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« 1 † ` Have a few Scriptures written down, that I’d like to speak to you from, and I trust that God will bless our feeble efforts.
2 Now, many people has wondered why we are so odd and so noisy. You know, this is kind of a different type of–of a convention than what people are–are used to seeing. And, usually, everything is kind of a cut-and-dried form. But when we come to these conventions, which has been my privilege now for several years since they were first started, and we don’t hardly know what we’re going to do. We just come and surrender ourselves. That’s the only thing that we know to do. And God does the rest of it. So that makes us a very peculiar-acting people.
3 Other day, someone said, “You know, you people are really an oddball.”
I said, “Well, I–I suppose we are.”
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« 4 † And I remember of one of the conventions. Brother Troy was telling me one time of a little German that said he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And the next day, in the shop where he was working, he would raise his hands and praise the Lord, and speak in tongues and just carry on, awful. And finally, the boss came by and said, “Heini, what’s the matter with you?”
5 He said, “Oh, I got saved.” He said, “My heart is just overflowing with joy.”
6 He said, “Well, you must have been down with that bunch of nuts down there.”
7 He said, “Yes. Glory to God!” Said, “Thank the Lord for the nuts.” He said–he said, “You take the automobile, come down the road.” Said, “You take all the nuts out of it, you haven’t got nothing but a bunch of ‘yunk.'” And that’s just… It’s just about right, you know.
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« 8 † One day, in California, I was going down the streets of Los Angeles, and I seen a man had a sign on his breast, and here. And he said, “I am a fool for Christ.” And everybody was looking at him. And I noticed them turning around and looking, after he passed by. And I thought I would follow with the rest of them. And on the… his back, he said, “Whose fool are you?” Yeah. I suppose we’re all kind of odd, one to the other, you know.
9 But, you know, the world gets in such a rut, till something different makes it so odd, till the people does think that it’s some something is wrong. And usually God has to do something so unusual, to get the people back to the Bible again.
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« 10 † I can imagine that Noah was kind of a–a nut, to that scientific age that he lived in, because they could prove there was no water in the skies. But God said there would be some there. So, Noah, preaching and believing that, he become a nut.
11 And I’d imagine that when Moses went down in Egypt, he was kind of a–a nut, to Pharaoh. But remember, Pharaoh was a nut, to him, too. So they… We realize that.
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« 12 † Even Jesus was considered a heretic. That’s right. Martin Luther was a nut, to the Catholic church. And John Wesley was a nut, to the Anglican. So, you know, it’s–it’s about time for another nut. Don’t you think so? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] But, before there could be a nut, you know, there has to be a bolt, first, to thread to it.
13 So, you know, Noah, being a nut, he… Takes the nut, it pulls the bolt, pulls something together, and holds something together. So, Noah was able to pull all that would believe, into the ark, out of the judgments, by being a nut.
14 We find out, that, Moses pulled the church out of Egypt, by being a nut. That’s right.
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« 15 † I think we need a nut now, to pull the Bride out of the church. We need something now, another one, so we are a very odd sort of people. And I thought, tonight, if the Lord was willing, I would try to read some Scriptures pertaining to this, and would speak to you just a few moments, and try to show you why we are such an odd people.
16 Let us turn in the Scriptures now, to Philippians the 2nd chapter, 1-8, and Second Corinthians 3:6. And let us read, as we believe God’s Word.
17 And now, just before we read, let us bow our heads for prayer.
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« 18 † Gracious Heavenly Father, we are indeed a privileged people, tonight, to be living in this age, and to see the things that we see going on, and to know that the time is close at hand, when Jesus will come for His Church. Oh, that thrills our hearts, Lord! And as we pull back the pages, tonight, we pray that You’ll give us a context out of this text. And may the Holy Spirit reveal to our hearts the things that would be good and pleasing to God. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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« 19 † You know, believe I’ll ask you to do something. I–I usually ask some strange things, and I hope I’m not asking anything too strange. But when we pledge allegiance to the flag, we all stand. And–and the flag passes by, we stand; which, we should. And we stand, to salute. Let’s just stand to our feet while we read the Word, if you will, Second Corinthians 3:6.
Who… has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
But if–but if the ministration of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, such more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reasons of the glory that excelleth.
For if that which is done away was glorious, how… or much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such a hope, we use great plainness of speech.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which was abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall be turned to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Not…
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open faces behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, the changing unto the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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« 20 † And in Philippians 2, we read this, beginning with the 1st, and reading to the 8th verse.
If–if there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love,… any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels of mercy,
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being in one accord, and one mind.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on… things of others.
Let this mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made of himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
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« 21 † Let us pray.
22 Heavenly Father, this great Word that has been read, tonight, from Thy Holy Writ, make It so real to our hearts, that we will go from here like those going from Emmaus, saying, “Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?” For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
You may be seated.
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« 23 † Now, this is a very odd text, but I think it’s very suiting for the occasion. I wanted to speak on the subject of: The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us.
24 Now, since there has been man, there has been a hunger in man’s heart, to find out: where he came from; and what’s his reason of being here; and where he’s going. There’s only One can answer that, that’s the One Who brought him here. And man has always wanted to see God.
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« 25 † Back in the Old Testament, we find out that God veiled Himself from unbelievers. God has a very odd way of dealing with people. He hides Himself from the unbeliever and reveals Himself to the believer. God does that. Jesus thanked the Father, that, “He had hid these things from the wise and prudent, and would reveal It to babes such as would learn.” So, we find that God never changes, in His nature, and He’s always doing His work the same. We find out, in Malachi 3, that He said, “I am God, and I change not.” So, He works in the same principle, all the time.
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« 26 † Now we take one of the oldest books of the Bible. When Job, one of the most righteous men of his day, a perfect man in the laws of God, a servant, noble, honorable servant, even till God said, “There is none like him, in the earth.” But… his desire, one time, to see God. He knowed that there was a God, and he felt that he would like to see Him, or, otherwise, go to His house and knock on the door, and say, “I’d like to speak with You.” Set down, talk with Him, like we would with each other.
27 We have an understanding. That’s why we’re in these conventions, where we come together and–and express our thoughts. And–and we understand one another, better, when we talk things over with each other. And ministers do that. People of all walks of life do it, talk things over.
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« 28 † And, Job, God was so real to him, he wanted to find out if he couldn’t go, knock at His door, and–and have an–an interview with Him.
29 But we find out that God did speak to him, but He was veiled. He was veiled in a form of a whirlwind. And He told Job to gird up his loins; He was going to speak to him, like a man. And He came down in a whirlwind and–and spoke to Job. And He was made known to Job through the whirlwind, yet he did not exactly see Him. He could just hear the wind blowing and turning around, in the trees. And the Voice came out of the whirlwind, but God was veiled in the whirlwind.
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« 30 † We find, down in Africa, South Africa, they use the word amoyah, which means, “an unseen force.”
31 And this unseen Force, in the whirlwind, had an audible Voice. It spoke out to Job, yet he never seen His form. But He was veiled, to him, by the whirlwind.
32 We find one of the great prophets of the Bible, Moses, of the Old Testament, one of God’s chosen, selected, predestined servants, he also desired to see Him. He had been so close to Him, and had seen so many things of His great mystic hand going before him and doing things that only God could do. He desired to see Him one day, and God told him, “Go, stand on the rock.”
33 And while standing on the rock, Moses seen Him pass. He saw the back of Him. And he said, “It looked like a man, a man’s back.” Yet, he did not see God. He only seen the veil of God.
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« 34 † The Bible said, “No man has seen God at any time, but the only Begotten of the Father has declared Him.” So, Moses saw Him, veiled, as a Man. We find that Jehovah of the Old Testament was just Jesus of the New Testament.
35 And–and Dr. Scofield here, we find that, his word, changing from “form.” We find the word en morphe, in Greek, which means “the unseen was made visible.” Something that cannot… We know it’s there. It can be… cannot be seen, but yet we know that it’s there. And when He changed His form, of the en morphe, which mean that He changed from supernatural to natural.
36 And He just changed His mask, in otherwise. It’s like a drama. He was acting. And in the Greek, when they would change their mask, maybe one play, one player might have acted in several different parts.
37 And my daughter, present here, they just had at the high school, a–a drama. And the one boy that I know, played about four parts, but he would go behind the stage and change his–his mask, in order to come out, to impersonate another character.
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« 38 † Now, if you will take the Old Testament prophesies concerning what the Messiah was to be, you can compare it with the life of Jesus, and you’ve got it exactly who Jesus was. He was not just an ordinary man. He was God, en morphe. He was changed from–from the supernatural into the natural form of a Man. Yet, He was God, manifested in the flesh, veiled by a human, fleshly veil.
And you watch the Old Testament.
39 I–I–I know that I’m speaking to a mixed-up audience, tonight, from different parts of the world. And we are here to find out. What are we–what are we doing? What–what are we? Where we getting to? What’s happening? What does all this mean?
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« 40 † And now we find, in here, that, if you Jewish men and women, and the rabbis in–in–in the temple, in the days gone by, if they had watched the Bible, the prophecies, instead of the traditions, they would have recognized who Jesus was. They would have never called Him Beelzebub. They would have never crucified Him. But, it all had to act out. That’s part of the drama. And they were blinded, on this case.
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« 41 † It’s like many you men, women, here tonight, may be my age or little older. You remember, here in America, years ago, before… The Chinese… My brother, that just introduced here, that come on my mind when I was talking to him. How that they used to… They couldn’t speak English, and they–they run the laundry. And you go to his laundry, to get your laundry done. The–the Chinese laundry men would take a tag, and would tear it in a certain way. You take one part of the tag; he’d take the other part. But when you come back to claim your belongings, those two pieces of paper had to dovetail. And if they didn’t dovetail just exactly right… You couldn’t impersonate it in any way, ’cause he had one piece and you had the other. And if it impersonated… Then you had a right to claim what was yours. And then you’ve got what belonged to you, when you possess the other part of the contract.
42 So is it, tonight, when we got the other part of the contract. When, God tore His Son in two, at Calvary, taking the body up for a Sacrifice, and sent the Spirit down to us, that once lived in a Man, Jesus. That same God is in veil tonight, in the form of the Holy Ghost. Those two pieces has to come together, then you’re part of the contract. God did this, to be better known to man, when He made Hisself Man.
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« 43 † I was reading a story, some years ago. And in this story, it said a great, noble king… I forget the name of him, just now. I wasn’t thinking about speaking of the story. It, perhaps fiction, but it leads us to a point that gives us a background on what we want to say. This king, he was such a noble king, and such a great lover of his subjects, till, one day, before his–his guard and his royalty, he said, “Today, you see me for your last time, for many years.”
44 And his guard and his nobles said to him, “Good king, why do you say that? Are you going to a foreign country, somewhere, and become an alien?”
45 He said, “No. I’m staying right here. Well,” said, “I’m going out amongst my subjects. I’m going to become a peasant. I’m going to cut wood with the wood chopper. I’m going to–to till the ground with the toiler. I am going to prune the vines with those who prune the vines. I’m going to be one of them, in order to get a better acquainted with what they are doing. And I love them. And I want to be more acquainted with them, personally. They won’t know me. But, yet, I want to be acquainted with them, in that way.”
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« 46 † And the next morning, when his delegates, all of his people seen him, or the ones was in the palace, take off his crown and lay it down upon the seat, the throne; and take his robe off, and put on peasant’s clothes, walk out amongst common people.
Now, in that little story, we find out then about God.
47 They said to the king, said, “King, we want you. We love you. We–we want you to remain king.” But he wanted become one of them, to know them better, that they would know him better, really what he was. It would display to them what he really was.
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« 48 † And that’s what God did. He–He changed Himself, from being Jehovah God, to become one of us, that He might suffer, He might taste death, He might know what the sting of death was, and take the penalty of death upon Himself. He laid aside His–His crown and His robe, and became one of us. He washed feet with the–with the–the lowly. He dwelt in the tents, with the poor. He slept in the–the woods and in the streets, with those who were underprivileged. He become one of us, that He might understand us better, and that we might understand Him better.
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« 49 † Now, I think, in that, we find out, the changing, Himself, what He did. If you’ll notice, He came in the name of three sons. He came in the name of the Son of man, and in the Son of God, and the Son of David. He came as Son of man.
50 Now, in Ezekiel 2:3, Jehovah, Himself, called Ezekiel, the prophet, “the son of man.”
51 Son of man means “a prophet.” He had to come that way, to fulfill Deuteronomy 18:15, which Moses said, “The Lord your God shall raise up among you a prophet likened unto me.” He never called Himself the Son of God. He referred to Himself, “the Son of man,” because He had to come according to the Scripture. See? He had to make those two pieces of torn paper, the Old Testament prophecy and His Own character, to be exactly the same. So, He come, the Son of man, come in that form.
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« 52 † Then we find, after His death, burial, and resurrection, He came on the Day of Pentecost, as Son of God; God, the Spirit, in the form, Holy Ghost. What was He doing? He was changing Himself, making Himself known to His people in a different form. Like, the Holy Spirit, which is God, He came to deal through the church ages, as Son of God, the Holy Spirit.
53 But, in the Millennium, He comes as Son of David, to set on the throne of David, King. He was to take the throne of David. He is on the Father’s throne now. And then He said, “He that overcometh shall set with Me on My throne, as I’ve overcome and set on My Father’s throne.” So, He, in the Millennium, He’ll be Son of David. What is it? The same God, all the time, just changing His–His mask.
I am, to my wife, a husband.
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« 54 † Did you notice? The Syrophenician woman said, “Thou Son of David, have mercy.” He, never even bothered Him, at all. She had no rights to call Him that. She had no claims on Him as Son of David. He–He is the Son of David, to the Jew. And now He come… But when she called Him, “Lord,” He was her Lord, then she got what she asked for.
Now, as, He is just changing Himself.
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« 55 † Now, in my home, I’m three different people. In my home, my wife has claims on me as husband. My daughter out there, she doesn’t have any claims on me as husband; I am her father. And my little grandson there, I’m grandfather to him, so he has no right to call me father. I’m not his father. My son is his father. I am his grandfather. But I’m still the same man.
56 And God, what He does, He just changes Himself, to become to that generation, to make known Himself to that people. And that’s what we’re here to find out, tonight. In what way is God supposed to make Hisself known to this people and in this time? He changes His mask, He changes His act, but He doesn’t change His disposition. He doesn’t change His–His nature. He just changes His mask, from one to another. He does it, to reveal Himself more plain to the people, that they might know who He is, and what He is.
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« 57 † In Hebrews 1, we read, “God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers, through the prophets, but in this last days through His Son, Jesus.”
58 Now, “The prophets,” Jesus said, when He was here on earth, “they were gods. You call those ‘gods,’ who the Word of God came to. And the Scriptures cannot be broken,” He said. Said, “How you can condemn Him then, when He’s the Son of God?” See?
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« 59 † The Word of God is lotted to each age, what It’s to be. And Jesus was the fulfillment of all the prophecies. “In Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” It was in Him. He was the One that was in Joseph. He was the One Who was in Elijah. He was the One Who was in Moses. He was the One Who was in David, a rejected king.
60 His own people had rejected him, as king. And as he went out of the–of the courtyard, a little, afflicted fellow crawling around, did not like his–his government, his system, and he spit upon him. And the guard pulled his sword, said, “Will I leave that dog’s head on him, spitting on my king?”
61 And David, maybe not realizing what he was doing at the time, but he was anointed. And he said, “Let him alone. God has told him to do this.” And he climbed up on the hill and wept over Jerusalem, a rejected king.
62 Did you notice? A few hundred years from then, the Son of David being spit upon, in the streets, and was on the hill, same mountain, looking down over Jerusalem, a rejected King. And cried, “Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen did her brood, but you would not?”
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« 63 † He never changed His nature, ’cause Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” God was made flesh, in order to die, to redeem us from sin. That’s why He changed Himself, to be a–a Man.
64 We see, in Saint John 12:20, the Greeks had heard of Him. Now, there’s no man can ever hear of Him except their heart burns to see Him. Like Job and the prophets of old, they all wanted to see Him. So, this Greek came to see Him. They came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, said, “Sir, we would see Jesus.”
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« 65 † The Greeks wanted to see Him, but they were unable to see Him because He was in the temple of His humanity. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Now we find that, in this, these Greeks could not see Him.
66 And notice the very words that Jesus expressed to them, afterwards. He said, “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, dies, it abides alone.” In other words, they would never be able to see Him in the change, in the mask that He was in then, because He was veiled in human flesh. But when this corn of Wheat fell into the ground, then It would bring forth all races. He was sent to the Jews, of course, at that time. But this corn of Wheat must fall; veiled God, in human’s flesh, hidden from unbelievers, but being revealed to believers.
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« 67 † In John 1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld Him, the only Begotten of the Father, full of grace.” Now, in the beginning was the Word. A Word is a thought expressed.
68 In the beginning, He wasn’t even God. Now, our English word today, God, means “an object of worship.” How confusing it is to the mind. You can make somebody a god. You can make anything a god.
69 But in the Old Testament, in Genesis 1, “In the beginning God,” the word is used, Elohim. Elohim means “the self-existing One.” What a difference the word Elohim is, to our word God. Elohim means “the self-existing One.”
70 We cannot be self-existing. We cannot be almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. That Elohim expresses all of that. We cannot be that. The tree that you make a god out of, or the–or the building, it’s not self-existing.
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« 71 † So, God, in the beginning, was Life, the Eternal One. In Him was attributes, and those attributes became Words, and the Word became flesh. Jesus was the Redeemer. And to redeem, means, “to bring back.” If He has to bring it back, it had to be somewhere to be brought back to. So, you see, all people will never be able to see it, because all people wasn’t in the beginning in God’s thoughts. See?
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« 72 † Look at the priests. When they see Him express Hisself exactly with the Word, what He was, they said, “It’s Beelzebub.” That showed where their nature was. It was in the modern thought of the day.
73 But when the little prostitute, that He met at the gate, and told her, expressed His messianic sign, by telling her what she had done. “Why,” she said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. We know, the Messiah, when He comes, He will tell us all these things.” She was recognizing Him as the Messiah, the anointed One, because He met the Scripture qualifications. Don’t you see? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] The two pieces of paper were coming together. She, “We know that, when the Messiah cometh.”
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« 74 † Now, God might have had to interbred this and that, to get this certain ting of the bell, like the molder. But when Jesus turned, said, “I am He that speaks with you,” there was no such an expression as “Beelzebub.” She left her water pot, ran into the city, and said, “Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I have done. Isn’t This the very Messiah?” See?
75 Now, what did this? Putting the old Scripture with the experience that–that Jesus was giving to her, what did it do? It made the Messiah. And did you notice? Quickly, her sins were forgiven, because, at the beginning, she was redeemable, because she was in God’s thinking at the beginning. So, it redeemed her, or brought her back, when she seen the expressed Scripture manifested, of Jehovah, what He was, what He is.
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« 76 † Now, when Jesus come, if He’d have come with Noah’s message, it wouldn’t have worked. To build an ark, and float out, it wouldn’t have worked. But that Noah was a portion of God. He acted a peculiar way because he was peculiar, and his message was peculiar because it was the Word being made manifest.
77 He could not have come with Moses’ message, because it wouldn’t have worked. Moses was God, in a portion, made manifest. He was the word expressed for that hour, but Jesus could not come in that. The Bible never said He would come in that way.
78 But when He come, expressed exactly like the–the Testament had said He would be expressed, then all those who was redeemable believed It, because they were the thoughts of God. The attributes of Him at the beginning was made flesh, and redeemable, and was brought back to God. “As many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God,” because they were redeemable. They were from the beginning, in the expression.
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« 79 † If we could stop here a moment, if it would be possible, and think of that, tonight, of the Message of the hour, the expressed thoughts of Jehovah. “Before the foundation of the world,” we are told, “our names were put on the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Then we can see the two sides, as I first said, why one is odd to the other. It must be that way. It was always. It always has been that way, and it always will be that way. “He was the Word. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”
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« 80 † Now, God, in… back in the days of the Old Testament, we find that after He had appeared to His people, in different forms, He veiled Himself behind old badger skins. God hiding behind badger skins, at His mercy seat. We find that, how that Solomon, when he dedicated the temple of the Lord, and these badger skins was hanging there, the veil, how that He came in as the Pillar of Fire and as a Cloud, and went down behind there, and veiled Himself, to the outside world. But, by faith, Israel knew that He was back there. They knew He was there, regardless of what any of the heathen worlds had to say. He was hid from the unbeliever. But the believer, by faith, knew He was back there. They had mercy. And He was at His mercy seat, which was a great secret.
