<TITLE>02. Par 9-17</TITLE>L-9   Now, all we are today is the display of His attributes. In God... First He was not even God, God, we would just call Him "the Eternal One." He wasn't God, because the word (English word) God means "object of worship" and there was nothing to worship Him. So He was the Eternal One, the--the main Fountain of all intelligence. And in this Fountain of all intelligence there was not an atom, molecule, or nothing, light nowhere, star, moon, nothing else. God, what we know as God, the great Spirit that was Eternal (never did begin, never did end), He was there. And in Him was attributes: it was attributes to be God, then His attributes to be a Father, attributes to be a Son, attributes to be a Saviour, attributes to be a Healer. All these attributes was in Him. And now He... These things that has unfolded since then are just His attributes being made manifest.

L-10   What I mean, attributes was His "thoughts." And a--a word is "a thought expressed." And then that was in His thinking. And when He said, "Let there be," and there was. "Let there be," and there was.

L-11 And now, remember, you Christians were His thoughts before there was a world. And you are the manifestation of His thinking. Before there even was a world, you were in Christ, (amen) in God in the beginning. That makes you, then, you see, His subjects. And the whole thing is God, Himself, materializing Himself tangible so He could be handled, seen, and--and so forth. And that's what God is, the whole thing.

L-12   Then people say, "The interpretation..." I was speaking here not long ago in a meeting, a man said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, you have the wrong interpretation. You don't interpret That right."

L-13 Now, we hear... They go to the Methodist, and they say "The Baptist don't interpret right." The Baptist say, "The Pentecostals don't." The Pentecostal says that "The--the Oneness don't." The Oneness says, "The Assemblies don't." And each one says the other one don't.

L-14 God is His Own Interpreter! He don't need anybody to interpret for Him. He does His Own interpreting. Who is the man that can interpret God? God is His Own Interpreter.

L-15   Now, Peter speaking here, we find out that in the beginning when God said, "Let there be light," and there was light, that's the interpretation to it. When God said anything and it was manifested, then that's God's interpretation that His Word's right. See? When He said, "Let there be light," that was in His thinking first before there was such a thing as light. When He said, "Let there be light," light sprung into the skies, that's the interpretation. Nobody has to interpret that, for God said so and there it was. When God speaks and it's manifested, that's the interpretation of His Word. Why can't men see that? Why don't people see that?

L-16   When God makes a promise and God says... In--in the beginning, in Genesis, He lotted His Word to each age as It come down from the beginning to the end. And, down through these ages, the church world has got all these things all mixed up by traditions, and so forth, and God always sends on the scene, down through the Old Testament and New, prophets! And the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. And how does It do it? It manifests the Word of God. God's manifestation, that tells whether it's right or wrong. Nobody has to interpret It, the Word interprets Itself. God promised it and there it happens!

L-17 What good does it do to say anything else about It? Who is the sinful man that would try to say (when God made a promise and God does it) that that interpretation is wrong? That's God Himself doing His Own interpretation, interpreting. He don't need anybody to interpret Him, He interprets Himself by manifesting what He promised that He would do.


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