sin in God. See what I
mean? Here's a creature that come into existence by a perversion. God's
going to have a church, but look at this perverted thing they got out
here. God has male and female, but this woman… See, the very symptoms
of it shows back what was in God's mind. We could take a hour or two
and break that down. She… Made this creature for that way. He made
the creature and turned her so Satan could get ahold of her, and he
did. He's still got her. She'd better flee to the cross, like men too.

^27-1
Notice, all nature runs in continuity. If He'd have made the woman in
the same original creation, there'd have been no sin, because she
couldn't have done it. She couldn't have done it. She is a perversion
of the original creation. So is all sin a perversion of the original
truth.
What is a lie? Is the truth perverted. What is an adultery? Is the
right act perverted. So there is the perverted creature; there is the
perverted whole thing. And the whole thing is spelled s-i-n. Laying
right there… That's why the question's so great. Only a piece, scrap,
made of a man, to deceive him by, God made it. Right here has proved
it. That's what she was made for.
An immoral woman is the lowest thing that can be thought of in the
earth. Excuse this, young ladies. She's nothing but a human garbage
can, a "sex exposal." That's all she is. A immoral woman is a human
sexual garbage can, a pollution where filthy, dirty, ornery, lowdown
filth is disposed by her. Why's she made this way for? For deception.
Every sin that ever was on the earth was caused by a woman.
And a analyst just from Chicago, a–a woman wrote this article, of the
police force, that they chased down in United States (metropolitan
United States) that ninety-eight percent of every crime that was ever
did in any form in the United States, there was either a woman in it or
behind it. Now, I'm saying all this to get to one thing here at the end
so that you can see what's the matter.

^27-5
She was made to deceive like she did Adam at the beginning, telling him
that the fruit was pleasant and so forth to deceive him and take him
away from the Word. That's the way the church does today: same thing.
But then, after that, he become her ruler, to rule over her.
Now, what a difference in this day and this day of conception. Instead
of him being her ruler, she has become his god. Sure. She rules him.
Now, you can kinda well understand what I've been hitting at. By her
beauty and her sex control, her shape that was given to her by Satan
(the byproduct that Satan did), she is sent to deceive sons of God, and
she can sway more of them to hell than any other instrument Satan's
got. That's exactly right. (I'm talking of the immoral now, not you
sisters. We'll give you your place, right place, in a few minutes in
the Word of God here.) It was in God's plan from the beginning.

^28-1
Now, to do this today… What is the god of the United States? You
remember the Tabernacle years ago, I preached on that, "The God of This
Modern Day." A little flapper setting there with makeup on, and dress
pulled up over her knees, and things like. I said, "Behold, your god."
And that's right. She's on every advertisement, half naked; she's on
the street the same way. It's a instrument of Satan. "From the
beginning," Jesus said. See? We see it was so now and–from the
beginning and what He's talking about.
Now, the heathens used to make her a god. Did you know that, a goddess?
Sure did. They make her a goddess, for they did have sex acts in their
worship. They claimed that she was a creator. In her womb she carried
the seed and created. That's a lie. There's only one Creator; that's
God. But you remember Paul there? Diana of Ephesus, a image of a rock,
said the goddess of heaven throwed down. Don't you see how heathen
worship is? And we, not knowing it, turns right straight back to
heathen worship again to women, the very lowest creature on the earth:
woman worship. She'll sway men any way she wants to. And not knowing,
all that beauty on the outside, a hell's on the inside. Solomon said
her–her gates is the gates to hell.

^28-3
Now, we see plainly here what Jesus spoke of in the Revelations the 2nd
chapter and the 15th verse, of the Nicolaitane doctrine, the oncoming
of that church pulling itself away from the Word.
Also we can see here plainly these vulgar, ungodly, filthy programs
that we have on television of Hollywood sex queens. We can see the
filth of this city as these kids, little old girls walking up and down
the street here with little bitty tight clothes, twisting around, and
it cold enough to freeze them to death. They don't know that that's the
devil doing that. They are possessed of an evil spirit and don't know
it. You don't see a female dog doing that, do you? You don't see any
other female doing that. And no male better walk up to her either. See?
Now, you get the picture? We're introduce something just in a moment, the Lord willing.

^29-2
Now, you see the Nicolaitanes; you see their doctrine; you see the
teenage queens they call them, these stripteases out on the street.
Used to have to go to some vulgar show on the side to see a striptease.
Just open your eyes, look out on the street. That's all you have to do
now. The whole thing's a striptease. Sure. What do they do it for? To
tantalize, tempt; that's the only thing she can do it for. She does it
because she's filthy. She does it because she's made that way. She
don't realize that she's a instrument in the hands of Satan. That's
what she is.
Even in our schools today they're teaching sex acts. Our rotten world
of woman worship… I know they don't want to believe that. Stand and
sing some kind of hymn, and so forth, on one day and out with women,
running around all night long… See? All right. When in God's sight,
the Word, she is the lowest of all animals that God put on the earth…
Watch.

^29-4
That's why God forbids her to teach His Word. That's right. I Timothy
2:9-15: "I suffer not a woman to teach or to have any authority…"
See? And also I Corinthians 14:34: "Let your women keep silent in the
churches, for it's not permitted to them to speak, for they are
commanded to be in silent, also saith the law." But today what does the
church do? They make her pastors, evangelists, when the Bible
completely forbids it. And the Bible said: "… as also saith the law,"
making it run in continuity, the whole thing.
Just like the Lamb was last night, the only place of worship, under the
shed Blood of the Lamb. That's the only place today, in Christ. Only
way to do is come into Him. That's the only place of worship. It always
was that way. The only place to worship is under the shed Blood.