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« 81 † You know, in the Old Testament, to enter behind that skin was death. Now to stay from behind it is death. Then to enter into His Glory was death. Now to stay away from His Glory is death. That happened, of course, at the renting of the veil at Calvary, when the veil was rent, the old veil. Now to stay out of His Presence is death. Then to enter His Presence was death. See? It changes back and forth, and you must find the Scripture to see what day we’re living in.
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« 82 † Now, when the veil was rent at Calvary, the mercy seat came into plain view. (But what happened? It was hanging on Calvary, dripping in Blood.) As they had took blood, year after year, at the cleansing of the sanctuary and the sprinkling of the mercy seat, there, God, with His great mighty stroke of lightning power, split the old badger veil from top to bottom, and the mercy seat came into plain view.
83 The real, genuine Lamb of God was hanging in plain view on Calvary, the real Mercy Seat, when God had paid the price, Himself; and become one of us, and had manifested Himself as a Man, to get acquainted with us, and we to be acquainted with Him. The Mercy Seat was in plain view of all Israel on that day of the Atonement.
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« 84 † But, alas, the traditions of the church fathers in that day had, by their traditions, had veiled the true Mercy Seat from the people. If they would have knowed the Scripture, each piece would have come like the Chinese tag. The Old Testament prophecy would have been fulfilled, and it was. And if they had been taught the Scripture, they would have seen the Mercy Seat. “As Moses,” said here, that, “to this day they’re veiled. It’s still over their hearts.” They don’t see It.
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« 85 † But, He was God, the suffering and the Atonement. He was the genuine Mercy Seat standing in full view. As we sang the hymn:
Lo, behold Him in plain view.
There He is, the mighty Conqueror,
Since He rent the veil in two.
86 See, He came, the Mercy Seat, hanging in clear view of the congregation. But them, being under the popular opinion…
87 Now, men and women, and delegates of this convention, I want to say this without respect of person. But, in the view of today, in view of what we’re here for today, I’m afraid that the traditions of the fathers, the church fathers, has hid This from too many people. Since the Holy Ghost has come in this last days, as prophesied, and the veil has been rent, too many people try to hang to their traditions of the fathers. And that’s why they can’t see this extreme joy, and peace, and things that the Church has today. Yet, It’s in plain view of those who believe.
He hid the Word, the promised Word of this day.
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« 88 † Now, the traditions has made a veil. They say that the days of miracles is passed. A man spoke to me, a fine, cultured gentleman in Tucson, Arizona, where I live. I had a meeting at the Ramada. And we been speaking at the Business Men’s Convention where the Lord Jesus had come present and done great things. And this Christian gentleman came to me, and he said… A minister of the church, fine man, and he said, “Brother Branham, you are trying to project to the people an apostolic age,” he said, “and when the apostolic age has ceased.”
89 And I said, “I pray thee, my brother, show me when the apostolic age ceased, in the Scripture.” I said, “The apostolic age began on the Day of Pentecost, and it has… Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, ‘The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.’ When did it cease? If God is still calling, then the apostolic age still is in session.”
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« 90 † And so that is where the people try to blindfold so many people, by their traditions of the elders, as it was then. And you fail to see why that the people are so elated and so enthused. And–and these conventions are such an oddball, such a strange thing, to other people, is because that they see they broke through those barriers. They broke through those veils, into the Presence of God, where they see the manifested promise of this hour made manifest before the people. They see what God promised.
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« 91 † In Joel 2:28, He promised, that, “In this last days there would be a latter rain poured out upon the people, in the last days.” I think the Greek word there is kenos, which means that He “emptied” Hisself out. Not in the way that we would say, like something was inside of somebody, that He emptied out. But, He poured Himself out.
92 He changed; His en morphe. He–He changed, from what He was, to what He is. He never changes His nature. But on the Day of Pentecost, He changed Himself from being the Son of man, to the Son of God. He came, not with the people. He came in the people, see, the same God, to carry His ministry on through, in this great age.
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« 93 † He prophesied in the Bible, that, “There would come a day that would not be neither day or night, but in the evening time it should be Light.” Now, the sun, geographically, rises in the east and sets in the west. It’s the same sun, all the time. Now, when, the Son, S-o-n, revealed Himself in the manifestation of the promised Word, to Israel, the Eastern people.
94 We’ve had a day of gloom. We’ve had enough light in the reformers, and so forth, to make churches and denominations, and join them and come in; and kiss the babies, and marry the old, and bury the dead, and so forth; and live in the church.
95 But, in the evening time, “It shall be Light,” He said, “in the evening time.” And no Scripture can be broken. And the same S-o-n that poured out Himself, kenos, on the Day of Pentecost, promised to do the same thing in the evening time. See? It’s according to the promise.
96 Get the tag together. Look what’s happening, and look what He promised, then you’ll see where we are at. Get the thing together. You can see the unveiling of this great and mighty One. Traditions has blinded the people, again, to these great things that’s been prophesied.
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« 97 † Moses, when he came forth from the mountain, which was on Fire, how beautiful the illustration!
98 Moses had went down to Egypt and told the church fathers that the Lord God had visit him in the Name of “I AM.” That Name is present tense; not “I was; will be.” But, “I AM,” ever the same, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is present tense. He… That compares with Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
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« 99 † It’s still the prophesied Word. And, the congregation, that was to dovetail with that Word, the experience of this day. The reformers had it, oh, but this is another day. See what day we’re living in. Just as He couldn’t come, in the days that He came on earth, in the–in the way that Moses came, or any of the prophets came; it wasn’t prophesied. And in this last days, it’s prophesied to come this way. It can’t come in the form of Luther’s revival. It can’t come in the form of Wesley revival. It’s a restoration hour. It’s a time that it must come back to the original Son Light, the original.
100 Oh, how we could lay the Scriptures in, on that! And you theologians, what part of the world you’re from, you know that That’s true. It’s a promise. That’s what makes the people so odd. That’s what makes the oddballs, that you call them. It’s because that they… it’s… The veil has been opened, from the traditions, and they see It. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. See? It’s the–it’s the promise of God, and we cannot go against that, ’cause the Scriptures cannot be broken. Yes. We find that He promised that. He had emptied Himself into His people. And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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« 101 † Moses, after he had went down into Egypt and declared this, then the Father vindicated his message, by coming on Mount Sinai, in the same Pillar of Fire, and set the mountain on Fire. Did we notice? The one He had give the promise to, He brought him forth with the Word. He had the commandments. And to have this commandment, he had… The commandments was the Word. The Word had never come to the people yet. So, the Word always comes to the prophet, and He was the prophet for that hour.
102 Like, Jesus was the Word. John was a prophet. And Jesus came to him, in the water, because the Word always comes to the prophet, without failing. See? The Word comes to it.
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« 103 † So, Moses, the Word came to him; the commandments. And he had them. Now, why? Before the Word was given out and made manifest, Moses had to veil his face, for the Word wasn’t completely made manifest. They knowed something had happened, but they didn’t know what it was, the roaring and thundering. Till, they said, “Let Moses speak, and not God.”
104 And God said, “Well, I will do that. From this forth, I’ll not appear like this no more. I’ll send them a prophet. So he’ll… I’ll speak through My prophet.”
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« 105 † Now, if Moses, with the natural law, (as Paul, in Second Corinthians here, has revealed to us), had to veil his face with the natural, how much more will the Spiritual be glorious and veiled to the unbeliever before it’s made manifest to him! How much more would they call… Moses was an oddball. How much more will they call you, who has broke through the veil, has went into the Pillar of Fire, has come out with the Blessing! And now you are veiled. The people can’t see it. They can’t understand It.
106 “If the natural be glorious, how much more will the supernatural! If the natural, which had an end to it, was to be glorious, how much more This which has no end to it, will be glorious!”
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« 107 † But, still, It’s veiled. It’s veiled not to the believer, but to the unbeliever. He cannot see It. God always veils Himself from the unbeliever. Traditions hide It. Like they did then, they do it today.
108 That was a spiritual veil that we have now, where the natural veil was. They are vindicated by the prophet with the written Word, a prophesier, one who comes with the written Word, to make It plain.
109 They knowed the Word was there, but they didn’t know what It meant. And Moses made It plain. He said, “The commandment says This, and this is why.” He made it plain. And before It was made plain, It was veiled.
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« 110 † And so is it, today, veiled to the people, until It’s revealed and made plain to the people. God, the mighty God, veiled in human flesh, the Word. Notice. Now we find out that it was hid to the unbeliever, but revealed to the believer.
111 Notice, Moses had to enter this Pillar of Fire, alone. No one could go with him. It was not… it… What does that speak to us? That you don’t come into This by joining a Pentecostal group. See? He never revealed It to a group. He revealed It to an individual. And that’s the way it is today. You say, “I belong to a–a church. I–I belong to this.” But that won’t work. See?
112 And for anyone to try to follow Moses, to impersonate it, was death. And so is it today, spiritual death, to try to impersonate. That’s what’s the…
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« 113 † Tonight, we’re getting into, there is raising up amongst the groups, carnal comparisons; somebody try to act like It, and live a different life; can drink, can smoke, women can live (any) most any way they want to, and like the world, and stay home and watch television, and the things of the world, and still call themselves Pentecostals. They are trying to impersonate a genuine. It’s never been revealed to them, yet. When It is revealed, it’s glorious, and something takes that out of you when you walk in There. You become a veil. It’s… It just won’t work. And to impersonate It was death.
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« 114 † Moses’ veil; he was the living Word to the people. And today, the people that are veiled are the same thing. “They are written epistles, read of all men.” Not a new epistle; but the Epistle that’s been written, made manifest. It’s–it’s those who believe the Word and the promise of this day, that God is pouring out His Spirit, upon all flesh, and that is written epistles. And when a person tries to carnally impersonate that, it backfires. Your life shows what you are.
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« 115 † One time there was a boy, he had got in some trouble. He was a good boy, but he–he went to court. And the judge said, “I find you guilty. I must punish you to life in prison.”
116 He said, “I want to try my own case.” He said, “I want to go in upon my record.”
117 He said, “You have no record. Your record is what’s condemned you.”
118 And that’s the way it is today, the reason the church is not advanced like it should. It’s the record. It’s the lie. We must become more dedicated. We must believe every Word of God. We must seek until that Word is made real to us. See? See? The record is what keeps us from entering in.
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« 119 † But, one time, (to let you get out of this loop), in this same court, the boy had no money. He could not pay it off. The fine was way in the thousands of dollars. But he had a big brother that came and paid it off for him.
120 Now, we’ve got a big Brother, Jesus, the Son of God. And He come to pay it off for us, if we’ll just believe it and be able to enter into the veil with Him. Like, He is our Moses. Jesus is our Moses of today. Moses, veil, was the living Word to the people. Today, Jesus, veiled, is the living Word to the people, that, Jesus in the Church. The Holy Ghost, the Son of God in the people, revealing the Word by the promise of this day, makes It just exactly. Same now.
121 And remember, Moses did this, and manifested this, not to all the world, but to the exodus people, just one class of people, that was those who come out of the exo-… in the exodus.
122 And today, the Holy Spirit, in the face of people who says, “Divine healing is not right.” When I was consulting…
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« 123 † A doctor called me, other day, of a little lady, oh, there’s been four or five cases there, laying just at the point of death, giving hours, and the Holy Spirit healed them. The doctor was questioning it. He said, “How can this be? Why,” he said, “I–I… That’s my patient.”
124 I said, “It was. But now it was God’s. It–it, it’s His subject now.” See?
125 And so you see the thing it is, that God is calling an exodus, to come from behind the fleshly curtain who tries to impersonate, who tries to join church; not Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, altogether, but Pentecostal churches. It is an individual affair. It’s you and God. You have to go in, not your group, not your church, not your pastor, but it’s you who has to go in.
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« 126 † I want you to notice another characteristic of Moses, when he come out. Yet, being a prophet, being a great man that he was, when he come out with the Word, the people saw that he was changed. Something had happened to him. When he come out with the vindicated Word of that hour, the commandments, he was a changed person.
127 And so will you be, when you come from behind that human veil that would laugh at a meeting like this; that man who would stumble at Divine healing, and say the days of miracles is passed. You’ve dropped from behind that human veil there, the traditional veil, and everybody will know something happened to you.
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« 128 † Like our honorable brother, Jim Brown. I imagine most Presbyterians knows that something happened to him, because he–he come from behind a traditional veil. He saw something in the people, that attracted him, and he came out from behind the veil.
129 Well, you, when you come out from behind the veil, you’ll be in full view of the people then, that they can see that something has happened to you. The veiled Word, to the unbeliever, but in full view of the believer. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
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« 130 † Then, it was God. In them days, it was God in a Man, His Son, Jesus Christ. We believe that. Not just a prophet, not just an ordinary man, ordinary human. It was God in Christ; God in a Man; the fullness of the Godhead, bodily in a Man. God in a Man!
131 Now it’s God in men, the fullness of God in the Godhead, bodily in His entire Church, manifesting Himself, fulfilling His Word.
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« 132 † Now we find, God, all ages, has had skin on It. He, God, has been hid behind the veil.
133 It just reminds me of a–a little story that happened down in the South. And so there was a Christian home. And then in this Christian home they believed God, and they–they thought that–that God protected them from all troubles. And, which, He does. And they had a little junior, a little boy about seven or eight years old. And–and he went to Sunday school and was a very fine little lad. But he was scared in a storm, especially when lightning was flashing.
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« 134 † And I told this to a man, the other day, when this piece had come out about this man being healed. This same minister said, “They make a god out of you, Brother Branham.”
135 Well, he was a critic, so I thought I’d just kind of break it off, just a little bit. Not to hurt, you know, but just kind… I said, “Is that too far from the Scripture, to be that?” See? I said, “No, it isn’t,” I said, “because Jesus called prophets ‘gods.’ See? That’s right, ‘God.'”
136 And they say, “Well, you people try to take the place of God.” That’s not too far out. That’s exactly what it is. That’s exactly. God manifested in flesh, just as He promised.
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« 137 † This little family, we find. I told him this little story, which come to my mind just now. That, one night it come up a storm, and mother said to Junior, said, “Now, you go on upstairs, son, and go to bed.”
Said, “Mama, I’m scared,” he said.
“Ain’t nothing going to hurt you. Go on up and go to bed.”
138 Little junior laid up there, and the lightning flashing around the windows. And the little fellow got so nervous, he’d stick his head under the cover, and he could still hear the–the lightning, or see the lightning flash on the windows, and–and hear the thunder roar. So he said, “Mama!”
And she said, “What do you want, junior?”
Said, “Come up here and sleep with me.”
139 So she come up the steps, like any good, loyal mother would. And she came up, and she took little junior in her arms. And she said, “Junior, mother wishes to speak to you just a moment.”
Said, “All right, mama.”
140 Said, “Now you must bear this in mind. We go to church, constantly. We read the Bible. We pray. We are a Christian family. We believe in God.” And said, “We believe that, in storms and whatever goes on, God is our protection.”
141 He said, “Mama, I believe every bit of that. But,” said, “when that lightning is so close,” he said, “I–I want a God with skin on It.”
142 So, I–I think, not only junior, but all of us feel that way. When we get together, when we pray one for the other, God with skin on It.
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« 143 † And we find out here that God has always had skin on Him. When Moses seen Him, He had skin on Him, look like a Man. When God was behind the curtains, He had skin on Him. And God, tonight, in His Church, is veiled in His Church with skin on It. He is still the same God, tonight. We find that.
144 But now, as ever, the skin veil is what catches the traditions. They just can’t believe that that is God making them people act like that. See? It’s because God is veiled in His Church, in skin, skin on It. That’s right. He is hid from the unbeliever, and revealed to the believer. Yes, sir.
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« 145 † Now, when their tradition veil, of traditions of the elders and the Word, is broke through, oh, of course, today, then comes in plain view, we see Him, Deity again veiled in human flesh. Hebrews 1 said so.
146 And also Genesis 18. Remember, God was a Man standing there, eating, and talking with Abraham, and told what Sarah was doing in the tent behind It.
147 And Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the Coming of the Son of man.” Deity veiled again in human flesh! Now, remember, Jesus didn’t say, “When the Son of God is being revealed.” In Luke the 17th chapter, I believe, and about the 20th, 21st verse, somewhere along there, He said, “And when the Son of man is being revealed.” The Son of man, back in–in–in the Church again, revealed in human beings; not Son of God, but the Son of man again, back in His Church again, in the last days. We find that He promised that in God’s promises.
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« 148 † We notice another thing, in the Old Testament. I have the Scripture here, in Exodus. That, the old badger skins, what did it do? It hid the Glory of God from the people. The badger skins; even people couldn’t see It, because it was a skin that held It. The skin was… The Glory of God was behind the skin.
149 And now the Glory of God is behind your skin. That’s right. And the traditions don’t see It. It’s inside the veil, where His Word was.
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« 150 † What was on the inside of that skin back there, the old badger skins?
151 Which, “There was no beauty we should desire It. And when It was made flesh and dwelt among us, It was still no beauty we should desire It.”
152 And now the same thing is today. There’s nothing in a man or a woman, that can be desired. It’s what’s in behind there. That’s what it is. “Well,” you say, “that fellow, I know he used to be a drunkard. He used to do this.” I don’t care what he used to do. What’s hid behind that skin? What is behind there, that’s what counts. That’s what, the people is blinded. The skin blinds the people. See? They say, “I remember when that woman used to.” I know what she used to, but what about now? See?
153 Them skins, that was once on the badger, but now it’s hiding the Glory of God, got It housed behind it. It was on an animal, but now it’s housing the Glory of God.
154 And so can your skin be changed, tonight, to be made a housing place for God, God dwelling in humanity.
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« 155 † Look. The old badger skins, we find out, behind it was… Inside of there was the Word. And, the Word, there also was the shewbread. The ark was sprinkled. And what was it? The Shekinah Glory was in there.
156 Now, the Word is a Seed, and It cannot bring forth until the–the Son strikes It. The Son has got to be upon the Seed, to make It bear, to make It come forth. And that’s the only way. You take the Word, see, take the Word of God in your heart, and walk into the Shekinah Glory. And when you do, It’ll bring shewbread, Manna, that’s only give for a separated people. The only thing that can eat it, that’s permitted to eat it, is just the people who are permitted and knows It. Paul said here, “Changing from Glory to Glory.” You see, finally, It comes till It’s back to Its original Glory.
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« 157 † It’s just like a seed of a morning glory. The seed of a flower, it falls into the ground. The seed of corn falls in the ground. What’s the first thing? It comes up, and it’s a little sprout. Then it goes to a tassel. Then, from a tassel, back to its original grain.
158 Well, that’s exactly what the Church has done. It come from Luther, Wesley, and now back to the original Grain, back to Its original Glory, back to the Glory It was at the beginning. The Son that rose in the East, it’s the same Son that’s manifesting the same thing in the West, changing from Glory to Glory. It changed from the pagan, down into Luther; and from Luther, down into Wesley; from Wesley, out into Pentecost; and on and on, changing from Glory to Glory, producing the hidden Manna.
159 And now It’s ripe, to bring Him back exactly like He was at the beginning, His same ministry; the same Jesus, the same power, the same Holy Ghost. The same One that come down on the Day of Pentecost, is the same Holy Ghost that’s manifested today, from Glory unto Glory, to Glory. And is back to Its original Seed, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost; with the same signs, same wonders, same baptism; same kind of people, acting the same way, with the same power, the same sensation. It’s from Glory unto Glory. And the next will be, “Changed from this Glory, into a body like His Own glorious body, where we shall see Him.” Abraham saw the same.
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« 160 † Now notice. We see how it was changed. Since Calvary, we are invited to share His Glory. Now, in First Corinthians 12, “We are baptized into His Body. By one Spirit we are all baptized.” Not by one “water.” “One Spirit, we’re all baptized.” That’s right, now, and then we become part of Him.
