Breaking the Family Curse Part 3
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And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; And the Lord shall cover him all the day long, And he shall dwell between his shoulders.
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Introduction
Benjamin’s Birth Path was one of Pain and Sorrow, which would result in the tribe having a warlike nature, and yet the prophecy spoken about them was that the beloved of the Lord would dwell in safety by him. In other words, Benjamin would help secure the borders of the Tribe of Judah.
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Benjamin included most of the City of Jerusalem. Tradition says everything except the temple mount.
The warlike tendency of this tribe was needed to protect the Temple site.
God allowed Benjamin to stay with Judah when the other tribes split away.
But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
Under this birth path, Benjamin was a tribe of left handed fighters, but under their blessing they were protectors of the King.
Ehud the left handed assassin.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Ehud was built for that job.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
The Birth Path with the blessing is what God intended, the Birth path alone would bring only sorrow. The cycle that needs to be broken is the Birth Path alone becoming a person’s destiny.
Benjamin was a small, relatively poor tribe. What generally makes a man a fighter is insecurity.
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
God wanted to use that weakness.
And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel?
Bro. Branham was a fighter.
Brother Branham, when someone gets on me or “steps on my toes” as the old saying is, my temper rises; how can I overcome this thing? I know the Lord will have to do it, but what can I do in my heart? I don’t want this thing.
Sweeten your temper with prayer, then make up your mind.
I don’t guess there is too many people in this building ever had any more temper than I did to begin with. Oh, I had a mouth mashed all the time. And I’d taken a lot of my meals out of a straw.
My mother, as you know, was a half Indian, and my father was an Irishman, a Kentucky Irish at that.
Both of them had enough temper to fight a buzz saw. And all the time my mouth was mashed; I was little to begin with.
And they’d just pick me up and knock me down. And I’d get up again; and they’d knock me down again till I just got unable to get up anymore. That’s always.
And then when I got able to get up, I got up again; they knocked me down again. So that’s just the way I had it.
I thought, “I can never be a Christian.” But when the Holy Spirit came into my life, that’s done it. No more…
I had a woman one time; I went to have to cut the lights off. And that day I had hair on top of my head. She said, “You little, kinky-headed idiotic!”
I told her, I said, “Woman, you oughtn’t to curse like that. Oh, don’t you fear God?”
She said, “You little, kinky-headed idiotic, if I wanted somebody to talk to me about things like that, I wouldn’t get a half-wit like you.”
“Whoo!” Then she called me a blankety, blankety name. Oh my, if that’d been a year farther!
I always said, “A man that’d strike a woman wasn’t man enough to strike a man,” but I might have broke that at that time calling my mother a bad name like that.
But you know what? It never even fazed me. I said, “I will pray for you.” Never bothered…
I knowed right then something had happened to me. Yes, sir! Oh, my!
You know the evils that I done when I was a kid, fighting! Almost killed five men at one time.
Took a rifle loaded with sixteen shots, and when them boys beat me because I was a Kentuckian, no other reason…I couldn’t even hold my head up.
One would hold me by hands like this, and the other one’d stand there with a rock in his hand and pound me in the face, till I just lifeless. Nothing in the world…
They called me a “Kentucky squab,” because my mother, when she was young, she sure looked like an Indian (looking at her picture a while ago), and they knowed she was a half Indian.
And because I was Kentucky and her being a squaw, they called me a “squab, a Kentucky squab.”
And I had nothing in the world to do into it; I couldn’t help because I was born in Kentucky.
I went down there to school, and I didn’t have no clothes to wear, and my hair hanging down my neck. And Pop…
Mom took Pop’s old coat that he was married in, and cut it up and made me a pair of pants to wear to school my first time.
And she dressed me with a pair of white stockings on and a pair of tennis shoes. And they said, “If you don’t look like a ‘windy’ Kentuckian.” And then, that went on all my school days.
101 And a couple of boys, because I walked down the road with some little girl and packed her books…They didn’t want me to do that, and they met me down there and beat me till I was simply unconscious.
I told them, if they’d just let me go, I promise that I would go right straight home. And so they took…let me loose, kicked me four or five times, knocked me down, and scraped my face all over. And I went home, like this, up through the broom-sedge field.
102 I had a little .22 Winchester rifle laying up over the door. Reached up and got that rifle full of bullets, went right down through the locust thicket, and hid by the side of the road till these five or six boys come along there.
Just waited till they come, and when they was coming there, talking, said, “That Kentuckian will realize where he’s at from this on,” going on like that.
I stepped up with the hammer pulled back on the rifle. I said, “Now, which one of you wants to die first, so you won’t watch the others?”
They started squealing; I said, “Don’t squeal, ’cause you’re all going to die one by one.” And I meant it!
And just then they started squealing. And I pulled up and snap! The gun snapped. I throwed another shell in. Snap, it snapped; another shell, snap, it snapped.
And I pumped sixteen shells on the ground. Every one of them snapped. And them boys running, and screaming, and diving over the hill, and everything.
And after they left, I stood there. When I’d get so angry, till I wouldn’t cry, I would laugh like a idiot and tears run out of my eyes. Now, that’s a temper. If it hadn’t of been for God, I’d have been a murderer.
105 And I picked up them shells and put them back in the rifle, and, “Pow, pow”; they’d shoot just as good as ever. Talk about grace! 64-0830E - Questions And Answers #4
Bro. Billy Paul Branham said this about his father: “the greatest miracle I ever saw was that you never knew his enemies from his friends. You couldn’t tell the difference”.
He broke the cycle.
Benjamin was the smallest tribe, but they punched above their weight in military matters.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Your temper will keep you from becoming all you could be.
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: For if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
(Adam+ at Bro. Ivy’s. Don’t let your child’s temper go uncontrolled)
Let God come in and change that wrath to Joy.
Conclusion.
When we get to the Millennium Benjamin has a spot.
And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; And the Lord shall cover him all the day long, And he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
They are still guarding the King. Finally fulfilling the destiny.
Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
Now they are all the same size. Benjamin is included with the others.
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.