Ever wondered how a single biblical phrase can ignite centuries of theological debate? Prepare to be captivated as we dissect the mysterious language of Genesis 1:26 and the insightful interpretations of Brother Branham on the concept of the Logos. This episode peels back the layers of "Let us make man in our image," exploring the potential dialogue between the divine and an unseen being. We trace the evolution of Branham's thoughts, from his early teachings that presented the Logos as a distinct Son of God to his later revelations where he identified the Logos with Jesus at his baptism. It's a theological journey that promises to deepen your understanding of the divine narrative and challenge your perspective on the nature of God's word.
Switching gears to a heavenly vision, we transport you into the sacred scene of Isaiah 6. Feel the awe-inspiring presence of God alongside the prophet, amidst seraphim and the voice of the Almighty. This powerful episode navigates the choppy waters of divine holiness, angelic communion, and the human experience of unworthiness. We tackle the enigmatic implications behind the plural pronouns of Genesis 1:26, arguing for a strictly monotheistic interpretation while exploring the ethereal existence of angels. If you're looking for a session that marries profound biblical insights with spirited discussions, this is the sign you've been waiting for. Join us as we unravel these eternal mysteries and their impact on our spiritual comprehension.
Ever wondered how a single biblical phrase can ignite centuries of theological debate? Prepare to be captivated as we dissect the mysterious language of Genesis 1:26 and the insightful interpretations of Brother Branham on the concept of the Logos. This episode peels back the layers of "Let us make man in our image," exploring the potential dialogue between the divine and an unseen being. We trace the evolution of Branham's thoughts, from his early teachings that presented the Logos as a distinct Son of God to his later revelations where he identified the Logos with Jesus at his baptism. It's a theological journey that promises to deepen your understanding of the divine narrative and challenge your perspective on the nature of God's word.
Switching gears to a heavenly vision, we transport you into the sacred scene of Isaiah 6. Feel the awe-inspiring presence of God alongside the prophet, amidst seraphim and the voice of the Almighty. This powerful episode navigates the choppy waters of divine holiness, angelic communion, and the human experience of unworthiness. We tackle the enigmatic implications behind the plural pronouns of Genesis 1:26, arguing for a strictly monotheistic interpretation while exploring the ethereal existence of angels. If you're looking for a session that marries profound biblical insights with spirited discussions, this is the sign you've been waiting for. Join us as we unravel these eternal mysteries and their impact on our spiritual comprehension.
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Why does God say let us in Genesis 1, 26, genesis 1, 26 and 27? And God said let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, created he him male and female, created he them as message believers. Many read this verse and search the table to get an answer. In order to arrive at the proper answer, we need to see the gradual and progressive revelation the Lord gave to Brother Branham. We cannot just find one quote and rest on that, but see the whole of the subject to see how his thought grew and expanded on any given subject. One example is that of the new birth and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. In the early part of his ministry, up until 1962, he taught that the new birth comes first and then later comes the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But in the latter portion of his ministry he begins to teach differently and in an exposition of the seven church ages he clearly states that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the new birth. It is the same with his understanding of the Logos. I will provide the quotes for your reference to give you an overview. In 1953, brother Branham says that the Logos is the Son of God, another being distinct from the Father. He states that that is who God is speaking in Genesis 126. In 1957, he clearly shows that the Logos is the body of Jehovah, god, not a distinct being. Then, in the 1960s, he began to teach that the Logos came down in the form of a dove and entered into Jesus at his baptism. This is a clear and distinct issue of the progressive revelation that the Lord developed within his prophet. Here are the quotes. Well now, if you'll notice now, in Genesis 1, 26,. Let's get the first part. God said let us now. Let us is a, let us make man in our own image. Our course we realize he's talking to someone, he was speaking to another being. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the cattle's of the field. Oh, I got a beautiful picture in my mind. Now, if you can take a little trip with me, I believe I've talked on it before, but to get this to the place where you'll be sure to see it. Now let's take a little trip and go back for a little while. Now Don't think about how hot it is. Let's get our minds right on what we're going to talk about and think.
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Now let's go back a hundred million years before there ever was a star, moon or anything in the world. Now there was a time when there wasn't nothing there. It was just all forever in eternity. And all of ever an eternity was God. He was there in the beginning. Now let's go out here on the edge of this banister and look over and see things happen.
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Now no man has seen the father at any time. No man can see God in the bodily form, because God, god, is not in body form. God is a spirit. See, all right. No man has seen the father, but the only begotten of the father hath declared him first John. I see Now, but notice, there's nothing.
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There's just space. There's no light, there's no dark, there's no nothing. It's just seems nothing. But in there is a great supernatural being, jehovah God, who covered all space of all places at all times. He was from everlasting. From everlasting. He is the beginning of the creation of God. That's God Can't see nothing, can't hear nothing, not a move of an atom in the air, not nothing, not no air, now no nothing. But yet God was there. That that was God. Now let's watch for a few minutes and after a while, no man has seen that. Now that's the father, that's God. The father.
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Now notice that after a while, I begin to see a little sacred light begin to form like a little halo or something. You could only see it by spiritual eyes. But look now, while we're looking, the whole church, now we're standing on a great big banister watching what God's doing, and we'll get right down to this question here. You'll see how he brings it in. Now no one has seen God. And now the next thing we begin to see, by eyes of supernatural looking, we see a little white light forming out there. What is that?
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That was called by Bible readers, logos, or the anointed, or the anointing or the, as I was going to say, the Part of God begin to develop into something so human beings could have some type of an idea. What it was Was a little low, a little light moving. He, that was the word of God. Now God gave himself birth to this son, which was before there was even an atom in the or air to make an atom that was. See, jesus said glorify me, father, with the glory that we had before the foundation of the world. See way back in yonder.
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Now, in st John 1, he said in the beginning was the word and the first and the word was God. And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, god unfolding himself down to a human being. Now watch how he did it. Now, back there then, when this little halo comes. Now we can't see nothing yet, just by eyes of just supernatural. We see a halo standing there. Now that's the son of God, the logos. Now I can see him playing around like a little child before the father's door with all eternity. See now, then, in his imaginary makeup, when he began to think of what things would be, and I can hear him say let there be light. Now here's what happened. Oh, excuse me, I just get on. This just gets me right where I love it.
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See the logos of this great fountain, this great fountain of spirit, which had no beginning or no end. This great spirit Began to form in the creation and the logos that went out from it was the son of God, was the only visible form that the spirit had, and it was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man. The great fountain of all eternity was that spirit of love, joy, that spirit of honesty, that spirit of trueness in this perfection, and then out of the existence of the father went the logos, which was the son, which was the theophany, which was the body of the great Jehovah. God Went forth in a celestial body, that's the logos, the word spoke out of them, great fountains of life, and went forth and there was the, the theophany, which was God, made into word, as we had in the other night. God in the beginning was spirit, and then from God went out the Logos, or the Theophany, which was a form of a man called the Son of God, prefigured, said there is the Messiah. I see a light above him like a dove coming upon him, or records, said he. That told me in the wilderness go, baptized with water, said upon whom thou shalt see the spirit. That light like a dove coming down, was perhaps the same pillar of fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, coming upon him, because that was the anointed. The Logos came upon him and he said, I bear record. This is the Messiah. Now, this Logos that was in him, which was the spirit of God the anointing, through the sanctifying grace of the blood, brought many sons to God, which is anointed with this same Logos. Now, on the day of Pentecost, that come down that pillar of fire and broke apart like that, and tongues of fire set upon each of them, not their tongues, but tongues of fire set upon each of them. Elected, selected group, identified by this pillar of fire, showing that God had separated himself into man. Do you get it, god? The Logos separating himself into man, god not in one person, is in his church, universal.
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Sometimes, referring to the verse in Genesis 1, 26 people say it was the father speaking to the son. However, we, as we see in the progressive revelation of brother Branham, that first the Logos is one for one with the Son of God. Then you see that the Logos is one for one with God and that the Logos is the prefiguration of the Son of God, that is, it is showing forth what the Son of God will be like even before he was born. Brother Branham clearly states that the beginning of the Son of God was in the womb of a virgin. Quote the Bible says he's the beginning of the creation of God. How did he begin? In the womb of a woman? And this Melchizedek was not Jesus, for he was God. And what was what made Jesus and God different? That Jesus was the tabernacle that God built in sea. Now, melchizedek Jesus had both father and mother, and this man never had father or mother. Jesus had a beginning of life and he had an end of life. Melchizedek, at that time, had no father and no mother, and no beginning of days and no ending of life ever. Who he was, he remains the same. Jesus had father and mother, but this man had neither father nor mother. Jesus Christ had a beginning of days. When did he begin? In the womb of a virgin? Okay, then, so do so. We have God speaking. Let us and who is he speaking to watch God in his ways of work. When he created the heavens and the earth, he called the angels together and he said let us and this follows the scriptural pattern we find at Isaiah 6.
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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims, each one had six wings and with 20 covered his face, and with 20 covered his feet, and with 20 did fly. And one cried unto another and said holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I will as me, for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with the tongues from off the altar, and he laid it upon my mouth and said lo, this hath touched thy lips and my iniquity is taken away and I sin purged. Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I hear my send me.
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Isaiah 6, 1 through 8. The picture is set that God is sitting upon his throne in heaven and he is surrounded by his angels. Then he says whom shall I send and who will go for us? This is parallel to let us make man in our own image. God is the spirit, and in Hebrews 1 7 he said angels are spirits, and in Genesis 1 26 he says that he made man in his image and likeness in spirit form. At the end of this study, I hope you may see the development of brother Branham's thoughts, progress through his ministry and also the reality that God was speaking to angels in Genesis 1 26, thus disproving any sort of multiple God scenario.