161 I hope I’m not keeping you too long. [Congregation says, “No.”–Ed.] See? I hope I’m not.
162 But, it’s just like a great symphony that’s playing out, or acting out a drama.
163 I don’t know too much about symphonies or drama. But I was watching this play… I was talking about Carmen, when my daughter and them was in it. And they–and they were playing in this symphony, in Carmen. They was acting out. The music was–was–was acting out the same thing.
164 That’s the way it is when you’re baptized by the Holy Spirit, into Christ.
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« 165 † Now, see, many of you has read or heard the story of the great Russian composer who composed Peter And The Wolf. And how he, they act that out on symbols and everything. And anyone who knows the story, that’s reading it off of a paper, and can hear that symphony, how it’s acting that out, the drama, playing it out, why, they know every change. They can look at it here, and see the change.
166 But, now, what happens if the–if the composer writes something, and we find out that it isn’t just acted out right? We find out then that there is something that happens. There is something lacking, when we see them. He who composed it has made it up and wrote it out, and then the symphony is a playing it, hits a wrong note. There is something wrong. The director gave the wrong motion. See?
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« 167 † And that’s what’s the matter today, my Lutheran brethren, my Baptist brethren, my Pentecostal brethren. All my brethren from all different denominations, that’s what it is. See? You’re trying to give a note that hit back in the days of Luther, Wesley, like that, when, actually, the music Sheet here shows that it’s another day. See? See? See? We can’t live in the light of Luther; he was a reformer. We appreciate his–his part, but we played that out. We’re way over here at the back of the Book now. See? We can’t–we can’t play It out like that.
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« 168 † Now, the only way that you’re ever going to be able to do it, my brethren, is this. And brethren of the world, of the different parts of the world, I might say, there’s only one way for that–for that director to do. He has to get in the same Spirit that the composer was in, then he’s got It. And when the Church, the symphony Itself, where the world is a watching for these signs and wonders; when the Church, and the Composer, and the director, all get in the Spirit of the Composer.
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« 169 † Then when they say, “The days of miracles is past,” it don’t hit the right note.
170 But when it gets in the right swing of It, and the right Spirit of It; how you going to do it until the Spirit comes down, of the Composer? Amen. Then when you say, “The days of miracles never passed.” The symphony cries out, “Amen.” When we hit, say, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The symphony cries out, “Amen.” “You shall receive power after this the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” The symphony cries, “Amen. I got It.” There’s no more guesswork about it then. The whole symphony is right in harmony with the Word. It’s going… [Brother Branham claps his hands together three times–Ed.] That’s it. Oh! It’s a magnificent thing. The director and the Composer must be in the same Spirit. And so must the musicians be in the same Spirit, to act It all out. And the world is wondering what’s going on.
171 The communism they talk about, and made me sick with it, and all this integration and everything else, and segregation. Oh, mercy! Such, all this nonsense, when the Coming of the Lord is at hand, there is something hitting wrong. I’m afraid that the director got… The directors got out of the Spirit of the Composer.
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« 172 † When we get that Composer’s Spirit, that original power of God that the Bible said, “Men of old was moved by the Holy Ghost to write this Bible,” you’ll see them two Chinese pieces of paper will come together, just like God’s Bible and a believer will come together, because they’re both in the same Spirit. They’re both the same thing. They dovetail right straight together. What we need today is directors, that’s right, back to the Word, back and believe It just as It’s said. Then you see the God, Himself. That’s the unveiling. The drama is made real.
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« 173 † Today, they say, “Well, He’s a historical God. We know He crossed the Red Sea. He did all this. And He was in the–the fiery furnace, with the Hebrew children.” What good is a God of history, isn’t, if He isn’t the same today? Man is ever glorifying God for what He did do, thinking of what He will do, and ignoring what He’s doing. That’s just in man to do that. And it’s the same thing today, my brethren. It’s the very same thing. Oh, my!
174 Let’s get back and get the symphony playing right, where they of the world can see. Jesus said, “If I be lifted up from this earth, I’ll draw all men unto Me.” And, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
175 Let the directors get in the right Spirit, with the musicians and with the Composer, everything will be all right. Then we’re, no guesswork about it, we are identified with Him then. Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
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« 176 † We’re identified with Him in Acts 2. We’re identified with them, with the same baptism, same thing. All He was then and all He is, all He was and all He is, we are. Exactly it.
177 Just like if I want to be a true American, I’ve got to be identified with everything she was, everything she is. I’ve got to be identified with it, if I am a true American.
178 If I am a true American, then I landed on Plymouth Rock. Amen. I did, if I’m an American. So did you; you landed on Plymouth Rock with the pilgrim fathers. On Plymouth Rock, when they landed out there, I was with them; so was you, everybody.
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« 179 † I rode with Paul Revere, right down the road, to warn every danger. That’s exactly right.
180 Right down here at Valley Forge, I crossed the icy Delaware, with a bunch of soldiers who, half of them, didn’t have shoes on. I prayed all night with George Washington, beforehands. I crossed the Delaware with a vision in my heart. We are American. Yes, sir. At Valley Forge, I certainly did.
181 I returned thanks with the original Thanksgiving fathers. I returned thanks to God. If I’m a real American, I was identified there at that table.
182 If I’m a real American, I was identified when I stood with Stonewall Jackson.
183 If I’m a real American, I was identified at the Boston Tea Party, yes, sir, when we refused to have things pulled over our eyes. Well, I’m as real America. I was identified there with that. Yes, sir. Oh, my!
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« 184 † I rang the Liberty Bell, the first 4th of July, in 1776. I rang the Liberty Bell here and declared that we are independent. To be a real American, I had to.
185 I was identified with her shame in the Revolutionary, when brother fought against. I’ve got to bear her shame, the same as I have to bear her glory. If I’m an American, I have to be. I was identified with her. Yes, sir.
186 I was identified at Gettysburg down there, when Lincoln made his speech. Yes, sir.
187 I was on Wake Island, over them bloody soldiers’ body. I rose on Wake Island.
On Guam, I helped hoist that flag.
188 I’m a real American. Amen. All She is, I am, and proud of it. Yes, indeed. All America has been, all She is, I’m still that, to be American. Everything She was, I have to be, because I’m identified with her.
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« 189 † Same thing, by being a true Christian, you have to be identified with it.
190 I preached with Moses, and war-… or with Noah, and warned the people of the oncoming judgment; to be a real Christian.
191 I was with Moses at the burning bush. I saw the Pillar of Fire. I saw His Glory. I was with Moses up there in the wilderness, to be a Christian. I have to be identified with everything God was, to be a Christian. I seen His glory. I heard His Voice. Don’t try to explain away from me now, ’cause I was there. I know what I’m talking about. I seen what happened. Yes, sir.
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« 192 † I was at the Red Sea, when I seen the Spirit of God move down and part the water from one side; not through a bunch of reeds, that they’re trying to say today, but through about a ninety-foot sea. I seen the Spirit of God. I walked with Moses through that dry ground, across that Red Sea.
193 I stood by Mount Sinai and seen the thunder and lightning falling. I ate Manna with them out there. I drank from that Rock. I’m still doing it tonight. I was identified with the Manna-eaters. I was identified with them that drunk from the Rock.
194 I was also identified when Joshua blew a trumpet, and the walls of Jericho fell down.
I was in the lions’ den with Daniel.
I was in the fiery furnace with the Hebrew children.
I was in Mount… with Elijah on Mount Carmel.
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« 195 † I was with John the Baptist, and before them critics. I seen the Spirit of God descending. I heard the Voice of God say, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.” Yes, sir. I sure was identified with him. That’s exactly right.
196 I was identified there at the grave of Lazarus, when He raised up Lazarus. I was identified, the woman at the well, when He told her her sins. Yes, sir.
197 I surely was identified with Him in His death. And I was identified on the first Easter. I raised with Him from death. I identified with Him in His death.
198 I was with the hundred and twenty, in the upper room. I was identified up there with them. Hey! I–I feel religious. Oh, my! I was identified there. I’m one of them. I was identified. I got the same experience they had. I was there when it happened, to be a true Christian. I witnessed the mighty rushing Wind coming. I witnessed that. I felt the power of God as It shook. I was with them that spoke in tongues. I felt the anointing come in there. I was with them. I was identified with them when the Holy Ghost begin to speak through tongues, with them.
199 I was with Peter, before the critics in Acts 2, when he preached the great sermon that he did. I was identified with him. Yes, sir.
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« 200 † In Acts 4, when they assembled together, I was with them when the building shook. After prayer meeting, the building shook where they were setting. I was identified there with them.
I preached with Paul on Mars Hill. Yes, sir.
201 I was with John on the Isle of Patmos, and seen His second Coming.
I was with Luther in the reformation.
202 I was with Wesley, that firebrand; snatched from the fires, when the great revolt against the Anglican church. I was there with him.
203 And here I am tonight, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, identified with the same kind of group, with the same kind of an experience. I must be, to be a Christian. I must stay identified where the Word of God is being manifested. I’m identified with a group that feels the Spirit of God.
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« 204 † I’m identified with a group that knows He’s unveiled, that knows He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, that knows that This is not a fanaticism. “It’s Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” I’m identified with that group here, tonight. Yet, they’re called a bunch of heretics, yet a bunch of fanaticism, on account of the Word of God. But, “I’m not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for It’s the power of God unto salvation,” and I’m one. I’m with them living epistles I spoke of, vindicated, God veiled in human form, in men and women. Oh!
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« 205 † God in His en morphe again, unveiled Himself and make Hisself known to His people. The great King Who laid aside His Glory. “Yet a little while and the world won’t see Me no more. I’ll be veiled to them. But ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, all the way to the consummation, changing from Luther to Wesley, to on and on, from Glory unto Glory. I’m still the same God that lived, and going back to the original Glory.” Hallelujah!
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« 206 † He has broken every denominational veil, every sound barrier. That sound that says, “Oh, that’s fanaticism,” He broke right through that. The sound that come out of there, said, “Oh, them people are crazy,” He broke right through that veil. Yes, He did. “Oh, you can’t do it. You’re nothing but a bunch of fanatics.” He broke right through that. “No such a thing as Divine healing.” He broke right through that, oh, my, for His Word said He would. You can’t conquer the Word of God.
207 And there He stands, yet, tonight, the mighty Conqueror, since He broke every Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, every other kind of a veil. He still stands among His people, tonight, unconquered by traditions. Let people say what they want to, do what they want to, anything they want to. God comes, breaking right through that sound barrier.
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« 208 † And remember, they tell me, when a plane really breaks that sound barrier, there’s no limit to its speed.
209 I’m telling you, when you break that traditional barrier, that “Jesus is way back, and He isn’t now,” when you find He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, there’s no limit to what God could do right here in this convention, and show this world what they need: not a world’s fair, but a world revival that’ll be filled and baptized with the Presence of the living God, en morphe inveiling Himself into human flesh. Hallelujah! I believe it.
210 Broken every barrier, every veil, every veil! Nothing could hide His Presence. When people gets hungry in their heart, there’s a veil ready to be broke. You can just depend on that. Rent every veil, by His great Holy Spirit!
211 And here He stands, tonight, the mighty Conqueror, same yesterday, today and forever; healing the sick, baptizing the believers, just as He always did. He’s the mighty Conqueror. Doomed devils are on the run. Yes, sir. They always are, when He’s around.
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« 212 † Closing, I might say this. There was a… Read a story, many years ago, about an old violinist. He had an old violin they was going to sell. You’ve heard the story, many times. And they wanted to sell it for a certain thing. And the auctioneer said, “Who will give me so-and-so?” I believe he was offered a few coins, maybe fifty cents, or something. “Going once, going twice,…”
213 Directly, a man raised up in the back. He said, “Just a minute.” And he walked up and got it. Let’s think that he played this:
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
When sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
214 Then when he laid it down, there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. Then he said, “Who will offer?”
215 One said, “Five thousand. Ten thousand.” It was priceless. Why? The–the old master of the violin had revealed its true quality.
216 Oh, brother, sister, now let the Master of this Word, Who wrote It, the great Holy Spirit, rosin up His bow with love, and pull it across your heart.
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s vein.
217 You’ll see the full value, and see the unveiled God come right in view. That, He’s just the same as He was when He fell on the Day of Pentecost, upon the people, when He kenos’ed Hisself, “emptied” right into It. That’s right.
218 You say, “Brother Branham, I’ve tried. I’ve tried. I’ve done this, that, the other.”
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« 219 † One day I was having a meeting at Carlsbad, New Mexico. And we went down in this big old bat den down there. And it was kind of spooky-looking, and we got down there. And the–the man, when he got down there in this place, he–he snapped the lights off. And, oh, my, you can imagine how dark it was. It’s just… It’s so dark you could feel it.
220 And that’s just about the way the times are getting, when we see the church that fails to recognize God’s Word; when you see our daughters of Zion doing the way they’re doing; when you see our brothers that smokes and drinks, and–and tells dirty jokes and things, and still trying to hold their confession in Christ. Oh, my, it’s dark. It’s pitch dark.
221 We see the sign of His Coming. There’ll be… It’s always darkest just before day. Then the Morning Star comes out to hail the day, and to herald it, and show that it’s coming. Notice.
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« 222 † In there, when they turn that off, there’s a little girl just screamed to the top her voice. There was a little boy standing by the guide, and he seen that guide when he switched the lights off like that. And that little sister was just about to have a fit. She was screaming, jumping up-and-down. “Oh! What’s going to happen next? What’s the matter? What’s the matter?”
223 You know what he screamed? He said, “Don’t fear, little sister. There’s a man here who can turn on the lights.”
224 Listen, little sister, you might think we’re small and in minority. But, don’t fear. There’s a Man here Who can turn on the Lights. That’s the Holy Spirit. You believe it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]
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« 225 † Let us bow our heads just a moment. I’m sorry to have kept you.
226 O great God of Heaven, unveiling Yourself, unfolding Yourself, making Yourself known, the great King of Glory, take these little illustrations, tonight, and let them fall down at the hearts of the people. And may we see that unveiled One, that One Who came down and rent the veil of the temple; and then went right out of that veil, come right down into human veils again, on the Day of Pentecost; has ever been the same, changing from Glory to Glory.
227 And now we’re right back like all nature, acting, right back to the original Seed, right from one church age to another. And in this last age here, here we are, right back to the original Thing that fell on the Day of Pentecost, to fulfill every Scripture, “The Light in the evening time,” and, “The works that I do shall you also,” and so many things that You promised in Your Word.
228 Father, if there be one here who has never broke through that veil yet, or if there be one here who just impersonated someone who has went through the veil, give grace tonight, Father. May they see that mighty Conqueror standing here, full of grace and power, to forgive. Grant it, Father.
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« 229 † And while our heads are bowed, would there be some in here? How many, might I say, that would say, “Brother Branham, I’m lifting my hand. Pray for me”? Just keep your head bowed, and raise your hand, “I want to break through every veil, till I can really see the Conqueror.” God bless you. My, at the hands! Up in the balconies, to the right? God bless you. Balconies to the back? Raise… God bless you. Be real honest. To the left? Raise your hand, say, “Brother Branham, I might have been a Christian for years, but, really, I’ve never come through that veil. I’ve really never done it. I haven’t got That what they had then.” Today, we got… “I’m a hotbedded plant.”
230 Take a flower that’s raised in a hotbed, you have to baby it, pet it, spray it, water it. But that original plant that grows out there on the desert, same kind of a flower, looks like it; it don’t get a bit of water, but no bugs get on it. It’s rugged. It’s a real.
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« 231 † Could you compare Christianity with Christianity today, with what it was then? Could you imagine this group, what we call Christians today, across the world, being like those was after Pentecost; babied and patted, and from one church to another, and, say something you don’t like, get up and walk out? And, oh, could you imagine that? No. What is the matter? It’s a reproduction.
232 Michelangelo, that created the monument of Moses, you can get a reproduction of that, very cheap. But, the original?
233 The one who painted the Lord’s Supper, I guess that original painting would run into millions of dollars, if you could even buy it. I don’t even know where it’s at. But you can buy a cheap reproduction of it for about a dollar ninety-eight cents. You can.
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« 234 † And that’s the way it is today. A cheap Christian, a reproduction, just a church-joiner, you can buy them out for a cigarette or a–or a common drink. Or, for a women with cut hair or painted lips, you can buy her for anything in the fashions of the world. But you can’t touch that genuine.
235 I see Him in full view, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
236 Oh, Christian, don’t you want to be a real Christian? If there’s any didn’t raise your hands, will you do it? Well, I’m just going to pray. God bless you. God bless you. Oh, that’s just fine. Just look at that.
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« 237 † Our Heavenly Father, “Thy Word shall not return to Thee void.” You was the One made the promise. I’m only responsible for saying that You said It. I’m just repeating Your Words. You said, “He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life.” You promised it.
238 And, Lord, we know we have them reproductions today, many that say they believe, when, they don’t. It shows up. But, Lord, there is some genuine, too.
239 I pray that You’ll just grant, in here, tonight, that every man and woman, boy or girl, no matter what nation they are, what color they are, what church they belong to, O God, fill them. May they see the real manifestation of that same Jesus today, right among us, as He was at the Day of Pentecost, when He revealed Hisself for this age, being the Holy Ghost. Grant it, seeing the Words fulfill, the prophecies come to pass!
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« 240 † We compare, today, what’s called the church of the world, the World Council of Churches, and compare that with a promise on Pentecost? There is no comparison, at all. We cannot get our dirty clothes washed on that ticket.
241 But, Lord God, if we’ll come back to that Fountain, there’s a cleansing process, then our experience and God’s Word will match one another. Then, we can claim our possession. Grant it, Lord, tonight, as I commit these people in Your hands. Give to each one what we have need of, Father. We ask in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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« 242 † God bless you. Thank you, a lot, for standing, waiting a long time. And I’m sorry I kept you till ten minutes after ten. God be with you till I see you in the morning. I turn the service now to, I suppose, to the master of ceremony. `
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« 1 † ` Minister brothers, and you friends out there, I say it’s a privilege to be here this morning. Such an introduction as that, why, I don’t know how I’m ever going to live up to that one.
2 But just setting there talking, Brother Noel and I, I don’t believe I’ve ever met a person just exactly… We all are made in different molds, but by the same God. Like Brother Jack Moore, he’s certainly been… Brother Noel was just saying, “Since I’ve been here with him…” That’s his son-in-law, and how he had learned to love him and respect his wisdom and things. And that… I can say “amen” to that. The many fine thing… times that we’ve had together, he and I, and Brother Brown, Brother Boutliere here. Fine man of God that I really love them with all my heart.
3 And as I see we’re all not getting any younger, well, I just think of the time now that watching us as we change since about twenty years ago crossing the deserts, and so forth together as younger man. But just knowing that there is a Land where we’ll never get old. We’ll meet there again someday.
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« 4 † Last night when I was leaving the tabernacle, there was a little lady laying back there on a cot, and she said, “Brother Branham, years ago…” I think she had been paralyzed. She said, “You told me…” I forget what the woman’s remark was now, something like this, I hope that I don’t misquote it. Said, “That this affliction I had would be for a purpose,” or something, that she would have a baby. And she couldn’t understand how that would be done and her in that condition.
5 There stood a young, handsome-looking young man, he said, “I’m the baby that she had.” Said, “I’m the baby that she had.”
6 And so many things has happened along the road, we don’t even have time here to talk it over. We will on the other side.
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« 7 † And this Business Man’s chapter. I do not belong to any organization, I guess as you all know, but I… This is the only group that I’m connected with, pack a fellowship card, is… They are interdenominational, it’s just business man. They have been a great asset to me and to the type of ministry that the Lord our Father has given me. It’s… it wasn’t exactly that I don’t like the organization; it’s just a ministry that’s given to me, and if I am not loyal to that call, then I’ll be a disloyal person to God.
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« 8 † And, I’m thinking, just before I left Tucson, maybe many of you were there, one day I was in Los Angeles speaking to the chapter. And there was… I had just raked the organization maybe a little–little hard. I–I didn’t mean to be that way. If you mean that to be mean, then I’d be a hypocrite. You mustn’t do that, no, that’s just throw off on someone. But I had talked about a tree that I saw in Brother Sharrit’s yard. It had about five different kinds of fruit on it. And I said, “I never seen a tree like that in my life.” It was a… it had grapefruit, it had lemons, it had tangerine, tangelo, oranges, everything growing on the same tree. “Well, I say, I sure don’t get that. What kind of a tree is it?”
“It’s a orange tree.”
