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Questions 171 (COD Page 701)
“Adam knew his wife Eve; and” (conjunction) “she conceived, and bare Cain.” I believe all you teach, but have...would I...How would I answer someone who–who says she didn’t conceive after Adam knew her, because of the conjunction “and.” “Adam knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain.”
50 Now, we adults know what “knew” means. Now, the question is concerning the conjunction. Now, if you’ll watch, friends, see, you–you just can’t make the Bible say one thing one place and something something else. It’s got to say the same thing all the time. And if you got It saying one thing here and something else over here, then your interpretation’s wrong. See? You can’t do it. You can’t get Eve beguiled by the serpent and then find her somewhere else beguiled again. See? And the first time she was beguiled is when she conceived. You can’t make her beguiled twice.
51 Just let me show you on your conjunctions. In reading the Bible you must know where your conjunctions go. Conjunction is tying your sentence together. See? Now watch this. Now, in Genesis 1:26, watch this conjunction, and then you explain this and then I’ll tell you how he...when Adam knew his wife. Genesis, the 1st chapter, and beginning with the 26th verse. Now, listen close. God has made His creation now, and God let the earth bring forth of the creeping things and all the things that the earth brought forth. Now, in 26th chapter...26th verse of the 1st chapter of Genesis:
And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our own–own likeness:...let them (man)...(not him; “them,” see, plural) have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over...(See the “and, and, and” tying together?)...over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (both man and woman).
And God blessed them after His creation, then, and... said unto them, Be fruitful, and (and) multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:...
52 Conjunction after conjunction of what...Man’s to be multiplying. And, after multiplying, then subdue the earth; that’s plumb into the Millennium. See? All right, “Subdue the earth.” All right:
...and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and...the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
53 Now, God created man in His Own image, created, let them (the man) have dominion over all the earth, subdue it and everything, and let them do this and have dominion over the fishes of the...and everything that He did. And then we find out, in Genesis 2:7...Listen to this. After God had done made the earth, done created man, done give him dominion over the earth, done give him everything that he’s got, and God created them, told them to be multi-...to multiply and replenish the earth, and all these things, and after seven more verses of things that He had finished, and the heavens and earth and everything, “And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground.” “And!” Here He is (“and” conjunction) making a man that He’s already made. See? Making a man:
And...(tying His sentence together)...God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed (thebreath) into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
54 Now, think of that! After He had done made man (women and men) in Genesis 1:26 to 28, He made man in His Own image, created him and give him...subdued the kingdoms and give him all these powers and everything, and yet He had never created the man yet.
55 See, Satan had already beguiled Eve. Course, Adam knew her, but she was already beguiled. Because right back here he...when they...before they come...When they come into the judgment, He said...and God brought them together and said, “Who did this?” Asked them the question.
Adam said, “The woman You give me.” And the woman said, “The serpent beguiled me.”
56 And God put a curse upon them, and everything like that. And then Adam knew his wife, see, after she was already beguiled and become a mother. Just the same as God made man way back here in Genesis 1:26 and yet he hadn’t never been formed yet. See? All right.
57 Now watch, let’s get down here and read, also:
And Adam called his wife...Eve; because she was he mother of all living things, all...or mother of all living. Called his wife...called the woman wife because she was...or woman because she was...of all living things.
And unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD... make coats of skin to cover them.
58 Now, now notice in Genesis again, 1:21, God created the whales in the sea. He done everything, and made the creation, made man in His Own image. Made man, not “a” man, whole man, all of them in His Own image. See? And after the image of God created He them; male and female, created him both like that.
59 And now we find out, over here again, after He made man in His Own image, after He created him over here male and female, here He makes man out of the dust of the earth.
60 And then, after He did that, after He done made him male and female, then He comes back here and makes a woman for him, after He had already made him. See?
61 See, your conjunction it tying that sentence together. Just the same as it said, now, here, “God created a man in His Own image, after His likeness He created him,” it’s God speaking in His thoughts, in His mind, what He had. Here’s where He actually done the deed.
62 Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; He wasn’t slain for four thousand years afterwards. See?
63 So the serpent had beguiled Eve. That’s truly. Then after the judgment was set, then Adam knew his wife. And then she conceived and brought forth a son, Cain. You get it? See, the conjunction is just carrying on what Adam did, not what was done before Adam.
64 And look here, if you’d like to carry that out, in that great statement here, I believe we find it over here in the...and here in the 4th chapter, I believe it is.
