<TITLE>20. Par 171-179</TITLE>L-171 Now, Who is "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"? "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost." "Father's" no name, "Son's" no name, "Holy Ghost" no name. What Name were you talking about? Well, that's like John and Mary; let's go back to find out what it was. "Now, the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before she came--before they came together, she was found with a Child of the (what?) the Holy Ghost." I thought you said God was His Father. How can God be His Father, and the Holy Ghost be His Father?
Now, you see, you trinitarians, and hollering at the oneness? Pot can't call kettle greasy. Look here. No. See what I mean?

L-173 The Father... He said that "The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When the mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with a Child of the Holy Ghost." Then God the Father had nothing to do with it? If--if God the Father, and God the Holy Ghost, isn't the selfsame Person, then Jesus had two fathers, and our Saviour was a illegitimate child, born with two different spirits, or by two different spirits. "The birth of Jesus Christ was. He was conceived by the Holy Ghost." Do you believe that? Then God the Father and the Holy Ghost is the selfsame Spirit, or He had two fathers.

L-174 "All this was done, might be fulfilled which was spoken of the prophet of the Lord, saying, 'Behold, a virgin shall be with Child, and she shall bring forth a Child, and they--a Son, and they shall call His Name' (this is Him) Jesus, which is Emmanuel, which is being interpreted (what?) [Congregation says, "God with us."--Ed.]" Then what is the Name of the "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"? ["Lord Jesus Christ"] Certainly. "His Name shall be called ["Jesus"] for He shall save His people from their sins."
Now, what is "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"? The Lord Jesus Christ. What is the Name of It? Not name... "Father" is not a name, "Son's" not a name, "Holy Ghost" is not a name. But Jesus Christ is "Lord Jesus Christ," which is the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the three offices of God manifested in flesh in one Person. Hallelujah. Brother, that's the Truth. So help me, God, I'll stand at the day of judgment on that.

L-176 What's the cankerworm done's got God the Father up in heaven, God the Son sitting over here on a throne, and God the Holy... No wonder we can't get nowhere.
God is in you, with you. "I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. And the things that I do, shall you do also," not another Person, but the same Holy Ghost, the same Person, same God. Jesus, the Lord Jesus Himself was a Tabernacle in which God dwelt in to manifest Himself, 'cause He was a Spirit. He was a Spirit.
Now, Jesus wasn't eternal. God's Eternal. Jesus now is eternal because God has taken up a Body.

L-179 There was one time before the foundation of the world, I was eternal, when God thought of me. I was thought of before the foundation of the world; my name was put in the Lamb's Book of Life, and so was yours before there was even one grain of sand. How many knows that's the Bible? How many know that God put your name in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world? Then in God's thinking we were borned right then into His Kingdom.
And one day there come a body through a holy wedlock, my father and mother. And they sired me, and here I come, William Branham, represented in a body of flesh. Now, you know me as William Branham, a man. God knowed me as William Branham, a thought in His Own mind and an expression.


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