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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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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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?
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54 The--the--the believing worshiper 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.
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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.
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59 Jesus was baptized by John, and the Bible said, "And--and he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, coming down upon Him." Therefore if it had been a... If it would have been a wolf, or if it had been any other animal, the--the nature of the dove could not have blended with the nature of the wolf, neither could the--the nature of the dove blended with any other animal but the lamb. And those two natures came together, then they could agree with each other.
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60 Now do you see
predestination? It was a lamb when it come there. See? See? The... It was a
lamb when it--when it was brought. It was a lamb. It was born a lamb. It was raised
up, a lamb. See?
61 And, therefore, that's the only kind of a true Spirit that can receive the Word, that can receive Christ. Rest of them will try, they tried to get It, and put the Spirit of God upon a wolf, see, angered, ill, mean. It won't stay there. The Holy Spirit just flies right away. It will not do it.
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62 What if that Dove had come
down, and, instead of It being a Lamb, there would have been some other animal?
It would have quickly have took Its flight and went back. See? But when He
found that nature that He could blend into, It just become One.
63 And then the--the--the Dove led the Lamb, and, notice, It led the Lamb to slaughter. Now, the Lamb was obedient to the Dove. See? No matter where It led It, It was willing to go.
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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
lambs? See? See? A lamb is obedient.
65 A lamb is self-sacrificial. It--it
doesn't--it doesn't take, claim its own. Can 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.
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68 Then the blood was a
token, or a identification. The blood identified that the worshiper 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 worshiper. 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.
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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.
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78 Therefore, as the evening
shadows are appearing, and the wrath is ready to be poured out from on High,
upon the ungodly nations, and upon the ungodly unbelievers, upon the--the
professors without a possession, upon these things! And I--I've tried to unfold
myself and live right among it, to see where it was standing, before I said
these things. Now we are living in the shadows, and the wrath is ready to
strike, and God is requiring a Token that you yourself have received His Token,
the Holy Ghost. It's the only way, and the only sign that God will ever pass,
because It is the literal Life of Jesus Christ returned back into the believer.
79 The animal life could not return back, therefore a blood had to be placed on the door, upon the lintel and upon the post of the door; that every passer-by, the whole public, everybody coming by the house, knew that there was a--a sign on that door, of blood, that a life had died at that door. Amen!
80 That's the way it has to be with every
believer today, filled with the Holy Ghost; a Token that the shed Blood of the
Lamb, that Life that was in the Lamb, has returned back and is publicly sealed
in there, that everybody passing by, talking to you, has any associates with
you, seeing that the Blood has been applied, and the Token of the Life that was
in that Blood is upon you. You are safe from the wrath. That alone; not
membership. No, sir!
87 There come from the body of our Lord Jesus Christ: water, Blood, and Life. And the whole Church, the Bride, together, has been made up through justification, sanctification, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is the Token.
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88 As Hebrews 11 says, "All these who wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, and was destitute, and all these things that they done, yet was not made perfect without us."
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89 And the Church in this day, that's received the Token, of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that the Blood has been shed and that the Holy Ghost is upon the Church; without us, then, they cannot raise. But they're depending on us, for God promised He would have It, and somebody is going to be there. I don't know who it's going to be, but somebody is going to receive It. The only one thing I'm responsible, is to preach It. It's God's business to look out for that predestinated seed. There is going to be there, though. Because, they're going to be there, each one of them, one with the other; the water age, the Blood age, and now the Token age of the Holy Ghost.
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57 Now, man that possesses that faith, still
will take God's Word regardless of circumstances. Now, if you can't do that,
then you're not Abraham's Seed. That's the faith that Abraham had, his Seed.
58 The promise of Abraham was that his
"Seed," now his royal Seed, also, as I told you a while ago. And this
seal that He give Abraham, was a seal of promise. And the royal Seed, according
to Ephesians 4:30, is "sealed by the Holy Ghost," after they have
stood the test. Try to think of it.
59 Many think they got the Holy Ghost. Many
claim to have the Holy Ghost. Many can show many evidences and signs of it.
But, still, if it can't stay with this Word, it's not the Holy Ghost. See?
60 You believe every Word, then you are sealed after the test. When we believe every promise in the Word, then we are sealed by the Spirit, to confirm the promise. That's what, it's what Abraham, the way he did it. Then, and then only, have we the right to possess the gate of our enemy. You cannot do it until first you become that Seed. Remember, in the Bible...
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61 I spoke on it, at Houston
or somewhere, the other... or, I mean Dallas. The Token.
62 See, a--a Jew could show, down in Israel,
that he was a Jew by circumcision. But God said, "When I see the blood!
