23-0210A_CALVARY A FULFILLMENT OF 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.
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63-0901M - Token Rev. William Marrion Branham
71 The
blood was a token, or an identification, identifying this person has been
redeemed. Now, well, notice, they had, they were redeemed before there was
anything had ever happened. By faith they applied the blood. See, before it actually happened, the blood was
applied by faith, believing that it was going to happen. See? Before that
the wrath of God passed through the land, the blood had to be applied,
first. It was too late after the wrath had done fallen.
72 Now we have a lesson there
that we could really, maybe bring it to your thought, just a moment. Look, before it
happens, for there is coming a time that when you’ll not be able to have any
Blood applied.
73 The lamb was killed in the
evening time, after being kept up for fourteen days. And then the lamb was
killed and the blood was applied in the evening time. You get it? The token never come into existence until the evening time.
74 And
this is the evening time of the age that we live in. This is the evening time
for the—for the Church. This is the evening time for me. This is the
evening time of my Message. I’m dying. I’m going. I’m moving out, in the evening time of the Gospel. And we’ve come up
through justification, and so forth, but this is the time that the Token has to
be applied. I told you last Sunday I had something I want to talk to you
about; this is it. The
time that when you—you just can’t play with It. It’s got to be done. If
it’s ever going to be done, it’s got to be done now. Because, we can see
that the wrath is about ready to pass through the land, and everything
from under that Token will perish. The Blood, has identifies you.
Notice.
75 For,
the animal life could not come back upon the human being. When the blood
was shed, the life went out, of course, ’cause it was a unit. And when the
life’s blood was gone from it, the life being different from the blood…Now, the
blood is the chemistry of the life, but the life is something different
from the blood, but the life is in the blood. And
the animal life could not come back upon the worshipper. When he shed this
blood of the lamb, he had to apply the chemistry, because that the—the
life was gone and could not come back.
76 Because, it could
not come upon a human being, ’cause the animal life doesn’t have a soul. The animal doesn’t know that he is naked, and he—he just…He
doesn’t realize sin. It knows none, so therefore it’s a living being but
not a living soul. Therefore, that animal life could not come back upon a
human life, because it didn’t have a soul in that life. Now, there is a
life, a blood; a life, and a soul in the life; the soul is the nature of the
life. Therefore, it had no certain nature, it was an
animal, therefore the blood stood for a token that the life had been
given.
77 But in this glorious place, under this covenant, there is a
difference between the Blood and the Life. The
Token for the believer today is the Holy Ghost; not a blood, a chemistry, but
It is the Holy Spirit of God. That is the Token that God requires of the
Church today. God must see this Token. He must see It in every one of us.
63-0901M - Token Rev. William Marrion Branham
35 But,
You act in the moment that when nothing else can act. We are given to
know, Lord, that if we have any rivers that we cannot cross, if we have
any mountains we cannot go through, God specializes in doing things that others
cannot do.
36 You
are a specialist, on the job, for You knowed the reason of that day on
Calvary. You, being God, the infinite One, knew this hour must
come. But when it was fulfilled, then You showed You were God. You showed
Who was boss. You shook the earth, and the saints that slept in the ground
come out. You blackened the sun in the night, as the darkness of night,
showing that You were God. But You seemed to be silent so long.
37 Let
us, from this, draw this conclusion, that, as long as we are walking in the Spirit,
led by the hand of God, no matter what seems to be wrong, yet we are
facing Calvary; God will speak in the right hour, at the right time.
38 Now, Father God, we would
ask forgiveness of our sins and our trespasses. We would ask for Your
Spirit to lead us. Lead us, as the Dove led the Lamb. Let us be obedient
to whatever may befall us, knowing this, that God works all things well,
and know that it’ll be all right.
39 Be with us today in this
service. We pray that You’ll save those who are in condition to be saved,
and are seeking for salvation. Fill those with Eternal Life, who are
seeking such. We pray that You’ll heal those that are sick and afflicted,
that have come, seeking healing. And we’ll praise Thee for it. We ask it
in the Name of Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
40 Now, in the speaking this
morning, we wish to call your attention to the text I’ve chosen to speak
from: That Day On Calvary.
41 It
seems like it would be a little out of season; this should be on Good
Friday. Calvary should be remembered every day. And we’ve heard so much
about it, read so much about it. Preachers
has preached on it, since the beginning of time. Singers have sang of it,
through the ages. Prophets foretold it, four thousand years before it ever
happened. And the prophets of this day point back to when it did
happen. It’s such an important day! It’s one of the most important days of all the days that
God ever let dawn on the earth.
