What Brother Branham said concerning Polygamy
IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 63-0630E
195 Any church member that'll side in with such stuff as that and call themselves a Christian, …man carrying on the way they're doing now with form of godliness, taking drinks, and smoking cigars, andmarried several times, and becoming deacons in the church and even pastors and so forth; and the people that put up with such as that, that sort of life is not worthy of the Gospel.
SUPERNATURAL.THE OWENSBORO.KY 56-0129
E-47 Now, remember, don't you say that I believe in polygamy; I don't.
SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL JEFF.IN DA 89-141 61-0806
209 The divorce courts of America produce more divorces by our women than all the rest of the nations. The morals in our country is lower, and divorces, than it is in France or Italy, where prostitution's on the streets so... But they're prostitutes; ours is married women trying to live with several man, and several married man trying to live with other women. In the nations where they have polygamy, it's a thousand times better. And yet, polygamy is wrong; we know.
MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 65-0221M
37-4 First, before the beginning, from the beginning, there's just one and one. After the sin came in, then there was one man and a bunch of women.
…That's the reason polygamy and divorce and things was introduced. At the beginning it never was so and it won't be so in the world over yonder.
SEED.NOT.HEIR.WITH.SHUCK JEFF.IN V-6 N-4 65-0218
47 But Abraham having two sons, one by--by Hagar, which was his wife's maid, a lovely, pretty, Egyptian maid that Abraham had picked up down in Egypt for her--to be her--his wife's maid. And Sarah, thinking that God would not be able to keep all of His promise true, she told Abraham to take Hagar her maid and to marry her (which polygamy was legal in those days) and to bring the child, and that's the way God had it planned, that she was to have the child only through Hagar... But we find out that that wasn't so.
SEED.NOT.HEIR.WITH.SHUCK JEFF.IN V-6 N-4 65-0218
109 Now, we see here the true revelation of the true type. There's three women carriers of the natural seed until they matured into Jesus. How Ishmael could not be, because be was born really--in what we'd think today--out of wedlock, because he was a bondswoman's son.
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SATAN'S.EDEN JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 65-0829
6-1 Just as Eve knew that what God said, God would do; but she turned her back on it to listen to what he had to say. Just remember, in other ages, it's always been the same thing. In every age it's always been that Satan tries to pervert that Word to them, making them see some other age.
MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 65-0221M
33-3 Now, you see, then after the beginning it was--something else was introduced. Now, this is going to shock you. (Are you tired? Just set still just a little longer.) Then when the double covenant was made by man and woman through sex (another covenant altogether; not the original covenant, but another covenant), now what's introduced? Polygamy in all. Then after the beginning, polygamy was introduced both in man and beast, after the beginning, the fall.
God now secondarily sets a new nature again by sex. God created the first without sex. Do you believe that? Now, it's another covenant with nature; He sets it in another order by sex. Second covenant: one male, many females; one buck deer, a whole harem of does (is that right?); one bull a whole herd of cattle, cows; one rooster, a yard full of hens (is that right?); one David, after His Own heart, with five hundred wives, with a hundred children born to him in one year of different women--a man after God's Own heart; one Solomon with a thousand wives. But notice now, it wasn't so at the beginning! But now, it's after the beginning. The woman's done this, then she just becomes what she is now. See?
David, the king which represented Christ... (Hold that in your mind.) David represented Christ. Do you believe that? Christ is setting--going to set on his throne. And this David, a man after God's Own heart, had five hundred wives. See what I mean? David with his five hundred wives, Solomon with his thousand; and Solomon is the son of David in the natural, which represents Jesus Christ, the Son of David in the Spiritual. But that's natural sex life; this is going to be Spiritual created Life, created. That's the way it was at the beginning, but not now in this life we live in now. Notice! (Don't fail this now; take it all down to your hearts.) But not one of those women could even have one more husband. He's the original creation, not her. Not one of those women could have one more husband, but that one husband could have a thousand wives. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's the Bible.
