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15-1207 Modern Event Are Made Clear By Prophecy

 

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15-1206 Things That Are to Be

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15-1202 The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us

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15-1129E On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove

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15-1129m God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship

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15-1128B Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will

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65-1127B TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.IT.BEING.GOD’S.WILL_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-2 SATURDAY_
« 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

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« 1 † ` Thank you. It’s good to be here, tonight, again. I didn’t know how they ever found out I was going to pray for the sick. Everybody come in to be prayed for. You know, I believe if you follow the leading of the Spirit, it’s all right. That’s the best, that’s a Message that never fails.
2 Now, I was setting in the room today, after… a certain minister that’s just so dear to my heart (three of them), three of my real good friends, they told me they was coming to go to lunch with me. And I thought, “Well, that was just fine,” you know.

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« 3 † So I–I just eat a little bit of breakfast ’cause I was sure they was going to pay for it, you see, and I… have a good full dinner. So 12:00 come, and 1:00 come, and 2:00 come, nobody there yet. So there was… the police was chasing a criminal, down there in the yard, and so I went down to see that episode. I couldn’t find Brother Jack at all. So, I come to find out, the hotel man had give him the wrong number; and he was ringing the wrong door, all the time, where I–I wasn’t at. I’ll let him pay for me, one again, though, sometime. Him and Brother Tracy, I was sure glad to see them and Brother Brown tonight. That just seems like we ought to go back in Arizona again.

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« 4 † I can remember coming across the desert the other day. I told my wife, back there, I said, “Here’s where Brother Jack set in the back of this little Chevrolet.” Brother Brown and him argued all about the–the original creation, whether it was done in six days or whether it was done in six million years. That was a good one.
5 They get so arguing, they get out and get a handful of rocks, and one get behind one pole, and one another, and throw rocks at one another just as hard as they could. They couldn’t settle it that way, say, “I can outrun you.” Down the road they’d go; Brother Jack, a little short fellow, just as hard as he could twist; and Brother Young with them long legs, you know. I never laughed so much in my life!
6 Then, Brother Jack got back in the car and pulled off his shoes. Brother Sharrit had give us a big sack of oranges, and he half cleaned them up before we got to Shreveport.

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« 7 † You know, them’s golden days, though. Yes, sir, they’re golden days. I know it sounds joking, funny, but it’s the truth. But we… there’s something about that, as you get older and begins to linger on your mind. You think of those days that you wished you could live again, that’s right, our younger days. And as we get old, they all become pictures. I’m so glad it was pure and holy, and brotherly fellowship, in love. Knowing that we’re going to a land where we’ll never get old, where… that great Land, yonder, where we’ll never, never grow old or never die.

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« 8 † One of our precious brothers, so dear to us all, he just crossed over in that Land. And everytime I come to this platform, I–I guess I’ll think of Brother Lyle. I looked over last night and seen little Judy setting over there, and my heart was just pounding, I was thinking of how she felt. And I know when dad died how… But we only have to go through those schools of sufferings to know how the other fellow feels.

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« 9 † I believe I’m looking at an old minister friend setting here. I just can’t call him. Is that right? You used to pray for the sick here, all the time, years ago? Gerholtzer, that–that German name, I–I never could get it fixed up just right. Brother Tracy had met him out there. And I knowed him about ten years, and I said, “You haven’t aged six months in that ten years.” We are living in a world that must cease someday.

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« 10 † Now, tonight, I was… Had you real late last night, I’m going to try to not do that tonight. Finish my story; I was thinking about, tonight, preaching on a–a subject of the Rapture, to the church. How the conditions, as I see it in the Scripture, what conditions the Church will have to be in for the Rapture, and what will take place just before the Rapture takes place, and how it will take place. And we all believe in the Rapture, don’t we? We believe in It. And then, all at once, Something just said, “Pray for the sick, tonight.” And I had just eaten dinner with a little Mexican brother there, I went down and picked him up on the street. I guess he’s here tonight, he and his wife.
11 And then someone come, and give me a testimony. Said, “If… On the grounds, or at the church,” she said, “there’s a man there with… I believe it was about a year ago, that he had come into the line of discernment.” And I was thinking, tonight, of having just a old-fashioned prayer line, like Brother Jack and Brother…

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« 12 † Brother Young Brown used to give out the prayer cards for me. And I found him real honest and never catch him selling a card or doing anything wrong, he’s real straight. And we have caught them trying to do that, you know. So–so we… Brother Young, he was right on the job all the time, and faithful. And I remember, he used to stand and take up the cards, and bring them through the line. I’d pray for them and we’d go along, just that unadulterated faith those people had, if they could just get near you they’d get healed. And I think there was twenty healings to the one, to what we have now.

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« 13 † Then, this story come in this afternoon about a man, he’s probably here now. That he was in the prayer line, a year ago, somewhere, and–and he had… said, in the discernment was told that he had had the mumps. And the doctors told him, after the mumps fell, that he could never have a girl baby, and he always wanted one. I think he had boys. But in the vision from the Lord, it told him, “But you’re going to have that girl baby.”

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« 14 † And he said he’s got the little girl here tonight. I don’t know the man, might… would–would he be in the audience, or the–the person that I’m speaking of? Somewhere? I don’t know, somebody just told me about it, outside. Oh, here’s the baby hanging right back in here, setting right… That’s fine. That’s very fine. What a sweet little fellow. It wasn’t so far to walk over everybody to… real cute, little baby, I’d have her come out here and give the testimony. Maybe she will by tomorrow, or sometime when we’re having our services.
15 Now, tomorrow morning is the Business Man’s Breakfast. Have you announced it? I guess, it’s all… That’s fine.

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« 16 † And now let’s have a little–a little lesson on Divine healing. How many believes in it? Oh, my, going to be a great night, when you have faith like that. People who believe it, that’s what it takes. It’s for the believers.
17 Now, then, I got me a pencil and begin to write down some text and so forth, and the… and then Billy knocked on the door and said, “Daddy?”
18 I said, “Wait just a little while, I haven’t got it finished yet.”
19 He said, “But, Brother Jack’s waiting on you.” So, I–I had to come on. I stuck, didn’t have no paper clip, I got one of Meda’s “johnny pins” or some kind of a pin here that they called a “bobby pin.” That’s what it was, “bobby pin,” just some kind of a pin. And–and I don’t know much about them things, you know, and I just seen it laying there. So, now to make a paper clip here, to separate what I was… had some notes for in the morning; separate them, one from the other.

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« 20 † And as you get older… it used to be I could just remember them Scriptures and things just so easy. But, you know, kind of hard to do. Do you find that trouble, Brother Jack, yet? That’s right, yeah. I told Brother Jack, here not long ago, I said, “You know, Brother Jack,” I said, “I’m getting so I can’t remember.” I said, “I start to say something, and I have to wait.”
He said, “Is–is that all the farther along you are?”
And I said, “Well, isn’t that far enough?”
21 He said, “No.” Said, “I ring up somebody on the phone and say ‘What’d you want?'” I thought you was kidding me then, Brother Jack, I found out that’s pretty true.
22 Yes, sir. My, how you forget. But let us have all of our deeds done right, because they’re in a book, a record that is to be played at the day of the judgment.

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« 23 † Now, we’re like one big family. And I don’t suppose we’re hooked up tonight, across the country, as I was preaching my message last night. I think it’s just maybe the local assembly here. So, last night, I sure appreciate your courtesy of standing… I don’t try… I didn’t try to take advantage of Brother Jack. But he’s always told me, “Say what you want to.” And so I just come here… the platform and preached a little doctrine. But… so just a… I believe it’s just… some of my denominational brethren.

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« 24 † I had a dream, the other morning. I don’t dream very often, I’m not a dreamer. But I–I dreamed that I seen a man, a young fellow in shackles, and he was trying to get out, and–and I said… Somebody told me, said, “Those are horrible people, don’t have nothing to do with them.”
25 And I seen this young fellow getting out of his shackle so I just let him alone. I thought, “I’ll just see what he does.” So when he got out, he was a nice fellow. And I seen others trying to get out.

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« 26 † Now, this is only a dream. And I walked over this a-way and I seen a–a brother, Roy Borders, a very good friend of mine, lives in California. Looked like there’s something wrong, his eyes was half closed, and great big… maybe cancer or something over his eyes. And I… someone was trying to pull me away from him. I screamed, “Brother Borders! In the Name of the Lord Jesus, snap out of that!”
27 And he just barely could speak, saying, “Brother Branham, it’ll have to take something more than this. I just can’t grasp it, Brother Branham. I just can’t grasp it.”
28 I said, “O Brother Borders.” I love him.

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« 29 † And someone pulled me away, and I looked, and it was a lady standing over here that I, when I was a little boy, I–I used to haul groceries from the grocery store to the peoples. And her name was Mrs. Fenton, she lives in Jeffersonville yet, a personal friend to the wife and I.
30 And she said, “Brother Branham, deliver us from this.” Said, “This is a house of hell.” And said, “You’ve been misunderstood.” And said, “These… And you–you misunderstood these people, too.” Said, “These are fine people, but…” And I looked over there, and like a great big cellar, or–or big walls, down beneath a great big cave; and great iron bars, eight or ten inches thick. And people, out of their mind, twisted arms and legs, beating their head like that. And she was crying, saying, “Deliver the people, Brother Branham.” Said–said, “Help us, we’re in trouble.” She herself, I know her, she belongs to the… I believe the Church of Christ, or the Christian church, called Church of the Brethren. So she…

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« 31 † I looked around, and I said, “I wished I could.” And go on, looking around; and I… my little, bitty body and–and them great, big iron bars; and those poor people in there. And you couldn’t get to them, them iron bars was setting close together. And I looked, and they were beating their head like they were out of their mind.
32 And I seen some lights flickering around in there. And I looked up, and there stood the Lord Jesus with a–a–a lights of rainbow around Him. He was looking right straight to me, said, “Deliver those people.” And He went away.
33 And I thought, “Well, how could I deliver them? I–I haven’t got strength enough in my arms to break those bars.”
34 So I said, “House of hell, give away to the Name of Jesus Christ.”
35 And all the creaking and popping, and–and the rocks a-rolling, and–and bars a-falling; and people running, screaming, “Delivered!” and screaming at the top of their voice, and was all delivered.

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« 36 † And I was screaming then, “Brother Roy Borders, where are you? Where are you? God is delivering His people! Where are you, Brother Borders?” I’ve wondered about that.
37 You know, Brother Borders is very scared. You know the prophecy, all… many of you do, you take the tapes and so forth, about the West Coast.

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« 38 † There’s a man setting right here, tonight, that was there when that happened (when we were standing there, on a hunting trip), a minister who was listening in last night. With a blinded eye, he just come up there and he said… introduced himself. He had on colored glasses, up in the mountain. He said, “Brother Branham,” said, “I’m Brother McHughes.” He said, “I–I helped sponsor one of your meetings once, in California.”
39 I said, “I’m glad to know you, Brother McHughes.”

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« 40 † So there was about twenty man standing there. We was out javelina hog hunting. And I said, the day before going up the mountain, I said to Brother Banks Wood… All of you know him, a personal friend. I said, “Brother Wood,…” Picked up a rock and threw it up in the air, and it came down. And I said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Something’s fixing to happen.'”
41 So, he said, “What is it, Brother Branham?”
42 I said, “I don’t know, but within twenty-four hours you’ll see. Something’s fixing to happen. That’s a great sign.”

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« 43 † And the next day… that was one late afternoon. The next day, about ten o’clock, we were fixing to pull out. Everybody had their javelina hogs, and we were standing there. And Brother McAnally, you know, and all of them, they were dressing them out, and–and Brother Borders and I; and Brother Roy Roberson, a crippled veteran, a very dear, precious friend of mine, and he was standing there. And I looked up, and Brother McHughes said, “Brother Branham, does the Angel of the Lord ever appear to you when you’re on these hunting trips?”
44 I said, “Brother McHughes, yes. That’s right. But, I come out here to kind of rest.”
45 He said, “All right, Brother Branham,” said, “I didn’t mean to disturb you.”
46 I said, “You didn’t disturb me.”

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« 47 † And I just looked around, and I seen a doctor looking at his eye. Now, I didn’t know him, he had on dark glasses, which is awful bright and sunny in Arizona. And I looked at it, and I seen a doctor tell him, say, “Sir, I been doctoring that eye for years, two years, something like that.” Said, “The allergy that you have in your eye, you’re going to lose your eye. It’s eating back into the sight, and there’s no way I can stop it.”
48 And I said, “What you asked me that for, is because of your eye. Them sunglasses is just because you got a bad eye.”
49 He said, “That’s right.”
50 I said, “Your doctor,” (described him) “he told you, a few days ago, that ‘You’re going to lose that eye because the–the allergy is eating into the sight of the eye.’ And he’s been doctoring it for a couple years, and he can’t stop it.”
51 He said, “Brother Branham, that’s the truth.”

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« 52 † And I started to turn around and look, and I seen a–a woman much older than he, kind of a dark complected. They’re originally from somewhere up here in Arkansas. And so she raised up her–her–her skirt and showed her limb to her son, and she said, “Son, if you see Brother Branham, tell him to pray for my feet.” And had long tumors hanging between her toes and things.
53 I said, “Your mother’s a gray-headed woman, and she raised up her skirt, pulled back her–her stocking and showed you her feet, and said if you saw me to tell you to pray for her.”
54 And he said, “Oh, mercy.”
55 I looked back and I seen him standing there with no glasses on, vision, I said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, God healed your eye, and heals your mother, too.”

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« 56 † About that time, I turned around… Now, there’s man setting here, was standing there. I said to Brother Roy Borders… or Brother Roy Roberson, put my hand on his shoulder, for he’s a veteran, I said, “Brother Roy, get under something, right quick, something’s fixing to happen.”
57 He said, “What do you mean, Brother Branham?”
58 I said, “Don’t talk! Get under something, quick!” And I turned and picked up a shovel, there by the side of the place, and walked off from them ’cause I knew it would come where I was at.

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« 59 † Right beside a great canyon, eight or ten times higher than this building, it’s a “box” canyon; like a fire come down from the Heavens, like a whirlwind, just a few feet above where I was standing. And ripped the rocks right out of the mountain, went out through and cut the tops of the mesquite trees off, for a hundred yards out. Everybody running, and trying to get under trucks and everything else. It went back up again and clapped like a great thunder. Went back up in the skies again, and come down again. And done that three times. And when it was all over, they come over and asked, “What did it mean?”
60 I said, “I don’t want to tell you, it was a judgment sign. In a few days, a great earthquake’s going to strike on the West. And it won’t stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It’s going down. She’ll slide right into the ocean.” And two days after that, the Alaskan earthquake shook Alaska.

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« 61 † And then, the last meeting I had in California, while speaking, and didn’t know nothing happened till I got on the street, It told California, said–said, “Capernaum, Capernaum, the city that’s called by the name of the angels,” (that’s Los Angeles) “you’ve exalted yourself into heaven, but you’ll be brought down into hell. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom that’s been done in you, it would have been standing till this day.”

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« 62 † Now, the last few days, the great roaring and popping. Then, here come out a paper of science, said, “It’s all honeycombed, it’s got to go under.” They just know it.
63 And you watch, the water will come plumb back into the Salton Sea. Los Angeles is doomed for judgment. I tell you before it happens, that you might know when it does happen. I never spoke that by myself. And I’ve never had Him to tell me one thing but what happened. And you can bear record of that. That’s right. When? I don’t know.

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« 64 † I went out, and they told me what I said. And I listened, went back and searched the Scripture. You know, Jesus said, almost in them same words, about Capernaum; and Sodom and Gomorrah was–was in the bottom of the Dead Sea, I suppose was then. And later, about a hundred years later, Capernaum slid into the sea, and it’s in the sea. The same God that put Sodom in the sea for its sins, the same God that put Capernaum in the sea for its sins, the same God will put Los Angeles in the sea for its sin, that city of–of corruption.
65 Brother Roy Borders is scared to death. I don’t know whether to… what that meant that, or what. I don’t know.
Let us pray.

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« 66 † Lord, it’s so good to testify to real listeners. We believe, Lord, help our unbelief. And we realize that we’re going right down the road now to the end of the world. Just what time, we don’t know. But that secret catching away of the Bride; one of these days, Lord, we’ll be–we’ll be raptured, caught up with Him. And we’re waiting for that day. Prepare our hearts, Lord.
67 There’s many, we look, laying here on these cots and stretchers, man and women who are bound by the enemy. There’s people setting out there, perhaps, if You don’t touch them, they’ll die with heart attacks. Maybe some of them is eaten with cancer.
68 And Father, Thou knows the heart of every man. You know whether it’s true or not true. And we say these things because that we know what You have done, Your great power has delivered so many. We’re witnesses of it, though they try to tell us that “those things doesn’t happen.” But it does Lord. We are witnesses.

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« 69 † I pray tonight, Lord, that somehow You’ll build faith in these peoples’ hearts, that every one of them will be delivered, all these sick and afflicted people. May it be so simple, Lord, just let us, as we try to teach the Word. Let the Holy Spirit take my mistakes, Lord, and correct them in the hearts of the people. And make it a real, real night that the… that He can bed Himself into the heart of each believer here. We set this night for that purpose, Lord. May those who are not saved, above all things, be ready; get ready now, while the doors of mercy still open. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 70 † Now we’re going to turn to the Scriptures, to start with, and in…
71 Someone laid a–a note here on the desk, and said they “took up an offering” for me tonight. That wasn’t necessary, don’t do that. I can’t take it back. I remember one time, in Calgary, Canada, they took up an… this offering was taken up. Brother Jack was trying to tell me… My wife setting back there; she, the children had an old two rooms we were living in, she had to put a blanket in the door to keep the–the door shut so the children wouldn’t get pneumonia. And she said… He said to me, said, “Brother Branham, that’s not fair to treat her that way.” So, you remember the case. They took up, I forget how many thousand dollars.
72 And I said, “Oh, take it back, Brother Jack.”
73 He said, “Now, how we going to do it?” So, I bought the place and it’s there. So, to the glory and honor of God. We kept it for a couple years, the wife and I, as a gift from the church, the people.
74 And then I thought, “That doesn’t sound right. I brought nothing into this world, it’s certain I’ll take nothing out.” So I turned around and lotted it, and deeded it back over to the tabernacle. That when I’m finished, well, some other servant of God, if there is a tomorrow, will use it then. See? So, thank you very kindly, friends. God bless you, for it.

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« 75 † Now, in James, the Book of James, the 2nd chapter. We want to read, beginning at the 21st verse.
76 And now, I just about… A little while to teaching, and then we’ll start praying for the sick just as quick as we can, and get just as many people through this prayer line as we possibly can. And let’s, too, remember also… I don’t want to forget Sister Anna Jeanne and Brother Don, and them, I think they’re over in Thailand somewhere. Aren’t they? To where? Bangkok, and–and the mission fields. There’s so many things you think about in the daytime, you want to mention before the people. Then when you come here, you–you can’t think of it, you’re ream right down on that lesson.

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« 77 † And now, in James here, the 2nd chapter. And we’re going to begin with the 21st verse of the 2nd chapter of Saint James, and read a–a portion of It. The 21st verse of the 2nd chapter.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon a… the altar?
See thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works… faith was made perfect?
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

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« 78 † Now, my subject tonight… And hold your Bibles now, ’cause I got several Scriptures written down here. If we don’t get too long, I’ll refer to many of them. My subject is: Works Is Faith Expressed. Now, remember: Works Is Faith Expressed. Works show that faith has already took a-hold, see. See? Now, we choose this because we… I believe that it might help us to understand. Now listen real close, and we’ll go into it like a Sunday School lesson.
79 Here James is expressing in his teaching, from Genesis 22:1-9, what man seen in Abraham.

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« 80 † Let’s just go back, I’ve got the Scriptures kind of marked out here. In Genesis, the 22nd chapter, and the 1st to the 9th verse.
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abram… Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him… for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
See, He didn’t even tell him which one it was. You just go ahead when God speaks, you go on moving. See?
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled an ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went into the place… which God had told him of… told him.
And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
And Abraham said unto the young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

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« 81 † Now, he had in his mind now, he’s going up to kill his son, ’cause God told him to. But look at the Scripture here.
… I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again unto you. (He and the lad.)
And Abraham took the wood and the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife; and they both went… them together.
And Isaac spake to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt-offering: so they went both of them together.
And they came to the place which God… told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound his son… Isaac his son, and laid him upon the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thine son, thy… from me… thy only son from me. (What a work!)
82 Now, we find here that James is justifying Abraham by his works.

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« 83 † But now, in Paul, in Romans, the Book of Romans, the 8th… the 4th chapter, 4:1 to 8. I won’t read it all, but just read part of it.
And what shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?
For if Abraham was justified… (You remember, we took the word last night, “justified.”)… by works, he has whereof to glory; but not before God.
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness sake.
And to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
84 Now–now what Paul is referring to here, is what God seen in Abraham.

