<TITLE>10. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 Now, they were strictly a interdenominational people. They didn't have any land of their own; they dwelt in tents. Moab was a fine denomination, a nation settled down with kings and so forth; but Israel wasn't that way. The other lands was all settled, had their kingdoms and homes; but Israel dwelled in tents. When they got a king, they backslid when they become denomination. Still the same way. That's right. Oh, brother, that didn't hit good; I could feel that; but that's the truth. You have man-made...You laugh at the Catholic; it's pot calling kettle black. That's right. Can't do it.
Denominations are set up by a bunch of men. God never intended, never organized one denomination, and never did, and never will. He's the King; He's the one to... That's right. I ain't got nothing against the denomination, the people in the denomination, but they dominate too much of the people. Now, if you can find in the Bible where God ever organized or denominated a group of people, I want you to tell me: but always against it. Same God lives today.

L-40 Now, notice this man when he come out. Balaam said to Balak... Balak, rather, sent to Balaam and said, "Come over here and curse this people. I don't want them in my country." Said, "That bunch of holy rollers, I don't want them in here."
You say, "Holy rollers, Brother Branham?" Yes, they were holy rollers. "Can you prove it?" Yes, sir. When they crossed through the red blood of the Red Sea, saw the taskmasters dead behind them, poor Brother Dr. Moses got informal; throwed his hands up in the air and begin to screaming and singing in the Spirit. And Miriam, the prophetess, she got informal and grabbed a tambourine and run down the bank beating and dancing; and the daughters of Israel following her, dancing, beating on a tambourine. If that ain't an old fashion holy roller meeting, I never seen one in my life. Amen. They were informal holy rollers. You don't want to believe that, but that's the truth. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Scripture. Sure, they were holy rollers: interdenominational holy rollers. That's that vine over here though.

L-41 Now, when he called this preacher down to curse, or to hold a debate with them, show them that they're wrong... "Come down here and prove it to them. Curse them. Shut their churches up. We no use for them." Same thing exists today: same thing. Religious people... Balaam, the borderline preacher, comes down, he looks over, he said, "Yep. Them people, look what they've done. Oh, my. I--I sure can put a curse on them. We'll sure show them where they're standing." So he said, "Build me seven altars." That's exactly what they had down the camp of Israel: seven altars. That's God's perfect number. Said, "Offer seven bullocks, seven rams": just exactly the same offering they were offering down there. Said, "Bring out all the nobles of the land, the great men." And they offered the same offerings, the same kind of altars, the same amount of offerings, the same kind. Built seven altars, seven calves, seven rams, and the dignitaries of the land, the bishops, archbishops, and D.D.'s, all stood around and worshipped God over the smoldering sacrifice.
Brother, fundamental? Just as fundamental as Israel was. It's exactly right. If fundamentalism is all God requires, there was Moab standing there. Here was Israel, his brother, in the valley, both of them worshipping the same God under the same sacrifice and the same atonement. Hallelujah.


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