Episode 53: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 19

Episode Summary:

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:23-26)

76 And notice another, while we’re on it, Lot. Jesus said, Himself, “Remember Lot’s wife.” If the Word isn’t so important, if reasoning is all right; when that Angel said to Lot and his family, “Go to Zoar, but don’t look back!” And Lot’s wife, on a little insignificant thing as to turn and look back, but it was contrary to the Word, she turned to a pillar of salt.

77 Then you say, “Telling women about cutting their hair, wearing clothes…?” God said don’t do it! You follow the Word. Lot had, no doubt, a nice wife, but she didn’t follow the Commandment to the Word. Lot! Eve was a good woman, but she didn’t follow the Commandment to the Word; just reasoned a little with it.

78 “Isn’t it reasonable, Brother Branham, that we should do this? I’m an American citizen, I—I have a right to do whatever I want to. That’s my American privilege.” It’s your American privilege, but not your Christian privilege. For, by Christian, you are a sheep; and a sheep forfeits its rights. It lays still and lets you take away from it all the rights it has. But a goat will kick up a storm about it. That’s right. But a sheep forfeits its rights. And a Christian always forfeits their national rights if its contrary to your Christian rights.

79 Lot’s wife merely looked back, [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] that was it! Now what did that do? It tells us here in Abraham, and Lot, that the thing that they set forth there, an example. And we cannot get away from it.

80 Hebrews, the 11th chapter, said, “These things was for our example. Seeing that we’re compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses. We are to lay aside every sin.” What is sin? Unbelief! “Every sin, every unbelief of God’s Word, that does so easily beset us.”

81 We come up against something, say, “Well, they preach that, that that was…” Don’t you do that! You do just what God said do. Stay with It, to the letter!
Say, “It don’t make any difference.”

82 All right, the only thing I can say is what the Word says. And Jesus strictly said that, “Remember Lot’s wife.” She merely looked over her shoulder. Eve merely stopped for a moment. That’s all she done. Lot’s wife just looked back. And if…God turned that righteous man, Lot, his wife, to a pillar of salt, by just a little bitty thing, just disobeying His Commandments enough to just look back and see what all that fire was about, and she turned to a pillar of salt, and stands there yet today as an example that God means what He says.

62-0707 – “Jehovah-Jireh #3”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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