42 And if it’s so important to the human race, Calvary, I
think it’s good for us to go back and examine, see just what it means to
us. For, I’m sure, at this late hour that we’re living, we are seeking
every importance of God that we can know. And
all that we can find out, we
are here to learn of it, to see what is for us, and what God has done for
us, and see what He’s promised to do for us. And that’s what we come to
church for. That’s why the preacher preaches, that’s why he studies
and meditates in the Scripture, and seeks for inspiration, is because he
is a public servant to God’s people. And he’s trying to find something
that will…that God would have to say to His people, something that would help
them. Maybe, it might be, condemn them in their sins, but would be a
help to raise them up, that they might forsake their sins and then raise up to
serve the Lord. And ministers should seek these things.
43 And this day,
being so important, one of the greatest days, let us look at three
different things that day meant to us. We could take hundreds. But, this
morning, I have just chosen three different, vital things that we want to
look at, for the next few moments, that Calvary meant to us. And I pray
that will condemn every sinner that’s present; it’ll make every saint go onto
his knees; that’ll make every sick person raise his faith to God, and walk
away, healed; every sinner, saved; every backslider come back, and be
ashamed of himself; and every saint, rejoice, and take new hold and new
hope.
44 The one great, important
thing that Calvary means to us and the world, is, it settled the sin question, once for all. Man
was found guilty of sin. And sin was a penalty that no man could pay. The
penalty was so great until there wasn’t anyone that could pay the
penalty. I truly believe that God ordained it that way, that the
penalty would be so great that no man could pay it, so He could do it, Himself. Now, the penalty of
sin was death. And we were all
born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world, speaking
lies. Therefore there wasn’t none of us that was worthy, or, they could
find no one on earth that was worthy.
45 And sin did
not start on the earth. Sin started in Heaven. Luci-…was…Lucifer, the
devil, was a condemned creature, for his disobedience, before he ever struck
the earth. Sin began in Heaven, where God put the Angels, and so forth,
upon the same basis that He put human beings on; knowledge, the tree of
knowledge, the tree of Life and the tree of knowledge, where man could take his
choice. And when Lucifer was given the preeminences, to make his
choice, he wanted something better than God had. That started the trouble.
46 And
there was a requirement for sin. The requirement was death. Death was the
penalty. And, that is, we could go into great details of this, because I
do not believe that there is but one death. There is one Life. And I believe a
man that has Eternal Life can never die. And I believe there is a complete
annihilation of that soul that sins, for the Bible said, “The soul that
sinneth, it shall surely die.” Not
the man; “the soul that sinneth.” So, Satan must surely
die, to be completely destroyed. How I disagree with the universalists
that say that Satan will be saved! He sinned, and he’s the originator of
sin. And his soul sinned; and he was a spirit. That spirit shall be
totally annihilated, to be nothing left of it.
47 And
when sin struck the earth, back in the beginning, like a sheet of
blackness falling from the heavens, it literally paralyzed the earth. It
throwed every creature, on the earth, and all of God’s creation, in
bondage. Man was under bondage of death, sickness, trouble, sorrows. All
nature fell with it. Sin was an anesthetic that actually paralyzed the
earth. And then we was set here, hopeless, ’cause every creature on earth
was subject to it. And everyone born on earth was subject to it.
48 So, it had to come from some
Place where there was no sin. It could not come from the earth. One of us
could not redeem the other. It had to come from Another.
60-0925 - That Day On Calvary Rev. William Marrion Branham
50 You get your bills paid, you
think, “That’ll settle it.” When you got your bills paid, then there’s
somebody sick in your family. When the sickness gets all right, then you
got more bills to pay. The first thing you know, your hair is turning
gray, and then you want to be back young. And there’s something all the
time, constantly, and because of that wave of sin. But in your heart,
because that you seek for that, it shows that there is a Perfection
somewhere. Somewhere, there’s something.
51 That’s
the reason, many times, today, that a sinner is still wandering about. A beautiful,
young girl will cut off the locks of her hair, to be popular; paint up her
face, to make her look pretty; put on clothes to show the form of her
being. Because, it’s the only thing that she can find, finding somewhere
to try to find something to come back to her, when she can cause men to
whistle at her, wave at her, flirt with her. Young man will do the same thing to
the woman, try to make hisself attractive to her. Neighbors will build a house, and fix it a
certain way, because it’ll look a little better than his neighbor’s
place. It’s all the time, we are seeking for something, and
something keeps going just a little above it. The young lady will find another young lady is
more popular than she. The neighbor will find a house that looks better than
his. The woman will find another woman dressed a certain way, that looks
better than she does.
52 It’s something in
us, that’s seeking out for something, and it shows that we are lost. We
want to find that something that’ll bring us to that satisfaction, that’ll
fill that spot of hunger in there, but seems like we can’t find it. Human beings tried it through the ages. They wept for it. They cried. They done everything that they knowed
how to do, but still they didn’t find it, wandering about through the world.