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« 85 † Now let’s… if you… if we was not turning too much, we’d go back again to Genesis, the 15th chapter, and the 6th verse; 15:6, I believe is right. We’ll begin at the 5th.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards the heavens, and tell the stars, if thou are able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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« 86 † Now the two men that were talking on faith: Paul justified Abraham by what God saw in Abraham; but James justified Abraham by what man saw in–in Abraham.
87 See, now, James said, “He’s justified by his works.”
88 Paul said, “He’s justified by faith.”
89 But see, Abraham believed God, that’s what God saw in him; he believed It. But then when he went to acting as though it was already done, that’s what man saw in him.
90 And that’s the same as it is to us, because our works express what faith we have. But if we’re afraid to act on what we believe, then we do not believe It. See, you’ve got to believe It.

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« 91 † Abraham’s works was expressing his faith he had in God’s promise. Now, Abraham, remember, he was ninety years old, or a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety years old. And now they were well stricken in age, past child bearing, had been for many, many years. And they had lived together as husband and wife since they were young, and no children. But yet, God told him when he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah sixty-five, “You’re going to have a baby.” And he believed God’s promise. He believed It. Now, see, he made ready everything for this baby. See, that’s what God saw, when he believed God; and man saw what he did to express what he believed. (And that’s the same thing that works tonight, the same way it is with us.) It has been revealed to him. See, it had been revealed to him, so he believed it so, and was acting as though it had already took place.
92 Now, let’s just stop there, just a minute. Sometimes we misunderstand this. People gets emotion, and they try to work on emotion. That won’t work.

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« 93 † Now, I’m like Brother Gerholtzer here, we’re–we’re old men, and we’ve been in the… this a long time, and we’ve seen the pros and cons, and–and everything. And praying for the sick, around the world, and seeing the–the disappointments of people, and seeing the–the “Hallelujahs” from every side. Then, all this, we learn by. Now, when as boys, and we started preaching this, Brother Gerholtzer, like we started to swim. The first thing, you know, it used to be that I’d get out, and I would… Brother Jack, I’ve had Brother Brown to walk me on the street, night after night, to try to get myself around to myself. I’d stand there, like a little kid, splashing the water, seeing visions, you know. And I’d just stay there till Brother Brown…

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« 94 † I remember one night, I never will forget it, up in San Jose or somewhere. He come to wake me up, I hadn’t slept for several days and I didn’t know I was talking to the man, but said that I told him. Started crying, said, “I’m going home.” See?
95 “Why,” he said, “you can’t go home. There’s a meeting going on down there.”
96 I said, “Well, I’ll be ready in a few minutes to go home.” See, just beyond, beside myself, almost. See, I was a boy then.

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« 97 † Like you’re learning to swim, you know, you splash the water and go across the pool, and “huhhh, huhhh, huhhh, I made her!” Now, after you learn to swim, more graceful is the stroke, and it don’t “wear you out” so much. See, that’s it, you learn how to do it; and cut every corner and make it better, and that’s more of a ease. See?
98 A little boy that never walked, would try to walk down this aisle here, he would fall down a dozen times and be “wore out” before he got there. But anyone who knows how to walk, an athlete, would walk right down that aisle and never even notice doing it. Well, he had that to start with, that’s what he is now.

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« 99 † Well, that’s the same way with preaching Divine healing or anything else. As you go along, you begin to learn. If you don’t learn, there’s something wrong. See, you’ve got to learn, and you’ve got to learn how to accept God and what it really means.
100 We allow it, sometimes say, “Well, this guy didn’t have enough faith, this guy didn’t do this and this.” There’s a reason there for that, there’s a reason. Sometime it’s unconfessed sin. You could pour a gallon of oil on a person, and scream till you got hoarse, it’ll never move that devil. No, sir! You’ve got to confess that. That’s what discernment does, say, “Go make that right, bring that out.”
101 But it’s so slow doing that, you see. And then–then the rest of them get impatient, and they say, “Ah, I never got prayed for.” But we want to find a way now, that… what takes place, the real basic of Divine healing.

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« 102 † Now, a gift, just like I said last night, “A gift is wonderful, but you can’t base your Eternal destination on gifts.” You cannot major on a minor, and a–a gift is a minor. And Satan can impersonate any gift God’s got, he can make something just exactly like it, see, exactly. Therefore, we got to watch that.
103 Like sometimes I express about shouting; I’ve seen demons shout, see. Speak in tongues, I’ve seen demons speak in tongues. Sure, he impersonates It. It isn’t a genuine, but it impersonates It, you see, makes it look like it’s real. And people sometime, who don’t know the difference, declare this to be “real” when it isn’t real.
104 And the same thing they do about Divine healing. They think, “Well, it’s a hocus-pocus, or something like that.” It isn’t. It’s a genuine, unadulterated faith in what God said to be the Truth. And that anchors! And when it anchors, there’s nothing going to move it. It’s going to stay there. And therefore, cutting these corners,…

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« 105 † Now, faith is “a revelation from God.” Now, faith is a revelation. There’s where I want to stay, there, just a moment. It’s a revelation. He has revealed it to you by His grace. It’s nothing you did. You didn’t work yourself up into faith. You ever have faith, it’s give to you by the grace of God. And God reveals it to you, therefore faith is a revelation. And the whole Church of God is built upon the revelation.

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« 106 † A Baptist minister told me, not long ago, he said, “I just can’t accept revelation.”
107 I said, “Then you cannot accept the Bible. You cannot accept Christ, because He is the Revelation of God. He’s God revealed in flesh.” Therefore, the whole Church is built upon Divine revelation.
108 Jesus said to (I believe it was Peter)… said, He said, “Who does men say I the Son of man am?”
109 He was talking to His disciples. “And some said You’re ‘Elias,’ and ‘Moses,’ or ‘One of the prophets,’ and ‘Jeremiah.'”
110 He said, “But who do you say?”
111 He said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

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« 112 † Now, the Roman Catholic church says, “He was speaking to Peter, ‘Upon this rock I’ll build my Church.'”
113 The Protestants said, “He was building It upon Himself.”
114 Now, they could be right. But, to me, both of them’s wrong. It was upon the spiritual revelation of Who He was. “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, Peter. But My Father, which is in Heaven, has revealed this to you. And upon this rock,” the revelation of Who He is; upon the revelation: He is the Word, and the whole… “Upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against It.” It showed the gates of hell would be against It.

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« 115 † Abel, by faith, revelation, (no Bible written in those days)… by Abel, by faith, offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that which Cain. Which God testified, “He was righteous.” How? By faith. How? By revelation! By revelation, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice, because it was revealed to him that it wasn’t fruits of the field, it was the blood.
116 That’s why some people can believe It, and some can’t believe It, some try to make-believe It.

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« 117 † In a audience of people, where a prayer line comes through, you’ll find some… and they were all good people, we’ll say. There’s some that’s trying hard to believe It, trying to work themselves into It. Some just can’t do it at all. And others, it’s just by grace, it’s just given to them. Now, there is the difference. See? That does it. That’s the real revelation, because faith is a revelation from God. It must be revealed first.

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« 118 † Jesus clearly expressed this when He said, “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first, or reveals Me to him first.” You ought to read that. It’s Saint James… or Saint John 6:44 and to 46. They didn’t know Who He was. They thought He was just an ordinary man. They thought Him just to be, as people does today, some prophet. He was the Prophet, He was an ordinary Man, but there was more than that.

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« 119 † Just like last night, speaking… When you get the book, you’re going to see maybe a little confusion there of what I said, “The two books of Life.” It’s the same Book, but one of them is your natural birth, the other one is your spiritual birth. One leads out to the other one, just like a stalk of wheat. Whenever you talk to me, you talk to me as a living person. But there’s a part of me here, is that person, that must perish. That’s the Book that the name comes off of. But the Eternal one, the Predestinated one, the Elected one, the name never can come from there because it was always on It. It can never be taken off. You’ll notice it in the book, so to save your confusion. You’ll find it that way. Because, I think, Brother Vayle, who put the right grammar to it, reminded me of it today. I said, “That’s right.”

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« 120 † The Baptists believe there’s two separate books. And in one way it is two separate books, and another way it isn’t two separate books. I’m two separate people… I’m body and soul and spirit, three separate people, but I’m… only one makes me as a being.
121 There’s only real one Book of Life. Like there was one germ of–of the wheat that come up through the stalk, and went through the tassel, and out through the husk, and into the wheat; all the way along there, you say, “Now, that’s a wheat laying there.” It isn’t the wheat, it’s the stalk, but together it’s the wheat. See, it’s the wheat because it’s all one stalk, but the wheat is what you’re talking about, the grain at the end of it. The others was a carrier, it must perish. And that’s the one–one place sounds like you can have your name taken off the Lamb’s Book of Life, and the other place you can’t do it. So, that’s where it is. It’s all in that great revelation there, which was made known during the time of the Seven Seals. Why is it, how some people can’t believe It?

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« 122 † Jesus said that “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first. And all that the Father has given Me, will come to Me.” No man can understand Who He is, or how It is, except it be revealed to you by the revelation of God. And then faith in that, you act accordingly. See? Here we see plainly that God is revealed in Jesus, and only those who were foreordained to see it, will see it. Be sure to read this Scripture, I omitted it then, that Saint John 6:44 to 46. I omitted it because I thought maybe we’d have… maybe not enough time to go through, because that clock up there just keeps moving.
123 And so we… You notice, “No man, no man can come except My Father draws him first. And all the Father has given Me, they will come.” They’ll recognize It. No other man can do it, no other person, no matter how good, who you are, It’s got to be revealed to you. Then you see Who Jesus Christ is.

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« 124 † Now, here, predestinated plan is in plain view. Just as other seed, the Word of God is a Seed and must have the ground prepared beforehand. If you sowed seed, just throwed it out there on the ground, it would do no good, the birds would pick it up. You throw it among thistles and thorns, it’ll choke it out pretty soon. Jesus’ parable said so. So the ground has to be made ready first. So, God, in sovereign grace, prepares the heart first. He prepared you before the foundation of the world, to receive Him in this age. He foreknew you by His foreknowledge, and ordained you to Eternal Life. He knew you, therefore He prepared you.

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« 125 † That’s the reason you staggered out of these things, and staggered into what you have now. It was God leading you to the place where He had ordained for you to be. It… or if–if–if this ground isn’t prepared beforehand, it can’t grow. That’s the reason the seed of faith, when you’re preaching faith, see the discernments of the Lord, and see what takes place, and all the gifts of the Bible working; people working themselves up, “Oh, hallelujah, I believe It.” And come up, and find themselves disappointed. See, the ground has to be foreordained. And you know when It strikes it.

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« 126 † Like my little eagle, last night. He knew when he heard that scream of that mother eagle, “there’s a lot difference between that and the cluck of the hen.” See, because he was an eagle from the egg. Not… he wasn’t made an eagle right then, he always was an eagle. And a Christian always was! That’s the reason the divorce, when you’re divorced, because you were trapped into it, see, by your first parent, Adam and Eve. You become a sinner by nature. You didn’t want to be, but now you heard the Gospel, and “faith cometh by hearing,” revelation comes by hearing. There is a little something inside of you.
127 Another man setting right by you, say, “Ah, I don’t believe that stuff. Nonsense! I don’t believe that. Nothing to that!”

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« 128 † Like they did on the Day of Pentecost, they laughed and said, “These men are full of new wine.” They know it was… It was a great thing to those it was happening to. Why? It was God revealing Himself to the individuals. While others laughed, these were rejoicing. It was an individual revelation, which is faith; faith that’s revealed. If it wasn’t faith, then it wouldn’t even be there. It was faith.

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« 129 † Just seeds has to have the ground prepared first. “Therefore, all He foreknew, He called. All He called… All He foreknew, He predestinated.” If you want to read that, Romans 8:28-34, and also Ephesians 1:1-5. See, all He foreknew, He did call. All He called, He justified. And all He justified, He has already glorified. There’s nothing out of order. We think there is, but look in the Scriptures. It’s just hitting exactly the way God’s Word said it would. We see the Message is rejected, today. Isn’t that just what the Scripture said they would do? Sure, all these things are ordained of God.

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« 130 † Oh, It should make you walk happy. That’s the trouble with we today, so much difference than the Christians of old. When the real, true revelation of Jesus Christ being Emmanuel dwelled in the hearts of those men, they were rugged people. But today we’re patted by denominations, with, “Oh, I tell you, they ain’t got the Revelation. You come over here.” You’re depending on their revelation. If their revelation isn’t according to the Word of God, then it’s wrong; mine or anybody else’s, that’s where the showdown comes. The Word of God tells which is right and wrong!

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« 131 † Any seed has to have its ground, of course. “Therefore, all He foreknew…” See, He already knew what was going to happen. Notice, Jesus said again, about the Seed, “Some fell on rock, others in mixed ground.” See, over where there’s thorns, thistles, and everything else, It couldn’t grow. And others on good ground, good ground, good soil, which had been prepared, already prepared.

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« 132 † All the man out here, he’s like as a chicken, he’s looking along, trying to find. He hits into this, and he hits into that, but after a while there comes a sudden Scream from Heaven. He recognizes It right quick, “That’s the Word of God!” See, he knows It because there’s something in his heart that’s been told to him, revealed to him about It.

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« 133 † Notice, the prophet Isaiah said, “A virgin shall conceive.” What a strange saying. How a–a man in his right mind could say that? There had never been a virgin conceive. “A virgin shall conceive!” Now, he didn’t worry about saying It, he just said It. How’s she going to do it? And that’s not his business! He is just to say what God said He was going to do. God revealed it to him, showed him the vision; revealed it, and it was right.

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« 134 † Just the same God that told me that little baby would be borned by that man who couldn’t have the child… have a girl. Like others and things, how it sounds strange when the doctor says, “It can’t happen!”
135 But when God says, “It’s going to happen,” it depends on what kind of a word that falls in. Remember, the prophet stood up there and His Word went forth.

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« 136 † Like God, in Genesis 1, He said, “Let there be light. Let there be this. Let there be that.” Created man in His Own image, image of God created He them, male and female, and there was nothing on the earth yet. Then, we find out in Genesis 2, here, He made man in His Own image. There was no man to till the soil, after the rest the creation. What was it? It’s His Words, He was speaking It. And when He spoke, He said, “Let there be light.” There might of not been light for eight hundred years afterward, might not have been no light, but He said It! And as long as He said It, “Let there be a palm tree. Let there be an oak tree. Let there be this,” them seeds was forming down beneath that water. That’s right. And in the season, in the time, in its own season, it brought forth! It can’t fail; it’s God’s Word. It just can’t fail. It’s been expressed.

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« 137 † Now, one day, God talked to man, face to face. But in time of Moses, when the fire was falling, they said, “Let God… Let Moses speak; not God, we might perish.”
138 Therefore, He said, “I’ll not speak to them like that no more. I’ll raise them up a prophet.” That’s the way God’s system always was.
139 Now, here’s a prophet standing; now, he’s under inspiration; he isn’t thinking about his intellectual, “Now, wait a minute. If I’d say that, well, you know, the people would think I’m insane.” See, that’s his intellectual; there he’s listening to Satan, just like Eve did.

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« 140 † And as long as the doctor says that “You can’t live. You can’t get well. You can’t do this or that.” As long as you listen to that, that Seed will never fall in that kind of ground and do any good. It can’t. But when something tears all of that away, and It falls in that bedded ground, there’s nothing can tear It out.
141 Now, no matter how long it takes, It’s going to happen. Now, He said, “A virgin shall conceive.” Did you know it was eight hundred years before that happened? God foreknew the woman, who she’d be, what her name was, where that Seed would fall into. Do you believe that? Sure, He did! And from a literal womb would come forth this great miracle. God knew about it, He just revealed it to his prophet who was faithful and spoke the Word. Without even thinking about what It was, he just said It. He never tried to reason It out.

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« 142 † If you try to reason out… What if this man, this woman, or this man setting here, or somebody try to reason, “And I been crippled all these years. The doctor says, ‘There’s not a possible chance'”? Well, there might not be as far as he knowed, and that’s true.
143 But if something can tear away them weeds, if God by His grace; not the preacher, not nobody else. But God can place into your heart a revelation, that, “I’m going to be well,” there isn’t nothing going to keep you setting there. There’s nothing can hold you there, you’re going to be well! But until that does happen, you’re going to set right where the doctor says you’re going to set; until that happens. It has to be revealed. It’s the grace of God that reveals it.

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« 144 † Now, notice, God knew the woman It would come to. Notice Isaiah, there was no question. Isaiah didn’t say, “Wait a minute, Lord! Wait–wait just a minute! What did You say to me? A virgin’s going to conceive? Oh! What? Now wait, Father, there–there–there never was such a thing as that done.”
145 He didn’t hesitate, he just said, “A virgin shall conceive!” Right.

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« 146 † Notice Mary: “Now, now Lord, wait a minute. You know I–I never knowed a man. This is impossible! Nothing like this never happened! Ohhh, oh, no, nothing like this ever happened. How am I going to have this baby? I don’t know any man, so it can’t happen! Uh, Angel, you’re just mistaken. I’ve got an optical illusion. You know, my church says, ‘These days are gone.'” Nah! It would never have fell in such a place as that. Mary never questioned.
147 She said, “How can it be? I know no man.”
148 He said, “The Holy Ghost shall overshadow thee. That’s how it’s going to happen.”
149 She said, “Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord!” No question!

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« 150 † See, Isaiah, when God produced the Word by thought (revelation) into the heart of Isaiah, It fell into the right grounds, it was a prophet. That prophet didn’t care for any man’s wisdom. He didn’t care for any man’s intellectual. He didn’t care about the person of anybody. He was a dedicated channel to God, and God spoke and he spoke. That’s all. Whether it hurt, whether it didn’t; whether it sounded crazy, whether it didn’t sound crazy; didn’t make any difference to him. It was God, not the man.

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« 151 † And when that Word went forth, now It becomes a Seed, It has to fall somewhere. If God said It, there’s bound to be a womb somewhere for It to fall into. Just as He said, “All things are possible to them that believe. If you say to this mountain, ‘Be moved,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, you can have what you said.” See, there’s got to be somewhere that’s right!
152 Notice! Now, we find that Isaiah here spoke It.

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« 153 † The virgin Mary, as soon as… The grounds was already broke up. She had been a virgin. She hadn’t “run around.” The grounds had been already prepared, or predestinated by foreknowledge of God.
154 Even said, “She was a virgin.” Right then God knowed what her name would be. For her name was on the Book of Life in Heaven.
155 Then, It was vindicated. Man then (to man) saw the expression of It by the works, when it was already done. Now we look back and say, “Sure, It was done,” ’cause we see the works that was done.

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« 156 † Noah’s works expressed to man, what his faith was in God’s promise. Now, God met Noah, and He said, “Noah, it’s going to rain. I’m going to destroy the whole earth with water.” Now, it never had rained, that’s the impossibility. Well, now, Noah got… Said, “Prepare an ark of the dimensions that I’ll tell you about.” And him being a carpenter, and he went to work and begin to take his foot adze, and everything to cut the boards, and fix it up there with the shittim wood, and put the pitch in it just like He said. And do you imagine what people thought about that man?
157 They said, “That man is actually crazy, because he says, ‘It’s going to bring water out of the heavens,’ and there’s no water up there.” But, you see, Noah didn’t think about that. His works was expressing to the people what his faith was and what God said would take place.
158 That’s the reason the genuine Christian separates himself from everything but the Word of God, no matter what the people think, what anybody else says. He’s separated because… He isn’t just saying that; if he is, it won’t be long till his works will be make known. He’ll fall back and slip this a-way, and join this one, this one, start… he’ll–he’ll show what he is. But if he’s a genuine, if the Word of God has bedded into him, then It’s going to bring forth Its kind, you’ll see that man preparing for that great hour. See, that’s the way Noah did.

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« 159 † Moses, with a stick in his hand, came to take the people from Pharaoh. Now, could you imagine… Moses, the Bible said that he was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was smart, he could teach their intellect things. He was taught all their wisdom. He didn’t need to catch up on his education. Now, just think about a man out there in the wilderness, with all that education, and then God appearing to him and said, “Moses, take this stick in your hand and go down there in Egypt, and bring my children out with this switch you got in your hand. Just lick the whole thing with this switch.”
160 Now, what if Moses would had said, “Sir, just a moment, I thought I was talking to an intelligent being, this great ‘I AM’ that you say you are. Now, how in the world will I ever take this little, old crooked stick I got here in my hand, and take over an army of million of man, armed with spears, fighters? And I’m not a fighter, I’m a shepherd. How can I ever do that?”
161 There was no question! Why? Why? The Ground in his heart! He was a predestinated person. “Gifts and callings are without repentence.” God had told Abraham that He would do that, and there was the ground prepared.

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« 162 † And Moses took this stick and went down there and took that nation out of a nation. When he come with a stick in his hand, and told Pharaoh, “Let them go!” Pharaoh seen in Moses the works, that he had faith in what he was going to do, or trying to do. He had faith in the promise of the God that had made the promise, he went down to take it over. No other man would have done that, and no other man could have done it, he was ordained to do it. God, beforehand, had told Abraham that that’s just what would happen. And when the time of the promise drew nigh, there was a little boy borned, a fair child. And the parents, Amram and Jochebed, was not afraid of the king’s commandment. See, there was something, the grounds was already prepared.
163 O God, I hope I’m speaking to ground prepared, tonight! If the Seed can fall in the right place, and it’s going to be some-… If it isn’t, it won’t happen.
164 That’s the same thing. They say, “Brother Branham, that kinda takes it away from us.” If it does, it takes it away from Christianity, too. See, you can impersonate anything. But if the… if it really falls in, the Word of God falls in the right kind of ground, it’s going to bring forth its kind. It’s got to, because It’s a seed.

