<TITLE>29. Par 279-286</TITLE>L-279   His Word of promise reflected Him in her. They had to take notice to Peter and them. They hadn't been to a seminary, and they knowed that. They hadn't been to any Bible school, some theological seminary. They had no education, 'cause they couldn't even write their own name. The Bible said, "They were ignorant and unlearned." But what happened? They had to take note they had been with Jesus, for there He was in them, reflecting His promise. Hallelujah! Glory to God! That's what we need in this age. His Word reflected Him in her, the church. She was alive by every Word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.

L-280 But then, as Eve, she met her fall, on the Word, at Nicaea, Rome, where the first organization was ever organized, the universal Christian church. Is there a Bible scholar in here? Is there a... Is there a theologian in here that knows that's the truth? The first organization was at Nicaea, Rome. God never did have an organization, never will have one. That's man controlled. That's where they all...

L-281 I'm a Christian. "What church do you belong to?" There is only one. I've been a Branham, fifty-five years, and I never did join the family, I was borned one. That's how you are borned in the Kingdom of God, and you're a reflection of His Word.

L-282   Notice, Eve met hers. And so did the second Eve met hers at Nicaea, Rome, gave to it a denomination, creed, accepted dogmas instead of the Word; taken down pagan idols like Jupiter and so forth, and put up Paul and Barnabas. And--and took down the sun-god and the moon-god, Ashtoreth, the moon-god, with round kosher on it, and made her being the mother of the sun-god which is Jupiter. And changed the birth day of Jesus from April, where all nature, where He was born under the ram, 'cause He was a ram, and changed that up to the sun-god's birthday in the solar there, where it makes one day... There is just only about a minute difference in the day when it passes on the twenty-fifth day of December, the sun-god's birthday, not the Son of God. And every one of us play Santa Claus, and decorate trees, a heathenism, and things like that, and then call ourselves Christians? What's the matter with the Christian church?

L-283 Will there ever rise somebody among us, who can preach the Word and tell the Truth, and God vindicate it and prove to the people that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? We don't need a seminary. We don't need a theologian. We need a prophet. That's right. God promised it, too.

L-284   Then Eve met her failure, so did the church; gave away to denomination, rules of man, to be ruled by man, not controlled by the Spirit no more. She went away from the Word, and accepted dogmas. Who can say "amen"? [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.] Sure. But do you know we Protestants accept as many dogmas as they got, when we add something to this Word or take something from It? Satan got her, with his same old technique he did Eve, compromising. That's where he got it, said something different from the Word, a creed or a denomination.

L-285   The original went on to the ground, in martyrdom, the burrs of Rome ground that wheat from Pentecost, into the dust, and burned them at stakes and fed them to the lions. They went in like the other wheat did, that's right, but He begin to raise her again in the reformation, the same one, the second time.

L-286 Like He did the Second Adam. After Adam fell, He begin to raise a Second Adam. And the Second Adam fell, then It was taken up. The first Adam fell in his sin and stayed there. The Second Adam fell, to redeem a man from sin, and was taken up.


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