53 Finally,
one day, that’s that day of Calvary, there was One came down from
Glory. One, by the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Who came from
Glory, and Calvary was formed. That was the day that the price was paid,
and sin question was settled forever. And it opened up the way unto this
thing that we’re hungering and thirsting for. It brought a place of
satisfaction. There’s no man that’s ever visit Calvary, and seen it the
way it was, that can ever be the same. Everything that he ever desired or
longed for, is met, when he reaches that place.
54 It was such an important
day, and such an important thing, it shook the world. It shook the world,
like it was never shook before. When
Jesus died at Calvary and paid the sin question, this sinful world had a
blackout. The sun went down in the middle of the day, it had a nervous
prostration. And the rocks shook, the mountains rent, and the dead bodies
bursted from the grave.
55 What did it do? God zeroed in, on Calvary. He
wounded that animal, called Satan, forever. Now he’s been more vicious
since then, because it brought Light to the human race. And anyone knows
that a wounded animal is its most vicious, crawling around with his back
broke. Now, Satan was knocked out, at Calvary. The earth proved that it
was.
56 The
greatest price that was ever paid, and the only One that could pay it, come and
done it at Calvary. That’s where the great price was paid. That’s one of
the things. God had required it. No man was worthy. No man was able. No
man could do it. And God came, Himself, and was made human, and lived a
human life, under human desires, and was crucified at Calvary. And there, when Satan thought He wouldn’t do
it, He wouldn’t go through it, He went through Gethsemane and every
temptation any man ever stood. He went through it just like all men, but
He paid the price.
57 And that’s what blacked the
earth out. Was like an anesthetic, for an operation. When a doctor gives a
man an anesthetic, he first knocks him out, before he can do it. And when
God gave the—the operation for the Church, the world got an anesthetic, nature
had a convulsion. No wonder! God, in human flesh, was dying. It was
the hour that the world had looked for, yet many of them did not know it.
58 Like it is today, many have
looked for these things, and yet they don’t recognize them. They don’t
realize the way out. They’re still trying to seek pleasures and things of
the world, trying to find their way out.
59 There was, been many
signposts that pointed to that day, many great foreshadows. It had been
foreshadowed by the lamb, by the bullock, by the turtledove, and all these
things, but yet it could not break it. It could not break that death hold,
where Satan had the earth.
60 The very rocks that he once
walked, up-and-down on the earth, burning brimstones! Lucifer was the son
of the morning, and he walked on the earth when it was a burning
volcanic. Those same rocks that had cooled off, when Jesus died at Calvary,
belched forth out of the earth.
61 The price that was paid, and
the bondage of Satan was broke. God put back into the hands of man, a way
back to what he was looking for. He had to weep no more. Hit, when He
broke the backbone of Satan, there at Calvary, the backbone of sin, of
sickness! And it brings every mortal being, on the earth, back into the
Presence of God, with sins forgiven. Hallelujah! Our sins are forgiven. No more can Satan black us
off from God.
62 There’s a highway made. There’s a telephone setting
there. There’s a line to Glory, brings every person in reach of that
line. If a man is full of sin, it connected him in on central. He can
be forgiven of that sin. Not only that, but that sin is paid for. Oh! You
don’t have to say, “I’m not worthy.” Sure, you’re not, you never could
be. But a worthy One took your place. You are free. You don’t have to
wander anymore. You don’t have to be a pleasure-seeking man out here on
the earth.
For
there is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn
from Emmanuel’s veins,
Where
sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose
all their guilty stain.
63 You don’t have to be lost.
There is a highway, and a Way, and it’s called the Way of holiness. The
unclean don’t pass over it. For, he comes through the fountain, first, and then
he enters the highway.
64 He
broke the powers of Satan. He opened the prison doors of hell, to every
man that was shut up, in this earth, in the prisons, fearing that when he
died, what death would be to him. On Calvary, He opened those cell doors,
let every captive go free. You don’t have to no longer be torn down by
sin. You don’t have to no longer yield your members to sin, drinking,
smoking, gambling, telling lies. You can be honest, just, and
upright. And Satan can do nothing about it, because you’ve got a hold of a
line, a Life-line that’s anchored in the Rock of Ages. Nothing can shake
you from It. No winds can shake you from It. No nothing, not even death
itself, can separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ Jesus. That’s
what Calvary meant.
65 Men
that were in bondage were set free. Men that were once under fear of death can
no longer fear death. A man who longs for a City, whose builder and maker,
God, he can step on the highway, and set his face towards Heaven, because
he’s free. Hallelujah! He is redeemed. He don’t need to wander no more,
for there is a way of knowing whether you’re right or not. God gives us
Life. Our sins are gone. That day at Calvary paid the price. When we see all that, no wonder the poet wrote:
’Mid
rendering rocks and darkening skies,
My
Saviour bowed His head and died;
The
opening veil revealed the Way
To
Heaven’s joys and endless day.