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« 165 † Noah… Moses, his works, expressed faith in the promise of the God that he believed. Pharaoh, the man, could see what was. Not… he couldn’t see how Moses was going to do it, but he knowed Moses believed what he was talking about or he wouldn’t be standing in the palace there with a stick in his hand. Said, “By this stick, I’ll take them out from you.” An old man, eighty years old; not an athlete, an old man, stooped shoulders, and whiskers hanging down to his… probably his waistline; and gray hair, if he had any. And there with that stick in his hand, saying, “‘I’m going to take them out, let the people go,’ THUS SAITH THE LORD. And if you don’t do it, God’s going to judge you.” Amen! Why? That’s… See, it… Was he afraid? Why, just one arrow, one spear, anything else would have ended it. He was fearless! He knowed exactly where he was standing; said, “God will smite thee, Pharaoh.” Yes, sir.
166 For God told him, “You will come to this mountain again,” and he knowed he was going there.
167 Hallelujah! We know where we’re going too, at the end of this journey. God has promised! There’s a Land beyond the river. Be fearless in your testimony. Amen. If it’s revealed to you, you are fearless. You don’t care if the whole world… what they say; you’re fearless. When it’s revealed to you, “This is the Truth coming from God,” then you can’t be fearless. If not, you can’t be.

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« 168 † David, with a shepherd’s sling, expressed to the whole Israelite army, the faith that he had in their God. Now, there was Goliath on the other side, and he stood out there and made his boasts. Many times bigger than David, he had fingers fourteen inches long. And he was a mammoth, big fellow, the Philistine giant. And here was David, the smallest one, he was even too little to be in the army; too much of a runt, they couldn’t use him. So, his brothers was out there in the army. And, then, Goliath was making his boasts.
169 But David, now remember, it was revealed to David. He thought, “Here is the armies of the living God, standing in their own land, and there’s a boasting uncircumcised Philistine out there.” We’ll call him “cancer” tonight, we’ll call him “paralytic.”
170 Why, David was no kind of a match for him, not with any kind of a weapon; he was no match. That man’s shoulders was probably ten, twelve foot across; he was probably standing fourteen, fifteen foot high. A spear like a weavers needle, probably twenty foot long, the blade on it maybe four foot across.

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« 171 † And a little David standing there with a little piece of leather, goatskin or sheepskin, with two pieces of string tied to it. But it was revealed to him! Revelation struck him! Amen! He said, “The God that took me out of the paws of the bear, that took me out of the paws of the lion, how much more will He deliver that uncircumcised Philistine in my hand!”
172 His brothers, way more able to do it. Saul, head and shoulders above his army. But, you see, it wasn’t revealed to them. Amen. There it is: they believed it could be done, they believed that God could do it, but it wasn’t revealed to them; but it was revealed to David. So there’s the difference, right there. If it’s absolutely revealed to you that God is going to heal you, you’re–you’re going to get it. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] You’re going to get it. I don’t care what’s wrong with you, what the odds, it may be worse than David and Goliath. But if it’s revealed to you…

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« 173 † And notice, when it’s revealed, David become fearless. He said, “Today I’ll cut your head off!” Amen. Quickly! Our God, by grace, in that crucial moment when decision had to be made, that same God that produced the grace in that day, and dropped that seed of faith in that little hunchback-looking boy, seeing in his heart; that same God, in this crucial moment, could take that woman from the wheelchair, that man there, if you can believe it, with all her trouble. When that little grain of faith is revealed to you. And I don’t care how long it takes,…

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« 174 † Now notice the giant, on the other side, didn’t believe it; neither will the cancer. He laughed, he said, “Am I a dog? You send a kid out here to fight me?” Said, “I’ll pick you up, on the end of my spear, and let the birds eat your flesh.” Why, he had all the… all, everything for his side.
175 But, you see, that didn’t shake David at all. Why? It was revealed to him. He had faith in what he was doing. He knowed he was going to do it. And he did it, is because that it was revealed to him and he knowed where he’s standing.
176 And if God would just spoke that, right down in your heart tonight, said “You’re not going to be laying in that bed. You’re not going to be setting in that chair. You’re going to be well,” there couldn’t be anything change your mind in it.
177 But until that’s happened, every preacher in the world could pray,… I don’t say it wouldn’t help you; it would, it’d encourage you. But until that faith… See, the healing power is in you. It don’t come from the preacher. It comes to you by revelation, by faith. “Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit,” saith the Lord. “My Spirit, by grace, reveals this to you.” And there’s nothing can take it away. By faith, revelation! Then, David to prove his works,…

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« 178 † Now, some of them said, “I know you’re naughty.” His brother said, “You come up here to see the battle. Now, you run back over where them sheep was.”
179 He said, “Let me speak to Saul, the general.” You see?
180 And Saul said, “Now, son, I admire your courage, but, you see, you’re nothing but a youth. And he’s a warrior from his youth, you’re no match for him.”
181 He said, “I was tending my father’s sheep,…” He could base it on something! Amen. O brother! And the God that saved your soul, can’t He heal your body? It’s just the same, reveal to you, He’s your Healer as He was your Saviour. See? But it’s got to be revealed first, that’s the difference. He had something to base his faith on.
182 Said, “Now, this never happened before.”
183 But said, “The same God that delivered me from the paws of the lion, will deliver me from that uncircumcised Philistine.”
“How do you know, David?”
“I believe it.”
“Why?”
“It’s been revealed to me.” And he said…
184 He knowed what he was talking about. Because when the giant said, “I’m going to feed you to the birds”; he said “I’m going to cut your head off.” There’s the difference, see. And he did it!

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« 185 † Samson, caught out one day (off guard) in a prairie, and here come a thousand Philistines upon him. And he looked down on the ground, and there’s where a mule had died, and he picked up the old jaw, jawbone, dry as it could be, and took out after those Philistines, beating them over the head with this old dry jawbone of a mule, and as far as I know, not a tooth ever fell out of it. And them Philistine helmets was probably a inch thick (’cause they beat one another with war clubs in those days), to keep a man from beating them on the head. But he took the jawbone of that mule and beat down a thousand Philistines, and the jawbone never broke. He just kept beating them, like that, as they come up. So, the rest of them took off for the rocks, see, they was getting away from him. Why? He believed it!
186 Sometime, to show you,… I want to tell you something else. Work on that pulsation, that spare of the moment, like Joshua did, like Mary Magdalene, all those. Just that moment when something is revealed to you, grab it. Hold to it, that spare of the moment.

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« 187 † Yes, it was revealed to him. He went to meet these thousand Philistines. Now what do you think when those Philistines said, “Now, look, coming there, that little shrimp; only about four feet and a half tall, to begin with; with seven little curls hanging down his back, like mama’s little sissy, see; come along there with a jawbone of a mule. And look at us, what a great army we are! Isn’t that ridiculous?” But what was he doing? He was expressing to those Philistines what had been revealed to him by God. He grabbed the jawbone and took off, because that’s what He put in his hand; He put that in his hand, that’s what he believed: he could do it! And by doing so, he was expressing to those Philistines what God had put in his heart to do.

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« 188 † John the Baptist expressed his faith by his works, and when he said “There stands One among you now.” Just think of that. Saint John, I got the Scripture, Saint John 1:26, see. He said…
189 They said, “You say, ‘The Messiah’s coming’? Why,” said, “man, what’s the matter with you? We been looking for Him for four thousand years.”
190 He said, “He’s standing right among you now.” Hallelujah! So is He tonight! Uh-huh.
191 He expressed his faith by his revelation, because it was revealed to him that… he knowed he would baptize the Messiah. He was a man, thirty years old. He knowed He had to be there somewhere; he had never knew who He was, and there He was standing right among them. He said, “There’s One standing among you now, Who you know not, and I’m not worthy to loose the latches on His shoes, but He’ll baptize you with the Holy Ghost. And He’s right among you now.” He expressed it, his faith, because he knowed, in his day, he was to see and baptize God’s Messiah. So, you see, the people could see the expression upon him, in the way he was preaching and the way he was acting, was expressing that he had a true revelation from God.

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« 192 † Now, to prove that it was true, walking right out of the crowd come the Messiah; just an ordinary young man walking down through there, dressed like other man. John said, “Behold, there’s the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.”
193 “How do you know Him?”
194 He said, “He that said to me, in the wilderness, ‘Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending, that’s the One that’ll baptize with the Holy Ghost.'”
195 See, he knew Him because there was supposed to be a sign about that time. (Are you catching It?) John knew just about the hour, ’cause he was a prophet. It was revealed to him, that he know would be about that time, he’d see a sign. And when he seen that sign, he said, “He’s standing among you.” He knew It was there.
196 Oh, I see the sign that the end time is here. I see the things that’s promised, for this end-time Message, coming to pass (unfolding) just exactly like the Scripture said. And I know that the time is at hand! I say that without hesitance. I believe it’s right at hand, for I see the signs that He said would happen just before that time. It’s ready to happen now.

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« 197 † John expressed his faith in what God had revealed to him. Therefore, works is faith’s testimony. When they see you acting like you’re healed, then they’ll know you got faith that you are healed.
198 What does testimony say? Saying this: “I have it now, ’cause I received God’s promise. It is now working in me. I am making ready for it to happen.” Uh-huh. See, that’s what you testi-… your works does. Well, sure!

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« 199 † Here, some time ago, next to my last trip in Africa; I was just over there this spring, but trip before that. There was a little baby that had club feet, and one foot… leg shorter than the other one. It never wore shoes in its life. Oh, it was a most horrible deformed. And I prayed for the baby that night, they had watched and seen those things done, they prayed for the baby. And the next morning I went down, walked by a shoe store. And I walked in there, and there was the man buying the baby a pair of shoes to wear. He believed it! Uh-huh.
200 Like this man over here, that believed that God would give him the baby. Sure, he believed it was going to happen, made ready for it. “I’m making ready.” Although no physical results seen as yet, but that didn’t make a bit of difference. He believed it, like Abraham, “called anything contrary as though it was not so.” There!

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« 201 † Therefore, if your intellectuals does tell you… Oh, here’s the stinger now. If your intellectuals does tell you that “This is the Truth, God is the Healer of sickness,” your mind can witness that “That is the Truth,” but if there is not the bedding ground in your heart (faith, to fall in) to express it, it will not happen.
Though much… no matter how much this outside man can reason it with the Scriptures, and say, “it’s right,” that still doesn’t make it Right.
202 How many takes the tapes? Did you get my sermon, not long ago, The Anointed Ones Of The Last Day? Did you believe that? See, it said, “There will be antichrists. Antichrists would almost deceive the very elected, if possible.” Can it through… It can’t, because it’s impossible, they’re elected. See? All right.
203 But He said, “The anointed ones.” See, Christ means “anointed,” but these were anti. They were anointed, but anti, against Christ in their teaching. Now, they could do anything that the rest of them could do.

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« 204 † Now, remember, you’re in a cycle of three, but you’re one person. Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, cycle of three, but one Person. Three attributes of the same God: fatherhood… Three offices like: fatherhood, sonship, and Holy Ghost. And you are: body, spirit, and soul.
205 Now, the outside body has five inlets to it, to contact your earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. The inside, which is a spirit, it has five senses: conscience, and love, and so forth. But the inside of that, the soul, has one thing. That’s where you live.

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« 206 † The Spirit can come out here and anoint you to do certain thing, and you do it, but that don’t mean you’re saved. Think of it. Caiaphas prophesied. Judas cast out devils. See, the Spirit anointed him. This rain falls on the just and the unjust, the weeds can rejoice with the wheat. But it’s what it is at the core. There’s where you can, intellectuals, can accept and say, “Oh, sure, that looks good. I believe that.” That still don’t do it. No, sir. And the spirit can actually make witness of it, and still it isn’t so. Because if that soul hasn’t come from God, it can make all the impersonations out here, but it cannot be real. You can act healing, you can act like you have. You can act like you receive it. Christians can act like they’re Christians, and act and be ever so good at it, but that don’t mean they’re saved. That’s exactly right, see. The Spirit can be there, the real, genuine Spirit. The Holy Spirit can anoint you, that still don’t mean you’re saved. It’s that inside soul that never dies, it’s got Eternal Life. It always was Eternal Life. See? It come from God, it goes to God, it’s the soul.

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« 207 † Now, notice that, it’s got to be. Five, f-a-i-t-h, outside; spirit, J-e-s-u-s; on the inside, y-o-u. See? That’s how standing here, looking at you, I don’t know a one of you. The spirit can anoint me, still I don’t know none of you. But when that inside of the inside breaks in, that’s God.
208 That’s where the outside can reason. You take a man, say, “Well, you know, I–I know I’m not supposed to commit adultery. But, you know, then the spirit tells me I shouldn’t commit adultery. But, you see, way down in there is still that thing in there.” See, it’ll kind of govern around, and better watch it.
209 But when it’s directed from the inside, it throws all the rest of it together. That’s the guidepost. That’s the control tower, the inside of the inside. The soul controls the spirit, the spirit controls the body.
210 So an outside whitewash don’t make any difference. Them religious people back there, that Paul called “whited-walls,” and so forth, they were (outward) just every way the… a believer, and they had prophesies among them, and everything else but the inside of the inside (“the soul that disbelieveth”).
211 That’s the reason I say people can jump up and down, and speak in tongues, people can shout, lay hands on the sick, and heal the sick and so forth, by faith; all these great things there by the Spirit, still be lost. Anointed ones.

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« 212 † Notice Jesus has said, “Only believe, for all things are possible to them that believe.” Faith and works are husband and wife, they work together. The husband works with the wife, the wife with the husband; they identify one another.
213 Like a man says he’s “married” and yet he can’t produce and show that he has a wife, you doubt his claim. See? A man said, “I’m married.”
“Where’s your wife?”
“Oh, oh, I–I don’t know about that.” See? See? Be kind of hard thing for me to believe him.
I say, “Well, where is your wife?”
“Well, I don’t know.” I–I ain’t going to believe it.
214 So, you see, if you have what you say you have, “I have faith.” How you going to show me you got faith? By your works. See?
“I am married.”
“How do I know you’re married?”
“This is my wife.” See? There you are.
“I am married, this is my husband.”
“I am healed.”
“How do you know?”

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« 215 † “My works shows my faith.” See? See? Now, what–what you’re speaking of: your faith is what God sees in you, your works is what the other people see in you.
216 That’s for difference between James and Paul here, explaining about Abraham. They never contradicted one another, they was both the same; married.
217 So is faith that doesn’t produce works, anyone has a right to doubt your testimony. Now do you hear it, before we start the prayer line? If your faith doesn’t produce works with it, you can’t make anyone believe that you’re healed. Say, “Well, I don’t know.” See? “Why, yeah, sure, I got all the faith in the world.” You don’t. Because, if you are… got faith, then works is married to faith. They’re husband and wife, one–one identifies the other one.

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« 218 † Let’s think of Abraham for just a few minutes. Abraham got that holy union in complete, see, he got the whole thing together. He called things, contrary to his faith, as though it was not; and acted on the same principle. I can imagine, after about twenty years, somebody come by and said, “Father of nations? Huh! Abram, you said your name was ‘Abraham,’ which means father of nations. Just how many children do you have right now, Abraham?” See?
219 That didn’t stumble him a bit. The Bible said, “He staggered not at the Word of God, through unbelief.” He went right ahead making ready, keeping all the booties ready and the bird-eye and everything, he was “going to have the baby.” That’s all.

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« 220 † Even Sarah said, “You know what’s going to happen? You’re going to have the baby, but I tell you the way we’re going to do it. Hagar now is my maid, I’m going to give her to you.” Cause, polygamy was legal then. “And she’ll have a baby, and I’ll take the baby myself.” But Abraham didn’t believe that. Nope, he wouldn’t do it. But Sarah was inspired to do it.
221 So, God told Abraham, “Go ahead and listen to her,” but He said, “yet this is not what I promised you. This is not the way I promised it.”

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« 222 † Now watch, he called anything “contrary,” and his body then dead, and Sarah’s womb the same. Now, he was an old man, a hundred years old. Sarah was ninety years old. Now notice! The deadness of Sarah’s womb or the deadness of his body wasn’t even brought under consideration.
223 Listen to this.
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
For if it was by the law… was by the law be heir, faith is made void, and the promise is… none effect:
Because the law worketh wrath: and where there is no law, there is no transgression.
224 Listen to this, now.
Who against hope…
“Against hope,” all hopes was gone! Oh, every time I go to feeling a little “blue,” here’s the chapter I turn to, Romans 4, see.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of… nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and called those things which were not as though they were. (“God said so!” See?)
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of… nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
225 Now listen, 19th verse.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither… the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong… giving glory to God;

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« 226 † At a hundred years old? Look, his body now dead (his manhood), and Sarah’s womb dead. He’s… It wasn’t even considered. When it’s revealed to him, that bed is not considered. You’re a paralytic, or whatever you are, that isn’t considered. The wheelchair’s not under consideration. Or the little boy, maybe paralyzed, whatever it is (I don’t know), it’s not under consideration. Don’t even consider it.
227 “But the doctor said, ‘He’ll never get out of here.’ The doctor said, ‘She’ll never come… ‘” That’s not even considered.
228 “Well, look, I’m an old person, I’m getting middle aged.” I don’t even consider it.

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« 229 † And we are the children of Abraham (Hallelujah!), not as Isaac was, but his Royal Seed (through Jesus Christ) by the faith that he had, Abraham’s Seed coming forth in the last days to shine like the stars. Abraham’s children! “Considered not his own body now dead.” Neither even considered it! It wasn’t even brought into question whether God would do it or not, God said he would do it! Why? It was revealed to him. Is that right?
230 When it’s revealed to you, when it really… something… You can’t make it happen, it’s got to be revealed to you. Then you don’t even consider anything else: how impossible it is, don’t consider what the doctor said, you don’t consider what mama said, what papa said, what the preacher said, what anybody else said. You just consider what God said!

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« 231 † “He considered not his own body now dead, neither the deadness of Sarah’s womb. It wasn’t even brought under consideration. Oh, my, that just shakes me. Body dead, nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb, not even brought under consideration.
232 No circumstances will be considered when faith finds its bedding ground! When a germ gene from a man finds the–the egg in the woman, and both of them fertile, something’s going to happen. Hallelujah! The doctor can say, “You’ll not have a baby. I can prove that your–your genes are dead in your body, and her eggs will never be fertile.” But let that fertile egg, let that germ twist itself to that egg one time, watch what happens; that little boy or that little girl comes on the scene. Why? Faith has found its bedding ground. Works goes to work, cell on top of cell, and here comes the little fellow. Amen. God, have mercy upon us. O God, if we was rugged Christians like we should be; if we were men and women, who could take God at His Word. You can’t do it until it’s revealed to you. (I got to hurry)

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« 233 † Notice, the holy faith of God was united with the holy works of his prophet. Remember, God’s holy faith was revealed to Abraham. He received it, and by there he started with his holy works, by believing. The seed of promise had a place to grow. What if he said (Abraham) “Well, you know, Sarah, after all, it’s been twenty-five years since God made that promise”? Huh-uh! “If something would a-happened,” see. But it wouldn’t. God knowed it wouldn’t.
234 What if the virgin Mary said, “Well, now, wait a minute! A–a virgin conceive? Well, they’ll throw me out of my church if I go in and say such a thing as that”? Now, she would have thought those thoughts if it hadn’t been that prepared bedding ground.
235 When that prophet said, “A virgin shall conceive,” that settled it. See?
236 “These signs shall follow them that believe.” If a bedding ground is laying there when that Word drops there, it takes a-hold. There’s nothing can stop it.

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« 237 † Now, quickly, while we finish. See, the Seed had a place to hide. God knew it, or He would have never give the promise to Abraham. Now listen, real close now. God knowed where that promise was going to; He never even called Abraham till he was seventy-five years old, but he was His predestinated servant from the beginning, so was Sarah.
238 Notice, remember, he had no Bible to read from. He didn’t have it as easy as we got it today, to read His Word and see others who’ve took It. Remember, he only had It by revelation, and that’s the real thing. Same as it was by Joseph, in Genesis, there was no Bible. Remember, Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. None of those characters in there had any Bible to read till after Moses. Is that right? They didn’t have a Bible that we got, to help us along in our cripple condition. They were rugged men who… was revealed to them by God, and they stood right there. Nothing moved them. Now, do you think that we can still have that rugged faith? If It’s revealed to you!

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« 239 † Pardon the expression, or the testimony at this time, just before closing. I remember that up here in “Twin City,” I think Brother Brown and them was with me; and I was taking the life of Joseph, in the Bible. And I read that Bible, there was a man there was nothing against! Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all of them, had something against them, but not Joseph. What a man, a perfect man, a perfect type of Christ!
240 When I read that, I just got to crying, one day, in my little ol’ hotel room. And I went over in the closet where I had my clothes hanging, pulled the door together, and I said, “God, I want to thank You for a man like Joseph, a man who once lived on the earth, a–a man in flesh like I am, a man that could believe You and take Your Word.” He was hated of his brothers. He couldn’t help being spiritual. He saw a vision. He could interpret dream. All of them hated him for it. He couldn’t help that, that’s just what he was.

