Questions & Answers On The Seals
Questions 181 (COD Page 821)
Brother Branham, as you have travailed or tra-...on the serpent’s seed...(Uh-oh, I never noticed this one. This one slipped up on me.)...serpent’s seed this week, will it be in order to ask this question? My friends have asked me to explain Genesis 4:1, and I can’t. Will you help me?
130 It’s–it’s off of the subject. But, anyhow, I’ll–I’ll–I’ll try my best, by the help of God. Let’s see now. Let me polish up, for just a little bit. I think that’s where she said, “I got a son from the Lord.” I–I believe it is. I think Eve said that there. I’m going to check, be sure.
131 Cause, I said, the other night, seven...instead of...seven hundred instead of seven thousand. So it makes me so nervous, see, and you just have to be watching. And the enemy on every side, and you–you’re conscious of that, you see. Yes, that’s it.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have be gotten a man from the Lord.
132 Now, I’m just going to answer you a question, my brother, or sister. And now, remember, not–not throwing to you, no. I’m trying to help you, see. I love you, and I love the person who might have been a critic on it. But I don’t think this person is critical. They said, “Help me,” see, because the people believes it, but they’re just not sufficiently posted, by the Spirit, to know what to say to the person that’s asked them that.
133 Now, she is saying here what the question is, no doubt, that they’re saying, “Eve said she gotten this man from the Lord.”
134 How do you think life could ever come if it didn’t come from the Lord, be it right or wrong? Who sent–who sent Judas Iscariot into the world? Tell me that. The Bible said he was born “the son of perdition.” Just ask them that one; be like a worm in the lemon, see. See? Now, you see, they can’t–can’t...It is.
135 Notice, then, if you want to take them a little more technique. Look. Eve talked here, if you want to take it in the language it’s here, which is written so it’s hid from the eye, wise and prudent. Eve, here, the way it’s taught, that God was the One that she begotten this son by. And He’s a Spirit, and can’t do it. See? Now watch here, if you want to notice that. “I have gotten a–a man from the Lord.” See, you can’t make it sound any...But it’s got to have its right interpretation, see. Yes, sir. No, sir, if that, then the spirit...
136 And we always follow the nature of our parent. You know that. Look at the baby, the nature. Well, then, Adam was a son of God; Eve was a daughter of God; right, the first thing of the creation of God, which could not have one speck of–of evil anywhere about it. Evil wasn’t even known.
137 Then why was Cain a liar, a murderer, and everything else? Where did that come from? Just ask yourself that question. That was the serpent’s seed. See? Don’t the Bible say so? Watch his seed all the way down. In that, he become...
138 Who does the world belong to? The devil. Who controls it now? The devil. Exactly right. The devil controls the world. He told Jesus, said, “See how pretty it is, all the glory? I’ll give it to You if You’ll worship me.” See, he is the controller of it. Now he owns it.
139 Now watch, his children are wise; devil’s children. Or, take Cain’s children, if you want to, and bring it right down through the genealogies, and you find out that they were smart men, every one of them.
140 But then when he killed Abel; and God give him back Seth, was a type of the righteous, to redeem; being dead, and raise again. And from there...Now watch. Not from the first seed, of the natural; they died. Now you got your minds open? See? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] The first seed, of the natural seed, just ordinary good, it typed the modern church, Abel. In order to preserve that line coming down, that one died so another could raise up, you see. So, it has to be rebirth, again. You catch it? [“Amen.”] All right, just so you get it, see. See?
141 There you are, the perfect type. So even the natural man, born of–of Adam, his father, shows that natural trend. Won’t work; the natural man don’t perceive the things of God. So there was a Man come natural, and died, in order to restore that again; and is represented in the death of–of–of Abel, and the replacing by–by Seth.
142 And watch what kind of a people that was, now, that spirit brought forth from him; humble, farmers, sheepherders. Watch what come from this wisdom of the world here; smart men, builders, and–and with metals, and all kinds of smart intelligence and things. Look where they wound up. They were down there, and God destroyed every one of them, every one of them, and saved the humble. Didn’t Jesus say, in Matthew 5, “The meek shall inherit the earth”?
143 So, yeah, don’t worry. They haven’t got one foot to stand on. See? They don’t believe that be Cain’s son. But we have got a tape on that, if you’d like to hear it explained in detail. See? No, sir.
144 And I seen they got a piece in the paper up there, where science is now going to prove that “Eve never eat an apple. She had an apricot.” See? I got the paper up there at home now, see. “It was an apricot.” How–how far can people...That’s a carnal mind, see. “Then, actually, Moses never crossed the water. He crossed through a sea of reeds; brought Israel across at the upper end of the Dead Sea. There was a bunch of reeds there, a whole sea of reeds, just where the waters had been one time, went down. And Moses took a short cut and went around that way.” And the Orthodox churches accepted it. You seen that. The Orthodox churches accepted it, that that was so.
145 Oh, man, can’t you see that seed of the serpent, that antichrist, and the whole thing laying right there? Sure. Yes, sir. Brother Branham, please pray for my little...(Well, that’s a prayer request; I see it.) Pray for my little grandson, very ill with the flu. He is in the Riverview Hotel.
146 Lord Jesus, this poor person here never wrote that just in vain. She seen You just deliberately remove even rheumatic fever from a little boy the other night. She knows that You’re the great God, and we offer our prayers for that little boy. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may he be healed. Amen.
147 When somebody writes anything, it’s not in vain. They–they–they got a...No matter how simple it sounds to us, and how much of it, but–but there is something behind it, you see; that lady, that little boy, something.