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 '''''The Spirit left Him, in the Garden of Gethsemane. He had to die, a man.''' Remember, friends, He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh. And He didn't... If He'd a went up there, as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God. But He didn't have to do it.<ref>IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-12  SUNDAY_  65-0418M</ref>
+==What happened on the cross?==
+As we read above, William Branham believed that the Spirit of God left Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.  I also believed that God forsook Jesus on the cross:
+:''The inoculation held on Jesus. It held at the cross. It held when He could’ve come down off that cross. Billy Sunday said, “Every tree was setting full of Angels.” Said. “You don’t have to come off the cross. Just point Your finger. We’ll change the situation.” But He said, “I do that always what pleases the Father.” What? The inoculation held. The Word and will of God stayed in Him, no matter whether He was patted on the back and called the young Rabbi of Galilee, or whether He was called Beelzebub, the devil, the fortuneteller, whatever it was, the blasphemy that they said about Him: the inoculation held. Then they watched how He was—if He’d scream and take it all back at the cross. But it held. Amen. Everything forsook Him: His church, His people, and '''even God forsook Him''', everything. But the inoculation held.<ref>William Branham, 62-1123 - The Way Back, para. 56</ref>
+But this is not what the Bible teaches.
+When Jesus was on the cross, we read:
+:''About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Mt 27:46.</ref>
+He was not stating that God had forsaken him.  The Jews in Jesus time did not number the Psalms, that did not come until hundreds of years after Jesus was resurrected.  They referred to the Psalms by the first line of the Psalm.  So when Jesus cried out the first line of Psalm 22, he was simply telling his disciples to go read Psalm 22 if they wanted to understand what was going on.
+:''My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
+::''Why are you so far from saving me,
+::''so far from my cries of anguish?
+:''All who see me mock me;
+::''they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
+::''“He trusts in the LORD,” they say,
+::''“let the LORD rescue him.
+::''Let him deliver him,
+::''since he delights in him.”
+:''...they pierce g my hands and my feet.
+::''All my bones are on display;
+::''people stare and gloat over me.
+::''They divide my clothes among them
+::''and cast lots for my garment.
+:''For he has not despised or scorned
+::''the suffering of the afflicted one;
+::''he has not hidden his face from him
+::''but has listened to his cry for help.
+:''Posterity will serve him;
+::''future generations will be told about the Lord.
+::''They will proclaim his righteousness,
+::''declaring to a people yet unborn:
+::''He has done it! <ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ps 22:1, 7-8, 16-18, 24, 30-31</ref>.
+Where was God when Jesus was crucified?  Did he turn his back on Jesus?  Paul tells us that
+:''God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.<ref>Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2013), 2 Co 5:19.</ref>
 =Some of Branham's followers carry his teaching into [[Dynamic Monarchianism|Adoptionism]]=