And Adam knew...his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and (a conjunction) said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
65 Then it actually wasn’t Adam, it was God’s son by it. See? See? If you want to put your conjunction where at, see (“and” again), “I have gotten a man from God.” Then saying that God give her that discriminating thing called Cain. Where did that resource of all that vile and filth and things that Cain had, coming from God? Couldn’t be! See? She was beguiled by the serpent, and the serpent...she was already become mother. Then Adam knew her, certainly he did, he went and lived with her as a wife, but she was already to be mother of this child.
66 And then when Adam’s son finally was born, he was a gentle, sweet, humble, meek person like Adam.
67 But this fellow, where did that pure lying, where did that sin come from? Where did this fellow, Cain, that murderer? And the Bible said that “The devil is a murderer.” Where did and the father of a lie.) It had to come from some resource outside of God. So Cain was the evil one, and his father was Satan; and he brought forth this evil one. And then, course, Adam knew his wife, certainly.
68 And, yeah, maybe if you said like this. I might say, taking myself, well, now, Rebekah was born, and after a while come along...
69 I was reading one day the story of Joseph, and I was so thrilled at the story of Joseph. I got over in a little closet and knelt down, up there in Minneapolis, and I said, “Lord God, how I thank You for a man like Joseph!” And I thought, “If I I...Wished I had named Billy Paul, ‘Joseph,’ after that great noble character.” There’s not one mark against him nowhere in the Bible, perfect type of Christ in every way. Thought, “How I would love...” I said, “Oh, if I had a boy, I’d name him ‘Joseph.’”
70 And just then that Light came moving into the building and said, “You’ll have a son and call his name ‘Joseph.’”
71 I knew my wife, sure, she brought forth Sarah. Then I knew my wife and she brought forth Joseph. See what I mean? See, it had nothing to do with the first. God’s promise was “Joseph,” Sarah come between that. Not placing Sarah in that kind of a predicament, but just to show you what I–what I mean. See, that...Sarah was God-sent, too. And so then we know that.
72 Now, but, see. God, when He passed the judgment upon Adam and Eve, she’s already done the sin before He could pass the judgment. And, listen, did you ever know that the first child was ever born in the world was “born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies”? The very first one that was ever born was born that way, because...
73 You say, “What about Adam and Eve?” They wasn’t born. They were created. See?
74 But the first child ever come was born in sin, so it has to be that line. “A man that’s born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.” He’s born in sin. That’s the reason he has to be reborn again, see, by the Spirit; not by a spiritual thought; by spiritual Birth, see, that regenerates him, makes him a new creature. The first man was born was born in sin.
75 Then, there had to be One come without sex. Now, if sex wasn’t the first thing, then why did they have to have One in sex to redeem the whole human race? Why didn’t He just bring one down the corridors and said, “Here’s the just One that thinks right”? It had to come through the sex, come through woman, because that’s where it come in the first place. Through sex, brought unrighteousness; and through sex, brought Righteousness. See? God, without an adultery, without sexual desire, brought forth Jesus Christ by immaculate conception, by overshadowing Mary and creating in her this Baby; that come by sex. And, through that, His Holy Blood redeemed the whole fallen race. See? So it has to be, no other
way for it.
76 Every man that’s born of a woman is death bound, he’s dead when he’s born. That’s right.
77 That’s the reason I was talking the other day how that we have that blessed assurance now.
78 When Israel...Isn’t it...I speak so many things that’s got nothing to it, but sometimes the Lord gives me something and it just thrills me. So when He gave me that, it thrilled me more than anything I’ve ever had in years. When He gave me that the other day, when I seen that Israel, a slave, had no home, God’s children. Throw in molded bread, anything they want to! Oh, if they could only have a home where they could live in peace, earn their living by the sweat of their brow!
79 And, one day, coming down out of the wilderness come a prophet, led by a Pillar of Fire, and told them of a promised land. Nobody had ever been there, they knew nothing of it. But it was a promise. Upon that they believed and followed this prophet till they got near the promised land.
80 Then there’s a witness called Joshua, which means “Jehovah-saviour,” crossed over Jordan into that land, and returned back with the evidence that that land was just exactly what that prophet said it was with the Word of God. They had a bunch of grapes, taken two man to pack, and they could taste the original fruit from the land. Nobody knowed the land was there, they just believed it. They walked out by faith and believed it.
81 Now when they inherited their land, how happy they was! Each one could live in peace, have his little garden, have his children and everything. But, yet, old age finally got him, and death cornered him and took him.
82 Then down from the corridors of Heaven, through a woman, came another great Warrior, the greatest of all of them, God Himself made manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ. And He told Israel what a great people they had been, but death faced them, He said, “But I’m telling you of another land. In My Father’s House is many mansions. If it wasn’t so I would have told you. You’re happy in your land, you have your homes, you have your children. But you’re burying each one out yonder and it seems to be the end.”
