The Token

Exodus 12:12 KJV 1900

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.

Exodus 12:13 KJV 1900

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.

Introduction

What is a Token?

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.

(Railroad, bus, etc.)

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.

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.

Then the blood was a token, or a identification. The blood identified that the worshipper 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.

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.

For, the animal life could not come back upon the human being.

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.

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.

Therefore, in the days of Wesley or…The days of Luther, it was thought, “to believe.” In the days of Wesley, “the chemistry of the Blood.” But this is the last day, where the—the Token is required. That makes, together, the whole unit for the Rapture. You see it?

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.

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.

It’s been the Lamb all the way through. It was the Lamb in Luther’s time, it was the Lamb—Lamb in Wesley’s time, but now is the Token time that each house must be covered by the Token. Each house of God must be covered by the Token. All that’s inside of it must be covered by the Token. And the House of God is the Body of Jesus Christ, and by one Spirit we’re all baptized into this Token and become part of It, that, God said, “When I see this Token displayed, I’ll pass over you.” What an hour that we’re now living! Oh!

95 Now the very Spirit Itself is the Token. The Holy Spirit Itself is the Token, not the Blood. The Blood was shed at Calvary, that is true. But the Blood, as far as it is, went back into the elements from which it come, from the food that He lived on. But, you see, inside that Blood cell was a Life that started the Blood cell to moving. If it was…The chemistry had no Life in it, itself, and therefore it could not move. But when the Life come into the chemistry of the blood, It formed a cell. It formed Its Own cell, then cell after cell, then it become a Man. And that Man was God, Emmanuel, in flesh. But when that Life returned back, the chemistry went to it, but the Token is the Holy Ghost upon the Church, that they see Christ.

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.

108 Oh, what a—what a positive Token! There cannot be any more Token. Oh, my, if you only could catch the—the thought of it. If I had the—the power this morning, with words, to express and place into your soul that’s on the in-…not your ears, but your soul, and you—you could see the guarantee of It. It—it takes, It makes you so relaxed.

109 What if you were, had committed a crime, and you were going to be tried in a federal court. And you know, that if they found you guilty, that you were going to die, you were going to a electric chair, or the gas chamber, or whatever public execution they were going to have for you, maybe hung, or something, lynched, whatever the penalty was. And you know that you had…You were guilty. You know you were guilty, and you must die if you don’t get some attorney to represent you, that who can get you out of the thing. And now you would want the best attorney that you could have.

110 And then getting an attorney that was a good, shrewd attorney, you would feel that your case was a little…you could relax a little bit, because you had an attorney. But still there would be a question whether this attorney could change the judge’s idea, or change the jury; if this attorney, with his shrewd speaking and the knowing of the laws, could change that, and could plead your case and prove that—that you should live. But yet, in all of his—his great authority and the great speech that he could make, and the impression he could put upon the jury or have with the judge, you—you’d—you’d…Maybe you might get a relaxed for a few minutes, but still there would be a question in your mind, “Can he do it?”

111 But in this case, the Judge Himself becomes our Attorney. God became man. There was no attorney could do it. We couldn’t find one. Moses, and the Law, the prophets, nothing could do it. So the Judge become both Jury, Attorney, and Judge, Himself; and took the justice of His Law in His Own hands, and paid the price of it, Himself. How much more secure could we be? And sent His Own Life back upon us, as a witness that He has accepted it. How safely!

112 “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I’ll fear no evil, for Thou art with me.”

113 When He becomes both Judge, Jury, and—and Attorney, He pleaded our case. We, found guilty by His Own Law; and He come and took the guilty person’s place, that was in the sanctuary. He took his sin. He took it upon Himself, and died, and paid the price, and shed His Blood, and give back His Own Token, His Own Life.

114 Why, we are perfectly. The case is dismissed. There is no more sin to the believer. O God, have mercy, if the people can’t see that, that there is no more case. “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall not come to the Judgment, but has passed from death unto Life.” There is the case. Case dismissed! No more case to it. Amen! Then safely, safely with the Token applied, when death begins to smite against the door out there, it has no control. See? Yes.

123 Israel was commanded to stay under that blood until marching orders come. “Don’t go out from under it!” When once under that token, they were sealed in there. “Don’t leave that!” They stayed right there until the midnight struck and the trumpets blowed. And when the trumpets blowed, the old rams horns begin to blow, each one marched out with his provision, going to the promised land.

124 So does a man or woman who is filled with the Holy Ghost, he is sealed away, and secured from all harm and danger. His whole life displays what he is, wherever he walks, whatever business he does, whoever he talks with. When he comes in contact with women, when he comes in contact with associates, when he comes in contact with everything, that Token is laying there. Amen! When it comes to death, “I’ll fear no evil, for Thou art with me,” that Token lays there. When it comes to the resurrection, he’ll be there, for God will raise him up at the last day. Jesus said so! “When I see the Blood, the Token, I’ll pass over you.” Oh!

