Questions & Answers On The Seals
Questions 219 (COD Page 865)
If God is one personality, why or how could He talk to Himself on Mount Transfiguration?
375 Well, I’ve just explained that, you see. See? I’d like to ask you this. I’m going to...When Jesus prayed to the Father, you see. [Brother Branham begins speaking to a brother in the congregation–Ed.] I believe you have the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Don’t you, brother? Won’t you stand up just a minute. You claim to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost? [The brother says, “Yes, sir.”] I do, too. Then, what is that? Then I don’t claim that I have the–I have the powers within myself to unfold these mysteries. I don’t have the power to heal the sick. It’s God.
376 [Brother Branham continues speaking to the brother in the congregation–Ed.] I believe you’re a minister. If I’m not mistaken, you’re from Arkansas. All right, now. And in you, you have, is–is to preach the Gospel. Ordinarily, you was raised on a farm and around like that. You just don’t know nothing about it; but Something come into you, to preach the Gospel. You don’t claim that to be yourself, at all. That’s another Person, called the Holy Ghost. Is that right? [“Yes, sir.”] Okay.
377 [Brother Branham continues speaking to the brother in the congregation–Ed.] Now I want to ask you. Do...That Holy Ghost dwells within you. Is that right? [The brother says, “That’s right.”] Do you talk to Him? [“Yes, sir.”] Speak to Him? Pray to Him? All right. That’s all I want. Thank you, very much. See? Now you get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
378 I’ll ask you one. How did it come that when...Jesus, in Saint John 3, He said, “When the Son of man shall be, which now is in Heaven.” See? “Now is in Heaven; shall re-...come to earth.” See? “The Son of man which now is in Heaven,” and here He stood right here talking to the person. Now you answer me that one. Jesus and the Father was the self-same Person.
379 Just the same as the Holy Spirit in me; you’re looking to me preaching, but it’s not me. It’s not me can speak a word that could bring, as you know, an animal; sit there and look at it, and kill the animal and eat it. That’s creative power. That doesn’t lay in a human being.
380 It’s not me could take a little boy here, laying...The doctors laying him on his back, with heart trouble, tonight. And say, “Thus saith William Branham”? No. “THUS SAITH THE LORD, it’s finished.” And bring him down to the doctor, the next day, and it’s all gone.
381 A kid with leukemia, till its eyes are bulged out, and yellow all over, the stomach; until they’re taking it to the hospital, to give it blood and things, to even get it here. And in five-minutes’ time, cry for a hamburger! And take it back to the doctor, the next day, and can’t even find a trace of it. That’s
“Thus saith William Branham”? That’s “THUS SAITH THE LORD!” Yet, He is an individual different from me, but the only way He is expressed is through me. See?
382 That’s how Jesus and the Father was. Jesus said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works; it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me.” Now, “The Son of man shall ascend from Heaven, whichnow is in Heaven.” See? What was it? He was omnipresent because He was God.
383 Now, this other one, I...[Brother Branham snaps his finger once–Ed.] I want to say these words. Explain what you was talking about... [Blank spot on tape. A brother speaks in the congregation.–Ed.]
Thank You, Father God. We thank You for the Spirit, of Your being here. And we are told, Father, that one time, when the–the enemy was coming in, and the Spirit fell upon a man and prophesied to him, and told him. It set the thing in order, where they knowed how to go and defeat the enemy, and where to find the enemy.
384 And I thank You, Father, that You remain the same God that You ever was. You’re still just the same. We change, and ages change, and times change, and people. But You never change. Your systems are the same. Your grace is the same. Your works are the same, because they are marvelous, and a way past any knowledge of man to ever understand.
385 So we are thankful, Lord, that Your secrets are hid into the hearts of Your servants. And we’re so happy for this, Lord. And may we go forth as shining Lights, to...from place to place, and trying, with love, to–to bring others in; that we might seine every little corner, and cast the net in, to be sure that we get every fish that belongs to You. And then the Lamb shall take His Bride, to be ever at His side. We’re waiting for that time, through Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.