<TITLE>08. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 I'd write a letter to you; you might appreciate it. You'd read it and say, "Brother Branham wrote me this nice letter." But to you is the only one it would mean anything. And after awhile, that letter would become no good at all.
But this blessed Word of God, It was wrote from the lips of God. And to every generation, It's inspiring. This same text has set men's heart afire since the hour it was wrote, through all generations. 'Cause it's God's eternal Word.
And now, He's going to make a display. Now, first I want to take you in another angle, maybe from what you noticed it, so it will be a little new to your congregation.

L-24 God, here, was going to do something that He'd asked man to do. And God will never ask you to do anything, that He would not do Himself. Did you ever think of that? Did you ever go back to the garden of Eden in the great coming forth of Adam and Eve? The Bible said that Adam was not deceived. Adam was not deceived; he knowed just exactly what he was doing. But because of the love that he had for Eve, he walked right out into death with her. Not because he had to, he knowed different. Eve was absolutely deceived. She thought she was right. But Adam knowed better. But he walked out with her and took death with her.
Was the--was a great sign that the Church, the Bride, was guilty. Christ was not guilty. But He become guilty to die the death for His Church. To redeem her He went to death with her.
God never asks you to do anything that He wouldn't do. That's right. And in this great subject this afternoon in the Old Testament, it was given to man that they...

L-25 Now, we notice lot of times in our Bible, we think there's mistranslations; there's things that sound strange. But it has the same meaning. For instance, you English people would know this better than I perhaps. Now, in the King James version on John 14, it said, "In My Father's house is many mansions." Doesn't that seem just a little strange? "In My Father's house (a little house) is many mansions?" Mansions inside of a house? Doesn't seem right, does it?
Now, Moffatt translates it (I think it's Moffatt); he makes it more ridiculous than that. He said, "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments." Like you are going up there to rent an apartment. But that...
In the King James translations when they translated the Bible for the King James, they had to speak in the language that they were using in that day. And they were using in England, that day, the same types that they used in the old Bible day. Now, the word "house" means "kingdom." The right translation for it would be, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces. In My Father's house is many mansions. In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces."

L-26 Now, here's the way it was. When King James was king over all England and its territories, its countries, he was considered the father of that house. They were all his subjects, his children. And that's the reason the translators made it, "In My Father's house..." so that the English speaking people would understand.
Now, in the Bible, it was the same way. They had a--a father owned a big piece of land. And on there he had many little tenant houses and places. And then when a son was born into this father's house... Now, that son when he was born, he was a son. He was born...
Now, there's where you Pentecostal people jump the line. Exactly. Now, this boy... I don't mean this through any harm. And I wouldn't want you to think I was standing as a know-it-all. I'm only trying to explain God's Word. And listen.


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