And I said, “Well, that grapefruit?”
Said, “Yeah.”
I–I said, “How could it?”
Said, “That’s grafted.”
And I said, “Oh, I see.”
9 He said, “They’re all of a citrus family, and any tree that’s of a citrus family be… can be grafted.”
10 I said, “I understand.” Then I started shouting just a little bit, you know, ’cause I am nervous and emotionally.
11 So, he said, “What’s the matter?”
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« 12 † And I said, “Well, I was just thinking of something.” And I said, “Now I want to ask you a question.” I said, “Now, next year when the blooms come on, there won’t be oranges, tangelos, grapefruits, lemons; there’ll all be oranges because it’s in a orange tree, won’t it?”
13 He said, “No, no. No, each branch bears of its own.”
14 Said, “I see.”
15 So that still was sounding real good, because I’m… you know I’ve… course I got a degree out of Hartford and all of these other universities, you know. No… So–so I’m… watch nature, that’s the best university that I’ve ever found yet, the Creator’s university. So as I watch that, I get my sermons from the way I see nature acting.
16 And I said, “Well, that just makes me feel real good.”
17 He said, “What’s the matter?”
18 I said, “I just thought of something.”
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« 19 † So, that day, I was preaching on that. And I said, “Now, you see, when the church first started out, it was… Jesus said…” I was preaching John 15. “‘I am the Vine, ye are the branches. And every branch that don’t bring forth fruit will be cut off, burnt.'”
20 And somebody just straddled my neck real hard on that, said, “You see, I thought if you was actually once filled with the Holy Ghost and saved, you said, ‘they couldn’t get away from it.'”
21 “That’s right.”
22 He said, “What about that?”
23 I said, “Now you’re talking on a different subject. He’s talking about fruit-bearing there, not the Vine; He’s talking about fruitbearing, and not the Life. He said, ‘Well, just cut the tree back so it will grow, bear fruit.'”
24 He said…
25 And I said, “Now, see, this tree, when it started out, was all genuine, Bible Christians. Then along come a branch called Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian: lemons and whatmore.” And I said, “You see, it thrives on the name of Christianity, but it… It’s living off of that Tree, but it’s bearing its own denominational kind. See? But” I said “if that orange tree ever puts out another limb itself, it’ll bear oranges like it did at the beginning.”
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« 26 † There happened to be, setting up there, a head of a great… one of our greatest Pentecostal organizations. I don’t know how to make it so that everybody will understand that it isn’t my idea that–that I’m–I’m against those brethren, sisters; that is wrong. I’m so misunderstood, and I don’t know why. See? People think I don’t even believe in people going to church. That’s a million miles from the Truth. “We must assemble ourselves together, and that much more as we see the day approaching.” See? We must come together in unity. We might not…
27 If I lived in a city and they had nothing there but a… well, some church (I don’t want to call any name), but just any church, if they only believed one thing, that Jesus was Divine, all the rest of it was wrong, I’d go to that church. If I can’t get a whole loaf of bread, I–I’ll take a slice. See? I’ll go listen, worship the, Lord, and show Him that I’m doing my part. I want Him to know I’m alive. I’m–I’m… want everybody to know what side I’m on. I assemble with the Christians, and there worship and–and serve the Lord.
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« 28 † But it’s so hard, I… used to bother me so bad, and then I found out even our Lord was misunderstood in so many things. He’d say anything, and they’d… be misunderstood. I guess it just has to be that way. But those who are wise will understand. See? The Bible said so. They’ll catch It.
29 So this morning while saying this… And I said, “Now, they–they live off of the name of Christianity, but they bear the wrong kind of fruit. It has a denominational fruit. They set a thing, and they’re living right off of it, and living off the very Life.”
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« 30 † It’s what I was trying to say last night, that spirit can be baptized into that Spirit and still not be a Christian. See? You’re living right off of the same Life, but the fruits you bear tells what you are. See? That’s right. See? They can do all the signs, and pray for the sick, and heal the sick, and open eyes, and cast out devils, and–and do all these things, living right off of the same Life that’s in there, but still it’s a lemon. See? That’s right. “The fruits, you’re known,” Jesus said. And so then we find out…
31 And when I got off the platform, this great leader raised up, he said, “You didn’t mean that,” he said, “we know that we’re all grafted in.” Well, that is true that we are grafted, stump grafted, that’s right; but not in the Vine, grafted. So then he said… begin to kinda–kinda slur me back a little bit.
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« 32 † And there was a young fellow there, I think it’s some movie star’s people. His name’s Danny Henry, and he was a Baptist boy. Well, he come to the platform to put his arms around me, and he said, “Brother Branham, I hope this don’t sound sacrilegious, but” said “I believe that could almost be the 23rd chapter of Revelation.”
33 And I said, “Thank you.”
34 And he started to say something else and he started speaking in tongues, a Baptist boy. And when he did, there was a–a woman from here in Louisiana, she was a Frenchman, kind of a big heavyset woman, she wrote down the interpretation.
35 Well, then there was another young fellow setting over here was a Frenchman, he wrote down what he said. They compared the notes, and they both was the same.
36 And then a big, light-headed boy standing way back in the back, at Clifton’s Cafeteria, come walking forth. He said, “Let me see those notes.”
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« 37 † I went to see what they was, and all three of them was the same for the interpretation. He was the interpreter for the U.N., French interpreter. And it said this:
Because thou has chosen this straight and narrow way, the harder way, you’ve done it at your own choosing.
But what a glorious decision you’ve made, because it’s MY WAY.
See? And said… and went ahead and said then:
This in itself is that which will bring to pass, and make and bring to pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.
38 You see, always, even in French, the verb before the adverb there in the–in the–in the interpretation. So in that I couldn’t say… Moses, he made his choice, he had to make his choice. We all have to make our choices and do the best that we can. And God… I respect any man’s message that he’s given about God. I… whatever it is, I respect that with all my heart.
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« 39 † Now, I see some young Brother come a while ago, Brother Stringer, I think from down in Louisiana… or Mississippi, brought us some pictures here that you seen us watching it. It was of the Angel of the Lord, when It appear. How many’s heard the story? I guess every one of you here’s heard it. You’ve had it on tape, and so forth.
40 Now, that was told me one morning at ten o’clock, standing in my room in Indiana. Told me I would be at Tucson, be early in the morning, I’d be picking a cocklebur (what we call there, a goat-header) off of my trouser leg. And seven Angels came and bursted this, and ground bursted and everything else, to… rocks rolled out of the mountains, and seven Angels stood there.
41 And I said, “Well…” I told my wife, and she’s somewhere present this morning, “You get everything ready ’cause no way a man could exist that,” I said, “come out of that. I’m going to Tucson, my work is finished here on earth. I’m going home to be with the Lord Jesus.”
42 “Well,” she said, “are you sure?”
43 I said, “Yes. Yeah, no one could–could stand that. There’s no way of doing it.”
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« 44 † I just preached The Seven Church Ages. That’s where I had called our gallant, little Brother Jack Moore to ask him about this, Jesus, in Revelation 1, standing there with white hair and everything.
45 I said, “He was a young Man.” And that’s where the revelation come about that being a wig on, and not Him; He’s wigged (and I couldn’t understand it), as being Supreme Deity. And the old judges used to in Israel, had to be white-headed. And the white stands for purity. And the English judges till this day, in supreme courts of England, put on a white wig when they come out, because there’s no other law above theirs on earth. See? And they’re supreme judge.
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« 46 † And I remember I went there in Arizona and everything, I was trying my best to… scared to death. I went to Phoenix meeting. Remember I preached the sermon, Sirs, What Time Is It? Remember that? I said that I seen that, I said, “Before it comes to pass, remember, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Something’s going to happen.'” You’ve probably got the tapes in your library of tape now. And there I said, “You remember now the visions that never fails. ‘Something’s going to happen.’ Remember!”
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« 47 † And a few days after that, I was getting nervous, and I thought, “What this? Am I going to die? If… I hope it’s quick so I can get over it. I don’t want to linger.”
48 And one morning the Lord said, “Go up in the top of Sabino Canyon.”
49 And I was up there holding up my hands, praying. I felt something strike my hand. It was a sword. Now, you can just imagine how you’d feel, standing there by yourself and here’s a knife in your hand about that long. I pulled it down and looked at it. It was just a knife, one of them… and I’m scared of a knife, anyhow. And it had a–it had a–a metal, something like one of these knifes, like pot metal or something, real sharp and narrow. Had a sheath around it here, where the dueler’s used to, to keep from cutting one another’s hands, and–and it had a pearl in the handle here. Just fit my hand exactly. Well, I rubbed my face and looked back.
Right on that same spot, the other day, I saw a little, white dove come down. I’ll tell you about that later on.
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« 50 † And I was holding that in my hand, I thought, “That’s strange. Now, Lord, I… am I losing my mind? There’s no one here. I’m miles from anybody and here is a sword. I had my hand up, and where did it come from?” And I thought, “That’s the strangest thing. Now looky here, it’s a sword; see, hit it, and it was a sword.” And I said, “There’s nobody here standing here. I’m up on top of these rocks, plumb on top of the mountain.” And you couldn’t even see Tucson from there, it was so far down.
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« 51 † I thought, “Now, that’s a strange thing. Now, it’s got to be in this vicinity somewhere, Somebody that could create and make a sword and put it in my hand.” And I said, “It could only be the very God that created a ram for Abraham, could create those squirrels,” that you’ve heard. And I said, “Here is the material, three different kinds of material in it, and I’m holding it in my hand just as real as anything else I could hold in my hand.”
52 And I heard a Voice, said, “That’s the King’s Sword!”
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« 53 † And I thought, “Now, where did That come from? Was right along there in them rocks somewhere.” And I held up my hand like that, and I said, “A king’s sword.” And I looked around, and the sword was gone. And I said, “A king’s sword.” That’s to… they knight with–with a sword, I think that’s right, the army or some way, they knight with it, you know. And I said, “Well, that’s what that was probably for. It means that maybe I’m to lay hands upon ministers, or something like, that, to make them ministers.” And then I…
54 A Voice spoke back again, said, “The King’s Sword!” Not a king; the King’s Sword! See?
55 I thought, “Now, I’m either beside myself, my mind has slipped, or there’s something taking place, there’s somebody standing around here by me.”
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« 56 † And brethren, these things are true. I don’t–I don’t know how to tell you, you’ve always seen it always happen like this. See? See? And it’s… I couldn’t understand it. So… It’s the strangest feeling.
57 Just then I thought, “Now, ever Who that is that’s talked to me all my life, since a little, bitty baby boy, is standing right here, and I can’t see Him at all.” I said, “The King’s Sword?” That would be… God is the King. “And what is this sword?”
58 “The Word, It’s been placed in your hand.” Said, “Don’t fear of death, it’s your ministry.”
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« 59 † Oh, my! Down off that mountain I went; crying, screaming, top of my voice, jumping over rocks. I went down, told my wife, I said, “I’m not going to die, see, it’s–it’s–it’s my ministry.” (I told her to get with Billy Paul here, and take the children. I said, “Now, I don’t have anything, but the church will see that you all don’t go hungry and things, and I’ll–I’ll meet you across the border.”) And–and she… I said, “No, I’m not going to die, it’s something about my ministry.”
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« 60 † A few days after that I was coming out from a meeting; had a three page telegram, was from over here at Houston, Texas. And that man that criticized me so bad the night that the Angel of the Lord was taken, the picture of It taken there at Houston, he called me up, he said… sent a telegram, the wife said, “I know, Brother Branham, you’re busy. My son, Ted Kipperman’s sister’s boy, is setting in the death row to die in the chair.” Said… (what if that was Billy Paul?). He said, “He and a little girl has got to die.” And you all read it in the paper, of course. And said, “Only hope we have is for you come and hold a meeting and get the people together.”
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« 61 † And Raymond Hoekstra had already wrote me several times, but you know, I had planned after that meeting to go on a hunting trip with Mr. McAnally and them. And I thought, “Well, if I let them kids die and don’t put my effort forth, I’ll never be able to go hunting again.”
62 So I said, “All right, I’ll come.” I come over to Houston, had the meeting, and course the… they never killed them, they just… they give them life. And that’s what they wanted them to do, just give them life. So that’s about twenty-one years, I guess, in–in Texas.
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« 63 † So then, and going back, I went up in the mountain and I went with Brother Fred Sothmann. He’s here somewhere. Brother Fred, where you at? Right here. Brother Fred Sothmann, Brother Gene Norman; one day, the second day setting there, the Angel of the Lord came right down into the camp where we was at, and begin to tell about their children and things they were doing.
64 I left and went back on the hill. And I had already got my javelina, and I was trying to chase one around to Brother Fred. So I found where they had been eating on the side of a hill, and I said, “Well, now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do, Brother Fred.” I said, “Now, you go over on that point in the morning.” We go up there at daylight, climb up over the mountain. “And go there at daylight, I’ll get over on the other side. Now, I won’t shoot one, but if they run this way, I’ll shoot in front of them and turn them back. And pick out a big one.”
65 “All right,” he said.
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« 66 † So Brother Fred went over there. And Brother Gene Norman (I don’t think Brother Gene come, did he?), he was–he was on the other side. Many of you know Gene Norman, a bosom friend of many, fine brother. And he went down a little below. Where, them pigs, they just wasn’t there that morning. And I could see Brother Fred, wave at him, he was about a mile away from me. Well, I thought, “Where could they have went?” I went down into a great ravine, and come down, I thought, “I’ll see if I can find where they’re at.” Started back up. It was just a little after daylight, the sun was just begin coming up.
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« 67 † And I went around a great big chasm, oh, my, hundreds and hundreds of feet, just great rocks in the great canyon there, them big walls. And it was kindly getting… the sun was raising up, about seven o’clock, I guess, or something like that. And I set down and I was looking around, I happened to look down on my trouser leg and there was that bull-header, burr. And I said, “You know, that seems strange. You know, the Angel of the Lord told me I’d be about forty miles northeast of Tucson, I’d be picking a bull-header off of my leg.” You remember it? Do you? Yes, sir. See? I said, “That’s strange.” I was holding it.
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« 68 † And just as I looked up, I seen about twenty hogs about five hundred yards from me, come out eating this little phyllary and laid down. I said, “Now, if I can just get Brother Fred and get him around to that point there, he’ll get his hog right there. But I know he’s about a mile or two from me now. So,” I said, “if I could cross over this little ridge without them seeing me, up by this little juniper tree there,” I said, “if I get around this side, there’s a deer trail comes down this side, I can run up there and get out of the way. And hang a little piece of paper here where I know which one of the fingers to go out on, on the canyon, and get Brother Fred there just in time.”
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« 69 † I throwed this little bull-header down, forgetting about That. And started across the hill real easy and looked back, they didn’t see me, and run down and hit this deer trail. I had a great big black hat on. I started running up through this canyon real fast, and it happened.
70 The whole earth shook, everywhere. Rocks that size rolled down, dust flying like that. And I looked, and standing before me stood seven Angels; just exactly the way it was. I felt like I was standing way up off the ground. First, I thought somebody had shot me, you know, with that black hat on; looked like a javelina hog, anyhow, you know they’re dark. I thought somebody had shot me, such a… right close. And I–I seen then what it was. Well, as soon as… I got my commission, and the Scripture, “The Seven Seals which is the seven mysteries.” See?
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« 71 † Someone said to me, said, “Now…” Oh, he said, “Well, now, someday the Lord probably (you seeing visions, Brother Branham) will reveal to you what these things are, we can all get closer to God and have more power than we get in speaking in tongues and things.”
72 I said, “It can’t be that way.”
73 Cause, see, I believe the Word to be the Truth. And the Bible said, “Whosoever shall add one word or take one Word from It.” It has to be in this Word. See? It’s the mysteries that the people’s overlooked. Well, right there is where come my Message of Serpent’s Seed and the true Belief of the security of the believer.
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« 74 † I’m not disgrading my Presbyterian brethren there, and some of you Baptist brethren on the way you have security. I’m not saying this to be different, but you didn’t have it just right. See? That’s right. See? But, I had it wrong, too. But when an Angel stands from Heaven and tells you, and here it is right in the Scripture, That’s true. See? That’s right. See, He always speaks exact with the Scripture.
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« 75 † In there I watched it until that circle went up, started sweeping up, and they turned into like a mystic light, like a fog. Just exactly the way… How many seen the picture of It that was taken in Houston? Nearly all. See? Well, that’s just the way this was. It turned into the same thing, It kept going higher and higher.
76 I was running and running, trying to find Brother Fred and them. After while, about a half hour later, I could see him way down, waving his hands; and Brother Gene coming, waving. They knowed something had happened. And so then I got with them. That’s Brother Fred setting right there.
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« 77 † As it went up, I didn’t know that the observatories and things, plumb into Mexico, was taking that picture. Life magazine packed it as It went up. And many of you… Here’s Life magazine packing the picture of It. A mysterious thing here, and they said they don’t know where it come from; it’s too high. It’s above all the spheres and everything else to be… It’s too high for fog, because it’s thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across after it got up that high. There’s not even humidity or nothing up there, you see.
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« 78 † And they thought of a plane; so they checked all the places, no planes up that day. See, they have to, on account of shaking windows and things. “There’s no planes up.” Here it is right here in the magazine, will tell you the same thing. And–and it went on and on. And today right in the…
79 Here it is in Science magazine, where, they can’t understand it, they don’t know what It is.
80 Tucson, at the university, a friend of mine went over the other day and was talking to them about it. Said, “We can’t understand what…”
81 I said, “Don’t say nothing, won’t do no good. ‘Cast not your pearls before swine.'” See? It’s to the Church, to the Elected, the called-out. See?
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« 82 † And then each one was coming, saying, “Brother Branham, I see your picture here. I see this. I…” You know how it is. But that–that long sweep as this brother has on here where it… Excuse me. [Brother Branham gets the photograph–Ed.] Here’s the way It started up, sweeping up. Actually this was on the right hand side. And you all remember I said, “The noted Angel was the one that talked to me, was on the right hand side,” even before it happened. You remember? His wings pointed back like that. That’s exactly the wings of that Angel as it went up. See, as it… So they started taking the pictures because it was so mysterious. But when the last picture, when It formed Itself into the skies and so forth, this is it as Look here packed it. You see how it rose up just as they begin to see it, you see. And there comes the–the real main and last picture, when it formed.
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« 83 † They don’t know where it come from or where it went, they don’t know yet. Science is completely stumped about it, don’t know what happened. But we know; “there shall be signs in the heaven above.” We know it. See? And He promised these things. See? And the only thing that this was permitted to be taken…
84 But I know we’re just home folks here this morning. If I ever impress you brethren or sisters as a know-it-all, please forgive me. I don’t mean to be that. I’m stand… setting here this morning talking before man who are scholars, man who are smart; I–I’m a illiterate, I can’t even pronounce my Scriptures right. I got a chapter to read this morning, I’m… was going to ask one of the brothers here to read it for me, ’cause I can’t even pronounce the names in it, First Chronicles 13, (if you will, Brother Jack, you can be hunting it up), for my subject. I–I can’t even pronounce those names, I’m letting him do it, ’cause he can pronounce them.
85 And I know I’m talking to smart man. But, brethren, these things are done that you might not look at my illiteracy, but believe that I’m telling you the Truth. It’s God telling you the Truth. That’s the Truth. See?
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« 86 † Now, and when I speak of denominations, I’m not meaning for you to be so cruel and… No, I don’t mean for you not to go to your church. Go to your church, what you’re supposed to do. But just don’t join up with them organizations, because one day I’ll be telling you and prove it by the Scripture, it is the mark of the beast. And you just remember, it’s the mark.
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« 87 † I’m preaching… I wouldn’t preach it in Brother Jack’s church, he’d tell me, “Go ahead and do it”; but I’m going to the tabernacle, it’ll be about four hours long. And my subject is, “The beast at the beginning and the beast at the end, through the trail of a serpent.” See? Takes about four hours. I got my Scriptures all laying out. The beast from the beginning, he was the beast at the Garden of Eden, he’s the beast at the end, and show that he’s a religious person and a denomination (that made the denomination); and come right through the trail of it, and prove it to you by the Scriptures that it is. I didn’t know that till the Holy Spirit give it to me the other day up there.