^29-6
So now, we see the whole picture of it unfolding to us. There she is.
That's why God won't let her teach, won't let her do anything in the
church but to set still with a veiled face.
Now, can you see why I have said the things and done the things that I
done, knowing all this in my heart, brethren, sisters? I know, sisters,
I've–you've got your place (just a moment) and a wonderful character
that God can mold in you, but I'm just trying to speak on the other
side to show what you're actually from the beginning. Jesus told us to
go back to the beginning to find it. That's what we're doing.
Now, I've had to hit the high points on a lot of this, and I hope you
understand it. And you people who will be listening to this tape, I
hope you understand. Just go back. It's only to show that Jesus said,
"Go back from the beginning and find out." All things go back to the
beginning.

^30-2
You can see today why people… They say I'm a woman hater. That's far
from the truth. I do not. They call me a woman hater. Remember, they
called Paul a woman hater. A woman minister, not long ago, said, "Oh,
you're like old Paul; all he had to do is pick on us women," a saint of
God that was permitted to write the Bible, the New Testament, and
dispute his words. He said, "If a angel from heaven teaches any other
thing than this that I've said, let him be accursed," let alone some
woman preacher. See?
They said Elijah was a woman hater. He wasn't a woman hater of real
women; he just didn't like them Jezebels. And if that be so, then must
be–God must be the same way because He is the Word which come to the
prophets. So it must be God, the same way. So see, He knows the
original creation from the beginning. He said, "From the beginning…"
They were prophets who the Word came to.

^30-4
And He made her for man and not man for her. Did you know that, that
woman was made for man, and not man for woman? How many knows that? The
Bible teaches it. All right. She was given a place in man before the
fall, equal over all creation, but after the fall… Now, here we bring
the subject up. But after the fall he was her ruler. She must keep
silent in all matters. Now, after the original beginning is over…
Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning." That's when time begin,
when God made it first in His original creation. All that understand,
say, "Amen," again. [Congregation replies "Amen"–Ed.]
In the beginning God created just one male and one female. But then the
woman was made different from the animals, all other animals, for
deception. Now, watch. Now, it wasn't so from the beginning. She was
made… If she'd have stayed in her original condition, she would've
never been no fall. But she caused the fall in the interruption that
broke the whole continuity of God and throwed death, sorrow, and
everything else on the earth. She was made thus.

^31-1
Now, notice. Now, after the beginning, after the beginning, after time
begin… back in that was eternity; it was over. Notice, after that
fall was made by Eve, after the fall, there was need to be another
covenant made. Now, this is going to stumble you, but I'm going to give
you the Scripture to prove that this is the truth.
Now, notice, after the fall… Jesus said, "God, at the beginning, made
one of a kind," but now, after the fall… Now, we're going beyond
that; the covenant was coequal. But now after the fall there's another
covenant made. Now, she was no longer ruler with him. Each must have a
separate covenant.

^31-3
Now, let's see if that's right. Let's take Genesis 3 and find out if
this is right now, as we go along, 'cause we want to be positive that
these things, that are taught out and brought out exactly true so
that… Maybe right here we have a little time, 'cause we're not too
far from the end now, to get to the closing part of the subject to show
why and what about divorces and so forth.
Now, in Genesis the 3rd chapter, and we will begin now with the 3rd and the 16th verse. Let's begin at the 14th verse:

^32-1
Two covenants… Now, that closes the beginning of what Jesus said: "It
wasn't so at the beginning." We got another covenant now. Notice, it's
another covenant. Now, there's a covenant for the product and a–the
byproduct. Notice, the fall brought trouble, death to every creature of
the creation, making a difference in all nature.
Now, let us notice what Jesus said about: "From the beginning it wasn't
so." Now, it is not so from–it is… Now, it is after the beginning.
Now, there's a double covenant. First it was just a covenant. Adam and
Eve was coequal: one man, one woman. Now, the woman sinned. And what
does she do? That throwed them all to death, and God had to make a
covenant by that, another covenant. Here it is right here in Genesis
3:16. He made another covenant.

^32-3
Now, the world is to be repopulated, not by the original creation of
God like in the beginning, not by the original creation, but by sex
desire. Now, that takes care of the beginning, doesn't it? In the
beginning there's only one man and one woman, one male, one female. But
when she crossed that line and brought this sin, now the world's to be
repopulated again by sex; not by creation; by sex. See where the
woman's at now? Now, but that's the way the world's populated today,
through women.
That's the reason Jesus had to come through the woman to bring it back
to its original beginning again, without sex desire. He's virgin born.
But, hallelujah. there will come a time where it won't be no more sex,
but God shall call His children from the dust of the earth, back like
they was in the original. Not through any woman, but through the
molding of the clay and the cosmic lights and the petroleum; He'll
create again like He did Adam at the first time.
Jesus made this possible by God making Himself a man and come into the
world so He could die, through this–this woman. Now, is testing time
by sin.