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« 241 † See, it just wasn’t to the others. They ought to have loved him, but instead of that… When he told them, sometimes things against them, “Oh,” they say, “here comes that dreamer.” See? And they hated him without a cause.
242 I said, “Why did they do that?” And yet that man never moved, he stayed right there. See? I said, “Thank You, Lord. O God, thank You for such a man.”
243 And right then the Holy Spirit revealed to me, said, “You’ll have a son, and you’ll call his name ‘Joseph.'” I got up from there and thanked the Lord.

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« 244 † Becky, setting back there, had just been borned about a… she was about a year old. She was with cesarean, it runs in my wife’s family to be cesarean; ’cause they don’t unhinge like the woman should, the bones are solid like a man, and she had to be cut from her mother. And the doctor told me, he said, “Brother Branham, don’t you never have another child by this woman.” Said, “Her womb is as thin as a balloon.” He said, “You’d better let me tie those tubes.”
245 I said, “No, I wouldn’t… don’t think about doing that, ‘Doc.'”
246 He said, “Well, you–you–you’ll… She shouldn’t have another child.” Said, “You’re going to ruin her,” said, “she’ll die.” Said, “We had an awful time there,” said, “you just… she just did come through.”
247 And then the Lord told me I was “going to have a son” and his name would be called “Joseph.” I never was scared about it. All of you… many of you remember it.

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« 248 † I went forth announcing, “I’m going to have a baby and his name’s going to be Joseph.” How many remembers it? Sure! All around, out over the country, everywhere, telling people, “Going to have a baby, his name’s going to be Joseph.”
249 Just the same as that little boy was raised up, in Finland, from the dead. Brother Jack was right there when it happened. Told you, two or three years before it happened, “There’d be a little boy,” how he’d be dressed, where he’d be laying. “God said so!”
250 “How is it going to be?”
251 “I don’t know! But it was revealed to me that it was going to happen!”

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« 252 † It was revealed to me, “I was going to Arizona, and there I’d meet seven Angels. And they would tell me then what… a Message that I was to preach.” And that was the Seven Seals. It happened! How many remembers me saying that? The tapes and things will go to that. And it happened! Magazines, everything else, took the picture of It. That Light there in the air, they can’t even understand It yet. There it was.
253 I remember calling Brother Jack and asking him about that, Christ being standing there, and Brother Jack said, “That’s in His glorified state.” See? I love Brother Jack. He’s one of the best theologians I know of, but I just couldn’t hit it just right.
254 I was standing there, I said, “Lord, how is this? Young Man here” I said, “with hair like wool.”
255 And He said, “He is wigged.” Watch in the book, before it ever happened, I said that. And that day when that happened, it went up. And then you turn that picture sideways, if you’ve got Look Magazine or Life Magazine. Turn it sideways. There He is, just perfectly, Hoffmann’s Head of Christ, looking right down where I was standing; there It is in the magazine! How many’s ever seen It? Course, you’ve all seen. There, looking right back, proved exactly the revelation was correct.

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« 256 † Why wigged? Why, the old English judges, the Jewish judges, used to wear a–a–a wig, they do yet in England; when he’s… that’s supreme authority, he wears a wig. And that showed Him standing there, wigged by Angels’ wings, He is the Alpha and Omega. He is the Supreme Judge, and none other but Him. He is to look upon as Alpha and Omega. And there He was a young Man, no, or more, thirty years old, wearing a wig of white. Showing that He was Supreme, God, “The Father hath committed all judgment unto the hands of the Son.” Hallelujah! The revelation is never wrong! Speak It anyhow, no matter what it sounds like, goes right with the Word.
Now remember, four years later, my wife…

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« 257 † We knew we was going to have a baby. Everybody said, “Is this Joseph coming?”
258 I said, “I guess it is, I don’t know, but I’m going to have Joseph.”
259 When it was borned, it was Sarah. Then a man called me up, and laughed in my face, he said, “Say, you know what? You meant Josephine!” (The man died. The man died.)
260 I said, “Sir, I said, ‘God told me I was “going to have a son” and I would “call his name ‘Joseph'”!'”
261 There was three people that left a certain denominational church and come to our church, and heard me saying that. When Sarah was borned, they said, “Why, he’s a false prophet.”
262 I said, “Wait a minute, ladies, I never said when, neither did God say when. He told me, was ‘going to have a… ‘ He was going to… told Abraham, they was ‘going to have a Isaac,’ but Ishmael was borned in between that time, but it didn’t take It away.” I said, “God said I’ll have this boy and we’ll call his name ‘Joseph.'”

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« 263 † The doctor said, when he come up, he said, “Reverend, I’m going to tie those tubes now.” Said, “I…”
264 I said, “Don’t you do it!” I said…
265 He said, “Well, you might get married again and have that boy yet.”
266 I said, “I’m going to have it by her! God said so!” I couldn’t read it out of the Bible but it was wrote on my heart by revelation, by faith; God said so! Didn’t want to stagger at the promise of God through unbelief.
Some of them said, “You meant ‘Josephine.'”
I said, “I meant ‘Joseph.'”
Doctor said, “She can’t have another baby.”
I said, “She will have another baby.”
267 Four years passed, finally she was going to be mother again.

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« 268 † Then a woman, (a false prophecy sent forth across the country) writing words, said, “Now Meda’s going to die, during this time, because I was sent to lead Bill.” And it said that “He won’t listen to me ’cause I’m a woman, and God’s going to get even with him now by killing his wife.”
269 I said, “God sent Jesus Christ to lead me.” See? And I said, “I’m led by the Spirit.”
270 Poor little Meda. We had a nurse that had been healed there in a meetings, you all know, Mrs. Morgan, (and one of Mayo’s nurses, the worse cases). Well, she’s on the record, “dead,” about twenty years ago, of cancer, “sarcomas cancer,” in Louisville, right on the Baptist hospital record. She’s nursing in–in Jeffersonville, in the hospital, now. She’s been there for all these years, ’cause God said “She’d live.”
271 And, so, Meda loved her, and she said, “I want Margie come with me, Bill, I don’t feel like going to the hospital.”

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« 272 † I said, “Don’t make… We love Margie, but Margie’s not our God, Margie’s our sister.” And I took off up to Green’s Mill. She’d got me all tore up, course I love her, and I went up to Green’s Mill. And I…
273 And she said, “Bill, do you think I’m going to die?”
274 And I said, “I don’t know, but the baby is going to be born, anyhow. You’re going to have a Joseph.”
275 She said, “Is this him?”
276 I said, “I don’t know, Honey. I can’t say, but God said we’re ‘going to have Joseph,’ and we’re going to have Joseph. I don’t care what anything says, we’re going to have Joseph. For the same God that’s told me all these revelations, told me that, He never failed on others and He won’t fail on that.”
277 I went up to the mill to pray. And started over there, seen that Light hang between two trees, said, “Go back to your, were, to the Book.” I went back to this…

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« 278 † The Bible was… and laying in my car. And when I did, the wind had blowed it over to where Nathan was setting, and David; said, “Go tell My servant David; I took him from that sheepcote, from feeding those few sheep of his father’s, and I made him a great name like the great man.” (not all the–the greatest name, but just like great man; never made him a Billy Graham, but a… give him a name, you know) Said, “Well, I done that, but” said, “I can’t let him build the temple, but his son…” And just as soon as It said, “His sons,” oh, my, there it was.
279 I said, “Joseph?” That’s right.
280 Right there, in the house I went. And there’s the little fellow, so big she… she’s a big ol’ boy, she couldn’t hardly walk, going out through the field. I run, throw my arms around her, and I said, “Honey! Joseph is coming. Joseph is on his road.”

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« 281 † Anyone knows, with cesarean, you can’t let the baby drop. That night the baby dropped, the water broke, everything else.
282 Next morning, at seven o’clock, we went over to the hospital, the doctor said, “Oh, mercy, goodness.”
283 I kissed her good-bye, said, “Honey, it won’t be long, Joseph will be here.” Right up the steps, she went like that on the operating table.
284 A few minutes, the nurse come back, said, “Rev. Branham?”
285 I said, “Yes, ma’am.”
286 She said, “You got a fine, seven pound, three ounce, boy.”
287 I said, “Joseph, son, welcome.” Yes, sir! Why? Why? What is it? It wasn’t written in the Bible that would happen, but the same God of the Bible that revealed it to Abraham, we didn’t consider the deadness of her womb, the impossibility to be that way. You don’t stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but you give praise to God, know that it’s got to happen! I don’t care what doctor says, everything else will come in all kind of a way, but don’t you believe it, it’s a lie of the Devil. Yes, sir, true. Faith goes about, together with works, to create the promise. (Let’s hurry.)

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« 288 † Just exactly as it said, “Rahab the harlot,” James said, “was justified by works.” But why? Her faith!
289 She said, “I hear that God is with you.” She didn’t want to see how Joshua wore his hair, or how he wore his clothes. She said, “I understand that God’s with you.” That’s all was necessary, she made ready.
290 Just as true vision today, (I’m closing just in a moment) true visions from God today, it’s a promised Word for the day. Say, “These visions, Brother Branham, where do you get that?” People stumble at that. Did not Acts 2:17, said, “It shall come to pass in the last days that your young man shall see visions, your old man shall dream dreams”? Isn’t that right? That’s what the Bible said.

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« 291 † All right, now if that’s so, also look at Malachi, the 4th chapter, and find out if this isn’t promised today. How can you have faith in It? The Bible said so!
292 Now you take Luke 17:30 and read it. Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. Just like it was at Sodom. Now, look at the position of the world today: Sodomites. Look at that Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, them two witnesses, down there witnessing to the denominational churches. One to the Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian; the other to the Pentecostals. This one, that one, and the other one.

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« 293 † But remember, Abraham wasn’t in Sodom, he was already called out. And there was One stayed and talked to him! And the One stayed and talked to him, showed him a sign. With His back turned, He said Sarah was going to have the baby that he had waited on. Amen. With His back turned. And he called It, “God, Elohim.”
294 Now, that brings to pass today, because we have faith. And I know this is of God, is because this and other Scriptures point to this hour. Revelation 10, said that “in the hour of the seventh angel’s Message, when he begins to sound forth his Message,” not in a healing service, but the Message that follows the healing service.

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« 295 † Jesus went forth and preached; he said, “He healed the sick, and everything. O that young Rabbi, the Prophet, He’s a great Fellow. We want Him in our church.”
296 But one day He stood up, said, “I and My Father are One.” Oh, my. They didn’t want Him no more then. Yeah. Oh!
297 “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood!” He didn’t explain It. Said, “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you.”
298 Why, I imagine, them doctors and nurses said, “This fellow’s a vampire, trying to get us to drink his blood.” See, they didn’t understand It. He knowed it.
299 But them disciples, they might not have been able to explained it, but they set there and believed It anyhow, amen, for It was revealed to them. Yes, sir. They knowed It, the Scriptures had declared It.

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« 300 † It could be asked then to me, this that you might say, “Why do you have faith to believe in these visions, when–when there’s so many false impersonations goes forth?”
301 I’m going to speak a little something, strong, just for a minute now. When so many false impersonations are around, remember, my brother, they are also spoken of that they should be here at this same time. That’s exactly, just as it was in the times of Moses. Moses went down to perform the works of God before the people, and there was Jambres and Jannes standing there. But who was first to do it? Then these other ones was impersonators, ’cause there had to be a original first for them to impersonate. If that had been the original… Uh-huh. Nah, we’re not–we’re not lost, we know where we’re at. See? See, by the Scripture and by the revelation of God, that’s why you still stand.

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« 302 † “Why, this man, he sees visions and so forth. He does this, and he run around with this man’s wife. He believes in–in three gods, and all these things.” That don’t stagger It a bit. And here’s one thing they can’t impersonate: the Word! No. They can have all these things, they can speak in tongues, they can shout, dance in the Spirit, and still be devils. Uh-huh. That’s right. That’s right. But this Word measures them up. See? That’s exactly right. This is where it comes to. As Moses, and Jambres…
And remember, He said, “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, in the last days these impersonators would rise on the earth again.” Did He say it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] So, we got them.

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« 303 † But that didn’t stagger Moses. When Moses turned around and done a miracle in the Name of the Lord, and here stood these impersonators, done the same thing. That didn’t stop him, say, “Well, I guess I had better quit and go off the field.” He stayed right there. For what? It was revealed to him. Hallelujah! He knowed by the Word of God. He knowed that the Word would finally catch up with them. He knowed there’d come a time when the Word would manifest Itself, and they couldn’t go no further.
304 So have I knowed this, all these years. See? That’s right, that the time would come. When any miracle that God sends, a real miracle, there’s always a change in the whole system. If God sends something into the church, and the old system’s not changed, He sent it in vain. When a message goes forth in signs and wonders, there is a Message follows that. When Jesus went forth healing the sick, then come His Message, “I and My Father are One. I am He.” See? See, they–they didn’t believe That. They believed His miracles. Said, “If you can’t believe Me, believe those miracles.” Said, “They testify to you, Who I am.” Oh, my. Glory! Who was first? Moses! Then they impersonated him. But the great truths still remains the same between the right and wrong, they cannot accept the Message! They cannot accept the Message that’s unadulterated, from the Word of God.

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« 305 † I don’t care, Judas could have done all kind of signs and wonders; but, when he come to receive the Holy Ghost at the Day of Pentecost, he showed his colors. That Devil can come right up and impersonate right to the very thing, till it comes to this Word, but he can’t take all that Word. He can bring it all up, maybe to one Word like Eve did, the Devil did to Eve, but he can’t cross it all. Because the only… the whole thing is the Body of Christ. See, Word now. Neither could… They could not, cannot take the Message now, neither could Jambres and Jannes take Moses’ Message. They could not do it. Their works of impersonation was made known, because they could not be able to follow God’s Word vindicated by His anointed prophet. See?

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« 306 † They could not follow Israel out. Why? They were denominational, Egyptian babies! They could not follow that Word. If they did, they had to leave Egypt. The Nile was good to them, and they couldn’t do it. Although they could impersonate the works, and do what Moses did, but their folly was made manifest when it come time to leave. Then God really poured out it, on them.
307 Same now! They might do all kind of false impersonations and things, that don’t do nothing but magnify the right thing. And any believing child knows that’s the Truth (uh-huh). Here you see in plain view, then, the works of their folly of their impersonation. If you’ll… if your work is the true Word and vindicated by It, by your faith, it will manifest (and the–and the promise of God) in Its original written Word.

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« 308 † Jesus said, “If I do not the works…” (Listen close!) “If I do not the works…” (Let me add this to It.) “That is, if I do not the works the Scriptures tell you I will do, then… do that in My age, when I come, what the Messiah was supposed to do when He come. If the things that I do, if God doesn’t vindicate that Word that He said would happen, if My life doesn’t make that Word live just exactly what It said It would do…” (Don’t miss this!) Jesus saying, “You know what the Messiah’s supposed to do. Then, if that Word that’s written, and then It don’t manifest Itself through Me, then I am not He.” (Amen!) “Then the day that I speak of is wrong, what John said about Me was untrue. And then if I’m not that Messiah, if those works that Messiah was supposed to do. He is to be ‘the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto me,’ and you haven’t had a prophet for hundreds of years. And if them works that I do, that God promised, if they aren’t manifested in My present life, then I am not He. But if the promised Word of this age is vindicated in Me, then I am He and the promise is come to you.” (Oh, my, don’t see how much plainer It could be!) “If the promise isn’t…” (Oh!)

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« 309 † “Then if the promise of that day is manifested in My ministry,” said Jesus, “then I am He. So if you can’t hardly believe who I am, then look at the works that’s promised for this day.” (Amen!) “Look at the works that’s promised. If them works isn’t fulfilled, every one of them in Me, then don’t believe Me, because I’ve told you wrong. If you can’t believe Me, just look what the Bible said will happen in this day. If it isn’t happening, then it isn’t right. If these false things isn’t here, and all these other things, and things that’s supposed to take place; if it isn’t here, then I’m wrong. But if it is,” Jesus said, “then I’m He.” (Amen!) “I am He that was promised to come.” (Oh, my, same works that was promised, in His day, vindicated Him to be that Messiah. Don’t you believe that?)

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« 310 † Well, now, brother, if the works of Luke, the 17th chapter and the 30th verse, the promise of Jesus Christ, just before His coming, that the world would turn back to Sodom and the messengers would go out, and the things would be done just exactly; if that isn’t taking place, then don’t believe me that I’ve told you the Truth. But if it is taking place, then believe that It’s Him, “In that day the Son of man will be revealed.” Amen! The Son of man will be revealed in a body of flesh, you people the Church, just exactly like it was before the days of Sodom, a called-out group away from all of them, setting out, believing the promise of God. Glory!

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« 311 † Then, the works that the Holy Spirit is doing today, by these visions never failing, promises never failing, all the apostolic signs promised in the Bible, of Malachi 4, and, oh, the Revelation 10:7, all of that is being fulfilled; and proved by scientific, every other way. And if I haven’t told you the Truth, these things would not happen. But if I have told you the Truth, they bear record that I’ve told you the Truth. He’s still the same, yesterday, today, and forever, and the manifestation of His Spirit is catching away a Bride. Let that faith (revelation) fall into your heart, that “This is the hour.”
Now let us pray.

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« 312 † Dear God, Who was manifested in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ, that raised up from the dead, the third day, according to the Scriptures, and ascended on High, and sent the disciples out to disciple all the world, and said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.”
313 God, to the Pentecostal church of this day, the restoration of the gifts; may, Lord, those man, maybe some of them present here, some of them hearing the tape around the world, may they realize that this is the calling out of the Bride, not a Pentecostal message. The Pentecostal message was to restore the gifts back in the Church. But this is the calling forth of the Bride, another Message that was to come just before Sodom was to be burned. Let them understand, dear God. Faith, I believe This, because It’s revealed by Your Spirit through the Word of God and has been vindicated and made manifest to the whole world. Certainly, Lord, in the minority, always Your groups are that way. But You said, “Fear not, little flock, it’s your Father’s good will to give you the Kingdom.”

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« 314 † So, I pray, God, that man will look away from their intellect, look away from what they might think is right, and look into the Scripture. And was spoken last night, let the people here think like the queen did in the days of the great destruction of Babylon, she said, “There is a man among you named ‘Daniel,’ was in your father’s kingdom. The pentecostal father was in his kingdom, and He is a dissolver of all doubts.”
315 And now, Lord, let the Holy Spirit that was in the Pentecostal kingdom, the kingdom that was Martin Luther’s, was John Wesley’s, and–and on through to John Smith and Alexander Campbell, and down through the age. He’s a Dissolver, He dissolved the thoughts. And the–the people in the days of Luther, that man, “The just should live by faith.” The Methodist, He dissolved all the doubts, that “They should–they should be sanctified,” And in the days of the Pentecost, they spoke in tongues, give the manifestations of the Spirit by Divine healing and so forth, It dissolved all the doubts in the pentecostal’s heart. But, O God, they denominated. They went right back out to take man’s ideas. Therefore, now when the Bride is being called as You’ve promised it here in the Scripture, reading It before the world, night after night, and we watch It with our eyes. God, may It dissolve all the doubts in the people’s heart. May they flee quickly to the open Son, to be ripened, to be taken into the garner and not be left in the stalk to be burned, but may they go to the garner tonight. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
Thank you for your attention. Let God deal with your heart.

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« 316 † Now, do you… We got prayer cards give out. Now, we’re going to take about twenty minutes now, for a prayer line. We want to line up real quick, and come across the platform and pray. And now, I don’t know how many cards was give out. I never even asked Billy one thing. I just said, “Did you give out… Go down there and give out some prayer cards.” And he come back and picked his mother and I and them up, just a while ago. Now, I–I… did…
317 Well, did you start with a hundred, or one, and one to a hundred, or what? [Brother Billy Paul says, “One to a hundred.”–Ed.] One to a hundred. All right.

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« 318 † Let’s have prayer card number one. If you got it, hold up your hand so I can see. If you can’t… If you can stand up… if you can’t, we’ll pack you. Prayer card number one, right quick. Who has that? What’d you say? A, number one. (excuse me) A, number… This lady here, do you have that card? Come right here, will you lady? A, number two. Have you got it, someone? Raise your hand quickly. Right here, lady, come. Number three. Got a card? You got a card? You all… Don’t have any cards? In this… in… All right, you don’t have to have it. Three, four, five. A, one, two, three, four, five. Let’s see, there’s one, two, three, four, five. A… All right, here they… Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. All right, just line up, just start lining up.

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« 319 † Now, if you can’t come, wave your hand like that so they can pack you. I’ve asked these people here, that don’t have cards… Don’t have to have, I’m just asking you. Now look, you–you crippled people here, I suppose you had to come early ’cause you just… I told him “early.” Now, you don’t have to have a card, if you’ve got that faith like I taught. See, if it’s revealed to you, all right. If it isn’t revealed, no matter if you be in a dozen prayer lines, it wouldn’t help a bit. You know that? Do you believe that? See? I might pray, I do all I could, get down on my knees, and lay hands on you, anoint you with oil, anyway you wanted to, and pray… Until God, by grace, reveals that in your heart, that “It’s over,” then it’s done. You don’t even have to be in the line or nowhere, it’s done anyhow.

