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« 1 † ` Thank you, Brother Williams. Greetings, Brother Salano and his wife, and all the delegates here at this banquet tonight. It’s certainly a great privilege to be here. I’ve looked forward for this hour ever since we have started this way.
2 And I–I want to thank that lady, I can’t think of her name, Billy just told me, that had give me a box of Christmas candy, and just brought it out to the car a few moments ago. The sister, I can’t think of her name, she’s from here in California. That was my first Christmas present. So I–I thank you for it.
3 Now, tonight it’s… Now in Tucson it’s ten minutes after nine, but I think it’s just ten minutes after eight here. So we… I have kind of a feeling amongst the people, I’m kind of long-winded in preaching, so I–I hope… [Congregation applauds–Ed.] Thank you. Such a… some nice persons in here. I thank you.

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« 4 † But I’m–I’m just a little bit preached out, almost, tonight, I’ve been going so long from–from Shreveport and across the country (coming this way) night after night, and you get just a little–a little shook up, you know, and cold, and your throat gets hoarse. I started out at Shreveport. I lost my hair when I was… few years ago. And I had a little piece I put on when I’m preaching in the north country, to keep from taking a cold. I went to Shreveport and forgot it, and I really got a cold. Them wind coming across like that, you really just don’t know. It was taken out accidentally, and the skin’s still soft, and with just a little perspiration and I’ve really got it in the throat; had to close many meetings. So I’m just a teeny bit hoarse tonight.

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« 5 † We want to say we’ve had a wonderful time coming across here, though, in the meetings. Last night we had a wonderful time up in… with the brethren up, the other chapter. And so had a great crowd out and wonderful attendance, the people so reverent and nice. So it makes me feel real good to be a part of the Full Gospel Business Men. It’s been…
6 I have a Message, I feel, from God. It’s a little odd to some people. And I can’t help being no more… I just got to be what I am. And we… I don’t mean to be different, it’s just that I–I’m living at a changing time. We’re…

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« 7 † As long as you’re building the wall one straight way, it’s all fine, the–the bricklayers can go right down the row. But when you have to turn the corner, that’s where the time… And we’re not building a wall; we’re building a house, you see, so these turns has to come. They come in the age of Martin Luther, John Wesley, and the Pentecostal age; it’s here again. So we… it’s hard to turn the corners. But I’m so thankful for… to God, even though how rough it’s been, the people has responded one hundred percent. So we’re very grateful, thank each one of you.
And now before we open the Book, let’s speak to the Author, if you will, just a moment, while we bow our heads:

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« 8 † Dear God, we are grateful to You tonight for the privilege of knowing Jesus Christ (our Saviour) Your Son and the free pardoning of our sins, and to know that His Blood is sufficient that’s covered all of our sins and our iniquities. They’re so blotted out and put in the sea of God’s forgetfulness and His Bride will stand at the Wedding Supper, pure, unadulterated, to marry the Son of God. How we thank Thee for this all-sufficiency and the faith to know that we do not trust in our own merits but in His merit alone, for what He did for us. We’re so grateful.
9 Thank You for the–the success that these brethren had overseas and the countries over there where they’re hungering and thirsting for God. I pray, Lord, that if they go back again, that those children that they brought into the Kingdom will be great-grandmothers and grandfathers of the children that they bring in also. Grant it, Father.
10 Bless us together, tonight, and may the Holy Spirit give to us the things that we have need of. Close our mouths to the things that we should not say, and open our hearts to receive what You would tell us. Grant it, Father. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

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« 11 † Now let’s turn in the Bible to a little text that I would like to speak on for a while tonight, and it’s found over in Saint Mark, the 10th chapter.
12 And I had… A few years ago when I would speak, I would–I wouldn’t even have to write a note, I could remember it. And I didn’t have to take a pair of glasses to read it out of the Bible. But since I’ve passed twenty-five now, twice, and so kind of little hard for me to–to do like I used to do. And it’s like a worn-out car, but I’m still running. Uh-huh, I want to keep on chugging along till it’s… I go to the scrap heap to be molded over again. That’s the promise.
13 Saint Luke, the 10th chapter, and begin at the… I believe I said the 21st verse, if I can find it here somewhere. I’m mistaken, it’s Saint Mark. I’m sorry.

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« 14 † Saint Mark, the 10th chapter, and the–the twenty-… beginning with the 21st verse, I want to read. Let’s get the 17th verse, rather:
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeling down to him, and asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, and that is, God.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
Then said… Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, and sell whatsoever thou hast, and, give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasures in heaven: and come, and take up thy cross, and follow me.
And he was sad at that saying, and he went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
And may the Lord bless the reading of His Word.
15 Now, we’re going to speak tonight on a subject. I want my text to be “Follow Me,” and my subject: Leadership.

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« 16 † Now it’s strange, but I thought maybe, today in praying… And I’ve been so long, and each night right down the line on the Message that I have, that the Lord has given to me to speak on. I thought tonight, over in this new chapter, I would approach it from a different standpoint. And many times we have talked on this, called it, “The Rich Young Ruler.” And–and many of the ministers here, my brethren, no doubt have approached it in many different ways. And I want to try to approach it in a–a different way tonight than I ever have, this of Leadership.

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« 17 † This, remember this, that each one of us, young and old, your first step that you ever made in your life, someone had to lead you. That’s right. And your last step you ever make, someone will be leading you. Someone has to lead.
18 God has likened us unto sheep. And if anyone knows about raising sheep and the nature of sheep, why, you know that a sheep cannot find his way around. He has to be led. Even in the slaughter pens, we find that they bring the sheep there and he’s led up into the slaughter by a goat. A goat leads him up, then when he gets up to the end of the chute he jumps out, and the sheep goes right on into the slaughter. So they… We find that a sheep cannot find his way around.

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« 19 † I remember an experience I had with one, one time. I was state game warden in Indiana, and I had been out in the field; and I heard something, the most pitiful cry. And it was a–a little lamb, had–had lost his mama. And he couldn’t find his way to her, and the mother couldn’t find her way to the–to the little lamb. I picked the little fellow up, and how quiet he laid against me. I went along there, my hands holding the little fellow. And crying, and–and I heard him. How he just snugg’ed his little head down against me and it seemed like he knew that I–I–I was going to help him.
20 I thought, “O Rock of Ages, cleft for me, pick me up in the arms of the Lord Jesus, just be content as I know I’m–I’m going to go Home to be with my loved ones.” I thought, “At the end of my life’s journey, just bring me in Your arms, Lord, like that. That I know I’ll be carried across the river then, there on the other side where there’ll be no sorrows and sicknesses, and things, and I’ll be with the loved ones that I’ve loved.”

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« 21 † And if you’ll study nature, there’s a great thing in nature. Everything that I–that I look at, and God has made, He’s the Author of nature. Nature runs in continuity. All nature runs about the same. You notice, everything… As I have said, I believe last evening, that “Nature testifies of God.” If you never had a Bible, you could still watch nature and know that this Bible is the Truth.
22 I–I had the privilege of being around and around the world. And I’ve read the different phases, and I’ve seen different religions; the Mohammedans, and I’ve read the Koran, and–and seen the Sikhs, the Jains, and Mohammedans, and the Buddhists, and whatmore. But yet, each one of them, they have a philosophy and a–a–a–a book of creed and a book of laws, and so forth. But our Bible is the Truth, and our God is the only One that is right; ’cause each one of them has to point to a grave somewhere where their founder is still laying, but Christianity points to an open tomb and can live in the Presence of the One that was put in there. He is alive! It’s not a God that was, It’s a God that is. Not a “I was” or “I will be,” but “I AM.”

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« 23 † And all nature runs in continuity, as I have said, talking on our Church Ages (which we have the books now that’s coming out). The… Why did I… about my writing of the Church Ages. And how that we see the Church, how It’s matured, come up just exactly like all nature does.
24 And we was talking the other day about how the sun rises in the morning, it’s a little baby, real weak, not much strength to it at all. And as the day goes on, it gets stronger, stronger. About eight o’clock it enters school, like a young boy or young girl. And then about eleven o’clock it’s out of school, and it’s ready for its–its service. And then across till about three o’clock it changes, in the middle life into old age. And then dies in the afternoon. Is that the end of the sun? No. It comes back the next morning, to testify that there is a life, a death, a burial, a resurrection. See? See?

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« 25 † We watch the trees, how they move and what they do. I was sometime ago down in Kentucky, I–I like to squirrel hunt, and I went down in the fall of the year there to squirrel hunt with a friend of mine. And it’s… got very dry.
26 And anyone ever hunted gray squirrel, know that how hard it is to slip up on them. When, the–the leaves, just crack one, and, oh, Houdini is an amateur escape artist to–to those fellows, how they can get away! And then trying to shoot eye shots at fifty yards, it takes some good hunting to get your limit in a day.

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« 27 † So, Mr. Wood, a friend of mine, a–a converted Jehovah Witness, was with me. And we… He said, “I know a farm over here where there’s a man that’s got a lot of…” We call them there, “hollers.”
28 How many know what a holler is? Well, what part of Kentucky you from, anyhow? See? And that’s where I am from.
29 Like here in one of the chapters, not long ago; I have to tell this to Brother Williams and them, the brethren. They said, “We will now stand and sing the national anthem–anthem.”
30 And I said, “For my old Kentucky home.” So nobody joined in with me, so… That was the only anthem I knew. And so we was–we was now…

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« 31 † All right, sir. [Brother Branham is handed a note–Ed.]: “Please have prayer, for a lady in here now is bleeding at the nose.”
Let us pray:
32 Dear God, I ask You, Lord, Thou art the–the great Healer and I ask that Your grace and mercy will touch this dear woman just now and stop that blood. As a believing people who assembled together, the lady has come here to enjoy the Word of the Lord and the fellowship of the people, and I ask You, Lord, just now, to rebuke the enemy and stop the blood. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen. (And we believe it, we believe it.)

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« 33 † On with the little story just to kind of get a feeling before we get right down in the few notes I’ve got written here, and some Scripture.
34 Now he said, “Well, this old man, we’ll go over and see him. He’s got a lot of hollers in his place,” he said, “but he’s an infidel.” He said, “If… He just about curse us out if we went over there.”
35 I said, “But we’re not getting no squirrels here. We been camping two weeks. And we was dirty, and beard all out on face.
36 And he said, “Well?”
l said, “Let’s go over.”

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« 37 † So we went a few miles down, about twenty miles. I’d been in the country down there once before, for three nights, at a Methodist campground where there had been some great things the Lord had did, and great healing service amongst the Methodist people. And then we went way back over some hills and hollers and ridges. And you just have to know Kentucky to know it, what kind of a place you had to get into. And while we went back there we come to a house, and there sat an old man, two old men, setting out there with their old hats slouched down over their face, and–and he said, “There he is,” he said, “he’s a tough one.” Said, “He hates that word of a ‘preacher,'” he said.
38 So I said, “Well, I just better set in the car, or we won’t get to hunt at all.” I said, “You go in and ask him if we can hunt.”
39 So he got out and started walking in, he spoke to them. And in Kentucky, always, you know, it’s “come in,” and so forth. And so he went up there and he said, “I just wondered if we could hunt a while on your place.”

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« 40 † The old man setting there, about seventy-five years old, tobacco running down his mouth, he said… spit, and he said, “What’s your name?”
He said, “My name is Wood.”
He said, “Are you any relation to old man Jim that used to live…”
He said, “Yeah, I’m Jim’s boy.” Said, “I’m Banks. Yeah.”
41 “Well,” he said, “old man Jim was an honest man.” Said, “Certainly, help yourself.” He said–said, “Are you by yourself?”
He said, “No, my pastor is out there.”
He said, “What?”
He said, “My pastor is out in the car,” said, “he’s hunting with me.”
42 He said, “Wood, you don’t mean you’ve got so low-down till you have to tote a preacher with you wherever you go?”

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« 43 † So he’s a rough, old character, so I thought I’d better get out of the car, you know. So I got out and walked around, and he said, “Well, and you’re a preacher, huh?”
44 I said, “Yes, sir.” He looked me up and down; squirrel blood, and dirt. He said–he said… I said, “Don’t look much like it.”
45 He said, “Well, I kind of like that.” He said, “You know, I want to tell you something.” He said, “I’m supposed to be an infidel!”
46 I said, “Yes, sir, I understood that.” I said, “I don’t think it’s much to brag about, though. Do you?”
47 And he said, “Well,” he said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I’m going to tell you what I think of you guys.”
I said, “All right.”
48 He said, “You’re barking up the wrong tree.” And how many knows what that means? See? It means it’s a lying dog, you see; the coon’s not up there at all, see. He said, “You’re barking up the wrong tree.”
I said, “That’s to opinion.”
49 And he said, “Well,” he said, “look, you see that old chimney standing up there?”
“Yes.”
50 “I was borned up there, seventy-five years ago.” And said, “I’ve lived right here in these hills all along through all these years.” And said, “I’ve looked towards the skies, I’ve looked here and there, and, surely, in all these seventy-five years, I would have seen something that looked like God. Didn’t you think so?”
51 I said, “Well, it depends on what you’re looking at. See, what you’re looking for.”

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« 52 † And he said, “Well,” he said, “I–I certainly don’t believe there is such a creature. And I believe you fellows just simply get out and swindle the people out of their money and everything. And that’s the way it goes.”
53 I said, “Well, you’re an American citizen, you have a right to your own–own thinking.”
54 He said, “There’s one guy, one time, that I heard of,” he said, “that I would sure… If he… If I would ever get to talk with that fellow,” said “I’d like to–to ask him a few questions.”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
55 He said, “It was a preacher, you might know him.” Said, “He had a meeting up here in Campbellsville, not long ago, in a church yard up there, a campground.” And he said, “I forget his name.” Said, “He’s from Indiana.”
And–and I said, “Oh? Yes, sir.”
56 And Brother Wood started to say, “Well, I…” (“Don’t say that.”) And so he said…
I said, “What about him?”

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« 57 † He said, “Well,” he said, “old lady…” (somebody) “up there on the hill…” Said, “You know, she was dying with cancer.” And said, “Wife and I would go up there of a morning to–to change her bed.” Said, “They couldn’t even raise her up high enough to put her on the bedpan,” said, “just had to pull a draw sheet.” And said, “She was dying. She had been to Louisville, and said the doctors had give her up and said she was ‘going to die.'”
58 “And her sister went up to that meeting, and said, ‘That preacher was standing up there on the platform, looked back over the audience and called this woman by name, and told her, “When she left, she took a handkerchief and put it in her–her purse.” And called this woman’s name down here, twenty miles below here, and said how she was suffering with cancer, what her name was, and all she’d been through; said, “Take that handkerchief and go lay it on the woman,” and said that “the woman will be healed of her cancer.”‘”

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« 59 † And said, “They come down here that night.” Said, “Honest, I heard the awfulest screaming up there. I thought they had the Salvation Army turned loose on top of the hill up there. Said, ‘Well,’ I said, ‘I guess the old sister’s dead.’ Said, ‘We’ll… Tomorrow we’ll go and get the wagon, and how we take her out to get to the main road,’ and said, ‘so they can take her to the undertaker.’ And said that the… We waited. No need of going up that time of night.” Said, “It’s about a mile up on the hill here.” Said, “We went up there the next morning, and you know what happened?”
I said, “No, sir.”
60 He said, “She was setting there eating fried apple pies, and drinking coffee, with her husband.”
I said, “You mean that?”
He said, “Yes, sir.”
“Oh!” I said. “Now, mister, you really don’t mean that.”
61 He said, “What bothers me is what… how did that man, and never in this country, and knew that.” See?
And I said, “Oh, you don’t believe that.”
He said, “It’s the truth.”
I said, “You believe that?” See?

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« 62 † He–he said, “Well, go right up there on the hill, I can prove it to you.” He’s preaching back to me now, you see.
63 So I–I said, “Um-um.” I picked up an apple, and–and I said, “Can I have one of these apples?” and I rubbed it on my clothes.
64 He said, “Well, the yellow jackets are eating them up, I guess you can have one.” And then… And now I said, “Well,…” I–I bite… bit into it, and I said, “That’s a nice apple.”
65 He said, “Oh, yes.” Said, “You know what? I planted that tree there, oh, forty years ago, or something like that.”
I said, “Oh, is that right?”
“Yes, sir.”
66 And I said, “Well, and every year…” I said, “I notice we haven’t had no frost yet, it’s early August.” And I said, “Them leaves are falling off the trees.”
67 “Yes, sir. That’s right, it’s coming on fall. Believe we’ll have a early one this time.”

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« 68 † I said, “Yes, sir.” Changed the subject, see. And he said… I said, “Well, you know, it’s strange” I said, “how that sap goes out of that tree.” I said, “And them leaves falls off, and yet there’s no… they–they haven’t had no frost to kill the leaf.”
69 And he said, “Well,” he said, “what’s that got to do with what we’re talking about?”
70 And I said, “Well, I–I just wonder.” (You know, mama always said, “Give a cow enough rope and it’ll hang itself, you know.” So I just give him plenty of rope.)
71 So he went on out, and he said, “Well, yes, what’s that got to do with it?”
72 I said, “You know, God brings them apples up, and you enjoy those apples and leaves, and you set in–in the shade and so forth. It goes down in the fall of the year and” I said, “comes back up again with the apples and with the leaves again.”
73 And he said, “Oh, that’s just nature. See, that’s just nature.”

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« 74 † I said, “Well, of course, that’s nature.” I said, “That’s nature, but Somebody has to control nature.” See, I… he said… “You tell me now what does that?”
75 And he said, “Well, it’s just–just naturally nature.”
76 I said, “Who is it that says to that little leaf now, and the…?” I said, “Now, the reason that leaf falls off, it’s because the sap goes down into the root. And what if that sap stayed up in the tree through the wintertime? What would happen?”
77 Said, “It would kill the tree.”
78 “Well,” I said, “now, what intelligence that runs that sap down into the roots, says, ‘Get out of here now, it’s coming fall of the year, get down into the roots and hide’? And stay down into the roots like a grave; and then next spring comes back up again, brings up more apples, and brings up more leaves and things.”
79 He said, “That’s just nature, it’ll do it.” Said, “The weather! The changing, you know, coming on fall.”
80 I said, “Set a bucket of water on the post out there, and see if nature runs it down the bottom of the post and brings it back up again. See?” See?
“Well,” he said, “you might have something.”
I said, “Think of it while we go hunting.”
And he said, “Well,” and he said, “hunt where you want to.”
81 And I said, “When I come back, if you’ll tell me what intelligence runs that sap out of that tree down into the roots and stay all winter and come back the next winter, I’ll tell you that’s the same Intelligence that told me about that woman up there.”
Said, “Told you?”
I said, “Yes, sir.”
He said, “You’re not that preacher!”
I said, “Would you know his name?”
Said, “Yes.”
I said, “Branham?”
He said, “That’s him.”
I said, “That–that’s right.” See?
82 And you know what? I led the old man to Christ, right there on his own testimony.

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« 83 † And a year later I was down there and pulled a car (Indiana license on it) in the yard. They had moved away, he had died. And so when I come back, there stood his wife to really rake me over; I thought I had permission to hunt. And she come out there, she said, “Can’t you read?”
84 I said, “Yes, ma’am.” She said, “Did you see those signs saying ‘No Hunting!’?”
85 I said, “Yes, ma’am, but” I said, “I–I have permission.”
86 “You do not have permission!” she said. And said, “We got this place–place posted for many years.”
87 I said, “Well, sister, I–I was wrong then, I’m sorry.”
88 And said, “Sorry nothing! Them Indiana license on there, and set up here, you’re the boldest people!”
I said, “Could I just explain it?” I said…
She, “Who give you permission?”
89 I said, “I don’t know just…” I said, “It was an elderly man setting out there on the porch, when I was down here last year, and we was talking about God.” See?
And she looked, she said, “Are you Brother Branham?”
And I said, “Yes, ma’am.”
90 She said, “Forgive me. I didn’t know who you were.” She said, “I want to tell you his testimony. His last dying hours, he raised up his hands and praised God.” Said, “He died in Christian faith, and was carried away to God.” See?
91 “If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out.” There’s something in nature.

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« 92 † Watch the birds, watch the animals, watch everything, and you watch nature.
93 Watch the little dove how he flies. What a different bird he is, see. He–he doesn’t have any gall, he can’t eat like the crow can. See? He has no gall in him. He doesn’t have to take a bath in the–in the–in the water, because he’s got something on the inside of him; it cleans him from the inside out, you see.
94 That’s the way the Christian is. That’s the way God represented Himself, in a–in a–in a dove. See, because… and the… Jesus was represented as a Lamb. Always in nature you’ll find God. And God likened us unto sheep that has to be led. Did you ever notice there, I preached a sermon on it sometime ago? That the Dove coming down on the Lamb, to lead the Lamb, and It led Him to the slaughter. The–the–the Dove! Now, if that Lamb… That Dove could not have descended upon any other type of animal, because they both had to be of the same nature. See? If the Dove would’ve lit upon a wolf, and he would have snorted or growled, the Dove would have took Its flight.
95 Well, that’s the same way now. And our ill ways, the Holy Spirit just takes His flight and goes away. It’s got to have the same nature. The bird of the Heavens, the dove; the meekest animal on earth, the lamb; they can agree together. And when the Holy Spirit comes upon us and makes us new creatures, then He can lead us. But we try to live the same old life, it won’t work! It just won’t work.

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« 96 † Now, the first step you probably ever taken in your life, speaking of leadership, is probably the hands of some kind old mother. Them hands may be still tonight, out here in some cemetery somewhere, but that was the hand that held you to make your first step.
97 Then after mother taught you how to walk, and you’d make a few steps then fall down, and get up, and you thought you were doing great things, then she turned you over to the school teacher. And then she begin to lead you to an education; of how and what you must do, and how you must learn, and–and so forth like that.
98 Then after the school teacher got through with you, then you returned back, your father got a hold of you. Then when your father got a hold of you, he taught you perhaps your business; how to be a successful businessman, how to do things right. Your mother taught you how to be a–a housewife, how to cook, and so forth like that.
99 Then after they got through with you, then your minister or priest got a hold of you.

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« 100 † But now who leads you? That’s the question now. Now, we’re all led by something tonight. We have to be. We’re led. Notice!
101 Now let’s look at this young fellow’s… what had influenced him. Let’s look at the… this young businessman we would call him, ’cause he was a businessman. He was a great successful man. Let’s look at his leaders.
102 Perhaps, first, his mother had taught him as a little boy the things that he should do. His father had made him such a fine success, and maybe left him an–left him an inheritance, because he was a ruler himself; perhaps his father was gone, so he was a–a businessman. He was a… Let’s call him, today, like a Christian businessman; or, he was a religious businessman, I think would be the best quotation.

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« 103 † This man was religious, he was by no means an infidel. And he had been taught by his mother how to do right, how to walk, how to dress himself. He had been taught by his father, a great business, and how to be a successful man; and his business was successful. And father and mother had been raised up in the church, and had pointed him to the priest. And the priest had made him a real religious man. Therefore he was a fine cultured man, he was a fine boy with good character.
104 If Jesus Christ looked at him and loved him, there was something about the boy was real. Right. For the Bible said here, we find out in Mark, “And Jesus beholding him, loved him.” Yeah, “Jesus beholding him, loved him.” So therefore there must be something real outstanding about this young fellow. He was a… had a good character, and a good character rating. He was a man that was raised right; intelligent, smart, intellectual, successful in business, and a religious man. He had a lot of good characteristics that was outstanding, so much that it attracted the attention of Jesus Christ the Saviour. But when he was confronted, being successful in all these other things…

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« 105 † Nothing had went wrong; he was perfectly cut out right, measured up right, intelligent, right education, his success, he was smart, a fine businessman, probably belonged to a businessman’s group somewhere there in Palestine. He might have belonged to a businessman’s fellowship like we have here tonight, no doubt he did, because businessman has always had fellowships with another, one with the other.
106 Cause just like “birds of a feather,” they have things to talk about. And if this… The religious men, they don’t want to talk about the man that runs the barroom and the… all of them together, ’cause they have nothing in common. We’ve got to have things in common. So Christians has things in common with Christians; sinners has things in common with–with sinners; and–and societies, and whatever they are, they have things in common. And this young boy probably belonged to a–a businessman’s fellowship.

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« 107 † And he was religious as he could be, because Jesus, in questioning here, he said, “I have kept these commandments, observed them all from my youth.” That’s right.
108 See, he had been brought up right, taught right, and everything. But when he was confronted with the–the thought of Eternal Life… Now I want you to notice, with all this character that he had, he yet knew he did not possess Eternal Life.

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« 109 † Now, all of our societies, our church, our membership and the things that we hold so dear, our American societies, and everything, is very fine, there’s nothing to be said against that. And our Christian Business Men’s society here, is a great thing, it’s been a open door for me to… on my interdenominational thoughts that “we are Christians.”
110 There is no one (no one denomination) can claim us, a real Christian, because you belong to God. Denominations are man-made, and Christianity is Heaven-sent. But in all these things that we have, as good as they are, as fine as we come together, and as nice of meetings as we have, and social understanding that we have, yet we’re each one confronted with Eternal Life. And no matter how successful we’ve been in business, how successful we been, and what a great church member we are, and how we work, how we try to do things right, still, if it’s not done in the right way, it is a worship of God in vain.
111 Jesus classed that the same way, as I stop here for a moment. He said, “In vain do you worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man.” Now think! A sincere, honest worship (with the sincerity of your heart) to God, and still be in vain! It began that way with Cain, at the Garden of Eden. Sincere worship, but was rejected! Very religious, still rejected!

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« 112 † In Shreveport last week, week before last, at a Business Men’s meeting, a breakfast there where several hundreds of people had gathered, I took two and a half hours to speak on: Doing God A Service Without It Being God’s Will. Now, that sounds strange, but we’ve got to channel ourselves into God’s provided channel and God’s way of doing it. No matter how much we think it’s right, it’s got to be according to the Word of the Lord or it’s in vain. Cain worshipped, but it wasn’t according to the Word of the Lord. The Pharisees worshipped, but not according to the Word of the Lord. And in this particular message to the Business Men, I taught this.

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« 113 † David, he wanted to do the Lord a service, and he was right in what he said. He said, “Is it right for the ark of the Lord to be down there? Let’s bring it up here.” In the days of the king, the other king that he succeeded. He said, “It’s not right. They never consulted the Lord by the ark, but we must do it.” Now, that’s correct, what they should done. He said, “We should go get the ark, and we can consult the Lord.” And that’s right, it was down in the other country. Said, “We got to bring it up here. Get it up here and put it in our house here, and worship the Lord.”
114 Now notice he went in the wrong channel to do it. He consulted the captains of fifties and hundreds and thousands. They all was consulted, every one. Seeing it was the will of the Lord, looked like that it was the–the Word of the Lord.

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« 115 † The Word of the Lord, sometimes, you have to put It in Its right place or it’s not the Will of the Lord. See? Now let that soak deep and you’ll get a–a general conception of what I’m trying to say.
116 I don’t want the church to fall into the steps that you found over there in England: long hair, and painted-face men, and pervert. We don’t want that! No matter how religious it sounds, and how much Elvis Presley can sing religious songs, he’s still a devil. And I’m no judge, but “By their fruits you know them.” See? He’s a Pentecostal, but that don’t make a bit of difference. See, your fruits bear record of what you are.
117 No matter if the Spirit comes upon him, he could speak in tongues, he could shout, he could heal the sick, and Jesus said, “Many of them will come to Me in that day, and say, ‘Lord, haven’t I done this and that?’ And I’ll say, ‘Depart from Me, you that work iniquity, I never even knew you.'” See?
118 We’ve got to be real, genuine Christians, and the only way we can do that is confront it with this question here of “Eternal Life.”

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« 119 † There’s only one form of Eternal Life, and that comes from God. And He foreordained every creature that would ever have It. Just as you were the gene in your father, you was a gene in God; one of His attributes to begin with, or you’ll never be There. You come forth in the bedding ground of your mother; your father didn’t know you, you were in his loins. And when you come forth in the bedding ground of the mother, then you become a human being and are made in the image of your father, now you can fellowship with him. And the same thing by God, if you got Eternal Life.
120 The life that you come in, the natural life, physical life, that was by your father. And the only way you can come born again, is the only way, is it has to be from your Heavenly Father, His attributes. “All the Father has given Me will come to Me.” See?
121 You are here because your name was placed on the Lamb’s Book of Life before there was even a foundation of the world. That’s exactly right. You’re a gene, a spiritual gene out of your Heavenly Father, a part of God’s Word. That be so, as I’ve said, then you was with Jesus when He was here because He was the Word: you suffered with Him, died with Him, buried with Him, and rose with Him, and now setting in Heavenly places in Him!

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« 122 † Notice, David thought everything was fine, and he consulted all these people, and they every one begin to dance and shout and scream. They had all their religious motions that there was, but still it wasn’t God’s will to go down and bring the Word of God back to the house of God. But, you see, God always (in all ages) works through one way. His first decision is His only decision, because He’s perfect in His decisions. He never does nothing except He first reveals it to His servants, the prophets. That’s exactly.
123 That’s why this, the church age that we live in. There’s no church, no Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, or anything else, can ever put this Church into the Bride. It’ll have to be the answering of Malachi 4, for God to send a prophet to be revealed to, ’cause that’s the only way. Our churches denominate and throw the thing into a mess and huddle, just like they’ve always been, and God always sends the prophets.

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« 124 † And there was Nathan standing in the land, a vindicated prophet before God, and he wasn’t even consulted.
125 And they went down there and cost the life of a honest man, and so forth, and took the ark. Instead of putting it on the shoulders of the Levites, to pack it, they put it on a cart to pack it. Altogether messed up!
126 You see, if you don’t go according to the–the will of God, and the way that God has give us to go, they always get It messed up and take It off in some organization, denomination, some message, and there you go. See? It’s always been done that way.

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« 127 † That’s the same thing that this boy was confronted with. He come in; he had been a–a–a member of maybe the Pharisees or Sadducees, or some great order of that day. He was religious as he could be. He said, “I’ve observed these commandments I’ve been taught, since I was a youth.” See? And Jesus loved him for it. But he refused to be guided, he refused to accept the real leadership of Jesus Christ to give him Eternal Life.
128 Notice, he believed there was something different than what he had, or he would have never said, “Good Master, what must I do now?”
129 See, he wanted to do something himself. That’s the way we do, we want to do something ourself. The Gift of God is a free gift. God give It to you, you don’t do one thing for It. He ordained It to you, and you’re going to have It. See?

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« 130 † Notice, he knew It was there. He believed in It and wanted It. But when he was confronted with how he had to do it, it was different from his ritual. It was different. He could hold his money and belong on to the church that he belonged to, and so forth. But Jesus knew that, and knew that he had hoarded this money, and He said, “Go sell all you got, and give it to the poor. And come, take up your cross and follow Me, and you’ll have treasures in Heaven.” But he couldn’t do it.
131 The other leaders that he had in his youthful days, had such an influence on him till he refused to accept God’s provided Way, which was Jesus Christ; the only One who holds Eternal Life, the only One that can give you It. Not the church can give you Eternal Life; not your neighbor; not your pastor; not your priest; not your creed; only Jesus Christ Himself can give you Eternal Life. He’s the…
132 No matter how good you are, what you quit doing, what you start doing, you’ve got to accept the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then when you do that, He is the Word, and then your life fits right in the Word and it manifests itself to this age that you’re living in.

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« 133 † Noah had to do that for the Word to be manifested in his age. Now, what if Moses come along, said, “We know what Noah done, we’ll take Noah’s word. We’ll do it just the way Noah did it. We’ll build a–a ark and float down the Nile River, and go out of Egypt”? Why, it wouldn’t a-worked. See, that was another age.
134 Jesus couldn’t have come with Moses’ message; Luther couldn’t come with the Catholic message; Wesley couldn’t come with the Luther’s message; the Pentecost couldn’t come with the Wesley age message. And the Bride can’t be formed in the Pentecostal denomination, it just can’t do it. And that’s exactly right. She’s done organized and went out here, and there she sets, just like the rest of them. It’s a shuck. Just like the life comes up through the… See?

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« 135 † That writer, as I spoke the other night, that writer that wrote this book… And not ’cause he criticized me so bad, said I was “A devil, if there was such a thing.” So he said he didn’t believe in God. He said, “A God that could fold His arms and set up and watch them martyrs, through the early ages, and claim to have power to open the Red Sea, and let them women and children be tore to pieces by lions and so forth, and then said He was a loving God.” Said, “There’s no such a creature.” See, the fellow, without inspiration of the Word, fails to see It.

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« 136 † The first corn of wheat, the Bridegroom, had to fall into the earth in order to rise again. So did the first Bride that was born at Pentecost had to go through that Dark Ages like any other seed, be buried. They had to die. They must do it. But it started sprouting again in Luther, in the first reformation. It didn’t look like the seed that went in, but it was the Light of that day. The stalk then went on into the tassel, Wesley. And from the tassel it went into Pentecost, the shuck.
137 When you see into the wheat, when it comes forth, the corn of wheat, a man that’s raised wheat, you go out and see that wheat form in there, it looks just exactly like the grain. But if you’ll take a tweezer and set down and take that wheat and open it up, there’s no grain in there at all. It’s just a shuck. And then what? It’s–it’s formed there, to hold the grain. See? And then, the first thing you know, the life left the–the–the stalk to go into the tassel; left the tassel go into the shuck; it leaves the shuck and goes into the wheat. Three stages, see, of it. And then forms the Wheat outside of the three stages (Luther, Wesley, Pentecost). Just exactly. See, no doubt. You can’t interrupt nature.

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« 138 † Now look, every three years after a message has went forth sent from God, they organize. This has been twenty years, and there’s no organization. It won’t. See? Now the shuck has to pull away, give the Wheat a chance to lay before the Son, to ripen; the Message coming right back into the Church again, forming the Body of Jesus Christ just like the first original One that went into the ground. Now, to see the–the Eternal Life.

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« 139 † The Life, sure the–the stalk back here carried the Life. Certainly, it did. But, you see, when it become the stalk and it was finished, the organization, the Life went right on into Wesley; come right out, went in. And once, each one of them. One, a big blade, don’t look like the grain. But when the little pollen comes, like the… on the–the shuck… or on the stalk, the pollen of the tassel, it looks a whole lot like the grain. But when it comes down to that shuck, it’s almost there.
140 Didn’t Jesus say, “In the last days” (Matthew 24:24) “the two would be so close it would deceive the very genes, predestinated, the Elected Ones, if it was possible”? Almost like the real thing, see. So, in the last days. Now, you see, it’s wheat time now. It’s getting harvest time. This is not Luther’s age, this is not Pentecost age, this is the Bride age.
141 As Moses called a nation out of a nation, Christ today is calling a Church out of a church, you see; the same thing in type, taking them to the glorious Eternal Promised Land.

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« 142 † Now, to refuse that Person that’s doing the calling, Christ, no matter if you’re Pentecostal, Methodist, Luther, whatever you are, you got to… This age! Nothing against them, not at all, but in this age now you’ve got to accept (like they did in that age) the Person of Christ which is the Word!
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,…
… the same yesterday,… today, and for ever.
Hebrews 13:8. See, you must accept that Person of Eternal Life!

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« 143 † Now, what Life Luther had, was justification. Wesley had sanctification, added to it. The Pentecost had the restoration of the gifts coming back in it, added to it. But now it’s completing in the body, you see, the three phases of it, and out of that… Now, when the resurrection comes, the Life that lived in them Lutherans, that’s went out, the Life that lived in the Methodists and went out, the Life that went into Pentecostals, will all be raptured out of the ground in the Body of the Bride to be taken in before Jesus Christ. Glory to God! Oh, it’s exciting! It’s the Truth!

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« 144 † We’ve turned a corner! We’re looking towards Heaven, watching for the coming; the Cap on the Pyramid, as we would say, His coming back! The Church must be resurrected soon, and we must get ready.
145 And the only way you can, is not say, “Well, I belong to the Assemblies. I belong to the Oneness, Twoness,” or whatever it is, all them there, “I belong to the church of God,” that don’t mean a thing. “Our fathers shouted and danced,” that’s just perfectly all right, that was their day. But today you’re confronted not with the organization that they made, but with the Life that’s going on, which is Jesus Christ.

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« 146 † This young fellow had done the same thing. Moses wrote those commandments. But, you see, the same God that wrote the commandment by His prophet, was the same thing that prophesied the day would come, “I’ll raise up a Prophet likened unto me. And it’ll come to pass that all that don’t hear Him will be cut off”; back in the denominational shucks and tassels. They must go on to Life. And today, don’t say, “I’m Pentecost. I belong to this, I belong to that.” That don’t mean nothing. You’ve got to accept the Person Christ, Eternal Life. Confronts every one of us! Don’t forget that.
147 The other leaders, you see, they had such a hold on him. Their peoples is taught, “Well, we belong to this, and we belong to that,” and had such a hold on him. But what a fatal thing, to reject the leadership of Eternal Life!

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« 148 † Now, that Life is present tonight. That’s right. The Holy Spirit is here, which is Christ in Spirit form; His Spirit, the anointing is here.
… a little while, and the world seeth me no more; yet ye will see me:…
… For I’ll be with you, even in you, to the consummation, to the end of the world.
149 Jesus alone can lead you to that Eternal Life. There’s no church, no denomination, no preacher, no priest, no nothing else can lead you to It, you must be led by Him, the only One that can lead you.

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« 150 † Could you imagine Him leading you out of His Word, which that’s Him? And if He is the Word, and you’re a part of Him, won’t you be a part of the Word? The Word that God wants to pour the waters of salvation upon today, to identify Him today; like the apostles identified Him, like Luther, like Wesley, like in the people in them days identified Him. This is another age. It’s the Word! The Word said these things that we’re seeing taking place now, is predicted to take place in this hour. So accept Jesus Christ and let Him lead you to Eternal Life.

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« 151 † Though he had achieved, this young fellow… He had achieved all good things. In school, been fine. As a good boy, no doubt, he had been good. As a real father… In listening to his daddy in business, he had been a good–a good boy. Good to his parents. He had been loyal to his priest. He had been loyal to his church. He had been loyal to the commandments of God. But he lost the greatest thing, and the rest of them didn’t mean very much to him when he turned down the leadership of Eternal Life, Jesus Christ.
152 Notice! This leadership confronts every one of us today, the same thing as it did that young man, we… no matter how religious we are. You may be Catholic, you may be Baptist, Methodist, or you may be Pentecostals, or whatever you are, this same thing confronts you tonight: Eternal Life, that’s, acceptance of Jesus Christ. We are given this opportunity.

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« 153 † Sometime in life we have to confront the thing just like this young man did, because you are a mortal being and you are given the–you are given the opportunity of choice. You have a choice. God made it so you can choose. If He put Adam and Eve on free moral agency so they could choose, and then they made the wrong choice, and, see, He can do no more to you than He did to them. He’s got to put you the same thing so you can choose or reject.
You have a choice. Let’s look at some of them:
154 You have a choice, as a young man, whether you’re going to have an education or not. You have that choice. You can want to be “just not have it,” you can just refuse it.
155 You have a choice of your conduct. I’m going to hurt just a little bit here. See? You can go out and let your hair grow down and be a beatle or some of these ignoramuses.
156 Or you women, you can look like a–a decent human being or you can be one of these weird creatures that we have out there, them blued eyes. And water-head haircuts and things, they’re completely against the Word of God, which is absolutely contrary; not even offer… couldn’t offer a prayer to be accepted. That’s the Truth. Exactly right. That’s what the Bible said.
157 But what’s happened to you, church? You’ve seen so much television, so much things of the world, it’s so easy for your old Adam nature to drift into that, to act like the rest of them.

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« 158 † May I repeat this again! In the kosher, in the offering of the–the–the atonement in the days of Moses, when Moses brought the children out, there was to be seven days that there was to be no leaven among the people. Anyone knows that. In Exodus, “No leaven shall be found in your camp at all, seven days.” That seven days represented the full “seven church ages.” See?
159 “No leaven.” Now, what is that? No creed, no world. Jesus said, “If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God’s not even in you.” See? And we’re trying to mix that; you can’t do it! You’ve got to come to one thing to believe: you’re either going to believe God, you’re going to believe your church, you’re going to believe the world. You–you cannot mix it together. And you can’t hold to them old things that the other church before you did. You’ve got to take the Message of the hour.

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« 160 † He said, “What was left over, don’t let it stay till morning (to come into this other age), burn it with fire; be destroyed.” That the age that you’re living in, the Message of this age, It’s got to be brought out of the Scriptures and vindicated and proved by God that it’s God doing so. Then you either receive That or reject It. That’s Eternal Life, leadership of the Holy Spirit, leading His Church.
161 We could stay on that a long time, but let’s move, just keep moving along.

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« 162 † The choice of your conduct. You could… You can’t mix it now. You’re either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what’s on the inside. See? The cocklebur… Many of you think, “I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I’m going to Heaven.” That don’t mean one thing that you’re going to Heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life, and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. Uh-huh, that’s exactly right.

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« 163 † Look here, you are a outside person. You have five senses that contacts that outside body. God gave you five senses; not to contact Him, your earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear.
164 Then you have a spirit on the inside of that, and it has five outlets: conscience, and love, and so forth. Five outlets that you contact the spirit world with that, but with your spirit.
165 Your physical contacts the physical. Your spiritual contacts the spiritual. But inside of that you’ve got a soul, and that soul is that gene that come from God.

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« 166 † And like a baby formed in its mother’s womb. When the baby comes into the–to the mother’s womb by the little germ, it crawls into the egg. It doesn’t form one cell a human, the next a dog, and the next a cat, and the next a horse. It’s all human cells because it’s building off of an original human cell.
167 And when a man has been borned again by the Word of God, predestinated to Eternal Life, called “The Elected,” it’ll be Word of God on top of Word, Word on Word! Not a denominational creed and then a Word, and a creed; and it won’t work. You can’t have that leaven in It! Only one Eternal Life, Jesus Christ the Word:
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,…

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« 168 † Friends, you feed my children. You send me across the mission fields to the world, to bring the Message. I got to be sincere with you. What I’m looking at, maybe you don’t see. That’s what I’m here to try to tell you. It’s not because I don’t love people, it’s because I do love people. Corrective. When I see the slipping of the church, going off, say, “Well, we did this and we did that,” and look around over the church and see the… It just won’t work.
169 Then look here in the Bible and see it’s got to be that way at the end, that lukewarm Laodicean Church Age, putting Jesus out (the Word). He never called… He ain’t going to call no church. He said, “As many as I love, I rebuke. I chasten them.” Taking the Word and pound It on, and telling, “You’re wrong in it!” That’s the reason I love you. “If you’ll open the door and let Me in, I’ll come in and sup with you.” Not a church, He’s done put out of that.

