Questions & Answers On The Seals
Questions 211 (COD Page 860)
Brother Branham, the 19th chapter of...and the 18 verse, “Yet have I kept me seven thousand of Israel, seven thousand in Israel, all haven’t bowed their... bowed to Baalim, and every mouth...or–or bowed to Baal, and every...which has not kissed him, mouth who has not kissed him.” Please explain this for me, about the–about the seven hundred.
345 It was seven thousand. See? And that, “kissing Baal,” don’t you know...How many here was formerly Catholic? Sure. See? You kiss images. See?
346 And, remember, in the time of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar, when the Gentile kingdom was issued in, see; when Gentile kingdom issued in, it come in by the worship of a man. Nebuchadnezzar made a statue of a man. And if you’ve got a spiritual mind, now listen to this revelation. That spirit, that man that he made a revelation of, or he made an image of, by his revelation, was Daniel, a religious man being worshipped. See it? Because, he named him Belteshazzar, wasn’t it? Or, Belteshazzar, which was the name of his god. And he made an image of that god, which was the image of Daniel. And Daniel refused to bow to his own image. See? See?
347 And here it is again, see. Now watch. The Gentile kingdom was issued in, in the days of Babylon, by King Nebuchadnezzar; a Gentile king, putting church and state together, by taking a holy im-...or an image of a holy man, and forcing worship to it. The Gentile kingdom ends in the feet, with the handwriting on the wall, by a political power that’s united church and state together; to force kissing images again, you see, same thing, image of a holy man. Sure.