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« 320 † All right, four… One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. All right, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Is anybody I’ve called that’s got a card and can’t raise up? Raise your hand, got a card and cannot raise up. All right.
… only believe,
I can see poor, little, old Anna Jeanne setting, playing that all night, nearly, sometime. I want everybody real quiet and reverent in here.
… only believe;
Now, prayer cards one to fifteen, I believe it was.
… only believe,
They’re getting a little crowded here, so let’s–let’s just start. What do you say?
… possible…

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« 321 † One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten… Now, you’re getting too many. That’s more than we called. That’s all right. Stand still, just where you are. Don’t no one… Just… you’ll get… you get prayed for, but just… See, just wait till they call your number and then, you know, we–we don’t have too many standing here. If the Lord should do something, you’d blind it off from the people and they can’t see it, you see. God bless you.
Now let’s pray for these handkerchiefs while they’re getting ready.

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« 322 † Dear God, here’s handkerchiefs laying here that comes from the sick and afflicted. This faith that we just been talking about, Lord; I remember You saying, in the Bible, in the Book of Jude, “Earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.” And from the body of the saints they took handkerchiefs, not because they were special people, but because they were believing people. They were man of like passion as we are. They said, “Elijah” was like that and he “prayed earnestly that it wouldn’t rain.” And, God, he prayed that so the people would repent. You revealed it to him to pray for them, to pray in that manner to fulfill Your Word. No doubt You showed the prophet a vision. And, Lord, tonight I’m praying for these people to be healed. I’m not Elijah, he was taken into Heaven, but his Life and Spirit still lives on. So we pray, dear God, that You will honor the prayers of Your people. And honor all of us now as we’ll pray for these handkerchiefs, that when they’re laid on the sick they will recover.

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« 323 † We realize, Father, that we’re a–a dying generation of people. We’re heading… faced–faced with Eternity. The world has gone insane. Murders; little girls being cut to pieces and ravished. The people, men wearing their hair like women, women like men, they’re just perverting. The race is dying. The world’s a-dying. Everything’s a-dying. The church is dying.
324 O God, bring Life. Bring Life, O God, Life of faith. Reveal to these people, Lord. I can only pray and lay my hands upon them. But You’re the One that can heal them, and You alone can heal them. I pray that You will, Father, to each and every one. Grant it, with my hands upon them, and asking with all my heart; in the Name of Jesus Christ, heal these people. Amen.

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« 325 † Now, is this mike alive, brother? Now can you hear that all right? Everybody hear that? Raise up your hand. Now, someone was on my heart, going to these people here, setting here in this–this chair, cots and stretchers… they “didn’t even get a prayer card.” See? But, look, brother, see, these people got prayer cards, but that don’t mean they’re going to be healed. There’s people setting out there in the audience, maybe… That–that–that don’t mean they’re–they’re–they’re going to be healed. That–that doesn’t say that–that they will or will not be healed. That all depends on their faith in God. How many knows that to be true? That’s all, just your faith in God. Now, how many knows that that’s true? No matter how religious you are, how good or how bad you are, unless the grace of God drops that into your heart, you’ll never get well. Now, how many knows that God has done it, has done it all along, great miracles, signs and wonders? And now, you’re coming tonight, standing in this line, not because you were chosen to stand in this line by God, that isn’t it; you just got a prayer card, just happened to be at your… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]

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« 326 † Procedure is just exactly like my honorable Brother Gerholtzer here, started his ministry many years ago. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… with faith in God, believing God, believing that God healed the sick by faith. And it never has changed, but God has added in this last day, gifts, gifts that He promised. God did it be-… not because He had to, but because He promised to. And if He promised, then He has to do it; because He has to keep His Word.
327 And He promised you the same thing, that is, “If you could believe that it would happen.” If you can’t believe It, it just won’t happen. Now, I can’t make you believe, neither can you make yourself believe. God has got to give it to you. It’s a gift of God, to believe. Not your faith, God’s faith. Your intellectual faith might believe it fine, but unless the faith of God is down in your heart… See, your intellectual faith can accept it, do that. And just keep believing it with all your heart until God does reveal it to you. See? Just keep believing it until God does reveal it. But until He reveals it…

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« 328 † You say, “Brother Branham, what’d you say there?”
329 “Yes, sir!” God sent a prophet up to Hezekiah and told him, “‘You’re not coming off that bed,’ THUS SAITH THE LORD. ‘You’re going to die there on that bed.'” That right?
330 But that prophet turned… or that king turned his face to the wall, and cried out in bitter tears, and said, “Lord, I need fifteen more years. I beseech Thee, Lord, to hear me.” Now, the king was the greatest man in the world, in politics; but, the prophet was, in God’s sight. That was God’s king; but it was God’s prophet. So, God revealed to the prophet to take some… boil some… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] You know? Understand?

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« 331 † Now, that you might understand now, because I’ve preached the Scriptures here, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.” In the days that the church is being revealed? No! “In the days that the Son of man is being revealed.” What is revealed? Made known! That right? Reveal! The day that the Son of man is being revealed, it’ll be a day like Sodom and Gomorrah. Is that right?
332 Now, look what happened. They had two main messengers, down there in Sodom and Gomorrah, because there was a bunch of lukewarm Christians down there. Is that right? And they had two main messengers (now listen close) down in Sodom and Gomorrah, preaching. But one of them who stood out here with Abraham’s group. That right?

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« 333 † Now look! We have never, in all the history of the church, ever had a universal messenger to the church that his name ended in h-a-m, till now: G-r-a-h-a-m, which is six letters, G-r-a-h-a-m. But Abraham’s name was spelled: A-b-r-a-h-a-m, seven letters. See? So the universal church, being the letter of man (six, man-make organization), yet has received their messenger. They’ve had a Sankey, Moody, Finney, Knox, Calvin, so forth, but never a “h-a-m.” Is that right? But they got it, and he’s a messenger, sent from God, and he’s battering them walls as hard as he can, “Get out of here! Repent or perish!”
334 But remember, the Elected, predestinated, foreordained covenant, Abraham and his group got a Messenger, too. Uh-huh. Watch what He did. He gave them a sign that the time was near for the fire to fall. Now, it’s fire now we’re looking for, atomic fire, the wrath of God.

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« 335 † Now, that Messenger did something. He spoke about a women that He had His back turned to, and told her–and told her she was doubting what He was saying, told her her conditions and what was going to happen. Is that right? Did He say that the Son of man would reveal Himself in the same way in that day? Well, do you believe that’s the Truth?
Well, here stands a woman,…
336 And in the invisible union of the Church, the Bride to Christ, that Messenger is here now, which is Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
337 Now, He only speaks through His prophets. The Bible said so! “He never does anything but first He makes it known to His prophets,” Amos 3:7. He always has done it. He never changes His pattern. See? And the prophet can only speak, if He’s true, what God tells him. Is that right? That’s true.

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« 338 † Now, do you believe He could tell me what’s the matter with this woman before I even look at her? Do you believe it? Why, she’s suffering with cancer. That’s right. It’s on her breast. She’s got a boy, on her mind, he’s suffering with a kind of a mental condition, nervous condition, and complications. That’s right. Do you believe that? And that’s true, isn’t it? Do you believe now that your faith was saying that, has anchored, that you got it, you’re going to have it? Then go, and the Lord Jesus will make you well. See? See? Do you believe? With all your heart?
339 Now, do you believe, without looking at this woman, the Lord Jesus can tell me what’s her trouble? How many believes that? Now, you know… and I’ve never even… I… only thing, I just seen a skirt. I don’t know, couldn’t tell whether it was man or woman; but just standing there. I want her to believe. Do you believe, lady? Here, the patient, do you believe? Raise up your hand if you believe. If you believe with all your heart, you can have that baby that you’re asking God for. See? See? You believe? You have faith in God? Now, that don’t heal, that just identified. That’s the works that identifies the faith of the Presence of God, His Word made manifest.

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« 340 † This woman is wanting a great thing, too. That’s not a baby, but she’s wanting the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. I’ll tell you what do. If you’ll get rid of them cigarettes, God will give you the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Go, believe It, see. Do you believe? Have you faith in God?
341 This man standing here, is a man I’ve never seen in my life. I don’t know him, but he’s suffering with something wrong in his chest. He had a fall that did that, not long ago. He isn’t from here, he comes from Arkansas. He’s a preacher. Go on home and preach the Gospel. See? See? See? I’ve never seen the man in his face.

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« 342 † There’s a woman standing here, I don’t know the woman, never seen her in my life. God knows her.
343 If He can reveal what her trouble is, or something about it, would you believe? All of you? This is only a work identifying the faith that I have to preach what I’ve told you about, tonight. That’s what God revealed, and this is the works proving It. Now, you have to have faith to get well.
344 This woman here, I don’t–I don’t think I know her. Yes, I don’t know her but I know somebody she knows, ’cause I see him standing here before me. She’s suffering with a headache. Isn’t that right, lady? Do you believe that God will heal you? Pearry Green’s sister. That’s right, and I never seen her in my life. That’s right. I seen Pearry Green standing here, looking at me, going like that. That’s right. I don’t know where Pearry Green’s at. Do you believe? How much do you believe? If you can believe, all things are possible. If you can’t believe, nothing can happen.

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« 345 † The little lady with gray hair, setting there looking at me, right here, do you believe God? Do you believe that God can reveal to me what you’re thinking about there? Got a tumor on the breast. You believe God can take it off for you? Yes. Have faith and believe. Now, what did she touch?
346 The woman that touched the border of His garment, the Bible said… You that want to get the Bible, He said, “He’s a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.” Isn’t that right? He’s that High Priest and He’s standing right here, them people are touching Him.
347 There’s a little, thin woman, raised up her hand, setting right here. I never seen her in my life, but she just then touched Something. Here’s what it was. She’s praying to God. She has trouble in her chest, she also has a stomach trouble. God heals you, if you’ll believe It. You must believe. “All things are possible to them that believe.”

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« 348 † There’s a man setting way back in the back, looking this way (about the second row, coming this way), suffering with asthma. Do you believe God will heal you, sir? If you believe It, God will make you well. You can have what you ask for, if you believe It.
349 There’s a woman setting right here, looking at me, across here, gray-headed. If you believe with all your heart… Do you believe It? All right, that gallbladder trouble will leave you then, if you believe It.

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« 350 † What do you think about It, laying here on the cot? Do you believe that God can heal you? If God will tell me your trouble, will you believe Him? If you’ll believe, that cancer will leave you and you’ll get well. Why don’t you rise up, and take your bed, and go home? Do you believe? Will all of you believe? Well, now, what about right now? Has God dropped that faith in your heart? Everybody in here, raise your hand. If God’s dropped that faith in your heart, let’s lay your hands on one another, right down along the line here. Put your hands on… Right now, quickly, while the Holy Spirit is a-moving, put your hands on one another. The man’s up, running down the line, praying for others.

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« 351 † Let’s stand to our feet and give God praise, everybody. There’s no need of going any farther. Identify Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever; you, what your afflictions are, whatever it is. If you believe Him, stand upon your feet, right now, and believe.
352 Almighty God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, send forth Your power and heal this group of people just now, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
Glory be to God! God bless you. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 1 † ` Amen. The Lord bless you. You can be seated. Sounded so good to come in tonight and hear you praising the Lord, and get back home again and see everybody. I been looking for this since last Thanksgiving when I was here, to get back to my tabernacle again. [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] I don’t know where he went. Here he is over here. I just wonder if he was going to still say “amen” to that, you know. [Brother Moore says, “Amen.”] It’s always good to be here. And I looked forward, as I said, since last Thanksgiving.

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« 2 † We have just left New York City, where we had a wonderful campaign. The Lord blessed us there in a mighty way. And we was at the Morris Auditorium, and the crowds packed in, and up-and-down the streets. And they would stand out there, waiting. If–if one come in, just a bystander, you know, and would think, well, something; some people, you know, go to church, and then the first thing, something said, that they don’t like, they’ll get up and walk out. And they was out there voting, who would get that seat when they come out. And I come by each night, and nearly a city block away, and they would be piled up-and-down the streets. And the Lord did bless us and give us souls, and many great healings taken place.
3 And then at the Business Men’s breakfast, we had a wonderful time, sold out their tickets. And–and then I think they had to let hundreds in, that didn’t have tickets. Then they filled the corridors, and around the hall and doors, and so forth. And we just had a wonderful time. An Episcopalian priest and everything there, and the Lord blessed us greatly.

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« 4 † And then we stopped in at home, my other home, in Jeffersonville. Course, I live now in Tucson, Arizona, as you know, for the last two years.
5 And now I’m on the road back to Tucson now, for the Business Men’s breakfast next week at Phoenix. Where, right immediately after the first of the year, we start a campaign there, a few days prior to the Business Men’s International, I believe, or national convention at–at the Ramada Inn.
6 And it’s so good to be here in–in this fine city of Shreveport, tonight.

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« 7 † Now, usually I speak a long time. But I’m going to try my best to keep it down, three or four hours, anyhow, to this and to this time. And I know I just wear you out, but, see, I don’t get to see you so often. And many goes Home before I… go Home to Glory before I get to see you again, and I think, “Well, this will be our last earthly chat together before you take your flight.” And many has gone, no doubt, since this time last year. And probably, if the Lord tarries, and we get to get back again next year or sometime, it will be some more, here tonight, maybe myself. We don’t know what time we’re to be called. And, you know, the Lord Jesus might even come before this services is closed tonight.

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« 8 † Now, as you know me, I’m not an orator, I’m not a speaker. I–I just love the Lord and do what I can for His glory. And when I stand here in this platform, knowing that man like Brother Moore and many great man has stood in this platform, it makes me feel kind of–kind of… not out of place, I don’t mean that. But, I mean, my grammar and things, I feel like, if the people didn’t love me real well, they’d get up and walk out when I got in the pulpit. So they just bear with me, and I’m thankful for it now.

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« 9 † But I always come with this–with this objective. I don’t come here just to be seen; if I did, I would go to your house for a visit, see. I come here to do the very best I can for the Lord Jesus Christ, while I’m here. I’m here for no other purpose but to serve Him, and the best that I know how, and to bring to you the Word just as It’s given to me, pray for your sick and afflicted. Now, we’ll have a night, or two, Brother Moore and I will get together, that we’re going to pray for the sick.

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« 10 † Then, each night, we want every person that’s not a Christian, hope something will be said or done, that you’ll become a Christian. And if you’re not, if you’ve already believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept Him and been baptized, and you haven’t received the Holy Ghost as yet, don’t let this get by. Just let this be your night. Because, remember, there will be just so many names on that Book. And when the last name is added, that’s all of it. And yours might complete It.
11 When the Lamb come and took the Book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon the Throne, that was the Book of Redemption. And those names was put in there before the foundation of the world. When that last name was called, the Book, the plan, everything else was revealed then, the Seven Seals was opened by the Lamb. The mysteries of the whole Bible was hid in There. If we had time, I’d like to…

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« 12 † Just got through with those Seven Seals, just recently. I’d like to go through them again. And just how the Lord blessed us! Many of you has heard of it, and read in Life magazine, and things, the things that taken place during that time. When, they caught the picture, even, of the seven Angels, as was predicted as we went West. And He told me, three months before, where it would be and how I would be standing there, and there it was! And the–and the cameras, oh, for hundreds of miles, caught the picture of It right there, just exactly. Was foretold exactly! And if I ever preached anything that was inspired, in my life, it’s The Seven Seals. And so I know we’re at the end time.

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« 13 † And the last name goes on that Book, or, the last name that’s redeemed, that was put on that Book, that settles it, He comes to claim what He redeemed. And it might be a strange time. Did you ever think: people will go right on preaching, the church will go right on even thinking they’re getting people saved. It’s too late then, it’s all over, see, and the Message will go to the totally lost; just like it did in the days of Noah, seven days in the ark. It did in the days of Sodom. Jesus Himself, His–His third stage of His ministry, He went and preached to souls that were Eternally lost, that were in prison, that repented not, the long-suffering in the days of Noah. And we don’t know what time these things might happen.
14 And let’s be warned. Don’t just stand around, let’s do something about it. If we’re not right with God, let’s get right with God.

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« 15 † One time, I think, in the 11th chapter of Matthew, I believe it is, about the 6th verse, or something, I’m not sure of that. It’s the 11th chapter, I’m pretty sure. John’s disciples was sent by John, one time, to see the Lord Jesus, to ask Him if He really was the One, or should they look for another. He said, “Go show John the things that happens. Tell him, ‘Blessed is he who is not offended in Me.'”
16 And then when they crossed the hill, and Jesus perhaps watched them, He said, “What did you go out to see?” And they… Said, “Did you go to see some kind of a man dressed in fine clothes?” He said, “They’re in kings’ palaces. And a reed shaken by a wind?” He said, “Did you go to see a prophet?” Said, “I say unto you, and more than a prophet. If you can receive it, this is he who the prophet spoke of, Malachi 3, ‘And I’ll send My messenger before My face.'”

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« 17 † The disciples asked one time about this question. They said, “Why does the scribes say, the teachers of the Scripture, that, ‘Elias must first come before these, all these things happen’?” Now remember, He was talking to the disciples, not to the Pharisees. The disciples, they said, “Why did scribes say that, ‘Elias must first come’?”
18 He said, “Elias is already come, and they did to him what they listed, and you didn’t know it.”
19 What if someday you would find out, we’d hit a tribulation period or something, you say, “Well, I thought the Rapture was to come first”? See? And the voice would speak back and tell you, “The Rapture is already, and you didn’t know it.”
20 “As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved by water, so will it be at the Coming of the Son of man.” People go right on, just thinking they’re just doing the right thing, and it’ll all be over. O God, have mercy on us! Let’s, let’s check up, right now in these next few nights, see where we’re at.
Let us bow our heads again.

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« 21 † Lord Jesus, with these things in mind, and presented to this church, presented to these people; God, I pray that You will save every soul in Shreveport, this time, that’s wrote in that Book. If there is some here that isn’t saved, Father, may this be the hour that they’re saved. If there is any in this congregation, tonight, may this be their night.
22 Bless Brother Moore, Sister Moore, and their family, their children, their children’s children. God, we just thank You for them. And Brother Lyle, Brother Brown and all the–the brethren here at the church, Brother Don, and these fine bunch of people, all the members here, the laity, we just thank You for them.

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« 23 † And we pray, Heavenly Father, that our meeting together here at this Thanksgiving… It might be the last Thanksgiving we’ll ever meet together on this earth, so, God, let us take advantage and conserve the time. And we realize that it’s–it’s getting late, and we want everything that we can do, that’s in our power, to get the work done for the Lord Jesus before He comes. Somehow, I kind of feel that He is waiting for us to–to finish the job. So, help us, Lord, tonight, as an individual, each one of us, that we might be so concerned about others, that we go out into the streets, or into the neighborhood, and–and bring in the lost, that they might be saved.
24 Bless Thy Word. Thy Word is Truth, Lord, all Truth. So we pray, that as we try to endeavor to break this Bread of Life, Truth, to the people, that the Holy Spirit will come, because of that broken body there at Calvary where sin had to break it, and will divide Himself among us again, in fellowship around the Word. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 25 † Now, if you will, I want you to turn with me. Many of you like to kind of keep the–the Scriptures where a minister reads, or an evangelist. And I want to read some, tonight, from Deuteronomy, the 4th chapter, beginning with the 7th to the 14th verse. And the Book of Hebrews, 14th chapter, the 25th verse through the 29th, inclusive. Deuteronomy 4.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Especially the day that thou stood before the LORD thy God in–in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they will learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, and darkness, and clouds, and thickness, and darkness.
And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard His voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard the voice.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land wheresover ye go over to possess it.

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« 26 † And now in the Book of Hebrews, the 14th chapter, beginning with the 25th verse.
See that you refuse not him that spake. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shall, I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And this word, Yet once… signifies the removing of… things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. There…
Wherefore we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptable with reverence and godly fear:
For our God is a consuming fire.

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« 27 † Now I got a few notes here, and some Scriptures written down, that I’d like to refer to for a few minutes, as I would title this a strange little title. And these tapes is ready at any time anyone would want them. Mr. Maguire here will be able to–to furnish you with these things. And I want to take the text, from a text of this subject, rather, like this, The World Is Again Falling Apart.

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« 28 † We was coming down yesterday, or last evening, through Memphis, Tennessee, got in there kind of late in the afternoon, or part of the evening. And we could hardly get through the streets, the–the children and people were so crowded. And I thought, “What could this be?” The–the people wasn’t dressed like they had been to a religious meeting like maybe our good brother, Billy Graham or Oral Roberts. And I didn’t think they were in that district at that time, anyhow. And the women were wearing slacks, and little children around them, were just with overalls on, and so forth, coveralls. And I wondered what it was, and finally we found out. They had had a–a Santa Claus parade. There had been many thousands had been watching it on the streets, and so forth. And we just had an awful time getting through Memphis, because it’s coming Christmas time.

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« 29 † And Christmas is such a great commercial day, until it’s taken Thanksgiving pretty near out of the picture, because… in the–in the world of business, anyhow; because that the–the commercial world is so much greater influenced by Christmas, because there is so many people shop. And they just… Thanksgiving is just a little passing-by. And we find out, as we see Christmas nearing again, I thought it would be a good thing to speak on this subject, as we’re nearing it. Seeing that, really, Christmas is not…

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« 30 † We celebrate this 25th day of December for the birthday of Christ, but, course, anyone knows that it wasn’t Christ’s birthday. That was the Roman sun-god’s birthday, that when the church was converted into, or, brought into Catholicism, was formed at the council at Nicaea. Instead of it being the “sun god’s,” they made it the “Son of God’s” birthday. That was when, the sun, it’s from the 20th until the… I mean the 21st till the 25th, it’s kind of in its… Forget what the name you call it, rightly. It’s when it’s hardly a second-or-two’s time when it’s passing through that stage. And it was the sun-god’s birthday, and they just taken the “Son of God” and made that His birthday, to blend it in with their pagan tradition. And it’s no means, at all, being Christ’s birthday.

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« 31 † He could not been born at that time, because Judaea is about the same on the–on the… high up the equator, as this is, and we–we find out that, in Judaea, in the wintertime, 25th of December, she is blizzardly and cold. Shepherds cannot be on the hill, and many reasons that it couldn’t be.
32 And then He was nature born, like all other nature, He–He came forth in the Spring. Usually when the lambs are born, in the Spring; and He was the Lamb. Now, I believe, He was born, myself, March, April, or somewhere along in there, in the early Spring.

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« 33 † But we find that they made a day of merchandise out of it. People crowding on the streets, and rubbing shoulders, and fussing over things, and wondering about giving somebody a present, how much they will pay for it.
34 The other day, I was surprised. In a place I was standing, and two ladies was talking about giving their father the birthday… or the Christmas present for this year. And one of them said, “I got him a quart of whiskey.” And the other one said, “I got him a pack, or a carton of cigarettes,” or something another like that. And they were saying, one give so much more for the whiskey than they did the cigarettes.
35 And I thought, “If that isn’t a way to give a–a… swap or give a present in commemoration of Jesus Christ, the Son of God!” What a death-finding thing it is!

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« 36 † And I see our world in such a sadness as it is now, polluted from every side, not a way in the world for it to ever come back to itself again. We better take heed, what we’re doing in these days. For we have, just now in mourning, of one of the great tragedies, and–and one of the great… We never thought that thing would happen in America, but it’s here anyhow. And our own letting-down on the Gospel, it’s become worm-eaten with such stuff as that, and will get worse. There is no doubt at all, in my mind, but what it’ll just continually getting worse.
37 But we find out, at this Christmas, to get down to the subject, that this Christmas finds the world just about like it did two thousand years ago, when Jesus came. It hasn’t changed very much since then. Cause, this, that Christmas found the world falling apart, and was looking for a Messiah to help hold it together. And–and that’s about the way it is today, we are doing the same thing. The World Is Again Falling Apart.

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« 38 † Now, that’s not only in America here, but that’s all over the world, wherever you go; the religious world, the political world, the everything, the–the world of moral. It–it, there is just no more of it, it’s just… Morals is just amongst the good people, anymore, and that’s very hard to find. It’s–it’s a shame. And politics and everything is corrupted, till the whole thing is sick and putrefied sores, from the head to the feet, the whole world. Our political system, our religious system, our moral system, everything we’ve got, is gone! Just, there is no way to keep it together. She, she is finished! The… We’re at the end of the road. That’s all there is to it.
39 We, I know we talked about it a long time, but one of these days it’s going to be passed talking about, it’s going to be a historical thing, and we’ll find ourself outside if we don’t watch at this time.

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« 40 † I wonder, if we this Christmas, if God should send Him again like He did back there two thousand years ago, if He would send Him to us in 1964, I wonder if we wouldn’t do with Him as they did then? I just wonder if His Coming would be any more, He’d be any more welcomed, in the–in the–in the political world or in the religious world, than He was then? I just wonder if we’re in any more shape to receive Him, as He was then? But we know He was rejected then.
41 What would we do to Him if He come? Perhaps the religious world, that I’m basing this on, would do to Him like it did the other time. They would crucify Him if they could, (they haven’t changed), for the same reason that they did the other time.

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« 42 † Why did they do it, did they crucify the very One they were praying to come on the earth, to save them, to get them out of the chaos? They crucified the only hope that they had. Why? Why did they do it? Because, when God answered their prayer, He answered it in a way that they didn’t expect it to be answered. When He come, He never come in the taste of their theology.
43 And if He come again, today, He would come the same way; out of the taste of the world or the churches’ theology, and the way they would think of Him. He always comes. As God’s people, when they get in trouble, and pray, then God gives them what they pray for, but He gives it in the way that’s good for them. And they refused It, because It don’t come the way they think It should have come. They rejected God’s anointed Word, and He is the Word.

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« 44 † Now, God, in all ages, at all times, when He begin, “When He spoke His Word in sundry times through the prophets, in this last days through Jesus Christ, His Son,” we find out that each one of those prophecies was to suit a certain age. Like King Nebuchadnezzar when he had this dream, and the Gentile world from the head to the feet, and Daniel gave the interpretation of this dream; that was a–a prophecy to the whole world, forever, every section of the Gentile Kingdom, as it would come from the head to the feet. And the prophets has always spoke the Words that should happen along each age. And when God…

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« 45 † The people gets in trouble, and God answers them. He sends them a anointed prophet or some kind of a messenger, because He cannot go back on His Word that He has destined for that age. But, what He does, He sends a messenger to make that part of the Word live to that age. Always does it, see. He formed His Word in the beginning. He knowed the end from the beginning. He spoke His Word. And each age, when they get in trouble, they would… they would pray, and God would send an anointed one. And that anointed one would absolutely make that promise of that age, that was foretold for that age, live. And that’s what He does all the time. God never changes His program. Now, we never find God changing.

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« 46 † God settled it one time, how He would save man, that was in the garden of Eden, under the shed blood. We tried every other system, from fig leaves to education, psychology, denominations of systems, and so forth, and every bit of it has–has been rejected; and it never has worked, it never will work. God will only meet man under the shed Blood, and that’s the only place that He’ll ever meet him, because that was His first decision. He’ll never meet man under any kind of an ethical system. He’ll never, no way in the world! Just come right back to God’s Way, that’s what He said first. And He is infinite, cannot change, and He’s always the same. That’s where He meets man, and there only. That’s the reason we fail to have fellowship today, that’s the reason the church is so separated, because each one is separated in a system, and, when they do that, then God turns them down, right there. He wants us to meet under the Blood, where we have all things in common, down by the Cross. God’s only purpose of doing it! God always sends His Word.

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« 47 † And we find, today, that the world today is just like it was in that day; finding itself, its political system, and so forth, all falling apart, and looking for a messiah that will hold it together.
48 Now, the word messiah means “the anointed one,” something anointed. God! This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the whole Book was sealed with the Seven Seals of the revelation of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was in Genesis; Jesus Christ was in the middle of the Book. Jesus Christ was in–in the Exodus and Genesis, and He was in the middle of the Book and He was in the–the New Testament, and in the Revelation and plumb on to the end, “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” It’s all God!

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« 49 † “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.”
50 “God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets.” When the Word of the Lord came to the prophets, and them only, because they was anointed with the Word, they had the right to interpret the Word. And God worked through them, proving that the Word was right. “If I the… there be one among you who is spiritual, or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. And if what he says comes to pass, then hear him. If it doesn’t come to pass, don’t hear him.” That’s no more than good reasoning, to any man.
51 Now we find ourselves here, in the last days now, when we’re looking for the Coming of the Lord again.

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« 52 † Well remember the old Baptist preacher that baptized me into the Name of Jesus Christ, when I was just a little boy. And he used to discuss this subject with me, about John the Baptist. He said, “Brother Billy,” he said, “when John… When He said, ‘Suffer it to be so,’ and then he suffered Him.” He said, “Then John, baptized… Jesus baptized John, because we know John had never been baptized, and yet he was preaching baptism.” Well, that always kind of stunted me, a little.
53 Then here not long ago, it was revealed to me, at this way, that there met in that pool, in that hole of water, the two greatest messengers the world ever seen: a–a man that was above all the prophets, which was John, “there never was a man born of a woman, as great as he”; and there was God, Himself, manifested in a body of flesh. And remember, and the Bible tells us that, “The Word of the Lord comes to the prophet.” And when the Word was made flesh; here stood the prophet in the water. And the Word and the prophet came together, they knowed one another! Right. The Word Itself, made flesh, incarnate Son of God, came to the prophet, in the water.

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« 54 † Prophet said, “I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou to me?”
55 He said, “Suffer that so, for thus it is becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness.”
56 Notice! John, being a prophet, knowed that He was the Sacrifice. And the sacrifice must be washed before presented for sacrifice. And that’s the reason He had to be baptized.
57 Oh, today, it’s becoming to us, that we fulfill all righteousness of our day. The hour is here. The Bible tells us what’s to be happening in this day. We know what the Bible says will take place in this day. It’s up to us to hold onto God until these things happen. It’s the hour! Pray for the anointed one that will give us the deliverance that we are looking for, because God has promised it.

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« 58 † They rejected God’s anointed Word then, and so it fall, fell apart. And again we find out, at this time, it’s also falling apart again. I find out, as I said, our politics are corrupted, our church life is corrupted. What taken place? Here is what did it; when you get away from, anytime, away from God’s program, you’ll find corruption. It cannot stand. God’s Word is infallible, and there is nothing else will take Its place, never can.

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« 59 † Our educational system, our denominational system, has took the place of the Holy Spirit leading in the church. Our great fine training of ministers and things has taken place of–of the all-night prayer meetings, and the old-time way we used to get to God. Now, instead of having preachers, we got lecturers, men knows the Word just as well, they can sit there and put It together in such a way that it’s astounding how they can do it. They know the mechanics, but that ain’t the Dynamics. We want the Dynamics. I don’t care about the mechanics; I want to know the Dynamics. What does It do?
60 I don’t know how that car runs out there. It’s got pistons and cylinders, and I don’t know how much pressure it used. The only thing I know is the dynamics, put her out there and drive it.
61 That’s what we know, God made the promise, “I’ll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy.” How is He going to do it? I can’t tell you. I just want to know the Dynamics of God’s system. That’s the main thing.

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« 62 † Today we’ve studied the mechanics until it’s all mechanical. What good is an automobile without something in it to drive it? What good is the lights if the–if the… or the fixtures, if there is no current to go in it? See, we’ve got all the mechanics, we got schools and educators, and so forth, that can train a man, till he can stand in the pulpit with such manners till he’s an eloquent person. That still don’t bring the Power of God. Where is the Power of God that used to be to the church? Where is that pentecostal Blessing that used to flow through the churches? That’s the reason our world is falling apart, because we’ve got away from the real principles of God, and educated men into systems and things. And that is what’s got us in the condition we are today. I believe that’s the reason our world is falling apart.

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« 63 † These episodes has been on the earth since the days of Noah. We find out when God’s… had Noah, the prophet of righteousness, going forth with his message, there was an episode of immorality in that day, as the Bible said, “Eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage.” We find out, gluttonous and immorality, and so forth, taken place in that day. And then the world fell apart because the people rejected the message of God, for that day. Noah was a prophet anointed of God, sent of God, with a message from God, and he gave the people a warning before the judgment come. And they snickered and laughed, and made fun of it, and scoffed, and the whole world system fell apart, in that day, and they was drowned beneath the seas. That’s right. Why? They rejected the message of the hour.

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« 64 † We find out the same thing took place in Egypt, when Moses led the children of Israel out. The whole Egyptian system had become corrupt. And we find now it taken place again, when God sent an anointed messenger down there for His Word. It was to fulfill His Word.
You say, “Was it to fulfill His Word?”
65 He told Abraham that’s exactly what He would do. And there had to be someone come on the scene, at that time, to make that Word live right before them. God had sent His Moses down there, and, the very thing that He promised to do, he did it, because he was the anointed Word for that hour. He said it would judge that world. God’s Word said, “I’ll judge that nation with great, mighty wonders and signs.”

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« 66 † There stood a man, just an ordinary man like you or I, got the Word from God, and went out there and spoke creation into existence. Said, “Let…” Picked up the sand, and said, “Let fleas come from the earth.” And the Word of God, through that prophet’s mouth, being it was right in the hour that it was supposed to be, fleas covered the whole earth. He covered the earth with frogs, with lice. He covered it with all kinds of–of pestilence and things. Because, God made the promise, and the hour was there for it to be anointed, the anointed Word for that hour that they live in.
67 That’s what we need today, is not back in some seminary system, but anointed Word for the hour that we live in, to bring forth Jesus Christ to the world again. “The same yesterday, today, and forever.” There is a–there is a program laid out for this day, a promise of God. And the only way that we’ll ever be able to get right, is to let that Word be anointed. That’s right. It’s always happened. Yes.

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« 68 † We find out the great moral pollution in the days of Nebuchadnezzar. He had a man anointed. When the hand writing come on the wall, He had a man could read it.
69 Days of Lot and Sodom, we find again the world falling apart. God saved what could be saved, out of it.
70 In the days of Jesus Christ, we find out that man-made systems had got the world in such a condition, and their politics of that day, until, they, the whole world was falling apart, at the first Christmas.
71 Now we’ve done the same thing, turned right back around and corrupted the Word of God, by systematic religion, till we find it falling apart. What one of them systems can we rely upon now? What system can we go to, the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or Pentecostal system? There is nothing at all we can do but come back to that anointed Word of the promise for this hour. These systems are frail, they’re faltery. They, they’re, they’re man-made systems, and they will not save you. There is no Life in them. Only Life is in the Word of God. It is Life. He said so.
72 And the way it was then, as they were praying, people finds themselves at the end of their journey, or the end of their ropes, as it was in the days of Noah and the days of Moses, and so forth. When they find themselves, that they can’t go no farther, then they begin to pray. And when they begin to pray, God always answers. Then Jesus was born.

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« 73 † The world at that time, as I said, was falling apart. Each nation was looking for a messiah, just as we are today. Rome was looking for a great genius who could come among them, a–a great fellow who had all the military gimmicks, that he could go over there and stomp out Greece and the rest of the world. Greece was looking for the same thing, somebody who could tell them how they could conquer the rest of the world.
74 The Jewish religious world of that day was looking for a general. They thought there would come a Messiah down from Heaven, with a great rod of iron in his hands, and He would beat Rome down, stomp them off and run them into the sea. And all there, they was looking for that type of a man. They wanted a general.

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« 75 † Like a whole lot like our denominations of today, our denominations are looking for a superman. Our nation is looking for a superman. Russia is looking for a superman. The eastern world is looking for one. The U.N. is looking for one. The churches are looking for one. But what kind of a one are they looking for?
76 Russia is looking for a messiah that’s anointed with–with brains that he knows how to conquer outer space for them, beat everybody to the moon. They want to conquer the world. That’s just…

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« 77 † But, you see, when they ask these things, and ask for this, they don’t ask as Jesus said. We try to make God like a–like an errand boy, “Lord, You do this for me! And You do this for me! And You go do that,” tell Him what to do.
78 Jesus said, “When you pray, pray like this manner, ‘Our Father Who Art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done.'” Who, find where we do that? We’re always wanting God to run errands for us, or do something for us. But when we’re willing to say, “Thy will be done,” commit ourselves to Him, commit our ways to Him. All that we are, commit it to Him. That’s when God will move, when you’re willing to let Him work on you, not you work on Him.
79 Let Him tell you, not you tell Him and twist it around. “Come to our system, O Lord God, make all of us Methodist, all of us Pentecostal, rule over the rest of them. We want a genius, we Pentecostal people, we Methodist and Baptist.” We got seminaries, building great big ones, saying, “The–the end of time is at hand, the Coming of the Lord,” building millions of dollars worth of seminaries, and so forth. Trying to what? Get us a messiah. That’s right.
80 Let the Lord raise up something out somewhere, every denomination gets them one of the same kind. That’s exactly. Find out. Watch when Divine healing struck, how many Divine healers? Every one had to be a Divine healer.
81 There was one Moses in the days of that come-out. There was one Elijah, one Elisha, one Isaiah, so forth.

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« 82 † Now we find out that the world wants their own messiah. Russia want theirs, and United States wants theirs, the church world wants theirs. Each one wants their own messiah, but they want it in the way that–that they can control it. They want to have control over this messiah. Oh, sure. Yeah, they, if they could have. If God would send it in their own taste, they certainly would accept it. But you see, then, God knew their needs. He, He’s not promised to send us our wants and what we ask for, but our needs.
83 They wanted a general; they got a Baby. See, that’s what they needed. They needed a baby (what?) to humiliate them, to humble them.

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« 84 † That’s what the self-styled church needs today, humble itself back again. Got to a place, there is no confession and there is no love among the people. It seems like it’s dying daily. Church is cooling off. Everywhere, you find the revival is over, and you find a cooling off. We need a humiliating. And we…
85 They asked for a general; and got a Lamb. Why? That’s, God knew what they needed. That’s what they needed. They needed a Saviour. They thought they was saved, but God knew they wasn’t.
86 And that’s what the world needs today, again, is a Saviour, a Saviour of this condition, something that can hold it together. Not an educated regime, some kind of a mechanical system, or some kind of an educational system. What we need is the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ, and saving grace, back in the church again, when men, women, boys, and girls, can be saved.
87 Have we waited too long? Is there many out that will never come in? Has the last name been redeemed? Is that what’s the matter today? It could be, you know. You know, it–it could easily be, and never interrupt the Scriptures, at all. It could be. So, we don’t know now, let’s be careful.

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« 88 † But they thought they was saved, and–and, but God knowed better than they did. And the same thing happens today.
89 They had took the Word that God had give them for that day, that they ought to have knowed the day that He was coming, and had made a tradition out of It. Jesus said, “You’ve taken the Word of God and made It of no effect, by your traditions.”
90 That’s the same thing that’s happened today in our systematic, religious systematic world. The systems of the world has took the Word of God and made It traditional. And that’s the reason It hasn’t got any effect in It. There is nothing will come out of It, because It’s been mixed up.
91 You can’t put genuine corn in something that won’t, ‘less it’s earth, and it won’t grow. You can lay it in the sun and keep it warm, you can do what you want to, but it takes a certain kind of earth. It must be in there. It must be buried. It must be under the right atmosphere, to make it bring forth.

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« 92 † And so does the Word of God! You can’t take a church and bring it to life, on some tradition. You might bring members, by the millions, but you’ll never bring down the Power of God until we get back to the original Word again, back to the foundational Word, back to the Blood, back to the–the Jesus Christ, back to the old-fashion prayer meetings, and back to God! We may be so far gone, now, that the hour is far passed. But, anyhow, the Gospel must be preached. We’re not to judge that.
93 God knew what they had need of, so He gave them what they had need of. So again, we find, what they had, we have done the same thing.

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« 94 † Russia and all the rest of them wants theirs. And the different scientists wants to make themselves a great name. Each nation wants to get its brainy man. We want ours. We want the educational system in it. We want a denominationalism. That’s just exactly what we got. That’s what you did. That’s what you wanted, that’s what God gave you. Now what you going to do with it after you got it?
95 We’re talking about Russia for another minute. The Russians are calling for a man who can conquer space. They’re training them as fast as they can, their scientists. What if they get one, what if they get their messiah, what we going to do? And mercy on us if they get it! Remember, Germany just got such a messiah not long time, not very long ago, a Hitler. And we know what it done to them.

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« 96 † Now what about the church, what kind of a messiah is the church looking for, today? You, the church, has cried the loudest. So, what we hollering about a messiah, what are we hollering? “Revival in our time! Back this, that, and the other.” What are they looking for, to do it? What more do you want? What does the church want, anyhow?
97 We’ve already got It! God gave It to us. It’s His promise for this hour. We look in the Bible, we see it everywhere through the Bible. Anointed ones come on and made that Word live again, right in the hour for that hour. And we’ve got the Messiah. This is Him, the Word! “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And the Word remains God, Hebrews 13:8, “The same yesterday, today, and forever.” We know what is supposed to take place in this day. We’re wanting a Messiah. And God gave us the Messiah, His promised Word for this day. It’s just waiting for somebody with faith, to anoint It and make It live again. Yes, sir. It’s a real Messiah, It’s the Word of God’s. Which, Jesus said, “Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.”

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« 98 † But the church sits spiritually dead, gone, the hour has passed them. They’re in a slump, and hardly know what to do, one running this way and one that way. And here every promise that God made in the Bible, every one of them, is laying there just as good as they ever was. It’s the hour! What makes the church like this? We’re in the age of the Laodicea, when she has to come this way. This is the hour for it.

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« 99 † But remember, in there is the hour that the sleeping virgin come to buy Oil, and that was the same hour that the Bridegroom come. We find today, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and different denominations, that, a few years ago, you couldn’t have hired to got around a bunch of Pentecostal believers. Certainly not. But there they are, today, coming in. Don’t you know what Jesus said? They come in to buy Oil, and said, “Give us some of your Oil.” The ones that had Oil, said, “Not so. Go buy It, lest… from them that sell It.” And while they were trying to buy It, while they were trying to get It! Do you know what hour we’re living in, Pentecostal people? When they come, they might have got a confusion, they might have done this, that, or the other; but, according to the Scriptures, they did not get It. While they were trying to do it, they might have went through all the emotions, and then in all the isms and the sensations, but the Devil can impersonate all those things. While they were buying It, or trying to get It, the Bridegroom came, and the ones that had Oil went in.