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« 170 † She’s headed for the Ecumenical Council. That’s where she’s gone, right back into Rome where she come from. And that’s exactly. I’ve got that wrote on paper from twenty-five years ago, or thirty-three years ago, and there it is. Not only that, it’s wrote in the Bible, from a vision. She’s gone back. There’s no way of saving it, it’s gone! It’s going to be that way.
171 God’s calling individuals. “I stand at the door and knock. If any man, any person…” One individual out of a thousand, it might be one out of a million.
172 As I said a few nights ago. When Israel come up out of Egypt, there were just two million people come, and just two million; just one… just two people went in. One out of a million. Did you know that? Caleb and Joshua.
173 And Jesus, when He was on earth, they said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness. We’re keeping the traditions. And we’re doing this. We know where we’re standing!”
174 He said, “I know your fathers eat manna in the wilderness, and they’re every one Eternally separated. They’re dead!”

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« 175 † When the sperm comes from the male or female, there’s a million eggs comes, there’s a million germs come. And out of all them little germs, of the kind… If it’s–if it’s from the male cow, or the man, or whatever it is, there’s just millions of germs, a million germs working. In there there’s only one of those germs that’s ordained to life, for there’s one egg over there, fertile, to meet it. That’s right. Only one egg it’ll meet. Just like this body here setting here, and the germ comes from God. See? And watch that little germ come up among all these other germs, and wiggle around them, right on past them, go over here and find that fertile egg and–and crawl right into it; and the rest of them dies.
176 What if it was that way with the church today, one out of a million? See where it would be? “Strait is the gate and narrow is the Way, and few there’ll be that’ll find It; because broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there’ll be that go in thereat.”
“Is that truth, Brother Branham?” I don’t know, but I’m just quoting Scripture. See?

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« 177 † Now, you’re ordained to Life. You see It if you’re ordained to see It. If you’re not ordained to see It, you won’t see It. Said, “They have eyes but they can’t see, ears and can’t hear.” How thankful you should be, church! How you should straighten yourself up from these things! How you should be on fire for God! That your eyes beholds what you see, your ears hears the things you see. Leadership! Why did you come here tonight to hear a Message like This? I’m branded across the world, by the churches, as a “fanatic.” Why did you come? The Holy Spirit led you here (see? see?) to listen. Circumcise! Cut away the things of the world, accept the leadership of Jesus Christ, or you’ll perish as sure as the world.

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« 178 † You have a choice of conduct. How you conduct yourself, that’s up to you.
179 You have a choice of wife. You go out and take your wife. You want to take a wife, you want to take one that’s complementary to your… to what you want your… plan your future home to be. Could you imagine a man, a Christian man, going out and taking one of these modern Rickettas for a wife? Huh? Could you imagine? What’s the man thinking about? What kind of a home is he going to have if he takes a striptease, a burlesque off of the street out here, a street prostitute? “Oh,” you say, “now, wait a minute.” How does she dress herself? See? See? Wear shorts and things, she’s a street prostitute. “Oh,” you say, “now, Brother Branham!” Oh, them little ol’ tight skirts, look like you’re poured into, street prostitute.

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« 180 † Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her in his heart.” Then he’s got to answer for that. And what’d she do? She presented herself. Who’s guilty? Think of it.
181 You say, “They don’t make any other clothes.” They got goods and sewing machines. No excuse. Huh-uh. That’s exactly.
182 Now, I don’t want to hurt you. And this is not a joke, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD from the Scriptures. It’s exactly true, friend. I’m an old man, I haven’t got much longer to stay, but I’ve got to tell you the Truth. If this is my last message, it’s the Truth. See? Don’t, sister. Don’t, brother.

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« 183 † And you fellows that’s hanging onto a–a creed, and knowing the Word of God being vindicated right before you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost and these realities that we have today, and then, because of your creed, turn away from It? How can you be a son of God and deny the Word of God that’s predicted for this last days that we’re living in? How can you do it? How can the Bible call this…
184 As I said last night about a–a king one time, down in the South when they had the colored down there was sold for slaves. Why, they was no more than just a–a used car market, you get a bill of sales on them. And I was alarmed, at a little place… I read one day where a–a broker come along to buy some, and he said, “Well, now, I’d like…” They was sad, you’d have to whip them, make them work because they was away from home. They was sold, slaves. And they in a foreign country they knowed nothing about, and they’d never be back home again, and they were sad. You had to whip them, make them work. But this broker come by a certain plantation.

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« 185 † One young fellow there with his chest out, his chin up, you didn’t have to whip him. He was right up, and he kept the morals of the rest of them up.
The broker said, “I’ll buy him.”
186 He said, “He’s not for sale. Ain’t going to. You ain’t going to buy him, because he’s not for sale.”
187 He said, “Well, what makes him so much different?” Said, “Is he the boss over the rest of them?”
Said, “No.”
Said, “Do you feed him different?”
188 Said, “No. He’s a slave, he eats out there in the galley with the rest of them.”
Said, “What makes him so much difference?”
189 He said, “I wondered myself, till I found out. Over in Africa (where they come from, where the Boers bought them, and brought them over here and sold them for slaves), over there his father is a king of the tribe. And yet, an alien, away from home, he knows he’s the son of a king. So he conducts himself that way.”

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« 190 † What a rebuke to Christianity! We’re supposed to represent God and Eternal Life. There’s only one form of Eternal Life, and that’s God. He alone has Eternal Life. And we are products of His, because we’re genes of His Spirit. Then we should conduct ourself, women and men, like the Bible said for us to do. Not Jezebels of the street, and Rickies of the organization; but Christian gentlemen, sons and daughters of God, borned of the Spirit of God, manifesting the Light in our days and scattering It. That’s exactly right.

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« 191 † How far we’ve drifted from It! Why? The same thing this boy did here. He rejected, refused Eternal Life, because It would cost him his social standing, It’d cost him his–his–his luxury of money, It’d cost him his fellowship in the church, It’d cost him a lot of things. He knowed what It was going to cost him, he was a sensible boy, and he felt that he couldn’t pay the price. Yet he thought, “I’ll just trust my religion and go on.” But down in his heart he knowed there was something about Jesus Christ was different from them priests of that day.

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« 192 † And any Message that’s come in, a genuine, borned Message of God, is different from the old trend. When a Divine healing went forth, not long ago, did you notice how the impersonators followed it? See? And every one of them went right in them organizations, staying there. Does anyone know that there had to be a Message follow that? Why, God don’t entertain us! He attracts our attention with something, and when He attracts our attention, then He’s got His Message.
193 Look when He was first come on the earth, and started His ministry, “O young Rabbi, we want You over here in our church. We… Come on down here.” The young Prophet. “Oh, we want You over here. Come here.”
194 But one day He stood up and said, “I and My Father are One.”
195 “Oh, my! He makes Hisself God.”
196 “Except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you.”
197 “He’s a vampire! We have nothing to do with that.”
198 Them apostles set right there; thousands left Him, but those apostles were ordained to Life. He said so. They couldn’t explain It; they believed It. They stayed right with It because, said, “No man could do these works.”

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« 199 † Even the priests knowed that. Nicodemus said, “We know” (the Sanhedrin council) “that no man could do these works except it be from God.” See?
200 Peter, on the Day of Pentecost, said, “Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you. God was with Him.”
201 Look in the Scriptures, what the Scriptures said would do. Jesus said, “Search the Scriptures, in Them you think you have Eternal Life. They are what testifies of Me. If you would have knowed Moses, you’d know Me, for Moses wrote that I would come, in the form that I would come in.” He come as the Son of man.

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« 202 † He comes in three names, as God. Three (like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), same God, it’s three attributes.
203 Now then, also, justification, sanctification….; Luther, Martin, and–and the–and the Pentecostal; same thing: three attributes, three stations, three church ages.
204 Same thing: water, blood, and spirit. Oh, just as you go along, the three elements that takes you back into the body. Like it brings you from your natural birth, types your spiritual birth. The baby’s born, the first thing’s water, next blood, and then life. That’s the way you come into the Kingdom of God, the same way. See? That’s the way the Church comes in, the same way. Same thing. Now notice on these three things, God has formed His… forming His body.

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« 205 † Now we find that in here, that you have a right in your choice. You choose the girl you want to marry; she accepts you, all right.
206 Then another thing, you have a choice of whether you want to live or whether you don’t want to live. You choose now between Life and death. You can live.
207 That boy had that choice. He was success in everything else, a religious man, but he knowed that when that… He spoke it of hisself, “I’ve observed all these commandments since I was a youth,” but he knowed he didn’t have Eternal Life. See? And he had a choice to accept It or to refuse It, and he turned It down. That was the most fatal mistake he could ever made. The rest of it wouldn’t amounted. It don’t, it doesn’t amount, unless you take That choice.

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« 208 † Now let us follow him at his choosing, and see where it led him to. Now, see where he chose. Now, look, he was–he was a rich man, he was a businessman, he was a ruler, and he was a religious man. All that!
209 Today we’d say, “Boy, he’s a genuine Methodist, or Baptist, or a Pentecostal. He–he’s a real fellow, real nice boy. Fine!” Nothing you could say about him; friendly, nice, sociable, and everything. No immorals about him. He didn’t probably smoke, drink, or run around to shows and dances, and whatever we’d call it today, as we would class a Christian. But that ain’t Eternal Life yet! That ain’t what we’re talking about. He might have been loyal to his church, in which he probably was. But, you see, and what did it lead him to? Great popularity. Let’s say, if he was a preacher, he could a-been… got a better church. He could a-been the state presbyter or a bishop. See? It leads you to popularity, and it led him to riches and to fame.

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« 210 † It might do the same thing today, you have a great talent to sing. I thought of that young man a while ago that sang that song here; how he had give that to the Devil, and now he get it back… And how different between him and Elvis Presley and some of these. Pat Boone, and a group like that, Ernie Ford, them guys, great singers; and take their talents, that God-given talents, and use it to inspire the–the works of the Devil. That’s right. Some great singer selling their God-given talents for fame in this world, to become somebody. How could you become any more of a “body” than you could, to be a somebody, than to be a son of God?
211 I don’t care if you own the whole city, the whole world, and you haven’t accepted the leadership of Eternal Life by the Holy Spirit (Christ), how you going to… Who are you, anyhow? You’re a dead mortal, dead in sin and trespasses! Religious as you want to be; as faithful as you want to be to the church; preacher, if you want to be in the pulpit; but to turn down, you die!

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« 212 † He was a great success. He was a great success here in this life. Certainly. We find him where we notice… Then we find this fellow, that he went… We follow him a little bit, and we see he got a great successful. And we follow him through the Bible. We notice that he–he… We find him a rich man. He’s got such great big places, he was entertaining the judge and the mayor of the city, or whatmore. He’s up on top of his roof, and he has great banquets; and plenty of waitresses, and women, girls, and everything else, around him. And there’s a beggar laying at the gate, named Lazarus. He sweeps the crumbs off to him. We know the story. The next thing, he goes on successful, just like the churches today are getting.
213 A businessman setting here, telling me, “Right here in California, that the church has to tell the labor union what to do.” See, it’s coming church and state again. It’s right on you. You see, you’re right in there, and you take the mark of the beast not knowing it.

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« 214 † If you ever bought one of my tapes, get this when I get it, when I get home, The Trail Of The Serpent; and you’ll see where it’s at, see where this ends up at. Going home now to speak, if the Lord willing. It’s about four hours, so I couldn’t keep it at one of the meeting like this. I have to go up there where the church suffers with me so long, patiently. Notice. But now you can listen at the tape sometime in your home.

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« 215 † Notice this, now we find out that he was a great success. Then we find him later till he was a greater success, until he said, “I have got so much!” Boy, he’d a-made a real genuine guy of this day. Wouldn’t he? “Even my barns has swelled out, they’re bursting. And I’ve got so much till I said, ‘Oh, soul, take your rest.'”
216 But, what he done at the beginning, he rejected the leadership of Jesus Christ. His church, his intelligence, his education, and all, had lead him to a success. All the Jews loved him. He give to them, he helped them, he might have done this, that, or the other. But, you see, he rejected the–the–the leadership of Jesus Christ, the Eternal Life. And that… The Bible said, He said, “Thou fool, tonight your soul is required.”
217 And now we find him (the next place) in hell; lifting up his eyes and seeing that beggar, that he turned out the street, in the bosoms of Abraham. What a fatal mistake! How that the churches had–had–had–had–had been all right in the way that they went, but they still hadn’t had Eternal Life.

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« 218 † Reminds me of a sermon I preached here not long ago, A Thinking Man’s Filter. You might have had it. I was going, walking through the woods, I was squirrel hunting (this fall) and I looked down. And, of course, I can’t call the cigarette company. You know it. And there laid a–a cigarette pack laying there. And I just passed by it, looking for… in the woods. And I seen that package laying there, and I looked back again, it said, “A thinking man’s filter, a smoking man’s taste.” I just started walking on through the woods.
219 And Holy Spirit said, “Turn and pick that up.”
220 I reached down and picked it up, “A thinking man’s filter, a smoking man’s taste.” I thought, “American firm here, selling death under disguisement, to their own American citizens.” A thinking man’s filter? You… And a smoking man’s taste?

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« 221 † I was at the World Fair, with Yul Bryan… Brynner, and them up there, when he giving all that test. And how he put one cigarette and drawed the… across a marble and took the… Wiped up the nicotine and put it on a rat’s back, a white rat, and in seven days he was so full of cancer he couldn’t walk. And they said, “You know, they say a ‘filter,'” said, “it’s a gimmick, sells more cigarettes.”
222 It takes so much nicotine to satisfy that devil. That’s right. And when you take a filtered cigarette, it takes about four cigarettes to take the place of one. It’s a gimmick to sell you more cigarettes. You cannot have smoke unless you got tar; and tar, you’ve got cancer. See how it is? And the blind Americans, looking for a rabbit to come out of a hat somewhere, they fall for it. You can’t have it; it’s death, I don’t care which way you go, it’s death any way you go. “A thinking man’s filter,” a thinking man wouldn’t smoke at all, that’s right, if he’s got any thoughts at all.

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« 223 † Well, I thought that just can comply to the churches. See? I think, has God got a filter? Yes.
224 And every church has got a filter. That’s right. They filter ones that comes in, and they let a lot of death in too.
225 How could you ever draw a denomination through God’s Filter? How could you do it? How could you draw a bobbed-hair woman through that Filter? Tell me. How could you ever draw a woman that wears slacks through There, when “It’s an abomination for her to put on a garment pertains to a man”? See, God’s Filter would catch her out there, It wouldn’t let her come in. (But the church has got their own filters.) So I say that there is a thinking man’s Filter, that’s God’s Word, and It suits a holy man’s taste. That’s right, a holy man; not a church man, but a holy man’s taste. Because It’s pure, holiness, unadulterated Word of God! There is a thinking man’s Filter. And church member, I advise you to use That one.
226 Because it brings in the world, and one lump of it is death. One lump leavens, the one little leaven leavens the whole lump. “Whosoever shall take one Word out of This, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life.”

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« 227 † At the Garden of Eden, what caused death, and all this sorrow, every heartache, every little dying baby, every rattle in the throat, every ambulance screaming, every hospital, every graveyard? Was because Eve doubted one Word (not all of It), it just perverted It. Now, God said, “Man,” there, “he was to keep every Word of God.” Now, that’s the first of the Bible.
228 In the middle of the Bible, Jesus come, and He said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Not just part of Them, every one.
229 In the last of the Bible, Revelation 22, Jesus give the testimony of Himself. The Revelation of the–of the Bible is Jesus Christ. And He said, “Whosoever shall take one Word out of here, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life.”
230 Now, you go through that thinking man’s Filter, you’ll have a holy man’s taste when you come out of There. Right. You’ll have a saintly taste.

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« 231 † Sister, you that wear those clothes, think of it. You’re going to… You say, “I’m virtuous to my husband.” “I’m virtuous to my boyfriend.” “I’m a virtuous girl.” But what about that sinner that looked at you? When he answers for adultery, who did it? See, you’ll be guilty. See it written in the Word, so it’s the… See? Oh, be a thinking woman. Be a thinking…
232 You might say, “It might…” Well, what if it does happen to be that way? He said so, and one Word can’t fail. See?

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« 233 † The great man told me not long ago, called me into his room, said, “I’m going to lay hands on you, Brother Branham. You’re ruining your ministry, preaching such things.”
234 I said, “Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined.” See?
235 He said, “I’ll lay hands on you.” Said, “You was sent to pray for the sick.”
236 I said, “Do you believe those things, brother?”
He said, “No. But it’s not our business.”
I said, “Whose business is it, then?” See?
“Well,” he said, “that’s the pastor’s business.”
237 I said, “Look at the congregation.” Uh-huh. That’s right. See?
238 Every year I pass through preaching these things, and I think, “Surely they get It,” next year I come back, there’s more than ever. See? That’s right. It goes to show that “Many are called but few are chosen.”

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« 239 † The leadership is the Holy Spirit, friend. It leads you and guides you into all Truth, when He the Holy Ghost is come. Now think of that. Take the thinking man’s Filter, that’s the Bible. Not your creed, not your church; you’ll be lost. Take the thinking man’s Filter.
240 That’s where that boy didn’t think. He took the church filter. He become popular, a great man, “But in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment.”
241 Now you take the thinking man’s Filter, Jesus Christ, the Word, and you’ll desire a holy person’s taste, because It’ll satisfy that. If you got the Holy Spirit in you, This satisfies it.
242 If the Holy Spirit isn’t there, you say, “Oh, well, I don’t think that means any difference.” Look what you’ve done right there! Same thing Eve done. You’re right back in the same place.

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« 243 † Now let’s go a little farther. Now let’s take… leave that man there, that didn’t use the thinking man’s Filter. He refused to accept the leadership of Jesus Christ, to Eternal Life.
244 Now let us take another rich, young businessman, a ruler with the same opportunity that this man had. And accept It, he accepted the leadership of Christ. Now, there’s two of them in the Bible that we’re going to talk about. That one we see that refused It, now let’s take this man: another rich, young businessman, and a ruler. And he accepted the Leadership.

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« 245 † The Scriptures tell us about this fellow, if you want to mark it down, in Hebrews 11: 23 to 29.
… Moses, by faith, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
Choosing rather to suffer the afflictions of God…
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater treasures than all the treasures of Egypt:…
246 See, he accepted Eternal Life. Moses esteemed the–the–the reproach of Christ greater treasures than all the treasures the world had. Moses esteemed That the greatest. Now, this rich man didn’t.

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« 247 † And Moses was a rich, young ruler, to become a Pharaoh. He was Pharaoh’s son, and was heir to the throne. And he looked out to the impossible, a bunch of mud-daubers, a bunch of slaves. But by faith he saw the promise of God, through the Word, “That his people would sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years, but would be brought out by a mighty hand.” And he esteemed That (hallelujah) greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt, for he forsook Egypt not knowing where he was going. He was led by Christ. He forsook!
248 And he had his foot on the throne, and he could been–been the next Pharaoh in Egypt. But he esteemed the reproach of Christ. The reproach! To be called that “odd one,” be called that “fanatic,” to take his place with the mud-daubers and the fanatics; because he seen that the hour, that the Scripture was promised to be fulfilled, was there then.
249 And O church, wake up! Can’t you see the same thing tonight? The hour that’s been promised is on us. Esteem the reproach of Jesus Christ greater riches than all the fellowship of anything; if it takes father and mother, church, anything else. Follow the leadership of the Spirit!

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« 250 † Let us follow this Christ for a few, this Moses, for a little while, that did that; let’s watch his life. The first thing, when he had accepted to take the reproach of Christ and forsake his education, forsake all of his wisdom… He was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. And all of his popularity, his throne, his scepter, his kingship, his crown, everything he had, he rejected it!
251 And this other fellow wanted it, and refused Christ; and this man refused that, and accepted Christ. And quickly what happened? He had to separate himself.
252 Hallelujah! The word means “Praise our God!” It’s too bad that we’re forgetting it.

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« 253 † He rejected the thrones and the popularity. He could a-had young girls by the… wives by the hundreds, and he could a-had scepters under Egypt, rule the world! The world laid right at his feet, and he was heir to every bit of it. But by looking in the Scripture and seeing the day he was living in, and knowed that Something in him, that predestinated Seed of God went to work!
254 I don’t care how popular you could be, or how this you could be, you could be a presbyter, you could be a pastor, you could be a this, that, or the other, but if that Word of Eternal Life by God’s Word has been foreordained into you, and you see the thing at hand, it goes to work, moving out like that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger several times–Ed.] Start coming out! Begin to get It!
255 And he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, because he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater treasures than all the riches of Egypt or the world. He esteemed That. Watch what he done, he followed It. Up, quickly he was ousted from his people, the people that once loved him.

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« 256 † It might cost you everything you got. It might cost you your home, It might cost you your friendship, It might cost your your stitch-and-sew party, It might cost you your place at the Kiwanis. It might. I don’t know what It’ll cost you, but It’ll cost everything that’s worldly or pertains to the world. You’ll have to separate yourself from everything that’s worldly. You’ll have to do it.
257 Moses laid everything aside and went into the desert with a stick in his hand. Amen! Days after days passed. And wonder if he thought he made a mistake? No.
258 Many times people start out, and they say, “Oh, I’ll do it. Glory to God, I see It!” Let somebody laugh at you and make fun of you, “Probably I was wrong.”
259 He said, “They that cannot stand chastisement are bastard children and not the children of God.” See, they’re worked up on the emotion. See, the seed that I talked about a while ago, that soul wasn’t there to start with. It was anointed with the Spirit, and he done all kinds. Oh, you, they… When your spirit’s anointed, you can… It’s the real, genuine Holy Ghost, and you could still be a devil.

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« 260 † “Oh,” you say, “Brother Branham!”
261 False prophets! The Bible said, “In the last days there’d be false prophets.” Jesus said, “There shall rise false christs.” Not “false Jesuses,” now, nobody stands still for that; but “false christs.” Christ means “the anointed ones.” Falsely anointed; they are anointed, but they are false at the bottom of it, and do great signs and wonders, speak in tongues, dance in the Spirit, preach the Gospel.
262 Judas Iscariot did it! Simeon… or no, I beg your… Caiaphas prophesied! Balaam, the hypocrite! Sure, done all the signs, everything, all the religious moves.

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« 263 † But, you see, you put a cocklebur seed and a wheat seed in the same bed and pour the water down upon them and anoint them, they’ll both rejoice. They’ll both grow by it, the same water. “The sun shines on the just and the unjust, and the rain falls on the just and the unjust, but by their fruits you shall know them.” How can you keep from lining up with the Word? Amen. See what I mean? “The water falls on the just and the unjust,” anoint it.
264 Jesus said, “They will come to Me in that day, say, ‘Lord! Lord! Have not I cast out devils? Have not I done prophesied? Have not I done great things in Your Name?'” He’ll say, “You workers of iniquity, depart from Me, I don’t even know you. Go into eternal hell that’s been prepared for the Devil and his angels.” You see? What a Word! Falsely. Worship in vain, striving in vain. Why do you do that when you don’t have to do it? Why take a substitute when the Heavens is full of genuine? See? You don’t have to do that.

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« 265 † Now we find Moses anointed, nothing could turn him back. His own brothers turned him down; that didn’t stop him. He went right on into the wilderness. And one day out there, he met God face to face, with a Pillar of Fire hanging in a bush. Said, “Moses, take off your shoes, your ground you’re standing on is Holy. For I have heard the cries of My people, and I have heard of their groanings, and I remember My promise of the Word. And I’m coming down, I’m going to send you down there to take them out.” Certainly. He met God face to face, he talked with Him. He was commissioned by God.

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« 266 † God come right back, that same Pillar of Fire, and vindicated that prophet standing right there on the mountain; to prove that it was, when He took his hands and performed all kinds of miracles and things. Oh, they had the impersonators. Oh, sure. There was Jambres and Jannes, stood right around, done the same thing they did. But who was the original? See? Where did it start from? Did it come from the Word? Was it the hour?
267 And do you know that same thing’s promised again in the last days? “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will these men, of reprobate mind concerning the Truth.” See, in the last days. And do the same thing, (impersonate everything), right on in the same gully, “Hog going to its wallow, and a dog to its vomit.”

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« 268 † You Pentecostals that come out of them organizations years ago and cursed them, your fathers and mothers; and you turned right back around and done the same thing that they did, and now just the same wallow and vomit. See? If it made the Church vomit it out in the early Pentecostal age, it’ll make It vomit it out again today. See? It has to be, though, it’s the shuck, has to come. The tassel can’t be the only one; the shuck has to come, see, the carrier. Now we’re living in the last days, watch the things that’s promised for the hour.

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« 269 † Watch this Moses confirmed. Know! When he got out there, some of his own brethren turned up against him, wanted to make an organization. They said, “You act like you’re the only holy man among us.” “The whole congregation’s holy,” said Korah, Dathan. “Let’s choose out men and do something.”
270 Moses, he… I felt sorry for him. He went down, said, “Lord…” Fell down before the altar and said, “Lord!”
271 God said, “Separate yourself from them. I’ve had enough of it.” Just opened up the earth and swallowed them up. That’s all. See, he knowed his commission.

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« 272 † God don’t deal with organizations, He don’t deal with groups. He deals with individuals. That’s right. Always. Not in groups; individuals, one person. In the last days, He said, “I stand at the door and knock, and if any man…” (not “any group”) “… any man will hear My Voice, I’ll… and hear Me, I’ll come in to him and sup.” See, “If any man can hear.”
273 How can–how could this microphone now produce my voice out there unless it was made thus? I could scream against that board, with all my might, and it wouldn’t do nothing. Because this is ordained, and made, created, a microphone. And if the Word of God is in you from foreordination of God, in you, “My sheep hear My Voice. They know My hour. A stranger they won’t follow.” See? It’s got to be that first. “All that the Father has given Me, they will come.” Every one of them, see.

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« 274 † Now he goes on, at the life’s end here. He only passed… Notice when he come to the end of the road.
275 And we’re closing now because it’s getting late, twenty-five minutes till ten. Notice. Now, at home that’s early. About two or three o’clock we begin to say, “Say, it’s getting a little bit late.” See? See? But now, I’ve preached a many a night, all night long.
276 Paul preached this same Gospel in his day, and a young man fell off of a–a wall and killed himself. And Paul, with that same anointing and that same Gospel, laid his body upon him, he come to life again. They were interested. The church was being formed. Something was taking place. Notice what taken place here.
277 Moses, when he come down…

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« 278 † This rich man, when he come down, the young ruler we talked about, all religious, and belonged to church and everything, fine, educated, a fine businessman, and everything, when he come to the end of the road, he begin to scream, “There’s nowhere to step!” Where’s his leadership? He had been led by his church, which is dead. He had been led by the dead world, and there wasn’t nothing for him to step into but what the world had prepared for it: hell.
279 But here comes Moses, a faithful servant who esteemed the reproach of Christ greater treasures than all the riches of Egypt. He come to the end of the road, an old man, a hundred and twenty years old. Walked up on the mountain, and he knowed that death laid before him, and he looked over into the promised land. And he looked; laying there by his side, there was his Leader, the Rock. He stepped upon the Rock, and the Angels of God packed him away into the Glory–the Glory of God, into the bosoms of God. Why? Eight hundred years later, he was still being led by his Leader.

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« 280 † We find him over on Mount Transfiguration, standing there with Elijah, talking to Jesus before He went to the cross, eight hundred years after death. The–the One that he esteemed, the reproach of his ministry, greater treasures than all the popularity of the world and all the money of the world, his Leader was still leading him. Oh, my! He was led! His Leader, He led through the death, the shadows of death. He was led to the grave. Hundreds of years later, there he stood again because, as his youth, he had chosen the leadership of the Holy Spirit. His name will be great when there is no more Egypt or treasures. When the pyramids are dust, and when Egypt is no more Egypt, Moses will be immortal among men because he accepted the leadership of Christ instead of going the way his church went.

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« 281 † There’s others that did the same thing. Look at Enoch. He walked with God for five hundred years, and then he had a testimony that “He pleased God.” God had verified it, and said, “There’s no need of you dying, just come on up Home this afternoon.” And he went up.
282 And Elijah. After bawling out bobbed-haired women and everything, as he did in his day, Jezebels with the paint on them, after he got so full of it, and–and had done all he could, and all them priests making fun of him, and everything else, he walked down at the river one day. And just across the river was the horses hitched to a bush over there, a chariot of fire and horses of fire. He stepped right on, and threw his robe off to the next prophet to follow him, and went up into Heaven. He accepted the leadership of Eternal Life, ’cause it was Christ that was in Elijah. Oh! Yes, sir!
283 What was it? “Follow Me!” Now you must choose your leader. You’ve got to choose it, friends. Look in God’s looking glass, the Bible, and see where you’re at tonight.

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« 284 † A little story. A little kid, one time, lived out in the country. He never seen a mirror, and he came into the city to see his mother’s sister. And she had a home… and the old-fashioned homes used to have a mirror on the door; I don’t know whether you remember that or not. But this little boy, he had never seen a mirror. So he’s playing around the house, and he looked in the… “Huh?” He looked at that little boy. And he waved, and the little boy waved. And he pulled his ear, and the little boy pulled his ear. And on like that. He kept walking up, close, and he turned around and said, “Mama! That’s me!” That’s me.

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« 285 † What do you look like? What are you following? What have we done? You must choose your leader. Choose today. You choose Life or death. Your choice will determine your Eternal destination, what you choose. Remember, Jesus said, “Follow Me.” And you’re invited tonight to do so. And to follow Him to Eternal Life you must come on His terms, that’s right, the Word. Not upon the creed, not upon the public opinion, not upon what anybody else thinks about It, but on what God said about It.
286 You say, “Well, Brother Branham, I know a woman just as good as she can be, she does this. I know a man that went through this.”
287 I can’t help what they done. God’s Word, He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth.” You’ve got to come on His terms, come on His conditions, the Word. You cannot come through creed. You cannot come through denomination. You cannot mix It like that. There’s only one thing you can do: accept It on His terms, that you’re willing to die to yourself and all your thoughts, and follow Him. “Get rid of all the things of the world, and follow Me.”

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« 288 † I know that’s a stern, cutting Message, brother. But I didn’t come here and choose a–a message to the people just to try to make them sing, shout, holler. I been in heathen meetings where they done the same thing. I’m interested in your life. I’m a servant of God that’s got to answer to God someday, and the ministry that the Lord has given me has vindicated itself thousands of times before you.
289 Remember, Jesus said, “Follow Me. Follow Me. Get rid of what you got, and follow Me.” And that’s the only way to have Eternal Life. That’s the only remedy He give this man, was the only remedy He give this businessman, it’s the only remedy He gives anybody. His choice, He makes His decision, it’s perfect every time. And we must follow Him, is the only way to have Eternal Life. So the leadership of God is: follow the vindicated Word of the hour by the Holy Ghost.
Let us bow our heads.

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« 290 † I’m going to ask you a question, and I want you to be real sincere. I want the sister to play this for me, I Can Hear My Saviour Calling. I know it’s an old-time altar call. And brother, sister, as we see, just look what’s going on today. Now with your heads bowed, just think for a minute, look what’s taking place.
291 Did you read the newspaper last week what that man in England said? That “The crucifixion of Jesus Christ was only a fake, it was only fixed up between Pilate and Him.”
292 Did you see what this American theologian said? He said that “Jesus was just put to sleep on mandrake weed.” Many of you theologians know, back there in Genesis where it talked of the mandrake weed. It’ll put you to sleep like you’re dead, your heart hardly beats for two or three days at a time. “And when they give Him the vinegar and gall,” they said, “that was mandrake weed. And they put Him up there in the tomb, and He slept up there for three days. And, of course, when they went up there, they found Him walking, around.” Could you imagine that? Theologians, seminaries, make-belief. Then how in the world… First place, the Bible said He refused it, when they put the vinegar and gall in His mouth.
293 And another thing, if that be so, then why did those disciples “who come and stole Him away,” why did they give their life in martyrdom for Him? And fell, counted theirself not even worthy to die like He died; turned them upside down and sideways on the crosses and things. And if they were… knowed that He was a hypocrite and them ownselves being hypocrites, how would they have give their life for Him like that?

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« 294 † Oh, you see, it’s this intellectual day that we’re living in. Education, civilization, and the modern trend of the day, is all of the Devil. “Civilization of the Devil?” Yes, sir! The Bible said it is. This civilization has death. “Will we have a civilization like this in the other world?” No, sir! We’ll have a different kind of civilization. Education, all these things, they’re of the Devil; science perverting the natural things, making something else.
295 Look what they’ve done to you now. When young ladies… The Reader’s Digest said, week after… month before last, I believe it was. The Reader’s Digest said that “Young men and young women go through the middle age, women in menopause between twenty and twenty-five years old.” One more generation, they’ll be nothing but… It’ll be horrible-looking. See? What the creatures will be, softened, mucky. Look at the–look at the spirit, look how the spirit in the church has got, hybrid, intermarried to the world. Oh, what a hour! Flee, children! Flee! Flee to the Cross! Come to Christ, let Him lead you.

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« 296 † While we have our heads bowed, our eyes closed, and please bow your heart at the same time. Will you? I want to ask you a question. Do you really look at yourself, to God? And do you feel that you’re not where you–you ought to be at this hour? Cause the Rapture could come at any time. See, it’ll come.
297 There’d only be, if–if that statement I made a while ago is true, there’ll only be about five hundred people in the Rapture, that’s living, they’ll be changed. Why, taking all Christendom together, Catholic and all, there’s only five hundred million people, see, claims Christianity. And one out of a million, be five hundred people. There’s that many people missing every day, across the world, that we can’t even account for them. See, it’ll come, and you won’t even know it. People’ll go on preaching, and saying… See, and it’ll all be past.
298 Like Jesus said. They said, the disciples said, “Why say the scribes, say, ‘Elias must first come’?”
299 He said, “He’s already come and you didn’t know him, but they did to him what they said they would do.”

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« 300 † You know that you’re not right with God, and you’d like to be remembered in… to God, that God would set your heart right with God. Would you just humbly now, in this very still moment, raise your hands? I don’t care who you are, would you do it? You say, “I’ll raise my hands to God.” God bless you. God bless you.
301 Are you looking in the Mirror? I ask you in Christ’s Name, are you looking in God’s Mirror? [A brother speaks in another tongue. A brother gives an interpretation–Ed.] Amen.
302 I want to ask one thing. How many in here are Pentecostals? Raise your hand, are Pentecostals. Practically every one of you. Now, how many in here claim to be Christians? Raise your hands, ever where you are, claim to be a Christian. Did you know the Bible spoke of this, that this would happen?
303 Even this happened in the Old Testament when they were wondering what they would do, how they could get away from the besiege that was coming. The Spirit fell upon a man and he prophesied and told them where to meet the enemy, and how, what to overcome the enemy. That was the Old Testament, same as the New.

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« 304 † Now, somebody might say, “That man, oh, that wasn’t so.” But what if it is so? You say, “Oh, I’ve heard that before.” But what if this is so? You see, that proves then that in here there’s many that needs a change of heart, if that’s the Holy Spirit speaking. There’s things that needs to be done, so now it’s with you.
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy Blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bids… (That’s what, He called you just then.)… to Thee,
O Lamb of God,… (“I’ll take away that stubborn heart, and put a heart of flesh in it that would yield to Me.” See?)… come!
Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt… (Will you make your choice tonight? You can do either one you want to.)… cleanse.
You say, “I’ve heard that before.” But this might be your last time to hear It.
Because Thy promise I believe,
The old-fashioned altar calls, they’re out of style today, but God still moves in them. Can’t you feel It moving on you, church?
… I come!

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« 305 † [Brother Branham begins humming Just As I Am–Ed.] Oh, think, today, the hearts are becoming stony, filled with the world, indifferent, church members, lukewarm, like that rich, young ruler; and don’t know that the great Holy Spirit’s standing, knocking at the door in this Laodicean Age. “He that will hear My Voice (the Word), will open his heart, I’ll come in to him and will sup with him.”
306 And the Spirit speaking through this brother a few minutes ago, said, “I’ll take that stony heart out of you, and give you a heart of flesh, tender towards God.” Look how it’s become now, just a–a intellectual, emotion. See? Not a tender heart full of love and sweetness towards Christ.
307 [Brother Branham begins humming the chorus–Ed.] Don’t you want that kind of a heart? How you going to face Christ with an intellectual conception of Him? You’ve got to accept Eternal Life.
… was shed… (The preparation was made through the Blood.)
And that Thou bids… (What did He do? Shed His Blood; and now bidding you, “Come.”)… to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

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« 308 † Let’s, each Christian, just raise our hands quietly now and pray:
309 O God, please, Lord, catch this day that we’re living. Oh, it’s so hard, Father. Satan has just done so much to the people. Their hearts have become stony. Your Spirit speaks right out; Your Word comes forward, vindicate; but the old-fashioned, born-again experience, they’re… it’s become into a denominational, intellectual conception, a lot of music, a lot of shout, and a lot of carrying-on. But, really, that heart of flesh, that Spirit, that Eternal Life, It’s certainly become foreign to the church.
310 God, it breaks my own heart, and me a–a sinner saved by Your grace. It makes me feel so bad, Father, to see the church that You died for, the church that You’re trying to redeem. I think of the vision You just give about that church of the United States and of other countries. What a horrible-looking rock-and-roll striptease it was. But somewhere along I seen coming forth another one, blessed.
311 I pray, Father, that if any of those here tonight that’s ordained to Life, or would like to accept It, that this’ll be the hour they’ll do it. Grant it, Lord. Break up the stony heart now, the old heart of the world. And if they want peace, they want something that satisfies, something that gives assurance, may they accept the leadership of Christ tonight to lead them to a–a Peace that passes all understanding, a Joy that’s unspeakable and full of glory, or even something that death itself cannot harm. Grant it, Father.

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« 312 † Now, with our hands up, I wonder if… How many in the building now would just say, “I’m going to stand.” Now, I don’t care who’s setting by you; It’s God talking to you. And you really want to be a real Christian. See? Anything will… Unless that’s an impersonation; oh, I’d just rather go on out and be in the world. I believe you would, too.
313 Now, just examine yourself by the Word, by the Message. Examine what a real Christian should be: rugged, loving, not one of this modern Christianity. Why, it’s soft, flexible, half dead, rotten, interbred. See, it’s not the real Christianity; live any kind of a way, and belong to church. Don’t you want that sweet fellowship with Christ, the Holy Spirit, that you’re… the conformity of your own heart to the Word, move right up into Christ? If you want that, and would desire God to see your stand tonight right in this group of people, if you’ll just do it.
314 You say, “Will that mean anything, Brother Branham?”
315 Oh, yes. Sure, it does. “If you’re ashamed of Me before man, I’ll be ashamed of you before My Father and the holy Angels. But he that will confess Me and stand for Me in this land, I’ll stand for him in that Land. I’ll confess him before My Father.”

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« 316 † Now, no matter who you are, woman, man, boy or girl, whoever you are, Christian or not Christian, minister, deacon, whatever you are, if you’ll just believe with your whole heart, for just a moment, and do this much tonight just to let God know that you’re sincere. “God…”
317 “Now look, I’m a Pentecostal,” you say. “I’m this,” or whatever you are. “I profess to dance in the Spirit. But, Brother Branham, I thought as long as we had that, we had It.” You haven’t.
318 If you believe me to be God’s prophet, you listen to my Words. See? That’s a deception in this day. Didn’t the Bible say, “It’d be so close it would deceive the Elected if possible”? The Elected, “down to the soul.”
319 But if you danced in the Spirit, still with the things of the world, there is something wrong. If you speak with tongues; Paul said, “I can speak with tongues of man and angels, and still not even be saved.” Uh-huh, both kinds, see. “I can do all the emotions, I can have faith, I can preach the Gospel, I can give all my goods to feed the poor, I can carry the Word in the mission fields across the… and still I’m nothing.” See? It’s that Inside of the inside, brother. That… Your spirit breaks up when you die, it takes its flight, but your soul lives. See?

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« 320 † Now look at yourself. Really, are you a genuine Bible Christian, full of love of God? Remember, the Bible said, in the last days when this time takes place, He said, “A marking angel went through the churches, went through the cities, and sealed only those who sighed and cried for the abomination that was done in the city.” Is that right? Ezekiel 9, we know that’s Truth. The marking angel went forth and put a Mark on their head, forehead, sealed them, “Them that sighed and cried.”
321 After that come the slaughtering angels from the four corners of the earth, which is coming right away, we see it coming, wars moving right in that’ll kill the whole earth off. There was nothing that they couldn’t touch but them that had the Mark.
322 Now pick out… Is your heart so concerned about the sinners, and the way that the church and the people are doing, till you can sigh and cry about it day and night? If not so, I’m wondering. That’s the Scripture.

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« 323 † Would you just stand and say, “Dear God, I’m not standing because Brother Branham said so, but I heard his Word say that, and I’m going to do this. To You, Lord, I stand. I’m in need, Lord. Will You supply my need tonight here at this place? I stand.” God bless you. God bless you. “I’m in need, I want You to have mercy upon me.” God bless you. “I want to be the kind of a Christian that…”
324 Now, remember, the person that’s standing by you is the same thing you are. I want you just to reach over and take a hold of their hand, say, “Brother, sister, pray for me now. I want you to pray for me. I–I…” Just say it with all Christian sincerity, “Pray for me. I’ll… I–I–I want to be right with God. You pray for me, I’m going to pray that God will give you the opportunity.”
325 I–I know that we’re… We can’t stay here much longer; you see that. We’re–we’re at the end time. All that believe that, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] We’re… There’s nothing left. Everything is gone. The churches is headed to the Ecumenical council. The world, it…

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« 326 † Look here! Do you know what the Lord says about Los Angeles and these places here? “She’s gone!” You remember what I told you, about two years ago, how that earthquake would come in Canada up here, Alaska? I also tell you that “Hollywood and Los Angeles is sliding into the ocean. California, you’re doomed! Not only California; but you, world, you’re doomed! Church, unless you get right with God, you’re doomed!” THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!
327 Have you ever heard me use that Name unless it come to pass? Ask you! You’ve known me twenty years. Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? If everything I’ve ever told you would happen, happened, say “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] See? I tell you, now is the hour, you better be getting right, all of us.
Now let’s each one pray for the other:

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« 328 † Dear God, as we stand here tonight, a dying people, our faces are turned towards the earth, the dust. We just… You have give us this cutting sermon, Lord. We see the example of two man. One of them, being a religious man, went to church but rejected the leadership to Eternal Life. And the other rejected the worldly fame and turned to Eternal Life. And we see both of their conditions tonight, according to the Bible: the rich man is in torment, and Moses is in Glory.
329 Father, we want to be like Moses. We want to be led by Your Holy Son, Jesus Christ, to Eternal Life. Give It to our hearts tonight, Lord. Tear out the old stony heart; place into us the new heart, the heart of flesh, the heart that You can talk to and deal with, and we will not be haughty or different. May the Holy Spirit never leave, Lord. May It come and ordain this people. Speak to them; tear up their stony will, and put in the will of God. Save every one, Father. Give us of Thy love. Get us to a place, Lord, that we’ll get away from all the–the emotional part, to the real solid part of the feeling… the heartfelt part, the deepness of the Spirit, the riches of God, the Kingdom of the Spirit in our hearts. Grant it, O Great Leader, great Holy Spirit, before You take Your flight into the skies with Your Church.

