<TITLE>11. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 And here God was going to do something great, because He was bringing forth Peter, James, and John. Now, that's... I'd call it hope, faith, and charity, the three great gifts of God. Say, take Peter for faith, and James for hope, and John is always love, which is charity. And He takes faith, hope, and charity with Him, and He goes up to the mountain, because He's fixing to do something. He's going to make an expression, and He wants it to be confirmed. And He always confirms it with three witnesses, two or three witnesses. That was an Old Testament statement, "Two or three witnesses, let every word be established."
And He goes up to the mountain, calling these three men, three outstanding gifts of the people that was with Him, and brings them up to the mountain. And then He has three heavenly beings. Something must go to take place. He's got three of the earthly witnesses and three heavenly witnesses. There is Moses, Elijah, and Jesus transfigured, transformed. And there was Peter, James, and John; the earthly and the heavenly all meeting together now.

L-40 And now, Moses and Elijah, and then Jesus was glorified before them, and His raiment shined like the sun. Now, what was He trying to do here? We find out that they went up, and they found a cloud overshadowed Him. His clothing was changed, the vesture that He was in, and it shined like the sun in its brightness. And a cloud was over Him, and a voice saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him."
Now, to my opinion what He was doing... God never asked anybody to do anything that He doesn't do Himself. That's the reason that I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He was more than a man. He was--He was more than a prophet, yet He was a prophet, yet He was a man. But He was more than that. He was Emmanuel. He was God manifested in flesh. I believe that.
That's exactly what He was, because any man, or a prophet, or an ordinary person would been born like we are, then we're still in our sins. But see, He was born a virgin birth. No one had nothing to do with it but God Himself. The God, the Creator, overshadowed the virgin Mary, created in her a blood cell.

L-41 Now, we all know that--that the life comes from the male sex. Just like a hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with a male bird, it'll never hatch. It's not fertile. So the male sex was God. And it was a creation that God...
Now, you precious Catholic people here, not to hurt your feelings, but when you say, "Mary, mother of God..." Who was God's father, if that was His mother? See? She's not no mother of God; she was an incubator which God used. God used Mary. She's not an intercessor, she's--and she's not a mediator. She is a woman to which God, the Father, overshadowed, and in His creative power, without any sexual desire at all, created in her the germ that made the Son of God. Therefore, He was neither Jew nor Gentile. He was God.

L-42 Someone said we was saved by Jewish blood. If we are, then there have had to be a sexual affair. So if... He--He has the Blood of God, a created Blood, that God, Himself, was wrapped up in a little infant Baby. And He was Jehovah God manifested in the flesh, now, not just a--a prophet...
Some people says, "Oh, He's a good man." A little--little story: here sometime ago a woman said to me, she said, "Mr. Branham," she said, "I like to hear you," but she said, "there's just one thing I got against you."
I said, "If there's just one, thank the Lord." I said, "I'm glad of that. Usually it's about everything." I said, "And you say you just got one thing? Let's hear it, sister." She belonged to a church that don't believe in--in the deity of Christ. They believe He was a good man, a teacher, and they believe in Divine healing, and so forth. But they--they just didn't believe that He was God.
And she said, "You brag too much on Jesus."


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