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« 100 † And there is the hour we’re living. We never seen it before. Jesus said it would be so, then it’s so! What are we seeing? We’re seeing the Word, that God said would happen in this day, happen right under our faces. “Oh, then awake, ye saints of the Lord, why slumber when the end is nearing; let’s get ready for that final call,” for we don’t know when it will be. Yes.
101 Our world system, our church system, our denominational system, all of our systems, are polluted and corrupted. What we lack today is what they had yesterday. That’s right. It seems like a drying out, of the churches, hardly can find a church anymore that’s alive with the Word and with the Spirit of God, and great things taking place like it was not long ago.

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« 102 † Now, we find out that God knows what they had need of, so He–He always answers a promise. It’s just this great Word that we see, a promise, they ought to have knowed that it was just exactly what God promised, that would take place in that day.
You say, “How, what was to take place?”
103 Isaiah 9:6, the prophet said, “Unto us a Child is born, the Son, a Child; a Son is born, a Child is given: and His Name shall be called ‘Counsellor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, Everlasting Father’; and the government shall be upon His shoulders, and of His Kingdom there will be no end.”

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« 104 † We know that we was to have a Child born in that day, a virgin should conceive and bring a Child. And It didn’t come through any of their systems, therefore they didn’t want nothing to do with It. They rejected It. But the anointed Word, God (Emmanuel) made flesh among them, stood there, He said, “Which one of you can accuse Me of sin, unbelief? Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of Me.” He was thoroughly identified that He was the Messiah, the Messiah to take place in that day. And the systems had–had messed the people’s mind up, in so many systematic rules, and so forth, till they had made the Word of God of no effect. They couldn’t see He was the Messiah.

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« 105 † And as it did it then, so has it done it again. Right. The systematics of the world, the mechanics, has got the pistons where the–where the exhaust pipe ought to be, in their big mechanics. And therefore how can it run? It can’t do it. Wasn’t built that way.
106 The Church cannot run without the Power of God, through the Word. And the Holy Ghost will only confirm the Word of God, for that’s what It’s to do. The anointing is to confirm the Word.
107 And Jesus was the Anointed One, the Word made flesh. That’s the reason He walked out into the water there, He was the Word coming to the prophet. He was baptized by the prophet. And the prophet then raised up, and said, “I must decrease; He shall increase.” We find that that’s God’s way of doing it.
108 But did they receive It? They should have knowed It. They should have watched the acts of God. They seen the Word fulfilled. They knowed the Scriptures said it, but they couldn’t believe It would come like that. It had to come either to the Pharisees or the Sadducees. If it come to the Pharisees, the Sadducees would not have received It. Vice versa, the–the Sadducees wouldn’t receive It, because they said the Pharisees would have It.

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« 109 † And that’s just the way it is today, our systems, and the whole thing was rotten and polluted. Oh, my! The hour that we’re now living, blinded world, walking in darkness, stooped in the systems of this world, like sheep without a shepherd. When they’ve had the Word of the living God vindicated before them, and walked right away blindly, and leave It, how can you expect anything else? Amen. There we are.
110 Then, the world is falling apart. Why? The very Word that bound it together has been rejected. We find that in Hebrews, 11th chapter.

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« 111 † Einstein said. I was listening to a lecture of him, here the other night, New York City, that he made one of his last lectures. He was talking about a constellation, a little galaxy, it was, out in the constellation. He said, “If a man started through space, traveling at a speed of light…” What is that, eight thousand… [Someone says, “Hundred and eighty-six thousand.”–Ed.] A hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second. “It would take him a hundred, take him a hundred and fifty million light years to get there.” He found Eternity. Then said, “To come back, it would take him another hundred and fifty million years, which would be three hundred million years. And the space, that he was gone from the earth, would only be fifty years.” There you are, broke into Eternity! Oh, my! The greatness of God, when He made the whole solar system!

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« 112 † And this astronaut, the other day, flying around over Russia there, and said he “seen no God, Angels.” How ignorant can people be! When…
113 God! And the whole solar system, He blowed it off His hands; and He sits so many million years, light years, beyond that. And the whole thing is upheld by His Power and His Word. Hallelujah! Every star has to hang to its place. Yes, sir! Then, was humble enough to come down and be made one of us, to die for us; we’re without excuse. If one of them stars would happen to move from its sockets, from its orbit where it’s at, if that would move, it would affect the whole system. The whole system must turn exactly the same, for one depends on the other.

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« 114 † And God’s system, when it’s in perfectly harmony with Him, the whole thing works perfect. That’s right, because it has to.
115 But the church never took God’s system, it made a system of its own. That’s the reason we’re all out of harmony. That’s the reason the church is so scrupled. That’s the reason the world is falling apart today, because we’ve adopted our own systems. That’s the reason the political world is apart. That’s the reason the religious world has fell apart, is because we’ve adopted a system instead of taking God’s Eternal plan for the ages. Amen. That’s what’s the matter with the world. That’s exactly what’s wrong, is because they’ve adopted something else. It’s got the people so, “I’m Presbyterian. I’m Methodist. I’m Oneness. I’m Threeness. I’m…” Oh, mercy! No wonder we can’t hold together, there ain’t nothing to hold us together.

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« 116 † Mr. Nixon made the brightest remark I’ve heard any president or a vice-president make in the last few years, when he said the other day, “What’s the matter with American people, they’ve lost love and respect for one another.” As American citizens shooting one another down, in the street, how can we? My!
117 If you can’t different with a man, and love him the same time, then shut up. If you can’t tell him, like a daddy correcting his child, with a willing arm to put it around his neck and hug him afterwards, you better leave it alone. You haven’t went far enough, yourself, to know what you’re talking about. Right. I can differ with a man, certainly; still he is my brother, I’ll hold his hand. I can’t let him get by with that; if I do, if I didn’t tell him, I wouldn’t be the correct brother to him. That’s correct. But I can tell him, and tell him I love him, and prove it to him, I love him.

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« 118 † You don’t have to shoot him down, in the street. I differ with Mr. Kennedy and–and his politics, and his religion, and so forth, but he didn’t deserve that. No, sir. No, indeedy. No man deserves that.
119 So, we find out the whole world is corrupted. Our nation, politics, religious systems, and everything, it’s corrupted.
120 It’s just waiting. The Word of God, that was prophesied for this day, is waiting for somebody to come by and vindicate It. Wonder if He has already done it? Then where we at then if He had done it? If He’s done it, then where we at? Most miserable!

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« 121 † I said a hard thing about Mrs. Kennedy, a couple times, about her setting fashions for the world, with these water-head haircuts, and, “How our sisters and them cut their hair, and dress like Mrs. Kennedy,” I said, “like a Jezebel of old.” That’s true. I believe that. I–I–I feel sorry for the little mother there tonight, with her children, exactly.
122 But let me ask you something. If Jacqueline Kennedy would have heard the Messages that some of you Pentecostal has, about bobbing your hair and things, she might not even had bobbed hair. You’re supposed to be pentecostal, and you still do it! Uh-huh. Uh-huh. She might not do it if she had had the opportunity and heard the Message, see, you’ve heard. There you are. We’re in a bad place, folks. That’s exactly right. Yes, indeed. O God, how the morals, the thing…

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« 123 † Womanhood is one of the thing that holds our nation together. It’s the backbone. And womanhood, the fine virtue that God give for a woman to be mother, why, it’s–it’s–it’s gone. Long ago has the–has the–the–the women of this world, the virtue of them, bowed to a Hollywood fashion goddess; patterning themselves, and dressing themselves, and acting as some of these Hollywood stars does. And many times that even ungodly dressing, sex appeal, is regarded as fashions in the churches. And the pastors behind the pulpit, with not the–not the audacity, not the–the strength of the Holy Spirit; like a Lot sitting down there, vexing his soul, and in too much of a meal ticket to tell the people that it’s wrong. Yeah.

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« 124 † What we need today is a rooting out. We may root out too late now. The hour might be passed. We never have another revival. I know you’re looking for it, but I don’t see it in the Scripture.
125 I look for a Rapture, for just a handful of people. That’s right, just a handful of people. They’ll never be missed in the world. When they go, you’ll never know it’s gone. That’s right. It’ll come like a thief in the night.

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« 126 † And if He don’t cut the work short, for the Elected sake! There is some elected to Eternal Life, we know that; all of them are, that’s got Eternal Life. And if they–and if they… or then He don’t cut it short, for their sake, no flesh will be saved. The world has met its doom, every two thousand years. We know the system has fell apart. It fell apart in the days of Noah. Days of Christ, it fell apart. And here is 1964 coming up, what does it leave? Thirty-six years to another two thousand; the twenty-first, twenty-first century coming up. What happens? The work still has got to be cut short. Jesus said, the–the corruption of this day, “The elected would be deceived and wouldn’t be saved, if it would be possible.” There we are. And the calendar tells us, according to science, that we’re about fifteen years off of that. We’re behind on the Roman calendar, according to the Jewish calendar, that we’re fifteen, twenty years behind on that.
127 So where are we at? We see nations breaking, and Israel awakening, the signs that this Bible foretold for this day. We see the mechanical things taking place. Now the Spirit, the dynamics of that promised Word, to get into His Church and drive them into Calvary yonder, and to the Rapture! And there we are.

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« 128 † No wonder we’re falling apart, there is nothing… The very Thing that created the earth, the very Thing was put here for the earth to turn on, the very Thing that systems and everything else was to revolve around, this Word that, by God, framed the world. Einstein said in his, said, “There is only one explaining of the Scripture… Only one explaining for this world being in existence,” said, “that is Hebrews 11, ‘By faith we understand the Word of… by the Word of God, that the worlds were framed together by the Word of God.'” That’s all. There is no one can tell how it hangs there in the air, and how it can turn around and make its twenty-four hours around the equator, so forth like that, and around its orbit, everywhere, and come back to the same spot and never miss a second. And every star turning in its cycle like that, and helping one another as they go around.

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« 129 † How that moon watches down there upon that sea! If that moon ever moved out of its place, we would be covered over with a hundred foot of water, in just a second, or two. That moon! Watch, even you could drill a hole here, you people drilling oil, drill down here. See how far the coast is from you? You drill a hole down here in the ground, and watch in the evening time, how the tide comes in, it’ll bring the water up in your pipe, your salt water. Certainly. What is it? That moon controls it, yonder.
130 It’s God’s system. It’s God’s plan. It’s God’s Commandment. But, we make our own, we won’t take His. Let’s hurry now, as to get through. Like then, is the same this Christmas, we do find our world falling apart. Oh!

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« 131 † God got anointed, and He promised His Word. He anointed us back there, and He told us, told them, “When He anointed Jesus Christ…” Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, he said, “Jesus Christ, a Man approved of God among you by signs and wonders, which He did in the midst of you; you yourself know.” They’re witnesses. Also said, “After the resurrection, and so forth, how He had done! How by wicked hands you took the Prince of Life and crucified, Who God raised up; and we are witnesses.” How Nicodemus came and said, “Rabbi, we know. We Pharisees, the Sanhedrin Courts up there, we know that You’re a Teacher sent from God. No man could do the things that You do unless it be of God.” They knowed that promise was for there, and they knowed it was, but their systems had them so tied till they couldn’t do nothing about it.

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« 132 † So is it today, the very same thing. You can’t do it, you’ll give up your fellowship card the first time you do it. You just mark out there on that Word of God sometime, see what happens; you are finished. You won’t be popular. You’ll be kicked out from among them, and everything else.
133 Oh, if you got a little ministry, they’ll hold you for what money they can, draw a crowd in off of your ministry, pull money and things. But just watch when it comes to the Word, watch them how they back up on That. You think a servant of God don’t know that? Well, Jesus even knowed that Judas was among Him. Why didn’t Jesus say something to Judas? The same reason it is today, you have to wait till that hour comes for that deceiving. That’s right. They got it. They’ll get it.

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« 134 † Notice, but they didn’t want the way that He came, so is it today. The churches then wanted their systems anointed. The Pharisees wanted the Phariseeic system anointed, the Sadducee wanted the Sadducee system, Herodians so, so forth. That’s the way today. If they’ll… If God will send an anointing, and anoint the Oneness, oh, my, wouldn’t they tell the Twoness about it, or a Threeness, or whatever it is? Wouldn’t the Assemblies tell the Oneness about it? “I told you we were right!” The Methodist would tell the Baptist, “O boy, see, we got her!” You are wanting your system anointed.
135 But God only promised to anoint His Word. Amen! I know that is scorchy, but that’s what is Truth. God never changes. He anoints His Word. Yes, sir. The anointed, promised Word for that age is what God anoints. The promised Word for that age!

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« 136 † Today they want an educational system, (why?) so they can do anything they want to, and still hold their Christian profession. Oh, if they got a great big something, where you can go in, go down the lines, and things, and chew chewing gum, and–and kick one another in the side; and go out and have the recreation halls and things, where you all go out and play basketball and things like that. I ain’t got nothing against basketball, baseball, football, or whatever it is, a big… if that’s all your god is, is a big bag of air. But let me tell you, what we need today is the Word of God, anointed for this age, that will bring forth the Power of the Holy Ghost again. Yes, that’s all right, but that don’t belong in the church. No, sir. Have to build something like that, to keep the church together, you had better burn it down or kick it out, or get something in there that will bring the Word back again. And that’s the things of the world, oh, mixing it with the Word of God, you cannot do it. No, sir.

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« 137 † Yes, sir, now they are wanting a system. The world will take a system. Now we find out, each little system in its own, each one of them says, “I want It to come to me. I want It to come to mine.” Oh, they’re getting great machines, and educating preachers, and things like that, and bringing them out, hatching them out, boy, with intellectual; till, my, a fellow feels his words, his grammar, is so bad, he hate to even go in the pulpit behind one. But what we need today is not educational system, it’s not lectionaries.
138 What we need today is the Gospel handled by the Power of God, to vindicate the Word of this hour, to where will come somebody who will stand up and call black “black,” and white “white,” somebody that will stand up and tell the Truth, whether It takes the hide off or shucks you down, or what It does. That’s exactly what the–what the hour calls for, today.

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« 139 † But the people want something. The people today, women, what do they want? They want a–a–a people, a pastor, who will stand up and say, “It’s all right. You can do this, or do that. Or, that’s all right, there is nothing wrong with that, dear.” That preacher needs a Gospel whipping; let bobbed hair, wear paint.
No, you say, “What does that got to do with It?”
140 Don’t you know the outside of you reflects what is on the inside? Don’t the Bible say you shouldn’t do that? “It’s not even common for a woman to pray like that.”

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« 141 † And you man want something like that? Preachers, you can’t say it, because you’ll give up your fellowship card, the big council will kick you out if you say something about it. God help a man that would think more of a council card or a fellowship card than he would the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the Word! How can the Holy Ghost, that wrote the Bible, deny what He wrote?
142 “Well, the days of miracles, oh, we don’t need that today. Divine healing, these other things, that, there is no such thing. That’s fortune-telling, that’s, oh, mental telepathy.” You, poor, degraded, what’s the matter with you? We need–need the Gospel, if the Holy Ghost is in you!

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« 143 † If I told you, “The life of Beethoven was in me,” I could write music. If Beethoven lived in me, I’d live Beethoven’s life. If Shakespeare was in me, I could compose poetry. I could write plays, if Shakespeare lived in me.
144 And if Jesus Christ lives in you, the works that He did, and His Word, He is the Word, will confirm Itself this day, by the very promise that He give. Amen. That’s what God is waiting for. That’s what holds the world, apart, what holds the world together, the religious world together, is His Word, hold any of the Word together. Yeah.

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« 145 † The people wants that kind of a system, though. They’re going to get it. They are already in it, right now. The World Council of Churches will give them just what they want, every one of them together. How these Pentecostals can sit in these conventions, and get in the Vatican City and write a circulated letter, and say, “The most spiritual thing I ever said, when I set beside Holy Father Pope So-and-so,” and be a Pentecostal and know how… It’s a dead Pentecostal movement. The whole thing is dead. It’s corrupted. It’s gone! It’s right back in the Confederation of Churches where it belongs. Exactly right.

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« 146 † But the Church of the living God, that Bride, moves right on just the same. And She’ll go in the Rapture, by the Word, that’s right, the Word and the Word will come together. If we’re a part of Christ, part of It, we have to be His Word, ’cause He is the Word. Right. Yes, sir.

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« 147 † They have refused the anointed Word of promise, of this age, and He is always the Word. If God sent us an anointed, promised Word again, for this age, in 1946, He would be the same He was when He come in the beginning, the anointed Word for the age. Hebrews 13:8 throws it right back in your lap, and says, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” That’s exactly right. And we… And He would stay with the Father’s promised Word for this age. If Jesus comes, He would be just exactly what the Word said It would be in this age.

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« 148 † That’s what Elijah was in his age. That’s what Moses was in his age. That’s what Noah was in his age. That’s what, everywhere, every prophet ever come. And the–the Word, when It come in fulness, the entire Word made flesh among us, It did just exactly what It said It would do in that age.
149 If It come today, He would be just exactly Jesus Christ living out His promise of what He promised to do, just as the Word.
150 He was the Word. Isaiah 9:6 is Jesus Christ. And when It was made flesh and dwelt among us, It lived just exactly what It did. Moses said over there, in the Book of Exodus, “The Lord your God,” or Deuteronomy, “the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet, likened unto me; and it shall come to pass, whoever will not hear Him, will be cut off from amongst the–the people.” And when He come, He did just exactly what the Word said He would do. And they found fault with Him, because their systems had cut It off and made the Word of God non-effective to them. See? They couldn’t believe such things as That. They couldn’t believe those kind of things, because it was passed the time, they thought. Oh!

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« 151 † For, He has proven His Word to be the same. He would vindicate the Word today, as He vindicated It then. He would condemn, fiercely, every denominational system in the world, if He come on the earth today. That’s what He did, the first place. That would be the thing He would hit. That’s exactly what He hit when He come the first place. As He did then, so would they do for this time, too. And He did then, for He never changes His Word. He never changes His system. It’s always the same, It’s the anointed Word each time, for the age. That’s right.
152 So again, as we find it today, if He come, His plans for holding the world together would be rejected just like it was then.

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« 153 † But listen, in closing, I want to say this. We are not promised a system, we are not promised a denomination, a super denomination, a super plan of some sort. But we are promised the Kingdom, an Eternal Kingdom. Amen. That’s what we are promised, having Eternal Life in this Eternal Kingdom. And the Government is controlled by the Eternal King, His Eternal Word given out to His people that has Eternal Life. And the Eternal Life people feast not upon the things of the world, but it’s written, that, “Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” So when we both now… We receive this Kingdom, and we find out that, “Both heaven and earth will pass away, but this Word shall never pass away.” And this Word is the Kingdom. This is the King and Kingdom, the System, the Life, it’s every bit right in Here.

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« 154 † If God judges His world by a church, which church is He going to judge it by? How many is there? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of different denominational churches. If the Catholic is right, which Catholic? If the Greek Catholic is right, then the Roman is wrong. If the Roman is right, the Greek’s wrong. So, you see, if the Methodist is right, the Baptist is wrong. If the Baptist is right, the–the Pentecostal is wrong. If the Pentecostal is right, then the Presbyterian is wrong. See? So you would be all so confused.

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« 155 † But God hasn’t left us without any witness or any–any–any standard that we should stand by. That’s this Word! He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth.” That’s right.
156 For, “Both heavens and earth will pass away.” We’re told here, that, “We receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved.” Yes, sir. When all these worldly kingdoms are falling now, and the whole world falling apart, yet we are baptized into a Kingdom that cannot be moved. Amen. We receive a Kingdom. So, when the world falls apart, we are borned into this Kingdom that cannot fall apart. It’s God’s Eternal Word, and we stand on that. It can never fall apart.

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« 157 † We so hear so much about this new system going to bring, the religious system, you know, going to bring peace upon the earth, when the Catholic and all the Protestants unite together. Some of them believe in Divine healing, some don’t believe, and some believe this, and some believe that. And you have to forfeit your big fuss you been fussing about all the time, your evangelical belief, to get into the World Council. And every denomination will have to come in there. So, if denomination is cursed, and to belong into it, what does it do? It throws you right back. If Rome is the mother of denomination, and she is the beast and the mark of the beast, then they made an image unto it, council, the churches all together make an image to the beast, so right straight back to the mark of the beast again! The system of the world, denominationalism, has brought up a system to bring the mark of the beast.

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« 158 † And you see it as well as I see it, that right now it’s going to be forced, that, all that’s not in that already set in order, the big machine sitting there; the mechanics is there waiting for Satan to get into it, with the dynamics. See? And, when it does, no man can preach the Gospel, no man, without belonging to this system. There is the mark of the beast. And remember, at that time, the Bride is gone, so you see how close it is. All right, so you see where we’re at.
159 You can see what: this great slump, these things they’re going on about. “Oh, wake, ye saints of the Lord, why slumber when the end is nearing?” Why do you do it? Sometime you sin away your day of grace. Don’t you never do that. Yes, sir.

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« 160 † Now, this system will not bring about a world peace. If that will bring about a world peace, what happened to the Prince of Peace that was the Word? It’s antichrist in its teaching. It’s against exactly what God stood for, what He told us. “These signs shall follow them that believe,” they believe that’s nonsense. Acts 2:38 is another thing, to them, they know nothing about. All the Word, and so forth, they know nothing about That, and they deny It. Fulfills exactly what the prophet said in II Timothy, the 3rd chapter, “They’d be heady, high-minded, having a form of godliness, and would deny the Power thereof, in the last days.”