83 Job saw it, said, “If a tree dies, it lives again. But man layeth down and giveth up the ghost, where is he? His sons come to honor him and he perceives it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave, keep me in the secret place till Thy wrath be passed!” He said, “If a man dies shall he live again?”
84 Four thousand years before that, they looked for somethingmbeyond that grave. All the great things God give them, a home,ma family and children, and a church, and everything, andmprophets, and great man up to this time, but yet each one died and went to his grave. But here comes One and says, “In My Father’s House is many mansions, and I’ll go and prepare a place for you.” Like Joshua, He met His Kadesh-barnea.
85 When Israel come to Kadesh-barnea...And Kadesh was the judgment seat of the world at that time, seven springs from a big major spring, meaning judgment, like the House of God and the Churches that goes out from It. And Joshua, from Kadesh-barnea, crossed over into the promised land to bring back the evidence.
86 Now, Jesus met His Kadesh. What was it? Judgment seat! Where was it? At Calvary, where God judged Him for the sins of the world. What did they do? He met death, the recompense of God. To reconcile sinners to God, He died the death and crossed over the river of Jordan (of death). They buried Him.
87 He died until the moon and stars was ashamed of themselves. He died until the earth had a nervous breakdown. It shook till the rocks run out of the mountains. It shook till the stars wouldn’t shine, the moon wouldn’t shine, and the sun went down in the middle of the day. He died! So dead till a Roman took a ten-pound spear and rammed it completely through His heart; water and Blood. He was dead! He crossed Jordan. And they put Him in the grave and rolled a–a rock up against it, taken a century of men to do it. He was dead! They put a Roman seal on it.
88 But on Easter morning He come back from across Jordan, and said, “I am He that was dead; and alive again forevermore!” Some of them said, “We see a spirit.”
89 Said, “Feel me. Has a spirit got flesh and bones like I got?”
Said, “You got anything to eat? Bring Me something.” And they give Him fish and bread. And He eat it. He was a Man!
90 What was He? Bringing back the evidence that there is a Land that we’re going to. What did He do? He, like Joshua, He brought the evidence of It. He said, “Now, if you want the evidence of It, ‘Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost.’ That’s the evidence that raised Me up. I’ll give you the Earnest of your inheritance.” And then what happened? On the Day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon the believer.
91 Now what do we do? Confess our sins, reckoning ourselves dead, buried with Him in baptism, raised with Him in His resurrection. What to? “Set in Heavenly places with Him.” That’s where we are tonight, sitting (not physically) spiritually, our minds, our thoughts, our souls are far beyond the cares of the world right now. What are we? “In Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” How do we get into It? “By one Spirit,” First Corinthians, 12th chapter, “by one Spirit we are all baptized by the Holy Ghost into one Body of believers.” The mystical Kingdom of God!
92 In there we look back and seen where we used to lie and steal and cheat and smoke and do the things that’s wrong. We’ve raised from that. We’re in Heavenly places. What is it? The evidence that someday we’ll have a body like His Own glorious body. It’s the exact evidence of the resurrection, because, potentially, we are already raised with Him, potentially we’ve already died.
93 William Branham that used to live doesn’t live no more, he’s been dead thirty-some odd years, now it’s a new creature. Orman Neville that used to live isn’t living no more, he died many years before that, this is a new creature. Orman Neville’s dead, the–the horse racer, gambler, or whatever he was, the man that once lived is dead. I don’t know, Brother Neville wasn’t that; but whatever it was, he’s guilty of all of it, “Guilty of the least is guilty of the whole.” Ever what you were, you are a sinner, that’s what you are.
94 And you’re dead because you love the things of the world. And as long as you still love the world, no matter how much you confess to be up here, you’re not up here, you’re down there yet. “He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God hasn’t entered him yet.”
95 But when you raise above that to Heavenly things then set your affections on things above, because you are risen with Christ and now seated together in Heavenly places. Just rest assured, not a thing can harm you, not a thing. Even death itself has no...can’t do a thing to you. You’re already anchored in Christ. The assurance, the Earnest, the down payment’s already been brought, you’ve accepted It. What did you do? Raise up with Him in resurrection.
96 Look back where I once was. Now I’m above that. Why? By His grace He lifted me up, and here I am now seated in Heavenly places in Christ. Oh, my! There you are. Then the Bible becomes a new Book. Then you’re reading It through spiritual eyes and spiritual understanding. Then you see the nouns and pronouns, and then you see the junctions...and conjunctions, I mean, and so forth, in the Bible.
97 Oh, where It says...They say, “It contradicts Itself”; you’re down here reading. Get up here and read It, It’s all different then. You see? That’s right. Sure. Sure, It means a whole new thing when you read It in the Spirit. Yes. This other question is really not a question, it just says: