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| A '''Dove''' is a kosher bird. It does not eat carrion, and is known for its style of flight, the beating of its wings, its call, and its peaceful nature. A dove returned with an olive branch to Noah in the Ark after the flood (this is a common symbol of peace after judgement) and the dove was a sacrifice animal for the poor (and was offered by Joseph and Mary after the birth of Jesus). | | A '''Dove''' is a kosher bird. It does not eat carrion, and is known for its style of flight, the beating of its wings, its call, and its peaceful nature. A dove returned with an olive branch to Noah in the Ark after the flood (this is a common symbol of peace after judgement) and the dove was a sacrifice animal for the poor (and was offered by Joseph and Mary after the birth of Jesus). The [[Holy Spirit]] also took the form of a dove when it descended on Jesus at his baptism on the Jordan River. |
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| Both the male and the female dove have an important place in the scriptures. A pair of doves was required to cleanse a house after a disease, and one bird was killed, its blood sprinkled on the other bird, and the living bird was released into an open field. Solomon referred to his love as ''"My Dove"'' (a type of the Lamb's wife), and the [[Holy Spirit]] also took the form of a dove when it descended on Jesus at his baptism on the Jordan River. | | Both the male and the female dove have an important place in the scriptures. A pair of doves was required to cleanse a house after a disease, and one bird was killed, its blood sprinkled on the other bird, and the living bird was released into an open field. |
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| ==Commentary by William Branham==
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| ===The Leading of the Holy Spirit===
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| :''What a different bird he is. See? He--he doesn't have any gall; he can't eat like the crow can. See? He has no gall in him. He doesn't have to take a bath in the--in the--in the water, because he's got something on the inside of him; it cleans him from the inside out. You see?
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| :''And that's the way the Christian is. That's the way God represented Himself, in a--in a--in a dove. See? Because in the... Jesus was represented as a Lamb...that the Dove coming down on the Lamb, to lead the Lamb, and ... That Dove could not have descended upon any other type of animal, because they both had to be of the same nature....
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| :''Well, that's the same way now. And our ill ways, the Holy Spirit just takes His flight and goes away. It's got to have the same nature. The bird of the heavens, the dove; the meekest animal on earth, the lamb, they can agree together. And when the Holy Spirit comes upon us and makes us new creatures, then He can lead us. But we try to live the same old life, it won't work. It just won't work.
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| ::Sermon: Leadership, Coniva, CA, Dec. 7, 1965
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| ===Abraham's sacrifice===
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| :''And He said, "Go get Me a heifer of three years old, and get Me a she goat three years old, and get Me a ram of three years old, and a turtledove and a pigeon." And Abraham went, and got them, and slew them all. And he cut the--the heifer, and the she-goat, and the ram. He cut them apart in the middle, but he didn't separate the dove and the pigeon. Why? They were both offerings for sickness...And now look, the reason he cut these in two, because the covenant of salvation had been clave between the Old Testament and the New Testament, upon the different sacrifice, upon the one sacrifice upon animals and the other one upon the Son of God. But the dove, the healing has always been based upon the faith of the people. That's the reason they could not be separated.''
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| ::Sermon: Faith, Prince Albert, SK, Aug. 15, 1956
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| ===The washing of the Sacrifice===
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| :''And according to the law the sacrifice had to be washed before presented. It's exactly. He baptized Jesus 'cause He was the coming Sacrifice. Before He could go to His public life He had to be baptized, because the sacrifice must be washed before it's presented. Amen. He baptized Him. And when he did, He went straightway out of the water, and he looked up and saw the Spirit of God like a dove;''
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| ::Sermon: Jehovah Jireh Pt. 3, Louisville, MS, April 4, 1964
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| ===The church, under the blood, and the rapture===
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| :''That great redeemed Church sprinkled by the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, symbol of the dove that was turned loose with blood upon her wings that cried, "Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord."... When she passed across, that symbol of leprosy which was a type of sin... That same Church is going to be caught up one of these mornings, hung in the hall of fame, as she cuts through the air yonder. Hallelujah. God keeps His Word.''
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| ::Show us the Father, it'll satisfy, Connersville, IN, June 10, 1953
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