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« 161 † That denominational system is the mark of the beast. You’ve knowed. If you never heard me say it before, that’s the reason I’ve racked it so hard. Because now I think the time is just about finished, so might as well let it come forth and tell the Truth about it. There she is. That’s the marking of the beast, exactly. Rome was the beast, and she was denomination, the first organization.
162 And we come out of her, we Pentecostal people, to not be partakers of it; and turned right back, “like a dog to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow,” right back in. No wonder our Pentecostal system is done, and so is the Methodist’s, Baptist’s, World Council of Churches, and all! They’re being swallowed up in the Council of Churches, making a mark or–or an image unto the beast, to give it its power. “And it had a head wounded unto death, and then live,” pagan Rome to papal Rome. Oh, my, how blind has Protestants been! And here you are, right now sitting right in the midst of it. And there is nothing you can do now. The system is done formed. They’ll take it and don’t know they’ve took it. They’ll just be in there, that’s all. They can’t get out of it. It’s already done.

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« 163 † It’s not foreign to people, though. It’s been preached. Remember, God give a witness of it, vindicated it by His Word. The things that He said He would do, He did it just exactly. So, it’s without excuse. Yes.
164 It’s a false mechanics. It’s brought about things just exactly what Jesus did, “You by your traditions has made the Word of God of no effect.” For rejecting that true Word, they’re right back in the same thing again, their teachings and the same thing like they was in the beginning, and, that against Christ, teaching the Word to believers in this age and tell them to–to reject and to turn down.

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« 165 † When God made His Word flesh among His people, in the age of Jesus Christ, at the first Christmas, what did the Phariseeic moves and all them denominations? Said, “Don’t you even go to one of them meetings. If you do, you’ll be excommunicated when you do it.”
166 Don’t you see how things repeated right back again? “Who is this Man? What school did He come from? What fellowship card does He have? What group does He have? Whence cometh this Man?” As, He come today like He did then. “We’ll not have this Man rule over us. We’ll not have nobody tell us what to do. We are Oneness. We are Threeness. We are Presbyterians. We are this. We don’t have to put up with It!”
167 I know you don’t, but you’ll either take the Word or perish! That’s all. That’s no other way but That, but That’s what holds us together. God’s Kingdom is not a kingdom of this, it’s not, God’s Kingdom is not a system of this world. Jesus said so. Jesus said, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If it was, My delegates would fight.” He is the Word.

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« 168 † We’re like Abraham. Abraham received the Word. And anything was contrary to the Word, he called it as if it wasn’t. And any true born child of God receives God’s Word, and, I don’t care what anybody says, what system speaks against that Word, the Word is true, anyhow.
169 God is obligated to meet you on the basis of them promises. Outside of them promises, He can’t meet you, because you done cut yourself off from Him. That’s the reason our world is falling apart. In closing, we might say this.
170 Anything that’s contrary to It, it’s though it wasn’t. Such a man-made system, we never look at that. No, sir. Being then baptized into this Kingdom, we are now sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, oh, my, with our anointed King with us; feasting on His Kingdom, promised Word anointed and vindicated right among us. Amen. Whew! There it is, His Kingdom promise made right before us, nothing can turn you from It. No, sir.

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« 171 † Abraham, though his wife old, and him getting older all the time, didn’t bother him a bit. He never staggered at the promise of God, through unbelief. No matter how much you say, “It’s impossible. He can’t get by with it,” he stayed with It, anyhow. Because why? The King was with him, showing him the visions and showing him what would come to pass, and it happened just like He said, and he knowed that was God.
172 And when God makes a promise and you see it, and He tells it and it happens, and tells it and it happens, and tells, it happens, and it never fails, it’s God for the day. Oh, feasting on these Heavenly promises of His promised Word for this age, oh, knowing, with an absolute assurance of faith, that there is coming a new heavens and a new earth. Amen. “A new heaven and a new earth, for this first heaven and first earth will pass away.” But in this new heaven and new earth, Paul said over here in the Book of Hebrews, the twenty-… 14:25, he said, “For we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved.” How did we get into it? Not by a religious system; but, a Kingdom of God is within you. The Kingdom! The King and His Word is the same, and It’s within you, vindicating the hour that we’re now living in. The promise that God made for this age, here we are, living with the King, sitting in Heavenly places, watching Him doing these things.
173 And how can we turn from that Word, to some system? What does it do? It denies the Word. You have to receive to reject Truth, before you can have an error. That is exactly right. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 174 † The hour that we’re living, O God, the world is falling apart! There hangs in the hangars, bombs, there hangs the thing to do just exactly.
175 The Church is ready. She is sealed in, ready to come. There will be a big outpouring of the Spirit, yes, sir, to grab that Church and take Her into the skies. Exactly. Because, see, the Church, the Word, the Bride… And, Christ, His ministry is in His Bride, which is His Body, the celestial Body, or I mean to say, the–the supernatural Body of His here on the spiritual body on earth, His Spirit is in there living His Life right out, until Him and the Church becomes one in the wedding. See, they become one. He takes them, just a little minority in the last days.

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« 176 † And then all those virgins that has slept, down through the age, they all rose, you see. Now, that is on the seventh watch, the seventh church age, the last, end time, the Laodicea, at the end, when just a little group of them went in. But, it brings all the resurrection of all those who died in their ages, living to that Word that was ordained of God and preached to happen in that day, as we went through those church ages and seen exactly the Word that would meet them in that time; how Luther raised up, how we find out, in Luther age, went forth the beast like a man’s face on it, and went forth, which was a “reformer,” meaning man. And, when, all ages, each one met just exactly to the requirements of God’s Word.

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« 177 † And so will this age meet exactly to the sign and wonder and thing that God promised to do in this last days. And the Church Itself will be ready and will go in the Rapture with Jesus, because, “We receive a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. It cannot be moved. Heavens and earth will pass away, but this Kingdom shall never pass away.” Amen. I’m glad to be, tonight, amen, tonight, in that Kingdom. Aren’t you happy to be in It? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Oh, my, to be in a Kingdom, That!
178 Just think, what could you promise yourself today? In another ten to fifteen years, if the world shall stand, if it does stand that, every man in Shreveport, every woman, you’ll have to pack a gun, on the street, with you, in your pocket, to protect yourself. The hoodlums! How you going to stop it? Try it. Well, the whole…

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« 179 † I was in New York, the other week. And went down through there, for miles, was nothing but these teen-age hoodlums with earrings in their ear, and ratted hair, leotards on, and girls with little bikinis, they called it, on like that, out on the street. And the public has to give them the right of way. Oh, what is the matter with this country? It’s because it’s a–a sign of a moral-decayed, God-rejected nation. That’s all.
180 How can you build upon the chars of some ruins like that? How you going to do it, when hoodlums walking the street and shoot the very President right out of his car?

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« 181 † And another night, a roadhouse man, up for rackets and everything, just walked right in and jumped before the Texas police force with over a hundred and something standing there, walked right in; and everybody looking at him, pulled his gun out and shoot a man in cold-blooded murder, and walk out. He’ll plead “insane,” and go free.
182 Right in our city, a man walked right into a garage, the other day, in a little syndicate, and took a–a–a man that was a–a car dealer. He didn’t like him, and he just pulled out a gun and shot him, four or five times. And he said he was insane; they let him go. If it’s “insanity” pleaded for that man, then also Oswald had a chance, should have had a chance to plead insane.
183 What is it, though? You see where it’s at, the whole thing is a big bunch of corruption! The whole thing is guilty, and the whole world stands guilty, and the church stands guilty before God. Amen. No wonder we’re falling apart!
Let us pray.

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« 184 † Lord God, here we are. The hour is here, Father. It may be later than we think. Maybe corruption has so set in, and the cankerworm has been eating, and the caterpillar, until all the Life is gone. I pray Thee, Lord, to be merciful. Grant, Lord, if there is a man or woman, boy or girl, in Presence now, that doesn’t know You, that they will accept You just now, Father. It might be the last name that will ever go on the Book, out of Shreveport.

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« 185 † And while we have our heads bowed. Is that person here would raise up your hand, say, “Brother Branham, I am thoroughly convinced that what you said is right. The world is falling apart, and we receive a Kingdom that cannot fall apart. And, as for me, I am not sure whether I’m in that Kingdom, or not.”
186 Don’t you rely upon whether you have had some kind of an emotional work-up. Don’t you rely upon whether you spoke in tongues. I believe in those things. Sure, I believe in speaking in tongues. But I’ve heard devils speak in tongues and give the interpretation to it, write in unknown tongues, witches, see. You can’t go by that.
187 But if the Life of Jesus Christ is in you, It’ll live Itself out, believing every Word of God. Because, He can’t deny Himself, He is the Word.
188 Now, if He is the Word, and He is in you, and then you say, “Well, Brother Branham, I tell you, I just can’t take That. I don’t believe This, these things are for this day,” and here It is promised for this day, oh, my brother, you’ve been deceived. Some spirit has got upon you and deceived you.

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« 189 † Lady, if you, or man, or whoever you are, if those things that’s so real, real in the Word, that Jesus Christ died for; not just to have a church or to have an emotional bunch, but to have a bunch that’s got His Spirit, living in Him; His Bride, His Word is in there, every Word is true. And you know It doesn’t operate through you that way, you know there is things, in the Bible, that you just can’t believe to be so; and you want to be remembered in prayer? Now with every eye closed, every head bowed, I wonder, if at this late hour when…
190 It may be almost passed feeling time, see, because there will come a time like that when the Spirit of God will be withtaken from the earth, there will be no more. The Church will remain a while, that’s right, preaching, ’cause it has to preach to the Eternal lost, just as every ministry did, coming down through the age. The last part of every ministry preached to the Eternal lost. And there will be a ministry now that will preach to the Eternal lost after they have refused to receive It.

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« 191 † But if there still seems to be a spark in your heart, that you would like to have Christ in you, and all the world dead, would you raise up your hand, say, “Remember me in prayer, Brother Branham.” The Lord bless you. Yes, yes, ten or fifteen hands. Would there be another before we pray? Now we’re fixing to close, in about two or three minutes. God bless you, young lady.
192 Just think of it, think, think of it, what if it would be too late? What if you’re the last person He’ll ever knock on the door?
193 She is falling apart, we know that. You can’t stay here, that’s one thing sure. You can’t stay here. You’re going. Just mark it, you are going. And if you’re…

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« 194 † Just don’t be worked-up. Don’t say, “I belong to church.” You be sure of That. If Christ doesn’t live you, in you, till you’re… all your mind, heart, soul, body.
195 You, you say, “Well, I think…” You haven’t got no thought coming, brother. Let the mind that was in Christ be in you! “I think the days oughtn’t to be… I think this oughtn’t to be. I think the Word don’t mean this.” We have no thought coming.
196 If the mind of Christ is in us, then we will recognize that Word to be the Truth, and It lives right through us. You can’t help it, It’s Christ!
197 Take the life out of a watermelon vine and put it in a pumpkin vine, it’ll bear watermelons. You can’t keep it from it, ’cause the life in it is.
198 And if–and if you say, “Well, I don’t believe That, the–the Word here,” then that ain’t the Spirit of Christ. See, there is some other spirit in you.

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« 199 † Is there another before we pray? God bless you. God bless you, and you, you. Yes, that’s good. Now, somebody else, just a moment now. God bless you, young fellow. You, little lady. You, sister. God bless you, and you. All right, is there another? God bless you, back there.
200 Don’t be afraid now. Don’t be ashamed now. Tomorrow night may be too late. See? It might be tonight that heart stops beating. It might be tonight you turned It away, your last time.

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« 201 † How many in here doesn’t have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, raise up your hands, you know that–that you don’t have It? My! That’s the way you go in. The Holy Ghost is Christ. That’s how you are sealed into the Kingdom, Ephesians 4:30, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of your redemption.” And if you–and if you have thoughts of this Bible, that It isn’t true, then the spirit in you is not Christ, ’cause Christ is the Word.
202 There is the Kingdom that cannot be moved, that’s the Word. That’s the Kingdom that cannot be moved. “Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word will not.” If the Word is in you! “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you; ask what you will, it’ll be done for you. Works that I do,” Saint John 12, 14, “the works that I do, shall you do also; even more than this, because I go to the Father. Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.”
203 Watch what His works was, see if it’s returned to us in the last days. Have they rejected It? Worldwide! And the world is falling apart again, this Christmas, like it was that Christmas.

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« 204 † Our Heavenly Father, there was many hands went up here tonight, maybe thirty or forty, in this little group of people, went up tonight, that they knew they wasn’t just where they should be. They knew that You did not dwell in them, in the Measure. Some, maybe something in the Bible, they say, “I just… I–I–I accept It because I–I just think maybe I ought to.”
205 But, Lord, You promised that You would be the Word, and You are the Word. “And I will come to you, and make Myself known unto you.” We find that Your systems, Your system, never changes.
206 When You come in the Old Testament, You said, “The Word came to the prophets.” And when It did, they prophesied and It come to pass, because It was God.

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« 207 † Now we realize that when You sent us away, and commissioned us to go into all the world and to make disciples, and You said, “When He the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will bring these things that I have taught you, unto your memory.” That’s, again! “And will show you things to come.” Still! “God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets; in this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus.” The Holy Ghost Itself, coming, a Revealer of the written Word, and a Shower of things to come! It said, “The Word of God,” in Hebrews 4, “is sharper than a two-edged sword, a Discerner of the thoughts that’s in the heart.”
208 And sinful and church man, today, can sit and see You do the same thing, and call It an evil spirit, just like they did in the days gone by. “If they call the Master of the house ‘Beelzebub,'” and we see it.
209 Lord, God, what more can we do now? There is hungry hearts here that’s raised their hands. Take them right now, Lord, fill each heart with Thy love. Grant it.

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« 210 † And while we have our heads bowed. If you that raised your hands would like to come around the platform here, don’t–don’t put it off, see. Just this next moment now, just get right up, real quick, and come here, just stand. This might be the night that you receive the Holy Ghost.
211 Friends, look, this isn’t going to last all the time. It, it’s going to end. It’s ending right now, and it may already ended. But as long as you’re trying to desire to get to Christ, then there surely is something there, yet, pulling you that way.

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« 212 † Won’t you come now and stand right here for prayer? You that desire to, would walk right up around the altar, just a moment, while we keep our heads bowed. Now the people are coming right up. That’s right, come right up around the altar. Say, “The world is falling apart, I don’t want no world in me. I want a Kingdom in me, that cannot fall apart.”
213 Jesus said, “There is nothing will be lost. I’ll raise it up again at the last days. Yes, I’ll raise it up.” He promised, so you cannot fall apart. God is going to raise it up. I don’t care what it is, He is going to raise it up.

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« 214 † Did you know there is nothing can be annihilated by man? Nothing can be annihilated. You say, “What about fire, when it’s burning up something?” It don’t annihilate it. It’s just the atoms in there breaking those chemicals apart, and you get heat from it. It goes right back to its original condition, the way it was in the beginning; acids, gases, lights, and so forth, as it was. You can’t annihilate nothing. If–if the world stood long enough, it might come right back to another piece of paper, or another tree, or whatever you’re burning. See, you can’t annihilate it. God has made it so.
215 Oh, you can’t annihilate God’s creation, that’s exactly right, so how much more can He raise up that what He has promised!
216 Won’t you come? Will there be some more now? There is a little group here, not half what held their hands up. I thought you really meant it when you raised your hands, especially on a Message like that.

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« 217 † How many of you in here, now with your heads bowed, knows this, that you have seen God keep His promise, right here across this platform, and knowed the secrets of the heart? One, not one time has He ever told anything but what happened. You know that’s true. In the meetings, everywhere, just exactly what Jesus Christ did when He was here on earth, He has done it again. You know that. You’re aware of that. I was thinking of His healing.

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« 218 † Two weeks ago, before I went to New York, there was a lady come in with a cancer in the throat. The Holy Spirit spoke to her, in the meeting. Here she was there, Sunday, with a cancer in a piece of a rag, she had coughed it out. The doctors looked at it, and said, “The life went out of the cancer, and it’s come loose.” And she coughed it out.
219 Another one had a cancer in the female glands. And she had it right there, with an enlarged picture, with the doctor’s statement with it. She had passed it, two days later.

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« 220 † A little fellow standing there, that hadn’t had no memory, from–from months and months and months. He had fell and hurt the back of his head. He didn’t even know who he was or where he was at. With just a word of prayer, and laid hands on him, I said, “What’s your name?”
He said, “Billy Dukes.”
I said, “How old are you?”
He said, “Nine years old.” Said, “Where am I at?”
221 The Power of God! Wish you had been with me in Colorado, a few weeks ago, when something happened that would shake you, to know what it was. We’re at the end time, friend.
Don’t, don’t put this off any longer. Come. If there is another one here, come up. Will you? Will you come?

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« 222 † Now, if you’re not coming, see, I–I can’t, I–I–I–I… All I can do is just tell you the Truth, see, then it’s up to you. Like Noah, he went in, the ark shut behind him, nothing happened for a while; but the world perished on the outside, and the world went right on living just the same. See?
223 Pilate went right on, after he had crucified Jesus. I’ll preach on that, in a few nights, “blood on your hands,” the Lord willing.
Notice now, is there another one, before we close?

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« 224 † Now I’m going to ask the real consecrated women and men, who knows God, to come down and stand here and lay hands on these people. This might be the last time that they’ll ever have this opportunity. Some of you consecrated people that know God, come up and stand with these people. They’re having pink cards on them, nearly every one of them, that means that they’re, they’re strangers among you. I think that’s right. Come, lay your hands on them. Some of the Life Tabernacle members, come here. Some of you brethren up here want to come? Come on, this is the hour. Don’t you–don’t you love this, people? My! Where is our zeal? Where is our something that makes us move on? What’s the matter?
Now if the audience will wait just a moment, to this prayer.

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« 225 † You people standing here, now look, don’t you rely upon some emotion, although it has emotion in It. Don’t you rely upon whether you’re going to speak with tongues, or not. Don’t think nothing about it. God will take care of that, see. You ask for Jesus Christ to come into your life and to live Hisself through you. You don’t want more thoughts of your own. You want His thoughts. “Let the mind that was in Christ be in you.” Oh, this is…
226 This, well, you’re just going to hear these things the last time, once. Now look, I want all the audience to stand to your feet, out there. Now, you dear people that come up here for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, there is no working tomorrow. This is your soul, brother, sister. This is your Eternal destination. This, it’s either now or never. And as long as you feel that one little draw! And just think of these Truths, they’re laying right before us. Don’t be dead on those things, folks. It’s real. It’s proven, real, perfect every time. And it’s the Word, confirmed!

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« 227 † I’m looking at a man standing right here. I can’t think of his name. I believe it’s Blair, Reverend Blair. When I was over at Hot Springs, here not long ago, I picked up out there in the audience, that man setting there, and an evil spirit was trying to get to that man, to make him doubt me. Now watch what happened. I said, “You might need me sometime, see.” It wasn’t but just a few weeks ago until his wife called me, the man was dying. See?
228 And the man accepted, he knowed then it was the Devil trying to get him to believe It was some kind of a hoax or something. “But how would he know that?” he thought. So then he… By prayer we drove the evil from him.

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« 229 † And then a few weeks ago, see, Satan knowed that that time was coming, where he would be laying there with swelling in his side, I believe his wife said, or something, with a high fever, delirious in his head; know not what it was, some infection in his side, swell his sides out. And his little wife called me at Tucson. I said, “Sister, have you a handkerchief?” I believe she had something another there, a little scarf or something. I said, “I–I can see it. Take this and lay it on Brother Blair, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.” And he had asked her to come call.
230 What if Satan would have succeeded and make him disbelieve, and knowing that was there? He wouldn’t be standing here tonight with his Bible over his heart. See?
231 It’s Satan trying to make you disbelieve This. That’s right. Don’t you listen to it. Remember, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” See, these things are proven so.
232 Now let’s just all, you here at the altar, let’s just raise up your hands, and say, “Lord Jesus, help me right now,” each one praying.

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« 233 † Our Heavenly Father, we are assembled here, O God, it’s between death and life, for these people standing here. Let the Holy Ghost come into their life right now. May there come the Power of God, that’s brought them up around this altar, may It come to them in the resurrection of Christ, and will give to them that great Eternal Life that they are seeking for. Lord, churches everywhere are dying, spiritual water seems to be taken off of the earth. And while there is an opportunity for these people to come beneath the Fountain, grant, Lord, that their parching souls, tonight, that’s hungering and thirsting for God, may be filled with the Holy Ghost right now. Grant it, Lord. Let Thy mercies and grace be upon them.

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« 234 † Now just–just keep your head… keep praying, just keep praying. Everybody, see, just keep praying. I pray for you. I’ll do all I can, but I can’t give you the Holy Ghost. God has to do it. Look, form Christ right before you, in your mind. Look out there and see if you see Christ before you, as you close your eyes. Then walk right into Him, and say, “Lord Jesus, here I am. You and I are going to be one, from this on. I’ll take every Word that You’ve told me tonight.” Now just stay there, just keep staying, if you stay tonight, tomorrow, the next day, just stay until it’s all over, praying, believing that God will fill you with the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
235 Come here, Don, lead them in a prayer. God bless you, Don. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR