<TITLE>16. Par 60-63</TITLE>L-60 Balaam was just as--just as orthodox as Moses was. Now, look, here's seven altars, seven clean sacrifices, seven rams a burning up here on the hill, with all the celebrity, the high priests, or whatever it was, and all of them standing around the smoldering sacrifices praying to Jehovah God. Just perfect according to God's requirement. God required seven altars, seven sacrifices, and everyone who believed that the Messiah would come, they'd burn a ram for it, believing that--that He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. They were very orthodox.
Now, look. Up here on the hill is a fine organized nation of people, all believing in Jehovah God, with a great fine minister, fine scholar, educated, stand up there, and all the celebrities standing around the smoldering fires, exactly just as Scriptural as could it could be, every Word of it orthodox.
Down there in the valley, was a bunch of people that had no homes to go to. They claimed to be pilgrims and strangers. They wasn't organized. They were dwelling in tents, and they were... had seven altars, seven bullocks, and seven rams. Orthodox, one was just the same as the other. If God only requires you to be orthodox to the Word, then He would be wrong to condemn Moab and accept Israel.

L-61 Cain and Abel, both of them worshipped in the beginning. Cain built an altar, so did Abel. Cain worshipped, so did Abel. Cain wasn't an infidel. They built an altar. They brought a sacrifice; they done everything that they could do, both of them. Why did Abel was accepted? Because Abel was spiritual minded. It was revealed to Abel that it wasn't fruits and apples that brought us out of the garden of Eden. It was blood, and he offered the blood of a ram--a lamb by spiritual revelation. And Jesus said that he would build His Church on the spiritual revelation.
"Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you," He said to Peter. "You never learned it in a seminary. You never learned it by being orthodox. But flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." How you going to stop it then? Now, it was spiritual revelation.

L-62 Here was Moses; he had his foot on the throne. He could've had a great... He could've turned on Egypt down there and maybe stayed there, but God's promise was to journey through the wilderness and go to the promised land. Got to get in the position first. And Moses chose rather to suffer with the people than to set on a throne down here, because it was revealed to him spiritually. And here he was going and God was proving.
Here's how you know whether you're in the right group or not. God always a vindicates His Church with signs and wonders. No matter how orthodox you are, it depends on whether God is accepting your sacrifice.

L-63 Talking to a very good Baptist brother, which I love with all my heart, a fine one, scholarly if I ever seen one. He said, "Brother Branham, what in the world has come over you, boy?"
And I said, "What?"
"Why," he said, "all this fanaticism you're trying to teach." He said, "All this baptism of the Holy Ghost," said, "we get the Holy Ghost when you believe God."
I said, "You Baptists got all mixed up in that in Acts 19. Paul found some Baptists up there and said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?' I thought you said you received it when you believed? Paul said, 'You've already believed, but have you received the Holy Ghost since then?'" Amen. Yeah, Apollos was a great preacher, all right, but he heeded the Holy Ghost.


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