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Introduction.
Whenever you see God do something you find He has prepared the place for it to happen and the people for it to happen to.
(Women at the well and Jonah)
This is providence.
When you realize: What are we doing here?
Where did we come from?
Or what business we got being here?
We wasn’t put here just by chance, we were put here for a purpose and we must serve that purpose.
63-1222 - God's Gifts Always Find Their Places
God had His eye on Bethlehem as the place of His birth into this world, from its beginning.
Bethlehem was little, it didn’t have much, just a village, but it had three things.
Well
Fields
Manger
These were all the things needed for the prophecies to be fulfilled in that place.
He didn’t need great crowds, He didn’t need big buildings, He just needed some water, a field, and a place to stay.
He still needs that.
Today we want to look at Bethlehem’s Well.
Bethlehem was founded by Salmon aka Salma the son of Caleb.
The area was called Ephratah “fruitful”.
Before an area can become fruitful it must have water.
(Joel in Egypt)
The rainy period of the year lasts for 5.3 months, from October 28 to April 7, with a sliding 31-day rainfall of at least 0.5 inches.
The month with the most rain in Bethlehem is January, with an average rainfall of 1.7 inches.
The rainless period of the year lasts for 6.6 months, from April 7 to October 28.
The month with the least rain in Bethlehem is July, with an average rainfall of 0.0 inches.
(Weatherspark.com)
There is ground water, but its underground.
This would have been the first order of business for someone settling this land.
Remember, this was not a great Caananite city like Jericho, this was nothing.
Bro.
Branham tells us more about it:
The one that founded it was Caleb’s son, whose name was Salmon, and he founded it.
The Bible said he was the father of it, which mean he was the founder of Bethlehem.
In other words, he must have moved in there and started some sort of businesses, and commercial, and the trading, and so forth, that grew it up.
58-1228 - Why Little Bethlehem?
And we find out that it was also became the home of the harlot Rahab.
When Israel had passed over the borderline of the Jordan River, into Palestine, we are acquainted with the story of Rahab the harlot.
58-1228 - Why Little Bethlehem?
And then we see her when she was taken in as one of the Israelites.
She fell in love with the man which was a captain and a prince in Judah.
He was the captain of the Israelite armies.
His name was Salmon, just like the king, Solomon.
And he was the captain, and she become in a great romance with this captain, which was the prince of Judah.
And finally she married him.
And when the estate was settled up for the Israelites, she and her beloved husband lived in Bethlehem.
It begin to open, as we see that in Bethlehem she lived, being a Gentile bride, to a Jew.
Why?
Because she believed in a miracle-working God.
And as, look what she come from, from being out of the house of ill fame, of prostitution.
Through her conversion, and through her unfailing faith in God, it brought her from a prostitute house, to a beautiful home in Bethlehem.
What a difference!
That’s the way it does all of us.
From a house of unbelief, and flusterations, and immoral acts, and everything; to a place, position in Christ, which is most beautiful.
From the ridiculous to the sublime, that’s the difference that it makes through our conversion.
And did you see?
She married a prince of the house of Judah, a captain.
That captain represented Christ, took to Himself a Gentile Bride.
From the lowest of lowest, to the principal and best place in the land... 58-1228 - Why Little Bethlehem?
Salmon was a Captain of Israel, he was a warrior.
You can make a farmer a warrior, but its very hard to make a warrior a farmer.
Caleb was not Salmon’s biological father.
Caleb wasn’t even an Israelite, but he was adopted into the family of Judah.
His natural father was a famous general named Nahshon.
Nashon is named as the main man of the tribe of Judah, tradition says he was the first one to step into the red sea when it was parted.
He was a great man, but he died in the wilderness.
Salmon was born into this great family, but he was one of the younger generation that passed over.
He took Caleb’s example and received his inheritance.
No matter what your natural father did, you stay with the Word.
When Salmon comes to his place after all these years of fighting, there is nothing there.
He can’t dig a well with a sword, he must put down his sword and pick up a shovel.
A well is a place for water.
He’s creating a place for the water to come to.
He’s not creating water, but he is digging till he finds it.
It wasn’t his job to know who would drink from that well, it was his job to build it for future use.
We are digging a well for future generations.
We’ll be held accountable for how we dig.
Bro.
Branham is asked a question:
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Should evangelists continue on the field?
“In this hour,” of course, what they mean.
Certainly, by all means.
Don’t change a thing.
If Jesus is coming in the morning, preach today like if it was going to be ten years from today, but live like it’s going to be at this hour.
Don’t get scrupled up now.
That’s what I’m trying to warn you about, see.
Just don’t be odd, peculiar.
Don’t change nothing.
But if you’re doing something wrong or doing evil, repent, see, come back to God.
Continue on your evangelistic service just as you always did.
If you’re building a house, put it on up.
Jesus comes tomorrow, you be found faithful at the duty.
If you’re building a church, go on, put it up.
I’d rather be putting my money in something like that, than be found with it in my pocket.
So just keep on, continue as you are.
Everybody understand now?
Continue right on, and just go right on as you are.
Now, just don’t stop.
Don’t do nothing…Just go right on just as you are.
Keep on serving the Lord.
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