66 Abraham don’t have to wander
no more, across the country, seeking a city. The sinner don’t have to
wonder any more, whether he can be saved or not. The sick man doesn’t have
to wonder whether he can be healed or not. The opening veil, on that day
at Calvary, revealed the Way to the total victory. God give us the powers
of His Spirit, to live triumphantly over all these things; asks us only to
believe it. That happened on that day at Calvary. There never was a day like it. There never will be one like
it. It’s not necessary no more. The price is paid, and we are redeemed.
Thanks be to God! We are redeemed. There’s no more you have to wonder
about. There’s no more guessing about it. It’s all took away. The veil
pulled back the curtain, and we’re set on a highway, not to wonder any
more, but to believe and just walk right on. We walk right into God’s very
Presence.
67 Abraham knew, and others
knew, that while they were seeking the City, they knowed they were from
Somewhere. Something had happened. They were living in a paralyzed earth.
Earthquakes came. Storms come. Wars and killings! The wolf and the lamb
fed on one another, or the wolf fed on the lamb, and the lion eats the
ox. It don’t look right. There’s something wrong. He knew there was
something wrong. Men and brother kill brother; father kill son, son kill
father. There’s something wrong. He’s getting old. He’s dying. He’s
withering away. Sickness is on him. He’s in bondage. The trees grow, but
not immortal. They die. The mountains change. The seas dry up. The waters
fail. There’s something wrong. And he sought a place, a City where that
didn’t happen no more. He knew, if he could ever get back into the
Presence of the One that made it right, he could talk it over with Him.
68 Oh, what a privilege,
sinner, it is, this morning, to know that you got the Way now. That day at
Calvary opened up the way. For all those patriarchs hunted for and sought
for, Calvary gave it to you, free. How would you turn it down? How would
you turn it down, to join a denomination? How would you turn it down, to
substitute something for it, the pleasures of the world? Why not accept
it? The opening veil brings a man right back into the Presence of God,
without sin on him, of any kind. And sets a road before him, to the thing
that he’s seeking for: Heaven, glory, peace, Eternal Life, everything
right before him.
69 That day was the—the death blow to Satan’s power. It ended
everything.
70 And I can see Him there; He was Eden’s lamb, from the very
first shadow that come of it.
71 When Abel, by faith, offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, he must have tied a—a grapevine around the lamb’s
neck, drug him up to the rock. Took a—a rock in his hand, for a lance, and
pulled his little head back, and chopped and hacked him until he died. And
his wool bathed with his own blood. He wallowed in his blood. It was a shadow.
72 But
on that day at Calvary, there wasn’t a lamb of this earth, but it was the
Lamb of God, that was dying, wallowing in His Own Blood. He was hacked,
and chopped, and beat, and spit on, and slammed, and smacked, and everything,
by the world, and the Blood dropping off of His locks.
73 When Abel’s lamb died, it
died, speaking in a language that Abel could not understand. It was bleating.
74 And when God’s Lamb died
that day at Calvary, He spoke in a language that no one understood
Him. “My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?” It was God’s Lamb, hacked
to pieces, chopped up.
75 He was the very Lamb that
Abel had in mind, when he seen the promised Seed of the woman. He was the
Lamb that Daniel saw, that was hewed out of a mountain, without hands. He
was the Wheel in the middle of the wheel, for the prophet. All they had
foresaw was met on that day, that day at Calvary. That brought the great
thing in. That broke the back of Satan.
76 First,
we should seek what that day meant. Second, we should see what that day
has done for us, now, what it did for us. Now, third, let’s look at what
we ought to do for that day. What ought we to do?
77 First,
we should look into it, for it’s a great day, greatest of all the
days. Sin price was settled. Satan’s power was broken.
78 And
now we want to see what we should do in return. Now, in returns, when
Jesus died at Calvary, on Calvary that day, He not only paid the price for our
sins, but He also paid the price and made a way that we could follow Him;
for we, as the fallen Adams that’s been redeemed. As the Spirit led Adam
(the first Adam) by the Spirit, that had control of all nature, then we
(the second Adam), or the men of the earth has been redeemed by Christ, from
the day of Calvary, can follow Him. Now, when He died at Calvary, He made
a way. He gave up the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, that sent It back to the
earth, for you and I to live by. That’s what Calvary means to us, to
follow Him.
79 First, look into it, see
what it did for us. And now what must we do in regards to it? What must you and
I do?
80 Now, we say, “Well, I—I appreciate that. That’s very fine.” But we got to accept it. And to accept it, is to accept His Person, Christ in our heart.
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