Episode 188: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 154

Episode Summary:

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. (Numbers 25:1-3)

238 Now, what did Balaam do when he found out that he couldn’t—that he couldn’t curse Israel? He told Balac it would be a good idea, then, for him to invite these people to the festival of the god. They had a—they had a—a great festival up there, they were…where they were going to have. And they…The festival was called “The feast of Baal-p-e-o-r, Baal-peor.” I suppose p-…peor, Baal-peor. It was a—a feast, to worship.

239 And Balaam said, “Now, I’ll tell you, Balac, I’ll give you a good idea. If you’ll just…if you…God won’t curse them, that’s all there is to it, so I’ll tell you what we’ll do. We can’t get rid of them; but if you’ll just invite them over, you’ll swing the whole thing your way.”

240 See, exactly, exactly what Constantine did. Perfectly! That’s the reason “the doctrine of Balaam.”

241 What did they do? They then…Balac’s teaching come down amongst Israel. And they invited all the Israelites up to this big feast, the big blowout they had. Oh, some big party, shindig of a thing up there they had. And when they got up there, why, these Israelite people begin to see these pretty, sexy-dressed Moabite women. Yes, wasn’t like their common girls down there. “Oh, they looked so pretty. My! How they were made and, oh, how they could show themselves.” And they fell for it, and begin to commit adultery. And Balaam knowed if God wouldn’t curse them, he’d take them over on this denominational side and cause the anger of God to kill them anyhow; let God kill them Hisself, if he could ever get them out of the way of the Truth.

242 And as soon as you walk out and join a church instead of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you’re dead! (Not for you, but on here, I’m letting that soak a little while.) Dead! “You have a name,” said to Luther here, of the Sardis Age. The word Sardis means “dead.” “You have a name that you’re alive, but you’re dead!” That’s what God said. Yeah. See?

243 And when they had committed spiritual fornications up there, the church married from the baptism of the Holy Ghost to a denomination, they become dead. There you are. That’s what the Bible said, that’s what God said, speaking to the churches.

244 Now I want to just read something here to you, that I…

245 And God, what did He do? And now when they did this evil thing, and they were in adultery, God killed forty-two thousand of them at one time; forty-two thousand, for committing adultery. And what is it spoke of here in the church? The spiritual adultery, that you profess to be a “Christian” and still living like the world. Oh, brother, receive ye the Holy Ghost! Get away from these old creeds and things you…they’re dead; recite the Apostles’ Creed, or some kind of a creed, and say a few prayers wrote out of a prayer book, or something like that. Jesus never did tell His people to say a prayer, He said, “Pray!” Pray! All right.

60-1207 – “The Pergamean Church Age”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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