A Lamb for Your House
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Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
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.
Introduction.
When Israel was coming out of Egypt most of the plagues were only on the Egyptians.
Example: Flies
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
Example: Darkness
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
During the last plague, God made a difference between the Israelites and the Egyptians. That difference was not their national identity or race.
And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
What is the difference that God made? They received a Prophet’s Message, and applied the Token.
The Message was not the Token, if it was whoever heard it would have been free from the death angel, but the Message of the hour is to Apply the Token.
“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. 63-0901M - Token
Hearing the Message was necessary to know how to apply the Token. Having a bucket of lamb’s blood would not keep the death angel back.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
Each father was responsible for his house, which in this case was defined as those under his roof. If he followed the instructions of God given to Moses his family would not only be alive during the time of the death angel, but they would be feasting on the lamb, and covered by the blood.
If he did not follow the Prophet’s instructions, there was no difference between his house and Pharoah’s house.
The Death Angel is in the Land.
Then the prophet said, “I have heard from God. There will be a token. And you put the blood upon the door. Slay the lamb, put the blood upon the door, and that’ll be a token, because death is fixing to strike.”
Let me tell you today, as His servant, unless the Token is on the door, there is a spiritual death going to strike.
And all churches are headed back for the council, of World Council of Churches. They’re all going back to Catholicism. And only those who are genuine, born again, is going to stay out!
Remember, not your Pentecostal denominations, ’cause they’re already in it. Shows they are dead! They are perished. They sacrificed. They’ve went back.
They put Him outside the door, but He is looking for the Token. Because, the only thing they relied upon was speaking in tongues.
Don’t you rely upon no speaking in tongues, no nothing else. But let the Token Itself be there, the Person of Jesus Christ, His Own Life in you.
Circumcise not just this, that; but circumcise your whole being, till you and Christ are One. Christ is in you, and His Life lives out through you. 63-0901M - Token
The Laodicean church is dead.
That’s the last plague that’s hit the Pentecostal church, is spiritual death. She is dead. That’s in the Name of the Lord.
She is spiritually dead. He gave her a place to repent, and she rejected It. Now she is dead. She’ll never rise again. 63-0321 - The Fourth Seal
Death is in the land today. There has never been a more spiritually dead generation than this one. There is no standard for right and wrong.
When asked about it, 64 percent of Americans say right and wrong depends on the situation, including 48 percent of evangelicals, and 78 percent of younger millennials.
Only 31 percent believe the Bible should be taken literally, including only 20 percent of younger millennials.
Homoexuality
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The percentage of U.S. adults who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual has increased to a new high of 7.1%, which is double the percentage from 2012, when Gallup first measured it.
The increase in LGBT identification in recent years largely reflects the higher prevalence of such identities among the youngest U.S. adults compared with the older generations they are replacing in the U.S. adult population.
Roughly 21% of Generation Z Americans who have reached adulthood -- those born between 1997 and 2003 -- identify as LGBT. That is nearly double the proportion of millennials who do so, while the gap widens even further when compared with older generations.
Church Attendance
Pastors have given up on making their congregations choose between youth sports and church, even on Sundays.
The conversation around youth sports must begin by celebrating what is good and praiseworthy rather than simply lamenting the loss of worship attendance. ... Chiding families to choose between church and sports will not work; they will almost always choose sports—and in many cases, they already have. - Christianity Today
People don’t attend church for lots of reasons. (Peanut Butter) The church is dying.
In 2000, the Faith Communities Today (FACT) study found that the median evangelical worship service attendance among U.S. congregations was 137. Today, it is only 65.
Spiritual death is in the land, but why does it affect Message people?
We have a vindicated Prophet, an Open Book, a Living God. We have a Token! But unless the Token is applied, there is no difference.
Now you’re under the Spirit, under the Holy Spirit. You believe the Message of the day, see, you believe the power, the Pillar of Fire. You believe that, see, and you do.
Now, now look, just to believe It is not enough. Not to…To walk around where It’s at, isn’t enough. See, that’s to make yourself worse, “For he that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it’s sin.” 63-0901M - Token
Believing the Message by itself will not save your family from Spiritual death, only applying the Token can do that.
Moses gave very specific instructions how this Token Blood was to be applied.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Four things:
Take a bunch of Hyssop.
Dip it in the Blood.
Strike the Lintel (Top Beam) and two side posts.
Don’t leave the house until morning.
For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
It shows, by the applying of the blood, with this hyssop, hyssop represents faith. Many time, people think they have to have some supernatural faith, to be a believer. It isn’t.
The hyssop speaks for that, just common weeds that you could get it anywhere, pick it up, dip it in the blood, and apply the blood.
The Blood, tonight, is applied by simple faith. Just not nothing supernatural; it’s right around you, everywhere. Just simply, like a child, reach out and get a hold of it, and apply the Blood. 64-0208 - The Token
The animal life could not return back, therefore a blood had to be placed on the door, upon the lintel and upon the post of the door; that every passer-by, the whole public, everybody coming by the house, knew that there was a sign on that door, of blood, that a life had died at that door. Amen!
That’s the way it has to be with every believer today, filled with the Holy Ghost; a Token that the shed Blood of the Lamb, that Life that was in the Lamb, has returned back and is publicly sealed in there,
that everybody passing by, talking to you, has any associates with you, seeing that the Blood has been applied, and the Token of the Life that was in that Blood is upon you. You are safe from the wrath. That alone; not membership. No, sir! 63-0901M - Token
The Token is the literal life of Jesus Christ.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
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. 63-0901M - Token
This Token was to be applied to their families. A Lamb for a House. In one sense that house is the entire body of Christ.
It’s been the Lamb all the way through. It was the Lamb in Luther’s time, it was the 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.” 63-0901M - Token
Bro. Branham identifies three places where a Token was applied to a family.
Egypt, Jericho (Rahab) and the Philippian Jailer in Acts 16.
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Paul told the centurion, “Believe! I’m the messenger of the hour. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou and thy house shall be saved.”
That right? Believe for your house, bring them all under. “Now you’ve seen the God of Heaven perform a miracle. It’s before judgment. Do you believe it?” “Yes! What can I do?”
He said, “Rise and be baptized.” Paul took him out and baptized him, said, “Now believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved.”
Believe what? Believe the Lord Jesus Christ, for your house, apply the Token to your house.
(A prophet begins to give very specific instructions)
Then what do you do when you apply It to your house? Move all the trash out. Get all the short skirts, and the shorts, and the cards, and the cigarettes, and televisions, and whatever more, and kick them out the door, when you go apply the Token; won’t stand still for it. Yes, sir.
Take it all out. All the dances, and parties, and rock-and-roll, and old vulgar newspapers, and the stuff that’s of the world, kick it out the door, say, “We’re cleaning out this place around here.”
Like Jacob did, he said, told his wife and all of them, said, “Wash your clothes and everything. Put away them gods.” Amen.
You know what Joshua said before crossing over? He said, “Wash your clothes; come not at your wives, and so forth, and get ready, for within three days we’ll cross Jordan.” Amen. He was getting ready, was applying the token.
Get ready. Apply It. Believe It. Clean up. Let your children, let your family, let your loved ones, see It in you. That’s right. It’ll take effect. Yes, sir!
(He tells us how to put the blood on the door)
Then apply the Token in prayer, with consideration, with believing.
Apply It with such love, and so forth, till you know it’s going to take, it’s going to take place. That’s all.
When we apply the Token to the church, how should we do it? Apply it with love.
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Apply It in confidence, believing It’s going to help. When you talk to that child, when you talk to your husband, talk to your wife, talk to this loved one, believe that It’s going to help. Just stand there, and say, “Lord, I’ve claimed them. They’re mine. I’m getting them for You, Lord.”
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Apply It, and create that atmosphere around you, that they’ll just drop right into It. Oh, you are, if you got the Token, you create a spirit around you, a power, that when you walk, people know that you’re a Christian.
They love for you to say something to them. They believe your word. What you say, they hold onto it. That’s it.
He’s saying the same thing the Scriptures say.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Apply the Token, then walk with It. Claim your household. You must do it now. This is evening time. Now, you’ve been listening a long time, now this is the evening time.
It’s applying time now. The wrath will strike, one of these days, it might be too late then. Apply the Token, with confidence.
If you want your children to be free from Spiritual Death, Don’t take them to a dead church.
Notice, in Ephesians 2:12, when you read it, it says this, that, we don’t serve dead works, but we serve a living God, with living works. Amen!
Oh, my! With living works, living signs. You believe in living signs? Also put down, Hebrews 9:11-14, if you want to put that down. Living signs, living works, apply that!
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Not dead creeds, “I’ll take my boy over to church and see he joins the church.”
Some fine Christian boy here, a good friend, old buddy, a real fellow, he come down here, was baptized. His mother said, “I wish you’d have went to a bigger church, if you wanted to be baptized.” See, he just didn’t want old dead creeds and things.
We don’t serve dead creeds and dead gods. We serve a living God Whose Blood was shed back there, and the Token has been applied to us, that we live also. Amen. Yes, sir!
Don’t serve some dead creeds. They even deny such things as the Token. They say, “The days of miracles is past. There is no such thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” Why join something like that? See? Don’t do that.
Apply the Token, then, “serve the living God,” for living works, living signs; signs that heal the sick, raise the dead, foretell things, speak in tongues, interpret, every time perfectly right, prophesies and says this and such a thing will happen,
show signs in the heaven above, and on earth, signs and wonders, amen, speaking exactly what the Bible said would take place. “Serve the living God,” apply the Token! 63-0901M - Token
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Can you imagine a the firstborn son of a little family listening to the screams of the Egyptian mothers and fathers as their children died, coming to his father and saying, “Daddy, am I going to die too?”. All the other children are dying, will I? “No Son, The Token has been applied”. How did you apply it? I heard a Message of Grace at the Evening Time.
He told me what to do with the Lamb, and how to apply the blood. We’re free from death, and there’s about to be an Exodus out of this old world.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
The Life that is in us never did begin, It never can end, It can no more die than God can die, because It is Eternal. There’s only one Thing Eternal, and that is God. And we become a part of Him because we come sons and daughters of God. 62-0713 - From That Time
Just keep eating lamb son, you’ll be okay.
We Cry Out Your Name.