<TITLE>08. Par 68-78</TITLE>L-68   Now, Hagar, by "slightly"! Remember, you cannot take one Word out of There. And Jesus said, in Revelations, at the close of the Book. And at the first of the Book, Christ said, "Any man that took one Piece away from that Word!" Just one Word misinterpreted, caused every sickness, death, that we've ever had. Well, if God, Who is holy, looked down; and caused all this chaos by just slightly misinterpreting one Word, and any little thing against that supreme Word caused all of this chaos; and the suffering, bleeding and dying of His Own Son, to reconcile this horrible thing back to Him; how are we going to get in anything less than keeping the whole Word?

L-69 "Well," you said, "Brother Branham, that was in Genesis." I felt that, see.

L-70 But let me tell you, Revelations, that's the last part of the Book. "Whosoever shall take one Word out of the Book of this prophecy, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life."

L-71   Jesus said, in the middle of the Book! There is your three witnesses again: Genesis, the New Testament, and the day today. Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
"Well, He didn't mean it."

L-72 He was talking to people who were theologians, to the highest. Those priests, their great-great-great-great-great- grandfathers had to be priests. To misconstrue one Word of It, why, it was absolutely a death penalty. They had to be stoned, for one Word to be missed. But they had the wrong interpretation of It. Therefore when the Word Itself; when God promised to send the Messiah, and sent It in the very swaddling cloth that He promised It would come in, they had a different swaddling for It to be wrapped in.

L-73 Let me say this. So is it today, that they don't get It! It's not in the swaddling of denominationalism or intellectual. It's in the swaddling of the power and the resurrection, and the manifestation of the risen Christ, the way God promised It, and not in the swaddling of people's thoughts of It.

L-74   Now, Hagar, by one little slight difference, through woman, not through Abraham now. Abraham didn't want to do it, but God let him do it because he... Same thing, He let Balaam go on. Now notice, by slightly differing with It, she brought forth Ishmael, which was a wild man, never conquered. He lived by his bow. He was a wild man. He is yet, today.

L-75 Now Sarah, the tassel, or pollen, Sarah, the true wife of the promise, brings forth a gentle man, in return brought forth a promised nation.

L-76 Now, but, Mary, no sex, but through a promise, just like Abraham got the promise from God, the Word of God, but believed the promise, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord," see, brought forth not a stalk, but the original Seed, for He was the Word that Abraham believed and that Mary believed.

L-77   Now, Mary was not the Seed, she was only the shuck through the Seed. The two others was carriers of life, only the natural seed. Mary was not the Seed, herself; but like faith in God's Word, brought a more real image of the Word, because He was the Word. But like the shuck, the... of a wheat, a corn of wheat, the shuck holds the wheat inside of it and protects it until it is able or matured to go on its own. See? Then, it was the Seed Itself that left her. Just like, the Seed was in her womb, she wasn't the Seed. She didn't produce the Seed. God is the Seed.

L-78 Now, the blood then, many people think that it was Jewish blood that we were saved by. And some of them said, "Well, we got a right through the Gentiles, because Rahab the harlot and--and Ruth the Moabite, and so forth, they were Gentiles." You have no claim of that at all, neither one. He was neither Jew nor Gentile.


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