23-0113A_APPLYING THE TOKEN

Exo 12:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 

Exo 12:2  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 

Exo 12:3  Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 

Exo 12:4  And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 

Exo 12:5  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 

Exo 12:6  And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 

Exo 12:7  And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 

Exo 12:8  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 

Exo 12:9  Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 

Exo 12:10  And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 

Exo 12:11  And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover. 

Exo 12:12  For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 

Exo 12:13  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 

Exo 12:14  And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 

Heb 12:18  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 

Heb 12:19  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 

Heb 12:20  (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 

Heb 12:21  And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 

Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 

7 Our subject this afternoon is: The Token. Our scene opens in Egypt. It’s a great picture here now, I want you all to see it and just be as reverent as you can. Egypt is the place of the scene, and the time of the scene is just at the beginning of the exodus.

8 And, now, it’s a type of today, shown, as we are also facing another exodus. God bringing Israel out of Egypt, to the promised land, was a type of Christ bringing the Bride out of the church, to the promised Land. We are in another exodus. Now if you’ll study the Scripture, we just have time to hit the high spots of it, that’s true. We are the…As God brought a nation out of a nation, God will bring the Bride out of a church. The Bride will be called from all the churches. It’ll be the elected of God, will be brought out. And we’re on the verge of that exodus right now, for we have every Scriptural proof that we’re standing there. Now, I know that’s been said a lot of times, but, my friend, one time it’ll be said for the last time. Time will fade into Eternity then. He is coming to take a Bride out of a church.

9 The token was the thing that made the difference between Egypt and Israel, the two nations. They were all human beings, but all God-created, all the handiwork of God, but, the difference when the death penalty was passed, the difference between life and death was the token.

    64-0308 - The Token Rev. William Marrion Branham

42 And we don’t stand here just to be seen. We never come here just so others could see what clothing we were wearing. Or…We, we come here for one thing, as our brother prayed that prayer, “We are here for hear the Word, the Word coming to us.” We want That, ’cause that’s the only thing that’s going to mean anything to us, anything that’s going to be substantial, anything that’s—that’s going to help us.

43 And we are a dying people. All human beings are headed towards Eternity. And then we got this much time to make our decisions on which way we’re going to head. And the road is before us; we can take either side we want to choose. That’s the way He put Adam and Eve, and that’s the way He puts us.

44 We must remember, that no matter what we do, or how successful we are, in life, without Christ we’ve totally lost everything. So if He, after…If He is all that there is to look forward to, then we would be most foolish people not to accept It, be, and—and cherish It. Not only accept It, but you come to something greater than that. After you’ve got It, don’t take It and lay It on the shelf. It’s to be put into use.

45 Like going to the doctor to get medicine, and then set it upon the shelf. If you go to get the medicine, take the medicine. If there is a disease bothering you, and this remedy is supposed to help you, you take what he gives you; and just the way he says give it, because sometime just a few minutes makes a lot of difference in the way you give it. And how we know…

46 But in this case, today, just one moment of your decision might determine your Eternal destination. Take It just as He hands It to you.

A token, “The blood shall be to you a token.”

    63-0901M - Token  Rev. William Marrion Branham

13 Now we find out, a token, what is a token? A token is a sign of a paid price, the token is. Just like our railroads and bus lines, we take our money and go to a station. Now, see, the bus line is not allowed, in the places where tokens are used, they’re not allowed to take money. They cannot take money, it takes the token; say, the airplanes, whatever more. You go to a certain place, the purchasing counter, and purchase, from your money, so many tokens, this certain token. And this token is a sign that your fare has been paid. You have a right aboard the ship, aboard the plane, aboard the bus, or whatever it is, as long as you hold the token to show that your—that your ride has been paid for. Now remember that. Don’t forget it.

14 Israel’s slain lamb was the…was God’s requirement. Jehovah required a slain lamb, an innocent substitute. As we’ve been through in the week gone by now, that God, when He makes a decision, He never changes it. And He made a way, His first thing that He did when man had fallen, He had to make a way for him back, if He ever wanted to redeem him, and He made a decision that He saved man by the Blood of an innocent One. And He has forever done the same thing. He has never changed it. No place will God ever meet any worshipper, only under the Blood. That’s His only place.

15 We try to make Him meet under our theology, under our denomination, under our educational programs. Some has built towers and some has built cities, Babylon and—and the tower of Babel, and all different kinds of things. But it still remains, God only meets the true worshipper under the Blood. He never changes it. We can’t all be Methodist, we can’t all be Pentecostals, we can’t all be this, that, or other, we’ll disagree. But when I come to a man, let him be Catholic priest or whatever he is, when he is under that Blood we are brothers, care where he’s at, as long as he is under that Blood.