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« 88 † Now, in this, I was watching this one day, standing, and something said to me… looking at it, and I thought… Brother Hickerson, one of my trustees… or deacons at the church at Jeffersonville… If I don’t believe in going to church, why do I have churches? We had them all across the country, hooked up the other night, every two hundred square miles had one of my churches.
89 Now, this–this picture, I was standing, looking at it, and something… I was standing in my room. Something said, “Turn it to the right.” I listened.
90 I know that sounds like somebody’s a little mentally upset, but, you see, as I said the other night, all these great things are so scholarly… Now, I’m not against that. Remember, we have to have… Send your children to school and get education and so forth, but I’ll tell you right now, it won’t do them no good in the world that is to come, ’cause there’ll be another civilization. All this… so far above this. That civilization won’t even have any… it won’t have any schools in it, it won’t have any death in it, won’t be any sin in it. This has all that; no matter how much civilized we get, more and more death is added all the time. See? That one will be without death. But now we have to have school, we have to wear clothes, we…
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« 91 † I was going to speak this morning on Satan’s Eden (many of you’s got the tape of it), Satan’s Eden. He has made another garden of Eden, and six thousand years it’s taken him to make it, just like God did His at the beginning. God made His Eden, and Satan corrupted it. Now Satan’s made his own Eden, and God’s going to destroy it (that’s right) and put His own.
Something said to me, “Turn it right.”
I thought, “I think I’m looking at it right.”
Said, “Turn it right.” See?
92 I thought, “Maybe that Voice means turn it to the right.” And when I did, you see what it is: Hofmann’s Head of Christ, at thirty-three. Here, look in here, see His black beard, His face, His eyes, His nose, and everything else. See the part in His hair here coming up. And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig to show that the Message of Him being God is the Truth. He is the Supreme Judge of the universe, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. He is God, and nothing else but God. He is God expressed in human form called the Son of God, which the Son was the mask. And if that don’t make our Message exactly right: identified by the Scripture, identified in service, identified by His Presence, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore those Seven Seals are the Truth, brethren. Might disagree with them, but just set down and study with a open heart one time, just let the Holy Spirit lead you from…
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« 93 † Here, when Brother Jack… I called him before preaching this and talked to him one time about “What was this white wig?”
94 He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I declare it to be that it was in… was after His resurrection in His glorified body.” I was talking to Brother Jack. And there’s… I don’t know of anybody in the world that I’d rely on anymore of their teachings on theology and things as I would like Brother Jack Moore and Brother Vayle, and such man as–as that, real theologians that’s read all kinds of books and different angles from everything. Well, but, you see, even with that, and my bosom friend, I–I–I just couldn’t receive it, there was something there just wouldn’t take it.
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« 95 † And then when it come, this, then I see what it is. Here’s His dark beard. You see It, I guess. See? His dark beard and dark hair, His eyes, nose, everything, just perfectly, and even the part in His hair coming over on this side. He is God! See? And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. And this is Look magazine… or Life magazine. I think this is the… I forget what issue it is now; oh, May the seventeenth, 1963. That’s when it come out, if anybody wants the magazine. It’s the same picture that’s got Rockefeller and his–his wife on the back of it. And this is the new Science magazine that “it’s still a mystery.”
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« 96 † What did I say these things for? That it might give you a little view of the things that we’re trying to say, that God is identifying both in heavens and in earth to be right, these discernments, visions. We have plenty of impersonations, we always. But remember, before there can be a bogus dollar, there has to be a real dollar first; first has to be a real dollar, and then they’re made off of that. Just like we had a real Moses and a real Aaron, then we had a Jambres and Jannes after them. You see how it all comes? They see it and then they try to impersonate that, when there’s truly one original. That’s right. Not saying that to harm or to degrade, or misplace something, but just for Truth; to know that I…
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« 97 † I’m getting to be an old man, and I know my time ain’t too long. If Jesus, tarries, I may… could stay a little while; but I know that someday this heart’s going to make its last beat, and I’m entering into a great, dark chamber there called death. But when that comes, I don’t want anything to have to look back for, to try to repent for. I want, when I come to that time, to be clean and pure by the grace of God. I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, when I enter there, with this one thing in my mind: I know Him in the power of His resurrection; and when He calls, I’ll come out from among the dead and live with Him forever. And it’s my purpose here now to try to get every man… not to change your theologies or nothing, but to increase your faith in God’s promise of this day.
Now let us pray:
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« 98 † Dear God, we are a grateful people this morning, but yet, Lord, we’re living in a dark world that… There isn’t a one of us here this morning, Father, but what feels that we–we want a closer walk with You, we want that–that touch of You in our lives that can tender us and make us flexible so that You can change us at anytime, mold us into sons and daughters of God. That–that’s our purpose here, Father, that’s–that’s my only objective that I have is to try to–to live before You and to get Your Word and speak It back to the man and women that… not to be a different person but to try to honor Him who’s give me Life. Grant it, Lord.
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« 99 † May there not be a person here today… Or–or if… We’re hooked up this morning, across the nation, again. May there not be a person that’s in the sound of our voice ever have to go into that great chamber not knowing You in the power of Your resurrection. If there be sinners somewhere across the country, that… or in this building, this great auditorium, setting here this morning. If there are those who don’t know You, may this be the day that their conscience will be shook, woke up, and they’ll realize that they don’t know what minute that we may be called or summoned to answer for our lives, on High. And if our name is still on that stalk book, doomed we’ll be; but if it’s in the Lamb’s Book of Life, the real Life, then we are saved.
100 And may, Lord, as that Life travels from the blade into the pollen, into the shuck, then to the grain, while they’re passing through this morning if there be some Life that goes into the grain that’s laying back in that stalk, bring it out today, Lord, may it follow the moving of the grain, for we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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« 101 † Sorry to take so much time. I forgot about this even being on the radio time out there, the phone time.
102 Now let us turn for our reading. And Brother Jack, have you got your Bible there? While I’m finding my Scripture, I’ll ask Brother Jack to read this Scripture because I cannot pronounce these names. Sorry. All right, in First Chronicles 13…?… [Brother Jack Moore reads First Chronicles, the 13th Chapter:
And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
And let us bring again the Ark of our God to us: for we–we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave–drave the cart.
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
And when they came to the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, and because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before the Lord.
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place was called Perez-uzza to this day.
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed–Obed-edom in the house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.–Ed.]
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« 103 † Thank you, Brother Moore, for the reading of the Scripture for me. Now, sorry I couldn’t read that myself, but I–I couldn’t do it.
104 Now I want you to turn with me to Mark 7:7, and we’ll read the first seven verses of Saint Mark the 7th chapter.
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
And when he saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
But the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they’d washed their hands… eat oft not, holding–holding the traditions of the elders.
And when they came forth from the market, except they’d washed, they eat not. And many other things were–were they… which they have received of the… received to hold,… the washing of the cups, and of pots, and brass vessels, and of tables.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hand?
He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man.
Let us pray.
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« 105 † Dear God, honor Your Word now, and may It accomplish that which It is purposed for. Use us as instruments to speak It, and our ears to hear from You, and our hearts to receive It. We ask in Jesus’ Name, for the glory of God. Amen.
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« 106 † Now, my subject for a few moments is this… I…
107 We are on the national telephone hookup this morning. And I understand that my good friend, Roy Borders, is listening in, pretty well tore up about last night. I’d forgot that we were on the radio… or this hookup last night. Roy, wherever you are, if you’re over in San Jose in the church there, or either down to Brother McHughes’ church, or wherever you are, don’t fear, my brother, everything will be all right. Set still, you just… He’ll make it known to me, Roy; don’t worry, son, have faith in God.
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« 108 † My subject this morning is: Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will. Now, that’s a strange text, and I trust that the Lord will reveal this to us now. Remember, “Trying to do God a service without it being the will of God.” Now, that seems very strange. But, in this, maybe God can help us.
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« 109 † Another thing I’d like to say this morning, that we’re glad to have in our midst a friend of mine, a very dear friend, a young fellow. Many of you people on the radio now can… or the… on the telephone hookup, knows who this is. Today is his birthday, ninety-three years old, Brother Bill Dauch setting here before me, ninety-three years old.
110 Several years ago the doctor said, “He cannot live.” I just noticed him setting here now. Under oxygen tent, and his lovely wife called me and said, “Brother Branham, if you expect to see your old friend, Bill, alive, you better come at once.”
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« 111 † And I… One of my tires was cut on the side, my wheel had been knocked out, and I tore a tire off of my car trying to get to him. I was just coming from a–a–a station, filling station, and coming from the restroom where I had stopped in Ohio trying to get to him, and walking out I saw a vision. And there stood Brother Dauch, standing in the church with his hand out; it changed, and I seen you coming down the street and shook my hand. Said, “Go tell him, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD.'”
112 He was about ninety years old then. He had a heart attack with a heart block, and a complete heart failure. Very shrewd doctor. The man is not… he don’t want… No, I won’t say that. He’s just a man who can afford… get any doctor he’d want. He had a very fine Jewish doctor who met me in the hall and said, “There’s not a chance for him to live.”
113 And I went in and slipped my hand under the oxygen tent, I said, “Bill, can you hear me?” He nodded his head. I said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘You’re not going to die now.'”
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« 114 † A week from then, when I got in the pulpit to preach my Message, here come Brother Dauch walking up through the building. And when I went over to Furr’s Restaurant, across… I mean the Blue Boar, across in Louisville, here he was getting out of the car, coming down the street, holding his hand out; just exactly according to the Word of the Lord. And that’s three or four years ago; and here he sets all the way down here, in Shreveport (crosses the nation, not by plane now, by car) uh-huh, setting here this morning. “Happy birthday, Brother Dauch.” That’s from all across the nation, from everywhere. “God bless you!”
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« 115 † I baptized him, after being a trinitarian, I baptized him when he… was one of my first meetings, when Brother Banks Wood had to let him have his clothes (he’s a good-size man, as you see), and he went into the pool and I baptized him at about eighty-five or ninety years old, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. He said he never could feel right until he found that security of something. Then he received a birth-day where he’ll never grow old. That’s right, that great Land. He even is expecting to live to see the Coming of the Lord; it can be done. But if he would sleep, he… and we are awake at that time, he’ll come first. Right. So, Brother Dauch, there’s no way now to miss it. You’re exactly on the line. Stay there, my brother, and God bless you. And I thank the Lord for a good man like that, and for giving him all of these years.
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« 116 † In the Book of the Chronicles, “Trying to do God a service without it being His will.” God is sovereign, first, we want to understand that. The people today are wondering why we can’t have a revival. Do you believe God’s sovereign? See, the Bible speaks this way.
117 And we try… As I was discussing with a group of my fine brothers, Baptist brethren, not long ago, and they said, “Brother Branham, we can only have a revival when we take the Word, word by word, page by page, letter by letter.”
118 And I said, “I believe too, page by page.” He said… I said, “They’ve been trying to do that all along.”
119 He said, “But we must find the Greek interpretation of the Word, what the Greek says.”
120 I said, “I haven’t read too much, but reading the history of the church, and the Nicaea Council, and the pre-Nicaea Council, and Nicaea fathers, so forth, they were arguing back there about the Greek. That’s two thousand years ago. One said, ‘It means this,’ and one says, ‘It means that. The Greek word means this.'”
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« 121 † Just like our language; the word see. Use the word see, you could mean “a body of water, I understand,” or many things. Bored, “to be boring a hole, make a walk,” or–or “you bored me,” or “you paid my board,” or it could mean any… many things. And those little vowels, and so forth, just change the whole meaning. So you’ll never do it like that. God wrote It like that, because…
122 And all of the Word is inspired, and He said that, “I thank Thee, Father, that Thou has hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal” (amen) “to babes such as will learn.” It’s a revelation of Him, as I said last evening, “Will reveal It to babes.”
123 I said, “It won’t work, sir.” I said, “A revival will never come until God, the sovereign God, sends it; and then He might take up a little nitwit that can’t even sign his name, and do it with it, that knows not even good English let alone the Greek.”
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« 124 † That’s what He done in the time when Peter preached at Pentecost, you know, he couldn’t even sign his name, ignorant and unlearned. But God does things in such strange way to our intellectual thinking. That makes it God. If He’d got a bunch of theologians and dignitaries, and so forth, they’d said, “That smart Caiaphas, you see, he had it just right.” But God went down and got fishermen that couldn’t even sign their name, and that’s what He took. That’s God, He takes something that’s nothing and makes something out of it to His Own honor. He took a chaos and made a Eden. Uh-huh, it’s God.
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« 125 † Now, if there’s anybody got the mechanics for a revival, is our noble brother, Billy Graham. But the mechanics is all right, but the mechanics won’t move it, it takes the dynamics to move it. You can build an automobile, put fine seats in it, make fine pistons and–and prove by science what it can do; but unless the dynamics is there, she’s just a dead piece of goods.
126 So, in the Welsh revival, one of our late revivals before our Pentecostal, no one knowed what started the revival, just a bunch of people.
127 Now, when we get all… our friend, Billy Graham, will get all of the Presbyterians, and Lutherans, and Pentecostals, and everything together, go into the city and there they’ll have a great gathering together of thousands, and thirty thousand will come (in two weeks) and give their hearts to Christ; go back another two weeks and you ain’t got a one. See, that’s the mechanics. But let God in His sovereign grace just speak to some little nitwit, as so to say, a little nobody; let His Spirit fall into a city and man can’t go to work, women can’t wash dishes, the maid can’t make the bed, a-screaming and crying with their hands up in the air. That’s revival, that’s in the will of God.
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« 128 † It was said that some noblemen from the church went over to the Wales to understand, or figure out what all the mechanics was in the revival, during the Welsh revival. And when they got off the ship with their tall hats on, and their round collars; see him come down the street, a little policeman, swinging his club around and around like that, whistling; they said, “My good man, could you tell me where the Welsh revival is?”
129 He said, “Yes, my brethren, you’re standing in the middle of it!” Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. He said, “You understand, I am the Welsh revival,” said, “because the Welsh revival’s in me.”
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« 130 † That’s sovereign! That’s what God does, and He alone has a right to send a revival. Not get the mechanics together, it’s pray for God to send the dynamic–dynamic.
131 He only reveals His Word in the predestinated. Now, when I use the word predestinate… Now, it’s a bad word to use in public, especially when we have mixed crowds between the Arminians and the Calvinists. And not a… I’ve asked you not to think I know It all, but they’re both wrong according to the Scripture. Grace is what God did for me, works is what I do for Him. See? Then you’ve got It. If you climb out on either one of the limbs, you’ll sure find yourself out on the end of the limb and can’t get back. The Book of Ephesians pulls it together, I think.
132 Now, but the word, when I use it, predestinated, don’t think that I’m… that’s the only word I know how to–to make… It’s God’s foreknowledge, see, that He knowed. He–He can’t say… He–He died that all might be saved, He did, but by His foreknowledge He knowed who would and who would not. See? That’s what He knows, I don’t know it and you don’t know it, so we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.
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« 133 † Now, but God has His Word set, and has in all ages. His foreknowledge has caused Him to set in the church, and in the people, certain things that He did from the beginning. And then the Gospel that’s being preached to that age is only revealed to that certain people, the rest of them don’t see It. See? “Thank Thee, Father Thou has, hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal It to babes such as would learn.” See, that’s predestination. Not that He did it by, you say, “I’ll choose you, and don’t choose you.” By His foreknowledge, He knowed what you would do.
134 By Him being infinite… Do you believe He’s infinite? If He isn’t, He can’t be God. Then, you think, being infinite: He knew every flea that would ever be on the earth, how many times them fleas would bat their eyes, how much tallow was in each flea, every blade of grass it would ever set on; that’s infinite. We are finite, we stumble in darkness. God likened us to sheep, and we must have a leader. And that leader’s not man, that leader is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ among us. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more.” His physical being was raised up to the Throne of God, where the Spirit was on the Throne; now Christ is on the Throne, Jesus. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you to the end of the world, even in you.” The, Throne of God, of Christ, is erected into your heart; and He’s setting on God’s Throne, but in the Millennium He sets on His Own Throne; which, He swore that He’d raise up this Man, His Son, David’s Son, to set on His Throne.
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« 135 † Now, He reveals these things by His foreknowledge to those who He has ordained to these things, otherwise they don’t see It. Standing right there, looking right at It, and he can’t see It.
136 How many ever seen that picture of a cow in the bush, that you just have to look and look? Did you ever see that? Or, seen the picture of Christ in a bush, or in the sky, or clouds? See, that painter has got that so fixed up till you have to look at it just a certain way. Well, then, when you once see it, you can’t see nothing else but that. Every time you look, there it is. How many’s seen those pictures? Well, sure you have.
137 Well, that’s the way Christ is, Himself, the Gospel, the Message is. When you once see the Message of the hour, there’s nothing else you can see but That. That’s all. Everything else is gone, the rest of it’s just a filler, see, see, when you once see the Message!
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« 138 † That’s–was in Noah’s time. When Noah and his group… see how… When they saw the Message, nothing else mattered. When Moses’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When John’s group saw It, nothing else mattered. When Jesus’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When the apostles’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When Luther’s group saw It, Wesley’s group saw It, Pentecostal group saw It, nothing else mattered, they pulled away from everything. Why? By His foreknowledge He predestinated these things to happen.
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« 139 † He chooses His own person by His foreknowledge. Like He said in Romans 8 here, that Esau… that the–that the election of God might stand sure. That Esau and Jacob both borned of holy parents, twins, that His election might stand sure and true, He said, “I hate Esau, and love Jacob,” before either boy was borned. See? He knows what’s in man, He knowed it from the beginning what it was, therefore He can make everything work just exactly on clock time. We get all nervous and flusterated; you never seen Him flusterated, they don’t. See? Everything’s working all right, just exactly, the clock’s ticking.
140 These things that’s supposed to happen, all these women with short hair, and these man wearing their… like they got hair like their wives. I see them, absolutely, have these roller-curlers in their hair, curl it up here in front. What a perversion! That’s the results of Satan’s Eden. And like her, she’s trying to cut her hair like her husband. Her husband’s letting his hair grow like his wife. And she is wearing his clothes, and he’s wearing her underneath clothes. See, there you are. She’s getting masculine, and he’s getting feminish. See, it’s Satan’s Eden, contrary to what God made it at the beginning. That’s the Truth.
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« 141 † If I don’t get started, we’ll never get into this. But these things, and the way for Him to do it, and who will do it, that’s His Own chosen way, He chooses. That’s the way He wants it done.
142 As I heard Brother Pearry Green, our pastor at Tucson, preaching the other night about how that God made things some way (I forget what his text was), but he said, “That’s the way God likes it, that’s the way God does it.” Well, that’s right.
143 Now, who is it among us that’s going to tell Him, “He’s wrong”? Who would dare to stand up in God’s face, and say, “You’re wrong, Lord, You should do it the way I want it done, the way Dr. So-and-so said it should be done”? Who is that far gone in their mental faculties, to say a thing like that? No, you wouldn’t come out and say it, but you think it!
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« 144 † Like on my Message of the Antichrist, “There shall rise false christs.” Now, He didn’t say false Jesuses. See, nobody would stand still to be called “Jesus,” in the term of the Lord. But false christs means “the anointed.”
145 Oh, they, each one thinks they got anointing, “Glory to God, he can do this and do that!” But put him on the Word test and find out where he comes out at, see, on the Message of the hour.
146 They had anointing in the time of Jesus, but not on Him.
147 They had anointing in the time… Even Dathan had anointing in the time of Moses. He said, “Now, don’t you think you’re the only holy one among us, God’s got plenty. We’ll just start an organization here, a group of man.”
148 God said to Moses, “Separate yourself from him,” and He opened up the earth and swallowed them up. He had give His original Word to Moses, His prophet; that’s the only way He ever did do it, and the only way He ever will do it. He doesn’t change His plan, see.
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« 149 † So our ideas is wrong, His ideas are right, always. And don’t try to tell Him that He’s “wrong.” No matter who we think is best qualified, it isn’t us to say who’s best qualified. Now, there’s where you get in your organization.
150 Some little brother filled with the Spirit will go into a city and build up an organi-… build up a–a nice group of people, and at the conference they’ll meet, and all the holy brethren get along, you know, and say, “You know what? I believe little Jones here,” (he’s just a little pick among them) “I think he ought to have that nice big tabernacle, I think. Don’t you think that’s right?” No, my. There he goes. And then the congregation’s scattered. See? Separate these! God does the separating, He’s the one Who does it. But they all, each one, wants to take this little one, put him over here, and this one down here. That’s man’s idea.