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« 330 † O God, let me go, Lord. Don’t leave me behind, Jesus. Let me go with You, Father. I don’t want to stay here on this earth to watch these tribulations coming on. I don’t want to stay here in this insanity. I don’t want to stand here when hideous sights… the people losing their mind. We look at man trying to act like beasts and look like beasts; and the women trying to look like animals, with the paints on their face. Knowing that these things are predicted to happen, that the thing will, they’ll go so insane till locusts will rise up with hair like women to haunt the women; and teeth like lions, and things that You’ve said, the mental condition of the people will be completely gone. We see it in the making right now, Lord. Help us! Restore us to the sane mind of Christ Jesus our Lord.
331 O Great Leader of Eternal Life, we accept Your promise tonight, Father. I plead for this people. I plead for every one of them, in the Name of Jesus Christ, Lord. I pray that Christ the Son of God will come into the hearts of every one of us, Lord, and mold us and make us into new creatures in Jesus Christ. Grant it, Lord God.
332 We love You. And we want our dispositions… our change to come into us, that we can be Your children, feel of Your Spirit moving in our hearts, Lord, tendering us and bringing us to realization of this insane age that we’re living in. Grant it, God. When we see young women so caught up in the web of the Devil, young men, perverted minds, children, dope addicts, cigarette smoking, drinking, immoral, Satan’s Eden.
333 God, it taken You six thousand years, according to the Bible, to build an Eden. And You put Your son and his wife in there (his bride), to rule over it. And Satan come around and perverted it; he’s got six thousand years, and he’s built his own intellectual Eden through science, and education, and so-called intelligence, and he’s built it into a mess of death.
334 O God, take us back to Eden again, Lord, where there’s no death, where there’s no sorrow. Grant it, Lord. We stand humbly, waiting for the second Adam to come for His Bride. Make us part of Him, Father. We pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 335 † Do you love God? Can you feel… Do you realize what I’m trying to tell you? If you can understand this just raise your hands, say, “I understand what you’re trying to say.” Can you see the insanity of this age? Look how it’s gone, there’s no even reasons among the people no more. It’s gone! Where is our…? Even leaders.
336 Look at our President! “If they want Communism, let them have it. Whatever the people wants, let them have it.” Where is our Patrick Henry’s, our George Washington’s? Where is our leaders that can stand for a principle? We haven’t got them no more.
337 Where is our churches, our ministers? Will take the people in just on probation, or come in, join the church and do this or have a little sensation or something. Where is those men of God, those prophets that stand out and dare to defile, defy all the things of the world?
338 Where is those men of integrity? Where are they at? They’re so soft, and through intellectual conceptions and things, till they’re not here no more. O God, have mercy upon us.

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« 339 † These hideous sights that’s coming upon the earth. You can see how the people’s moving right into it. It’s an insanity. But when that thing strikes, the Church will be gone.
340 God, let us be there. That’s my prayer to the great Supernatural Being that’s in this building tonight, the great Christ that still has Eternal Life. I pray Thee, Christ, as I’m here with my eyes open, looking at the church that You’ve redeemed with Your Blood. God, don’t let a one of us be lost. We want to be right with You. So cleanse us, O, Lord, from all of our iniquities. Take away our sins and things.
341 We seen You heal our sick, even raise our dead (come back to life through prayer), and we seen all these things happen, Father. Now bring us back to Life, spiritually; bring us back into realization of Eternal Life through Christ Jesus. Grant this, Father. I commit it all to You. In Jesus Christ’s Name.
Till we meet! till we meet!
Till we meet at Jesus’ feet;
Till we meet!
Look to Him. Let Him soften us up.
… we meet!
God be with you till we meet again!
342 Raise our hands now:
Till we meet! till we meet!
Brother Salano, ever who is following. [Someone says, “Anything else?”–Ed.] No. God bless you. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 1 † ` Let’s bow our heads. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight because that You answer prayer for us. This poor dear woman laying there, where surgery has failed. But, O God, we remember the first surgery was ever performed in the earth, You did it Yourself. You taken from the side of Adam, a rib, closed up the incision, and made a wife. O Father, I pray tonight that Your hand will come down now and will perform this great thing that we’re asking for. And these others, Lord, this woman that’s suffering with mental oppression, all others who’s got requests, we just commit them to Thee, Father, with our whole heart. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Indeed a privilege to be here tonight and have this fine audience to look at. And fine singing, the wonderful little choir. I was just thinking the difference, seeing them boys standing there with… clean-looking fellows, clean haircuts. I was thinking, last night, of–of the place where I’m staying; a bunch of hoodlums came in down there and trying to drowned a boy in the swimming pool; they had to call out something and get them out of there. What a difference, see kids standing, singing the Gospel songs; what a difference.

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« 2 † Thinking, as Brother Henry said there, “those man with them hair like the women should have,” you see. That–that–that’s right. Look like the… I see these boys kind of have that hair, they even put these roller-curlers in it, around their face. I don’t know, I… sometimes I become discouraged. It looks like it–it’s a true time of perversion. Man are trying to wear women’s clothes, and women wearing man’s clothes. And man leaving their hair like women, and women having hair like man. What’s the matter with this people, anyhow? Has the, really, the very threads of decency and honor left this nation and these people, this world?
3 This is a horrible time, but it’s the most glorious time in the world, to preach the Gospel. If I could’ve stood on the brink of time before it come into existence, and the Father would have looked at me, and said, “What time down through these ages would you want to preach?” I’d want it right now, that’s right, just before His coming.

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« 4 † Looking out upon the audience, setting here before us… A minister friend of mine, in Tucson yesterday, was riding a horse. (Thinking of this man with this… this woman with the disc in her back.) This horse threw him. Another man called me at one o’clock this morning, to my hotel, and said, “The man’s at Veterans Hospital, and his eyes are glassy, his back smashed, his kidneys are pushed out, and his heart’s about to fail.” And there I got down on the floor, on my knees; telephone, got him on the other end, and prayed for him. And here he sets here tonight, setting right there. That was last night. Bob, would you just stand up there? There’s the man, right there. [Congregation applauds–Ed.] God answers prayer, morning, night, noontime, midnight, or anytime.

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« 5 † Now, I–I am such a long-winded preacher, as they call it. I just kind of hate to get started this time of night, and–and I thought I’d just come over. The other night, why, we was speaking over here at a certain place, and the… fifteen minutes after I had been on, the people was picking up the dishes and motioning to me, “Quit! Shut up, you got to get out of here,” smoking cigarettes, and carrying on. It wasn’t the–the banquet’s fault, it was the people that we had it rented from. And the–the chairman’s wife went around and told the manager, said…
6 Said, “Well, you’re supposed to be out of here at 9:30.”
7 Said, “You never put that in the contract.”
8 This lady, tonight, she come down here (real nice lady) and she said, “We understood that you want it,” said, “just take it as long as you want.” So that was very nice. So I’m very thankful for that. That’s very fine.

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« 9 † Brother Henry, I certainly appreciate your–your kindness of inviting me here, and this chapter.
10 I had the privilege last night of being down here at the Assemblies of God where I believe a Brother Boone is pastor. Had a wonderful time down there with that group of people. And tomorrow night we’re going somewhere over here, I don’t know where it’s at, and it’s another chapter. They take care of that; I just keep praying, reading, and going along, and it’s about all I can keep up with.

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« 11 † But, now, we’re seeing strange things in this day. Now I’ve remember the last time I was here, it was in a tent meeting. I remember of speaking of it last night, of a little couple that brought their dead baby in. It–it’s up somewhere up here, they drove all day and night. The little mother setting, sad, holding that little baby in her arms. Now, she may be setting right here now, for all I know. And she… the little husband, couple of more couples with them, and they was… And she said… asked me if I’d come over (the man did) to the car. I took the little baby out and was just holding it; a little, dead, stiff, cold form; and I started to pray. And when I prayed, that body begin to feel like it was getting warm. So I just… I kept on praying. He started kicking and moving, going along, so I… started crying. I handed it back to the mother, she went on back home with it. So, they might not even been Christians, for all I know. See? That was wonderful.

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« 12 † But what I’m thinking about, tonight, I know a church that’s dying, too, it’s our Pentecostal people. We got to shake out of this, uh-huh, that’s all. And the only way you’re going to do it is prayer and lining up with the Word of God. It’s the only way we’re going to do it. There’s only one way out, He’s that Way, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Would we want our church get in the condition as he said over there, like in England? That’s the reason I’ve been, you think, so rude, bawling you out. And I don’t mean to do that, but I don’t want to see the church get in that kind of a shape. You don’t want to be in that shape. But yet you’ve just got to drive It down so hard till you nail It and make It clench. It’s got to be done.
13 So now, tonight, I’ve just got a… some Scriptures and text here I want to speak on for a while. I ain’t going to say no certain time. You get tired, why… I may be through in thirty minutes, and just depends on… I always just kind of leave it to the Holy Spirit, just whichever way He leads.

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« 14 † Let’s bow our heads just a moment longer, speak to the Author before we open His Book.
15 Almighty God, the Author of this Book, through Jesus Christ we pray. We are thankful for what we’ve already heard tonight. If we should–should punctuate this meeting by saying, “Amen,” and go home, it was good to be here, for we know that You’ve been with us. And, Father, as we open this Word now, speak to us directly out of this Word, that we might know the hour that we’re living. If we know the hour we’re living, then we can prepare for that hour; but if we go in blindly not knowing what or where, then we don’t know how to prepare. So, Father, we pray that You’ll let us see the Ark there, and the Door, open, and the Message calling us in. Grant it through Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 16 † In the Holy Scriptures, I want to read a text here; found over in the Book of Saint Luke, at the 24th chapter, the… I’m going to begin at the 13th verse, and read a portion of It.
And, behold, two of them went the same day from the village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore–score furlong.
And they talked together… these things which had happened.
And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and… Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
And he said unto them, What manner of communication are these that you have one to another, as you walk, and are sad?
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and has thou not known all these things which have come to pass… in these days?
And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
And how the chief priests and the rulers delivered him to the… be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and besides all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Yea, and certain of the women also of our company made us astonished, which were… at the sepulchre;
… when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said unto them… which said that he was alive.
And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but he they… but him they saw not.
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe (not to believe) all that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and… entered into his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them… all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Words.

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« 17 † Now I take… if I call it a subject, I’d like to take this: The events… Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy. Now, it’s always been God’s… the unchanging God’s way to fore-… let His people foreknow before certain events happen.
18 If the people in the days of the Lord Jesus would have only have sought God and knowed what was just about to take place, they would not have condemned Jesus to death. But the reason it was, because the Scriptures had to be fulfilled, because the Jews had to be blinded. We all are aware of that.
19 Do you realize that that’s promised again in this very age that we’re living? The Laodicean Church Age, this seventh church age that we’re in now, is naked, miserable, blind, and don’t know it. The same as He blinded them back there for the purpose of getting His Message through to the elected people, He’s promised to do the same thing today.

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« 20 † And if I’d say this to respects, and to all my brethren and sisters in Christ, one of these days somebody’s going to say, “Isn’t it written that these things should happen first?”
21 And it’ll be the same way it was then, “Verily, I say unto you, he’s already come, and they had did what they listed to him.”
22 When they asked Him, said, “Why, the scribes say, and the Scriptures say that–that ‘Elias must first come.'” They said that to Jesus.
23 He said, “He’s already come, and you didn’t know him.” See? And that’s perhaps the way it’ll end up again.

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« 24 † Now we want to be posted, to know what’s to take place for this age that we live in. God has lotted His Word to each age, so much to each age, and we must notice that one age cannot carry over into another age. It just won’t work. For instance, as I’ve said, I believe last night or… I’m constantly speaking, night after night, places, and sometime I make a remark the second time. I don’t mean to repeat myself. But I say this: What would… good would it have done Moses to try to preach Noah’s message? Or what good would it been… would have done Jesus to try to preach Moses’ message? Or what good would it done Martin Luther to continue on with the Catholic message? What good would it done Wesley to continue on with the Lutheran message? What good would it done Pentecostals to continue on with the Methodist message? Or what good will it do Pentecost to continue on when the Bride’s being called? See, we’re right up into the seed time, we’re here at the end time. Now, unless a corn of wheat falls in the earth, it abides alone.

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« 25 † As the critic, as I’ve made remarks since the book come out, probably you got it here in your–your city, that German author that wrote one of the most critical articles. He’s an infidel. Course not… I’m not condemning him because he’s condemned me so; but, because, being an infidel, the book shouldn’t never be on the shelves. And he said, “A God that could set up and say He could open up the Red Sea and deliver His people, and then set with His hands across His stomach and see through the Dark Ages those Christians being tore to pieces by lions; those mothers with their hair saturated in tar, and hung onto crosses and burned; and their baby… expecting mothers, they’d split the stomach and gamble on the sex of the child; and set up and let it happen; people who was supposed to be servants of this God.”

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« 26 † You see, the Scripture is inspiration. You’ll never be able to know the Scripture just by setting down and reading It from a theological standpoint, from an educational standpoint; it never has worked.
27 I was speaking with a Baptist minister not long ago, he said, “Until we learn the correct Greek, until we…”
28 I said, “In the Nicaea Council, before that, they were arguing about the Greek words in the Bible.” You’ll never know It.
29 The Bible is to be revealed by inspiration. That’s the only thing, the revelation. Jesus told Peter, “Upon this rock.” This rock of revelation reveals Who He is. “Blessed art thou Simon, son of Jonas, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in Heaven has revealed this to you; upon this rock I’ll build My Church.” Not upon Peter, not upon Himself, but upon the spiritual revelation of Who He was.
30 And He is the Word! Saint John 1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Hebrews 13:8, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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« 31 † Therefore we’re living in the day when the manifestation of the Word of God has to come to a different age than the Pentecostal age. And that’s right. Remember, you’ll… I’m an uneducated person; but you can’t beat nature, because God works in the continuity of nature. Just like, as I’ve said, the sun rises and sets; and goes through the day, and like a school age; and dies in the evening, to rise again the next morning. The trees let the sap down in the winter time, go into the roots, and come back in the spring.
32 Notice, He likened It to a grain of wheat, the Bride, the reason that God had to let that go like that. That fine, real, genuine Church that was established on the Day of Pentecost, had growed and growed since the Day of Pentecost, into a great church, it had to fall into the earth in that Dark Age and be buried like all seed does. It had to die so it could come forth in the reformation again. It come forth in the person of a reformation, Martin Luther. And from there, just like a stalk of wheat coming up. The first thing comes up, there’s two little blades, then it keeps adding more blades. Up come Martin Luther, and then Zwingli, and on down, Calvin, and as they moved on.

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« 33 † Finally it goes into a tassel. Now, that was John Wesley in the Wesley age. It had a pollen drop back.
34 From there come the Pentecostal age, so close, just like a real grain of wheat if you look at the stalk. But if you’ll take that wheat and move it back, there’s not one grain in it at all, it’s only a shuck in the shape of a grain. But it’s set there for a purpose, to shelter the grain until… If the sun hits it like that, it’d kill it.
35 It’s got to stay in there until a certain time, and all the Life leaves the shuck (as It left the stalk, left the pollen), leaves the shuck and goes into the wheat, and forms again just like it was down in the ground.

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« 36 † Now, all of us know that whenever a message is given, in three years they form an organization. When they do that, it kills it right there; it did of the days of Luther, ’cause, it did it in the days of Wesley, it did it in the days of Alexander Campbell, and all the rest of them, and it did it in the days of Pentecost. Exactly! See? You get to a place, each one gets starchy, and gets off, and they can’t receive new revelation. They’re settled down; and there they are, and there they die. And the Life goes right through that, and goes right on to make the wheat. And when the wheat comes, that Life that’s traveled through that wheat, the resurrection, brings the whole thing out; yes, brings up for the Rapture.

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« 37 † Now, remember, this Message started first with Divine healing, performing miracles. Now, if God let that go through a ordinary church, just like we already had, then it wasn’t God. God don’t have to show off; He don’t–He don’t have to do these things, to entertain us, like we Americans are used to (entertainment), but He does it to attract the attention of the people, that He’s fixing to do something.
38 Look at Him Hisself when He come. “The wonderful little prophet, the rabbi, the prophet of Galilee.” Why, His ministry was wonderful, He was welcome in every church.
39 But one day He set down, said, “I and My Father are One.”
40 “Oh, my!” That was out. “Away with such a fellow!”
41 “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you.”
42 “Why, he’s a vampire! Get away from such a person!” See?
43 See, there was something had to follow that sign. See, something followed.
44 The shuck held it, but now the shuck pulls away; it has to. And remember, twenty years has passed by and no more denominations has come out of it, and it won’t. We’re at the end of denominations, the wheat’s taken shape. But what’s the matter with the wheat now, you can’t… it must lay in the Presence of the Son, to ripen, before the combine picks it up.

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« 45 † Now, the events that we see taking place, it’s absolutely showed in the Bible, of every age. We think we’re all out of cater, but we’re not, everything’s moving just exactly with God’s Word.
46 Now, the Bible is a different book from any other sacred book. There’s no book like the Bible, because the Bible is God in word form. See? It’s… A word is a thought expressed. God’s thinking expressed It, His Words through the prophets; and they wrote the Bible, which is in word form. And Jesus called It, “a Seed.” And any seed will bring forth of its kind if it’s in the right condition, the right atmosphere. Now, this Book of… is a… This Book of prophecy, It–It is foretelling future events. Now, the Book contains the entire revelation of Jesus Christ. You don’t add to It or take from It, and every revelation must come by It. See, it must be the Word.

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« 47 † So people say, “I had a revelation.” Yes, we know Joseph Smith and many had revelations and things, but was contrary to the Word.
48 It’s got to come according to the Word if it comes from God, because it’s to vindicate or to prove God’s Presence. And He foreknew all these things, being… By His foreknowledge He ordained, foreordained (it’s called in the Bible, “predestinated”) every age to its place, and every man to its place, and every messenger to its place. He is God, the Devil ain’t pulling nothing over on Him. And He’s God, and He has ordained everything to take place, and falls just exactly in line with His Word.
49 So if we can see, by His Word, what age and what time we’re living, you’ll see it right here in the Bible, of this age, what we’re supposed… what’s supposed to take place at this time.

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« 50 † Now, the–the other books, we find lots of books that they call “sacred books,” and so forth. And I’ve read the–the Koran and many others. But, you see, their–their sacred books are only a code of ethics, of morals, or of theology.
51 But this Book is a Prophet, It’s a different from any other book. The Bible is the Word of God foretelling the future. It foretells because It’s forewarned.
52 If God sends anything, He says and promised in the Bible that He would do nothing upon the earth until first He revealed it to His servants the prophets. That’s Amos 3:7. He… and God cannot lie. He reveals It, that’s been His way of doing it all down through the ages. He’s never failed to do it.

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« 53 † Now, we are promised, in the last days, for this to be restored. There’ll be no–no church, no denomination, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, they’ll never (in their modern conditions) ever take this church to a Bride. They can’t do it, they fail. They’re too much at one another’s throats, and worldliness has creeped in, and so forth, and–and they died right in their tracks. And so God knows that.
54 And to reveal this Word, one say, “Well, I got this. And bless God, It’s like that.” That’s just the way it was when Jesus came the first time; everyone has a doctrine, everyone has this. It’ll have to be something sent to us from God. And God’s promised it. And the only way He’ll do, is–is keep His same pattern. He promised to send us, in this last days, according to Malachi 4, a prophet upon the earth, “That would turn the hearts of the people back, the hearts of the children back to the apostolic fathers again.” He promised that in His Word. Luke 17 and many other places that He promised it, that He… what He would do in these last days to bring this thing to a vindicated Word.

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« 55 † See, a man can say anything, but ‘less God interprets that Word… See, now, we have our own interpretation, we say It means this. And this one, Methodist, says this, the Baptist says this, the Pentecostal said this, the Oneness says this, the Twoness says this. And, oh, my, there you are. But God don’t need no interpreter, He’s His Own Interpreter. He interprets His Own Word by vindicating It in the age that It’s purposed for, the age that It’s given for.
56 We’re not living in a Pentecostal age, we’re living in another age. See, we’re not living in a Methodist age, we’re living in another age. We’re living on up here to the Bride age, the calling out of the Church and getting It together for the Rapture. That’s the age that we’re now living. To my honest opinion that’s exactly the Truth.

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« 57 † And this Book is a book of prophecy. Its believers are commanded to honor It and to read It, and believe Its Author, for every Word that’s written in there must come to pass. Everything that’s been promised has to come to pass, because It is Jesus Christ in each age. The same yesterday, it was Jesus Christ, was in Noah; it was Jesus Christ in Moses, it was Jesus Christ in David, it was Jesus Christ in Joseph; it’s Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. And it’s Jesus Christ among His people today, doing the things that He promised He would do in this age. It’s Jesus Christ.
58 But the church has become so starchy, so far away, like the brother said here. And–and our churches are becoming the same way, until we’ve got to have something to shake us back to the Word. How do we know it’s going to do it? It’s got to come according to God’s Own plan. It cannot come by layman, it will not come by the businessman, it cannot come by churches. God has laid down His plan.

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« 59 † I spoke here in Shreveport the other day, on a national broadcast across the nation, that, Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will. David tried to bring the ark of God back into the house. He was anointed king. Why, he–he consulted his–his delegates, his captains of thousands, and ten thousands, and so forth. And they all said, “That’s the Word of the Lord.” And he consulted the priest, “That was wonderful.” And they all got so inspired, they shouted, they done every religious act that was. And they was absolutely contrary to God’s will, because there was a prophet in the land by the name of Nathan and he wasn’t even consulted about it. See? And we found out it didn’t work though they were sincere, trying to do God a service.

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« 60 † And you can be ever so sincere; but, until we know what we’re doing, you’re fighting at the air. Come back into the Word of God and get lined up, and then go; then you know. Like a–a soldier, don’t know what to do until he gets orders to do it. We must be Christian soldiers, and get orders from the Bible for this hour now; not the charge yesterday, the charge the day before, but the charge today (which way we go). Find out the hour that we’re living in.
61 And these modern events is slipping by us too swiftly, and one day we’re going to find out we’ll be left behind without nothing, and be caught, sealed into the mark of the beast before we know it.

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« 62 † Now, and with patience we have to wait for this, for the prophecies that’s promised, every one of them must be fulfilled in its age. For It foretells us, the Author has before done this, and we wait to see Him do it again. What a time it is that we’re living in! Something like a–a calendar; you look at the calendar to find out what day of the year you’re living in, and you look at God’s Bible to see what age we’re living in. We’re not living in the Methodist age, the Baptist age. We’re living in the Bride age, the calling, bringing back to God through a channel that He promised to bring it back in. He promised to do it.
63 But as it’s been in every age, people let man put their own interpretation to It by theology, and will not believe God’s Divine vindication of It (that’s, God’s interpretation); not what I say, what somebody else says; but what God has promised and what God does, proves that it’s God doing His Own interpreting of His Word.

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« 64 † They told you Pentecostals, forty-five, fifty years ago. Your mothers and fathers, when they were genuine pentecostals, come out of a organization and cursed the thing and walked out of it. Then like a dog to its vomit, went right back in it again. Done the same thing that killed that church, you killed your own by the same thing. Nothing against the people in there, nothing against it, it’s the systems of the thing that’s what’s doing it.
65 Home, I’m… go home… I don’t preach this in other man’s meeting. I’m going to preach The Trail Of The Serpent, and listen to it if you take the tapes.

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« 66 † And, notice, they missed seeing the confirmation of the prophecies of God’s Word being fulfilled. If those priests… They had it fixed up just exactly the way the Messiah was going to come, they knowed what was going to take place. The–the Pharisees had their idea, the Sadducees, Herodians, and, oh, they had their ideas. But He come not… He come contrary to every one of them, but exactly with the Word. Jesus said the same thing was here: “If you would have known Me, you should have known My day. If you had knowed, you’d… You say, ‘Well, Moses! We have Moses.'” Said, “Why, if you would believe Moses, you’d believe Me; because, he wrote of Me.”
67 But, see, when God was confirming exactly what He promised, they had it in some kind of a dignified way that Jesus was supposed to come, and the… I mean the Messiah. The Messiah had to come right to their group or he wasn’t Messiah. Well, it’s that way, almost, today, “If you don’t see through my glasses, you’re not looking at all.” See, and so that’s–that’s just the way it–it is. We… That’s the truth. We hate to think that, but it’s absolutely the Truth.

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« 68 † In Hebrews 1:1, God in sundry times wrote the Bible by His Own chosen way. He never wrote It by theologians, neither does He interpret by theologians. There never was a time that–that the theologians ever had an interpretation of the Word of God. The interpretation comes only to a prophet. And the only way we’re ever going to get out of this mess is for God to send us that prophet, just exactly, the only way it’s going to be done. It’s been believed, watched for, and–and fulfillment.
69 See, It was not wrote by man, but It was wrote by God. It’s not a man’s book, It’s not a theologian’s book. It’s the Book of God, which is a Book of prophecy wrote by the prophets and interpreted by the prophets. The Bible said, “The Word of the Lord comes to the prophets.” Exactly!

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« 70 † How beautiful that was illustrated, or, demonstrated when Jesus was come on earth, and John was the prophet of that day, and he–he was prophesying. They said, “Oh, you mean to say that God’s going to tear down our big associations here and all these things? And there’s going to be a time, when our–our temples won’t no more be worshipped in?”
71 He said, “There was coming a time when God would make a sacrifice out of the Lamb of God, a Man.” And he said that–that he would know Him when He come. And he said… He was so sure of his message, he said, “He’s standing right among you now and you don’t know it.” He’s right among you and you don’t know it.
72 And one day when Jesus walked out, John looked up and seen that sign above Him, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” That same minute Jesus knowed then that He was a-vindicated before the people. Now, He was the Word, would we doubt that? The Bible said He was the Word, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” And here He is, the… Here’s the Word on earth (look! perfectly!) comes right out into the water to the prophet.

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« 73 † That’s right, the Word always comes to His prophet. So we can’t expect It to come to theologians. We can’t expect It to come to denominations. It’s got to come God’s channel route that He foretold us about, and that’s the only way It’ll ever come. It’ll be hated, despised, rejected. When It does come, It’ll be throwed out to one side, and everything, but God will do it anyhow. It was rejected in Jesus Christ, it was rejected in John, it was rejected by Jeremiah, it was rejected by Moses. It’s always that way. But God moves right on in the way that He promised He would do it. Yes, sir, He never does fail to do it the same way.

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« 74 † The man who’s seen the vision or heard His voice, never altogether understood It. In many cases he didn’t know, because he’s just an instrument of God. It’s God’s thoughts expressed through man’s lips; a thought, course, is a word expressed. God does His Own choosing by His–His predestinated choosing. He done it in every age, He set forth the man for each age. Like when Moses, when he was to fulfill what He told to Abraham. Moses was borned a proper child, he couldn’t help being that way. He was born that way because he was borned for that purpose.
75 And so we find out that God does that in every age. God does His Own choosing by His Own predestinated choosing, choose His prophets and things for the age. Fixes–fixes his nature, the man’s nature, the man’s style of preaching, to honor His gift, and all that He does is to meet the challenge of that day. God creates that man and sent him. And in His Own mind, as I preached on last night, we are a germ of the gene of God. He knowed that man would be there at that age, before there ever was a molecule, or a light, or anything else in the earth.

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« 76 † For you’re a gene of your father, and you were in your father, yet your father had no fellowship with you because he… You was in there, but you knew it not and he knew it not, but you was manifested that you might… that he might fellowship with you. And you being borned again, you’re borned of Eternal Life. And that’s the only one form of Eternal Life, and that’s God’s Life, Zoe, the Greek word “Zoe,” only one form of Eternal Life.
77 Then if you are a son of God or a daughter of God, you were in God all the time. But He knew what bed and time that you’d be planted. So now you’re made a creature, a son of God, manifested son or daughter of God to meet the challenge of this hour to vindicate the true and living God of this hour, the Message that’s coming forth in this time. That’s right! You was done there before the foundation of the world. If it wasn’t… If you wasn’t chose that way, no matter how much you try to impersonate It, you’ll never make it. How can you get blood from a turnip when there’s no blood in there?

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« 78 † That’s the reason I try to say about… Then people thinking we was… we’re hollering at women about short hair, and people telling me about saying those things, “You’re going to ruin your ministry.” Ruin a ministry that God Himself ordained? Far be it! And when people hear the Word of God… When a baby is conceived in the womb of a mother, when that one cell goes in there, another cell builds on top of that. It’s not one cell of a human, the next of a dog, and the next of a cat, and the next of something else; it’s absolutely, straightly, human being. And when a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he don’t inject anything into his life, It’s unadulterated Word of God vindicated for that hour. He takes the full Word of God, he don’t put no creeds, nothing else into It. It’s purely unadulterated, God’s Word made manifest among us.

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« 79 † Look in the Bible, you see where, what age we’re living in then, when you see these great things being made manifest. When God promised to do it, He always does it at the end of each age when the church is come to the turning place, and is turned from the Word back to sin and worldliness. Worldliness is sin. The Bible said, “If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God’s not even in you.”
80 Speaking last night, I was speaking about the–the sacrifice that was offered, the Lamb. It was to be seven days, representing the seven church ages. There was to be no leaven found amongst the people, no leaven for seven days. That means that there’s nothing mixed with It, It’s unleavened, constantly. And we don’t want no creeds, leavens and things mixed with us. We don’t want world mixed with us. It’s got to be the unleavened Bread of God, the Word of God, the unadulterated Word of God, which, “Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

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« 81 † Our denominational systems, and differences and things, has put leaven in us, and this and that and world and fashion. And, oh, it’s got so it’s almost Hollywood everywhere. It’ll finally come it’ll be like England, and a altar call will be ashamed. My! As brother said, “How can you get the fish in the boat?” That’s right.
82 We’ve got to have the Gospel preached in Its fulness, with the power of God to vindicate that according to the promise of that age and prove that that’s exactly God’s will. Outside of That you’re just a church member, no matter how much you try, you try to do God a service. You might go to the stitch-and-sew party, you might be ever so faithful to church; but unless that germ of Eternal Life was foreordained in you, to be a son or daughter of God, you’ll grow up a deformed something; but never be a real, true son or daughter of God.

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« 83 † Often give my little story of a little eagle. How the farmer set the hen one time, and he had… I hope it don’t sound sacrilegious to you. But a farmer set a hen, and she was… lacked one egg in having a setting. I doubt whether anybody here know what a setting of eggs is, how much it consists of. But, anyhow, he lacked one egg, in having enough. So he robbed the eagle’s nest, she had two eggs. And he put the egg under the hen.
84 When that eagle was hatched amongst all them chickens, he was a funny bird. He couldn’t understand the clucking of the hen, didn’t talk like his… like he wanted to hear her talk. And she scratched in the barnyard, and eat from the barnyard, it wasn’t food for him. He was an ugly duckling among them. The hen would cluck and he didn’t understand it. She’d go this way and eat this and eat that, he didn’t understand it. So one day his mammy, or mother, rather, to you. I… In the South we say “Mammy.”
85 So, anyhow, he… his–his–his mother knowed she had two eggs, and only one of them was there, she went after the other one. She circled every… crossed the country, and finally she flew over the barnyard. She seen him down there following that old hen. She screamed, “Junior! You’re not a chicken, you’re an eagle!” That sounded just right to him. Why? He was an eagle to begin with.

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« 86 † And when a man or woman has set under creeds and cold, formal religion, if he’s ordained to be a son of God, and he sees the Word of God preached in Its power, and God vindicate It; he’s an eagle to begin with, he’ll run to It as sure as two two’s is four. He can’t help it, because his very nature loves the Word of God. I don’t care what anybody else says, when he sees the Word of God being made manifest, he flies to It because he was a little eagle.
87 As they go on to say, he said, “Mama, how am I going to get up from here?”
88 And He said, “Just make a jump, I’ll catch you.”
89 And that’s the only thing you have to do, is make one jump to your feet, one jump to God, one promise, “Lord Jesus, I believe You with all my heart. I believe the Message of the hour. I see It confirmed, and I know It’s right.” Jump to your feet, Mama will catch you. Don’t worry, you’re an eagle, she’ll be right there to get you.

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« 90 † Now, we realize that we’re living in a tremendous time and a great time, but when the truths of this Bible, believers has seen that vindicated, the very vindication of It is the evidence that God is in It. Absolutely! It’s then that the promised Word, that God promised, is made known. The seed is bursted forth, and they see It and they believe It. Others just can’t see It, somehow they’ll set and look at It.
91 You know, I’ve preached hard enough to–to… across this country, that it shouldn’t be a short-haired woman in the country. But, every time when I come back, there’s more. What’s the matter? There’s something wrong! You know the Word says that! You say, “Well, that don’t make any difference.” It does make a difference!

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« 92 † There’s a fine brother, said, “I’m going to lay hands on you, Brother Branham. I love you. You’re ruining your ministry.” Said, “You ain’t got no business telling them women about that.” Said, “Let the pastors do it.”
93 I said, “They don’t do it though.” I said, “Now…”
94 He said, “Well, it’s not your business, you just pray for the sick.”
95 I said, “Whose business is it, then? I was called to preach the Gospel.”
96 Said, “I’ll lay hands on you and ask God to take it away, from you.”
97 I said, “You’ll let–let me lay hands on you, too.” See? And I said, “I’ll pray that God will open your eyes and you’ll see It.” So, that’s right!
98 He said, “You ought to preach… The people believe you to be a servant, a prophet of God.” He said, “You ought to teach them women how to–to get great gifts and prophesy and things.”
99 I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they won’t even believe their ABC’s first?” That’s right! So you–you can’t do it. That’s just in every… That’s right. If you can’t do the common things, how you going to do the spiritual things? The natural things. Certainly! Brother, sister, it might sound like a joke, but It’s the Gospel! It’s the Gospel Truth. That’s right!

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« 100 † Notice, we find today that people… There’s many people just can’t believe It, even Spirit-filled people. I’m going to give you one that’ll choke you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost don’t mean you’re going in, not at all, not on that, don’t have anything to do with your soul. That’s the baptism, see. Here’s the inside soul, in here, that has to come from God. But then on the outside you have five senses, and five out… inlets to your… contact your earthly home. The inside, you have a spirit, and in there you have five outlets: your conscience, and love, and so forth, five outlets to that spirit. Remember, in that spirit you can be baptized with the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost. It’s the soul that lives, that was ordained of God.
101 Didn’t Jesus say, “Many will come to me in that day, and say, ‘Lord, haven’t I cast out devils, done great and mighty works, prophesied, the great gifts of God?'” He said, “Depart from me, you that work iniquity, I never even knew you. Many will come in that day.”

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« 102 † Didn’t Caiaphas prophesy? He was a devil. We find out there… And them priests, them great man, was supposed to be great leaders in them days, with humility and everything else, but failed to see the Word of God Itself made manifest before them.
103 We could just take a bunch of them I got wrote down here. How about Balaam? He was a… You say, “God changes His mind.” He doesn’t change His mind!
104 When Balaam went out as a prophet, and went down there, a bishop, preacher, whatever you want to call him, he was a great man. But when he consulted God about going down there and cursing Israel; he didn’t like them to begin with. So when he asked to go, God said, “Don’t go!”
105 Then they sent a dignitary about some… maybe of bishops or presbyters, or something, down, said, with more education to persuade him. He went back and asked God again. You don’t have to ask God the second time! When God says it first, that’s It! You don’t have to wait anything.
106 Rebekah didn’t wait to get the second order. They asked her, said, “Will you go?”
107 “Let her say.”
108 She said, “I’ll go!” She was firmly inspired of God. She become one of the queens of the Bible for acting upon the pulsation of the Spirit of God that moved upon her to receive what was absolutely the truth, and she believed it.

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« 109 † Now we find out, Balaam, of course, he couldn’t see. He went out and looked upon the people, said, “Now, just a minute! We’re a great, big people up here, you’re just a scattered bunch.” You see? “And we all–we all believe the same God.”
110 That’s true. They all believed the same God, and they all worshipped Jehovah. Look at Balaam’s sacrifice: seven altars, God’s perfect number; the seven churches, see; seven rams, speaking of the coming of the Lord. Fundamentally, he was just as fundamental as Moses was; but, you see, there wasn’t a Divine vindication. In there, they were both prophets.
111 But under Moses’ ministry, there was a supernatural Pillar of Fire, a Light that hung with the camp. There was Divine healing, there was a shout of the King in the camp, great signs, Divine healing, and wonders and things performed among them. It was a sign of a living God among His people.
112 Fundamentally, they was both right. And Balaam tried to persuade the people, and bewitched them into it. When? Just before they reached the Promised Land. Another day or two, they’d a-been in the Promised Land.

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« 113 † But now I’m afraid… This is a hard mark to make, some of these days I’ll be shot for It. But remember this, that, the churches are being bewitched by this Ecumenical Council, he’s taking you right into it, to say “You’re the same group.” You’re not the same group! Come out from among that stuff and be separated! Certainly is, It’s true. We’re to keep away from that stuff, as far as you can from it.
114 Balaam said, “We’re… let’s let our children marry together because, after all, we believe the same God.”
115 “How can two walk together ‘less they be agreed?” How can you walk with God ‘less you’re agreed with His Word? How can you add creeds and so forth to It, when you’re ordained not to do it, or, commanded not to do it? You can’t do it. There’s no way of doing it, brother, sister. You can’t mix that leaven with the unleavened. Oil and water will not mix. Darkness and light will not mix. Light’s so much powerful, it just puts the darkness out.

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« 116 † And so we cannot mix it together. Neither can you mix sin of the world together. You can’t mix Church and denomination together. You can’t mix Church and creed together. You can’t mix the world and the Gospel together. It won’t mix! “Come out from among them, be ye separated,” saith God, “I’ll receive you to Myself. You’ll be My sons and daughters, I’ll be God to you.” We can never do it until these things are manifested, and the Word of God for the hour is proved to be the Truth. Follow in the footsteps.

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« 117 † Pentecost, that’s why Luther lost his message. That’s how Wesley lost his message. See, if the Wesleyan church would have went on, they’d been Pentecostals. If the Lutherans went on, they’d a-been Methodists. See? And now if the Pentecostals go on, it’ll be the Bride. If you hang back and keep going back in the world like you’re going now, you’ll be lost! It’ll only be the shuck, and the stalk is to be burned. We know that. He will gather His wheat into the garner. But the husks He’ll burn with unquenchable fire, although it was a carrier. It certainly carried, but the Life left it as soon as it become a leaf, it went on out to make something else until it come to its full stature.
118 And so will the Church come through Justification, Sanctification, Baptism of the Holy Ghost (restoration of gifts), right on into the formed image of Christ. Christ is the Bridegroom, the Church is the Bride, and the Bride is a part of the Bridegroom. It’ll have to be a Word Church, not a denominational church. It’ll be the Word Church, the Word that’s made known, and by the vindicated Word of God.

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« 119 † Balaam, he couldn’t see the difference. Many can’t.
120 Pharaoh couldn’t see It, though It vindicated right before him.
121 Dathan couldn’t see It. Dathan come out there, and he seen Moses and knowed. He went out there, said, “You try to think you’re the only one in the bunch. The whole congregation is holy!” God never did deal like that. He ought to have knowed better than that. And he said, “Well, the whole congregation is holy. You try to make yourself…” If we’d say it today, the street expression, “The only pebble on the beach.”
122 And Moses knew that God had sent him down there for that. He just said, “Lord…” fell in the–the doorway of the tabernacle.
123 And God said, “Separate yourself from him.” And He swallowed them up.

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« 124 † And remember, the sin that Israel did (by Balaam saying, “They’re all the same.”), that sin never was forgiven Israel. And look, let me give you a striking figure; out of two million that left Egypt, two of them went into the Promised Land. Every one of them eat the same thing, they all danced in the Spirit, they all had everything in common; but when it come to the separated time, the Word done the separating. So is it today! The Word done the separating! When it come time, he said, “Why, here, we’re…”
125 So close, look, the Bible said, “In the last days the two spirits,” Matthew 24:24, “would be so close, it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible.” That shuck looks just exactly like the wheat, but it ain’t the wheat. See? It isn’t the wheat, but it looks just exactly like it. See? So close, it would deceive the very Elected. You denominated and fall into that denomination, and dry up and die, and the wheat moved right on out through the… See? That’s exactly right! It’s a carrier, but not the wheat.
126 Remember, the wheat just keeps going on. In the resurrection all that strength of the wheat will come right up into the wheat, as it goes to make the head, to come out in the great resurrection.
Never forgiven!

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« 127 † Let’s stop here just a moment. I hope I don’t choke you out. But, look, let me ask you something. Let’s just take that. Say, for instance, this count would be right. When the sperm from male and female come, if you ever known test tubes or–or hybriding and so forth of cattle, you’ll find out that the discharge from the male puts out about a million germs. And the discharge from the female puts out a million eggs. But did you know there’s only one of them that’s fertile? Them little calves, or whatever they are, in these millions of germs, a million germs, there’ll be that one little germ will work itself up among the rest of them germs and go right over and find that fertile egg and crawl into it, and the rest of them die. One of them is ordained to life, the others are not, though they’re all the same. One out of a million!
128 What if it’d be that way tonight? There’s five hundred million, supposed to be, I think, Christians in the world, about that figure, just a round figure. If the rapture would come tonight then, in the living going, there’d only be five hundred people. Well, there’s that many missing any day, almost, that they can’t ‘count for. The Bride will be taken away and we’d wonder what it’s all about; and the people going right on preaching, saying they’re “getting this or that, and the other,” and look what a deception that would be. Say if it would be that; I don’t say it is, I don’t know, I’m no authority of that. God’s the Judge of that. But look how easy it could happen, in all figures and things, how it could be proven.

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« 129 † Why didn’t Korah see That? Why didn’t Dathan see That?
130 Why didn’t Ahab see It? When Ahab… When Jehoshaphat went down to Ahab, he said, “Ahab, we’re in trouble. Do you know God gave us this land, Joshua divided it up? You know this piece of ground up here that the Syrians taken, isn’t that our ground?”
“Yes!”
131 “Our children’s hungry, and the Syrians (our enemy) are feeding their children, filling their bellies with the wheat that ought to be ours.” That’s scripturally right. Said, “Will you help me to go up there and take that?”
132 Now, sometimes a good man under the influence of evil will give in. Better watch, church, watch real close.

