Episode 245: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 211

Episode Summary:

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. (Joshua 7:1)

54 There’s where the church is failing today, on that walk. Do you know that even your own behavior can knock somebody else out of getting healed? Your misbehavior, of unconfessed sins of you believers, can cause this church to bitterly fail. And at the Day of the Judgment you’ll be responsible for every bit of it. Oh, you say, “Now, wait a minute, Brother Branham.” Well, that’s the Truth. Think of it!

55 Joshua, after he crossed over into the land, God gave him the promise that…Just think, to fight an entire campaign without losing a man, without even getting a scratch, without having to have a nurse, or a first aid or a band. Amen. God said, “The land’s yours, go fight.” Think, of fighting a campaign, and there’s no Red Cross around at all, there’s nobody going to get hurt!

56 And they slayed the Amorites and the Hittites, but there wasn’t one hurt among any of them until sin come in the camp. And when Achan took that Babylonian garment and that gold wedge, and hid it under his camp, then the next day they lost sixteen man. Joshua said, “Stop! Stop! Wait a minute, there’s something wrong! Something’s wrong here. We’re going to call seven days of fast. God made us a promise, ‘There will be nothing hurt us.’ Our enemies will fall at our feet. And there’s something wrong here. Something went wrong somewhere, ’cause we got sixteen dead man laying here. They’re Israelite brothers, and they’re dead.”

57 Why did they die, innocent man? Because one man stepped out of line. You see reason this needs to be taught? The church lining up, lining up with the Word of God, lining up with God and lining up with each other, walking perfectly upright, soberly, before all man, fearing God. Because one man stole a garment, and done something that he should not done, took the life of sixteen man! I think it was sixteen, maybe more. I believe it was sixteen man that was dead.

58 Joshua called, said, “There’s something wrong! God made the promise, and something’s wrong.”

59 When we bring the sick up before us, and they fail to be healed, we need to call a solemn fast, call an assembly. Something’s wrong somewhere. God made the promise, God’s got to stick to that promise, and He will do it.

60 And he called a fast. And they found out, they cast the lots. And Achan confessed it. And they killed Achan, family and all, and burnt their ashes, and left it there for a memorial. And Joshua went right on through the battles, taking everything, without a scratch or a wound. There you are.

60-0515e – “Adoption #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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