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« 151 † Man has the keys, but God holds the keys actually. They give the disciples, the holy church, the keys; and watch the first time they used it, when Judas had felled by transgression. They got together and cast lots; and the holy brethren. Who would say they wasn’t holy brethren? Who say they wasn’t holy? But they cast lots, and it fell on Matthias. And when he… What did he ever do? Nothing. But Paul was the elected one! Amen. That was God’s choosing: a little, hook-nosed, sarcastic, high-tempered Jew. Not the Matthias, the D.D., you know, he–he was… But Paul, God chose Paul; the church chose–chose Matthias. See? You have no right to tell God He’s “wrong.” He knows what to do, He knows what the man’s made out of.
152 Who would ever… That church ever chose Paul? Oh, no, never. Said, “That guy’s the one that’s putting us all in jail.”
153 But God said, “I’ll show him what he’ll suffer for Me.” He know what.
154 All right, no matter who we think is right, God knows who’s best qualified because He knows the heart of man, He knows.
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« 155 † Nor does the revival, or does these things, happen at the time that we think they ought to happen. We think, “It’s this time right now, glory to God!” I notice in our chapters and so forth of the Business Man, “There’s coming right away, hallelujah, a great revival!”
156 Don’t be deceived, “He has already come, and they did to Him what was list.” See? But they think there’s a revival. Is it happening? No! It’s done, and dead, it’s over. Uh-huh. Notice, this is lamp-trimming time, coming out and going in. “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.”
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« 157 † Notice here in our text, notice David, king of Israel, he was the one who got the revelation of bringing the ark of God back to his place; that, they never consulted it in the days of Saul ’cause Saul had backslid. So they never consulted the ark at all, the covenant, in the days of Saul, ’cause he had backslid and got away from God. So David, quickly, with inspiration… Now notice this, it’s a very treacherous text if you don’t get it right. And I feel that the hour is coming where we should be man instead of babies. Uh-huh. We should have strong meat instead of milk.
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« 158 † Notice David, king of Israel, the king had just been freshly anointed the king; or elected king, Saul… Samuel anointed him by the will of God; and he was absolutely God’s chosen king, no doubt to it. And here he is, and inspiration strikes him. It was revealed to David. He got the revelation, nobody else had said nothing about it. “Let us go and fetch the, ark, ’cause that’s the will of God that we have the ark here with us, that we consult God by this ark.” Very, very gallant thing. Don’t you think so? All right.
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« 159 † Remember, but, him being king, and got the revelation, he overstepped his place. There was a prophet in the land by the name of Nathan, he was the one that was ordained to get the revelation. There’s anything to be spoke, He said, “The Lord doeth nothing until He reveals it to His servants the prophet.” But, you see, David being king, with the anointing upon him… Now, is that the Scripture? Anointing upon him, and got a true revelation; but it was wrong. Because Nathan was the prophet of that age, and the revelation never come to Nathan, and when the revelation come to David he never even consulted Nathan about it. He’s just going to go ahead and do what he wanted to do. Uh-huh.
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« 160 † But notice who David consulted here in the 13th chapter, “But he consulted the captains of thousands and of hundreds,” back to his congregation. See? “Now, don’t you think we should do…?” That isn’t it. Now, he was trying to do God a service, but he wasn’t ordained to do it; see, ’cause God had a way.
161 Just the same as God could have spoke to the–the king about his sore and getting well, but He didn’t, He had a ordained way of doing it, that was His prophet. So He spoke to the prophet, Isaiah, told him to go back and tell Hezekiah what would happen.
162 Now, Hezekiah was talking face to face with God, and–and God could talk to Hezekiah, of course, but He made certain channels! You understand it? God has His Own set way of doing things: sending revivals, talking, speaking, whatever it is. He has His way of doing it, and we are nobody to tell Him how to do it. He does it the way it pleases Him to do it.
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« 163 † So, you see, David, being inspired… Now, you remember I said the, anointing, the false anointing? Remember the Holy Spirit can come and anoint a person, and still it’s out of the will of God. Here, It proves it right here. See? We have to go through God’s way of doing it, not our ways, God’s way of doing it. Cause, David, being a king, anointed, anointed with the Spirit of God upon him (a type of Jesus Christ), but that wasn’t God’s channel.
164 When all the congregation, “it pleased them,” the Bible said. Notice, captains of thousands and of hundreds, also the priests and theologians thought that was “wonderful.” There is your Bible schools and everything else, they thought it was “wonderful.” Even all of the people agreed, and the priests, and–and all of them agreed that the king’s anointing was right. Notice! But God had not promised to reveal His Word in Its season to them. God had His way of revealing His Word, but not to them. Remember, it was contrary to God.
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« 165 † Something like in the days of Micaiah the son of Imla. Do you remember that story? Judah and Israel were separated, and they had two different kingdoms, and Ahab was the king over one kingdom. And Jehoshaphat was over the king–kingdom of Judah, I believe it was; and Ahab was over Israel, Jerusalem.
166 Notice, and then here come in a bunch of alien and took off part of the God-given land that God had give to Israel, and these Philistines up there, Syrians, were holding that ground and were feeding their own children off of the ground that belonged to Israel. And so they needed that ground to feed their own children and their own families. God gave them… That was their God-given rights.
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« 167 † And so Ahab calls down Jehoshaphat, and said, “Come down.” He said, “Looky there what our enemy’s doing. Is it right that we, the people of God, with a God-given right that we should have this land, it belongs to us, God through His prophet, Joshua, divided this land, it should be ours; it belongs to us, to our children, and here the communists has took it over, and we have… We’re so hungry, and they have got our God-given rights. Don’t you think that we should go up there and take our land back? If you’ll join your forces: if you Methodists, and Presbyterians, and all, and Presbyterians, and Lutheran, and so forth, all take the ecumenical council here now, we’ll all set together, and we’ll take the thing.” (I’m saying and speaking in a parable now) “We’ll go get it.”
168 “Why,” he said, “certainly, we’re all one.” Uh-huh.
169 Now, the Bible said, “How can two walk together except they be agreed?” See?
170 There where that great man, that great Pentecostal man, Jehoshaphat, got mixed up with the wrong crowd. And that’s what happened to our Pentecostals today. There’s some real man in there, but they’re mixed up in that denominational crowd. Get out of that thing! It’s cursed of the Lord!
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« 171 † Notice now! There he was, and he said, “Yes, that sounds reasonable.” Said, “Our chariots is yours, our people; after all, we’re all Jews.” Uh-huh. “Sure, we’ll go up with you.” But is just enough religion left in Jehoshaphat to say, “Don’t you think we–we should consult the Lord first?” See? “I think it’d be a good idea.”
172 Why, Ahab, “Of course.” Said, “Why, oh, sure, I should have thought of that.”
173 “Well, is there a man of God somewhere? Have you got a prophet?”
174 “Ah, I got four hundred of them. I got the whole council down here, the whole denomination. They’re Hebrew prophets.”
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« 175 † Now remember, the Bible said they were “prophets, Hebrew prophets,” not heathen prophets, Hebrew prophets; a school of them, a theological seminary.
176 “Well, bring them up!”
177 And the kings dressed themselves and set before him to impress the prophet. And here come, I believe it was Zedekiah come up, the great chief of the district councilmen, or ever what he was, come up there among them. He made hisself two big horns, he said, “I have heard from God. THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘With these horns you’ll push the Syrians plumb out of the land.'”
178 “O glory!” everybody thought that was wonderful, fine.
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« 179 † Watch how close it gets to that razor edge now, between right and wrong. And remember it’ll fall on one or the other sides, till it comes down sometime like a honed razor between the difference of right and wrong. It’s got to be every Word of God; not just almost every Word, but every Word! And it’s got down today, not to Lutherans, not to Methodists, not to Pentecostals, but to that honed age, in this age where the antichrist anointing is so perfectly, it would deceive the very Elected, they’ll fall on the wrong side if they don’t watch it, like a wedge. Watch! Be careful! We’re not living in a Pentecostal age now. We’re passed that age, just the same as it’s passed Lutheran, and passed… See?
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« 180 † Notice. Now the prophets all prophesied, four hundred of them, well fed, well fixed, Hebrew prophets gave them witness, one accord, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Go up, the Lord is with you.'”
181 Jehoshaphat said, “Well, that–that sounds all right. But,” said, “have you got another one?”
182 “Another one? We got the whole denomination here, we got the whole council gathered out here. Why do we need another one?”
183 He said, “Ah,” said, “I thought maybe there might be another one.”
184 He said, “Oh, yes, there is another one, but he don’t even belong to this council.” Uh-huh. “He’s an outcast. It’s Micaiah, the son of Imla, and I hate him.” See? Said, “They won’t receive him into fellowship, and he’s just a common outcast to begin with. And he’s constantly, everything he prophesies, he just won’t encourage my seminary a bit.” Uh-huh. “And he does all these things evil, he’s always prophesying evil against me, just to be different.”
185 “Oh,” Jehoshaphat said, “don’t let the king say such a thing as that. But I’d like to hear what this man’s got to say.”
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« 186 † Said, “Well, we’ll find him.” So they sent out somewhere in the wilderness, and they sent a man.
187 Said, told him, said, “Now, on your road back now, I want to tell you something. Do you want to get back in the denomination again?” See? “Do you want to have fellowship with all of them again? If you do, say the same thing the district presbyter says, say the same thing the bishop says, and they’ll bring you right back. Now is the time to do it.”
188 But could you imagine a anointed, true prophet of God compromising on one Word of God? No indeedy!
189 He said, “As the Lord lives, I’ll only say what God says!” We need a son of Imla. “As the Lord lives, I’ll only say what He says.” That’s right, “What He says.”
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« 190 † So when they got down there before the people, all the prophets, they said, “Now, you say they…
191 He said, “Wait, give me tonight, let me see what the Lord’s going to say.” So, that night, the Lord appeared to him in a vision and told him what to say.
192 The next morning he said, “What do you say, Imla?” when they was all standing out… I mean “Micaiah, son of Imla,” said, “what do you say now? We’re all here together, all of the priests, and all of the prophets, and all of the kings, and everything setting here together. What do you say now at this great council?”
193 Said, “Go on up,” said, “but I seen Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd.”
194 And Ahab said, “What did I tell you! That renegade can only prophesy evil against me!”
195 How could he say anything else when God was saying the same thing? A prophet’s supposed to be the mouth of God speaking, not his own thinking. His… You see, he’s com-… so completely yielded to God, he don’t want to hurt nothing, but he has to say what God says, ’cause he has no control of It hisself. See?
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« 196 † He said, “Now, didn’t I tell you?”
197 And then up come the–the big man with the horn, and smacked him in the mouth, he said, “Which a-way went the Spirit of God when It went out of me?” In other words, let me try to break that down, “Looky here in… Looky here, I want to tell you something, Micaiah. Do you realize that I am a master in the Scripture? Do you realize that I have the anointing?” Or, “the Baptism,” we’d say it today. “Do you realize that I have that?”
198 Imla said, “I’m not doubting that.”
199 He said, “But listen! The Spirit of God has told me, and bore witness with all my four hundred here, that we’re ‘going to push the Syrians out of the land.’ And who are you to come around and say that our great king is going to be slain?” He said, “The Spirit of God told me that.”
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« 200 † Let me just break it down so you’ll understand it. And maybe we find Micaiah say, “Last night in the vision, sir, I saw God setting upon a Throne. And I saw all the host of Heaven gathered around Him, uh-huh, and they were having a council in Heaven. They said, ‘Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab? Because under the Throne here is a prophet, a true prophet, his name is Elijah. And he has prophesied by My Word and said that “That wicked Ahab, because he slew Naboth, the dogs will lick the blood of that wicked man,” and we’ve got to make That come to pass because It’s already been spoken, It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD! It has to come to pass, got to be there. And how are we going to do it?'”
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« 201 † “Then down from the creeping regions of the lost, way down in there come a spirit moving up, he said, ‘I’m a deceiver, and if I can do a service to You, I’ll go down and get in his prophet.'” Because they was so organized, they’ll only understand one thing, and that’s a little emotions. “‘And I’ll cause them to prophesy a lie. And I’ll get Ahab to listen to those dignitaries instead of Your real prophet; ’cause he’ll examine everything he says with your Word, he’ll examine his visions by the Word, he’ll examine everything he does by the Word, and if it ain’t with the Word he wouldn’t listen to it. But if it… I can deceive these others, and I’ll… they… Ahab’s got so much confidence in that great unity together of their safety, so they go around together and they’ll get together. And I’ll cause Ahab to listen to them, go out there. And that’s how we’ll do it.'”
202 “God said, ‘You can do it, you’re a real deceiver; you go on down.'”
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« 203 † And then Zedekiah smacked him in the mouth, said, “Where was you…?”
204 He said, “You’ll find out when you’re setting in the inner cell.” Uh-huh.
205 He said, “Go up!” said Zedekiah to the king. Said, “Go up and return in peace!”
206 Ahab said, “Take that fellow and put him into the prison. Put him in shackles, feed him bread of sorrow and water of sorrow. And when I return back with my victory from out here, which my prophets has told me that ‘this revival is sure to happen,'” said, “I’ll tend to that fellow!”
207 Listen at Micaiah’s last words to that man: “If you return at all, then God never spoke to me.” Oh!
208 See, God has His way of doing things. These man thought they were doing God a service. Be careful! Not emotion, not enthusiasm, not imaginations, but it must be “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” must be right. All right, no matter… We find these things so.
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« 209 † Notice now when David had made this great proclamation, and it seemed like that it was good, a good thing to do. There we find out that the… (Am I tiring you? Am I too late to have another?) David made this great proclamation, he consulted not the prophet.
210 Now, anyone knows that Amos 3:7 says that God promised that He would never do nothing until first He revealed it to His prophet. Through the church ages we’ve had reformers; but promised by Malachi 4 that there would be a prophet in the land in the last days (because it has to fit that pattern, see) before the end time come.
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« 211 † Before Jesus come the first, Elijah come, Elijah of Malachi 3. Matthew 11 says so, “If you can understand it, this is who was spoken of, ‘Behold I send My–My messenger before Me.'” Now, He’s prophesied, all theologians believe that; that, in the last day, the Spirit of Elijah is to come, too. It has to come five times, God uses that Spirit: Elisha, Elijah, John the Baptist, and for the Gentile church, and then for the Jews in Revelation the 11th chapter. That’s, God’s g-r-a-c-e, f-a-i-t-h, Je-s-u-s, Jesus, the–the letter five. Can’t stop at four, it has to go to five. See? Notice!
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« 212 † Now, He promised that, so that sets the Bible just exactly to this day, and the Sodom and Gomorrah. And Elijah was not… That wasn’t Elijah; That was the Spirit of God on Elijah; Elijah was just a man. Now, we’ve had Elijahs, and Elijahs’ coats, and Elijahs’ mantles, and Elijahs’ everything. But the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Matthew the seventeen-… Luke 17:30, says the Son of man is to reveal Himself among His people. Not a man, God! But it’ll come through a prophet. Now, He never had two major prophets at the same time, never, in the world. See? No matter how much there’s… two–two heads can’t… It has to be one head. God has to get one man under His control. See? There’s one God; there was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but one God over it all, notice, and just used them offices. So has He with Elijah, the Spirit of Elijah; He used that Spirit, but the same God controlling It all the time to fulfill His Word.
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« 213 † Now, notice in this now, David thought he had everything in order. And he was inspired. See how the Holy Spirit can anoint a man? But it’s got to be in the order of the anointing. The outside spirit can be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and the soul as dark as pitch. The cocklebur grows on the same water that builds… puts life into the wheat, puts life into the cocklebur; but at the bottom of the cocklebur, it’s a cocklebur life. It’s rejoicing, and blooming, and got life, and doing everything that the wheat does, but the soul of it is cocklebur. See? False teachers can rise, teaching all kind of trinitarianism and everything else, and be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and perform just as many miracles as the true Gospel can. But by the Word here, that’s what does it. See what I mean? Now, it’s all right to teach this, I guess, I’m–I’m in a interdenominational tabernacle this morning, in–in this hotel here.
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« 214 † Notice, watch what we’re saying. Now, well, listen. David had all the emotion that the real revival had. Notice! They shouted, they screamed, they danced, they really got something out of that anointing. Sure did! All like a real revival, but, you notice, God was not in it. God was not in it. He had a prophet setting right there in the land that they ought to have knowed. See? David should have knowed that.
215 Same thing today, we got all the mechanics, like the great denominations, crusades of our time, but the result’s turning out the same as it was then; our results of our great crusades, and all of our big fine reason, our big buildings, and our big… building thousands, and adding members and things, it turns out the same way, all a flop. I’m not saying that to be different, I’m saying that to be honest before God Whose Book I’m standing by this morning. See? All turns out a flop, same results.
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« 216 † Now let us see what happened when God (in His time and age) and His prophets are not considered, just depend on theology, priests, denominationalism like we do today. Now, closely. It all gets messed up. If the true Spirit of God there, It’ll direct it into the Word; not just one place in the Word, the entire Word for the entire age. See?
217 The Day of Pentecost, the Spirit directed it right into That, to Joel 2:38. See? The day of Luther, It directed it right into That; Wesley; in this last pentecostal move; but this is another age, this is the calling out of the Bride. Not two thousand years ago at Pentecost, or the repeat, or the return. Pentecost…
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« 218 † The Holy Spirit was in Luther, the Holy Spirit was in Wesley; it’s God’s Word being anointed. And the Holy Spirit returned to the people of the age and they begin to have the restoration of the gifts. They found out, by yielding themself to God, the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues through them. They laid their hands on the sick, and they was recovered. They danced in the Spirit. See? That was the age of the reformation bringing the church back into order. And the last order of the church was placing the gifts into the church; like Luther placed justification, Wesley placed sanctification, Pentecost placed the gifts. But what did they do? The same mistake, as nature has patterned to the wheat stalk, they denominated (which is against God, contrary to God).
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« 219 † Now, we find out that when… Then when these stalk gathers comes together, they form their own idea. And no matter… When the “new issue,” as they call it, come forth out of the Assemblies of God, what did they do? They couldn’t receive It. No matter how much Truth it was, the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, they were already the General Council. Man had done took it over, the Spirit had done left them. Right! And then this come forth… I’ve talked to some of your best leaders; they say, “Well, what would we do now?” They would embarrass themselves. When they know it’s the Truth; if they don’t, they’re spiritually blind and ignorant to the Bible. Not saying that nasty, now, saying that reverently. Cause, there’s not a place in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized using those titles, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” And never was used till after the ecumenical council, the Roman Catholic church. Their own catechism witnesses the same thing. It’s a Catholic dogma! Not a Bible doctrine, but a Catholic dogma. And you Methodists brought out your catechisms and everything just like they had, just gradually growing out of it. And now when you come to Pentecost, and spread out some of those dogmas, you still held on to them.
220 But now is the Bride-calling, now is when the Seven Seals has been opened, now when the complete things that the reformers left has to be opened; and only Malachi 4 can do that, because it takes the revelation straight from God to an individual to do so. That’s right! It can’t come to a group, never did. One man! That’s what God promised in the shadows of the coming for His Bride, an Eliezer. See?
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« 221 † Notice when priests, ministers, and so forth, get their own inspiration, and truly anointed. David was anointed. The Bible said so. But, you see, he went through the wrong resource, he went to the wrong channel. He channeled his anointing on the wrong side, to the people and what they thought, to the captains, what they thought, instead of to God’s holy channel to find out what THUS SAITH THE LORD was, “Is this the time for this? Is this the season for this? Is this the will of God?”
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« 222 † Then if he’s a true prophet of God, he’ll go before God first, say, “Father, what is it?” like Nathan did later on to David.
David said, “Is it right for me to live in a house of cedar, and the ark of my God under tents out here?”
223 And look at Nathanael, said, “David, do all that’s in your heart, for God is with you. You’re a anointed vessel of God.”
224 But that being a prophet, and his mistake, and God’s duty bound to His prophet. That night He appeared to him, said, “Go tell My servant David, I admire his courage, I love him for this, ’cause he’s a man after My Own heart, and I know it’s time that My ark would be that way, put under something, but I just… It ain’t the season for it to happen. I’ll let his son do it, but I won’t let him do it.”
