The Advancement of Satan’s Eden
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1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Introduction
Introduction
proud of our youth
(Male stripper in church in Springfield)
(New Title IX rules)
What would a prophet say today?
Everything that exists today existed in 1965, but its just advanced to where we are now.
I wanted to speak to you something, to bring something to enlighten to you the promise of God for this age.
(Not something for another age)
Them things are all right; we all refer to those things. But I thought I would try to bring something to your mind, with these Scriptures I got written here, that would enlighten you, to know, make you a better soldier in the field that you’re fighting in now;
…to learn the tactics of the enemy, so that you can block everything before it gets to you, see. That’s the main thing, is to learn to keep the punches off of you, as much as you can.
Bro. Branham identifies this day as the most difficult time to be a Christian.
I don’t believe there ever was a day that I’ve ever read in history…There’s been greater days of persecution, when the children of God was put to death on every hand. But to see the deceitfulness of the enemy, we’ve never had a day like this we’re now living.
It’s the most cunning, deceitful day. And when I see that, it brings this, that, the Christian has to be more on his toe today than he ever was in any age.
(Persecution of Rome)
But, now, the cunningness of the devil now, makes the people believe that they are a Christian when they’re not. There is the thing.
It’s a more cunning day than it would be, than when you had to seal your life away with your testimony. The devil has set every cunning trap that he can, to…He’s a deceiver. 65-0829 - "Satan's Eden"
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
How are the days shortened for the elect? By the opening of the seals.
The Angel said “time no longer” no more delay.
Thank God for the Message.
It was Satan’s purpose to reign on the earth.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Now, he said he would exalt himself above the most High; he would ascend above the clouds and the stars, and he would sit there like God, and be above the most High. And he has succeeded in carrying out his threats.
He has certainly had a marvelous success in carrying out his threats, by the people letting him explain away, in every age, the value of God’s promised Word to that age. That’s exactly how he’s done it. In every age, he explained It away. 65-0829 - "Satan's Eden"
To say the little things don’t matter.
Like he did to the church in Christ’s time, in Jesus, trying to keep back God’s loyal sons from knowing the Truth. That’s God’s. God put His sons here, His attributes, to fellowship with Him by hearing His Word.
What if your father told you, and you are a loyal son to your father, and he told you, “Son, don’t you go in that water out there, swimming, because there’s gators in that water”; and a fellow comes back, said, “Surely, such pretty water as that, there is no gators in it”?
Now who you going to listen to? If you’re a genuine son, you’ll listen to your daddy.
And a genuine son or daughter of God takes God’s Word first. I don’t care what anybody else says about it, they take God’s Word first. “There’s poison in the cup,” and they believe it.
(If Bro. Branham came to you and told you not to go to work in the morning by your usual route because there was going to be a wreck on the highway, none of us who believe he was a prophet would travel that route. The prophet could see the perversion coming on the earth and he warned us about it.)
Having faith in all His Word, His Seeds, brought a Eden of holiness, love, and Eternal Life. That’s what God’s Eden produced, holiness. And it brought an Eden of holiness, of love, understanding, perfection, and Eternal Life.
That’s what God is planting: His Word, His Seed. That’s what His Church will be at the end; It will be the same thing.
A seed of faith brought purity, a seed of unbelief brought unholiness.
In God’s Eden they had a veil, they could not see that they were naked.
In Satan’s Eden they have a lust veil, and they cannot tell that they are naked.
God’s veil, yet today, can look and not lust. They turn their head. It’s a Holy Veil, see, Holy Veil.
God had their eyes…they were both, one was man and the other was woman, and they did not know they were naked, because the holiness of God kept their eyes veiled. Notice, God hid their conscience from sin, by the Holy Veil.
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
The blood becomes a veil that keeps us from sin and uncleanness.
I heard Brother Neville say, this morning, someone might have been asking him why didn’t I preach on the Holy Ghost, why didn’t I do this. Here it is.
The Holy Ghost is the action in you. It’s a Life, not an emotion; not some sort of a fleshly evidence. But It is a Person, Jesus Christ, the Word of God established in your heart, to quicken every Word of this age.
Right. Watch the Holy Ghost in action, not so much in demonstrations; but, in action, what It does according to the Word.
Now, lets see the advancement of it.
Notice, in this perversion, it’s become from a man to a woman, and from a woman to a man, “and don’t know it.” A very good product of Satan’s Eden, if you’ll watch the streets today, at our modern people.
The number of young people who identify as transgender has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a new report that captures a stark generational shift and emerging societal embrace of a diversity of gender identities.
The analysis, relying on government health surveys conducted from 2017 to 2020, estimated that 1.4 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds and 1.3 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds were transgender, compared with about 0.5 percent of all adults.
Those figures illustrated a significant rise since the researchers’ previous report in 2017, though the analyses used different methods.
Experts said that young people increasingly have the language and social acceptance to explore their gender identities, whereas older adults may feel more constrained. New York Times 2023
Notice, it was Eve that Satan used to make Adam sin by her power of lust. Now the same, doing the same thing today. Notice, bobbed hair, painted facey, sexually dressed, see, she does that, and don’t know that every one of those things is contrary to the Word of God.
To cut her hair, makes her a dishonorable woman, a prostitute. To wear shorts, puts her disgracefully. Put sexy dresses on her, makes her a prostitute. “And she don’t know it,” not because of the holiness of God; because the lust of Satan.
Now she has got her Adam to wearing her underneath clothes. A man put on them little old sissy-looking shorts, and get out here, I don’t think there is much man to him. He is the biggest sissy I know of.
See, she has got her perverted Adam to act like she, see, wearing her underneath clothes. She seen what she could do out yonder when she took off all of her clothes but her underneath ones. That’s the shorts.
Course, that’s the woman’s underneath clothes, and here her Adam is wearing them now. Which, according to God’s original Word, “Is an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man, and a man to put on a garment pertains to a woman,” from the original Word. Think of it!
Why would Bro. Branham have such a problem with Men wearing shorts?
(I’m not rebuking you for this, I just want you to think about it).
How you present yourself in the public matters.
Men should present themselves as men, in public, women should present themselves as women.
They always did, until recently.
What do the people who make shorts for men say about it?
From a fashion website:
The history of shorts illustrates how many controversies the shorts encountered and how long they were frowned upon and labeled as vulgar. Especially in the United States, until the 1950s, there was an unwritten rule of etiquette that an adult male could not show himself in public wearing shorts.
Some communities considered this a matter of decency and even went so far as to ban the wearing of shorts! The town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, for example, banned shorts in 1938, with the newspaper stating, "Honesdale is a modest town, not a bathing beach."
After World War II, however, Western civil society gradually began to break away from the required conformity. Society began to dress more casually and questioned authority and the bourgeoisie.
After the rock 'n' roll of the '50s and Marlon Brando making shorts and the white T-shirt smarter than ever, the '60s brought hippies, emancipation, festivals and self-cut jean shorts.
The '70s and '80s, thanks to disco, birth control and divorce rights, led to a newfound openness in the U.S. and the Western world that sought to be expressed through fashion as well. Thus, the cuts of shorts also became shorter, tighter and more revealing.
In the 90s, styles became longer again and more casual and baggier because of the hip hop scene. And after (cargo) shorts got a bad reputation in the 2000s because of awkward dad looks, shorts are now hotter than ever. sanvt.com
Before the French Revolution, the working class wore long pants and the aristocracy wore culottes. After the French Revolution, all classes began to wear pants. The pervasive mentality at the time was that shorts were for young boys.
Until around the end of the 19th century, male infants in the Western world wore long white dresses, which became shorter white dresses as they grew older and became toddlers.
Upon becoming boys, they started to wear shorts and during middle childhood, they switched to breeches and finally in their teens to long trousers.
This progression - evolving out of femininity, towards manhood - really did suggest that being an adult male was essentially defined as “someone who wears pants.” oldbullshorts.com
Paul said “when I became a man I put away childish things.”
Now, he now wears her bangs, also. He combs them down, puts a curler in them. Some of the most sickly sights I’ve ever seen in my life, is some of those kids out here today with their bangs combed down like this, and colored, bleached hair, with some kind of a peroxide something, and bleach their hair, and rolling it in curlers, making bangs.
(Boy at Howard Johnson’s)
If I ever seen a perversion! See, he wouldn’t believe it. He could prove maybe he was male, but in his spirit he is female. He don’t know what side of the house he belongs on. That’s right. How perverted!
God made a man a man. He made a woman a woman. And He dressed them different, and He meant for them to stay that way and to act that way; one is feminish, and the other is masculine. He separated Adam in the garden of Eden, and did this, separated Eve from him.
Now wears her bangs; she cuts her hair like his, and he tries to wear his like hers. See? She wears his outside clothes, and he wears her inside clothes. Now, that sounds sacrilegious, but I don’t mean it that way. It’s the absolute Gospel Truth.
If you don’t know it, then there’s something wrong with you; you’re either blind or never been on the streets. And she thinks and he thinks that it’s right, they’re getting along somewhere.
Oh, what a perversion! What a age! What a time we’re…How deceitful it is! Oh, all these things, “and don’t know it,” a perfect perverted spirit is in the man. He is veiled from the lust of Satan, and the woman is, too. It’s a satanic spirit of a great society.
(Men and women wearing shorts are part of a society. B.S.S. “Big Sissy Society”.)
Man, now you may differ me with this, but that’s the Truth. You have been perverted and don’t know it. You’re not, don’t act like a man no more. See, coming so soft; and, their son, will be nothing to them anymore; men, and women, too.
(“If they can do it I can”)
See, it’s a society. It’s an organization. You spiritually belong to it, and don’t know it.
No longer a son of God! Bangs hanging down in his face, and a pair of shorts on, trucking down the street; a son of God, deacon in a church, a pastor in a pulpit? No, that ain’t a son of God. He never came through God’s thinking Filter.
He wouldn’t have them women’s clothes on; he sure wouldn’t; neither would she have the man’s clothes on. See, it’s not a son of God. It’s a son of Satan, and a daughter of Satan. Hard thing to say!
Satan has succeeded in perverting and taking over this world, and making it his kingdom; that man was put on, by free moral agency, to choose for themselves what kind of life they desired. And that shows what’s in your heart. 65-0829 - "Satan's Eden"
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
He’s gone to prepare a place for us. Another Eden. After the Millennium, the earth will be remade. We’ll be in eternity then.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Don’t let the devil plant his seeds of unbelief in your heart, let the Holy Ghost plant seeds of faith, that will bring forth the fruit of the Spirit.