Episode 160: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 126

Episode Summary:

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:12-14)

26 Not long ago up in the mountains, I met a man, an old trapper. And he told me, he said… He was supposed to have a real education. He was a scientist, had been. And he come up there in the winter and went to trapping, and just liked it much better; so he stayed because it was peaceful.

And he said to me; he said, “You believe that story about the virgin birth?”

I said, “Every Word of it.”

Said, “You don’t really believe that, Billy.”

And I said, “Yes, I do, every Word of it.”

He said, “Why, it’s impossible.” Said, “He couldn’t have been born like that.” Said, “That’s against all scientific research.”

I said, “I don’t know what scientific research it’s against, but it’s not against God’s Word.” And I said, “God said that He was His Son, and I believe it.”

He said, “Well, depends on who you think God was. If you want to say Joseph was God, it’s all right.”

I said, “Joseph was a man like you and I. But God is Jehovah, the Spirit of God, the Spirit that brood over the earth.”

He said, “Oh, that’s impossible.” He said, “Billy,” he said, “corn can’t even make… or nothing.” Said, “No baby could be born without actual contact between male and female.”

I said, “Grampy, I hate to dispute your word as an old man, but,” I said, “you’re wrong there.”

He said, “You don’t really believe that that baby was born.”

I said, “I believe that Jehovah God overshadowed a little virgin called Mary, and created in her womb a blood cell without knowing any man at all, and from there came the son of God.”

27 And we’re not born into that by His righteous, Holy Blood, without sexual desire. He died at Calvary, giving His Blood that we could be free from sin. Brother, you believe that? If you don’t, you’re lost. That’s all. Because it’s in the Blood.

We’re saved by the Blood of God. The… We’re the blood of our father. Jesus was the Blood of His Father, which was holy, unadulterated Blood, not by sexual desire, but by Holy Ghost was He born, conceived in the womb of Mary, and was born. I believe it with all my heart.

He said, “I just can’t see that that could be so.” Said, “Because it could not produce without actual contact.” And he said, “And no, they had to be…”

I said, “Look, Grampy. Will you admit to me then…” After a few days of argument. He met down there in a—in a little old cabin where there’s a bunch of men. He started again. I said, “Will you admit to me that He had an earthly mother, but it’s impossible for anything to be borned on this earth without having a literal father and mother.”

He said, “That’s exactly right.”

I said, “Well, I want to ask you something then. If you say it’s impossible for Him to be here by Jehovah God, the Creator, without a hea—earthly father, yet you give Him credit for having a earthly mother, then how did the first man get here without father or mother?” He had to have a pappy and mammy somewhere, let him be a tadpole, monkey, whatever you want to call it; he had to have a papa and a mama according to him. He’s never answered me yet today. He… That’s right. And he can’t. God the Creator made man in His own image. That’s the way I believe it.

He said, “Well, Darwin said so-and-so.”

I haven’t got faith enough to believe that. I just believe what God said about it. My faith is what the Lord said.

50-0716 – “Believest Thou This?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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