125 Remember, if that token was not displayed, even the covenant was annulled. That’s right. The covenant was annulled. There was no—there was no covenant as long as that token wasn’t there. The token stood for the covenant. God made a covenant with them, yes, sir, but the token had to be. It wasn’t in effect, the covenant wasn’t, unless the token was there.

128 You say, “I’m a believer. My mother was a member of this church. My daddy was a member of this church. I’ve been a member there since a child.” That don’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] “I don’t lie, steal. I don’t do this. I…” That don’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger.] “I belong to Branham Tabernacle. I do this, that, or the other. I believe all the Word.”

129 Them Jews could say, “I believe Jehovah!” He’d a listened to the Message of the hour, if he did. Certainly.

They’d had a lot of messages, but This was the Message of the hour. See? I believe the Message of the hour. Yeah. The blood was applied in the evening time.

They might have said, “I, I’m a Jew.”

130 People say today, “I’m a Christian. I can show you my long membership. I want you to tell me where I ever stole anything, was ever in law courts. Show me where I ever committed adultery, I ever done all these things, or something like that. Show me one place.” That don’t mean a thing now. Oh, no. See, no matter how much covenant he was, the covenant is without effect. It’s non-effective.

You say, “Well, I’m a Bible student.”

131 I don’t care what you are. Without that covenant, the wrath of God is upon you. That’s right. It’s caught up with you. Yeah. “Your sins will find you out.” What is sin? Unbelief. You’ve disbelieved the Message. You’ve disbelieved the Word. You’ve disbelieved the witness of the Token, Itself, when It’s identified Itself in the midst of us. And have you disbelieved That? No matter how much you disbelieve It, It’s got to be applied.

132 You might say, “I believe It. I believe It. I believe It’s the Truth. I accept It as the Truth.” Then that’s all good, but yet It’s got to be applied.

133 Why, this one Jew standing there, stirring the blood, as the lamb was bleeding, saying, “This is Jehovah.”

134 And there stood a priest, saying, “Yes, sir, I believe that’s true,” but on his own house it hasn’t been applied. He don’t want to identify himself out there with that group; no, sir, this fanatics with the blood on the door. He don’t want that identification. No matter how much priest he was, how much he knowed the Word, how well he had been raised, what works he had done, how much he had give to the poor, how much he had sacrificed!

136 I don’t care, you might have cast out devils. You might have healed the sick by your prayer of faith. You might have done all these things. But if that Token is not there, you’re under the wrath of God. You might be a believer. You might stand in the pulpit and preach the Gospel. “Many will come to Me in that day, and say, ‘Lord, Lord, have not I prophesied in Your Name, preached in Your Name? Have not I cast out devils in Your Name?’” That’s both Methodists, Baptists, and Pentecostals. Jesus said, “Depart from Me, you that work iniquity. I never even knew you.”

137 “But when I see the Token, I’ll pass over you.” It’s God’s requirement of the hour. The evening-time Message, is to apply the Token.

138 Satan has throwed all kinds of counterfeits, of shaking hands, and evidences, and everything like that. Forget it! The hour has arrived that the Token, Itself; not some counterfeit, make-belief, substitutionary, anything.

140 Doesn’t matter what you are, how good you are, how many times you’ve jumped up-and-down, how many churches you’ve joined, how many good things you’ve done, it won’t mean one thing to you if the Token isn’t applied. This is the evening time. That worked all right in the days of Luther, that worked all right in the days of Wesley, but it don’t work now. No.

141 Yeah, keeping up the lamb was all right then. Those who died then before the lamb was applied, the blood, it was different. Yes, sir. They went on because of good conscious. They would be judged whether they—they were…

142 If they were predestinated, it struck them. If it didn’t, it don’t. That’s all. It’s just God. “He—He justifies who He will, have mercy on who He will, and He condemn who He will.” He is God. That’s all. “He has mercy on whom He has mercy, and condemns who He wants to condemn.”

143 A Jew could plainly show, by the circumcision, that he is a believer.

144 There is many man, fundamental man, can take this Bible and say, “I am a believer, and Jesus said ‘by faith’ we are saved. And I am a believer, but that baptism of the Holy Ghost is nonsense.” Then the Token isn’t applied. No much, how much he believes, it’s annulled.

149 See what I mean? See what the Scripture is speaking of here? If the Token was not displayed, then the covenant was not effective. See? It must be. Because, if you say you believe, and you don’t follow the instructions of the Word, then you don’t believe. See? Though you be circumcised, though you join, and though you are baptized, you’ve done all these things like that; that still ain’t the Token, the Holy Ghost.