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« 133 † Now, the first thing you know, Jehoshaphat, being a great religious man, he said, “Well, we should go up, sure, to our church, we’re all the same people.” But they wasn’t the same people! No! He said, “Well, our church is your church, our people is your people. Sure, we’ll go,” he said, “but let’s consult the Lord first.”
134 So he said, O Ahab, “No doubt, we should have thought of that. Well, we’ll…”
135 “Is there a prophet of the Lord?”
136 Said, “I got a seminary full of them. I got four hundred down here, the best ones there is. They all got their Ph.D., L.L.D., their double L.D.’s, and everything else that goes with it. They’re every one…” Now remember, they were Hebrew prophets, from a school of prophets.
137 Said, “Bring them up, let’s hear them.”

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« 138 † Now, I believe it was Zedekiah (the great head over the bishop, all of them) come up there, and he had the inspiration. He had inspiration, absolutely. He come up there, and made himself two big iron horns. He said, “You know, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘You’re going to take these horns and push the Syrians plumb out of the country.'”
139 Well, all the rest of them prophesied, “That’s exactly right!” Every one of them, the whole seminary, in agreement. See?
140 Ahab said, “You see?”
141 Jehoshaphat, being kind of spiritual, you know, he hadn’t dried up altogether, he said, “But isn’t there just another one somewhere, that we could consult?”
142 “What do you want to consult others, when the whole Ecumenical (the whole council), it says ‘It’s all right’?” (Excuse me, see.) “The whole thing said, ‘That’s what we ought to do.'” See? “That’s what we should do.”
143 He said, “But isn’t there just another one somewhere?” That odd one, you know.
144 He said, “Yes, there is. There’s one, Micaiah the son of Imla, but I hate him.” Always that way. “I hate him because he’s always just bawling our people out, and cursing me, and telling me all the evil about me. I hate the man!”
145 Said, “Ah, don’t let the king say so.” Said, “Go get him.”

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« 146 † So they went over there to the son of Imla, some of the–the bishops, or, some of the elders, and went over there, said, “Now, listen, do you want to get back in the organization again? You say the same thing that they say, they bring you back.”
147 But there happened to be that God had a man that they couldn’t put their hands on him; God had His hands on him. He was just the reflector of God’s Truth. Said, “Sure,” said, “I’ll go down, but I’ll only say what God puts in my mouth.” There’s the man of God. He said, “Give me the night.” So the night come, and the Lord spoke to the prophet, little nobody. And first thing you know, he come out the next morning.
Said, “What about it, Imla?”
148 He said, “Go on up,” said, “but I seen Israel scattered like sheep on a hill, having no shepherd.”
149 He said, “What did I tell you! What did I tell you about it!”And he said…

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« 150 † Then the big bishop walked up and slapped him in the mouth, said, “Which way did the Spirit of God go? Cause I know I had the Spirit; I danced in It, I done all these things. See, I–I had the Spirit on me. Which a way did It go?”
151 Now, see, Imla being a son of God, or a real prophet of God, he examined his vision with the Word. If it wasn’t with the Word, it’s wrong. See? The Word for that hour, see. Now, he said scripturally, the land belonging to them, the land was theirs. Scripturally, everything seemed to be right but one thing.
152 Remember, it was one Word that caused the whole mess to come, Eve disbelieved one Word of God; in the first of the Bible, one Word caused the trouble. Jesus, come in the middle of the Bible, said, “Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” At the end of the Bible, said, “Whosoever shall take one Word out or add one word to It.”

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« 153 † It’s not part of the Gospel… The Methodists have part, the Baptists, Presbyterians, and so forth, they had part of It, Catholic had part of It, Jehovah Witness, all the rest of them.
154 But It’s the whole Word, all the Word, the Word of the hour; what counts. And we’ll never do it until God anoints a prophet that can stand and tell It, and confirms him, and prove It that It’s right. It’ll slip right through the people and they’ll never know It, just like it’s always been.
155 You Catholic, like Joan of Arc, you burned her at the stake for being a witch; later you dug up them priests’ bodies, two hundred years later, and throwed them in the river. You didn’t know Saint Patrick and the rest of them.
156 It’ll go right through your hands again, the first thing you know. God will do it, and you’ll never even know it’s done. See, He just slips right through and gets His Bride and takes Her right on up, and steals Her away, right out of the midst of the people.

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« 157 † We find out, this little Micaiah said he examined, he knowed that God had said to a real prophet before him. The prophet before him, what did he say? He said this, he said, “Ahab, because you shed the righteous, or the blood of the righteous Naboth, the dogs will lick your blood also, and Jezebel.” And that’s just exactly, had to come to pass because God had said it. How could that prophet prophesy good when it was evil against it?
158 How can I tell this Laodicean Church Age the good things when God spoke against it? You’re naked, miserable! You say, “I’m rich, I have better… I have churches like the Methodist, and the Baptists, and the Presbyterians. I have this, I have that; the best this, that, and the other.” That’s right, but don’t know that you’re naked, blind, miserable, to the real thing that God is manifesting. It’ll go right through you, like that, moving right out. See? Believe, people, before it’s too late.

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« 159 † Now, we find out that he smote him in the mouth, and said, “Which way did the Spirit of God…?”
160 Micaiah said, “I seen God setting upon the Throne. And all… He called the delegates of Heaven, said, ‘Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab?'” Said, “And one lying spirit come up and fell before God; a liar.” And remember, that lying spirit got into those prophets, they ought to have knowed then that the spirit was upon them wasn’t according to the Word. But they were so carried away because they were the king’s prophets, because they had everything fine.

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« 161 † And that’s what the church has done today. You’ve got away from that old-fashioned experience you had years ago when you stood on the street corner and preached the Gospel. Come out of those organizations and call yourself “a free people!” Nay! because you’re wrapped in it again, like a hog to its wallow or a dog to its vomit. If it made him vomit the first time, it’ll make him vomit again. That’s right! God spued you from His mouth, He said, “You’re lukewarm, neither hot or cold”; have a few meetings, then play a few… musicians, sing a little bit, when, it’s absolutely… it’s almost become a disgrace to Christianity.
162 My son called me over the other day to look at a television, supposed to be singing bee where the people come. That bunch of little Ricky’s standing there, shaking around like this rock-and-roll, and singing them hymns, it’s a disgrace to Jesus Christ! There’s no more solemnity in the church at all. It seems like it’s all become a rock-and-roll something, and a fashion show, in the stead of the Church of the living God where Jesus Christ can manifest Himself in power. Seems to be, there is something wrong somewhere. They’re slipping away. And the Bible said it would be that way. See? Look where you’re at. Be careful, wake up before it’s too late.

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« 163 † Now we find out, He said, “Who can we get to go out there and deceive Ahab, to get him up there to fulfill that prophet’s words?” See, if the prophet said a Word, heavens and earth will pass away but It can’t fail. It’s got to come to pass. So that’s what, it had to take place.
164 He said, “Put this man in the inner jail, feed him with bread of sorrow and water of sorrow. When I return in peace, I’ll take care of him.”
165 Micaiah stood there firm, knowing he had the Spirit of God. His prophecy, his visions was right. His Message was right, ’cause It was THUS SAITH THE LORD from the visions, THUS SAITH THE LORD from the Word. It had to be right, was THUS SAITH THE LORD. He said, “If you return at all, God never spoke to me.” And you know what happened, sure. See, you…
166 Understand, brother. Listen.

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« 167 † Sure, Caiaphas, he couldn’t see It. Why didn’t he look down…? He was a–he was a bishop, he was a pope of all the churches together. Why couldn’t that man see Jesus standing there? Why couldn’t he understand? When they was singing the 23rd Psalm, the 22nd Psalm, rather, in the church, and, “My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?” and there He’s hanging on the cross. The very Scriptures, the very God that they were worshipping, they were condemning Him and killing Him for “a fanatic.” There it is.
168 It’d shock you if I’d tell you that’s just about to repeat again. The Bible said He was on the outside trying to knock to get in, and nobody would let Him in, “He that I love I chasten and rebuke, I scold him, I shake him down, but it’s because I love him. Open up and let Me come in.” Yeah. Could not… “Remember, I didn’t want to get in the church; it’s he, the individual.” He couldn’t get in the church, had Him locked out. Only… then, only organization of all of them, is this church age, that He was on the outside the church. Put out! Refused! Rejected! Because… He was only manifested in temporarily in the other churches, in the form of justification, so forth; but in here, the age that’s coming now, is the full manifestation of the vindication of Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Oh, I’ll admit we got a lot of impersonators, but examine the first one, the original.

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« 169 † Moses went down with the commandments of God, to deliver Israel; and when he did, he performed some miracles. The impersonators followed him. If they had been first, he would a-been the impersonator. See, he had the Word of the Lord, and the Lord vindicated; he just set still.
170 And, you know, that same thing’s promised in the last day? “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will these man of reprobate mind concerning the Truth.” And when an organization keeps a… takes a man right down through that organization, it showed it did not come from God; because, God does those things to attract the people’s mind, and then the Message follows it. If it isn’t, then it’s not God. It’s not God! God always does that.
171 Judas couldn’t understand It. He walked right with Him, he didn’t see It.

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« 172 † But the real, ordained of God, that real gene, that real germ, a soul of God that was in God before the foundation of the world; remember, you that’s really got the Spirit of God in you tonight, you were here in Christ because He was the fulness of the Word. He was the fulness of the Godhead bodily. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Do you believe that? Look, He was in Christ. Then if you were in God, a gene, a word, a attribute from the beginning, then you walked with Him here on earth, you talked with Him on earth, you suffered with Him on earth, you died with Him at Calvary, and you rose with Him again; and now you’re setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, communing with Him (the Word) as It feeds into your soul, that, “Man shall live by ever Word that proceedeth.”
173 Not the Methodist word, the Baptist word; remember, if there was any left over in the sacrifice, it must be burned before morning, ’cause tomorrow’s another church age. That right? Exodus, It’s true. A symbol, type of the Sacrifice.

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« 174 † The Door. Said, “I’ll make one place. Don’t… You won’t worship Me in every door that I’ve give you; but there’s one Door, and in that Door I’ll put My Name.” And where the Lord puts His Name, that’s the place that God will receive your sacrifice. We’ve made all kinds of doors, but God made a Door. God made a Door, and that Door was… Saint John the 10th chapter, Jesus said, “I am that Door.”
175 God put His Name in Jesus. Do you believe that? He was the Son of God. Every son comes in his father’s name. He said, “I come in My Father’s Name, you receive Me not.” I come in my father’s name, you come in your father’s name. Jesus come in His Father’s Name, so His Father’s Name is Jesus; exactly, ’cause He came in His Father’s Name.
176 “And you receive Me not. Another will come, and him you will receive.” You’ll take your denominations and go on with them. Just go ahead, the Bible said, “They were raised up to fulfill this place. Blind, naked, and don’t know it.” Church, religion, oh, very pious, just the same as Cain was; make a sacrifice, make everything just the same as Abel did. But by revelation it was revealed to him what the sacrament was, not fruits of the field and something you do with your hand.
177 The believer can see the Word made flesh; the others cannot do it.

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« 178 † All them Israelites, after they had seen Moses perform that and brought them right up to the great council, where it was to be held, every one of them said, “We’ll go with Balaam, because we think Dr. Balaam’s right. He’s smarter, is more educated, everything, so we’ll just take it.”
179 And God never did forgive them, He destroyed them right there in the wilderness. And Jesus said, Himself, “They’ll never come, there’s none of them saved.” Jesus said…
180 They said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness for forty years.”
181 He said, “They’re every one dead, eternally separated from God. They’re every one dead.” Certainly! Because they listened to an error. When Moses, the vindicated of God, and a leader to show them the way to the promised land, and they had come so far all right, but then they wouldn’t go along with him.
182 Now, believers can see It, but unbelievers cannot see That vindicated.

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« 183 † Look how pious Caiaphas was. Look how all them priest how pious they was. And Jesus turned around, said, “You are of your father the Devil, and his works you’ll do.”
184 But there was a few believers setting there. Do you think them disciples could have understood when Jesus said, “I and my Father are one”? They couldn’t have explained It. When He said, “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, drink His Blood, you have no Life.” Could they explain It? No. But they believed It, because they seen God being vindicated and made flesh.

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« 185 † Jesus said, “If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, the Word that’s predicted for Me to do, then you… If you can’t believe Me, believe the works that I do, that you might be saved.” See? Jesus said, “My sheep know My Voice. They know My Word, they see It when It’s vindicated for that age.”
186 “Well, Caiaphas knowed the Word too!” But not the Word for that age. He had the word of what the Pharisees had poked into him, but not the vindicated Word of the hour.
187 “They know My Voice, they know My sign, they know My wonder.” How now, to…
188 Oh, let’s get back to our text, ’cause we’re just going to miss a lot of this Scripture if we don’t, ’cause I got to close in the next few minutes anyhow, ’cause it’s going to be ten o’clock in a few minutes. I love Him.

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« 189 † Friends, you people who walked down that aisle and put that offering in there a while ago; people that’s fed my children, put clothes on their back; the people that’s put your money (that you hard earned) in an offering plate, you know where that goes? That helps take me overseas to the heathens that never has heard anything about God. That’s what I do with it, every penny, God’s my Judge. Here’s some of my… the man’s setting right here now that’s in–in the treasury of my church. I get one hundred dollars a week, and that’s all; rest of it goes to sponsor overseas meetings where they can’t come.
190 The churches won’t have me. They don’t want me. No. That’s right! They term me now: “He’s…” they say, “He’s a ‘Jesus Only,’ or he’s something like that, or some heretic, fanatic, and all like that, a–a Jezebel.” And I–I look for that, they called my Lord, “Jezebel,” and they called Him… not a Jezebel, but a “Beelzebub.” They called Him all those bad names. “If they called the Master of the house, ‘Beelzebub,’ how much more will they call them of His disciples?” So that don’t make any difference.
191 And you yourself, by the help of God, you think I’d stand up here, a big hypocrite, and tell you something…? Or, wouldn’t I fall right in line with the thing if I thought it was from God?

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« 192 † But if I love you and know what’s the Truth… Have you ever heard me say anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? No. I ask anybody. There are thousands of things that’s been said, they all come to pass. Remember that time when Samuel was called out, I believe it was, and he said…? Israel wanted to make themselves like the rest of the nations. And that’s what you Pentecostals are coming to. You want to act like the rest the people. You’re not them kind of people. Keep away from it. The big churches and big fine things, O brother, don’t do that. We preach the coming of the Lord is at hand, let’s get to the fields down there and notify the heathen. See, do something about it.

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« 193 † But, you see, Samuel said, “Have I ever at one time taken any of your money from you for my living?”
194 They said, “No, Samuel, you never done that.”
195 Said, “Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?”
196 “Oh, that’s right, Samuel. We believe you’re a prophet sent from God. Yes, sir. Everything you said come to pass, Samuel. But we want it anyhow.” You see what happened. O brother, the Scripture just keeps repeating Itself back and forth through the Scripture, ’cause it’s God’s way of doing it, you see. You see, you hit these kind of times.
197 Let’s get to our text right quick. Now, I been all this time, I didn’t come to my text yet.

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« 198 † It’s on my heart! I love you! Don’t perish with the world! If you’re of the world, you’ll perish with the world. If you’re of God, you’ll go with Him in the resurrection. So change your nature tonight from the love of the world and the things of the world, and all these creeds and things, and look straight to Calvary to your Sacrifice; meet Him there on them grounds, ’cause that’s the only place He’ll ever meet you. He…
199 The Methodists says, “It’s in our church”; the Baptists says, and the Pentecostals, and this, and the Presbyterians, and this.
200 But He said, “I’ll meet them in one place, the Place I put My Name.” That’s in Jesus Christ. That’s where God put His Name. That’s the only place He’ll meet you; and it’s Christ, is the Word, the same yesterday… It’s growed from the feet, thighs. And now it’s in the head, fixing to go; manifesting in full measure the Bride, the same as the Groom.

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« 201 † Now let’s go to our text, right quick, for about ten minutes, and then we’ll close. Now our text, we… where we want to consider, is, it had happened again, as our text, as it usually has happened.
202 God sent His prophet as He… Word had promised of Malachi 3, “A messenger I’ll send before My face to forerun His coming.”
203 Now if you want to vindicate that, to prove it; Matthew, 11th chapter, vindicates the same. When the disciples of John came over and they seen Jesus, they said, “John is in prison.” Said, “We’ve come to ask You whether he…”
204 John’s eagle eye had been filmed over. And he was in the prison, he was fixing to die; said, “Go ask Him.”
205 See, John said, “Oh, His fan’s in His hand, He’ll thoroughly purge His floor.” He thought the Millennium would start right then, he thought the grain was ready. But it had to die and go into the stalk, come up again to make the true Bride. So he said, “He’ll gather His wheat into the garner, and He’ll burn with fire.” Watch that–that forerunner of Christ in that age, what he said would happen. “The grain…”

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« 206 † And I hope you’re not asleep. The grain is here! It’ll be gathered into the garner. It was that Bride, that part of it. But what did He say will happen to the stalk? It’ll be burned with unquenchable fire. Seek salvation now while you can. Be a grain, not a stalk. See? Go into the Life, not the old dead form; go into the Life of Christ, the Word made manifest, the… made manifest and vindicated so. This is the–this is the gathering time, the combine is coming. You’d better get into the grain, ’cause the shuck’s going to be left behind.

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« 207 † Now, we find out it happened… Jesus… To finish my quotation here, this Matthew 11. See, He didn’t give John… He say, “Now, wait, I’ll give John a book on how to conduct himself, A Believer In Jail.” No! He said, “Stand around and watch what happens. Go back and show John what happens: the lame walk, the blind see, the dead’s raised up, and the Gospel’s preached to the poor.” Just exactly what the prophet said would come to pass. “And blessed is you who’s not offended in Me.”
208 And his disciples started across the hill, He turned, said, “What went ye out to see when you went to see John? Did you go to see a man that’s catering in soft raiments, and so forth, the turned-around collars, and all this, you know?” Said, “They’re in kings’ palaces, they kiss the babies and bury the dead, he don’t know how to hold a two-handed sword.” See? Said, “What’d you go to see? A–a reed that’s shaken by any wind, ‘Come on, John, I’ll give you more money if you come over here’? (“Well, bless God, I ain’t Methodist no more, I’ll be Pentecostal, I’ll be Presbyterian, I’ll be this, that, as long as there’s more money.”) Said, “You never went to see a reed shaken with the wind.” Said, “What did you go to see there, a prophet?” He said, “Yes, and more than a prophet.”

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« 209 † John had just paid the poorest tribute he could to Jesus. Know it had to come that way; asked Him after he introduced Him and seen that Sign above Him, he said, “This is the Messiah,” then he comes and asks, “Are you He, or do we look for another one?”
210 But, look, Jesus knowing that, He turned and give him a tribute, said, “What did you go to see, a reed shaken with the wind?” Said, “There’s never been a man borned of a woman as great as John, till this day.” That’s right! What a compliment to pay the man!
211 But, you see, there it was, that prophecy had been fulfilled right before their face, with a forerunner coming, exactly what Malachi said. Now, that’s Malachi 3, not Malachi 4.
212 John the Baptist was Malachi 3, Jesus said so. When they asked Him, said, “Why does the scribes say…”
Said, “He’s already come. They did what they said.”
213 But, remember, Malachi 4, immediately after the Malachi 4 prophet, the fourth coming of John the Baptist in… or the… of Elijah. The fifth coming will be the Revelation 2, the witnesses, when he comes for the remnant of the Jews. But God has used that same Spirit five times: grace, J-e-s-u-s, it’s all been Jesus all the time; f-a-i-t-h, g-r-a-c e, and so forth. You see? The number five is a grace number and He used it. Won’t use just three, won’t use just two, three, four. It’s five times He uses it.

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« 214 † Now, notice quickly now, as we finish up. He said, “This is he who was spoken, ‘I send My messenger before My face.'”
215 But in Malachi 4, immediately after that prophet prophesied, the whole earth is to be burnt over, and the righteous walk out upon the ashes of the wicked. See? Exactly! See, that’s the Malachi 4 prophecy.
216 And notice in Luke 17, where He said, “In the last days, it’ll come like Sodom and Gomorrah again.” Have we got it? We got Sodom and Gomorrah again? The whole nations, look at it. Look what he just said about England, the whole thing is perverted. Even the food is perverted. And looky here what science… You see in Reader’s Digest, I believe it’s last month, they said, “Little boys and girls go through middle age between twenty and twenty-five years old.” I meet them in the meeting, little girls in menopause, and twenty, twenty-two years old, in menopause. What’s it lotted to? The perversion, hybriding. That’s exactly what corrupted, the whole thing’s corrupted the body. We’re nothing but a mess of–of… just like a hybrid plant.

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« 217 † You take a hybrid plant and set it out there, every germ will run right to it. But a genuine, original plant, a germ will go away from it, he can’t stand on it. And that’s what’s the matter with the church, we’ve hybrid it.
218 That’s what’s the matter with Pearry Green’s old horse up there, and he throwed that boy the other day, he’s nothing but an old quarter horse. See? The only thing it is, he… It’s just like a mule, he’s–he’s… a mule don’t know who his papa or mama is, he don’t know nothing; he’s half mule and half horse, and half this and donkey; he don’t know what he is. You could never… He’ll wait all of his life to get to kick you. That’s right! You can call him, say, “Come on, boy. Come on, boy.” He’ll hold his ears up, and, “Haw! Haw! Haw!” See?

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« 219 † Like some of these saying “Days of miracles is past, Haw! Haw!” all these half-breeds, supposed to be church members and Christians. I ain’t saying that for a joke, but it’s the Truth. But a genuine, thoroughbred, brother, he knows who his father was, who his mother was, who his grandfather, grandmother was, you can teach him something, he’s gentle.
220 And a genuine Christian that’s born of the Holy Ghost and filled with God’s power and Word, he knows who his father is, who his mother is, who his grandfather, grandmother was, he knows all about It. You can teach him something.
221 But a half-breed, that’s what’s come to churches. Hybrid between the world and religious organizations, and putting a little Word in it here, a little Word there, just enough to deceive. That’s right. When you see the real Word of God being manifested like Caiaphas and them did, they turn away from It, they don’t know. Hybrid!

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« 222 † Now we find out, and in this message, Isaiah 40:3 also vindicated John. He said, “A voice of one, a prophet, crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make His path straight.'” The church did not believe him, for he was not of their group. That prophet was raised out of a wilderness, come up knowing no one. He had the very Spirit on him that Elijah had: he was a man of the wilderness, he hated immoral women.
223 Remember how Elijah… What caused his head to be taken from him? Was Jezebel. Jezebel was the cause of his death. It run him into the wilderness.
224 John the Baptist, another wilderness-lover, a hunter, a woodsman. Watch him. He had no education. Watch his–his text, wasn’t like a theologian. He said, “O you generation of vipers!” The filthiest thing you can find in the wilderness, the sneakiness, was a–was a snake. And he called those priests, “You generation of vipers! Who’s warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Don’t begin to say, ‘We belong to this, and we have this or that,’ for I say unto you, God’s able of these stones,” wilderness. Also, “The axe” (what he used) “is laid to the root of the tree; and every tree that don’t bring forth good fruit, hewn down and cast into the fire.” Amen.

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« 225 † He was a preacher of nature. A great man of God, lived a short time, but certainly set a blaze across the earth. He shocked that generation in them six months of his ministry. God raised him for thirty years, to get that six months out of him. But God does His Own way, He knows what His harvest is.
226 And we find out now that this is exactly what had took place. They didn’t believe him, because he wasn’t of them. They didn’t. They did as usual, they didn’t see It. They did not believe God’s Word of Malachi 3, or they would have seen plainly, by the letter, that this was that forerunner. They hadn’t had a prophet for four hundred years, and here one rises on the scene all at once. See? And the people, the believers, believed him to be that. See, they did not believe It. They did not believe, ’cause when they seen the letter completely confirmed, what He said He would do, and everything, and seen It clearly vindicated when the Word come right into the water to the prophet. There they stood.

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« 227 † There’s many argue on that Scripture there about John. See, John said, “I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou unto me?”
228 Jesus said, “Suffer that to be so, for thus… but thus it’s becoming to us, behooving us (becoming) that we fulfill. All right, John, you being a prophet, you know the sacrifice has got to be washed before it’s presented. And I am that Sacrifice, and you’re a prophet and know that.” Then he suffered Him and baptized Him. See? And he knew it was.

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« 229 † Look, they laughed at him, called him “a wild, screaming, unlearned fanatic,” as usual, that prophet forerunning the first coming of Jesus.
230 I don’t say that they’re… don’t have the same impersonations today of–of genuine. They do, they absolutely. But, remember, when you see a bogus dollar there’s got to be a real dollar that’s made off of. Where you see one impersonating to be a Christian, there’s got to be a Christian somewhere; because if there wasn’t, that would be the original. You’ve got to get to the original. But check the first one, and see if the original is just exactly with the promise. If it is, then believe It: the promise for the age.
231 Then John’s prophecy was vindicated in God’s order. The Word came to the prophet and vindicated him truly as that person.

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« 232 † Again Jesus came in a… different from their understanding of that prophecy. They didn’t understand It that way. (Now, we’re going down to the end now.) But according to the prophet’s Word, It was fulfilled to the letter. The prophecy is fulfilled; but the way they thought It would be, It wasn’t that way. Now, how could they have understood and knowed which was right or wrong? To see if it was vindicated by God, if it was God interpreting what He said. There had been false Jesuses raise up, and led a man, a bunch of… four hundred, out in the wilderness and things; but he never proved to make hisself in the Word, you see, like He said.

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« 233 † Jesus, when He come, He was to be a Prophet. That’s right! And today, before Jesus comes again, the full manifestation of the person of Jesus Christ is to be manifested in flesh. Think of it! Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man, when the Son of man is being revealed.” What is revealed? Unfolded, made known. The secret had been brought forth, revealed. In the day that the Son of man will be revealed, the world will be in a Sodom condition. We’ve got it, haven’t we? Yeah! How many believes that? It’s in a Sodom condition. And that’s exactly right! Look where it’s setting, now.
234 Remember, there’s always three groups of people in every bunch of people you gather, that’s, make-believers, unbelievers, and believers. We have them in every group. They’ve had them in all time. There was the Sodomites, there was–there was the Lotites, and there was Abraham.

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« 235 † The Abraham was a called-out group, he wasn’t in Sodom to begin with. Now watch their Message! They’d been looking for a promised son, looked for it for years. God had showed Abraham many great signs and wonders, but here God came down Himself like a man!
236 You say, “That was an Angel.”
237 Abraham called Him, “Lord,” capital L-o-r-d. Any reader of the Bible knows that that capital L-o-r-d is Elohim. “In the beginning God,” Lord God, Elohim, the all-sufficient One. Abraham called Him, “Lord God, Elohim.”

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« 238 † Now notice, there was two people that went down into Sodom with a message, and they preached to the Sodomites. They didn’t perform nothing, but blinded them; which, preaching the Gospel does blind the unbeliever.
239 But watch what kind of a sign the Abraham group received!
240 Now, we are supposed to be the royal Seed of Abraham, Isaac was the natural seed. But the faith Seed, the faith in the promised Word, the promised Word (don’t miss It) was that royal Seed; that was the Seed, Abraham’s faith. “We being dead in Christ, we’re Abraham’s Seed, heirs with him according to the promise.”
241 Notice when all that was taking place, down in Sodom there was two ministers down there preaching with a great message.

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« 242 † There was One set up here with Abraham’s group that didn’t fool with that group down there. Now watch the One that stayed with Abraham’s group, what kind of a sign He give them. He said… Now, remember, his name was Abram a few days before that; and it’s S-a-r-r-a, not S-a-r-a-h (princess). And this Man, with His back turned to the tent…
243 The women then were different than they are now. They have to get out and get in their husband’s business and everything else, you know; but they didn’t do it then, they stayed back behind.
244 So they… so them Angels setting there. The Messenger, and He said, “Abraham, where is your wife (S-a-r-a-h) Sarah?” How’d He know it? How did He know it?
245 Abraham said, “She’s in the tent behind You.”
246 He said, “I’m going to visit you according to the time that I promised you. I’m going to visit you.” And Sarah kind of laughed to herself.

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« 247 † With His back to the tent, and He said, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘How can these things be?'” If she hadn’t been in Abraham, his bride at that time, God would have slayed her. So would we today with all of our unbelief, if we wasn’t in Christ. That holds us right there, see. He couldn’t hurt or couldn’t take Sarah without hurting Abraham. See?
248 And so remember, Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.” We see everybody agree that the world’s in a Sodom condition. I picked up a Los Angeles paper here not long ago, and said, I think it’s “Homosexual is on the increase of twenty or thirty percent in Los Angeles, each year increasing that much.” It’s… Oh, it’s horrible! In our government and everywhere, everything’s just become a pervert. That’s right! The whole thing, the whole system, church and everything else is perverted. It’s in a perverted age.

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« 249 † Now I want to ask you theologians something, my brethren. Not I’m speaking against you, my dear brother; I’m here to help you, brother. I’m here to stand on what God’s Word says is right. Hold your hand and bring this crowd of people out of this stuff. That’s right!
250 But looky here, we never have had a messenger down in Sodom before that his name ended with a h-a-m till now. We’ve had a Spurgeon, a Wesley, a Luther, and everything else, but never a international messenger that his name end with h-a-m before. That’s right! See, G-r-a-h-a-m, six letters, G-r-a-h-a-m, Billy Graham; that noted evangelist, great work of God, the man is sent from God. He’s got that justification down so pat, and he shakes the nation with it, see, like that. There’s not…
251 Look at Oral Roberts to the Pentecostal denomination. When was there ever one like that?
252 Six letters, not seven. Abraham is A-b-r-a-h-a-m, seven. Billy Graham is G-r-a-h-a-m, six.
253 Now look at the messengers. Look at the time we’re setting, never was a time in history. Look at the same signs that He promised would be give to each group. Look where they’re at. Same, exactly, positionally, setting right in order. Nature, the world, everything, setting right exactly to the time.

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« 254 † Now don’t miss It, while we sketch the rest of this Scripture! Quickly now, cause I’m holding you too long. Call… Looky here. And according to the prophet, he came just exactly to the Word, just exactly to the time.
255 Now look at the age now where we’re living. Aren’t we living right in that Sodom time? Watch the messenger to Abraham’s group. Watch the numbers, letters, and the numerology of his name. You say, “There’s nothing in a name.” Don’t you never let anybody tell you that. Why did He change Abram’s name, to Abraham, Sarra to Sarah? Why did He change Simon to Peter, and all those other? See? Sure there is. Exactly!

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« 256 † That’s the reason I say don’t ever call your child “Ricky,” or “Elvis,” or something. Elvis means “cat,” Ricky’s a “rat.” See, when you say… That’s exactly right. Les, or something, don’t you never call one of your child… children that. If it is, change it right quickly, people. Don’t you… You that… If you believe me to be God’s servant, don’t tack that name on that poor child. See? No, sir, give him another name besides that. My! I oughtn’t have got off on that, ’cause I’m off of my subject, but I said it and it’s all over. I… That’s how you do, you don’t know when you say it. See?

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« 257 † Called Him, “Foreign, a fortune teller, a devil, a Beelzebub,” and said, “He made Himself God.” Oh, my!
258 Didn’t Isaiah the prophet said, “He would be called the Mighty God”? Isaiah 9:6, “Unto us a child is borned, a son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulders, and His Name shall be called Counselor, Prince of Peace, and Mighty God, the everlasting Father.” That’s right! Also, Saint John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” You believe that? He was just not… He was a Prophet, but He was more than a prophet; He was the God-Prophet. Why did He have to come?

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« 259 † Remember, He comes in three son’s names. He came first in the name of the Son of man. He never called Himself the “Son of God.” You know that. See, He came in the Son of man, a prophet. Jehovah Himself, the Father, called Jeremiah, “son of man”; a prophet is son of man. He come…
260 Now He come after the Day of Pentecost, He come back in the form of the Holy Ghost, supernatural Spirit. Now He’s Son of God.
261 In the Millennium He’ll be Son of David, setting upon the throne of David. See, He come in… He’s Son of God, Son of man, Son of David.

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« 262 † Oh, the Bible’s full of these nuggets. We can’t get them all in one night. But it’s just fitting to set this now. Tomorrow may never dawn. We may be gone before tomorrow. I may be preaching to a person that’ll be dead before in the morning. I could be gone before in the morning. Brother, sister, that’s not myth, that’s actual facts! We don’t know what time we’re going, and you’ll not have any chance after that last breath leaves your body. Make it right now, don’t wait till in the morning, may be too late.

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« 263 † Notice now, they had done to Him just exactly what the prophets said they would do, just as they are doing to this very same day in the Laodicean Age. If you want to look at it, read Revelation 3, “Blind, naked, and don’t know it. Turning Christ…” When He begins to reveal Hisself into the seed form again, the same one that went in the ground come back to be the Bride; just the Bride and the Groom, is the same flesh and blood, the same ministry, and the same things, doing just exactly what He done; the Spirit.
264 And here they’re impersonating and doing everything else, and each one has got his book and running, and this. Oh, you never heard such sensations! And… [Brother Branham inhales through his nose–Ed.] “I smell a devil now.” All this, that, just as unscriptural as it can be!

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« 265 † And the genuine thing laying right there before them, they walk away, “They don’t belong to my organization.” My, my, just, see, just blind leading the blind. Won’t they all fall in the ditch? Blinded by man’s denominational traditions, they put Him out of their church as God said they would do, in Revelation 3; as usual, as prophesied.
266 Notice how Jesus sel-… made Hisself known to these disciples, now, and we’ll close. These two disciples, Caiaphas… Cleopas, rather, and his friend. Now we’re in the resurrection, the morning after the resurrection, the first resurrection; what a beautiful morning, Jesus is up from the dead and living among His people. What a beautiful thought!
267 He’s here the same today as He was that day, because He’s the same yesterday, today, and for… And revealing Hisself more today than He has in any other age since that day; come through the wheat and stalk and shuck (is all past now), we’re into the wheat again. See, we’re back into the grain.

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« 268 † Known as… know… Watch how He made Hisself known to these people, now, remember, as their Messiah (just before we close) of the promised Word of the age. Notice! He appeared unto, to the… as He has said He’d do, to the prophets. Notice, “Fools, and slow of heart to believe that all the prophets has wrote of Him had to be fulfilled.”
269 Watch Him! He refers right back to the Word of God, He never come right out and told them, “Don’t you know Me? I am the Messiah that’s resurrected.” He never said that. See, He just give them the Scripture; like John did, and the rest of them. See? He just… They have to pick that out themselves. They have to judge for theirselves. Now, don’t go to sleep, judge for yourself.
270 “Fools, slow of heart to believe all that the prophets has said had to come to pass.” What a rebuke to them that claimed they knew Him. See?

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« 271 † Notice how He approached the subject. He never come right out, as I said a few minutes ago, and said, “Well, don’t you know I’m your Messiah for this age? Don’t you know that I’m He?” The real servant of God never identifies himself that way; the Scripture identifies who he is. Sure, he will. But called their attention to what the prophets had said to look for in the Messiah’s age. See it? Go right back: “Fools, and slow of heart, not to believe that all the prophets said about the Messiah should come to pass.”
272 He, as John, let the Word of the Bible identify Him, what He was to them. That should been made plain enough. If the Word had identified Him, that should be plainly, Who the promise was they was looking at. They knowed he had… someone had to come on the scene at that time.
273 Why, He said, “Now let Me show what the Word says is supposed to happen in this day.”

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« 274 † Am not I, tonight, trying to tell you, Word by Word (even to the position, the place, the names, the numbers, everything else, and all the signs, times, and everything), that we’re right here at the end time? Surely you can see what I’m talking about. See? Look! That’s so plain it should need no more identification. He said, when He was here on earth, “Search the Scriptures, in them you think you have Eternal Life, they are what… they testify what I am, see, who I am.”
275 Notice, He begin with Moses the prophet, a prophet, Deuteronomy 18:15. I’m watching the Scriptures here. Deuteronomy 18:15, Moses said, “The Lord your God…”
276 See, God spoke to him on top of the mountain. And, oh, my, the thundering; they said, “Let–let the Lord… Let Moses speak, not God, lest we perish.”
277 He said, “They said well. I’ll… I won’t speak to them no more like this, but I’ll raise them up a prophet.” And that’s been His message all the way through. That’s what’s got to settle the whole thing at the end. It’s just got to, because the Word of the Lord has to come to the prophet. It’s the only thing It can come to. If it don’t, it breaks God’s Word and makes Him tell something wrong. See? It’ll never go to a seminary. It goes to a prophet. And the prophet is sent from God, ordained. And how you know it is, and not what the man said,…

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« 278 † We’ve had Elijahs, and coats, and everything else, and mantels, and all kinds of nonsense that went off into organizationism with everything else.
279 But there will come on this earth, by God’s promise, a genuine servant of God, identified by God (by His Word being the answer of this day), that’ll set the Bride in order (a real little minority of the church) and take it up. That’s right! He’ll introduce, “Behold, there’s the One I talked about, see, that’ll come.”
280 And all that the prophets had said about Him, and for this age, why it sure would be interesting to have heard Him say that. Wouldn’t you like to have heard Him say it? “All the prophets said about…” Remember, He said what the prophets would say about Himself, quoting His Own Self, what He had said (and He was the Word); quoting.

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« 281 † Now let’s listen to the Words that He quoted. Would you like to hear what He said to them? Let’s just carry their conversation now, just before we stop.
282 Now, they were briefed on all the late happenings of the crucifixion, of the story at the grave and the tomb, and the women had seen Him, and another one said they seen Him, and so forth. He said… They–they briefed Him on that. And He goes right on with the Word about… quoting Himself through the Word:
“Now look in Zechariah 12.” (He must have quoted Zechariah 11:12.) “‘For He was sold with thirty pieces of silver.’ Was not the Messiah supposed to be sold by thirty pieces of silver?”
“In Psalms 41:9, ‘He was betrayed by His friends. See?'”
“Zechariah 13:7, ‘forsaken by His disciples.'”
“In Psalms 35:11, ‘accused by false witnesses.'”
“By Isaiah 35:7, ‘dumb before His accusers, never opened His mouth.'” (All right, sir.)
“Isaiah 50:6, ‘He was scourged.'”
“Psalms 22–22, ‘He cried at the cross, “My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?” All My bones they stare at Me. They pierced My hands and My feet.'” (Look at the prophecies He could talk about!)
“Isaiah 9:6, ‘Unto us a child is born, a virgin shall conceive, so forth.'”
“And also in Psalms 22:18, ‘they–they–they parted His garments among them.'”
“In Isaiah 7:14, ‘a virgin shall conceive.'”
“Psalms 22:7 and 8, ‘made Him a… mocked by His enemies, His… supposed to be His friends; His enemies, the church.'”
“In Psalms 22 again, ‘He was… not a bone was to be broken, but they pierced His hands and His feet.'”
“Isaiah 53:12, ‘died with malefactors.'”
“In Isaiah 53:9, ‘bruised, and buried with the rich brother.'”
“In Psalms 16:10, ‘He was resurrected from the dead. David said so, “I will not suffer My Holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell.” He was raised from the dead.'”
“Malachi 3, John the Baptist was His forerunner.”
283 And all of the types He might have went to! Even to Isaac being the type of Him upon Mount… upon the mountain where his father Abraham took him, in Genesis 22.

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« 284 † It was now that they begin to see Who had fulfilled these Scriptures that was promised of that day. It was then, after it was late, they begin to see. “Oh! Well, wait a minute! You know what?” They knew then that their crucified Friend, Jesus, was that Prophet that was promised. They knew because… See, they hadn’t been briefed on the Scriptures.
285 “But, here, all these things that’s supposed to happen at the cross, all these things. Fools, slow of heart to understand all the prophets have said; how that the Messiah shall suffer, and enter into His glory, and raise the third day.”
286 Still they go, “Oh, yeah. That’s right. I see. He–He–He… Did not our hearts burn within us?” they said. No wonder their hearts burned! The prophecies that He was giving that was fulfilled.

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« 287 † Then they begin to understand that their Friend, the Man that they eat with, talked with, associated with, fished with, laid in the woods, that that fulfilled every Word of the promised hour! There it was. They had walked six miles, it seemed a very short time, I suppose, and they had heard a six-hour sermon on vindicated prophecy (a little longer than what we’ve had tonight, see). It was now getting kind of late in the evening time, the evening Lights had come.
288 It’s the same time now, church! The evening Lights has come! Hebrews 13:8, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Oh, events made clear by prophecy, same today. The evening Light promised by the prophet of God, in Zechariah 14:7, may again open the true believer’s eyes to the events that’s taking place today, that’s proved by the prophecies that we’re at the end time. Jesus is coming.
289 The very… It’s…

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« 290 † He said, “There will be a day that it won’t be called night or day.” He said, “But in the evening it shall be Light.” Now, we know, geographically, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Now, the prophet said, “There’ll be a long stretch of time that’ll be dismal, kind of a… couldn’t be called day or night; it’s kind of a dark, gloomy day.”
291 Now, where did the Son rise? What… That was S-o-n we’re talking about now. That the natural s-o-n rises in the east and sets in the west. The very same God, very same… Sun, rather. And the S-o-n of God rose first in the east, to the eastern people.
292 And now after He left, what did they do? Three hundred years later, they started their first organization, the Roman Catholic church. Through the Dark Age they went, and out they come. What’d they do? The same thing. It’s been a day of… It hasn’t been called day or night. They had enough orders, and they believed that He was the Son of God, and walked in the light what they had, they made their churches, they built hospitals and schools and so forth, and seminaries, sent their children to school.

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« 293 † But the prophet said, “It shall be Light again about the evening time. The Son will peep out again, it shall be Light.” What? The same Son (S-o-n) that was revealed in flesh at the morning time, back there, will be revealed again in the evening time.
294 Now compare Saint Luke 17:30, “And in that day, as it was in the days of Sodom, the setting of the world, in the time that the Son of man is being revealed.”
It shall be Light about the evening time,
The way to Glory you will surely find.
295 Oh, my! People, where are we at?
Nations are breaking, Israel’s awakening,
The signs that the prophets foretold;
The Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered; (Watch her slide into the sea!)
Return, O dispersed, to your own.
The day of redemption is near,
Man’s hearts are failing for fear;
Be filled with the Spirit, have your lamps trimmed and clear,
Look up! your redemption is near. (You better.)
296 Brother, sister, it’s a scary time. Watch the things that’s prophesied, watch the things happen. Watch all the prophecy being fulfilled, then we see what all this is about. It’s not a bunch… a streak of fanaticism. It’s God confirming His Words exactly, exactly. The Rock is smitten, friends, flee to It as quick as you can. Prophecy is vindicating the day that we are living in.