And the blood shall be unto you a token."
63 The life that was in the blood could not
come on the worshiper, because, well, it was the animal's life, it was only a
shadow coming up to the real Life. Then, the chemistry, the blood itself, had
to be red upon the door and the posts of the door.
64 Applied by hyssop, which is just a common weed, showing that you don't have to have some super faith. You just have to have the same, the faith you got, like you have to start your car, come to church. See? A lot of people thinks they got to be something... But, no, no, that's wrong. Just common faith is all you have to apply the Blood by. Hear the Word, and believe the Word, apply It, that's all. Just pick up weeds anywhere there in Palestine, was hyssop, just a little weed growed out of the cracks of the walls, and around, dipped in their blood and put it on the lintel and the doorposts.
65 And, remember, I don't care how much they
were in the covenant, how much the Jew could show he was circumcised, how good
a person he was, all the covenant was annulled unless the--the token was there.
"When I see the blood," alone.
66 Now, the Blood now, the Token, is not the
chemistry, chemistry of the Blood of Christ, 'cause It was shed thousands of
years ago.
67 But, you see, where the... had to be the
chemistry there, the life in the animal couldn't come upon the human, because
the life of the animal doesn't have a soul. Animal doesn't know right from
wrong. It's the human being that has the soul.
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71 "We are saved by the Blood of
God." That's where my faith is. Not walk out there in the blood of a
prophet, not walk out there in the blood of an ordinary man, or a teacher, or a
theologian. We walk there in the Blood of God. God said so. He become human
being. He changed His strand. He stretched His tent here, with us, and become
one of us. He is our Kinsman Redeemer. He had to become kinfolks to us, 'cause
that was the law. God became man and dwelled among us.
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75 No matter how many
churches you joined, how many times you've been baptized; face forward,
backwards, any way you want to. Until that Seal is placed upon you, then you
have no right to call yourself a connected with your Sacrifice.
76 And what is the Seal of God? Ephesians
4:30, says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed
until the Day of your redemption." Not from one revival to another, but
Eternally sealed until the Day that you're redeemed back.
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77 And, remember, if you never was in God's thoughts, you'll never be with God. How many knows that He was a redeemer? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well, then, anything redeemed has to come back to where it fell from. So if He come to redeem us, how could we, was one time didn't have to be redeemed, and we were all "born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies"? It shows that the real Christian is an attribute of God's thinking, before there was a world, or a star, or a air, or anything else. It's Eternal, and He come to redeem us back. It's God's thought, spoke into a word, made manifest and re-... brought back to His thought.
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98 "In My Name ye shall cast out
devils." Not, "I will." "You will!" "If you say
to this mountain!" Not, "If I say." "If you say to this
mountain!"
99 Oh, brother, the hour of that Token to be displayed is at hand. We can see it. We know that we're near the end now. We've brought all kind of messages up, to show signs and wonders, and now here we come back for what the Church has got to do. The Token has got to be displayed. "When I see the blood, I will pass over you." Nothing else would work. It must be the Blood. Now, the Holy Ghost is our Token, from God.
100 As a great theologian,
a--a scholar, a Baptist brother, fine man, fine character, when he come to me
one time, and he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "you talking
about this Holy Ghost," he said, "why, that's nothing new."
Said, "We've taught It all along, through the ages." And I--I said,
well, I'll... He said, "We received the Holy Ghost."
101 I said, "When did you receive
It?"
102 He said, "When I believed."
Cause, I knowed that was Baptist theology, that you, when you believe, you
receive the Holy Ghost.
103 I said, "Then Paul said, in Acts 19, to a bunch, a group of Baptists, which, a Baptist preacher that had been one of John's converts, was proving by the Bible that Jesus was the Christ."
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104 "When he passed through the upper coast of Ephesus, he find certain disciples, and he said unto them, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you have believed?' They said, 'We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.'" Then he asked how they was baptized. And they hadn't been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, the sacrificed Lamb. They wasn't identified with Him, at all. They just believed it; like the medicine setting there, and hadn't took it. Paul commanded them to be baptized over again, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
105 And when he did this, then the Token came
upon them. They were identified by the works and signs of the Holy Ghost,
speaking in tongues through them, and prophesying, and magnifying God. They
were identified as--as with their Sacrifice.
106 And the Holy Ghost is our identification.
It's what identifies us as Christians. Not our membership in churches, not our
understanding of the Bible, not how much you know about the Bible. It's how
much you know about the Author, see, how much the Author is living in you. It's
your--it's your self gone. You're no more. You reckon yourself dead, and the
Token is what lives in you. And It's not your life; It's Him.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Joh 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Joh 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 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:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 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.
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