225 Then here come Nathan with, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, David, the great revelation you had is as wrong as it was when you brought the ark up.” (Uh-huh! Uh-huh! See?) “Don’t you do it. Don’t try it! But God said He’ll have ‘your son to do it.'” There! See? There you are!
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« 226 † David was anointed to say that because aforehand he could see it, just as Abraham sought for a City on the earth. You know, he was looking for It because he was going to live here someday, Abraham is, in that City. And he went around looking for It. And right on the same grounds where he looked, it was just above him then, and will return in the Millennium and he’ll live in that City. But being a prophet, he was ordained and inspired, he knowed there was a City somewhere, and he was looking for It. But, you see, the whole revelation of it was hid from him, it wasn’t for his age. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… on down to John, where he saw It coming down from God out of Heaven. That was the City.
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« 227 † See, everything has to be in its season. You plant your wheat in the spring and… or in the fall and cut it the next summer. See? It’s got to come up through the stalk, then come up through the tassel, and shuck, and on into the… It’s got to be in season. All nature runs in continuity. The Spirit of God made nature, and all God and nature in continuity. All the things that’s put in the temple was a pattern of what He saw in Heaven.
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« 228 † You see a tree struggling trying to live, that means there’s a tree that don’t die. You see a man struggling for life, it shows that there is a tabernacle waiting somewhere that don’t die. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved we have one already waiting.” The good Heavenly Father permitted me to walk behind that curtain one day and see it. How many heard the…?… See? Looking a-pass the curtain of time. There it was just the same as I’m preaching to you all, there they stood. Souls under the altar crying, “How long?” Not just a myth, somebody who had intelligence: “How long, Lord?” See? While we feel that now, as our age, like Brother Bill Dauch setting here at ninety-three. There’s something longing for that young man again. There’s something… You’d give anything. How I’d like to. Brother Jack, and all the rest of us. Go back, Brother Gerholtzer, in here, into that young manhood. What do you want to do it for? To be young and run around again? No, sir! Because we feel we’d have more time to glorify this God that we love.
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« 229 † And my dear brethren, I have this Message this morning, there is a Land beyond the river that they call that sweet forever. There we’ll glorify Him through the ages, and all the ages, and Eternity. Why do we feel that? Because the deep is calling to the deep. And as long as the deep’s a-calling, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that call or there wouldn’t be no call. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a creator first to create the creation, or there’s no… That shows the very evidence that there is.
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« 230 † Notice these priests, all out of line. Notice the anointing, all right, nothing wrong with the anointing. Same with you Pentecostals, but watch what channel you’re moving in now. The day has changed since Pentecost, something else for us. If there’d been no prophet in the land, perhaps David would’ve been right. That’s right. But there stood Nathan, vindicated, ordained, witnessed by God to be a prophet.
231 Watch! The ark in the Bible always is a type of the Word to us, because it was the Word of God in the ark. And was… Notice the ark that they brought up, look how they did it. It was not put in its original God-ordained position. Now, God said back here in the Law that it must… how it must be done, how this ark must be moved, and who it must be moved by. But David, under his anointing…
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« 232 † My brethren, don’t you miss this. And my sisters, you who want to be women preachers and so forth, don’t you miss this. No matter how much your anointing is, you’ve got to get in God’s provided position. David’s anointing was all right, but in doing it he got enthused and stepped over the boundary line. What did he do? He stepped over the boundary line. Instead of putting the ark in its original position, he carried it on a new cart and not over the hearts of the Levites. It was supposed to be carried on the shoulder of the Levites, which is over the heart. The Word is not in the mind, It’s in the heart! “Not on a new cart.” What was that? Some… Represented something new, David did there, spoke of every denomination there’d ever be. God’s Word is not to be by… carried by state presbyters or bishops, and so forth, of denominations. It’s the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in the heart of man, and not in some ecclesiastical move. The Holy Spirit is a treasure of God’s love in the heart of man and women to obey. See?
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« 233 † Was on the shoulders of His ministers, His ministers was the Levites. Put it up over their left shoulder and packed that ark like that, because it was up over their heart. They had the burden of the Word on their heart. Amen! Now you got the burden of your denomination on your heart, the burden of your congregation: whether you’re going to build this, or do that, or do something else. The burden of how many more you’re going to get to your denomination; instead of the burden of the Word of the Lord, till that people will see only the Word of God and nothing else. But you got It on a new cart now. See? They’re packing It up here in the ecumenical council even, shouldered. I don’t want to get critical, and may God help me, now. I just telling you the Truth.
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« 234 † Now, influenced by creeds and ecumenical councils, the Word, the real Word of the season of that age was ignored, because they had a lot of emotion. But David, the anointed king… He was king, but he was anointed king. You say, “I’m a minister, anointed.” Then stay a minister, don’t try to be a prophet. See? If you’re evangelist, stay evangelist.
235 Remember Uzziah, in the days of Isaiah, the young king… the young prophet. Uzziah was a great man, anointed man, God blessed him; blessed hisself. Yeah, I preached on that to you here one time. And one day he got so highly up till he thought he could just take the office of a priest, and he took the fire and went in before the Lord, and the… them priests told him, “Don’t do that, Uzziah!” But he got exalted. The prophet couldn’t tell him nothing. The priests knowed their order, they was keeping their order, he said, “That’s not your order, Uzziah. Don’t do, that!”
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« 236 † Well, he made them “Shut up!” And he went with the–with the fire, in to offer, take a priest’s job; he was anointed king, not a priest. And those priests was trying to tell him, “You’re a wonderful king, you’re anointed, God has blessed us now; but you’re a king, not a priest.”
237 And you pastors shouldn’t never tell a prophet what to do, or you evangelists tell a pastor. See, each one has his office if it is perfectly identified.
238 So he went in with the fire, and was stricken down with leprosy and died.
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« 239 † Now here’s David, king, David’s trying to do the same thing here. He’s taken it upon hisself. “Well, that’s fine, got to go. Looky, lots of people. What do you say, captain? You have ten thousand.”
240 “Glory to God, David, I feel the Spirit.” Oh, he did! He did feel It. “What do you think, David? Do you feel It?”
241 “Glory to God, It’s all over me! Let’s check it and see if it’s right, let’s see. Where does the ark belong?”
242 “With us! Belongs among us.”
243 “Who should we consult? Sure, the ark. Just the same thing as that ground belonged to–to Israel instead of the Philistines. That’s right. They belong to us. And as I feel the anointing, too.”
244 The captains of hundreds, all the congregation, “Glory to God!” They clapped, and they shouted, and they danced, and jumped up and down.
245 They had the Spirit, but what do you think Father was thinking? “How I’ve sent Nathan, that prophet down there! They know what to do, and so does David, but now he’s just all enthused and stepped right over his boundary line and went to do this.”
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« 246 † All right, notice, “carry It on the shoulders” was God’s original plan. There is five must’s. I want you to put these down, if you’re… I see you’re writing. (And it’s twenty minutes, twenty something minutes after ten, so I’ll try to be through by eleven, if possible. I’ll hurry just as quick as I can.) No matter how sincere a man may be in doing God a service, no matter how sincere, how much anointed, how much of a Presbyterian, Baptist, Pentecostal; no matter whether you’re a bishop, deacon, whatever you are, pastor, evangelist, prophet, whatever it might be; there’s five must’s that must be considered first. No matter how much anointing, how good it seemed, how the people shouting, everything the Spirit’s a-doing, there is a must.
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« 247 † Now, my brethren, while you’re getting your paper ready, can you understand now why? Now remember, you’ve all thought, and have been taught among you, not… (see, I’m speaking across the nation)… that I did not believe in speaking in tongues. I do believe in speaking in tongues, but you can still speak in tongues and not have the Holy Ghost. First Corinthians 13, says, “Though I speak with tongue of man and angels, I ain’t nothing yet.” See? That’s the anointing of the Holy Ghost, that has nothing to do with the soul inside you. You can speak in tongues and deny the Word. I’ve seen it done, and you see it too. See? A woman can preach the Gospel and… See? They can do all… They cut their hair, and still shout and speak in tongues and everything else. Uh-huh, that’s exactly right. You got to line up with the Truth of the Word.
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« 248 † Notice! No matter how sincere a man may be, no matter how great he’s used of God, no matter what he is, he must be this: must be… The thing that he’s speaking of must be timely by the Bible. Somebody say, “Well, Moses back there.” I know what Moses did, but that not what God’s doing today. “Well, back yonder, thirty years ago, Luther said…” That might be fine, but that’s not what He’s doing today. “Well, forty years ago, Pentecost fell.” But that’s not what He’s doing today. See? It must be timely.
249 It must be according to the Scripture. It must be in season, the second one. Thirdly, and it must be according to the way that God’s Word spoke it would be.
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« 250 † And you say, “Glory to God! The Holy Ghost fell on me, hallelujah, just like It did on the Day of Pentecost.” But that might be different today. It fell on David, too, didn’t it? Sure, It did. Fell on Uzziah, but it was wrong! See, you got to go deeper than that now. See? You got to go deeper than that. Now, don’t feel hurt, just–just be reverent. See?
251 And notice, and it also must come to the man of God’s choosing. Not a denominational choosing, none of the people’s choosing, but according to God’s choosing. And if it’s a message from God, of a great revelation from God, it must come to His prophet. Now, if you want the Scripture of that, it’s Amos 3:7. See? Now, it must.
252 There’s five things it must be: It must be in season. It must be at the time God said it would be. It must be written in the Word of God. It must be in the season of God’s time, see. And it must be by God’s choosing.
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« 253 † And God doesn’t need any of us to interpret His Word, God is His Own interpreter. He don’t need our seminaries. He don’t need our wisdom, it’s nonsense. See? Eve got that, uh-huh, and missed the Interpretation by her wisdom.
254 Say, “Oh, boy, that guy’s a smart man.” Well, that don’t mean a thing. Sure. Ahab was a smart man. Belteshazzar was a smart man. Satan was most cunning and crude, subtle, none of you could withstand him, none at all.
255 I don’t depend on… none… no wisdom, just depend on God. See? How is God? He is the Word. And then how does God interpret His Own Word? Listen close now, don’t miss these things. How does God interpret His Own Word? By making It come to pass, not just one here, but all of it for that season.
256 Not say, “Noah go out and preach,” the inspired, but, “Build an ark, put doors in it, fix it this way, and that way.” What if he put the door on top instead of the bottom? What if he put the window on the bottom, the door on top? See? It’s got to be instructed according to the time, because that’s exactly what God’s going to use it for. It must be that way, and it must come by inspiration.
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« 257 † I heard a guy say one time, said, “I believe that man prays for the sick, I believe it’s fine. But as being a prophet,” said “I believe he’s God’s prophet; but as a teacher, why, he’s a ‘Jesus only.'” What a… What kind of a person would you call that? A man doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
258 The very word prophet means that “he is a revealer of the Word of God,” the Interpretation only comes to that. And that’s why today we’re in such a need of this great person that’s supposed to be sent to us in the form of the prophet Elijah, because it’ll be the revelation of God made known to us by vindication, showing that it’s the day and the hour and the season that God promised it to be in. And, remember, he’ll be spoken against; always has been, always will be. Rejected, just like the shuck will pull… First he’ll be accepted, because the shuck only holds the wheat until it’s able to get forth to the sun. Pentecost will only sheltered the Message, give It an open door until It gets scattered, and then the shuck will pull away, and the wheat will lay in the Presence of the Son, see, to ripen.
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« 259 † There won’t be any denomination, you just remember. Brother Jack here’s a historian, many of you here are. There’s never been a revival but about three years after the revival they started a denomination on it. Is that right? And this last great miracle move of God in this last days, it’s went twenty years; and it’s a million miles from a denomination, going further away all the time; the shuck’s pulling away, no cooperation, no nothing with It. See? Always it pulls away from It. There can’t be no more, it’s a wheat now. But we’re plenty green. Uh-huh. That’s right. Have to lay in the Presence of the Son to be mellowed up, that’s all of it. Plenty green; we haven’t got the sincerity, the sacredness, the thing we ought to have in our midst, to know that the Spirit of the living God, moving in His Word and showing us the things yet.
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« 260 † We have false impersonators rise up. What’s that to do? To deceive. The Bible said they would. “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so, will these in the last days.” See? They do the same thing, come right along impersonating It, just exactly. See? Be careful! Watch the Doctrine of the Bible. Watch the message that follows them signs! Still the same old school of message? Forget it!
261 God sent the miracles and signs to attract attention of His people. When Jesus come just healing the sick and so forth, so did the prophets. They thought, “Oh, glory, He’s a-coming, He’s going to be a Pharisee. He’s going to be a Sadducee.”
262 But He said, “You generation of serpents and vipers.” Said, “You’re of your father the Devil, his works you’ll do.” Said, “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, there’s no Life in you.” He didn’t explain It. He didn’t have to explain It. Hallelujah. That was for another season. Uh-huh. He just said what He had to say, “I always do that what is pleasing to the Father, and that’s keeping His Word. If I don’t, My life and My works don’t compare with His Word I’m supposed to do, then don’t believe Me, I’m not Him; but if it does, then believe the works if you can’t believe Me,” He said.
263 Notice now these must’s that must be done.
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« 264 † Now, see, God had not revealed the thing to them by His provided way, He had revealed it by inspiration, but it was in the wrong channel. See, inspiration will go fine, but if it’s in the wrong channel, it’ll be channeled wrong. Like you take a bullet and shoot it directly to a target, it’s making its way right to the target, but a puff of wind can blow it out. Now, in your automobile, you go down the road sixty, seventy miles an hour and a puff of wind blows you, you can straighten your wheels back up, throw it back on the road again. But you can’t a bullet; ain’t nothing there to straighten its wheels up, it misses the target. See, it must travel in its original channel.
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« 265 † So must the Word of God travel in Its original channel. No little puff of wind’s going to blow It off; no little denomination, or nothing, is going to blow It off; no little persecution’s going to blow It off: It’s directed to the point! It’s going to hit there, too. And then God… When It hits that point, God will vindicate It, “Bull’s-eye!” Uh-huh, exactly what He said He’ll do. Here it is in the Scriptures, this, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘It shall come to pass!'” Here it is. See? There you are.
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« 266 † Now, God had not revealed it in His provided way. So they went about to do it apart from His Word, and apart from the season, just the same as they have now. When man, no matter how sincere, trying to do Him a service outside of His provided way, they always mess it up. Like Balaam, Balaam thought he was doing God a service.
267 Do you think God lies? Does God ever change His mind? Well, people act today like He did. When He said for women not to cut their hair; they say, “We can cut it, Dr. So-and-so said we could. Brother So-and-so said you’re just too narrow-minded.” Uh-huh, uh-huh. See?
268 “Well, can this happen? This happen?”
269 “Yeah, uh-huh, So-and-so said so.”
270 God don’t change His mind.
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« 271 † Do you believe Balaam was a prophet? The Bible said he was. Do you believe he was a prophet? Now, remember, Balak come to him and said, “Go down and curse this people, for they’re all over the face of the earth. They’re not even a denomination, not a nation, they’re just a scattered bunch; and we are the dignitaries of the land. Now you go down there and curse them people, and I’ll pay you for it.”
272 And Balaam done exactly what a prophet should do, he said, “I’ll not go. You just wait here, overnight, let me see what God says do.”
273 So he went in, he said, “Lord, there’s some people out here with me that come, wanted me go down and curse some other people down there.” Said, “What do You want me to do about it?”
274 God said, “Don’t you go, for them’s My people!”
275 Balaam went out, said, “Go on back to your house. I can’t go with you, God told me not to do it.” Now, there’s God’s original Word: “Don’t go!”
276 Well, then they went back, said, “You know, your bishop wouldn’t listen.”
277 “Well,” the king said, “tell you what we do. He needs a little money, I believe that could persuade him. Or maybe I’ll make him state presbyter, maybe I’ll get him some great something to do. I’ll might make him the bishop, you can’t tell what I might do. Here, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You fellows ain’t got enough education to persuade him anyhow; your his and hain’ts, and tote and fetch and carry, ain’t right. He wouldn’t listen to you, we’ll send a real educated bunch down, more dignitary.”
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« 278 † They went down there, said, “Doctor Balaam, Doctor Balaam, greetings to you. I bring you salutations from the king.”
279 “Morning, brethren.” See?
280 “Now, Doctor Balaam…” And, oh, the vocabulary, how it was really poured on. And said, “Now, the king has said that he will exalt you, and he will also give you great honor. And, you know, they only offered you so much money to take this charge, but the king says he’ll triple it, quad-triple it, if you’ll just come to take it.” Then, Balaam, got itching hands. He got foolish ideas and he stirred his mind.
281 Now, remember, he called God by it, anointed, but he stirred God right away from the original plan. And that’s exactly what Pentecost has done! To be popular, you Oneness, you Trinity, for popularity you denominated to be different, you organized and you’re dead! You’ll never rise again. But, you see, you ought to have stayed with God’s orig-… He pulled you out of that Assembly to make you a people, but you organized and went right back into the same puke you come (excuse me) out of, the same stuff you come out of, “As a dog goes to its vomit and a hog to its wallow.” I’m sorry I said that, forgive me, that’s not right for the platform here. See? I just said that in the flesh. Notice now that that’s what I mean, to vomit. I should have said it like that. The word was all right, but just misused. See? It was used all right, but just a missound, uh-huh…?… Vomit, “As a dog returns to its vomit.”
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« 282 † If the Assemblies of God, the General Council, organized Pentecost at the first place and got them into that so they could not accept the revelation, don’t you know, Oneness, you done the same thing. How could you receive a Message of “serpent’s seed, Eternal security,” and these other things that’s come forth? You’re so tightly organized till you won’t even let It in your door, uh-huh, uh-huh, same thing Balaam did. But God didn’t change His mind.
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« 283 † So Balaam went over and said, “Lord, now look, I really got an opportunity now to be somebody. You know I been a nobody, but I got a opportunity to be somebody. What do You say about it now, Lord?” Now, he should never have said that! He knowed exactly what God said do!
284 So do every one of you that’s baptized in the name of the “Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” on these other issues of the Bible that’s supposed to be in this day, you know what to do about It, is accept It! When you see God plainly vindicate “It’s the Truth,” that’s God interpreting His Own Word. But will you do it? No, your organization won’t let you do it!
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« 285 † Many of the ministers there in Tucson that’s listening in this morning. Brother Gilmore, I have nothing against you; Brother Brock, First Assembly, and Friendly church. You man, I was there all that time, you wouldn’t even let me come in. I… Sure, you couldn’t, you can’t and remain what you are. You can’t accept revelation, ’cause you’re denominated. And listen, just as Uzziah was killed because he was under that false inspiration, so is many true Christians losing their experience back in those old dead denominations, because they’re putting their hand on the Ark when they’re not ordained to do so. Now you can believe It, or not believe It, that’s up to you. God’s your Judge. God never did take back His Word. What He said the first time, He says for every time.
286 He told Balaam, “Don’t you go!”
287 And then Balaam come back, said, “But Lord, could I go?”
288 Now look! God said, “Go on!” Now, He give him permission to go. There is a permissive will of God, and not the original will of God. You see what a trouble he got into?
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« 289 † And any man that builds anything, any organization, or anything outside of upon the Word of God, it’s shaking sands and will fall! It’ll die as sure as anything, because the Word of God is a growing Body of the Bride. You can’t have it all foot, all arm, all thigh. These things come in their season.
290 And Pentecost, you made it all one thing, therefore you can’t accept new revelation. That’s the reason you stay right where you’re at and die; moves on. (So much, don’t want to wear you out.) But God doesn’t change His mind, His first decision is exactly right. So God doesn’t change His mind, He just let you go on in your permissive will. “God’s a good God,” as Oral Roberts says. He’s also a fearful God!
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« 291 † Look, just like you say, “Glory to God, I want to speak with tongues!”He’ll let you do it, but that ain’t no sign you got the Holy Ghost.
292 Remember what Thomas said, the old doubter? “Unless I have some evidence, got to stick my fingers in His nails, His hands, and in His side, I–I–I–I won’t even believe It.” Now, there you are, the same thing.
293 Jesus said, “Here you are, Thomas, stick your hands in here then if that’s what you want to know.” See? See? Now, if you want the Thomas route, go ahead. But what did He say? “How much greater is their reward who has never seen and yet believe.” Uh-huh.
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« 294 † Notice, notice, by doing this, he caused the death of sincere man; putting his hand on the ark when he shouldn’t have done it. A great, sincere man, think the anointing and everything was just right, but the ark was moving in it’s wrong way. “The oxen,” the Bible said, “stumbled,” not the Levites. The oxen stumbled and the cart was being pitched over; and a sincere man, with his heart full of love, put his hand upon the ark to hold it back, and was stricken dead because no man could touch that ark but a Levite. See how God keeps His Word, keeps His channel, keeps His order? Uzziah was smitten with leprosy. Here is David, altogether caused the death of a man, and a great disaster; being anointed with the Spirit, both of them, but out of God’s channel. Is that right? He died. Oh, it scared David to death, it called the–the name of the place, as Brother Jack read it. See? He marked him there.
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« 295 † How many times denominations has done the same thing to sincere believers. The Catholic church, the Methodist, the Baptist, Church of Christ, even the Pentecostals, has caused a-many spiritual death with that same thing. When It come, with these things, they found… and they can’t go no further, because that’s what their denomination believes.
296 Look today, the big crusades, same thing. They don’t do nothing but make them more a “twofold child of hell, worse than they was in the first place.” Makes them harder, really, come to the Truth. Have one of these big revivals, and all of them come in, carry on a little while, and go back out and they start all this sin again. Hear of another revival, say, “Ah, I had so much stuff; I tried it, there’s nothing to it.” See? They don’t know the channel. Don’t see.
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« 297 † I heard our great evangelist Billy Graham, set one morning at a breakfast like this, and he said, “I…” Here, he puts up the Bible, in Louisville, Kentucky, said, “There is God’s example.” And that’s true, the man said the truth. He said, “You go… Paul went into a city and had one convert, come back a year from then had thirty out of that convert.” Said, “But I go into a city and have thirty thousand converts, and come back in six months and can’t find thirty.” He said, “You know what’s a matter?” Said, “You lazy preachers,” said “you set around with your foot upon the desk and–and call these people by phone instead of visiting them after supper and talking to them.”
298 Oh, my heart was burning. I thought, “O great man of God, I hate to disagree with you here, but who was the lazy preachers on Paul’s one convert? What he done, he took him into the Word, he took him into the Message, he took him to where he found God; his heart was on fire, he set the country afire! And only thing you do is put them in a Baptist or Methodist church, or something, no wonder there’s nothing to burn.” Uh-huh. Yes, sir!
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« 299 † Then look what the Word has promised for today. Let’s find out whether it’s Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, or what, for today. Now you can go to read your Scriptures. Take these Scriptures I’ve been quoting to you. Also Revelation…
300 If I had time, I’d read it, but I just haven’t. I got about twelve or fourteen more minutes. I got to close on time, at eleven, if I get out right.
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« 301 † Notice Malachi 4, Revelation 10, Seven Seals. Didn’t the Bible say… Now watch! There was a Angel, a Messenger from above; and a earthly messenger. And each messenger was for the age of the church. He said, “In the days…” speaking now, “there came a angel, messenger” (word angel, English word means “messenger”). “… came down from Heaven, and He put His foot on the land and sea, and swore by Him that lives forever that time shall be no more.” Is that right? A rainbow around His head, and all these things just taking place. That Angel was Christ! Certainly! But what did He say? “But in the days of the seventh angel, the seventh church age.”
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« 302 † Always it’s right at the end of the church age where they got the thing so… the ecclesiastic so messed up until God sends a messenger, and that’s the Message to that church age. Then they take his message, ’cause he just lives a little while, and God… then they take his message instead of carrying it on with the rest of It, they make a–a denomination. And then they come make another denomination; another messenger, take another one.
303 You all seen in my book, it’ll all be drawed out in The Seven Church Ages, which He told me; which I stand by as a witness to God to be judged at the day of Judgment for It. It come from God, not from my thinking. Notice, here. I thought–I thought different from that, if I was going to have my own thought. Like Brother Jack told me about the Angel there, how that “That Christ was a glorified body.” But it wasn’t, it was showing that the Message being right, the Supreme Deity, He was God. See? Just the very thing I had been preaching from the Word. The Word always bears record of the Word.
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« 304 † Now, quickly now, as we are fixing to close in a few moments.
305 Now, He said, “In the days of the Message of the seventh angel, the earthly angel, seventh church age, then all these mysteries that’s been lost back through these other six church ages should be revealed right then.” Well, that’s exactly what those Angels said. Here is the Seven Seals, or the opening of these mysteries. And you try to get It before those denominations. Contrary to what they… Brother, they close up like a clam, but they’ve always done it. But it’s season!
306 How many knows that this is the seventh church age? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] The Laodicean Age, a lukewarm that God spues out of His mouth. And they spue God out of their mouth; there’s not another age in the Bible where Jesus was found on the outside trying to knock, get back in. They put Him out, no cooperation. Who is Jesus? The Word! The Word was put out. The husks throwed out the wheat! He said, “I stand at the door and knock, and any man in them shackles out there will hear My Voice.” O God, have mercy!
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« 307 † It was at then, when that man died, that David with the anointing saw what he had done wrong. O David, you pastor, can’t you see your dead creeds and denominations you’re holding on to? Can’t you see what it’s doing? It’s killing a Uzziah. Spiritually dead, and you wonder why there ain’t no revival; letting your women cut their hair, paint their face, wear shorts; send your boys away to ricky schools, and so forth like that, where half of them comes home homosexuals, and everything.
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« 308 † Notice David’s objective: he was bringing the ark to his own house. That wasn’t the capitol, that wasn’t the place, it belonged in Jerusalem. But David was bringing it to his own house, he wanted the revival to be on his own denomination. “Oh, if you’re Assembly, all right. If you’re Oneness, all right. If you’re Pentecostal, okay.”
309 Like somebody said, said, “Brother Branham, how you ever have anybody to listen to you?” Said, “I can see Billy Graham, he’s got every denomination in the country with him. I can see Oral Roberts, every Pentecostal hangs right to him. But,” said “you’re against the whole thing.” Uh-huh. Said, “How in the world do you ever get anybody?”
310 I said, “It’s God!”
311 “I the Lord hath planted it before the foundation of the world. I’ll water it day and night unless some of them should pluck it from My hand,” Isaiah. “I’ll water, I planted it. I put their names on the Book before the foundation of the world, by predestination. I’ll water it, just keep on moving. I’ll furnish the water, you just spray It out.” Right. See? “I’ll water it day and night unless one of them gets plucked out of My hand.” There you are.
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« 312 † Want It come to the city of David, the city of Jerusalem. There was no place ready for it at that time, and so is it today. These great mysteries that’s been unfolded by the Seven Seals, there’s not a place in any denomination… would have to quit being a denomination to take It. All the way from Luther on down to the Pentecostal Oneness, there’s not a place can receive It. Neither can a man receive It and stay in his denomination. He’ll have to follow the wheat or go with the shuck, either one he wants to.
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« 313 † Christ is our Ark, the Word. They want their denomination. He cannot, notice, cannot be carried on the new carts of the denominations, His Message cannot go on the cart of a new denomination when It’s supposed to be bore and come on the heart of a prophet. It cannot. He promised it, It would be thus, and that’s the way It must be.
314 So the denomination will never receive It, neither can they receive It. And they’re just as blinded to It as the Jews was when they hung Jesus to the cross, when Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t even know what they’re doing.” Don’t despise them, but just think: for what if you was in that same condition with your eyes so blind that you can’t wake up and see what’s going on?
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« 315 † Neither could they see that That was their very God. When He was hanging there on the cross, and them singing the 22nd Psalm in the temple, two hundred yards away, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? They pierced My feet and My hands.” See? “All My bones, they stare at Me. Why has Thou forsaken Me?” And there, the very God that they had sung about, blind enough to have Him tacked to the cross, and didn’t know it.
316 Now, don’t the Bible say that the Laodicean church, that thinks that she’s so great by her denominational members, she’d be “naked, miserable, poor, blind, and don’t know it”? What does the blind mean? The blind means for this Laodicean church like it did the ending of the Jewish church, blind to the very Christ that they had on the outside, knocking, trying to get in; “naked, miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don’t know it.” O God of mercy!
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« 317 † Why can’t the wheat lay out in the Presence of that Son yonder, to see the hour we’re living in? Yes, Christ is our Ark, but His original way to do it. Then here He is… They had His Spirit all right, we know that. They wait upon the Lord, see His plan on His original Word in Its season to be vindicated, that’s what we should be doing right now. And He–He reveals their faith by His Word, seeing Him confirm every plan that He promised, not man’s schemes of denomination, not making members for our own ark.
318 They got a Methodist ark, a Baptist ark, a Presbyterian ark, everybody’s going into this ark for the great tribulation coming; “Glory to God! I was baptized in the Methodist ark, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal ark.” There’s only one Ark, that’s Jesus Christ, and He is the Word!
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« 319 † Notice, God told the prophet, said, “Eat the scroll,” in the Old Testament. The prophet of the New Testament, He said, “Eat the little book.” Why? That the prophet and the Word would be one! See? That’s the Ark, the Word of God.
320 God has promised His Word, how It would be fulfilled and how It would come to pass when He chose His Bride, how it would be done. It’s happening right before you, in the Name of the Lord, and that’s by the original Word! The evening-time Message is here.
321 How many remembers Haywood when he wrote:
It shall be Light about the evening time,
The path to Glory you will surely find.
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« 322 † Yes, the evening promise of the Seven Seals, of Revelation 10, Malachi 4, Luke 30 and 10. Read Deuteronomy 4, 4: 1 and 4, then 25th and 26th verse, and see what He said about for this last day. This was Moses saying to Israel to “Keep every Word, don’t you add one thing!” Moses, that prophet had been up there and seen that Word of God. And It was wrote out to him and a-vindicated by God’s Own hand writing It. He said, “You keep every Word, don’t you add one thing to It or take one thing from It.” You can read that in the 25th and 26th verse of Deuteronomy 4.
323 Notice! Don’t you add to It, don’t you take away from It; ’cause if you do, God will take your part from the Book of Life. And it shows that you wasn’t His seed.”
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« 324 † Remember! Everything that God has promised us, everything that God’s spoke to us, everything that’s been told to you in the Name of the Lord, it has happened! God has never made one promise null, but He’s kept every promise that He said, has told us, has been the Truth for these twenty years, Shreveport. I’ve preached to you through the power of God, and the courtesy of your pastor, and I take you to record today. Even to women passed bearing; man, children, afflictions, healing, prophesy, things that would happen, not one of them has ever failed! Now, stay away from those denominations, they’re leading you to death.
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« 325 † Samuel stood one day, and they said, “We want a king, we want to be like the rest of the world.”
326 Well, Samuel said, “Don’t take that king. He’ll take your sons, and daughters, and he’ll do this and do that.”
327 He said, “Yeah, I know you’re right.”
328 But Samuel said, “Listen to me. Did I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for a living? Did I ever tell you you had to give me so much salary to hold a meeting for you?” Now judge yourselves, even now! See? He said, “Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?” Not one thing.
329 “Oh, yes, Samuel, you never did beg us for money, you never did want big things. Samuel, that’s true, and everything you told us in the Name of the Lord come to pass. But, Samuel, we want our denomination anyhow!”
330 “Then go take it. It’s up to you.” That’s right.
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« 331 † You can think you’re doing God a service, and if you’re going out of God’s way of doing it, you’re going to keep messing it up, on and on. O Church of the living God! Please forgive my Irish way and my sense of humor, but in the sincerity and sacredness of my heart, you Assemblies of God, you Oneness, Presbyterian, Methodist, whatever you are, flee for your life. Remember, get out from there.
Nations are breaking, Israel’s awakening, (getting ready for that remnant)
The signs that the prophets foretold;
The denominational days are numbered with horrors encumbered,
Return, O dispersed, to your own.
The day of redemption is near,
Man’s hearts are failing for fear,
Be filled with His Spirit,
Have your lamps trimmed and clear,
Look up, your redemption is near.
332 Do you believe that? We’re at the end time, we’re here. The handwriting’s on the wall, the second Coming is at hand, the Bride is being chosen, watered, drawed out.
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« 333 † Now, that don’t mean drawed out from church, that means drawed out from denominationalism. You must go to church, but don’t join any organization. Jesus went with all the organizations, but He never joined a one of them. Neither did He side with any of them, no indeed, but He was among them. There’s where the Light’s got to be scattered. And you stay right where you are, scattering the Light. See? That’s what God’s using you for. A hungry-hearted people, let them know that Jesus Christ is real, just the same as He was yesterday, He is today; and will be forever.
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« 334 † It is possible, a man or woman with all sincerity, trying their best to do God a service, and stirred it in the wrong way. With a genuine anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them, but stirred it contrary to God’s plan for the age, and chaos the whole thing. Now, if you believe that’s the Truth, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] We just read It. Chaos the whole thing by not coming God’s provided way to do it.
Let us pray.
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« 335 † O church, here and across the nation, listen to your humble servant this morning. Will you? Look where you were at a few years ago when this first started; now look what impersonations has capitalized on It, and great millions and billions of dollars has flown into the organizations. See? Still away from the Word of God. Buildings and organizations is not the way God stirs His Spirit. He stirs It right into His Word, to make It live. And if you were ordained from the beginning of the earth to that Word, every Word will come right on top of the Word. Like a human cell will not have one human cell, and the next the cell of a dog, and the next the cell of a cat; it’ll be human cells. But it’s got to have a cell first to start with. Is that right? say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Well, if it is the Word cell to start with, the other Word cells are ordained to make it a full body.
336 Don’t be children, only in love, but be man in Spirit and in judgment. Judge ye whether I’ve told you the Truth or not. Judge ye whether It’s the Word of God or not. Judge ye whether it’s the hour we’re talking about or not. Judge ye whether these things are promised. Now, are they vindicated? By things that there’s not a human being in the world could do it. But It’s become so common to us till we’re letting It flow right on a-past us. Wait, church, wait.
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« 337 † If there’s one in here this morning that doesn’t know Jesus Christ, doesn’t stand justified this morning, your sins all gone as though you never had sinned, and you want to be that way… ’cause remember, one day, maybe today, maybe in the next five minutes, but one day that heart’s going to stop. And that inside of the inside is going to take its flight to stand in the Presence of God to be judged according to what you do with this Message this morning, according to this Message that you see. Not… It ain’t me, I’m just a mouthpiece. Like this microphone, it can’t say a thing ‘less I’m talking in it. And neither could I say anything unless God was talking through it, but you see God’s vindicated it to be the Truth. You want to be a real Christian.
338 Now, we have no place for an altar call, but right at the table where you’re setting. The place is packed and jammed, overflowed. I couldn’t call you to an altar, there’s no altar here to call you to. But the altar is in your heart. Won’t you let that little conviction that “Jesus Christ is real” move right up close today and call the rest of His body to you, manger Him in your heart? If He isn’t there, would you raise your hand, in a sign to Him, saying, “Lord, fill me, fill me with Your Word and with Your Presence, that I might live by You”?
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« 339 † While every head is bowed, every eye closed, all across the nation, raise your hands here in the visible audience and out there too; and I’ll offer prayer for you. That’s all I can do, I cannot fill it. God bless you. I cannot fill it. God bless you; and you. God can fill it. God bless you. Hands are going up here in the visible audience, everywhere. “Fill it. Fill me, O Lord. Fill me.” And now, after I… Thank you, sister. Thank you, brother. God bless you. After I… God bless you, sister dear. You. After… I think now I’ve caught the most of the sincere, trying to be, I want to raise my hands with you.
340 O Lord, never let me come to a standstill. Continually, Lord, let me not stop at one thing, let me just move on, Lord, till I’ve completed everything that You ordained for me to do. Regardless of the price, regardless of the cost, regardless of the critizism, how hard the cross is, I’ll remember the cross that You bore.
So this consecrated cross I’ll bear
Until death shall set me free;
Then go home, a crown to wear,
There’s a crown for me.
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there’s a cross for every one of His sons,
There’s a cross for me.
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« 341 † Dear God, the Word has gone forth. It cannot return void, It’ll find Its place somewhere. If the seed has already been planted, It’ll water it till it grows. And none can pluck it from Your hand, “All the Father has given Me will come to Me, no man can pluck them out of My hand. My Father has given them to Me before the foundation of the world”; when the plans were all drawed up, as so, Jesus was given His Church, His Bride.
342 The bogus marriage of the world, to these denominations. You came and died into the world, You redeemed Her, You justified Her, She never did it at the first place. She was trapped into it, blind. And as the song says:
I once was lost and now I’m found,
I was once in Laodicea, blind, but now I see.
And it’s grace that taught my heart to fear,
It was grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
And the water of God fell upon my soul. I was parching.
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« 343 † God, at this little altar of every heart present here and around the nation, may the waters from under the altar of God gush out this morning upon Your Church; and water it, Lord, for the season’s just about finished. Give it Life, the Waters of Life, that it might be able to lay in the Presence of the Son to be ripened for Your great garner.
344 Father, I pray for them. But the stalk must dry, so I cannot pray for it; it must die, so it is dead. But I pray for the wheat, Lord, that’s forming into the Body of Christ. Grant, Lord, that the fresh waters of God will keep Its cheeks bathed with tears of joy and understanding until the combine comes to take it Home. In Jesus’ Name, I commit it all to You, Lord; the results is Yours. Amen.
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« 345 † [A sister in congregation gives a message–Ed.] Amen.
346 So Father, God, we thank You. And, Father, we pray for our little sister, handsmaid here, for her strength. I’m thinking of a time that when I–I walked in the presence of her, how that the Spirit came upon her and gave the same message that the Angel of the Lord gave on the River that day: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord Jesus, you are sent to forerun the second.”
347 Seeing it shaping up now into the wheat part, God, we thank You for everything You’ve done. Our hearts are filled beyond speaking. I feel so full, Lord, I just don’t know how to say anything else. But thank You Father, again, for all that You have done for us. Through Jesus Christ’s Name.
I love Him,…
Let’s just sing to Him, now. Remember, He’s here.
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.
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« 348 † Does it make you feel real little, real little? All emptied out, just ready for the Spirit, see.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Build your hopes on things Eternal, (no denomination, now)
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
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« 349 † How many is trying to do that? Raise your hand. Now reach right across the table, put your hands in one anothers’ hands, like this. Together… You can be seated, that’s all right, or whatever you want to do. Listen closely. Let’s sing it together now. This represents our unbroken chain of the love of God. We’re holding one anothers’ hands because we believe in God. We touch each other because we’re brothers and sisters, the same vibrating Spirit, the Eternal Word of God dwelling in our hearts being made manifest.
When our journey is completed,
If to God we have been true,
Fair and bright our home in Glory,
Our enraptured soul shall view!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand! (Spirit of the Lord!)
Hold to God…
Just get your mind on Him, see. This is the kind of meetings we must set in in the future.
… unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal, (The Word is the only thing that is Eternal.)
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Covet not this world’s vain popularity, education,
That so rapidly decay, (Look at it today, what it’s done.)
Seek to gain the heavenly treasure,
They will never pass away!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
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« 350 † [A sister speaks in another tongue. Brother Branham begins humming Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand. Another sister gives an interpretation–Ed.]
351 How we thank You, Lord. As we set in this solemn moment, almost like a funeral, for we’re facing the burial of a dying, dead world; a dying, dead church.
O God, gather Your wheat quickly, Father. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
352 Bless Thy people, Father, bring sincerity and deepness to the hearts of the people. May we get off of those fragile bubble dances, settle down into the deep riches of the honey of God. Grant it, Lord. Keep our hearts established with love and sincerity.
353 Bless Thy people everywhere, Father. As we leave this place may we go in the Name of the Lord Jesus to speak that which is sincere, that which is Truth, that which is right, may we shun that what’s wrong, Lord. When a man begins to lie to us, may we quickly turn our back upon him, turn our back to all dirty, filthy jokes and things of the world, and just turn our back and walk away. Help us, dear God. Mold us, make us, break us, and make us into the images of sons and daughters of God that we might act with the virtue of the Holy Spirit. We commit ourself to You, with our hands in each others’, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let’s stand. Brother Noel. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR
