<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 And he said to me then; he said, "Now, Mr. Branham, do you apply that then to what Isaiah said, that 'He was wounded for our...'"
"Yes, sir, that's right."
He said, "If I'll prove to you that that has been done away with, will you accept that?"
I said, "Yes, sir, that's right."
And he said, "All right, in Matthew 8 the Bible said that they brought to Him the lame, halt, and afflicted, and so forth. And He healed them that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the prophet Isaiah (See?), 'He Himself bore our infirmities.'"
I said, "Do you apply that to the atonement?"
He said, "Certainly. Isaiah said so."
I said, "That was a year and six months before the Lamb was ever killed. Now, how could it be in the atonement? That was a year and six months before Jesus ever was crucified. And how do you apply that to the atonement?"

L-17 And then he went to rattling off big words, you know. And I said, "Now, just a moment, the King James is all I know. See?"
And so he said, "Well..."
Well, I said, "We won't..." I said, "Do you... I'll ask you one question now. Do you say that Divine healing is in the Word? 'But whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive them.' Is that divinely ordered in the Bible?" Well, you have to say yes 'cause Jesus said so.
"Yes."
"'Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it, anything, I'll do it.'"
And he said, "Yes."
I thought, "You said the wrong thing there, brother. And you put it in the Word and not the atonement." And I said, "Then it has to be in the atonement then if it's in the Word."
And he said, "No."

L-18 I said, "Wait, there was a king one time that had a great kingdom and he made all the rules and laws. He was a just man, a man of honor. And he made rules, and--and penalties of punishment, and so forth. And one day a slave committed a crime; he was brought up before the king. And the king said, 'My law reads here that you must die for this penalty; I'll have to take your head.' And the poor fellow begin shaking. And he said, 'What can I do for you before I have your head taken.' And he said, 'A glass of water.' So they give the slave the water, and he was shaking so hard he couldn't hold the water. He said, 'Now, before I take your life, you drink the water, or--or I won't take your life until you drink the water.' And the slave threw the water on the ground."
I said, "Now, what is the man going to do? His law says that--that the man must die. But his word said that he's not going to take the man's life before he drinks the water, and he can't drink the water. Now what?"
He said, "Oh, that was a slip up on the king."
I said, "And then you mean to say that God slipped up too when He put it in His Word and not the atonement? Get away from here with that. No, sir. It... God doesn't have any slip ups." Every Word is the truth. God's Word...


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