^33-3
Now, you see, then after the beginning it was–something else was
introduced. Now, this is going to shock you. (Are you tired? Just set
still just a little longer.) Then when the double covenant was made by
man and woman through sex (another covenant altogether; not the
original covenant, but another covenant), now what's introduced?
Polygamy in all. Then after the beginning, polygamy was introduced both
in man and in beast, after the beginning, the fall.
God now secondarily sets a new nature again by sex. God created the
first without sex. Do you believe that? Now, it's another covenant with
nature; He sets it in another order by sex. Second covenant: one male,
many females; one buck deer, a whole harem of does (That right?); one
bull a whole herd of cattle, cows; one rooster, a yard full of hens
(That right?); one David, after His own heart, with five hundred wives,
with a hundred children born to him in one year of different women: a
man after God's own heart; one Solomon with a thousand wives. But
notice now, it wasn't so at the beginning. But now, it's after the
beginning. The woman's done this, then she just becomes what she is
now. See?

^33-5
David, the king which represented Christ… (Hold that in your mind.)
David represented Christ. You believe that? Christ is setting–going to
set on his throne. And this David, a man after God's own heart, had
five hundred wives. See what I mean? David with his five hundred wives,
Solomon with his thousand; and Solomon is the son of David in the
natural, which represents Jesus Christ, the Son of David in the
spiritual. But that's natural sex life; this is going to be spiritual
created why, created. That's the way it was at the beginning, but not
now in this life we live in now.
Notice. (Don't fail this now; take it all down to your hearts.) But not
one of those women could even have one more husband. He's the original
creation, not her. Not one of those women could have one more husband,
but that one husband could have a thousand wives. That's THUS SAITH THE
LORD. That's the Bible.

^34-2
Now, I've went back took my time, and showed you back yonder what
started what Jesus said. Now, do you see it clearly? They could have as
many…
"Oh," you say, "that was just for Israel." Is it? When Abraham took
Sarah down into the Philistine country, there was a king down there
named Abimelech. And Sarah was a hundred years old (right at it), but
she had been changed back to a young woman and been made beautiful. You
know that? All right. And Abimelech wanted her for a wife. You remember
my message on it? Abimelech wanted to take Sarah for a wife. Probably
had a harem. But he could not take her if she was married to Abraham.
So Abraham said to Sarah, "Say that you are my brother–because he'll
kill me so that he can have you." Why didn't he just chase Abraham out
of the country and take his wife and go on. Not only a law was it with
believers, but to all people in the creation. Sinner or saint, you're
responsible, man, for these acts. There was a heathen king. How many
knows that story's true? It's the Bible, Genesis, about the 16th
chapter, I think.

^34-4 You notice, Abimelech would've took her for a wife. He fixed hisself to have this new Hebrew girl. And he said, "This is my…"
She said, "That's my brother."
He said, "That's my sister."
And Abimelech said, "I'll just take her for a wife then." Could you imagine a man doing a thing like that? But he did it.
And
then that night while he went to sleep, the Lord appeared to him in a
dream and said, "Abimelech, you're as good as a dead man." He was
protecting that–that stream of Jewish blood there. You see? He said,
"You're as good as a dead man. You've got another man's wife you're
fixing to marry."
He said, "Lord, you know the integrity of my heart." Said, "Did not she
tell me that was her brother? Did not he himself say, 'That's my
sister.'"
He said, "I know the integrity of your heart. That is the reason I
wouldn't permit you to sin against Me." That right? Said, "Restore his
wife, because that man is My prophet. And unless you take him back his
wife and let him pray for you, not your priest. If he don't pray for
you, your whole nation's gone." Amen. There's amazing grace right…
"Your whole nation's gone. That's that man's wife, and he's My
prophet." Amen. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's the Scripture. See?

^35-2
Now, we find out death was caused–death is the cause of sin of the
woman, come through the woman and not the man. By her way of living,
her life, and by her, all death comes. Her way of giving life is death.
How many knows that? Job 14, if you want to put down the Scripture. I
got… If you question this, I got Scriptures wrote down for every bit
of this. You want to read Job 14 there, it says, "Man that is borned of
woman is of a few days and full of trouble." Is that right? "He cometh
up like the flower; he's cut down and wastes away," and so forth. See?
Every man that's borned of a woman is born in death as soon as he
comes, but when he's borned into the creation of God, he cannot die.
He's from that other Tree that was in the garden of Eden: Christ.
Eternal Life come by the Tree.
"Oh," you say, "she was a tree?"
Sure. What he said it, "Thou shalt not take of this tree," God said in
Genesis back there. "Thou shalt not take of this tree." Why, the woman
is a tree. She's a fruit tree. You're the fruit of your mother; the
fruit of the womb is you. That's right. And then the fruit of the Tree
of Life that was in the garden of Eden, is Christ. Through the woman
come death. Through the man in the original creation, come Life. To be
born of woman is death; be born of Christ is Life. Get the idea? That's
where… Now you see where the goddesses went to, don't you?
First Adam and Eve type the second Adam and Eve. See the
multiplication. Now, the multiplication of Adam and Eve was through sex
to replenish the earth, but it wasn't so at the beginning. God just
made a male and a female like He did His other creatures. See? Legal.
Just like the church.