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« 297 † Let us bow our heads. [A brother speaks in another tongue. A sister gives an interpretation. A brother on the platform says, “Can we hold steady for just a moment? God has spoken to us through Brother Branham, and the anointing is on Brother Branham, and he’s not through. And…” Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
298 Dear God! Are you realizing the day that we live in, friends? Would you dare dispute God? Would you say that “He’s not right,” when He’s proved It? He’s His Own interpreter. Do you want to serve Him?
Now with your heads bowed, and your hearts bowed, brother, sister.
299 This may be our last meeting time. We may never… If I would be back a year from today, if I live, there’d be many that’s here now won’t be here then. And I’ll have to meet you at the Judgment Bar and answer for everything that I said tonight.

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« 300 † Before God, while you’re in your right mind, would you now do this much to God? If you know that you’re… Just look at yourself in the looking glass of God (the Bible), no matter who you are, and say, “I know I’m way short from being a daughter of God, look the way I do. I’m way short from being a son of God, look the way I do. But, God, I don’t want to be here, I–I want to strive to that place.” I want you to raise your hand to God, just ever who you are, wherever you are across the building, “Yes, I want to be a son of God. I want to be a daughter of God. I want to fulfill everything that my Lord has commanded.” Now you… God bless you. I guess ninety percent of the audience.
301 Now looky here, my friend. What if you would have lived in the days when you heard John preach? What if you would have lived in the days when Jesus was here? Whose side would you have took? If you’d a-lived in Jesus’… Remember, if He… If you’d lived back there, it would be just like it is now. The same Jesus is making Himself known by His Word, see, and It’s very unpopular.

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« 302 † But let me tell you, I’m not trying to tell people to leave church or… My, I want you to go to church, “Don’t forsake to assemble yourself together.” But what I’m trying to tell you to do is press into the Kingdom of God. Get these things, the world, church…
303 Pentecostals, you people are getting too worldly. You’re getting too much after the world. It’s just easy, you keep watching televisions and all these things, and the way they’re doing, and all this, and the first thing you know… The seminaries, the schools are beginning to compromise here and there, and this, that, and the other, and the first thing you know… It’s got to come that way. The Pentecostal church, it’s been my greatest support, I can’t say nothing against it. But that’s what I cry out, “My brethren, get out!” Call… You don’t have the meetings that you used to have. The people are not like they used to be. But Jesus Christ is the same, let’s move into Him.

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« 304 † Now, you with your hands up, remember, there was a Rock smitten in the wilderness, and that Fountain is still open tonight. Their Rock had been smitten, Christ, He is that smitten Rock.
305 And tonight, so far as I know, the church may be… The time of calling may be already past, I don’t know, I can’t say that. Remember, the people went right on having the meetings, just the same, after the crucifixion of Jesus. And the… and all the people, they–they’ll come, they… Watch! They–they’ll go right on preaching, and saying they’re “getting saved” and everything, just as if… “The world continues on as it was,” they say. But it’ll be too late then.

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« 306 † While you got a chance, my brother; while you got a chance, my sister; come into the Kingdom of God. You don’t have to come in under anything else but just plain faith to believe His Word. He is that Word! “Lord Jesus, I know I’m looking at myself now in the mirror of God’s Word; oh, how short I am. But, dear God, here tonight, on this Monday night, here in San Bernardino, California, in this auditorium here, this is–this is all I have, Lord, but I’ll give it to You. Will You take me as I am, Lord? Will You let me flee to the cross right quick? I even see the messengers. I see the time, I see the calling out of Sodom. I see the signs. I see the Abraham’s group receiving the Light. I see the manifestation, Jesus being manifested again right among us like it was. I see all the things that You promised. I see the impersonators; I see You said that, ‘As it was in the days of Moses,’ how this Jambres and Jannes would come back to impersonate, and still remain right in that same dump that they were in.”

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« 307 † See, they couldn’t follow Moses through that Word and take those children out of there into the wilderness, because they was associated in Egypt. They couldn’t do it, though they done the same works he did. But their folly was made manifest. And the Bible says, That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD, “It will take place again in the last day.”
308 And you see it with your own eyes, if you’re spiritual. I’m… I can’t explain It. It’s not necessary for me to explain It. “My sheep hear My Voice.” Let’s go to Him now, while we have a chance. Will you?

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« 309 † If you have need of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, if you have need of a rededication, a new life; your pastor won’t despise you, he’ll love you for it. Just give yourself completely to God tonight, while we’re here. Let… Yes, I know it’s been hard, cutting, strange, I don’t do that to be mean, I do that to be honest. I do that because I love you, I love God, and I do it to try to help you. And truly, friend, I–I–I believe… And with all my heart, with all my faith, I believe that my Message comes from God. It’s–It’s been proving that to you through the years.
310 Now listen, tonight surrender everything you got, everything that you have need of. I believe, with a true, surrendered heart, if you will just stand upon your feet, and raise up your hands to God, and say, “Dear God, here I am. Take me, Lord. No more will I try to use my own mind and my own interpretation. Your Word says I must be ‘holy, I must be borned again, I must be filled with the Spirit, and then the Spirit will lead me into all the Truth.’ Dear God, here I am, lead me.” Would you do that much? If you do that much, raise your hand, say, “I’m willing to do that, I’m willing to.”

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« 311 † Then let’s all stand up on our feet.
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy Blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bids me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, (God’s only door)… come! I…
Now get all of your work, everything else, your tiredness, everything… What if you were dying now?
Just as I am, Thou will receive,
Will welcome, pardon, cleanse, receive;
Because I…
Will you put your hand up, on this verse now?
I promise, I will believe,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
312 Now while the organist continue–continues to play, let’s each one of us…

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« 313 † Young teen-agers, do you want to get like this out here on the street, this bunch of hoodlums?
314 Sister, do you want to wear short hair, when it’s your Nazarite honor to God to have long hair? “It’s a shame for her to cut her hair.” Would you wear these little ol’ skirts and things that they wear today, this–this immoral dress, with your body showing through it, out there on the street? Did you know every man that looks upon you commits adultery with you in his heart? And you present yourself like that. Do you know, women, you that wear makeup, there’s only one woman in the Bible that ever wore makeup? And God fed her to the dogs. A Jezebel, a name that’s been hated since her day, because of her acts of that. You know it was Elijah the prophet who cursed that and called her out in that manner? Do you know it was Herodias that John the Baptist got after? Do you… You don’t want to be that Hollywood thing of the world. “If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not in you.”

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« 315 † Brother, minister friend, nothing… Please understand me, I am your brother. Do you want to associate yourself, and you church members of some church (Methodist, Baptist, or whatever you been), do you want to hold on in that denomination because your mother and your grandmother held on that? She come out of something to come into that, that was the Light of that day; that, like in the times of Noah. This is another day.
316 You say, “Well, I had the…”
317 This is not the day of Pentecost. The Pentecostal age is past. Pentecost is gone, this is harvest time. See? And the harvest time, the grain; the water’s done been poured out, the grain’s getting ripe. Come into the grain, my dear brother. Hear me, believe me, if you believe me to be a servant of God, let each one, in our own way, bow our head in humility and offer the prayer that we–that we know that we should offer, “God, take me as I am.”
318 And brother, sister, I lay myself on the altar tonight, too: God, mold me and make me different. Do something, God, make me in Your fashion.
319 You think it’s easy to stand here and cut the people to pieces like that? It’s a hard thing to do. But woe unto me if I don’t do it.

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« 320 † Dear God, as this audience bows their head and heart, in this solemn moments here of closing of this Bible lecture; when we see the a-vindication of the Holy Spirit that shook this nation back and forth, and back and forth, great revivals and indication, knowing that something has to follow that. And then see those seven Angels come down there on top of that mountain yonder in Arizona, when even the magazines across the nation’s packed It. To see Jesus Himself there in the skies, looking down, and saying that, “In the Revelation 10:7, in the seventh angel’s Message, these seals would be opened, the mysteries of God would be made known.” That the reformers didn’t live long enough to–to bring it out. And here, these seven seals that sealed the whole thing is to be opened in this day. To see all these great signs and wonders that’s been done, vindicated, foretold before it happened, and not one time have You ever failed us, but brought it to pass just as it was said.

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« 321 † Dear God, we realize that Jesus Christ is in our midst. We know that He is here. He’s here tonight, the invisible God is here with us, and can confirm every promise that He made in His Word. How You have stood and proved to them, with backs turned, in the original beginning before the impersonators even entered the ring, Lord, or entered into the–the–the race, as it was. You showed and proved, prophesied and told exactly the way it would happen, and we see it’s happened that way. And Father, God, we know it cannot be man, it has to be God. So we know it’s You here tonight. Forgive us of our sins.
322 Dear God, You’ve healed our sickness, now for–forgive our sins, Lord, of not being the kind of Christian that we should be, not… Professing to be a full-Gospel man or woman, and here we find ourselves slumping off like a denominational chicken. Help us, dear God, take us and shake us with Your Holy Spirit. And if there be anything in us that’s not like You, take it out of us, Lord. And plant our feet on God’s Holy Word, and let the Holy Ghost burn down into our heart and take all the dross of unbelief and the drowsiness of this day; oh, arise and shake ourself. Grant it, God. Cleanse us! Mold us! Make us! God, grant it.

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« 323 † If there’s any in here tonight, Lord, that’s holding in their heart that grain, that gene of God that’s ordained to Life from the foundation of the world; I know, Lord, that they’re bound to hear at this hour. So, I pray, God, that You’ll fill their soul and illuminate them with a fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost, and send them on their road, rejoicing and happy.
324 Lord God, they… I give them to You. I don’t know who they are, You do. I’m only responsible for preaching Your Word, Lord, as You reveal It. You’re responsible for the rest of it: where the Seed falls. I just throw It. Lord God, I pray that It fell in good, rich soil tonight. That many will see It, Lord, and rise to shining Christians in this last days, that the great thing that we’re looking forward to come, will come quickly. Grant it, Lord. And You’ll take Your Church, Your Bride, and take Her home. We see It all setting in order. Come, Lord Jesus. We commit it all to You, in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the results. Amen.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s…

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« 325 † Do you love Him? Well, then you have to love one another. Shake one another’s hand when you sing it again:
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On…
326 Now let’s give Him praise. How many knows this song:
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
327 Let’s sing it now:
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
328 Don’t you feel all scoured out? Raise your hand, you say, “Oh, that makes me feel good.” Brother, I love those old-time songs. Don’t you? They go down to the heart.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 329 † Let’s just raise our hands now and praise God, every one of us, in our own way:
330 Lord Jesus, we thank You. We praise You, Lord. We give You praise for a called-out people, out of Babylon. We thank You for the Blood of Your Son, Jesus Christ. We thank You because He makes us clean this minute. We for-… We ask forgiveness of our wrongs, our stupidity, Lord, our stumbling in the dark. O God, may we rise and shine, and walk in the evening Light, and be the fruit of the Tree that’s coming forth by the evening Lights. Grant it, dear God. We commit ourselves to You, in Jesus Christ’s Name.
331 Now with your heads bowed, I give you the pastors backing the service. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 1 † ` Have a few Scriptures written down, that I’d like to speak to you from, and I trust that God will bless our feeble efforts.
2 Now, many people has wondered why we are so odd and so noisy. You know, this is kind of a different type of–of a convention than what people are–are used to seeing. And, usually, everything is kind of a cut-and-dried form. But when we come to these conventions, which has been my privilege now for several years since they were first started, and we don’t hardly know what we’re going to do. We just come and surrender ourselves. That’s the only thing that we know to do. And God does the rest of it. So that makes us a very peculiar-acting people.
3 Other day, someone said, “You know, you people are really an oddball.”
I said, “Well, I–I suppose we are.”

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« 4 † And I remember of one of the conventions. Brother Troy was telling me one time of a little German that said he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And the next day, in the shop where he was working, he would raise his hands and praise the Lord, and speak in tongues and just carry on, awful. And finally, the boss came by and said, “Heini, what’s the matter with you?”
5 He said, “Oh, I got saved.” He said, “My heart is just overflowing with joy.”
6 He said, “Well, you must have been down with that bunch of nuts down there.”
7 He said, “Yes. Glory to God!” Said, “Thank the Lord for the nuts.” He said–he said, “You take the automobile, come down the road.” Said, “You take all the nuts out of it, you haven’t got nothing but a bunch of ‘yunk.'” And that’s just… It’s just about right, you know.

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« 8 † One day, in California, I was going down the streets of Los Angeles, and I seen a man had a sign on his breast, and here. And he said, “I am a fool for Christ.” And everybody was looking at him. And I noticed them turning around and looking, after he passed by. And I thought I would follow with the rest of them. And on the… his back, he said, “Whose fool are you?” Yeah. I suppose we’re all kind of odd, one to the other, you know.
9 But, you know, the world gets in such a rut, till something different makes it so odd, till the people does think that it’s some something is wrong. And usually God has to do something so unusual, to get the people back to the Bible again.

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« 10 † I can imagine that Noah was kind of a–a nut, to that scientific age that he lived in, because they could prove there was no water in the skies. But God said there would be some there. So, Noah, preaching and believing that, he become a nut.
11 And I’d imagine that when Moses went down in Egypt, he was kind of a–a nut, to Pharaoh. But remember, Pharaoh was a nut, to him, too. So they… We realize that.

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« 12 † Even Jesus was considered a heretic. That’s right. Martin Luther was a nut, to the Catholic church. And John Wesley was a nut, to the Anglican. So, you know, it’s–it’s about time for another nut. Don’t you think so? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] But, before there could be a nut, you know, there has to be a bolt, first, to thread to it.
13 So, you know, Noah, being a nut, he… Takes the nut, it pulls the bolt, pulls something together, and holds something together. So, Noah was able to pull all that would believe, into the ark, out of the judgments, by being a nut.
14 We find out, that, Moses pulled the church out of Egypt, by being a nut. That’s right.

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« 15 † I think we need a nut now, to pull the Bride out of the church. We need something now, another one, so we are a very odd sort of people. And I thought, tonight, if the Lord was willing, I would try to read some Scriptures pertaining to this, and would speak to you just a few moments, and try to show you why we are such an odd people.
16 Let us turn in the Scriptures now, to Philippians the 2nd chapter, 1-8, and Second Corinthians 3:6. And let us read, as we believe God’s Word.
17 And now, just before we read, let us bow our heads for prayer.

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« 18 † Gracious Heavenly Father, we are indeed a privileged people, tonight, to be living in this age, and to see the things that we see going on, and to know that the time is close at hand, when Jesus will come for His Church. Oh, that thrills our hearts, Lord! And as we pull back the pages, tonight, we pray that You’ll give us a context out of this text. And may the Holy Spirit reveal to our hearts the things that would be good and pleasing to God. For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 19 † You know, believe I’ll ask you to do something. I–I usually ask some strange things, and I hope I’m not asking anything too strange. But when we pledge allegiance to the flag, we all stand. And–and the flag passes by, we stand; which, we should. And we stand, to salute. Let’s just stand to our feet while we read the Word, if you will, Second Corinthians 3:6.
Who… has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
But if–but if the ministration of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, such more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reasons of the glory that excelleth.
For if that which is done away was glorious, how… or much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such a hope, we use great plainness of speech.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which was abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall be turned to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Not…
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open faces behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord, the changing unto the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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« 20 † And in Philippians 2, we read this, beginning with the 1st, and reading to the 8th verse.
If–if there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love,… any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels of mercy,
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being in one accord, and one mind.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on… things of others.
Let this mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made of himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.

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« 21 † Let us pray.
22 Heavenly Father, this great Word that has been read, tonight, from Thy Holy Writ, make It so real to our hearts, that we will go from here like those going from Emmaus, saying, “Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?” For we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
You may be seated.

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« 23 † Now, this is a very odd text, but I think it’s very suiting for the occasion. I wanted to speak on the subject of: The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us.
24 Now, since there has been man, there has been a hunger in man’s heart, to find out: where he came from; and what’s his reason of being here; and where he’s going. There’s only One can answer that, that’s the One Who brought him here. And man has always wanted to see God.

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« 25 † Back in the Old Testament, we find out that God veiled Himself from unbelievers. God has a very odd way of dealing with people. He hides Himself from the unbeliever and reveals Himself to the believer. God does that. Jesus thanked the Father, that, “He had hid these things from the wise and prudent, and would reveal It to babes such as would learn.” So, we find that God never changes, in His nature, and He’s always doing His work the same. We find out, in Malachi 3, that He said, “I am God, and I change not.” So, He works in the same principle, all the time.

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« 26 † Now we take one of the oldest books of the Bible. When Job, one of the most righteous men of his day, a perfect man in the laws of God, a servant, noble, honorable servant, even till God said, “There is none like him, in the earth.” But… his desire, one time, to see God. He knowed that there was a God, and he felt that he would like to see Him, or, otherwise, go to His house and knock on the door, and say, “I’d like to speak with You.” Set down, talk with Him, like we would with each other.
27 We have an understanding. That’s why we’re in these conventions, where we come together and–and express our thoughts. And–and we understand one another, better, when we talk things over with each other. And ministers do that. People of all walks of life do it, talk things over.

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« 28 † And, Job, God was so real to him, he wanted to find out if he couldn’t go, knock at His door, and–and have an–an interview with Him.
29 But we find out that God did speak to him, but He was veiled. He was veiled in a form of a whirlwind. And He told Job to gird up his loins; He was going to speak to him, like a man. And He came down in a whirlwind and–and spoke to Job. And He was made known to Job through the whirlwind, yet he did not exactly see Him. He could just hear the wind blowing and turning around, in the trees. And the Voice came out of the whirlwind, but God was veiled in the whirlwind.

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« 30 † We find, down in Africa, South Africa, they use the word amoyah, which means, “an unseen force.”
31 And this unseen Force, in the whirlwind, had an audible Voice. It spoke out to Job, yet he never seen His form. But He was veiled, to him, by the whirlwind.
32 We find one of the great prophets of the Bible, Moses, of the Old Testament, one of God’s chosen, selected, predestined servants, he also desired to see Him. He had been so close to Him, and had seen so many things of His great mystic hand going before him and doing things that only God could do. He desired to see Him one day, and God told him, “Go, stand on the rock.”
33 And while standing on the rock, Moses seen Him pass. He saw the back of Him. And he said, “It looked like a man, a man’s back.” Yet, he did not see God. He only seen the veil of God.

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« 34 † The Bible said, “No man has seen God at any time, but the only Begotten of the Father has declared Him.” So, Moses saw Him, veiled, as a Man. We find that Jehovah of the Old Testament was just Jesus of the New Testament.
35 And–and Dr. Scofield here, we find that, his word, changing from “form.” We find the word en morphe, in Greek, which means “the unseen was made visible.” Something that cannot… We know it’s there. It can be… cannot be seen, but yet we know that it’s there. And when He changed His form, of the en morphe, which mean that He changed from supernatural to natural.
36 And He just changed His mask, in otherwise. It’s like a drama. He was acting. And in the Greek, when they would change their mask, maybe one play, one player might have acted in several different parts.
37 And my daughter, present here, they just had at the high school, a–a drama. And the one boy that I know, played about four parts, but he would go behind the stage and change his–his mask, in order to come out, to impersonate another character.

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« 38 † Now, if you will take the Old Testament prophesies concerning what the Messiah was to be, you can compare it with the life of Jesus, and you’ve got it exactly who Jesus was. He was not just an ordinary man. He was God, en morphe. He was changed from–from the supernatural into the natural form of a Man. Yet, He was God, manifested in the flesh, veiled by a human, fleshly veil.
And you watch the Old Testament.
39 I–I–I know that I’m speaking to a mixed-up audience, tonight, from different parts of the world. And we are here to find out. What are we–what are we doing? What–what are we? Where we getting to? What’s happening? What does all this mean?

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« 40 † And now we find, in here, that, if you Jewish men and women, and the rabbis in–in–in the temple, in the days gone by, if they had watched the Bible, the prophecies, instead of the traditions, they would have recognized who Jesus was. They would have never called Him Beelzebub. They would have never crucified Him. But, it all had to act out. That’s part of the drama. And they were blinded, on this case.

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« 41 † It’s like many you men, women, here tonight, may be my age or little older. You remember, here in America, years ago, before… The Chinese… My brother, that just introduced here, that come on my mind when I was talking to him. How that they used to… They couldn’t speak English, and they–they run the laundry. And you go to his laundry, to get your laundry done. The–the Chinese laundry men would take a tag, and would tear it in a certain way. You take one part of the tag; he’d take the other part. But when you come back to claim your belongings, those two pieces of paper had to dovetail. And if they didn’t dovetail just exactly right… You couldn’t impersonate it in any way, ’cause he had one piece and you had the other. And if it impersonated… Then you had a right to claim what was yours. And then you’ve got what belonged to you, when you possess the other part of the contract.
42 So is it, tonight, when we got the other part of the contract. When, God tore His Son in two, at Calvary, taking the body up for a Sacrifice, and sent the Spirit down to us, that once lived in a Man, Jesus. That same God is in veil tonight, in the form of the Holy Ghost. Those two pieces has to come together, then you’re part of the contract. God did this, to be better known to man, when He made Hisself Man.

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« 43 † I was reading a story, some years ago. And in this story, it said a great, noble king… I forget the name of him, just now. I wasn’t thinking about speaking of the story. It, perhaps fiction, but it leads us to a point that gives us a background on what we want to say. This king, he was such a noble king, and such a great lover of his subjects, till, one day, before his–his guard and his royalty, he said, “Today, you see me for your last time, for many years.”
44 And his guard and his nobles said to him, “Good king, why do you say that? Are you going to a foreign country, somewhere, and become an alien?”
45 He said, “No. I’m staying right here. Well,” said, “I’m going out amongst my subjects. I’m going to become a peasant. I’m going to cut wood with the wood chopper. I’m going to–to till the ground with the toiler. I am going to prune the vines with those who prune the vines. I’m going to be one of them, in order to get a better acquainted with what they are doing. And I love them. And I want to be more acquainted with them, personally. They won’t know me. But, yet, I want to be acquainted with them, in that way.”

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« 46 † And the next morning, when his delegates, all of his people seen him, or the ones was in the palace, take off his crown and lay it down upon the seat, the throne; and take his robe off, and put on peasant’s clothes, walk out amongst common people.
Now, in that little story, we find out then about God.
47 They said to the king, said, “King, we want you. We love you. We–we want you to remain king.” But he wanted become one of them, to know them better, that they would know him better, really what he was. It would display to them what he really was.

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« 48 † And that’s what God did. He–He changed Himself, from being Jehovah God, to become one of us, that He might suffer, He might taste death, He might know what the sting of death was, and take the penalty of death upon Himself. He laid aside His–His crown and His robe, and became one of us. He washed feet with the–with the–the lowly. He dwelt in the tents, with the poor. He slept in the–the woods and in the streets, with those who were underprivileged. He become one of us, that He might understand us better, and that we might understand Him better.

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« 49 † Now, I think, in that, we find out, the changing, Himself, what He did. If you’ll notice, He came in the name of three sons. He came in the name of the Son of man, and in the Son of God, and the Son of David. He came as Son of man.
50 Now, in Ezekiel 2:3, Jehovah, Himself, called Ezekiel, the prophet, “the son of man.”
51 Son of man means “a prophet.” He had to come that way, to fulfill Deuteronomy 18:15, which Moses said, “The Lord your God shall raise up among you a prophet likened unto me.” He never called Himself the Son of God. He referred to Himself, “the Son of man,” because He had to come according to the Scripture. See? He had to make those two pieces of torn paper, the Old Testament prophecy and His Own character, to be exactly the same. So, He come, the Son of man, come in that form.

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« 52 † Then we find, after His death, burial, and resurrection, He came on the Day of Pentecost, as Son of God; God, the Spirit, in the form, Holy Ghost. What was He doing? He was changing Himself, making Himself known to His people in a different form. Like, the Holy Spirit, which is God, He came to deal through the church ages, as Son of God, the Holy Spirit.
53 But, in the Millennium, He comes as Son of David, to set on the throne of David, King. He was to take the throne of David. He is on the Father’s throne now. And then He said, “He that overcometh shall set with Me on My throne, as I’ve overcome and set on My Father’s throne.” So, He, in the Millennium, He’ll be Son of David. What is it? The same God, all the time, just changing His–His mask.
I am, to my wife, a husband.

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« 54 † Did you notice? The Syrophenician woman said, “Thou Son of David, have mercy.” He, never even bothered Him, at all. She had no rights to call Him that. She had no claims on Him as Son of David. He–He is the Son of David, to the Jew. And now He come… But when she called Him, “Lord,” He was her Lord, then she got what she asked for.
Now, as, He is just changing Himself.

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« 55 † Now, in my home, I’m three different people. In my home, my wife has claims on me as husband. My daughter out there, she doesn’t have any claims on me as husband; I am her father. And my little grandson there, I’m grandfather to him, so he has no right to call me father. I’m not his father. My son is his father. I am his grandfather. But I’m still the same man.
56 And God, what He does, He just changes Himself, to become to that generation, to make known Himself to that people. And that’s what we’re here to find out, tonight. In what way is God supposed to make Hisself known to this people and in this time? He changes His mask, He changes His act, but He doesn’t change His disposition. He doesn’t change His–His nature. He just changes His mask, from one to another. He does it, to reveal Himself more plain to the people, that they might know who He is, and what He is.

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« 57 † In Hebrews 1, we read, “God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers, through the prophets, but in this last days through His Son, Jesus.”
58 Now, “The prophets,” Jesus said, when He was here on earth, “they were gods. You call those ‘gods,’ who the Word of God came to. And the Scriptures cannot be broken,” He said. Said, “How you can condemn Him then, when He’s the Son of God?” See?

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« 59 † The Word of God is lotted to each age, what It’s to be. And Jesus was the fulfillment of all the prophecies. “In Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” It was in Him. He was the One that was in Joseph. He was the One Who was in Elijah. He was the One Who was in Moses. He was the One Who was in David, a rejected king.
60 His own people had rejected him, as king. And as he went out of the–of the courtyard, a little, afflicted fellow crawling around, did not like his–his government, his system, and he spit upon him. And the guard pulled his sword, said, “Will I leave that dog’s head on him, spitting on my king?”
61 And David, maybe not realizing what he was doing at the time, but he was anointed. And he said, “Let him alone. God has told him to do this.” And he climbed up on the hill and wept over Jerusalem, a rejected king.
62 Did you notice? A few hundred years from then, the Son of David being spit upon, in the streets, and was on the hill, same mountain, looking down over Jerusalem, a rejected King. And cried, “Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen did her brood, but you would not?”

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« 63 † He never changed His nature, ’cause Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” God was made flesh, in order to die, to redeem us from sin. That’s why He changed Himself, to be a–a Man.
64 We see, in Saint John 12:20, the Greeks had heard of Him. Now, there’s no man can ever hear of Him except their heart burns to see Him. Like Job and the prophets of old, they all wanted to see Him. So, this Greek came to see Him. They came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, said, “Sir, we would see Jesus.”

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« 65 † The Greeks wanted to see Him, but they were unable to see Him because He was in the temple of His humanity. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Now we find that, in this, these Greeks could not see Him.
66 And notice the very words that Jesus expressed to them, afterwards. He said, “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, dies, it abides alone.” In other words, they would never be able to see Him in the change, in the mask that He was in then, because He was veiled in human flesh. But when this corn of Wheat fell into the ground, then It would bring forth all races. He was sent to the Jews, of course, at that time. But this corn of Wheat must fall; veiled God, in human’s flesh, hidden from unbelievers, but being revealed to believers.

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« 67 † In John 1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld Him, the only Begotten of the Father, full of grace.” Now, in the beginning was the Word. A Word is a thought expressed.
68 In the beginning, He wasn’t even God. Now, our English word today, God, means “an object of worship.” How confusing it is to the mind. You can make somebody a god. You can make anything a god.
69 But in the Old Testament, in Genesis 1, “In the beginning God,” the word is used, Elohim. Elohim means “the self-existing One.” What a difference the word Elohim is, to our word God. Elohim means “the self-existing One.”
70 We cannot be self-existing. We cannot be almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. That Elohim expresses all of that. We cannot be that. The tree that you make a god out of, or the–or the building, it’s not self-existing.

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« 71 † So, God, in the beginning, was Life, the Eternal One. In Him was attributes, and those attributes became Words, and the Word became flesh. Jesus was the Redeemer. And to redeem, means, “to bring back.” If He has to bring it back, it had to be somewhere to be brought back to. So, you see, all people will never be able to see it, because all people wasn’t in the beginning in God’s thoughts. See?

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« 72 † Look at the priests. When they see Him express Hisself exactly with the Word, what He was, they said, “It’s Beelzebub.” That showed where their nature was. It was in the modern thought of the day.
73 But when the little prostitute, that He met at the gate, and told her, expressed His messianic sign, by telling her what she had done. “Why,” she said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. We know, the Messiah, when He comes, He will tell us all these things.” She was recognizing Him as the Messiah, the anointed One, because He met the Scripture qualifications. Don’t you see? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] The two pieces of paper were coming together. She, “We know that, when the Messiah cometh.”

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« 74 † Now, God might have had to interbred this and that, to get this certain ting of the bell, like the molder. But when Jesus turned, said, “I am He that speaks with you,” there was no such an expression as “Beelzebub.” She left her water pot, ran into the city, and said, “Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I have done. Isn’t This the very Messiah?” See?
75 Now, what did this? Putting the old Scripture with the experience that–that Jesus was giving to her, what did it do? It made the Messiah. And did you notice? Quickly, her sins were forgiven, because, at the beginning, she was redeemable, because she was in God’s thinking at the beginning. So, it redeemed her, or brought her back, when she seen the expressed Scripture manifested, of Jehovah, what He was, what He is.

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« 76 † Now, when Jesus come, if He’d have come with Noah’s message, it wouldn’t have worked. To build an ark, and float out, it wouldn’t have worked. But that Noah was a portion of God. He acted a peculiar way because he was peculiar, and his message was peculiar because it was the Word being made manifest.
77 He could not have come with Moses’ message, because it wouldn’t have worked. Moses was God, in a portion, made manifest. He was the word expressed for that hour, but Jesus could not come in that. The Bible never said He would come in that way.
78 But when He come, expressed exactly like the–the Testament had said He would be expressed, then all those who was redeemable believed It, because they were the thoughts of God. The attributes of Him at the beginning was made flesh, and redeemable, and was brought back to God. “As many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God,” because they were redeemable. They were from the beginning, in the expression.

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« 79 † If we could stop here a moment, if it would be possible, and think of that, tonight, of the Message of the hour, the expressed thoughts of Jehovah. “Before the foundation of the world,” we are told, “our names were put on the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Then we can see the two sides, as I first said, why one is odd to the other. It must be that way. It was always. It always has been that way, and it always will be that way. “He was the Word. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”

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« 80 † Now, God, in… back in the days of the Old Testament, we find that after He had appeared to His people, in different forms, He veiled Himself behind old badger skins. God hiding behind badger skins, at His mercy seat. We find that, how that Solomon, when he dedicated the temple of the Lord, and these badger skins was hanging there, the veil, how that He came in as the Pillar of Fire and as a Cloud, and went down behind there, and veiled Himself, to the outside world. But, by faith, Israel knew that He was back there. They knew He was there, regardless of what any of the heathen worlds had to say. He was hid from the unbeliever. But the believer, by faith, knew He was back there. They had mercy. And He was at His mercy seat, which was a great secret.

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« 81 † You know, in the Old Testament, to enter behind that skin was death. Now to stay from behind it is death. Then to enter into His Glory was death. Now to stay away from His Glory is death. That happened, of course, at the renting of the veil at Calvary, when the veil was rent, the old veil. Now to stay out of His Presence is death. Then to enter His Presence was death. See? It changes back and forth, and you must find the Scripture to see what day we’re living in.

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« 82 † Now, when the veil was rent at Calvary, the mercy seat came into plain view. (But what happened? It was hanging on Calvary, dripping in Blood.) As they had took blood, year after year, at the cleansing of the sanctuary and the sprinkling of the mercy seat, there, God, with His great mighty stroke of lightning power, split the old badger veil from top to bottom, and the mercy seat came into plain view.
83 The real, genuine Lamb of God was hanging in plain view on Calvary, the real Mercy Seat, when God had paid the price, Himself; and become one of us, and had manifested Himself as a Man, to get acquainted with us, and we to be acquainted with Him. The Mercy Seat was in plain view of all Israel on that day of the Atonement.

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« 84 † But, alas, the traditions of the church fathers in that day had, by their traditions, had veiled the true Mercy Seat from the people. If they would have knowed the Scripture, each piece would have come like the Chinese tag. The Old Testament prophecy would have been fulfilled, and it was. And if they had been taught the Scripture, they would have seen the Mercy Seat. “As Moses,” said here, that, “to this day they’re veiled. It’s still over their hearts.” They don’t see It.

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« 85 † But, He was God, the suffering and the Atonement. He was the genuine Mercy Seat standing in full view. As we sang the hymn:
Lo, behold Him in plain view.
There He is, the mighty Conqueror,
Since He rent the veil in two.
86 See, He came, the Mercy Seat, hanging in clear view of the congregation. But them, being under the popular opinion…
87 Now, men and women, and delegates of this convention, I want to say this without respect of person. But, in the view of today, in view of what we’re here for today, I’m afraid that the traditions of the fathers, the church fathers, has hid This from too many people. Since the Holy Ghost has come in this last days, as prophesied, and the veil has been rent, too many people try to hang to their traditions of the fathers. And that’s why they can’t see this extreme joy, and peace, and things that the Church has today. Yet, It’s in plain view of those who believe.
He hid the Word, the promised Word of this day.

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« 88 † Now, the traditions has made a veil. They say that the days of miracles is passed. A man spoke to me, a fine, cultured gentleman in Tucson, Arizona, where I live. I had a meeting at the Ramada. And we been speaking at the Business Men’s Convention where the Lord Jesus had come present and done great things. And this Christian gentleman came to me, and he said… A minister of the church, fine man, and he said, “Brother Branham, you are trying to project to the people an apostolic age,” he said, “and when the apostolic age has ceased.”
89 And I said, “I pray thee, my brother, show me when the apostolic age ceased, in the Scripture.” I said, “The apostolic age began on the Day of Pentecost, and it has… Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, ‘The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.’ When did it cease? If God is still calling, then the apostolic age still is in session.”

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« 90 † And so that is where the people try to blindfold so many people, by their traditions of the elders, as it was then. And you fail to see why that the people are so elated and so enthused. And–and these conventions are such an oddball, such a strange thing, to other people, is because that they see they broke through those barriers. They broke through those veils, into the Presence of God, where they see the manifested promise of this hour made manifest before the people. They see what God promised.

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« 91 † In Joel 2:28, He promised, that, “In this last days there would be a latter rain poured out upon the people, in the last days.” I think the Greek word there is kenos, which means that He “emptied” Hisself out. Not in the way that we would say, like something was inside of somebody, that He emptied out. But, He poured Himself out.
92 He changed; His en morphe. He–He changed, from what He was, to what He is. He never changes His nature. But on the Day of Pentecost, He changed Himself from being the Son of man, to the Son of God. He came, not with the people. He came in the people, see, the same God, to carry His ministry on through, in this great age.

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« 93 † He prophesied in the Bible, that, “There would come a day that would not be neither day or night, but in the evening time it should be Light.” Now, the sun, geographically, rises in the east and sets in the west. It’s the same sun, all the time. Now, when, the Son, S-o-n, revealed Himself in the manifestation of the promised Word, to Israel, the Eastern people.
94 We’ve had a day of gloom. We’ve had enough light in the reformers, and so forth, to make churches and denominations, and join them and come in; and kiss the babies, and marry the old, and bury the dead, and so forth; and live in the church.
95 But, in the evening time, “It shall be Light,” He said, “in the evening time.” And no Scripture can be broken. And the same S-o-n that poured out Himself, kenos, on the Day of Pentecost, promised to do the same thing in the evening time. See? It’s according to the promise.
96 Get the tag together. Look what’s happening, and look what He promised, then you’ll see where we are at. Get the thing together. You can see the unveiling of this great and mighty One. Traditions has blinded the people, again, to these great things that’s been prophesied.

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« 97 † Moses, when he came forth from the mountain, which was on Fire, how beautiful the illustration!
98 Moses had went down to Egypt and told the church fathers that the Lord God had visit him in the Name of “I AM.” That Name is present tense; not “I was; will be.” But, “I AM,” ever the same, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is present tense. He… That compares with Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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« 99 † It’s still the prophesied Word. And, the congregation, that was to dovetail with that Word, the experience of this day. The reformers had it, oh, but this is another day. See what day we’re living in. Just as He couldn’t come, in the days that He came on earth, in the–in the way that Moses came, or any of the prophets came; it wasn’t prophesied. And in this last days, it’s prophesied to come this way. It can’t come in the form of Luther’s revival. It can’t come in the form of Wesley revival. It’s a restoration hour. It’s a time that it must come back to the original Son Light, the original.
100 Oh, how we could lay the Scriptures in, on that! And you theologians, what part of the world you’re from, you know that That’s true. It’s a promise. That’s what makes the people so odd. That’s what makes the oddballs, that you call them. It’s because that they… it’s… The veil has been opened, from the traditions, and they see It. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. See? It’s the–it’s the promise of God, and we cannot go against that, ’cause the Scriptures cannot be broken. Yes. We find that He promised that. He had emptied Himself into His people. And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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« 101 † Moses, after he had went down into Egypt and declared this, then the Father vindicated his message, by coming on Mount Sinai, in the same Pillar of Fire, and set the mountain on Fire. Did we notice? The one He had give the promise to, He brought him forth with the Word. He had the commandments. And to have this commandment, he had… The commandments was the Word. The Word had never come to the people yet. So, the Word always comes to the prophet, and He was the prophet for that hour.
102 Like, Jesus was the Word. John was a prophet. And Jesus came to him, in the water, because the Word always comes to the prophet, without failing. See? The Word comes to it.

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« 103 † So, Moses, the Word came to him; the commandments. And he had them. Now, why? Before the Word was given out and made manifest, Moses had to veil his face, for the Word wasn’t completely made manifest. They knowed something had happened, but they didn’t know what it was, the roaring and thundering. Till, they said, “Let Moses speak, and not God.”
104 And God said, “Well, I will do that. From this forth, I’ll not appear like this no more. I’ll send them a prophet. So he’ll… I’ll speak through My prophet.”

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« 105 † Now, if Moses, with the natural law, (as Paul, in Second Corinthians here, has revealed to us), had to veil his face with the natural, how much more will the Spiritual be glorious and veiled to the unbeliever before it’s made manifest to him! How much more would they call… Moses was an oddball. How much more will they call you, who has broke through the veil, has went into the Pillar of Fire, has come out with the Blessing! And now you are veiled. The people can’t see it. They can’t understand It.
106 “If the natural be glorious, how much more will the supernatural! If the natural, which had an end to it, was to be glorious, how much more This which has no end to it, will be glorious!”

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« 107 † But, still, It’s veiled. It’s veiled not to the believer, but to the unbeliever. He cannot see It. God always veils Himself from the unbeliever. Traditions hide It. Like they did then, they do it today.
108 That was a spiritual veil that we have now, where the natural veil was. They are vindicated by the prophet with the written Word, a prophesier, one who comes with the written Word, to make It plain.
109 They knowed the Word was there, but they didn’t know what It meant. And Moses made It plain. He said, “The commandment says This, and this is why.” He made it plain. And before It was made plain, It was veiled.

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« 110 † And so is it, today, veiled to the people, until It’s revealed and made plain to the people. God, the mighty God, veiled in human flesh, the Word. Notice. Now we find out that it was hid to the unbeliever, but revealed to the believer.
111 Notice, Moses had to enter this Pillar of Fire, alone. No one could go with him. It was not… it… What does that speak to us? That you don’t come into This by joining a Pentecostal group. See? He never revealed It to a group. He revealed It to an individual. And that’s the way it is today. You say, “I belong to a–a church. I–I belong to this.” But that won’t work. See?
112 And for anyone to try to follow Moses, to impersonate it, was death. And so is it today, spiritual death, to try to impersonate. That’s what’s the…

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« 113 † Tonight, we’re getting into, there is raising up amongst the groups, carnal comparisons; somebody try to act like It, and live a different life; can drink, can smoke, women can live (any) most any way they want to, and like the world, and stay home and watch television, and the things of the world, and still call themselves Pentecostals. They are trying to impersonate a genuine. It’s never been revealed to them, yet. When It is revealed, it’s glorious, and something takes that out of you when you walk in There. You become a veil. It’s… It just won’t work. And to impersonate It was death.

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« 114 † Moses’ veil; he was the living Word to the people. And today, the people that are veiled are the same thing. “They are written epistles, read of all men.” Not a new epistle; but the Epistle that’s been written, made manifest. It’s–it’s those who believe the Word and the promise of this day, that God is pouring out His Spirit, upon all flesh, and that is written epistles. And when a person tries to carnally impersonate that, it backfires. Your life shows what you are.

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« 115 † One time there was a boy, he had got in some trouble. He was a good boy, but he–he went to court. And the judge said, “I find you guilty. I must punish you to life in prison.”
116 He said, “I want to try my own case.” He said, “I want to go in upon my record.”
117 He said, “You have no record. Your record is what’s condemned you.”
118 And that’s the way it is today, the reason the church is not advanced like it should. It’s the record. It’s the lie. We must become more dedicated. We must believe every Word of God. We must seek until that Word is made real to us. See? See? The record is what keeps us from entering in.

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« 119 † But, one time, (to let you get out of this loop), in this same court, the boy had no money. He could not pay it off. The fine was way in the thousands of dollars. But he had a big brother that came and paid it off for him.
120 Now, we’ve got a big Brother, Jesus, the Son of God. And He come to pay it off for us, if we’ll just believe it and be able to enter into the veil with Him. Like, He is our Moses. Jesus is our Moses of today. Moses, veil, was the living Word to the people. Today, Jesus, veiled, is the living Word to the people, that, Jesus in the Church. The Holy Ghost, the Son of God in the people, revealing the Word by the promise of this day, makes It just exactly. Same now.
121 And remember, Moses did this, and manifested this, not to all the world, but to the exodus people, just one class of people, that was those who come out of the exo-… in the exodus.
122 And today, the Holy Spirit, in the face of people who says, “Divine healing is not right.” When I was consulting…

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« 123 † A doctor called me, other day, of a little lady, oh, there’s been four or five cases there, laying just at the point of death, giving hours, and the Holy Spirit healed them. The doctor was questioning it. He said, “How can this be? Why,” he said, “I–I… That’s my patient.”
124 I said, “It was. But now it was God’s. It–it, it’s His subject now.” See?
125 And so you see the thing it is, that God is calling an exodus, to come from behind the fleshly curtain who tries to impersonate, who tries to join church; not Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, altogether, but Pentecostal churches. It is an individual affair. It’s you and God. You have to go in, not your group, not your church, not your pastor, but it’s you who has to go in.