16 Now, Israel’s slain lamb was the requirement of Jehovah, and the blood was the token that the job had been done. God required for redemption, from Egypt, to go to the promised land, He required a slain animal. And that animal must have…The blood of the dead animal must be put upon the lintel and on the door, and that stood for the token that the thing that Jehovah had required had been fulfilled. See? Now, not the lamb was the token, the blood was the token. Now, the life had gone out from the sacrifice, and now the blood was the token. His orders had been carried out. The blood stood for the token, the sign that this believer had done exactly what the requirement was. That was the token. All right, seeing the believer, worship, was then identified with his sacrifice. See?

17 Here is the house, and the worshipper, what was the requirement? “Slay a lamb. On the fourteenth day after it was put up, a—a male without blemish, all Israel shall slay it, and the blood shall be taken with hyssop and put upon the lintel of the door.”

18 And, by the way, that hyssop was just common weeds. Hyssop means “your faith.” Somebody tries to have supernatural faith, that’s the reason you miss your healing. Faith is just a common thing. You got faith to come to church. You got faith to walk out there. You got faith to start your car. You got faith to eat your dinner. That’s the way it is, just common faith. Now to apply the blood, was applied with hyssop, which is just common weeds that grows anywhere in Palestine, showing that the faith that the blood is to be applied by is not some super thing you have to have all kind of doctor’s degree to do it. It’s just common, everyday faith, to believe God. See?

    64-0308 - The Token Rev. William Marrion Branham

47 Now what is, first, a token? It’s a word that’s commonly used among we English-speaking people, especially here in America. A token is a…Really, the dictionary says that a token is a sign, it’s a sign of a fare, price paid, see; that the—the fare, or a price, a required price that’s been paid.

48 Like a fare on a railroad or a fare on a bus line. You go in and purchase your—your fare, and then they give you a token, and that token cannot be spent for nothing else but to that railroad line. And it is a token, to the railroad company, that you have paid your fare. It’s a token, and you can’t spend it for nothing else. It doesn’t work on any other line. It just works on that line only. And it’s a—it’s a token.

49 Now down here, that we’re speaking of, where we’re starting in, is God saying to Israel, “The blood of the lamb is a token for you.” Israel’s lamb, slain, was Jehovah’s required token. It must be the blood. God made a token and give it to Israel. And no other token will work, see, it cannot be recognized.

50 To the world, It’s a bunch of foolishness. But, to God, It’s the only way. The only thing that He requires is that Token. It must be there. And you cannot have the Token until the fare is paid, then you are a possessor of the Token which gives you the—the privilege of a free pass. “I’ll see the Blood, I’ll pass over you.” What a time, that, what a privilege, to know that you pack, within you, the Pass. “When I see the Blood, I’ll pass over you.” It’s the only thing that He’ll recognize. It’s nothing else that can take Its place; no substitute, no denomination, no nothing else. It takes That. God said, “That alone will I see.”

51 No matter how righteous they was, how good they was, how much education they had, how they dressed, the token was the only thing. “When I see the token, I’ll pass over you.” The blood was a token that the—the requirement of Jehovah had been met, that it had been done. The blood stood for the token. The blood was the token. See? The life that…

52 God had said that, “The day you eat thereof, that day you die.” And there had been a substitutionary life taken for the life of the believer. God, in mercy, accepted a substitute for the life of the defiled person. When His child had defiled himself with sin, of disbelieving the Word, then God, rich in mercy, made a substitute; and, that was, something had to die in its place. Nothing else could work.

53 That’s why Cain’s apples and peaches, and so forth, didn’t work. It had to be a life that had blood in it, and the life was gone from the sacrifice, and now the blood was a token that God’s order had been carried out. Now, what did God require? The life; and the blood showed that there had to be a life gone. So the blood was the token that the life had been given, that something had died, God’s requirement; that a life had been given, and the blood had been shed. And the blood stood for the token, that the life was gone. The life of the animal that God had spoke should be taken, was the blood stood for the token. See?

    63-0901M - Token  Rev. William Marrion Branham

20 Then, the blood was a token of identification, the blood itself. The animal bled, died, and his blood was on the wall. Now, animal life, that was in the blood. And life is in the blood, we know that. The Bible said so, and science proves it, life is in the blood. So therefore when the animal was killed, and the life was broken from the animal, the blood had to be the chemistry of the blood, to stand for the token. Because, the life that was in the blood could not come back upon the believer, because it was an animal’s life.

21 And an animal life and a human life is absolutely different. There is no, nothing in it at all. You took, take an animal’s blood and put in you, you’ll die. So you see, we, it’s a—it’s a different life in the animal blood than there is in the human blood, because the human has a soul. The animal has no soul.

22 And now, therefore, the blood itself, understand now, the red chemistry, chemicals of the blood, had to stand out on the door, as a token that the lamb had died, now, because the life of the lamb could not come back on the human worshipper. But today…It was only a type.

23 Today it isn’t the chemical Blood of the Lord Jesus, our Lamb, but it’s the Life that was in the Blood, which is the Holy Ghost. It comes back and is the Token that we have accepted and did exactly what God told us to do. And then, by having the Token, we are identified with our Sacrifice. Perfectly. I don’t see how anything more could be any plainer. See?

24 Only way anyone could tell that that house belonged, too, under the blood, because the chemistry of the blood was on the doors. They passed through, the death Angel had to look and see the blood. Now, again, it was a type of the Holy Spirit.

25 Now, see, the literal Blood of Jesus could not come upon each one of us, because He just had so much Blood in His body. And it’s dripped off, out of His body, into the ground, two thousand years ago; but it wasn’t to be for a Token. The Life, the Life that was in the Blood, was the Token now. I’ll prove it to you, just in a minute, by the Bible. It is the Token that’s to come upon each of us, to show that we have been identified with our Sacrifice, and have carried out Jehovah’s request.

26 Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that’s far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.” See, not showing it just to them. “As many as the Lord will call.”

    64-0308 - The Token  Rev. William Marrion Branham

54 The—the—the believing worshipper was identified with his sacrifice, by the token. I don’t wish to stay too long on these little quotations, but, which you could take the entire service on one of them, but I want to stop here a moment to express that. The—the—the believer had to be identified with his sacrifice. See? If it’s just a sacrifice and—and made somewhere out there, he had give it; but he had to be identified in it. Frankly, he had to place his hands on it, first, to identify himself with his sacrifice. And then the blood was placed to where he could stand under the blood. The blood must be over him. And that was a token that he had identified himself, guilty, and had proven that an innocent substitute had taken his place.

55 What a beautiful picture! Oh, a redeemed! See, justice had been met, and the requirement of God’s holy justice had been met. And God said, “Now I’ll require your life,” and then, when the—the—the life had sinned. Then an innocent substitute took its place. And it was a blood beast; not apple, peach. That ought to absolutely make the serpent’s seed so plain to everybody, that it was blood. And this blood, which could not come out of fruit, come out of an innocent substitute. And the life had gone out, too—too, in his place, and the blood was a symbol that the beast had died and the blood was gone out.

56 And the worshipper applying the blood over himself, showed that he was identified in the redemption, because he has identified himself with the…at the sacrifice, connected himself to the sacrifice, and the blood stood for the token.

57 How—how wonderful! What a picture it is! It’s a perfect type of Christ, just exactly, the believer today standing under the shed Blood, identified with the Sacrifice. Just as perfect as—as it can be, of how that Christ, not—not being an animal…You see, the—the animal died, but it was…

64 I wonder, today, when God leads us to a—a life of complete surrender and service to Him, I wonder if our spirits then sometime don’t rebel, kind of showing that, wonder if we are a lamb? See? See? A lamb is obedient.

65 A lamb is self-sacrificial. It—it doesn’t—it doesn’t take, claim its own. You lay it right down and shear the wool off of it. That’s the only thing it’s got. It never—never says anything about it; just sacrifices everything it’s got. That’s a lamb. It gives everything to its…gives everything away, itself and all it is.

66 And that’s the way a real Christian is, if they’re…self-sacrifice themselves, caring nothing for this world, but giving all they got to God. See?

67 And now this was the perfect Lamb, Christ was. And then through the shed of this lamb, the natural lamb in Egypt, the blood was applied, and, when it was, it stood for a token, then what would the Blood of this Lamb stand for? See? The Token that we are dead to ourselves and identified with our Sacrifice. See? Then, the Lamb and the—and the—the Blood and the person becomes identified together, the Sacrifice and the believer. See, you are identified in your life, by your Sacrifice. That makes you what you are.

68 Then the blood was a token, or a identification. The blood identified that the worshipper had slain the lamb, and accepted the lamb, and applied the token to himself, that he was not ashamed. He didn’t care who saw it. He wanted everybody to see it, and it was placed in such a position that everybody passing by could see that token.

69 See, many people wants to be Christians, and they—they—they like to do it secretly so nobody would—would know that they were Christians. Or, the—the associates they run around with, some of them would think, “Well, now, look, I—I—I want to be a Christian, but I don’t want So-and-so to know about it.” See? Well, now, you see, that’s not Christianity.

70 Christianity has to display its Token, see, publicly, in public life, at the office, on the street, when trouble is around, anything, in church, everywhere else. The Blood is the Token, and the Token must be applied, see, or (it’s not) even the covenant is not in effect.