^36-1 Now, let us, in view of these vindicated truths of God, search a little further, if you want to. All right.
Now, this may hurt just a little bit till we get down to the bottom of it. I'm just going to show you truth of it.
There
is no minister that can marry a widow. Did you know that? You want to
read that? All right, you get in Leviticles–Leviticus 21:7 and Ezekiel
44:22 and it will show you that the priesthood was not to marry a woman
that's been touched by man. This type is of the virgin Bride of Jesus
Christ, because they handled the fire of God, the priests did, Aaron's
sons. (We haven't got time to read it all and get out by noon. We got
twenty minutes yet.) And them's Aaron's sons that handled the–the–the
fire of God. So they could not marry a woman that had been touched by
another man. The unchanging God said so. They could not marry another
woman (and woman had been touched by a man), showing in type here, if
you want to see it, that the church of the living God is purely,
unadulterated the Word of God and not a denomination that's been
handled by man.

^36-4
Note, let's read this here. I want to get this to you. Matthew 5, Jesus
spoke here of something that's really of a vital importance. We want to
see it. Matthew 5. I wrote on my–I marked out some of the things I was
going to say just to the men, so had quite a little time saying it just
before our sisters. But I want to–to go out here now before… Now,
sister, I want to put you into the place where God's Word promised you,
and you see then–you stay in that place too.
Matthew 5:32. I want you to notice here, to support this same idea of
one and many. Matthew 30… I think it's Matthew 5:32–31 to begin with.

^37-1
See, she's got a living husband, so no man can marry her. Care what she
does and who she is, she's got a living husband. There's no grounds for
her at all. But it's not for him: causes her, not him. Get it? You have
to make the Word run in continuity. See? Nothing saying he couldn't,
but she can't. See? 'Causes her, not him. That's just exactly what the
Bible says. "Causes her…" It is not stated against him to remarry,
but her. Why?
Christ in the type. Notice, it is stated that he cannot remarry, only a
virgin. He can remarry; he can marry–he can remarry again if it's a
virgin; but he can't marry somebody's else's wife. No, indeedy. And if
he does marry a divorced woman, he is living in adultery; I don't care
who he is. The Bible said, "Whosoever marries her that is put away,
liveth in adultery." There you are, not no divorcee.
See that original back yonder from the beginning now? Remarrying… Now
notice, he can, but she can't. Like David, like Solomon, like the
continuity of the whole Bible. Now, same as David and the rest of
them…

^37-4
Now, you notice in I Corinthians 7:10, notice, Paul commands the wife
that is–that divorces her husband to remain single or be reconciled,
not to remarry. She must remain single or to be reconciled back to her
husband. She cannot remarry; she must remain single. But notice, he
never said about the man. See, you can't make the Word lie. From the
beginning, the sex law by polygamy.
Now, the Word of God runs true with nature of God, runs in continuity.
See how there is one school went east and the other one went west on
it? You got to come back to the truth to find out what it is. It's
always been that way. That's the regular covenant with God from the
beginning.
First, before the beginning, from the beginning, there's just one and
one. After the sin came in, then there was one man and a bunch of
women. Run that way in nature, every animal; and human beings in
natural flesh is animal. We are mammal. We know that, all of us. See?
And it's all God's nature in continuity.

^38-1
But now that the Seals are opened, the Spirit of Truth directs us to
the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the
ages, because the Seals was not open. This was not revealed. It's true.
Notice, you–you can't make the shadows fail (as I preached to you last
night about the shadow across the floor); it's got to come out right.
How can there be a shadow of an elephant coming across the floor and a
little, bitty, spindly man come out to be the elephant, or the
elephant, to a little, spindly man? Now, if you'll notice it in perfect
type…
Now, that is a true woman. A true woman, virgin, that marries her
husband and lives and she's a blessed thing to the man. If God could've
give His Son any better thing than a wife, He would've give that to
Him. But she's designed to be a sex act. And no other animal is
designed like that; no other creature on the earth is designed like
that. That's the reason you see polygamy, because of that. That's what
brought it in.

^38-4
Now, look. In the final analysis, look, there is one Jesus Christ (Is
that right?), one Man: God Immanuel. You believe that? But the members
of His Wife are many (See?), thousands times thousands of thousands. Is
that right? His Wife, the Bride, the church… You understand now?
That's why He said to Adam before sex was ever induced–or introduced,
"Multiply to replenish the earth," when he was yet in the beginning,
when he was yet both male and female in himself. There it shows then
that the Bride's got to come from the Word, by spiritual
multiplication–multiplications (See?), replenishing the earth.

^38-6
Now, in the sex act… See, the school's got those two things mixed up.
Therefore, you can't do it. You've got to bring it back to the truth of
it, in the beginning. And at the end there will be one Lord Jesus and
His Bride many: singular. You get it? There was one David on one
throne, one king after God's own heart, with five hundred wives. Jesus,
setting on His throne (Hallelujah.) in the millennium, with a Wife like
it was at the beginning, created out of the earth by the hand of
Almighty God in the resurrection, of many members. There you are.
Women, struggle to be that. Come into Christ, then you'll not be in
that filthy mess out there. But as long as you're just a church member,
trying to live morally good yourself, you'll never make it. Neither can
a man make it outside of Christ. As Paul went on to say, "But there–in
Christ there is neither male nor female"; they're all one. But to get
this marriage and divorce straightened out so that you would know which
was right and which was wrong…

^39-1
Now, He plainly shows here in these types there is one Christ and many
members of that Wife. Notice, He can put us away for spiritual
fornications and false doctrine anytime He wants to, but how dare you
try to put Him away and make it. The man can put away his wife and
marry another, but not the woman put away her husband and marry
another. See all the shadows and types there perfectly balanced out?
See? The original creation, not the byproduct nowhere; not the church,
the Bride through the Word; not the woman, the man; each time. That's
which… Never says anything against the man doing it; it's always the
woman. That's exactly. But she can be the Bride of Christ by being…
And remember, she being a part of a man, the Bible said she can only…
"Nevertheless I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp any authority,
but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was
not deceived, but the byproduct was deceived. Now, withstanding she
shall be saved if she continues in holiness and sobriety and in
childbearing and all such…" (because then she becomes a part of this
man; that's what bring… )

^39-2
Why didn't Abraham–why didn't God kill Sarah setting right there
denying, a-lying right in the face of God, setting there as a mortal
man, eating flesh, eating bread, drinking milk. And He said, "Why did
Sarah laugh back there in the back, behind Him in the tent (He'd never
seen her.), saying, 'These–how can these things be?'"
She said, "I never said it." Oh. Ooh, my. Tell God that He's a liar to
His face. But He couldn't take her. Why? She's a part of Abraham. He
couldn't hurt her without hurting Abraham.
Now you women see where you belong? And the Bible said, you women, be
like Sarah was, which adorned herself in modest apparel, live honest
and true to her own husband, loving him so much that he–she called him
her lord: ruler, ownership.

^39-5
And you, some of the women put on these nasty clothes, eat out here to
throw yourself before men. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman
to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his
heart." Then who's guilty, the man or you? He's a male, made so he
could take this act. See? And you're the female that ought to refuse.
And why do you put yourself out like that? It ain't for comfort. You
know it can't be, when you're half froze to death with them shorts on.
See? Can't be for comfort. Then what is it? It's for filth. You won't
admit it, but it's–the Bible said so. It's the truth. It's a filthy
spirit that's in you. You don't want to be filthy, but you don't
realize spiritually you are filthy, because you're presenting yourself
filthy.
Now, a man, his old, dirty, knotty knees, and if he had on hardly any
clothes at all, it wouldn't make any difference; his body is not
tempting. Why? He was in the original creation: character, should be.
But you're the byproduct to tempt by.
God have mercy. Oh, my, this sinful world, I'll be glad when it's over.

^40-3
Notice, he can put away his wife any time he wants to, but she can't
put him away. He can make me–He can throw me in the dust any time He
takes a notion to, but oh, brother, I'd better not try to throw Him
there; I'm finished.
Solomon could marry any woman that wasn't married. He could marry any
women he wanted to. A priest could marry only a woman that was a
virgin. Solomon, like David, he married… What was her name? Abigail,
which was a man called a fool. He had a nice wife, and he died. And
Abigail was married to David. He was a king, not a priest. See? So
he–he married, but a priest could not do that because he'd touched or
got a woman to be his wife that was already been some man's wife.
So that shows the virgincy of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Bride will have to be unadulterated the Word, not one Word missing
nowhere. Certainly. Could you imagine a correct bride, one breast off
and the other one something or other wrong, you know? That's not going
to be the Bride of Christ; She's perfect. She's everything the Word,
not one Word failing anywhere. No.

^40-6
Notice, He can put her away, but she cannot put Him away. He did it,
and proved it in the days when Luther, Wesley, and in Pentecost, when
they refused to become the further part of Him by having spiritual
sexual affair to become pregnated with further part of the Word. You
understand? She refused… The Lutheran church refused for Christ to
have any more desire with her. Luther refused it. And let me say this
(going to call me something anyhow), so is it today with every one of
them. They fail to take that Word. They refuse Christ. And any woman
that refuses a man his child, has no right to be a wife to him. Amen.
You remember in the Bible when the king married Esther because the
queen refused. He just got him another one. And when the… What
happened when she refused to come out with the king, to obey him? The
same thing it is with a woman that refuses to be wife to her husband.

^41-2
And so is it with the church that refuses to be come pregnated in the
age that we now live in to bring forth children of this age. We're not
Lutherans; we're not Wesleys; neither are we Pentecostals. We've got to
be the children of this age through the pregnancy of the Word of God to
bring forth a Child of this age, the Seed Child. Amen. I hope you
understand. Couldn't be pregnated, no. So what did He do? Put her away
in divorcement. That's right. But she dares put Him away. He put her
away.
He went right on revealing His Word to the Body and vindicating His
same by Himself. His children begin to kinda look more like Him because
it's fully maturing, or they become children of the Word, not children
of the church; children of the Word. And the Bride will be a lovely
little Lady of the Word, unadulterated, not touched by any man's
organization, any manmade theory. She'll be purely unadulterated Bride
of the Word. Amen and amen. I hope you get that out on the air. She'll
be the pregnated daughter of God.

^41-4
See what a great honor a woman can be? See what a great thing the
church can be? But you see where filth has got her to? Then trying to
compare that church out there, with the church here; you can't do it.
And try to compare the street harlot with the church of the living God;
or the woman, the correct woman, with the harlot. Why is there such
things as that? It's a law of God, the law of contrast.
How would we know how to enjoy the daylight if there wasn't a night?
How would we know how to enjoy the dry weather if there wasn't rain?
How would we know to enjoy and respect a real woman if there wasn't a
dirty one?

^42-1
Went right on revealing It, the way He reveal His Word, but dare any
one of us to try to put away Him and marry another. Now, surely it's
plain why both theories are wrong. You can't make it run this way; it's
gone. You make it run that, It'd run plumb past the promise. Here's the
promise. Here's the thing right here. The Word is not contradictory; It
has to stay in continuity. Now, no more than Matthew 28:19 contradicts
Acts 2:38…
Now, some of you women, some of you men, I–I know you're–you're
disagreeing with it, 'cause you know you can't hide that right now. You
can't. But let me just show you something. If Matthew 28:19 said, "Go
ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the
Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost," and they turned around and
every person that was ever baptized was baptized contrary to that and
baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the–even all through the
Bible age, and for three hundred years after the Bible age, to the
Nicene Council… Then they adopted dogmas instead. What's the
difference? If it isn't revealed… And do you know that the whole
Book, the whole Bible is a revelation? That's how you have to know the
truth between this one and the other. It's because it's a revelation,
and the revelation must be exactly with the Word, not contrary to the
Word.

^42-3 You say, "Well, I–it was revealed to me." Then if it's contrary to the Word, it never come from God. That's right.
Now,
if you want to take Matthew 16:18, Jesus said Himself, that the entire
church, His church would be built upon spiritual revelation of Himself,
which is the Word. "I say unto thee that thou art Peter, and flesh and
blood never revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has
revealed this to you, and upon this rock…"
Now, I know our Catholic friends there, you say it was built upon
Peter, and Peter was a apostolic so–So-and-so under apostolic
succession. The Protestants said it was built upon Jesus Christ. Not to
be different, but take just what He said. He said, "Flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed
this to you, and upon this rock (spiritual revelation of what the Word
is), I'll build My church, and the gates of hell will never shake it
down." His Wife will not be tempted with other men. "I'll build My
church and the gates of hell can never shake it."

^43-1
And Abel and Cain in the garden of Eden, Cain drawed his own
conception. He said, "Now, look. God's a good God. He's over all
nature, so I'll get the beans and potatoes, and I'll get the–the
flowers, and I'll make Him a real pretty altar (That's a church). He
knelt down; he believed God; he worshipped God, put up his hands, and
offered this sacrifice. He done everything religious that Abel did.
Abel built the same kind of an altar, but when Abel brought his, he
brought a lamb. Now, Cain thought that making an antidote for sin, that
his father and mother must have eat fruit as they were taught in that
garden. But Abel by Divine revelation knowed that it was the blood that
did it: by Divine revelation. And the Bible said in Hebrews the 12th
chapter–11th chapter, that Abel by faith (revelation) offered unto God
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by which God testified that he was
righteous. That right? Amen. Brother, sister, it's just as plain as
anything can be to me. There's the whole thing.

^43-3
Now, on the marriage and divorce… See, it has to be revealed. Until
it's revealed, you don't know it. But He promised in this last days in
this age, that every hidden mystery in the Bible would be revealed. How
many knows that? Revelations the 10th chapter. Jesus promised it, that
all of these hidden mysteries on–on marriage and divorce, all these
other hidden mysteries that's been would be revealed in the end time.
Now, you remember the Voice said, "Go to Tucson." You remember a mystic
Light in the skies, the seven Angels standing there? Come back and the
opening of the Seven Seals? Watch what's taken place. That is true.
Now, just a little bit farther.
But now, hear ye. I know you… It's getting time for you to go eat, but I'm just eating fine.

^43-7
Notice. Now, the woman's got her place, and she is a jewel. Solomon,
this man that had ten thousand wives–or had a thousand wives, rather,
he said that a man that's found a wife has found a good thing. He said
a good woman is a jewel in his crown; that's an honor, but an
unrighteous one is water in his blood. That's his life. He said, "There
might be one righteous man found in a thousand." (Solomon said this.)
But said, "You wouldn't find one righteous woman in a thousand."
Solomon said that. See?
Now, notice that, that how it is. But you see, woman, you are–you are
a jewel if you want to be a jewel, but the desire has to be by you. And
you see why the marriage and divorce was, that Jesus pointed back
yonder? It was because your kind was the cause of all sin. That's the
reason polygamy and divorce and things was introduced. At the beginning
it never was so and it won't be so in the world over yonder.

^44-2
Look at Jacob, out of whom come the patriarchs. He had at least a dozen
wives. He married two sisters and had concubine wives besides that
(common law women that he lived with), and those patriarchs was born
right out of those concubine women. Is that right? See, you have to
make the Word run smooth. Oh, I got pages on them. If a clergyman ever
questions me on it and if we could get together, we can talk it; but
surely if he's got any spirituality at all, he could see right here
it's the truth. There's no question to it.
A good woman is a good thing. I know that. I know it by real women.
I've met real women that's genuine, just as real as any man that ever
walked. She's a byproduct and a piece in–of him. And in the fall he
listened to her. He's just… She's part of him. But it's up to her;
she's made so she can be filthy. And she's given the right to refuse or
to accept. That's contrary to the original nature at the beginning.
See? But there you are.

^44-4 Now, it's twelve o'clock, so I'll just omit something here for a few minutes. I want to ask you something.
Now,
remember, I say this to just my group only. And out in the air: I'm
saying this to only my own followers; this Message is only to them. And
what I'm going to say here, any minister, he–that's his–he's the
shepherd of the flock; let him do whatever he wants to. That's up to
him and God. Any priest, any preacher, that's up to you, my brother.
I'm only speaking here in Jeffersonville, the only place that I'd speak
this at, is because it's my own flock. It's the flock that the Holy
Ghost give me to understand, to be overseer over. He'll hold me
responsible for it.
And these people of mine's been converts here from across the land that
I've led to Christ. And little children, I'm here to help you and I am
your friend. You might think I speak against you; I'm saying this
to–for your good. I love you. And if that isn't so, God's my Judge.
You know I love you.

^45-2
This is an awful strong thing. I didn't know how to bring it out.
What'll I do when I got men and women setting in my congregation, some
that's been married twice or three times? Good men, good women, all
mixed up, what done it? False teaching. Exactly, not waiting on the
Lord. "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder…" Not
what man joined together, what God joined together.
When you got a direct revelation from God that's your wife and the same
thing, that's yours the rest of your life. See? But what man joins
together anybody can put apart. But what God joins together no man
better dare to touch it. "Whatsoever God joins together," He said, "let
no man put asunder." Not what some half-drunk magistrate, or something
else put together, or some backslidden preacher with a bunch of creeds
in a book that'd let them do anything in the world and the Word of God
laying right there. See? I'm talking about what God joined together.

^45-4
Now, I'm going to say this to you. I'm very careful what I say to you.
I don't mean to be rough with you people. I don't mean to be rough with
you, my pastor brothers. I don't mean that. But I'm responsible,
realizing that this is been given into my hands, and if… I can't hold
it, and I don't know how to give it out; and I know that this tape
will… Oh, my. I'll just get ready. The office open up, 'cause it
comes. See? Just like it was on the serpent's seed, but it's absolutely
proven to be right.
I got papers right here out of the paper where women right now… And
even in–in the great–some of the great diocese has got the pictures
of the original, a snake crawling a woman's leg and just–and how it
goes around her. She has all kinds of sensations and things, something
a man could never touch her with, with this huge snake wrapping around
her and so forth. That's exactly the truth. And it's growing worse and
worse and will get worse. Serpent, which he was not–he could not have
had the sex affair with her when he was a serpent. But remember…

^46-1
I was having a debate the other day with a–not a debate, just an
Assembly of God minister, an associate, said, "You're wrong on that."
I said, "Well, I may be. I'd like for you to tell me."
He said… Then he went ahead and begin to talk about it. First thing
you know he got hisself lost. And one thing he said, he said, "Brother
Branham, where is that specie? God said 'one of each kind.' Now, where
is that specie you said was between man and beast that science can't
find now? Where is he at?" Said, "Is he on the earth? Was he a
chimpanzee?"
No, because a chimpanzee's blood won't mix with a woman. No other
animal will mix with her. No, it won't. Or neither will a man's sperm
mix with a–with a female. It won't do it.
Then where is that certain animal? Now, God said, "Let everything bring forth of its kind."
I waited just a minute and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit said, "Tell
him it's here." Now, first I said, "Well, it may have become distinct."
He said, "But, Brother Branham, that… We're talking about the Word, aren't we?"
I said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "They, of course, claim that the other
things like dinosaurs and–and mammoths, and so forth,
mammals–mammoths rather, they're distinct, and so forth." I said, "It
could've been that."
He said, "Brother Branham, we're talking about proof of the Word. If
sin's here, then the original sinner ought to be here also."
And I said, "Lord Jesus, You said, 'Take no thought what you shall say
when you come before men, because it'd be given to you in that hour.'
Lord, what shall I say?" He said, "Tell him it's here." (Just the same
as see the visions on the platform.) I said, "It's here," not knowing
where.
He said, "Where?"
And before I could even think, He said, "It's the serpent."

^47-1
That's exactly what it was, for he's no longer a beast; he was cursed
and put on his belly for the rest of his days. He's here. Is that
right? And still in that act that he done, is still the same sin works
around a woman, like a male sex like that. There's where she has her
walleyed conditions and things when she has her sensations, far beyond
what any man could ever do.
I'll stop there, 'cause we're in a mixed crowd. I'll get the men,
I'll–we'll talk more about it. I got all the papers and things laying
right here, right at my hand right now, and I was going to bring to you
this morning. I was going to take the full day in this, but I'll close
now in saying this.

^47-3 This is to my church only–not my church, the little flock that believes me and follows me; this is to them.
The
other day, knowing that when I tell you anything it must come THUS
SAITH THE LORD, then I had the Scriptures as He revealed it to me, but,
"Lord God, what can I say to that congregation? I'll have separations.
Men will be setting on the porch and out in the yard and everywhere
else: 'Shall I leave her?' Women: 'Shall I leave my husband?' 'What
shall I do?'" I said, "Lord, what can I do?"
Something said to me, "Go up yonder in the mountains, and I'll talk to you."
And while I was up in the mountain… Not knowing that down in Tucson
they were seeing it, but even the teachers called the children from (my
little girl and them)–from the schoolroom and said, "Look yonder in
that mountain. There's a fiery looking amber cloud going up in the air
and coming back down, and going up in the air and coming back down."

^47-7
Mrs. Evans, are you here? Ronnie, you here? I come on back down to the
station; this young boy (by the filling station, Evans' filling station
there)–and before I knowed what the boy was going to say, he took me
off my feet. He said, "Brother Branham, you was up in that mountain
over yonder, wasn't you?"
I said, "What do you mean, Ronnie? No." (See? To see what he was going
to do.) Lot of times things happen I don't–you don't say it to people.
It becomes… The thing of it is, you see so much happening, it becomes
common to you. See? I just don't tell the people. I said, "Ronnie, what
was you…"
He said, "I can show you right where you were at." Said, "I called
mama, and we stood here and watched that Cloud hanging up in here,
going up and down. I said, 'It's got to be Brother Branham setting up
in there somewhere. That's God talking to him.'"
And the whole city of people looked at it. On a bright day with no
clouds nowhere at all, with this big amber Cloud hanging there, coming
down like a funnel and going back and spreading out.

^48-3
Friends (and then I'm closing, you can go from this), that's when this
was being revealed to me, what I'm going to tell you right now. So
don't miss it.
Now, I'm speaking to our followers only, who's following me and this
Message only, not the outside. Bear me record of this before God: just
to this group only.
Now, we are found in this mess because of misinterpreted theology. That
right? That's why you women married the second time and you men,
because misinterpret theology. Now, I want to show you something that
He told me. And if God, our Creator, was questioned the question when
He was here on earth (Jesus Christ), and when His delivering prophet
came forth (Moses) down in Egypt to bring the children out of–of Egypt
to put them in the promised land; and Jesus said here that Moses seen
the people in this condition, and he granted them a writing of
divorcement because the situation was what it was. Moses found such as,
"Let him suffer…" God permitted Moses, that prophet sent to the
people, to grant this writing of divorcement to them.

^48-6
And in I Corinthians the–the 7th chapter, the 12th and 15th verse in
the New Testament prophet, Paul, who met the same thing in the church
and spoke this: "This is I, not the Lord." Is that right? Because of
the divorce condition.
It wasn't so from the beginning. But Moses was permitted it, and God
recognized it righteousness. And Paul also had a right when he found
his church in that condition.
Now, you believe this to be true and believe it to come from God. And
by the vindication of His Cloud and His Message that's brought me this
far, should not God upon the mountain permit me to do the same thing to
suffer you to go on the way you are and do it no more. Go with your
wives and live in peace, for the hour is late. The coming of the Lord
is at hand. We haven't got time to break these things up. Don't you
dare try to do it again. I'm speaking only to my congregation. But if
you are married–and God bore me witness to that on the mountain that I
could say this (a supernatural revelation because of the opening of the
Seven Seals and this is a question in God's Word): let them go on in as
they are and sin no more.

^49-1
It wasn't so from the beginning. That is right. It wasn't so, and it
will not be at the end. But under modern conditions, as God's servant
(I won't call myself His prophet.), but I believe that if I wouldn't be
sent for that, I'm laying a ground for him when he does come. So under
the modern conditions, I command you to go to your home with your wife
now. If you are happy with her, live with her, raise your children in
the admonition of God; but God be merciful to you if you ever do that
again. You teach your children to never do a thing like that. Bring
them up in the admonition of God. And now that you are as you are, let
us go now to late evening hour that we're living in and press towards
the mark of the high calling in Christ where all things will be
possible.
Until I see you tonight, the Lord God bless you, while we pray.

^49-2
Lord God, we give You thanks. We give You praise. Thou art the same
great Jehovah that suffered Moses. Moses, that servant, what would he
tell his people? And, God, You suffered him to give a writing of
divorcement.
Paul, the great apostle who was the writer of the New Testament as
Moses was of the Old… Moses wrote the laws, and a dispensation of
laws. Many of the prophets, their words was injected into it, but Moses
wrote the laws. And You suffered him a writing–to write them a writing
of divorcement because of the hardness of their heart.
The great saint Paul, being a writer of the New Testament, could also
make such an assertion that "I speak under these conditions, I, not the
Lord."

^49-5
So is it today, Lord God, at the end of the world. As we are here under
the mercy of God, knowing that soon we're to answer in His Presence,
and that You have did so much, Lord, I'm sure in the sight of these
people they'll hang onto this like it come from You. And to bear record
here today of many people setting here that even saw that sign up in
the mountain where the Angels of the Lord came in the whirlwind, where
it came in the seven Angels, where the revealing of the seven mysteries
was unfolded, and that same Angel, in the same direction, on the same
mountain the day that this was revealed…
God, I pray that the people will go home being thankful that God has
granted this grace to them. I only spoke it, Lord, through permission.
And I only say it through permission, Lord. And let the people be so
grateful that they'll never try to do that sin again. And may they
never try to do any sin, but love You with all their hearts.

^50-2
Lord, make these families happy and may they grow and raise their
children in the admonition of God. For my message that was on my heart
is delivered, Lord. I've done all I know how to do, and Satan has
fought me for weeks and hours without sleep, but now I command it,
Lord, to these people that they study it and go and live for You. Grant
it, Lord. It's off my shoulders now. They're in Your hands. I pray that
You'll bless them.
Bless these handkerchiefs, Lord, that's just been set on here for the
sick and afflicted. May this night be one of the greatest, powerful
nights, that all the people will be healed. Grant it, Lord. Bless us
together. May we go in peace, happy and rejoicing, because the God of
creation has showed us since the beginning and has extended to us, in
our mess that we're in, His grace again in this last days. Oh, great
and eternal God, how we thank You for it. And may our hearts be so
happy that we'll never have another desire to sin against You. In
Jesus' Name. Amen.

^50-4

I say it now so the ministers will understand: this is to them that follows this Message only.
Oh,
are you happy? I told you the truth, THUS SAITH THE LORD all the way
through. Now, let us stand and raise our hands as we sing it again. "I
love Him, I love Him for His grace; I love Him for His mercy; I love
Him for His Word." And the Word of the Lord came to the prophet.