JEHOVAH.JIREH SAN.FERNANDO.CA 55-1117
E-38 What did He do to Sarah and Abraham? After He went on down to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Angels come down there, seen that perverted generation of people, just like we're getting today... Look at the papers and things, how they're packing, how perversion people is on the move because men can't be satisfied with one wife…
CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE L.A.CA V-2 N-28 65-0429E
21-1 Now, notice again how the natural bride types the spiritual. The Word says that she was made for man and not man made for her. Now, I'm going to speak on why in a few minutes on the Bride of Christ, but I'm trying to show you the background of it. Woman was made for man and not man for woman. That's the reason under the old laws that polygamy WAS legal. Look at David setting down there with five hundred wives. And the Bible said he was a man after God's Own heart with five hundred wives, and Solomon with a thousand, but not one of them women could have another husband.
CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE L.A.CA V-2 N-28 65-0429E
21-4 You get my tape on "Marriage and Divorce" that up on top of the mountain at Tucson, here not long ago, I was up there praying about it. They dismissed the school to watch that Pillar of Fire circling the mountain and going in a funnel back and forth, up and down. People right here knows it: there and saw it. And it... When He told me the truth of this marriage and divorce questions... If there's one side going this way, and one going that way, there's got to be a truth somewhere. And after those seven seals, He showed what was the truth of it.
Notice now, she could not have but one husband, because woman was made for man and not man for woman. That whole five hundred women was just David's wife. It was a type--when Christ sets on the throne in the millennium, His Bride will be not one person, but it'll be tens of thousands, the Bride, all in one. And David had many wives as individuals but only--all of them together was his wife. Like the whole body of believers is the Bride of Christ. Because it was she, the woman; He was the man. Now, we were made for Christ; Christ wasn't made for us. That's what we try to do today in our text books, is try to make the Word, which is Christ, suit us, instead of us trying to make ourselves to suit the Word. That's the difference.
PLACING.OF.DEACONS JEFF.IN COD 58-0720E
354-7 The Bible requires a deacon to be a married man. He must be the husband of one wife.
MICAIAH.THE.PROPHET CHICAGO.IL 61-0426
E-42 There's a drawing line somewhere. That drawing line is God's Word. That's the Word. God's drawing line is His Word. "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine the Truth." So how can we bless what God has cursed? How can you let the men be married two or three times and deacons in your churches?
POSSESSING.ALL.THINGS JEFF.IN V-10 N-4 62-0506
39 I believe that when God calls a man to service, if he's a married man and has a helpmate, He calls his wife with him, because they two are one.
GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON HOT.SPRINGS.AR V-20 N-11 63-0628E
204 And you deacons that's married two or three times! And you man that run out on your wives, and try to hold your profession! You women that crossed the other way! You people that hide behind the cloak of the church! …Shame on you!
RESULTS.OF.DECISION CHICAGO.IL 55-1008
E-52 I seen a preacher the other day had four wives, living wives, said, "I don't know what's the matter with my church."
I said, "You oughtn't to have to look very far." Amen.
Oh, my. Yeah, he got them all mixed up out there, and begin to marry, intermarry. That's the way they did today, when you got to wandering around. If you'd stayed on the real firing line of God, you wouldn't have done these things. Marrying believers with unbelievers, and in and out, and so forth, and marrying them that had been married two or three times and had three or four wives, and so forth, and marry them again. That's that old doctrine of Balaam. That's right.
MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 65-0221M
45-2 This is an awful strong thing. I didn't know how to bring it out! What will I do when I got man and women setting in my congregation, some that's been married twice or three times? Good man, good women, all mixed up! What done it? False teaching.
MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 65-0221M
48-3 Now, we are found in this mess because of misinterpreted theology. Is that right? That's why you women married the second time and you man, because misinterpret theology.
MARRIAGE.AND.DIVORCE JEFF.IN V-3 N-13 65-0221M
38-1 But now that the Seals are opened, the Spirit of Truth directs us to the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the ages, because the Seals was not open. This was not revealed. It's true.
PERSEVERANCE PHOENIX.AZ 63-0113E
E-53 Examine your revelation with the Word. If it's contrary to the Word, leave it alone.
WHAT.HOUSE.WILL.YOU.BUILD.ME TUCSON.AZ V-19 N-6 65-1121
32 Keep the Message honorable, live the right kind of life. Don't let no smut come upon It. We're living too late now, we're too late in the hour. Let's live It clean.
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