Polygamy in the Message: Difference between revisions

''Speaking to someone the other day about polygamy. I said '''the nation in a whole would be better off if it practiced polygamy. It would.''' We’re the highest-rated nation in the world with divorces, marrying and intermarrying, marrying and intermarrying. Because we try to make the men of the world outside coincide with Christian doctrine, and you can’t put the nature of a lamb in a pig. Polygamy would be better off for him. You may not believe it but God would look at polygamy and excuse it a lot quicker than what He would. Now, you remember, don’t you say that I believe in polygamy; I don’t. I remember what God said, Moses said, or, the Pharisee said to Jesus, said, “Why did Moses suffer a writing of divorcement?” Said, “He did it because the hardness of your heart.” Right. But it wasn’t so from the beginning, never will be. God did it because of the hardness of their heart. But '''in the nations where they have polygamy the divorce courts are at ebb, low.''' But in here where we’re trying to make and govern this country as a nation, because being a Christian nation, but the name of Christian nation doesn’t make it a Christian nation. And you cannot govern the world by the rules of God. You can’t. I have no—nothing against a sinner drinking. I have nothing against a sinner committing adultery, nothing against the sinner doing this. But what I’m talking about is these people who are supposed to be Christians and then doing that.<ref>William Branham, 56-0129 - The Supernatural, para. 47</ref>

''This nation would be better off if it had—if it had a… I better not say that. All right. But anyhow '''it’d be better to have three or four wives''' than… '''I’d rather stand before God with three married women, or five married women standing by my side, than to stand there with one wife, and running with another man’s'''… Yes, sir. I’d have a better chance before God. You can’t force sinners to take a Christian’s duty and do that; they can’t do it until they’re borned again. That’s right. We’re a long ways from being a Christian nation.<ref>William Branham, 61-0211 - Abraham, para. 61</ref>

'''''In the nations where they have polygamy, it’s a thousand times better.''' And, yet, polygamy is wrong, we know. But, just show how degraded we are. <ref>William Branham, 61-0806 - The Seventieth Week Of Daniel, para. 210</ref>

''Then when the double covenant was made by man and woman, through sex, another covenant altogether (not the original covenant, but another covenant), now what’s introduced? '''Polygamy, in all. Then, after the beginning, polygamy was introduced both in man and in beasts'''; after the beginning, the fall. God now, secondarily, sets a new nature again, by sex. God created the first without sex. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Now it’s another covenant with nature, He sets it in another order, by sex. '''Second covenant: one male, many females; one buck deer, a whole harem of does.''' Is that right? One bull, a whole herd of cattle, cows; one rooster, a yardful of hens. Is that right? '''One David, after His Own heart, with five hundred wives'''; with a hundred children born to him, in one year, of different women, a man after God’s Own heart. One Solomon, with a thousand wives. But notice now, it wasn’t so at the beginning, but now it’s “after” the beginning. The woman has done this, then she just becomes what she is now. See?

''But she is designed to be a sex act, and no other animal is designed like that. No other creature on the earth is designed like that. '''That’s the reason you see polygamy, because of that. That’s what brought it in.'''<ref>William Branham,  65-0221M - Marriage And Divorce, para. 203, 230, 237</ref>