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« 126 † I want you to notice another characteristic of Moses, when he come out. Yet, being a prophet, being a great man that he was, when he come out with the Word, the people saw that he was changed. Something had happened to him. When he come out with the vindicated Word of that hour, the commandments, he was a changed person.
127 And so will you be, when you come from behind that human veil that would laugh at a meeting like this; that man who would stumble at Divine healing, and say the days of miracles is passed. You’ve dropped from behind that human veil there, the traditional veil, and everybody will know something happened to you.

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« 128 † Like our honorable brother, Jim Brown. I imagine most Presbyterians knows that something happened to him, because he–he come from behind a traditional veil. He saw something in the people, that attracted him, and he came out from behind the veil.
129 Well, you, when you come out from behind the veil, you’ll be in full view of the people then, that they can see that something has happened to you. The veiled Word, to the unbeliever, but in full view of the believer. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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« 130 † Then, it was God. In them days, it was God in a Man, His Son, Jesus Christ. We believe that. Not just a prophet, not just an ordinary man, ordinary human. It was God in Christ; God in a Man; the fullness of the Godhead, bodily in a Man. God in a Man!
131 Now it’s God in men, the fullness of God in the Godhead, bodily in His entire Church, manifesting Himself, fulfilling His Word.

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« 132 † Now we find, God, all ages, has had skin on It. He, God, has been hid behind the veil.
133 It just reminds me of a–a little story that happened down in the South. And so there was a Christian home. And then in this Christian home they believed God, and they–they thought that–that God protected them from all troubles. And, which, He does. And they had a little junior, a little boy about seven or eight years old. And–and he went to Sunday school and was a very fine little lad. But he was scared in a storm, especially when lightning was flashing.

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« 134 † And I told this to a man, the other day, when this piece had come out about this man being healed. This same minister said, “They make a god out of you, Brother Branham.”
135 Well, he was a critic, so I thought I’d just kind of break it off, just a little bit. Not to hurt, you know, but just kind… I said, “Is that too far from the Scripture, to be that?” See? I said, “No, it isn’t,” I said, “because Jesus called prophets ‘gods.’ See? That’s right, ‘God.'”
136 And they say, “Well, you people try to take the place of God.” That’s not too far out. That’s exactly what it is. That’s exactly. God manifested in flesh, just as He promised.

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« 137 † This little family, we find. I told him this little story, which come to my mind just now. That, one night it come up a storm, and mother said to Junior, said, “Now, you go on upstairs, son, and go to bed.”
Said, “Mama, I’m scared,” he said.
“Ain’t nothing going to hurt you. Go on up and go to bed.”
138 Little junior laid up there, and the lightning flashing around the windows. And the little fellow got so nervous, he’d stick his head under the cover, and he could still hear the–the lightning, or see the lightning flash on the windows, and–and hear the thunder roar. So he said, “Mama!”
And she said, “What do you want, junior?”
Said, “Come up here and sleep with me.”
139 So she come up the steps, like any good, loyal mother would. And she came up, and she took little junior in her arms. And she said, “Junior, mother wishes to speak to you just a moment.”
Said, “All right, mama.”
140 Said, “Now you must bear this in mind. We go to church, constantly. We read the Bible. We pray. We are a Christian family. We believe in God.” And said, “We believe that, in storms and whatever goes on, God is our protection.”
141 He said, “Mama, I believe every bit of that. But,” said, “when that lightning is so close,” he said, “I–I want a God with skin on It.”
142 So, I–I think, not only junior, but all of us feel that way. When we get together, when we pray one for the other, God with skin on It.

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« 143 † And we find out here that God has always had skin on Him. When Moses seen Him, He had skin on Him, look like a Man. When God was behind the curtains, He had skin on Him. And God, tonight, in His Church, is veiled in His Church with skin on It. He is still the same God, tonight. We find that.
144 But now, as ever, the skin veil is what catches the traditions. They just can’t believe that that is God making them people act like that. See? It’s because God is veiled in His Church, in skin, skin on It. That’s right. He is hid from the unbeliever, and revealed to the believer. Yes, sir.

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« 145 † Now, when their tradition veil, of traditions of the elders and the Word, is broke through, oh, of course, today, then comes in plain view, we see Him, Deity again veiled in human flesh. Hebrews 1 said so.
146 And also Genesis 18. Remember, God was a Man standing there, eating, and talking with Abraham, and told what Sarah was doing in the tent behind It.
147 And Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the Coming of the Son of man.” Deity veiled again in human flesh! Now, remember, Jesus didn’t say, “When the Son of God is being revealed.” In Luke the 17th chapter, I believe, and about the 20th, 21st verse, somewhere along there, He said, “And when the Son of man is being revealed.” The Son of man, back in–in–in the Church again, revealed in human beings; not Son of God, but the Son of man again, back in His Church again, in the last days. We find that He promised that in God’s promises.

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« 148 † We notice another thing, in the Old Testament. I have the Scripture here, in Exodus. That, the old badger skins, what did it do? It hid the Glory of God from the people. The badger skins; even people couldn’t see It, because it was a skin that held It. The skin was… The Glory of God was behind the skin.
149 And now the Glory of God is behind your skin. That’s right. And the traditions don’t see It. It’s inside the veil, where His Word was.

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« 150 † What was on the inside of that skin back there, the old badger skins?
151 Which, “There was no beauty we should desire It. And when It was made flesh and dwelt among us, It was still no beauty we should desire It.”
152 And now the same thing is today. There’s nothing in a man or a woman, that can be desired. It’s what’s in behind there. That’s what it is. “Well,” you say, “that fellow, I know he used to be a drunkard. He used to do this.” I don’t care what he used to do. What’s hid behind that skin? What is behind there, that’s what counts. That’s what, the people is blinded. The skin blinds the people. See? They say, “I remember when that woman used to.” I know what she used to, but what about now? See?
153 Them skins, that was once on the badger, but now it’s hiding the Glory of God, got It housed behind it. It was on an animal, but now it’s housing the Glory of God.
154 And so can your skin be changed, tonight, to be made a housing place for God, God dwelling in humanity.

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« 155 † Look. The old badger skins, we find out, behind it was… Inside of there was the Word. And, the Word, there also was the shewbread. The ark was sprinkled. And what was it? The Shekinah Glory was in there.
156 Now, the Word is a Seed, and It cannot bring forth until the–the Son strikes It. The Son has got to be upon the Seed, to make It bear, to make It come forth. And that’s the only way. You take the Word, see, take the Word of God in your heart, and walk into the Shekinah Glory. And when you do, It’ll bring shewbread, Manna, that’s only give for a separated people. The only thing that can eat it, that’s permitted to eat it, is just the people who are permitted and knows It. Paul said here, “Changing from Glory to Glory.” You see, finally, It comes till It’s back to Its original Glory.

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« 157 † It’s just like a seed of a morning glory. The seed of a flower, it falls into the ground. The seed of corn falls in the ground. What’s the first thing? It comes up, and it’s a little sprout. Then it goes to a tassel. Then, from a tassel, back to its original grain.
158 Well, that’s exactly what the Church has done. It come from Luther, Wesley, and now back to the original Grain, back to Its original Glory, back to the Glory It was at the beginning. The Son that rose in the East, it’s the same Son that’s manifesting the same thing in the West, changing from Glory to Glory. It changed from the pagan, down into Luther; and from Luther, down into Wesley; from Wesley, out into Pentecost; and on and on, changing from Glory to Glory, producing the hidden Manna.
159 And now It’s ripe, to bring Him back exactly like He was at the beginning, His same ministry; the same Jesus, the same power, the same Holy Ghost. The same One that come down on the Day of Pentecost, is the same Holy Ghost that’s manifested today, from Glory unto Glory, to Glory. And is back to Its original Seed, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost; with the same signs, same wonders, same baptism; same kind of people, acting the same way, with the same power, the same sensation. It’s from Glory unto Glory. And the next will be, “Changed from this Glory, into a body like His Own glorious body, where we shall see Him.” Abraham saw the same.

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« 160 † Now notice. We see how it was changed. Since Calvary, we are invited to share His Glory. Now, in First Corinthians 12, “We are baptized into His Body. By one Spirit we are all baptized.” Not by one “water.” “One Spirit, we’re all baptized.” That’s right, now, and then we become part of Him.
161 I hope I’m not keeping you too long. [Congregation says, “No.”–Ed.] See? I hope I’m not.
162 But, it’s just like a great symphony that’s playing out, or acting out a drama.
163 I don’t know too much about symphonies or drama. But I was watching this play… I was talking about Carmen, when my daughter and them was in it. And they–and they were playing in this symphony, in Carmen. They was acting out. The music was–was–was acting out the same thing.
164 That’s the way it is when you’re baptized by the Holy Spirit, into Christ.

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« 165 † Now, see, many of you has read or heard the story of the great Russian composer who composed Peter And The Wolf. And how he, they act that out on symbols and everything. And anyone who knows the story, that’s reading it off of a paper, and can hear that symphony, how it’s acting that out, the drama, playing it out, why, they know every change. They can look at it here, and see the change.
166 But, now, what happens if the–if the composer writes something, and we find out that it isn’t just acted out right? We find out then that there is something that happens. There is something lacking, when we see them. He who composed it has made it up and wrote it out, and then the symphony is a playing it, hits a wrong note. There is something wrong. The director gave the wrong motion. See?

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« 167 † And that’s what’s the matter today, my Lutheran brethren, my Baptist brethren, my Pentecostal brethren. All my brethren from all different denominations, that’s what it is. See? You’re trying to give a note that hit back in the days of Luther, Wesley, like that, when, actually, the music Sheet here shows that it’s another day. See? See? See? We can’t live in the light of Luther; he was a reformer. We appreciate his–his part, but we played that out. We’re way over here at the back of the Book now. See? We can’t–we can’t play It out like that.

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« 168 † Now, the only way that you’re ever going to be able to do it, my brethren, is this. And brethren of the world, of the different parts of the world, I might say, there’s only one way for that–for that director to do. He has to get in the same Spirit that the composer was in, then he’s got It. And when the Church, the symphony Itself, where the world is a watching for these signs and wonders; when the Church, and the Composer, and the director, all get in the Spirit of the Composer.

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« 169 † Then when they say, “The days of miracles is past,” it don’t hit the right note.
170 But when it gets in the right swing of It, and the right Spirit of It; how you going to do it until the Spirit comes down, of the Composer? Amen. Then when you say, “The days of miracles never passed.” The symphony cries out, “Amen.” When we hit, say, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The symphony cries out, “Amen.” “You shall receive power after this the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” The symphony cries, “Amen. I got It.” There’s no more guesswork about it then. The whole symphony is right in harmony with the Word. It’s going… [Brother Branham claps his hands together three times–Ed.] That’s it. Oh! It’s a magnificent thing. The director and the Composer must be in the same Spirit. And so must the musicians be in the same Spirit, to act It all out. And the world is wondering what’s going on.
171 The communism they talk about, and made me sick with it, and all this integration and everything else, and segregation. Oh, mercy! Such, all this nonsense, when the Coming of the Lord is at hand, there is something hitting wrong. I’m afraid that the director got… The directors got out of the Spirit of the Composer.

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« 172 † When we get that Composer’s Spirit, that original power of God that the Bible said, “Men of old was moved by the Holy Ghost to write this Bible,” you’ll see them two Chinese pieces of paper will come together, just like God’s Bible and a believer will come together, because they’re both in the same Spirit. They’re both the same thing. They dovetail right straight together. What we need today is directors, that’s right, back to the Word, back and believe It just as It’s said. Then you see the God, Himself. That’s the unveiling. The drama is made real.

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« 173 † Today, they say, “Well, He’s a historical God. We know He crossed the Red Sea. He did all this. And He was in the–the fiery furnace, with the Hebrew children.” What good is a God of history, isn’t, if He isn’t the same today? Man is ever glorifying God for what He did do, thinking of what He will do, and ignoring what He’s doing. That’s just in man to do that. And it’s the same thing today, my brethren. It’s the very same thing. Oh, my!
174 Let’s get back and get the symphony playing right, where they of the world can see. Jesus said, “If I be lifted up from this earth, I’ll draw all men unto Me.” And, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
175 Let the directors get in the right Spirit, with the musicians and with the Composer, everything will be all right. Then we’re, no guesswork about it, we are identified with Him then. Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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« 176 † We’re identified with Him in Acts 2. We’re identified with them, with the same baptism, same thing. All He was then and all He is, all He was and all He is, we are. Exactly it.
177 Just like if I want to be a true American, I’ve got to be identified with everything she was, everything she is. I’ve got to be identified with it, if I am a true American.
178 If I am a true American, then I landed on Plymouth Rock. Amen. I did, if I’m an American. So did you; you landed on Plymouth Rock with the pilgrim fathers. On Plymouth Rock, when they landed out there, I was with them; so was you, everybody.

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« 179 † I rode with Paul Revere, right down the road, to warn every danger. That’s exactly right.
180 Right down here at Valley Forge, I crossed the icy Delaware, with a bunch of soldiers who, half of them, didn’t have shoes on. I prayed all night with George Washington, beforehands. I crossed the Delaware with a vision in my heart. We are American. Yes, sir. At Valley Forge, I certainly did.
181 I returned thanks with the original Thanksgiving fathers. I returned thanks to God. If I’m a real American, I was identified there at that table.
182 If I’m a real American, I was identified when I stood with Stonewall Jackson.
183 If I’m a real American, I was identified at the Boston Tea Party, yes, sir, when we refused to have things pulled over our eyes. Well, I’m as real America. I was identified there with that. Yes, sir. Oh, my!

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« 184 † I rang the Liberty Bell, the first 4th of July, in 1776. I rang the Liberty Bell here and declared that we are independent. To be a real American, I had to.
185 I was identified with her shame in the Revolutionary, when brother fought against. I’ve got to bear her shame, the same as I have to bear her glory. If I’m an American, I have to be. I was identified with her. Yes, sir.
186 I was identified at Gettysburg down there, when Lincoln made his speech. Yes, sir.
187 I was on Wake Island, over them bloody soldiers’ body. I rose on Wake Island.
On Guam, I helped hoist that flag.
188 I’m a real American. Amen. All She is, I am, and proud of it. Yes, indeed. All America has been, all She is, I’m still that, to be American. Everything She was, I have to be, because I’m identified with her.

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« 189 † Same thing, by being a true Christian, you have to be identified with it.
190 I preached with Moses, and war-… or with Noah, and warned the people of the oncoming judgment; to be a real Christian.
191 I was with Moses at the burning bush. I saw the Pillar of Fire. I saw His Glory. I was with Moses up there in the wilderness, to be a Christian. I have to be identified with everything God was, to be a Christian. I seen His glory. I heard His Voice. Don’t try to explain away from me now, ’cause I was there. I know what I’m talking about. I seen what happened. Yes, sir.

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« 192 † I was at the Red Sea, when I seen the Spirit of God move down and part the water from one side; not through a bunch of reeds, that they’re trying to say today, but through about a ninety-foot sea. I seen the Spirit of God. I walked with Moses through that dry ground, across that Red Sea.
193 I stood by Mount Sinai and seen the thunder and lightning falling. I ate Manna with them out there. I drank from that Rock. I’m still doing it tonight. I was identified with the Manna-eaters. I was identified with them that drunk from the Rock.
194 I was also identified when Joshua blew a trumpet, and the walls of Jericho fell down.
I was in the lions’ den with Daniel.
I was in the fiery furnace with the Hebrew children.
I was in Mount… with Elijah on Mount Carmel.

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« 195 † I was with John the Baptist, and before them critics. I seen the Spirit of God descending. I heard the Voice of God say, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.” Yes, sir. I sure was identified with him. That’s exactly right.
196 I was identified there at the grave of Lazarus, when He raised up Lazarus. I was identified, the woman at the well, when He told her her sins. Yes, sir.
197 I surely was identified with Him in His death. And I was identified on the first Easter. I raised with Him from death. I identified with Him in His death.
198 I was with the hundred and twenty, in the upper room. I was identified up there with them. Hey! I–I feel religious. Oh, my! I was identified there. I’m one of them. I was identified. I got the same experience they had. I was there when it happened, to be a true Christian. I witnessed the mighty rushing Wind coming. I witnessed that. I felt the power of God as It shook. I was with them that spoke in tongues. I felt the anointing come in there. I was with them. I was identified with them when the Holy Ghost begin to speak through tongues, with them.
199 I was with Peter, before the critics in Acts 2, when he preached the great sermon that he did. I was identified with him. Yes, sir.

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« 200 † In Acts 4, when they assembled together, I was with them when the building shook. After prayer meeting, the building shook where they were setting. I was identified there with them.
I preached with Paul on Mars Hill. Yes, sir.
201 I was with John on the Isle of Patmos, and seen His second Coming.
I was with Luther in the reformation.
202 I was with Wesley, that firebrand; snatched from the fires, when the great revolt against the Anglican church. I was there with him.
203 And here I am tonight, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, identified with the same kind of group, with the same kind of an experience. I must be, to be a Christian. I must stay identified where the Word of God is being manifested. I’m identified with a group that feels the Spirit of God.

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« 204 † I’m identified with a group that knows He’s unveiled, that knows He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, that knows that This is not a fanaticism. “It’s Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” I’m identified with that group here, tonight. Yet, they’re called a bunch of heretics, yet a bunch of fanaticism, on account of the Word of God. But, “I’m not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for It’s the power of God unto salvation,” and I’m one. I’m with them living epistles I spoke of, vindicated, God veiled in human form, in men and women. Oh!

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« 205 † God in His en morphe again, unveiled Himself and make Hisself known to His people. The great King Who laid aside His Glory. “Yet a little while and the world won’t see Me no more. I’ll be veiled to them. But ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you, all the way to the consummation, changing from Luther to Wesley, to on and on, from Glory unto Glory. I’m still the same God that lived, and going back to the original Glory.” Hallelujah!

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« 206 † He has broken every denominational veil, every sound barrier. That sound that says, “Oh, that’s fanaticism,” He broke right through that. The sound that come out of there, said, “Oh, them people are crazy,” He broke right through that veil. Yes, He did. “Oh, you can’t do it. You’re nothing but a bunch of fanatics.” He broke right through that. “No such a thing as Divine healing.” He broke right through that, oh, my, for His Word said He would. You can’t conquer the Word of God.
207 And there He stands, yet, tonight, the mighty Conqueror, since He broke every Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, every other kind of a veil. He still stands among His people, tonight, unconquered by traditions. Let people say what they want to, do what they want to, anything they want to. God comes, breaking right through that sound barrier.

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« 208 † And remember, they tell me, when a plane really breaks that sound barrier, there’s no limit to its speed.
209 I’m telling you, when you break that traditional barrier, that “Jesus is way back, and He isn’t now,” when you find He’s the same yesterday, today and forever, there’s no limit to what God could do right here in this convention, and show this world what they need: not a world’s fair, but a world revival that’ll be filled and baptized with the Presence of the living God, en morphe inveiling Himself into human flesh. Hallelujah! I believe it.
210 Broken every barrier, every veil, every veil! Nothing could hide His Presence. When people gets hungry in their heart, there’s a veil ready to be broke. You can just depend on that. Rent every veil, by His great Holy Spirit!
211 And here He stands, tonight, the mighty Conqueror, same yesterday, today and forever; healing the sick, baptizing the believers, just as He always did. He’s the mighty Conqueror. Doomed devils are on the run. Yes, sir. They always are, when He’s around.

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« 212 † Closing, I might say this. There was a… Read a story, many years ago, about an old violinist. He had an old violin they was going to sell. You’ve heard the story, many times. And they wanted to sell it for a certain thing. And the auctioneer said, “Who will give me so-and-so?” I believe he was offered a few coins, maybe fifty cents, or something. “Going once, going twice,…”
213 Directly, a man raised up in the back. He said, “Just a minute.” And he walked up and got it. Let’s think that he played this:
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
When sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
214 Then when he laid it down, there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. Then he said, “Who will offer?”
215 One said, “Five thousand. Ten thousand.” It was priceless. Why? The–the old master of the violin had revealed its true quality.
216 Oh, brother, sister, now let the Master of this Word, Who wrote It, the great Holy Spirit, rosin up His bow with love, and pull it across your heart.
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s vein.
217 You’ll see the full value, and see the unveiled God come right in view. That, He’s just the same as He was when He fell on the Day of Pentecost, upon the people, when He kenos’ed Hisself, “emptied” right into It. That’s right.
218 You say, “Brother Branham, I’ve tried. I’ve tried. I’ve done this, that, the other.”

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« 219 † One day I was having a meeting at Carlsbad, New Mexico. And we went down in this big old bat den down there. And it was kind of spooky-looking, and we got down there. And the–the man, when he got down there in this place, he–he snapped the lights off. And, oh, my, you can imagine how dark it was. It’s just… It’s so dark you could feel it.
220 And that’s just about the way the times are getting, when we see the church that fails to recognize God’s Word; when you see our daughters of Zion doing the way they’re doing; when you see our brothers that smokes and drinks, and–and tells dirty jokes and things, and still trying to hold their confession in Christ. Oh, my, it’s dark. It’s pitch dark.
221 We see the sign of His Coming. There’ll be… It’s always darkest just before day. Then the Morning Star comes out to hail the day, and to herald it, and show that it’s coming. Notice.

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« 222 † In there, when they turn that off, there’s a little girl just screamed to the top her voice. There was a little boy standing by the guide, and he seen that guide when he switched the lights off like that. And that little sister was just about to have a fit. She was screaming, jumping up-and-down. “Oh! What’s going to happen next? What’s the matter? What’s the matter?”
223 You know what he screamed? He said, “Don’t fear, little sister. There’s a man here who can turn on the lights.”
224 Listen, little sister, you might think we’re small and in minority. But, don’t fear. There’s a Man here Who can turn on the Lights. That’s the Holy Spirit. You believe it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.]

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« 225 † Let us bow our heads just a moment. I’m sorry to have kept you.
226 O great God of Heaven, unveiling Yourself, unfolding Yourself, making Yourself known, the great King of Glory, take these little illustrations, tonight, and let them fall down at the hearts of the people. And may we see that unveiled One, that One Who came down and rent the veil of the temple; and then went right out of that veil, come right down into human veils again, on the Day of Pentecost; has ever been the same, changing from Glory to Glory.
227 And now we’re right back like all nature, acting, right back to the original Seed, right from one church age to another. And in this last age here, here we are, right back to the original Thing that fell on the Day of Pentecost, to fulfill every Scripture, “The Light in the evening time,” and, “The works that I do shall you also,” and so many things that You promised in Your Word.
228 Father, if there be one here who has never broke through that veil yet, or if there be one here who just impersonated someone who has went through the veil, give grace tonight, Father. May they see that mighty Conqueror standing here, full of grace and power, to forgive. Grant it, Father.

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« 229 † And while our heads are bowed, would there be some in here? How many, might I say, that would say, “Brother Branham, I’m lifting my hand. Pray for me”? Just keep your head bowed, and raise your hand, “I want to break through every veil, till I can really see the Conqueror.” God bless you. My, at the hands! Up in the balconies, to the right? God bless you. Balconies to the back? Raise… God bless you. Be real honest. To the left? Raise your hand, say, “Brother Branham, I might have been a Christian for years, but, really, I’ve never come through that veil. I’ve really never done it. I haven’t got That what they had then.” Today, we got… “I’m a hotbedded plant.”
230 Take a flower that’s raised in a hotbed, you have to baby it, pet it, spray it, water it. But that original plant that grows out there on the desert, same kind of a flower, looks like it; it don’t get a bit of water, but no bugs get on it. It’s rugged. It’s a real.

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« 231 † Could you compare Christianity with Christianity today, with what it was then? Could you imagine this group, what we call Christians today, across the world, being like those was after Pentecost; babied and patted, and from one church to another, and, say something you don’t like, get up and walk out? And, oh, could you imagine that? No. What is the matter? It’s a reproduction.
232 Michelangelo, that created the monument of Moses, you can get a reproduction of that, very cheap. But, the original?
233 The one who painted the Lord’s Supper, I guess that original painting would run into millions of dollars, if you could even buy it. I don’t even know where it’s at. But you can buy a cheap reproduction of it for about a dollar ninety-eight cents. You can.

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« 234 † And that’s the way it is today. A cheap Christian, a reproduction, just a church-joiner, you can buy them out for a cigarette or a–or a common drink. Or, for a women with cut hair or painted lips, you can buy her for anything in the fashions of the world. But you can’t touch that genuine.
235 I see Him in full view, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
236 Oh, Christian, don’t you want to be a real Christian? If there’s any didn’t raise your hands, will you do it? Well, I’m just going to pray. God bless you. God bless you. Oh, that’s just fine. Just look at that.

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« 237 † Our Heavenly Father, “Thy Word shall not return to Thee void.” You was the One made the promise. I’m only responsible for saying that You said It. I’m just repeating Your Words. You said, “He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life.” You promised it.
238 And, Lord, we know we have them reproductions today, many that say they believe, when, they don’t. It shows up. But, Lord, there is some genuine, too.
239 I pray that You’ll just grant, in here, tonight, that every man and woman, boy or girl, no matter what nation they are, what color they are, what church they belong to, O God, fill them. May they see the real manifestation of that same Jesus today, right among us, as He was at the Day of Pentecost, when He revealed Hisself for this age, being the Holy Ghost. Grant it, seeing the Words fulfill, the prophecies come to pass!

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« 240 † We compare, today, what’s called the church of the world, the World Council of Churches, and compare that with a promise on Pentecost? There is no comparison, at all. We cannot get our dirty clothes washed on that ticket.
241 But, Lord God, if we’ll come back to that Fountain, there’s a cleansing process, then our experience and God’s Word will match one another. Then, we can claim our possession. Grant it, Lord, tonight, as I commit these people in Your hands. Give to each one what we have need of, Father. We ask in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 242 † God bless you. Thank you, a lot, for standing, waiting a long time. And I’m sorry I kept you till ten minutes after ten. God be with you till I see you in the morning. I turn the service now to, I suppose, to the master of ceremony. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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15-1129E On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove

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« 1 † ` Let’s bow our heads.
Dear Lord, we thank Thee tonight for the promise of the coming of the Lord Jesus, where we’ll meet in a great meeting where it’ll never end, of joys and songs, as we praise You through the–the ceaseless ages that is to come. We ask Your blessings upon the meeting tonight. We ask Your blessings upon this tabernacle, upon its staff, its pastors, its co-workers, co-pastors, and all.
2 We ask You to bless these, Lord, who have come many miles to be in the meeting, lay Your hand of mercy upon them as they travel back to their homes. Grant it, Lord. May we meet many more times together in this place called the house of God, to worship. Bless those who are tuned in tonight, Lord, by the way of the telephone. May every unsaved person find Jesus Christ their Saviour, tonight; heal all the sick and the afflicted, Father, your servant is reporting for service, in Jesus’ Name. Amen!

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« 3 † The Lord bless each of you. So happy to be here tonight. I just got in when Brother Ernie was singing the last part of his song, On The Wings Of A Dove. Certainly beautiful poem, certainly beautiful, and I–I know it’s timely. So now, we very thankful.
4 And to all you people that’s tuned in tonight out across the nation, I wished you were only here to see this a-waiting, expectations on the people’s faces as they’re jammed in the building tonight; having a wonderful time.
5 We want to thank Brother Jack Moore, and Sister Moore, and Brother Noel, Brother Boutliere, Brother Brown, all these associates here, the whole tabernacle, the whole staff, for inviting us back.

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« 6 † It was a… really a… kind of a… couldn’t say a coincident, it was simply just the hand of God that worked it out. There’s a brother here that had a dream sometime ago, about this thing happening, said I “was standing in a pair of white trousers, in Indian moccasins.” And that’s just exactly the way I was standing when I called Brother Jack for the meeting here, just exactly, (at Carson, Colorado) Indian moccasins and a pair of white levi trousers on; Brother Leo, if you’re listening in, I was just meeting you in a few minutes. So that’s when the meeting took its birthplace, right there.

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« 7 † Now it’s Sunday night; I know many of you will drive all night tonight going home, some of you will be driving in the morning. I’ve got two days drive ahead of me. And so we–we won’t hold you very long. And I’ve tried to make this an old-time night, the night that Brother Brown, and Brother Jack, and all of us that used to pray for the sick years ago, would pray for the sick in the same manner that we did then.
8 Now, can you hear me back in the back? I just keep lowering these mikes because I am hoarse.

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« 9 † And so I want to… Just a little something, this little incident’s happened. Why, they was telling me a while ago that there was a brother, perhaps here in the meeting tonight, that just come out of denominationalism; come into Shreveport, wanted to hear about the Message. And he got mixed up, he didn’t know where he was at, so he went downtown. He seen a people gathered, he said, “Is this where Billy Branham is going to preach?”
10 He said, “No, it’s where Billy Graham’s a-preaching by–by the way of a–a film.”
11 He said, “Well, I’m sorry, I–I got the wrong place.”
12 He said he come up, he said, “Now where can I go, Lord?” Said he started walking up this main street. I don’t know what it is, there’s a big church up here at the end. Texas Street. And there was a big white cross up on a church. Said the Lord told him, said, “‘Just keep walking.'” Said… when he got there, there was… Said, “Well, here must be where it is, there’s a lot of cars setting around.” And said, “A bride and groom come walking out of the church.” That was last night, there was a wedding, I seen it come out. The Lord said, “Now, that’s what it is. You’re coming out of denominationalism to enter into the Bride, to go with the Groom.” See? See?

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« 13 † I was remarking to my wife, coming down the street, how the moon and the star hanging right above that cross, as we moved up into it. I guess I just look at little things like that, maybe kinda complimentary to my belief in God and my ministry.
14 I was thinking tonight, in Tucson, it happened to be that Victor Le Doux, he was this Frenchman… he’s a genuine Frenchman. I believe I was telling you the other day, that when I got through speaking, trying to separate denominationalism from real Christianity… And a man was giving me a… kind of a short talk about it, from a famous denominational Pentecostal church.
15 And so Danny Henry, I think he’s some movie star’s cousin or something, and he was a Baptist; and he run down to the platform, and just threw his arms around me and said, “Brother Branham, I hope this don’t sound sacrilegious, but that could be the 23rd chapter of Revelation.” And when he started to say something else, he started speaking in tongues.
16 And this, three French people… A French woman (big, heavyset woman, dark complected, from Louisiana, she may be setting here tonight) wrote it down on a piece of paper, what he said. Then Victor Le Doux, a minister, wrote down the same thing; and they were comparing notes, or going to. A light-headed man (kind of a blond hair) standing way back, packed back as far as he could, come walking up, wanted to see those notes. He was the interpreter of French at the U.N. And all three notes was the same.
17 And It said this:
Because thou has chosen this harder way… You’ve chose it, you have took… chose it by your own choosing. (course we know that, Moses had to make his choice)
(said) This is the precise and correct way, because it’s MY WAY.
And what a–what a glorious decision you’ve made!… (said)… Because of this, a large portion of Heaven awaits you.
And this in itself is that which will make, and bring to pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.
18 All three was the same. I thought I had that in my Bible tonight, (I looked in there, but I didn’t), the original copy of it.

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« 19 † Danny Henry don’t know… like myself, he hardly knows good English, let alone French. If you notice in there, it’s like the French language, they put the verb before the adverb. And the interpretation of all three was exactly alike.
20 Danny Henry, sometime ago, he make… Danny may be listening in tonight. Victor Le Doux perhaps is, because I understand he’s in Tucson. And you people in Tucson at the church, the tabernacle, the Tucson Tabernacle where Brother Green’s the pastor; Brother Victor Le Doux, I understand is in a tent meeting right at the foot of Park Avenue where it runs out into Highway 80, coming this a-way. And if you’re out there tomorrow night and next night, whenever how long he’ll be there, go to hear him; and Danny may be with him. And it could be that they’re listening in from the tabernacle tonight, I don’t know.

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« 21 † Danny went to Jerusalem right after that, and said he was laying there in the tomb on the board… rock board that Jesus laid on, a corpse just before His resurrection. And said, all of a sudden I come on his mind; and said he run out, begin crying, and he walked outside. And he was directed… He’s a man that makes things out of rocks; tumbles rocks, I meant. Said he went to where they said the cross was drove down, and he just dropped off… knocked off a little piece of rock about like… oh, a inch square, or something; put it in his pocket, and was impressed to bring it home.
22 When he did, something said to him, “Make Brother Branham a pair of cuff links out of that.” So he put it in the acid, and it changed the color from the regular limestone-looking rock to a bloodstone rock. And he made the cuff links.
23 And when he give them to me, he hadn’t noticed it, but right through the middle of both cuff links runs that straight, narrow strip. I have them on tonight, to pray for the sick. See, a–a bloodstone color, like the dripping blood; with the straight, narrow line right through. Just exactly what his prophecy said, “the straight and narrow way”; see, in the prophecy. I showed it to him.
24 Danny, if you’re listening in, you or Brother Le Doux, either one, tonight’s going to be the old-fashioned night when we’re to pray for the sick. I’m glad to walk this straight, narrow way, the way of the Gospel, the way of the Word, with our Lord Jesus Christ.

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« 25 † God bless you all. Now, you’re so nice to talk to, I’ll just talk a long time and I’ll have you here too long. Billy said there’s between three and four hundred people to be prayed for, so I’ll just have to hurry up with our message as quick as possible, and then pray for the sick.
26 Now, to the people in Arizona, the next Saturday night, we’re over at (never can think of the name of that town) Yuma, Arizona, at the banquet. So then, in California, we follow right on in Sunday morning, to Los Angeles and the places that’s been predicted to be there.
27 Tonight, I want to take a text out of the Scripture.

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« 28 † By the way, I was setting in a cafeteria today, the Morrison’s Cafeteria; Brother Jack, his wife, I and my wife. We went over to Morrison’s Cafeteria to have a little time together, we hadn’t been out, the women had never been together. There was a young fellow walked up to me, his name’s Green, he’s the father of Brother Pearry Green. And he said, “You know, Brother Branham, you was talking about a ‘johnny pin’ the other night.” That’s really a… What is it? Bobby pin. He said, “You were talking about a ‘johnny pin,'” said, “I got you a ‘johnny pin.'” He gave it to me.
29 Now, that’s a “johnny pin,” ladies, that won’t work in the hair. A “johnny pin,” he said–said he’d been using it for years, to hold the pages of his Bible down. So he said, “I’ll give you a genuine ‘johnny pin.'” So, Brother Green, if you’re here somewhere or listening in, that “johnny pin’s” a dandy, just holds it right.

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« 30 † Now we want to get into the Scriptures right away. And I want you to turn with me now to Psalms 55, and then also Matthew 3. And my subject tonight was Brother Ernie’s topic: On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove. Now, I won’t be able to strike all the notes and Scriptures that I got here, because I’ll just kinda skip over a few of them, and because I promised the message.
31 The Lord willing, for Yuma next Saturday night, I want to preach on: The Conditions For The Rapture, if the Lord willing.

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« 32 † In Psalms 53… I beg your pardon, Psalms 55.
Give ear… (Pardon? 55, yes, sir.)
Give ear to my prayer, O God;… hide not thyself from my supplication.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terror of death are fallen upon me.
Fearless and trembling comings are come upon me, the horror has overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. (Selah means “Amen.”)

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« 33 † David, a lover of the wilderness, when he got distressed and the people wouldn’t believe him, and the enemies had come upon him, he said, “If I had the wings of a dove, I would fly out into the wilderness and there remain.” How many times have I thought that same thing! If I could take my rifle off of the wall, my camp bag, go out in the wilderness and never return again. I’ve asked the Lord if I can live to see the day… I don’t never want a funeral service, I said, “If I can just go out in the woods somewhere, set old ‘Blondie’ against the tree,…”
34 That’s my rifle, excuse me, I–I–I say that on account of my wife setting there. You know, that rifle, a Brother here gave me years ago, I killed fifty-five head of game with it, without missing a shot, some of them seven to eight hundred yards. I call it “Blondie” because my wife’s a brunette, so she said I think more of the rifle than I do her. But…
35 So, I–I’d like to set it against a tree, and say, “Lord, let Joseph find it someday.” I like to take the wings of a dove and fly away.
36 But just like one time up in the mountains and watching an eagle, and seeing him fly away (you know my story of it), I said, “It’s good to be here, Lord; like Peter said, ‘we could build three tabernacles.’ But down at the foot of the mountain, the sick and the afflicted are waiting, the lost and dying are waiting.” So let us do what we can while it’s day, and someday there’ll be a… the wings of a white Eagle will come down, He’ll bear us away.

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« 37 † Now in Matthew 3:16, I’d like to read 16 and 17.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went straightway up out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (In other words, “in whom I’m pleased to dwell in.”)

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« 38 † Now we want to speak a few minutes on this bird. A dove has always been one of my favorite birds. And thinking of a dove, a dove is really… and a pigeon is the same bird. A pigeon is a domestic dove. They’re both the same family. I’ve looked it up and it is the same family. A pigeon and a dove, they’re both of the same family. The habits of these birds are outstanding.
39 I preached here, some few years ago, in a tent meeting out here with Brother Moore, on: The Lamb And The Dove. I guess you all remember that; and how that the dove is the most cleanest bird that we have, and the lamb is the most meekest animal that we have. They’re both sacrificial bird and beast.

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« 40 † How beautiful it’s typed here as Jesus being the Lamb, and God being the Dove. And the dove would not have settled on a wolf, his nature’s not right. It couldn’t a-settled on a dog, his nature’s not right. It had to be on a lamb; the two natures had to be the same. And that’s the way we have to be, our natures has to change from the roaring sinner to the meekness of a lamb.
41 And did you notice the Dove led the Lamb? And notice, the Lamb forfeit everything He had to the Dove. And look where the Dove led Him: to crucifixion for the sins of us all.
42 Now, the Dove of… God wanted to represent His Son, He was represented by the most cleanest and meekest animal on the earth, a earthbound creature; but when God represented Himself in the heavens, was by the meekest and most cleanest bird there is in the heavens, a dove.

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« 43 † Now, doves vary, there’s many different variations of them. Usually our turtledove is kind of a gray-looking bird. And then there’s a mourning dove, and then there’s the evening dove. There’s also called the sonora dove that we have at home, he’s a little, gray fellow; little, bitty fellow with red stripes on his wings. There’s many different kinds of doves, and they vary in colors. So is there same thing in the pigeons.
44 Now, the dove is a very odd constructed dove, because his habit’s that he cannot eat anything that’s unclean; he just couldn’t do it, because he’s not built for it.

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« 45 † Now, I’ve always talked about the dove being the symbol of God, and the crow being the symbol of a hypocrite. A crow can set out on an old dead carcass and eat, all day long, and fly right out in the field and eat wheat with the dove. But the dove can eat wheat all right, but it can’t eat the dead carcass. See? He just can’t do it, he can’t stomach it. And I wondered why he couldn’t do it; they’re both fowls, both birds. But why? It’s the structure of them.
46 And that’s the way it is with a genuine Christian. A… just a denominational Christian can just take anything, but a genuine, borned-again Christian cannot take the things of the world. He’s constructed different.

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« 47 † I found out that the dove don’t have any gall. There’s no gall in a dove because he has no need of it.
48 So that’s the way it is with a Christian, he doesn’t need any bitterness, see, ’cause. he only can eat the food of God. And it doesn’t take bitterness to dissolve that; takes love, see, so he… to dissolve the food. Bitterness: “Oh,” they say, “well…” they difference with It. But love always receives It, the Word of God.
49 Now, he has no gall, so therefore he could not… it’s just against him to eat anything bad. And if he would, it would kill him. But there’s no danger, he isn’t going to eat it (uh-huh), because he has no appetite for it.

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« 50 † And that’s the way with a real Christian. Did you know a real Christian doesn’t have even any sin at all imputed to him? David said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin to.” When you’re washed in the Blood of the Lamb (not by make-belief, but really the–the Blood of the Lamb), God does not impute to you anything that’s done, because you’re under the Blood and He doesn’t see it. There’s a Blood sacrifice; the only thing He can see you in, is the way He saw you before the foundation of the world when He put your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life. That’s all He can look at, because you are redeemed from everything that was ever done, you’re washed in the Blood of the Lamb. Therefore there’s no gall in you, there’s no unclean habit in you, because that the Blood of the Lamb has did this; and God cannot impute sin to you after you’ve got a sin-offering laying there waiting for you.
51 “Well,” you say, “that gives me plenty of room then, Brother Branham, I can do what I want to.” I always do; always. But when a man can really see what Jesus done for him, and turn around and do something contrary to Him, it shows he never received Christ.

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« 52 † I got a little wife setting back there. She’s ten years younger than me, and is gray as I am. The reason is because she’s stood between me and the–and the outside world. If I was going overseas, and I’d… Wouldn’t this be some sort of a family to live in, if I’d gather my family around me and I’d say: “Looky here, Mrs. Branham, you want to realize that you’re Mrs. William Branham. Thou shalt not have any other husbands while I’m gone. Don’t you make eyes at any other man,” and all these things. “Don’t you flirt at all. If you do, when I come back I’m going to divorce you.”
53 And she’d turn around and say, “Now, my good man, I want to tell you something also. Thou shalt not take out any other woman while you’re gone. Thou shalt not do this and that. If you do, just consider yourself divorced when you come home.”
54 Now, wouldn’t that be a loving family? See? No! If I really love her… Though I believe if I did make a mistake and slip and do something wrong, I believe she’d forgive me for it because she loves me. And if she did, I believe I’d forgive her for it; certainly, because I love her. But if I love her like that, as long as I love her like that she has no worry. Though she would forgive me, I wouldn’t hurt her for nothing. I–I–I’d feel the guiltiest guy in the world, I couldn’t wait for the minute I’d tell her about what I done, because I love her. Well, that’s… If I love her with phileo love like that, how much greater would my agapao love be to Jesus Christ?

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« 55 † Though I might smoke a cigarette, I never in my life; but though I would, He might forgive me for it, I believe He would. If I took a drink, I never in my life, but I believe He’d forgive me for it. And I love Him too much, (God, help me) I don’t want to do anything like that, see, because I love Him. That stuff is gone from me, because when He changed me from a crow to a dove it made a difference, my appetite and things left me; then sin is not imputed to me because I don’t aim to do it, it’s not in me to do it.

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« 56 † Now another great thing about this dove. He’s a strange bird. Did you ever see all the birds…
57 One of my favorite birds is a robin. Now, you boys quit shooting at my robins, see, ’cause I don’t want you doing that. My robin, you know how he got his red breast? You know, one day there was a Man dying on the cross, nobody would help Him, God had forsaken the Man, and He was dying. His hands had nails in them, his feet and his side a-bleeding, crown on His head and thorns, blood running over His face. And there was a little bird passed by, a little, brown bird. And he looked at that, was… thought it was the most pitiful sight he ever saw. And he knowed he was just a little bird, but he looked at them great big, ol’ cruel Roman nails drove in His hand, and he flew in with his little beak and tried to pull them loose. He got his breast all bathed with blood, since then it’s been red. I want my breast shielded with His Blood, too, defending It when I come to meet Him. I love a little robin.

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« 58 † But, you know, a little robin has to take a bath; but, you know, a dove don’t have to; no. He’s got some kind of oil on the inside of him that oils him and keeps him clean from the inside out. You know that? The dove has! The dove oils himself. Did you ever pick up one, smell that odor on him, a pigeon or something? That’s oil that’s produced from the inside of him. His body makes up a oil gland that keeps his feathers always clean on the outside because he’s clean from inside out. That’s right. He’s a marvelous little bird.
59 Now, I know you can hunt them here, I think, in Louisiana. Don’t do that! Oh, I couldn’t do it. I guess if I was hungry, it’d be all right, but I–I just couldn’t pull the trigger on one if I had to.

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« 60 † There’s… A dove has a great strange thing in our family. One day when my grandmother… She come from up here in Kentucky, off the Cherokee reservation. She was dying, a little woman, and she was… They had… I think they call it scrofula or something, she was dying. And grandfather knelt down by the side of the bed; while Mama, Aunt Birtie, Aunt Howlie, all of them knelt around the bed; Uncle Charlie, (little bitty, four-year-old boy) the baby; Mama, the oldest, being about twelve years old. And she had combed her black hair out on the bed, and she started singing, “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee,” when she was dying. Grandpa, at that time, wasn’t a Christian. I baptized him at eighty-seven years old, in the Name of Jesus Christ, at the foot of the river there where the Angel of the Lord appeared.
61 But while she was singing this song, with her feeble little hands up in the air, a dove flew in the door; come around, set down on the top of the bed, started cooing. God took her soul.

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« 62 † I went over to London, England with Brother Jack and with Brother Gordon Lindsay, and there had been a woman by the name of Florence Nightingale (claims to be, I think, a great-granddaughter or something of the late Florence Nightingale) that wrote me many letters. She was down in South Africa, dying with a cancer. And she had a picture; you seen it in the book. I never seen a mortal like that in my life. Brother Jack, I believe, was with me that day. We went into a minister’s house, at the rectory, just behind the church where they had brought her.
63 While we were yet out on the… where the plane come down, they paged us, and she was in a ambulance there then; had been flown up from–from down in South Africa, knowing that I was coming to England at that time. The minister took her to the rectory, so we went back there to pray for her.

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« 64 † I’ve seen lots of sick people, but her little arms didn’t look over a inch across, her–her skull where it laces together, you could see it. And she… her limbs way up here around her hips wasn’t over that, about two inches across, just the bone. And she couldn’t raise her hands, she was too weak to raise her hands. And she was trying to say something, and I couldn’t understand her. And when I finally got to hear, I believe through a nurse, she said, “Brother Branham, pray that God will let me die.” She couldn’t… didn’t want to live. And I noticed, and tears was running off of the side of them bone on her face. Where she got enough moisture about her to cry, I don’t know; for her veins was collapsed, and she was in a terrible condition. Coming to pray for the sick, I couldn’t pray for her to die. But she just looked like couldn’t die, she just lingering on.
65 I knelt down with your pastor, in the room to pray. And when I knelt down to pray, a little dove flew up by the window; begin cooing. When I finished praying, I thought it was a pet dove there somewhere. Foggy outside, how England is, the British Isles there. And this little dove quit cooing, and flew away. I walked over and laid hands upon her and called the Name of the Lord. And the woman is a great big, strong healthy woman today, on the wings of a Dove.
66 He keeps hisself clean from the inside. A Christian does that too, he cleans from the inside. That keeps the malice… He don’t need any gall to digest anything, because he doesn’t eat it. See? He’s clean from the inside out.

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« 67 † Now, we notice that this bird… Many things I’ve got written down here, but the clock keeps moving around. This bird was also used in the Old Testament for sacrifice, for an atonement and for cleansing. Let’s just refer here to one in Genesis 15:9. Let’s think of this verse just for a moment. Now, Abraham was… asked God here, how would He do this. And God is making His Word back to Abraham, and He does it in a strange way. Begin with about the… Let’s begin at the 1st verse, I don’t like to hurry this.
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abraham in a vision,… (See, Abraham was a prophet, so he saw visions.)… Fear not, Abraham: I am thy shield, and… exceeding reward. (Jehovah-nissi, see.)
And Abraham said, Lo-… said, Lord GOD… (Notice, capital L, “Lord GOD.” Elohim! See?)… Lord GOD,… (in the vision)… what will thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou has given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, This shall not be thy heir;…
Done made him a promise, you know. Not… See, right then Abraham would have failed, but the promise is unconditional; the covenant, unconditional.
… but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. (And he’s a hundred years old now.)
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. (A man without a child, and now a hundred years old.)
And he believed in the LORD; and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur, out of the Chaldeans, to give thee the land to inherit it.
And he said unto Him, Lo-… Lord… or Lord… whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
68 Now listen to this.
And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old,… (watch the threes now, “three years old”)… and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. (Both the same people, both the same thing. See, it was used in a sacrifice that he was foreshowing Jesus.)

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« 69 † The covenant was made… You know, how he cleave them apart, and how that this…
70 Or the old times, when they took… made a covenant, they would take and write the–the agreement up. And kill an animal, stand in between it; tear the covenant in two, one person took one part…
71 Like the Chinese laundry used to do. The Chinaman here, he couldn’t write English, so he wrote on there and tore a piece of paper and handed you a part. And you–you remember the Chinese laundries when they used to do that. And you… their–their two ends had to compare, to get your clothes. See, you couldn’t fool him, ’cause he had the other end of it. You might re-copy your name, but you can’t retear that paper. See? So, he had… it had to be the same piece of paper.
72 So that’s the way they done it in the Oriental days, long… or long ago in the Eastern days. They’d kill an animal, stand in between it, tear the piece of goatskin apart, one took one… And when the covenant was confirmed, they brought the pieces together and they had to dovetail just exactly.

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« 73 † Now, what God is showing him here is this, on these sacrifices, is speaking of Christ; that how God took Jesus to the Calvary and tore Him apart, and received the body up into Heaven and sent the Spirit down upon us, that the same Spirit was on Him has to be on you to dovetail with the Body, to be the Bride at the end time. See? See? That’s right. See? Won’t be a denomination, now. It’ll be the Word, what He was. See?
74 But like that Word has to come to Word, like cell in a human being. You know, when your–your body’s being built, it isn’t one cell of a human, next of a dog, and next of a pig. Oh, no, no. It’s all human cell. That’s the way the Body of Christ is, all the Word of God. Not just part of It, some tradition added to It; no, It’s all the Body of Christ.
75 Now, we find here that he used both a turtledove and a young pigeon, because they are the selfsame family. Now, you always…

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« 76 † So notice (I just refer to a couple of these Scriptures) Leviticus 12, and the 6th verse. We find here that the order of a woman being purified; if the woman had a baby, she had to wait. If it was a boy, she had to wait for thirty-three days before she could enter the congregation with the doves, for purification. If she had a girl, she had to wait ninety-six days before she could enter the congregation.
77 Now we find here, the 6th verse.
And when the days of her purification are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
78 See, she can’t come in yet because her days isn’t finished yet, but she can give this to the–the priest at the door, for her offering. See, either a turtledove or a young pigeon. They’re both the same family.

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« 79 † Now it–now it was used for atonements, and in the atonement for sin, one dove. Or of leprosy, which is a type of sin, you brought two doves: one’s head was taken off, turned upside down and bled on the other one; and then the other dove was set free. And when the dove flew, he bathed the ground with his blood of his mate, and the blood cried out to God, “Holy! Holy! Holy is the Lord God!”
80 Can’t you see the dying mate Jesus Christ? Was killed and sprinkled upon us, that we should go free, crying out “Holy! Holy! Holy! unto the Lord.” What beautiful types. Wished I had some voice.

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« 81 † Now type the great Holy Spirit as we just read in Revelation 3:16; used of God for signs, this dove was.
82 Noah was given a sign, as the brother just sang about it. God was displeased, and there was nothing going to stay His wrath, for He said, “The day you eat thereof, that day you die.” And Noah had found grace with God and had built an ark according to the constructions… the instructions, rather, that He had given him. And he had been floated up.
83 I can imagine his… what happened in them days when they said, “This old man up on the hill, an old fanatic, building an ark, saying ‘it’s going to rain,’ and it never has rained.” But it…
84 Noah said, “It’s going to rain, anyhow.”
85 And then I know the day that he went in, I think what… can’t think of what day it was, I believe the seventeenth day of May. Noah entered into the ark, and God shut the door.
86 And the clouds begin to come, the rains begin to fall, the sewers begin to fill up, the fountains of the deep broke up, the springs all belched up their water. Finally people got into the houses, climbed up. The old ark set right there just the same.
87 After while when enough begin to get around her, she begin to rise up higher and higher. The people knocked at the doors and screamed, but it did no–no good, Noah could not open the door. God closed it, God’s the only one can open it.
88 So is it at our Ark, Jesus Christ; God opened the door for us on Calvary, He’ll close it just as sure as He opened it.

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« 89 † And it floated, and on and on, maybe a mile’s deep over the top of the earth when this earth was tumbling out from the way… from the–the… its regular orbit. And around and around it went, and chunks, and trees, and above the mountains and so forth, pitching for forty days and nights.
90 And when the winds being to cease…
91 God’s wrath is horrible. His love is pure and Divine; and His wrath is just as Divine–just as Divine as His love is, because, He must pass judgment because He is a judge. He’s a law-giver, and law without penalty is not law. So there must be a penalty to law. And you transgress God’s laws, that’s when you pay the penalty.

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« 92 † Now we notice that after Noah floating up there, no doubt seasick from all that roaring and popping, and the wrath of God mashing and crushing, and screams and so forth. Then it begin to quieten down, nothing happened. Days passed, nothing happened. Perhaps the food supply for the animals and so forth running low, nothing happened. So he thought, “Wonder… I can’t see out.”
93 The ark was so constructed (when you were once in it), there was only one window in it, and it was right in the top. You couldn’t look sideways, you couldn’t look no way but straight up. And that’s the way the Ark, Jesus Christ, is. You can’t look at the next fellow, you can’t look at nothing but Christ when you’re in the Ark because there’s only one door, and He is that Door we talked about this morning. You have to keep looking up, “For he that will put his hand to the plow and even turn to look back, is not worthy of the plowing.”

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« 94 † Now, as in this ark… And he could see light, and perhaps sunlight, but he wondered where he was. The ark was still a-floating, he could hear the waves against the sides, but he knew that there’d been many days, surely the water was receding by that time. So he went and got an untrusted bird, treacherous, and he tried him, and he sent him out. He was a crow, and that crow never did return, because he found pleasure out there, outside the ark of God. He flew from one old dead body to another, eating the carcasses and the a-carrion that was floating on the water; and he was perfectly satisfied.

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« 95 † So after several days he tried again, for he knowed… He didn’t want to step out in the wrath of God. So he turned a dove loose. And this dove was of a different nature than the… It was not a vulture, neither is it a scavenger, it can only eat the clean pure things. And it was so satisfied because it couldn’t find nothing else to put the soles of his feet on, it returned back to the ark. Noah said, “Well, the flood’s still on.”
96 Then he waited several other days, and he sent out again; like his prayer, “O God, has Your wrath been appeased? Is–is–is Your wrath over, Lord? Is it all done?” And he said, “Now, if I send her out this time, she may stay out there if the floods are down, she may stay.” But he sent her out by prayer, and then when she went out there directed by God, she picked off a holly leaf off of a tree, and flew back and pecked on the window again.
97 God used a dove for a sign. She come back saying that “the flood is over,” and then God opened the door, and they went out. That’s Genesis 8:8.

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« 98 † Also used in Matthew 3:16, again when God’s wrath was on the earth. And there was no way, the darkest of night, midnight, the churches had got things in such a twist till there was no way to get out of it. And there was false teachers, all kinds of things coming up, all kinds of professions coming up, but God used a dove again. It pleased Him, His Son Jesus had pleased Him so well, that He identified Him.
99 Now, they couldn’t believe that this baby that was borned down there in that stable in a manger of hay… before his father and mother, supposingly to be, was married. They couldn’t imagine God using anything like that. So He had to be identified to the world; and that day down on the river, when He walked down to prove Hisself God’s Masterpiece (that I talked about this morning)… When He was obedient to walk into the water…

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« 100 † Now, if you notice there, there’s a great lesson. John was the greatest man on earth, at the time. Jesus said, “There never was a man borned of a woman as great as he,” to that time. And he was a prophet. You believe that? Now, remember, if the Word of God will come to anything in the land, it’ll be a prophet. That’s always God’s way. Do you believe that Jesus was the Word manifested in flesh? So there’s only one way He can come to be introduced; not by the priests.
101 He didn’t go up and say, “Caiaphas, will you introduce Me?” If He did, He made the same mistake that David did in our lesson the other day; see, if He went up to the church, and said, “Will you introduce Me?”

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« 102 † Just notice when He was borned, even. When He was borned, He was borned in the shadow of the church. And they was probably rang the bells and everything, but it was shepherds that recognized Him, and Magi. See?
103 And here He is now, on… ready for His ministry. And if He is the Word…
104 According to God’s great plan, the Word can only… “The Lord God does nothing until He first reveals It to His servants the prophets.” That’s always His pattern, has to be; when the Seals were opened, when anything else. Any major event taking place in the earth, God reveals it to His prophets.
105 And John was the prophet, for he was prophesying “He’d come.”
106 Then down off the side of a hill one day… when a discussion was going on, a bunch of priests standing around. And they said, “Do you mean to tell me that you call yourself a ‘prophet,’ and stand over there in that mud?” (not in a church, because they wouldn’t have him) “Stand over in that mud, and tell me that the hour’s coming when the great Jehovah who ordained these sacrifices, when great Jehovah who built this temple, who came into it as a Pillar of Fire, ‘the day will come when that daily sacrifice will be taken away’?”
107 He said, “There will come a Man, and He’s among you now (somewhere out there), and He will take away the sin.” The priest was disgusted with him.

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« 108 † John looked up! Now, what is he? The prophet! And here is the Word, there comes the Word coming right straight to the prophet, right to the water. John said, “Behold, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. There He is, that’s Him.” Jesus never spoke a word, walked right out into the water. And I can see there, standing in that water (think of a drama), two of the greatest that ever struck the earth: God the Word, and His prophet.
109 Notice, the Word come to the prophet in this dispensation of grace, in the water (uh-huh). I thought you’d catch it (uh-huh). In the water! The first revelation of the Word was in the water. Now you see where the Bride started, the Evening-light Message? In the water! The Word, true Word not mixed up with creeds, but come to the prophet in the water, by the water.

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« 110 † Notice! Could you imagine the eyes of the Word and the eyes of the prophet meeting in the water? Oh, that’s too much for me. There stood the prophet, there stood the Word, looking in each others’ eyes. And the prophet said, “I have need to be baptized of Thee, why comest Thou unto me?”
111 And the Word said… It has to be true.
Now let me give a drama here:
112 “John, you’re a prophet, you know the Word.” See? “You recognize Me, you know Who I am.”
113 “I have need to be baptized of Thee,” John said.
114 Jesus said, “Suffer that to be so. That’s exactly right, you do have need to be baptized of Me. But remember, John, being a prophet, it is behooving to us, or becoming to us (as the Word and the prophet), that we fulfill every Word. Uh-huh. For, John,” (here’s the revelation now) “John, you know Who I am, I am the Sacrifice. And according to the Word of God, the sacrifice had to be washed before it was presented for sacrifice.” Is that right? The Word… “The lamb was washed and then presented for sacrifice, and I am that Lamb. And I must be washed before I can be presented to the world for a sacrifice. Suffer it to be so, John, for thus it is becoming to us as the Word and the prophet together.”

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« 115 † Well, there can’t be a mistake. Now, every one of these things…
116 Now, see, if it wasn’t that very setup, John would’ve been like any of the rest of us; so they say, “Yeah, I–I know who You are, Lord.”
117 “Well,” He said, “wait a minute, I’m the Word. Uh-huh. ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word.’ Eve left off one uh-huh, but you got to take every Word. And I am that Sacrifice, and I must be washed before I’m presented. But what you said, John, is true.”
118 John being a prophet, knowing the Word had to be fulfilled, he suffered that and baptized Him. And when He was raised up out of the water, there come the Message from Heaven on the wings of a Dove, “This is My beloved Son.” He sent the redemption Message of grace on the wings of a Dove, come flying down out of the heavens. “Peace on earth, good will toward man.” The Sacrifice was ready right then; been raised, fed, His ministry was ready, a Word that would redeem the whole world, “It’s over!”

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« 119 † The dove is used in the Bible as a symbol of peace, and also it’s used by nations as a symbol of peace. We have nations… Our nation is represented by an eagle. And there’s other birds of other nations, Rome has an eagle, Germany has an eagle; many of them, great birds of the sky. But in all of them, the dove symbolizes peace in all nations. It’s a universal thing.
120 Just like Brother Green said one night, Brother Pearry Green said, “The symbol of surrender is ‘raise your hand.’ Any nation, raise up your hand, it’s surrender.” He said, “When you sing, raise up your hands, you surrender it all.”
121 And the dove is the symbol of peace in every nation. Why is it done? Because of its gentleness, and because of its innocence. That’s the reason it symbols peace.

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« 122 † Another thing about the dove, it is a home-loving bird. It loves to stay home.
123 And another thing it is, it’s always loyal to its mate. The dove, male or female, never leave one another. That female finds her mate in mating season. See, that’s complimentary to God’s great creation. That’s the reason He made Eve a by-product. See? If she’d a-been made like other females, when the time come for her mating time, she’d a-found her mate; but she could any time. See? And that’s the way, that’s what it is. I just… We don’t want to go into that, because I’ve got it on Marriage And Divorce, and so forth. And how it… But yet she’s honorable and brought that virtue, and you know how I preached on it the other night. All right, notice, she’s got a great responsibility.
124 But the dove is always loyal to his mate. Always! Never leaves her.

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« 125 † And may I stop here just for a minute, to say this: a true Bride, female dove, is loyal to her Mate, too. It won’t inject any dogma, any denominational doctrines, anything of the world. It’ll stay loyal to its Mate, the Word; always loyal.
126 And by this home-loving conduct, by the conduct of its home-loving, it has been successfully used for a carrier pigeon. Because it loves home, you turn it loose anywhere, it’ll always go back home. It’ll go back home.
127 We’d like to stress on that a little while, and you Christians would understand what I mean. It always finds its way back home, so therefore it’s been used for carrier pigeon. It’s used in time of war, used to be; they still use them, carrier pigeons to carry a message. So you see then, that makes the dove, both by God and man, a messenger; a dove is a messenger. It was a messenger to Noah, to tell Noah that “there’s peace again.” It was used by God to vindicate that this was His Son, “the Sacrifice to bring peace upon the earth and goodwill to man.” It was used as a messenger.

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« 128 † Right here I have a little story in my mind, I read one time out of a book. Now, I don’t want to say this is sure, it may be in The Decline of the First World War. I’m not positive of that now; if you miss seeing it, then I’m wrong. I either read it in a book… it’s been many years ago. But it was certainly a–a… really a–a dramatic thing that happened.
129 The American soldiers was pinned down by German machine-gun fire, and they were in kind of a pit. You soldiers, I guess, understand how they were on a reconnaissance somewhere. And they was pinned down, and they had just a little bit of ammunition left. And the Germans was moving in great units, moving in everywhere. And they knowed that unless they’d get some reinforcement, some help, that they would soon all die; (they had to) the Germans coming right down off the mountain, looking right down their neck, going right into them like that.

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« 130 † And one of them happened to remember that he had a little mascot, a little pigeon. So he knew that this pigeon, if it could get out of there, would carry the message to the main headquarters to where they’d been stationed. And so they set down and wrote on a note, “We are pinned down in a certain position at a certain area. We’re out of ammunition, in a few hours we’ll have to surrender or either we’ll be massacred.” And they pinned this, or tied it on the–the foot of this little dove and turned him loose.
131 Now, he’s a home-loving bird, so he… what does he do? He takes back home for his… meet, find his mate. She was worried about him, he’d have to come back home.

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« 132 † And as he went up, the Germans seen what had happened. So the thing they done, they started shooting at the dove. And one of them hit him with a .30 caliber machine gun, or bullet, it broke his leg. Another one tore a big hunk out of his back. His chest was bruised all the way across. One of his wings was crippled, the end shot off of it, and he flew sideways. But he kept climbing, and finally he made it. Crippled, wounded, broken, bruised, but he fell in the camp with the message. That was a great dove.
133 But, oh, brother, Isaiah 53 tells us of One, came down from Home and all that was good.
And he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we were healed.

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« 134 † Sickness, superstition, and devils had us pinned down, there was no way out, the church had gone wrong, they had went off on denominational things (and the Pharisees, Sadducees, and washing of pots and pans), and the Word of God become of no effect. But this little Dove came down, and there’s only one thing could take place: there had to be a redeemer.
135 But being wounded, broken, beaten, torn, but He knowed His way back Home. So from Calvary’s cross where they bruised Him, mashed Him, tore Him, like a bunch of wolves upon Him, He made His flight from Calvary and He landed in Heaven’s doors, saying, “It’s finished! It’s finished! They are free! Sickness can be healed now! Sinners can be saved! The captive can be set free!”
136 Though He was bruised and wounded, that great battle there when even everything against Him… Even the poet cried out:
Mid rendering rocks and darkening skies,
My Saviour bowed His head and died;
But the opening veil revealed the way
To Heaven’s joy and endless day.

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« 137 † I’ve been a neurotic all my life. As a little boy there was something struck me, that scare me, about every seven years it would happen to me. Brother Jack remembers when I first started, come off the field for a year; something just happened.
138 I remember the day that Juanita Hemphill… I think her name’s Juanita Kelly now, she married Brother Kelly after the death of her husband. Anna Jeanne, I’ve got their pictures and things, they were such… And her… And them two girls and Sister Moore had a–a little trio. They sang that song that I never forget: Looking Beyond The Sunset. Brother Jack, you remember, I guess, coming up from Florida. What fine little girls.

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« 139 † And I remember that morning a little Pentecostal group from up here in northern part of the country, in Michigan somewhere, those girls stood out there when Brother Hooper… I seen him here the other night, I… he may not be here now, Brother Ed Hooper. Are you here, Brother Ed? I don’t think he… He set here the other night. None… Many of you know him. He and I, and Brother Hooley, we was leaving. And those girls standing there on the corner singing that, gave us, each one, a yellow rose that they took out of their hair. (That’s where that maniac had been healed down there, great things had took place.)
140 Coming up the road just as happy as I could be, all of a sudden it struck me; a year later ‘fore I entered the field again, just killed me.

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« 141 † Since a little boy, I always said I didn’t know what a vision was. A little boy, I always said, “If I–if I’d only fall in one of those trance, and see that, I’d get well.” That time… I always wanted to go to Mayo’s to find out what was wrong. The doctors there…
142 My stomach gets sour; and oh, my! Brother Jack’s helped me around the house. I walk right around the house; and just a hot greasy water like, flying out of my mouth. And walk to the pulpit, and pray for people that was twice that bad, and be healed. I’ve had them lay my hands on a man with a cancer on his face, and the cancer left his face, standing there; and I was so sick I couldn’t stand up.

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« 143 † And you don’t know what I’ve suffered; just mental oppression. Every seven years it’s come, all my life. That’s where I’m at now, seven eights.
144 So I was–I was so distressed; I cried, I begged, I pleaded.
145 And I remember when I finally thought I had enough money to go to Mayo’s for an examination; they said, “They’ll find what your trouble is.” Wife and I, and Becky back there… Sarah was a little, bitty fellow. I had just entered my healing ministry. And we took off to Mayo’s.
146 I went through the clinic. And the night before I’d find… had my finals the next morning, I just woke up and was setting there on the bed looking around. And I looked out in front of me, and there was a little boy, looked just like me, about seven years old; and looked at it, and it was me. And he was standing by an old snag tree. And on that tree…

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« 147 † Any of you squirrel hunters know you can rub a stick up and down on a tree like that, and it’ll scare a squirrel and run him out if he’s in the hollow.
148 And I was seeing there where that squirrel had been, and I thought, “What kind of squirrel is that?” and I rubbed it. And when I did, I looked over and it was me then about thirty-eight years old, the little boy was gone. So I rubbed that limb, and out of the hollow log, pole, come a little squirrel about that long, dark, almost black, and looked like little currents flying from him; little bitty beady eyes, the wickedest looking thing that I ever seen, looked like a weasel more than a squirrel.

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« 149 † And he looked right at me. And I opened my mouth to say, “Well…” And when I did, he… Before you could’ve batted your eye, he flew right into my mouth, went down into my stomach, and just tearing me to pieces. And as I come out of the vision, with my hands up, looking, I went screaming, “O God, have mercy! It’s killing me!”
150 I heard a Voice way down in the room, say, “Remember, it’s only six inches long.”
151 How many’s heard that story? I’ve told you that many times, the people around the tabernacle.
152 Well, on and on it went, suffering just the same.
153 Mayo Brothers, the next day, examined me. Said, “Your father was an Irishman, he drank. Your mother being a half Indian, that makes you almost a half-breed. So you’ll be… you’re–you’re–you’re just such a nervous wreck until you’ll never be out of it.” Said, “Otherwise, you’re healthy. But that, that’s something in the soul that man cannot control.” Said, “You will…” Said, “When a man dies, can’t hold a autopsy, ’cause his soul’s gone.” He said, “Well, you’ll never get over it.”

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« 154 † And that guy said, my old doctor, said, “My father had it, he died at about eighty-five, ninety years old,” somewhere along there, he said. And said, “A month or two before he died, I examined him; had it all of his life, he’d get them” said, “spells.”
155 “Some people,” said, “they get it, they’re high tempered”; said, “that’s the kind that’ll kill you.” He said, “The other kind, like women in menopause, they cry. You got the kind that’s kind of a weary feeling.” Said, “The old-timers used to call it ‘had the blues,’ it wouldn’t leave them.” Said, “When that hits you, your stomach sours; you’re just upset.”
156 I said, “But, sir, I don’t do nothing.” I said, “I’m happy.”
157 Said, “That’s right. That’s just out of the human grab bag.” Said, “You’ll always have it.” Oh, what a discouraging thing!
158 But the words, to think it, “Remember, it’s only six inches long,” that’s hung with me, as my dear wife back there can tell you. Year after year, I’ve thought of that.

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« 159 † And then, going overseas this last time, I was… before. Well, I was back home, and I was on a squirrel-hunting trip. I jumped out of the car with Brother Banks Wood, who’s listening in tonight, and I started to run up the hill, and looked like my heart would jump out of me.
160 And I asked Dr. Sam Adair, I said, “What does that?”
161 He said, “Next time you have it, get a cardiogram.”
162 Said, “All right.”
163 So it happened again in the–the next year, and went and took the cardiogram. He said, “Nothing wrong with your heart,” said, “you’re just nervous.” Started coming on then.

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« 164 † Well, another doctor said to me, a good friend of mine, said, “That’s your heart, boy,” said “you better be careful.” That’s the year I called Brother Moore and he got somebody to preach in my stead, when I went on that ram hunt with Brother Fred. I’d go up over mountains just like I did when I was sixteen years old, mile after mile, running; never bothered me a bit. See?
165 And I come back and told Sam. He said, “Well, there’s something wrong, you better be careful.”
166 Then I saw a vision of an old doctor standing with those… old-fashioned doctor with stethoscopes over his arm. He said… He was standing in front of me one day, he said, “Don’t let them tell you ‘that’s your heart,’ that’s your stomach.”
167 So, I–I thought, “Well, I’ll just take that word, ’cause it was a vision. Come on.”

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« 168 † I started to Africa; and get some shots, and I had to take a bunch of shots before going to Africa, that’s the law. So, when I was getting these shots, he said, “Why, I can’t find one thing wrong with you.” Said, “Your hemoglobin, your blood’s ninety-six, it’s ninety-six.” Said, “If you was sixteen years old, it wouldn’t be any–it wouldn’t be any better.” And said, “Hard enough to beat you a hundred years. Lungs, everything,” said, “you’re all right; no sugar, nothing.”
169 I said, “Thank you.” So I got a physical test, and–and to take my–my health certificate to the board.
170 So, he said, “You know anything about it?”
171 I said, “Nothing but persistent souring in the stomach all the time.”
172 He said, “Well, I’ll tell you.” He said…
173 I said, “Oh, I’ve been examined. I’ve been to Mayo Brothers, and everywhere.”

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« 174 † He said, “But wait a minute.” He said, “Sometimes a ulcer is so little till that barium meal won’t show it; and sometimes it’s too big to show it, because an x-ray is only a shadow. And a little bitty ulcer, you can’t see it, it won’t enough stick. Whole lot of little bitty ulcers could do that.” He said, “I know an old doctor up here that’s found an instrument, they got it now; they can put you to sleep with a little sodium pentothal, put a tube in your throat, and they just actually look down in your stomach and see what’s wrong.” Said, “He…” Said, “He’s your type of people, he’s a Christian.” Said, “Why don’t you go see him.”

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« 175 † I took his name: Dr. Van Ravensworth. So, when I come back, I went up to see the old doctor. Oh, he’s a fine old man from Dutch East Indies, out of a big line of missionaries. And he had heard of me and read my book, and oh, he just shook my hand, he said, “Brother Branham, I’d be glad to do that for you.” He said, “Tell you what to do; next week you run over at the hospital over here,” and said, “and call me up before you go.” And said, “I have to give you a little shot of pentothal.” And said, “Then when I do,” said, “it puts you to sleep for five minutes.”
176 My little girl had just took it to have a tooth pulled, and Brother Norman’s little girl. “A five minute sleep,” I thought, “that won’t bother me.” So, I thought I’d be satisfied then, to look at it.

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« 177 † And then the next morning, I raised up in the bed and looked around, I looked over in the twin bed; my wife over there, she hadn’t woke up yet. And I was looking out the window towards the great Catalina Mountains there where I live, and I looked up there where the Angel of the Lord put that Sword in my hand, where the seven Angels that you see in the picture appeared, great things taken place.
178 And I looked, and as I looked, there I was standing by that tree again, right where that squirrel was. I looked up there, I thought, “That’s that squirrel’s den.” And I thought, “Wonder if he’s still up there?” in the vision. I raked the side of the tree, out he come. And before I could even bat my eye… He was the oddest looking squirrel I ever seen; now, you’ll have to know my ministry to know these symbols and things. He jumped at me but he missed me; he missed my mouth, hit on my chest and fell off.
179 And as soon as he did, I heard Something said, “Go to the Catalina Mountains.”

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« 180 † So I turned around, I said, “Meda, are you awake, Honey?” And I woke her up.
181 She said, “What’s the matter?” About five o’clock in the morning.
182 I said, “I was looking out here, and I saw that squirrel again, Honey.”
183 “What squirrel?”
184 I said, “The one I seen up there at Mayo’s.” I said, “You know what? He missed my mouth this time, he never hit me, he went out on my chest.” I said, “Praise be to God! I’ve looked, oh, since a little boy, I have longed to see that happen. If I could ever see that happen, not even… Before I knowed what a vision was, if I could ever see that happen, then I said, ‘I’d be all right. Whatever that told me, that’s what I’d be.’ And for forty years I’ve looked for that, and there it happened.”
185 Before, when I was at Mayo’s, the same time I was up there when they give me that message, and I saw the vision…

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« 186 † My ol’ mother’s gone on to Glory now, very odd woman. She had about three or four dreams in her life, and they were always true. She’d tell me, and the… She’d start to tell me, I’d tell… I’d say, “Stop right… Mama, I’ll tell you what the rest of it is.” See?
187 Cause always when you give me a dream to interpret, you don’t always tell me just exactly what it is. Then when I see it over again, I see exactly what you dreamed about, then He tells me what it is. See? You don’t have to tell me what the dream is, He shows me the dream Himself. See? And then I see, I say, “Well, you didn’t tell me this and tell me that.” See? And so the God that can interpret a dream, can show a dream; He can show one, He can interpret it. And so then…

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« 188 † Well, wasn’t there something like that in the Bible, said, “If you can…”? I–I… Just happened to come to me. Daniel, wasn’t it? No, Joseph–Joseph. Well, it’s somewhere in the Bible. I just remembered that, said, “If you can show me… If you can tell me what a…” Oh, it’s King Nebuchadnezzar, that’s right. Said, “If you can… If you can’t…”
189 The magicians said, “Tell me the dream.”
190 He said, “It’s gone from me.” That’s right, that, I remember that; just thought of it then.
191 Now notice. And Mama, she said, “Billy,” when I come back, she said, “come here, son, and set down.” She said, “I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I seen you a-laying sick, just about to die, with your stomach as usual.” How many diets has she cooked me! And she said, “You were building a house upon a hill.” And said, “I seen six white doves come down from heaven, cooing, in a letter ‘S’ and they set upon your chest. And you was looking, and the one in front was trying to tell you something.” Said, “They was real glossy, white, doves. And they took their little heads and put against your cheek, and going, ‘coo, coo, coo.'” And said, “I couldn’t understand it.” Said, “They just kept going, ‘coo, coo, coo.'”
192 I said, “Oh, I see it, praise the Lord!” And said, “They formed their letter ‘S’ again and went back up into the skies, going ‘coo, coo, coo, coo,’ going back home.”
193 Well, the little animal that I saw was six inches long. The string of doves that Mom saw was six, six is incomplete. I knew that someday I’d see that seventh one. That was man, suffering; so on and on it went.

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« 194 † That morning, I got up after seeing this vision; I obeyed the Lord. I took my little boy, Joseph, to school. He’s listening to me now, in Tucson. I took him to school, and told Meda I didn’t know when I’d be back.
195 And I took off up into Catalina, up into the–the foothills, and–and went up into the place where the Angel of the Lord put the Sword in my hand. Real early; and started climbing up the mountain.
196 Well, instead of going up in the peaks this a-way (which there’s a lot snakes, scorpions, you know how Arizona is), I turned to my right; Something said, “Turn to your right.” I went way into the peaks; I went around, and I was going around those great huge rocks, many times bigger than this tabernacle, laying up in them tops there where seldom ever a person could get.

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« 197 † And along about eleven o’clock, I was going into a little cove, back where some… a little place turned in like this over a little deer trail. And I had my shirt off, my hat in my hand, because I was just lathering with sweat. And so I turned in there, and as I turned into that little cove, I felt the presence of the Lord. I jerked off my hat and looked around. I thought, “He’s here somewhere. I know He’s here.” I thought, “What is it?” I made a few more steps. I said, “Lord, You’re here somewhere.”
198 And I looked laying on the path, and there laid that little squirrel; had jumped at something and missed it, and it hit a bunch of cholla (that’s jumping cactus). It rammed through his head, chest, stomach, and he was dead. That odd-looking little squirrel, he had missed my mouth and hit that cholla. And the Voice of the Lord said, “Your enemy is dead.” I stood there, and I trembled. I took my foot and ma-…

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« 199 † Usually crows would’ve eat it up. I killed a snake, couple days later than that, it laid on the road about a half hour. There’s always eagles and crows flying through there, and they’ll pick it up right now. I killed a coral snake, that’s the most dangerous snake we got; laying right beside of me, a few days after that. I started to come back to pick it up to show it, the crows had done got it, the ravens passing over.
200 And that had been laying there ever since I had seen the vision, two days before; I believe it was on Saturday, and I went up there on Monday. So there he was, laying on there dead. I mashed through it with my foot.

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« 201 † I went back around, set down again; set there and cried a while, and prayed; looking down over Tucson, miles below me.
202 Turned back around and come back, it still laid there. When I entered that cove the Spirit of God come on me again.
203 I went on around, went down the mountain. Went in and told my wife, I said, “Honey, I don’t know how, but I’m going to get over this.”
204 Dr. Ravensworth, when he give me the examination, he said, “It’s totally impossible for you to be well.” He give me a shot of pentothal that was to last me for five minutes, and I slept ten hours. So that stuff, even an aspirin just knocks me out. So they… He give me a shot, put that tube down my throat. When I come to, and he told me the next morning, he said, “Reverend, I hate to tell you this, but” said “your stomach walls are even so hard, they’re dried up.” I never seen it; he used the name of gastritis, and I went and looked in the dictionary and it said, “something that’s withered away.” And said, “You can’t get over it.” He said, “You’ll always have it.” And I would’ve been a discouraged boy if it hadn’t been for the vision of the Lord.

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« 205 † And the next day Something said, “Go back to the mountain.”
206 And that day instead of going one way, I was led to go another way. And I was standing there; and looking, setting in the front of me, and there set that seventh little, white dove, looking right at me. I rubbed my eyes, I said, “Surely, it’s a vision; surely, it is.” I looked, and I said, “Little dove, where do you come from?” Just as pretty and white, could’ve been a pigeon; whatever it was, away in that wilderness.
207 God Almighty, Who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, Whose servant I am, and His Word laying here, open before me, know that I tell the truth and lie not.
208 There set the dove, setting there looking at me. I walked around, I thought, “Surely, it’s a vision.” I turned my head, I looked back, and there he set there; them little, white wings, just as snowy as he could be; his little, yellow feet; and little, yellow beak; setting there looking at me. He was watching right straight westward. I walked around him like that, I wouldn’t touch him for nothing. I walked on up the trail; looked back, and there he still set watching me.
209 Brother, as a son of Abraham, I consider not what the doctor told me, I’m going to be well, anyhow!

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« 210 † The third day I went back, I was climbing up high. And many of you know the vision about the Indian chief riding that little wall to the west. Something attracted me off to a big rock, about noontime, said, “Lay your hands against that and pray.” God in Heaven knows this is true.
211 I laid my hands against the rock and looked up towards Heaven and started praying, and I heard a Voice coming out of the top of the rocks there, said, “What are you leaning against, over your heart?” And I raised back like this, my bare shoulders; naked from my waist up, hot. I looked back. And there was wrote in the quartz, in the stone, “White Eagle”; just exactly what the vision said that the next Message would come forth by.
212 I was so excited, I run home; got a camera and come back the next day, and took the picture of it. It was still there, wrote in the rock: “White Eagle.” (Dove leading eagle.)

[Click here to see a larger picture of the rock–Ed.]

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« 213 † Somehow, I–I know. I’ll tell you before it happens. The doctor’s a good doc-… good doctor, no doubt; I–I think he’s a fine man. But I–I know I’m going to be over it. It’s done! It’s finished, and I’m going to be well!
214 And I was thinking as Ernie sang that song a few moments ago, On The Wings Of A Dove. How is the melody to that? Start it for me, Ernie.
… wings… snow-white dove, (sing it with me)
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Was a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
215 I understand Ernie made two verses of that. I’m going to make you three verses.
Noah had drifted
On the floods many days,
He searched for land,
In various ways;
Troubles he had some,
But not from above,
For God gave him His sign
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Was a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
Jesus, our Saviour
Came to earth one day;
He was borned in a stable,
In a manger of hay;
Though here rejected,
But not from above,
For God gave us His sign
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Oh, a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
Though I have suffered
In many a way,
I cried for healing
Both night and day;
But faith wasn’t forgotten
By the Father above,
He gave me His sign
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Oh, a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.

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« 216 † Dear God, I thank You for these things, Father. You give Noah the sign, You gave the world the sign, and You gave me a sign. And the next day, seeing that eagle flying, O God, there’s a Message coming forth now, and I pray, God, that You’ll let the Dove lead. Grant it, Lord. It’s led me to a faith I never had before. I know, God, I know it’s going to be all right; so I thank You for it, Father.
217 And, tonight, send down Your Message again, Lord, on the wings of the Dove of the Word. Grant it, dear Heavenly Father. And every one that passes through this platform, tonight, and out yonder in the meetings across the country, may Your great Dove of faith fall into their hearts and give them faith, Lord, for their healing. Remember that God is not a respect of person. He could a-send the Message to Noah, could send It to John the Baptist, could send It to me, can send It to others.
218 I pray that that Dove will fly into every heart right now, Lord, with Its little, golden beak, and whisper that, “By His stripes… By My wounds and stripes you are healed.” God, grant that our transgressions will be blotted out, our iniquities will be forgiven us, and that our sickness will be healed. It’s in Your hands, Father. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
With your heads bowed just one minute longer.

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« 219 † How many here would like to say, if you can and want to say this, “Brother Branham, I’ve been wrong all my life. I’ve wanted to serve God, but tonight I’m ready to surrender. Pray God, that that Dove will fly into my heart tonight. I can feel It flutter His wings as He comes in”? Raise your hands, will you? Here in the visible audience, my, all over the building.
220 Way out into the audiences across the country, way up to Brother Hunt and Brother Coleman, out to Brother Leo and them, down into Tucson, over in the Branham Tabernacle, across the West Coast, raise your hands everywhere: “I want the Dove to fly into my heart tonight. Bring me God’s sweet love on the wings of a snow-white Dove, the Holy Spirit. Bring It to me, tonight, Lord, and drop into my heart the faith that I have need of.”
221 In the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray, God, forgive our sins. The wounded Dove has brought the Message back, O God, “It’s finished!” We believe that. Just give us faith to believe It, we pray. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Was a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.

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« 222 † Where’d that dove come from? I don’t know. He wouldn’t have been out there in that wilderness like that. No, no! No, he wouldn’t have been there. And why was he white? The Heavenly Father knows he was as white as my shirt. There he set there.
But it was on the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Oh, a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Oh, a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
223 Oh, don’t you feel real humble? Let’s just shake one anothers’ hands, and sing it.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
224 Let’s raise our hands to Him, and sing it.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
Noah had drifted
On the floods many day,
He searched for land,
In various way;
Trouble he had some,
But not from above,
God sent down His sign
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Oh, a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
Jesus, our Saviour
Came to earth one day;
Borned in a stable,
In a manger of hay;
Though here rejected,
But not from above,
God gave us His sign
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends down His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.

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« 225 † Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I’ll ride this trail again, I got to bring a Message! And I say to my Father, tonight, (as Junior seen in a–a dream the other night of the wings of this Dove, moving in these windows here), Lord, Your servant’s reporting for service. Amen, I’m ready!
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends me His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
226 Let’s believe now that He’s moving in upon the audience.
On the wings of a snow-white… (We’re waiting, Lord.)
God sends down His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.

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« 227 † You that got prayer cards, in this aisle here, step forward over here; stand up, step forward in this aisle here, over this a-way.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
228 Those with prayer cards in this line, step out to your left.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends His pure sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
229 Those… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
Oh, on the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent me His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.

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« 230 † Where did the dove come from up there in the wilderness? I’d say this: God seen Abraham needed a ram for a sign, He’s Jehovah-jireh, “the Lord can provide for Himself the sacrifice.” To think of it! The same God, by the same inspiration, by the same kind of people, sent a dove. He’s still God, Jehovah-jireh can provide anything He has need of.
231 Won’t you, just while you’re coming through this prayer line now, ask God to provide for you on the wings of the Dove? The Dove, Spirit of the Holy Ghost, to give you faith in your heart to believe that you’re going to be healed.

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« 232 † I’m trying to get them all on their feet, you see. I’m asking now. Brother Brown’s at his place. Brother Jack… What say? [Someone speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.] All right, good. This section here, comes through this a-way first, that’s lined up. The sections back over in here fall right in behind them. These fall right in behind the wing. And you fall right in behind these here, coming right around to be prayed for.
233 Now, I’m sure this is not going to be no fast line, we’re just going to take a little time so we can really pray for each one, far as we can.
234 Now, I cut my message just a little short (and you all caught that, see) so that I could have this prayer line. This is a memorial line in honor of the days when Brother Jack Moore, Brother Young Brown, your wives let you go, and you come over and we went out into California, and all through Arizona (together, through the desert), and prayed for the sick.

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« 235 † You know what? There’s people living today that was dying then, and still alive because of that effort. What did it do? It sprung up Divine healings in every church there is in the country, now even Presbyterians and so forth. They… It hushed their mouth, for it taken God to anoint somebody to slay the Goliath, to show that it could be done, then the rest of them took courage (that’s right) and went on. It can be done again, for He still sends His love on the wings of a Dove.
236 Christians, I want you to listen. If I would stand here and try to quote to you of the supernatural things that I’ve seen happen even in the past three years, I’d be here this time next Saturday night, telling you. I don’t even speak of it so much, ’cause it sounds like it’s almost impossible, but I tell you the Truth. It’s exactly the Truth. We’re living under the leadership of the Great Mighty Jehovah, the same One that was with the prophet in the Old Testament, with the Church in the New Testament, He’s here today taking a Bride out of the Gentiles for His Name’s sake. Believe It! Won’t you, people? If you ever did believe It, believe It right now. That’s who… I want you to do it. We don’t know what’ll happen yet tonight. We don’t know what will happen. We’re just waiting under expectation.

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« 237 † Please, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I ask you as His servant. I know when you’re dealing with congregations, you got everything mixed in there. But if you believe me as His servant, if there’s one speck of doubt (or sin is–is “doubt, unbelief”), if there’s one speck of it in your heart, ask Father to take it away right now. See? “Lord…” And then when you come with genuine faith… Now, my hands won’t mean nothing unless That strikes you first; then when it comes, it’ll light it off, you’ll be healed. That’s right, you’ll know you’ll be healed. See, you’ll believe it.

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« 238 † Now, I’m going to pray now for each one of you. And now… When you do this, you put your hands over on one another too, so we’re… And you be praying for the person you got your hands on, then I’m going to bring you through the line. Put your hands on somebody that’s with you in the line.

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« 239 † Dear God, I–I don’t know no other way of saying these things, Lord. I just know to tell what I know is the Truth, and You’re my witness tonight that I am telling the Truth. My faith, Lord, and my own healing in the future; I don’t know when, I don’t know how, I don’t understand it; but I believe It, Lord, that I received the sign from above. That seventh dove finally got here, the seventh inch is soon finished on the animal. It’s over!
240 God, I want to serve Your people. So I pray, God, that You’ll so anoint us tonight that whoever we lay our hands on, may they be healed; not because it’s us, but because it’s following Your commandment. You said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Lord, help me to believe, and help their hearts to be the bedding ground of faith. And may, together, for the glory of God, every sick and afflicted person in this building (or the buildings throughout the land) that’s obeying these commands now, will be made well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen.

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« 241 † Have faith; all of you pray with us. Now, this is not a line of discernment.
242 [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] Depression, fear, I know what this… Poor little thing, she said she’s never seen peace in life. The same thing that I… Can’t sleep, nervous, tension.
243 Dear God, bear me record, Lord, that I’ve told the Truth. How I feel for this little woman! I pray, God, that You’ll send to her, tonight, that streak of faith from above that knows that You are obligated to Your Word, and You’ll keep every Word. May the God of Heaven take this fear away from my sister. And I obey You by laying my hands upon her and condemning it. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it come out of her. Amen.
244 Now, look sister, you believe me now, if you can start from right here, by the cross. From this night, deny you got it. See, go on saying, “I haven’t got it no more.” Then it will leave you.

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« 245 † Sister Palmer, our sister, Sister Palmer; her husband is a very dear friend of mine, a minister from Georgia or Alabama, Georgia–Georgia. And she was coming up to the tabernacle… They drive, when I’m preaching up at tabernacle, fifteen hundred miles to hear one service. Brother Palmer lost control of his car, or the boy, one, when they was turning a corner, and they had a wreck. She’s got an effect of it. Let’s pray:
246 Dear God, deliver this servant of Yours, his little wife, loyal, true, little servant in Christ, I pray, God, as I lay my hands upon her with my Brother Jack Moore here, that You’ll heal her and make her well. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 247 † In the right foot, and you’re standing for him? His little boy is crippled, he’s got a hurting in his stomach and back. Let’s pray:
248 Dear God, let that snow-white Dove dip down into his heart just now, “Wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, with His stripes we are healed.” I ask this to be so for our brother and for his little son, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
249 Severe headache pains, and a leg ailment that bothers him while he’s a-working.
250 Dear God, grant Your healing blessing upon this young man, as we as servants of God lay our hands upon him. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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« 251 † She has a lady’s trouble, female, and also she wants the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.
252 Dear God, as I offer you this prayer of faith for this little lady, may the female trouble be gone, may the Baptism of the Holy Ghost come on the wings of a Dove, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen. (God bless you, sister.)
253 Growth on his eye, and for his loving companion.
254 Dear God, You know the hearts of man. I pray Thee Father, in Jesus’ Name, that You’ll grant this request that this brother’s asked; and our obedience to Your Word of laying hands on him. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen. (God bless you, brother.)
255 She has a growth in her left side, and also her voice is bad.
256 Dear Jesus, I pray that You’ll heal this sister; laying hands upon her in the Name of Jesus Christ, that her healing will be. Amen. (God bless you, my sister.)
257 Poor sister, I see your trouble, swollen limb. Kidney, bladder, and a ankle throwed out of place.
258 O Father, God, heal this precious woman, Lord, I pray, as I lay hands upon her in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
259 God bless you, sister; that’s the way, it’ll be done.
260 You hear that, don’t you, on the microphone? Ever who’s at… the engineer, if you’ll step it up just a little bit, the audience can hear their testi-… or what they say when they come by. Be in prayer for them when you hear it; when I start praying, you pray with me.
261 Dear God, I pray for this our sister, that You’ll heal her, dear God. We’re doing this because it’s Your command. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 262 † Dear God, You hear that testimony, You hear what the enemy’s done to her. We are trying to take the Name of Jesus and defeat this enemy; he is already because the bruised, striped Dove fell in the floor of the House of God with a Message, “It’s over!” Grant it, may she believe that, Father, in Jesus’ Name.
263 Dear God, I pray that You’ll heal this our sister. May the Dove of God witness to her tonight that He did it for her, that she could be well. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
264 Dear God, I lay my hands upon my brother who stands here. He had enough faith to come this far, Lord, now may he receive his healing and go to his seat well. In Jesus’ Name.
265 Dear God, I pray for our brother, laying hands upon him. Help, dear God, that the faith of God will dip down just at this time; and be like Abraham, call those things which are, as though they’re–are not, for God made the promise. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 266 † Dear God, You are the One who can make the true decision. I pray, dear God, as this young lady asked for this, may she receive it in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
267 Dear God, I lay my hands upon our sister in obeying what You said do. This takes us back for many years, Lord, since we run a prayer line like this; but we know what happened then, we know You’re the same God today if people can have the same faith today. I pray in Jesus’ Name for our sister’s healing. Amen.
268 Dear God, I lay my hands upon my brother here and ask for his healing, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
269 Father, I bring before you tonight this our sister, and lay my hands upon her to witness that I’m standing as a witness of Your strength, stand as a witness of Your visions, Your Word, and I’m a witness that You are God. And I lay hands upon her in obedience to the Word of my God, and ask for her healing. Amen.

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« 270 † Dear God, I lay hands upon my brother in like manner, as a witness of Your strength I ask for his healing in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
271 [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] “What?”
272 She said, “The Healer.” Said that “A man from up somewhere, up in Arkansas, had been healed that morning, a blind shoe cobbler.” You know the story. It’d been on the radio.
273 And I said… I thought… I played the part of a hypocrite. I said, “You don’t believe that’s the Truth?”
274 She said, “Yes, sir, I do.”
275 And I said, “Do you believe in this day when God would do something like that, when…”
276 She said, “Sir, I listened to the religious program.” She said, “I’m a Christian.” She said, “I listened to the programs, I heard that man up there that was healed this morning, that blind shoe cobbler. They throwed him out of the church, he was making so much noise, one church to the other. With his hat on a cane, wiggling it around, running up-and-down the churches, everyone in the city, hollering, ‘I’m healed! I’m healed!’ A blind shoe cobbler.”
277 I said, “Do you believe that?”
278 And she stood there a little bit, was kind of drizzling rain, she said, “Sir, if you’ll get me in where he’s at, then I’ll find my father.” Then I felt about like that.
279 I said, “Maybe I’m the one you’re looking for.”
280 She said… grabbed me by the lapels of the coat, she said, “Is you the Healer?”
281 I said, “No, sister, but I’m Brother Branham.”
282 She said, “Have mercy!”
I thought of poor old blind Fanny Crosby, “While on others Thou art calling, do not pass me by.” See, He had healed one, He could heal her.
283 I put my hands over her eyes, I said, “Dear Jesus, one day an old rugged cross come bumping down the street, the shoulders with blood running out of them, the little frail body that was packing it fell under the load. A colored man by the name of Simon, of Cyrene, came up and picked up the cross, helped Him bear it. I’m sure You remember it, Father. And one of his children is staggering here in darkness, I’m sure You understand.”
284 She said, “Glory to God! I can see!” Uh-huh.
285 I said, “Can you see?”
286 She said, “Yes, sir.”
287 I said, “Count them lights.” And she counted them. I said, “What color suit I got on?”
288 Said, “You got on a gray suit, with a yellow tie.” That was it, she could see.
289 Oh, God respects humility. Uh-huh.
This in itself is that which will make, and bring to pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.

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« 290 † Dear God, have mercy and heal my sister, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
291 Dear God, as I take this feeble, wrinkling hand, only You know what’s passed through here. I pray, dear God, that the same hand I got tonight will embrace like those feeble hands of Simeon that day, “Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace, for I now see Thy salvation.” May It come upon her, Lord, Your salvation, and make her well in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 292 † [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] On The Trial, Mr. Unbelief indicted Jesus Christ. You remember The Trial? How that the… They had the–the attorney and everything, and who stood for who. And we had the–the prosecuting attorney, Satan, that was going to prosecute; how the, trial was brought.
293 And he said, one, Mr. Doubter, he come up, he said, “I heard a preacher say, ‘Anoint the sick in oil, the Bible says that.’ I was anointed in oil, wasn’t healed. The other one said, ‘Lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.'” He was trying to prosecute.
294 But when the witness came forth, here it was, “God told them, said, ‘You’d been… ‘” He said, “It’s been six months since I had hands laid on me, and Your Word says that ‘Lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.’ And hands was laid on me by one of Your anointed servants, and I haven’t recovered yet. Therefore, You’re a false pretender, because Your Word don’t mean what It says.”

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« 295 † So when the witness come up, the true was this, that “His Word is true. He never said when He would do it, He said, ‘These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.’ See? See, that’s what He said, ‘They shall recover.’ So whether it’s a prong miracle just happen right like this or whether it’s just obeying God, that’s up to Him in the individual. See? But if the individual believes It, I don’t care how long it takes. He said to Abraham, ‘You’re going to have a baby by Sarah.’ The baby never come for twenty-five years. He told Noah it was ‘going to rain.’ Noah had the flood… the–the ark built for the flood, many, many years before the flood came, but he knew it was going to rain. The Bible said, ‘The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up.’ When? He didn’t say. God is just, He’s true, just read what His Word says.”
296 That’s what I’ve done tonight, laid hands on the sick. Now, I believe every one of them’s going to be healed. I believe, every one of them. Do you believe the same? Now believe for these afflicted people.

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« 297 † There’s a little lady here, seems like I ought to know, I prayed for her last night, out there in the prayer line. What’s her name? Chambers… Chambless. If that little lady would have lived–would have lived normally, wouldn’t a-been afflicted, she certainly been a beautiful woman. And she’s setting there now, shaking. Lovely, fine spirit in the girl. And she sets there jerking like this. Oh, how that breaks my heart. How that I’ve wished… just how I would!
298 Here’s a little baby, lady setting here holding it. Its little tongue hanging out, its little body afflicted. What if that was my little Joseph? What if it was my little grandson Paul? What if that was Rebekah setting back there, or Sarah? What if Mrs. Simpson here was my wife Meda? This young man setting here was Billy Paul? This aged woman setting here was my mother? Remember, it’s somebody’s baby, somebody’s sister, somebody’s daughter, and somebody’s son. See? I am their brother, He is our Saviour. All that I can do is… what faith I’ve got is offered in their behalf. That’s all I know.

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« 299 † Now, the Lord can show me a vision, He could tell me what’s the matter with each one of them. I can prove that to you, see, you know that. But that don’t heal them. That doesn’t heal them. No, it’s got to be something drop in them, see. And I hope…
300 Like I could go up here take each one of you and baptize you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that won’t remit your sins. No, no! No, I don’t believe in water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ unto regeneration; I believe the Blood is regeneration, see, not–not the waters. But, see, I could baptize and baptize, but you only go down a dry sinner, come up a wet one; see, until you have thoroughly repented. Repent, and then be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. See? And that’s what I different with the Oneness movement. Not baptizing to regeneration, no; I believe it’s the Blood that cleanses, not the water. See? Repentance, and then be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.

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« 301 † Now I’m going down to pray. And these people are just as much to you as they are to me, maybe even more in that line of relation.
302 Now let’s all join together, and your hands in faith, and my hand in faith, bringing down the hands of the Lord Jesus to lay on these poor crippled people. Will you pray with me?
303 [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] Those with handkerchiefs that’s for the sick and the afflicted, you may get them right after service. Now help me pray for these, will you?
304 God, we thank You, Lord, for what You have done tonight. We thank You in advance for the healing of every person come through the line. Dear God, I pray over these handkerchiefs, perhaps for some who could not even come to the meeting, and their loved ones brought the handkerchiefs. In the Bible we’re taught that they took from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons. Now, those people back there had lived in Your presence, they had seen You on the street, they had seen You in their meeting, and they had seen Your same Spirit upon Paul. And they knew it wasn’t that man, it was Your Spirit that was dominating his life, for we see Paul doing the same things that You did.
305 And now, Lord, the people of this day sees the same God living in His Church with His people. And they’ve brought these handkerchiefs, that they might be taken from here to their loved ones. Grant it, God, that every one of them will be healed in Your own way. We don’t request any certain thing to be done of any certain way or any certain nature; we just ask, “In Your own way, Father, heal them.” For the glory of God, I offer this prayer of faith over it. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.

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« 306 † I’ve had a wonderful time of fellowship around your faith, your presence in Jesus Christ. This will be a meeting that I’ll long remember of what taken place: love, cooperation, fellowship.
307 And now, till we meet again, may God of Heaven guide you. He Who makes the stars to shine bright at night to lighten up the path when it’s growing dim, may He lighten your path with the Star of Bethlehem to guide you to a full surrendered life in His Word, is my prayer.
Till we meet, till we meet,
Till we meet at Jesus’ feet;
Till we meet, till we meet,
God be with you till we meet again.
308 Now let us stand. My Faith Looks Up to Thee!…?… I… well, I’ll change that. I believe that’s fine.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour Divine!
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my sin away,
O let me from this day
Be wholly Thine!

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« 309 † Now let’s shake one anothers’ hands when they sing.
While life’s dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,
Be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow’s tears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
310 Feel better now, don’t you?
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
Now on the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
311 That’s our closing message for this campaign.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.

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« 312 † Bow our head. As the wheels hum a song going home, I trust it’ll… you’d hear the humming of the wheels, the roaring of the engine.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sends His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
[Brother Branham begins humming the chorus–Ed.]
… dove,
God sends His pure, sweet love,
A sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
313 With your heads bowed, I give you to your… Brother Noel. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Good morning! Happy to be here this morning. And we’re glad, enjoying this great fellowship around these old songs of faith. We love that. Don’t you? The Amen chorus. That’s what He is, the Amen, see. He’s got the last word to say.
2 I was setting over there talking to my old friend, Brother Brown, while the songs was going on. And he said, “Brother Branham, I never seen till yesterday, what you’ve been talking about.” He said, “If people could just get into what you’re speaking about,” said, “every obstacle would move out of the way.” That’s exactly right. That’s right. It’s exactly right. If you could just grasp It, could catch It. See?

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« 3 † Talking to my little friend, Ernie Fandler. I guess some of you out on the hookups will remember Ernie, how he was converted, how he was led to the Lord. He doesn’t talk good English, or I’d like to have him come say a word. And he gets his we’s and W’s all mixed up. He was asking me if I remember the time at the Shawano where he lives. There was a man died right in the meeting, dropped over in his seat dead, Lutheran. And we had everybody keep quiet. Spoke the Word of the Lord over him, he come back to life. He come that other way. They had never got over that, wants us come back again.

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« 4 † And I understood that in France, this morning, there’s better than two thousand Frenchmen on a several-day fast that we’ll come bring the Message to France in French. The whole Protestant nation, Protestant part of the nation of France. And so we are…
5 It’s just begin blooming now, just begin, the shuck’s pulling away so the wheat can lay out there now. See? So just keep reverent, keep praying. See? Remember, “They that wait upon the Lord, renew their strength.”
6 Now, there’s… I was… getting pretty old, and I thought, “Will I… Will there be another revival, I’ll see another time?” And just remember, from the west will come a white horse rider. We’ll ride this trail again. That’s right. Soon as… we’re about ready. It’s a promise, you see.

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« 7 † Now, I want to say to Brother Leo… I was talking about Brother Wood last night, his brother being here. Brother Leo, if you and the little group that’s hooked in up there this morning; Sister Mercier, your father’s here. I seen him last night. He’s around here in the building somewhere, and he looks fine and dandy.
8 The morning he was healed up at the tabernacle, there was two major cancer cases, real dying, and both of them was healed. And her father, an elderly man in a heart attack, was brought out to the glory of God. And he’s in the meeting here somewhere. I can’t see him amongst the crowd now, but he was here last night.

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« 9 † Greetings to all of you out across the land; here in this wonderful place, of the Life Tabernacle here at Shreveport, with a whole jammed-out crowd for a Sunday school. You know, if I lived at Shreveport, not saying nothing against anybody, but this would be the place I’d come to church at, right here at the Life Tabernacle. This is not a denomination. The Life Tabernacle, is today, is a interdenominational tabernacle. They come out of the denomination because they accepted me and this Message I preach. Brother Jack Moore, my brother and friend, he was taken from the denominations because he associated with me. And so I think he deserves some credit. That’s right. God bless him. And hold up his hands in prayer, and believe with him.

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« 10 † And now Sister Moore, I don’t see her anywhere, she… Yes, back here. She looked like a little girl setting over there this morning, all this dressed up, new, and just looked like a Easter outfit. And it–it looked like… Brother Jack didn’t even know her hisself. Now, Sister Moore.
11 We sure miss Anna Jeanne and Don, and all of them. Glad to meet Brother Nolan, he was one of the associates here.

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« 12 † And Brother Ernie, I asked him yesterday if he’d sing that Amen. I’ve got it on a record, and I’ve wore the thing out just listening over it, Amen. I think he’s got a voice for that; beats any of them. And little Judy, I noticed her; the two, they look just like brother and sister. Don’t they? They’re husband and wife. Look at the each of them, see why they just look exactly. See? They’re really a lovely little couple. That’s, you know, that’s… Brother Palmer that’s just climbed the golden stairs, that’s his daughter and son-in-law. And that’s… She is certainly a contribution to his well training of a child. And got others too, married ministers also, and these are the evangelists and on their field, and others. So it’s just great.

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« 13 † I haven’t seen Sister Palmer. Really, I don’t know whether I’d know her if I seen her, or not. She’s, perhaps, somewhere (of course) in the meeting. Back in the back; God bless you, Sister Palmer.
14 My heart shakes every time I think of it. Brother Palmer had just climbed the steps till, a few minutes, until I got the message that he was gone. I just couldn’t believe it. Billy called me, and somebody had got a hold… and they knowed. We were such lovely friends, and to know that he was gone, it was really shaking. But we all got to go, regardless of who we are, we must go one by one. But there’s only one thing, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the full duty of man,” Ecclesiastes 12.

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« 15 † Now, I haven’t got too much time for this Sunday school lesson, and I’m hoarse.
16 Say, Brother Pearry Green done a noble thing. He heard me say, last night, “I missed my little piece of hair to keep me…” He called out there and tried to get somebody fly it in for me. I said, “You’re too late, I’m already hoarse.” I tried for years to find some accomplishment, but when I got that, it cured it. But I forgot it this time, so I’m a little bit hoarse. So you bear with me, if you will, in speaking.

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« 17 † Now, how many likes Sunday school? Oh, my, that’s right. It’s a good thing to send your children to. No, let me correct that, a good thing to bring your children to. That’s right, to bring your children; you come also. How many knows how our Sunday school was first originated? Where was it originated? England. What was it called first? Ragged school. That’s right, called “Ragged school.” As I forget the man’s name now that established it. What was, his name? [Someone says, “Robert Raikes.”–Ed.] That’s right, exactly right. And he got the little fellows off the street (was ragged, and wouldn’t have no place to go, and very bad), and he brought them in and started giving them lessons on the Bible. And it’s growed to one of the greatest orders of the church, nearly, today, Sunday school. Good to go. Be sure to come, bring your children. I think the tabernacle here has teachers, equipped rooms, ages, and so forth. And you new converts that’s just coming to Christ, follow right on along the Message; come here at the Life Tabernacle, and they’ll do you good.

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« 18 † Now, tonight we’re going to have an old-fashioned prayer line. We’re going to just pray for the sick the way we used to, Brother Jack and Brother Brown.
19 I remember seeing Brother Brown try to give out those prayer cards, and how him being a minister himself… And in those days, in a organization that we… they put pressure on him, you know, “I–I’m your brother,” and those things, you know. “You got to get me up there.” Oh, he sure had a hard time, but stayed just as true as true could be. Brother Brown is one fine man. And so we love him.

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« 20 † And as I see all of us, the three of us getting… creeping up towards the aged, the end. It’ll be a very sad thing if we didn’t have placed within us that great thing, what we know is Truth. We’re just fixing to turn back one of these days, back to our young manhood again, to never… our bodies transformed, made into His likeness to stand. “For when this earthly tabernacle of our habitation be dissolved, there’s one already waiting.”

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« 21 † And the thankful part of it, dear friend, that the dear Lord Jesus… You who trust me to tell you the Truth; the dear Lord Jesus, one morning about eight o’clock, let me see that Land. Now, it wasn’t–it wasn’t a vision; but I don’t want to say that. Ever what it was, it was just as real as I’m speaking to you here. Now, I seen the faces of those people, and I couldn’t recognize them, they had turned back young again. And they was just real as… I’d hold their hands and things. Just as real…

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« 22 † And it helped me, because I used to have an idea: when a person died, just their soul went off. But then when He quoted that to me, that “If this earthly tabernacle of our habitation be… we already have one.” See? And we got to have everything in threes, to make a perfection. See? And there’s one body here, then that body there which is the–the celestial body, and then the glorified body in the resurrection. See, that makes it complete. See? So it’s a… It’s not a myth, it’s not an idea, it’s not a spirit. It is a man and a woman like you are, just exactly.

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« 23 † And then, years ago, I seen the regions of the lost, and was there. I tell you, friend, as an old man, let me persuade you this, across the nation this morning, don’t never want to view that place. There’s no way at all that I could… if I was an artist with a brush I couldn’t paint the picture. As a minister, I couldn’t describe to you. Talk about hell being a burning place, it’s a million times worse than that, the horrors that goes with it.

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« 24 † And Heaven… or this place, wherever it was, I don’t know what to call it. He referred to it there as “souls under the altar.” But when it was, I have never… There’s no way to explain how great that is. There is… Now, you just have to take my word, I’m just a man. See? But these visions that’s always come to pass just as I have told you, and you know they every one has been true, that is true also. Whatever you do, if you miss everything else (health, strength, your eyesight, whatever it is), don’t miss That. There’s nothing can compare with it. It’s… There’s no–there’s no word in the English language, that I know, that could express it. If you’d say “perfect,” it’s beyond that; “superb,” it–it’s beyond that; “sublime,”… There’s no–there’s no words that I know that could express it, because it was so… And then, to think, that isn’t the end of it yet. I thought, “Me be afraid to come to this?”
25 I said, “Do you eat?”
26 Said, “Not here. We don’t eat here, but when we go back to earth we’ll receive a body we eat in.”

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« 27 † Well, I could feel them. They was just like that. See? And they… I said, “Well, you have…” Oh, yes, they have a body. Just not a myth, it’s a body. We know one another. They all knowed me, were hugging me, millions of them.
28 And I said, “Well, I want to see Him Who brought me here.”
29 It said, “You can’t see Him now, you have to wait.”
30 I said, “Why did you put me on… up here?”
31 Said, “You were a leader in life.”
32 And I said, “Do You mean all them’s Branhams?”
33 He said, “No! That’s your converts to Christ.” See?

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« 34 † I looked around, and then all the hard nights, the trials, passed away, when I could see their faces. A young woman run up there, one of the most beautiful women, and she just threw her arms around me, and said, “Precious Brother.” And when she passed by… Now, she was a woman. So… But in there, there’ll never be sin. See, our glands are changed there. They won’t raise children no more, there. See? See, all the same.
35 What makes the difference, the sensation. That’s the reason I don’t believe in dancing on the floor. No man… I, before God and my Bible, I’ve lived clean, as that way through my life when I was a little boy, all through my young manhood. Any girl I ever went out with, I can walk right back to the Judgment with her. See? But there’s no man, I don’t care who you are, can let a woman (in the make of a woman) hug herself up close to you; if you’re a true healthy man, there’s a sensation. But it wasn’t there; there’s no glands. They’re all the same gland. See? Just pure, unadulterated sisterly and brotherly love, more than it would be for your… even for your… hug your own little daughter. See? Your own daughter, yet she’s made… she’s female and you’re a male. See, it could create something; but There it can’t, sin is done, it’s all over. See? Real… just real, holy Love.

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« 36 † And I looked at that woman. There was… looked like millions of them there, and they all long hair, and white garments down. And–and this One that was talking to me, said, “Don’t you recognize her?”
37 I said, “No.”
38 Said, “She was in her ninety’s when you led her to Christ.”
39 “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound.” See? Just no way of ever explaining what it is. Just take my word if you believe me. Be sure to make… burn every bridge of the world behind you.

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« 40 † I believe the church is beginning to hear the Message, and beginning to understand It. But friend, listen, we’ve got to lay in the Presence of the Son, we’ve got to be ripened. Our–our faith isn’t ripe. Intellectually we’re hearing the Message that God has give us, and seeing the signs that He showed us, and proving it by the Bible, it’s there, but, oh, how the church needs to lay in His Presence till it tenders up, you know, and gets sweet in the Spirit so that it can bathe down. Sometime in speaking the Message, you get harsh, have to break it in like that, because you’ve got to clinch a nail to make it hold. But when the Church once gets It, the Elected is called out and separated, then in the Presence of God, I know it’ll be something like the people was there when it takes its Rapture.

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« 41 † I was going to speak this morning on The Rapture, but I just don’t have enough voice to do it, and so you just bear with me a little while. Why, I want to speak on the subject of: God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship.
42 Now, it’s a great big text. So let us pray now. And out across the lands this morning, wherever you are, bow your heads just a few moments. Be real sincere now, we’re approaching the Word of God, which is God in a letter form.

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« 43 † Great Author of this Book, “It is a Seed,” we are taught, “that a sower sowed,” so said the Author. Now, we do realize that a seed will grow if it’s in the right kind of ground. So, Father, will You this morning take all the briers and thistles, and unbelief, and skeptic thoughts out of our hearts; that the Word of God might grow freely, watered by the Spirit in our heart, that we might become the people of God. Grant it, Father. That’s our hearts. Not only to we who have recognized this, but may there be others throughout the country, each one’s heart burning with love and tenderness, will go to try to win the lost brother, the lost sister. Grant it today, God. We’re looking wholly to You, for You are our Guide and our Lord. So we pray that You’ll direct us in Your Word today, and give us of Thy blessings. Through Thy grace and in Thy Name we ask it. Amen.

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« 44 † Now, let’s take for our text… I want to read from the Book of Deuteronomy, the Old Testament, just for a setting of Scripture. I have a few notes I wrote out quickly after I’d come back from breakfast with Brother Vayle.
45 I never did get to thank the man over at that hotel… that restaurant the other night, that paid for our–for our supper. Wife and I and my little girl was over there, and when I went to pay my bill, somebody had paid it. Ever who it was, I thank you. Said, “The man that set on the end of the bench.” Course there was a whole group in there that we knowed. Now, I… some kind of a Kickapoo, something like that, the place out here, restaurant we were at. Thank you, ever who it was that did that. Each one of you, God bless you.

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« 46 † Now, in 16th chapter of Deuteronomy, it’s the passover observance. So we wish to read about the first few verses, first four or five, six verses here.
Observe the month of Abid, and keep the passover… (That means “April.”)… the LORD thy God: for in the month of this Abid the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Thou shall therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name…
Thou shall eat the unleavened bread within it; seven days shall thou eat unleavened, bread–bread therewith,… thou comest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:… thou mayest remember the–the day when thou comest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
And there shall not be… unleavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there be any thing of the flesh, which thou has sacrificed the first day at the evening, remain all night until the morning.
Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of the gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
But at the place which the LORD thy God has chosen to place his name in, there thou shall sacrifice the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou comest forth out of Egypt.
Now may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word.

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« 47 † Now, is the microphone got a blur in it? Last night I heard they were. Can you hear all right, all over? You can’t hear. [Brother Branham adjusts the microphone–Ed.] Is that better? Is this better, speaking with the microphones down like this? I’m just a little hoarse, so I’m standing close this morning for that purpose, and I hope that Brother Pearry can–can get it out there. Can you hear it all right now? I think they’ve fixed it up. All right.

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« 48 † Now, the pla-… The thing I want to speak about this morning is that God has only one place that the worshipper can meet God, only one place. Through the ages many has sought for this secret place of God, through all the ages. Even Job wanted to know where He lived at, “If I could only go to His house and knock at His door.” Job wanted to find God’s dwelling place, ’cause there God and His family is worshipped together.
49 Like yesterday, in the message yesterday morning, we find out that there is a possibility of a person to worship God in vain, with sincere worship. God has all these things fixed out for us, but the thing of it is, we have to search to find where they are. Paul told Timothy to search, and to–to be in season and out of season, ready to give a–a–a word or… of the hope that was within him.

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« 50 † Now, all these things are in there. And we find… Sometime I’d like to come to Shreveport where we just have about two or three weeks just to take thirty minutes a night and just on a teaching, see, just stay right in the Word, these secret passages, see, where we could find out just how to get in. And you just watch, you follow God’s direction, there’s only one key to each door. That’s right. And no other key, no matter how much it looks like it, God has no skeleton key; just got one key. And now, you’ve got to have that key, or the door won’t unlock. No matter how sincere you are, you still can’t unlock that door.

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« 51 † Now, how many was at yesterday’s breakfast, the other morning? All right, I think most, at least ninety percent of you, or more. To background this, what I’m going to say, David was anointed king (anointed of God), the greatest king Israel ever had, outside of the Lord Jesus (which is God) the Anointed One. David is his son… or Jesus was David’s Son according to the lineage, the flesh. And He’s to set on David’s throne as one… inherit back, the–the prince always inherits the–the king’s throne.
52 Notice, now, that David being anointed, yet with the anointing he did, he got out of the will of the Lord with that anointing; and all the people, not taking the run of the Scripture or the key to this revelation, all of them anointed too, they all, together, shouting and praising God for a thing that looked exactly right: to bring the Word of God back to the house of God. But David was king, not prophet. See? He… There was a prophet in the land to do it by, and God dishonored the whole move because they never used the right key. The door didn’t unlock. And now we must remember that, and keep that in mind. There is… Everything of God, one certain way it’s to be done, and that settles it. Now, there, God had a one certain Church that He meets the people in, and He will receive you in that Church and no other church.

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« 53 † I’ve said this because I’ve been so many time misunderstood, and people has told me…
I say, “Are you a Christian?”
“I’m Baptist.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m a Methodist.”
“Are you a Christian?”
“I’m a Pentecostal.”
54 Now, see, that doesn’t mean one thing to God. You’re just progging with the wrong key. But there is a right key, there is one where God… God never promised to meet you as a Methodist, or as a Baptist, or a Pentecostal, or no other denomination. He don’t even consider the denominations, they’re against Him.
55 On that long Message, I’ll get It at the Tabernacle pretty soon. And then Brother Jack will hear It, and then you can see what you want to do about It, ’cause It’ll be taped.

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« 56 † Now, people act like that God is obligated just to meet them on the basis of their theology. Now, people act like that. They won’t associate even with one another. The Trinity or the Pentecost won’t associate with the Oneness, neither will the Oneness associate with the Trinity. The Methodist won’t with the Baptist, because one is a legalist and the other’s a Calvinist, so they have no fellowship at all. And they wind the people’s minds around so bad that they even against one another.

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« 57 † I went to pray, sometime ago, in a hospital room. There was a lady laying there very sick, going under an operation, they expected her to die. Another lady laying there (I was called to pray for her.), I said to her, “Would you mind just a moment if I pray?”
58 And she, said, “Pull that curtain!”
59 And I said, “I’m sorry.” I said, “I was just going to ask prayer.”
60 She said, “Pull that curtain!”
61 I said, “Yes, ma’am.” Her and her son setting there, a regular little Ricky look. And I said, “Well, aren’t you a Christian?”
62 She said, “We are Methodist!”
63 Said, “Well, I never asked you that, I asked you if you was a ‘Christian.'” See?
64 And so she said, “Pull that curtain!”
65 See, because somebody that wasn’t a Methodist was going to offer prayer for a dying woman, which she was too. But because it wasn’t associated in her own organization, she didn’t even want to hear it or have nothing to do with it. If that ain’t a Pharisee, I never seen one!

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« 66 † Wait till you hear The Trail Of The Serpent. Huh. All right. Now, think now that their denomination is the only one that registers with God: “God won’t hear you unless you’re a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a–a Trinity, or a Oneness,” or something like that. That’s wrong!
67 And that’s my purpose; but if there is such a–a desire in people’s minds and heart to be right… I don’t believe the woman done it because… or anybody else. A Methodist wouldn’t raise up and take up for the Methodist church because he–he knew it was wrong. The man thinks it’s right. I don’t believe a Trinity would condemn a Oneness, or a Oneness a Trinity and Pentecost, because he wants to be different, he thinks he’s right. And you must respect his idea. You know, the blanket stretches both way. But, remember, in all that, if there’s something in a man’s heart or a woman’s heart that they believed that that is “right,” then there’s got to be somewhere that is right. As I’ve often said, “When the deep calls to the deep, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that call.”

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« 68 † You know, we’ve been told that–that a seal once walked upon the bank of the–of the sea, with legs. But now he doesn’t have legs, they turned into flaps because he could… had need of the flaps when he took it from the land, a fur-bearing animal, to the sea; nature formed him some flaps instead of legs, ’cause he could swim more than he did of his walking.
69 I can’t think of this great man now that went to the South Pole. What was his name? Byrd. They say that he had coats made for some cattle, on this exposition; that he’d taken the cattle for milk. And he made fur coats to keep them cattle from freezing to death. But when he got there, they didn’t need any fur coat, nature had growed them one. See? Why? Before there was a fin on a fish’s back, there had to be a water for him to swim in or he’d never had a fin. There… Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow in, or there’d been no tree.
70 So, you see, as long as there’s something in the human heart calling for something, there’s got to be something out there to respond, to satisfy that call.

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« 71 † A woman… An autopsy was held here sometime ago on a woman that died. And the reason, they–they claim, that killed her, she eat onions just constantly, all the time. If she wasn’t eating onions, her head would be itching, and everything; they couldn’t make it out. So holding the autopsy, they found a growth in the woman of some kind of cells; they had a–a name for it. And they could take that growth and put it in a bowl of onions, and it dissolved the onions overnight. See? What was it? It was something in the woman calling for onion, and if there had been no onions there’d have been no growth.
72 In other words, there has to be a Creator first, before there could be a creation. See?

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« 73 † Now, if in the human heart there is a longing, like Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, all these others, trying to find that one true way, and they’re told by their priests and pastors, and so forth, that “This is the true way.” They say, the priest says, “There’s no salvation outside the Catholic church.”
74 Well, each church takes his… their own idea. Some of them won’t admit it, but they do it by their action. Your action speaks louder than your word. It’s just a… In otherwise, they’re just more of a hypocrite than the Catholic is. The Catholic confesses it right out, “I believe that this is the only thing,” but they won’t do that. They hide it, but their actions prove what they’re thinking. See?

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« 75 † Now, there’s got to be then one place, because there is a desire in the human heart to find It. And I think that the Word of God has the answer for everything that we have need of. So God has the answer, and let’s search for it now in the Scriptures. And then if God will show us by the Scriptures the only place, the only ground, (the only denomination, if it’s so), the only way that God will meet a man, then we should hold to that ’cause we found the Truth of the Bible, what It says.

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« 76 † Now, the word Deuteronomy, the word itself means “two laws,” the word Deuteronomy. And God has two laws. The two laws: one of them is disobedience to the Word, and die; and the other one is obedience to the Word, and live. That’s the two laws, and Deuteronomy means those two laws. They have both been absolutely displayed to us in the Scripture. One of them is death, the other one is Life; Life and death. God deals only in Life, Satan only in death. And these was displayed to the world publicly, openly before every eye, and there’s no excuse for it. One of them was, displayed on Mount Sinai when the law was given, which condemned the whole human race to death; the other one was give on Mount Calvary, that brought the whole human race to Life, when the penalty was paid in Jesus Christ. The two laws of Deuteronomy was fulfilled in these two, great things.

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« 77 † I want you to notice again, there was also two covenants give. One covenant was given to Adam, which was on conditions, like law: “If you will not touch this, then you will live; but if you touch this, you will die.” That was a law. Then there was another law given to Abraham, which was by grace, unconditionally: “I have saved you and your seed after you.” Amen! That is a type of Calvary, not the type of–of–of Adam covenant, it’s a Abrahamic covenant.
78 But now we hear Him say there is only one place where He will meet man to worship. You heard it right here in the text. We’ll refer to it, back, in a few minutes.

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« 79 † Then if there’s only one place that God meets man, we had better be very careful. Now let’s lay aside our traditions this morning, and… in this Sunday-school lesson, and be very sure that we find that one place. Because, God has said here, He will not receive you in any other place. Any other church, He won’t receive you in. Only in His Church, the only place He’ll receive you.
80 Now, “What’d you say, Brother Branham? If I’m sincere?” No.
81 Remember, Jesus talked to some sincere people, the worshippers of His day, and He said, “In vain do you worship Me.” True, genuine worship from the bottom of their hearts. “In vain do you worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man,” or their denominational creed. Sincere, reverently, just as religious as they can be. And that wasn’t new just with the Pharisees. Cain and Abel, the first two worshippers that was borned, natural birth here, on earth, absolutely came in the same attitude.

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« 82 † Cain was just as religious as Abel was. They both built altars. They both loved God. They both made sacrifices. They both worshipped. They both paid tithe. They both done everything just alike. But Abel, by faith which is “the revelation,” the Word of God revealed, made plain, showed out, and vindicated. Glory! Cain made an offering, but God didn’t vindicate it. God required worship, and Cain made the offering; but God didn’t vindicate it. But by the true channel…
83 You say, “Well, my church is It. My…”
84 Wait just a minute. God interprets His Own Word by Its terms that He spoke in. See, Cain said, “I am religious. I am a lover of my Maker. I offer to Thee this fine altar. I offer to You this sacrifice. I built all these things up, Lord, because I love you.” Abel said the same thing. Now it’s the one that’s vindicated, the one that’s proven. And God come down and received Abel’s sacrifice, because by revelation he had struck the true channel of God that was accepted.

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« 85 † Now watch that Cain spirit come right down through the Scripture, right on to this very last day. Fundamental? Just as fundamental as the other one was.
86 Look at the prophet Balaam and the prophet Moses. Both of them with seven altars, Jehovah’s altars, blood on each one; and not only that, but rams on each one. In numerology, exactly the right number, seven, “perfect,” seven rams. Just exactly alike, both altars. As fundamental as one was, the other one was also. But who did God vindicate? See? See? The one that was in His Word. Fundamental doesn’t mean too much; it’s the revelation of God.

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« 87 † Now think! These men, why was they called and was put in this condition (these Pharisees) by Jesus, said, “In vain you worship Me”? Worship Him: genuine worship, true worship from their hearts. “You… In vain you worship Me.” Why? Teaching for doctrine their tradition of man. “Therefore you make the commandments of God of no effect to the people.”
88 If I taught you a Methodist message, it would take no effect on you, this is Bride time. If Moses taught the message of Noah, it would take no effect. If Jesus taught Moses’ message, it would take no effect. Because the predestinated seed are laying there that will only be watered by that type of water that’s give for that seed. See? It won’t grow any other condition. It must be the condition that grows it.

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« 89 † Now, you can take a chicken egg and put it in a incubator, which should be under a hen, but it’ll hatch anyhow. Put it under a pup it would hatch. It’s the warmness, the condition that makes it hatch. So it has to be under condition. You could take a good live egg and put it under a dead hen, it won’t hatch. See? See, it’s the condition.
90 Well, that’s the way it is in this age that we’re living in, you’ve got to find what is God’s way of doing it for this age. That’s what Martin Luther found, that’s what John Wesley found, that’s what the Pentecostals found in their age. God’s age and time to do it.

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« 91 † Now, the Pentecostals. That brother, one… I believe his… one of his eyes was out, a colored brother who really started the Pentecostal message in California, old Azusa Street. He was laughed at, and because he was a negro he was made fun of, but he brought a message for that age. Just a little body, a fellow could hardly sign his own name, but the Lord had revealed to him that this was the age for the restoration of those gifts, and they come. No matter what said, it come. But everybody got in the atmosphere of it, and seen it was that age, and seen God vindicating that those people could speak with tongues, and so forth, it happened. But then when he went and pinned it down that “this is the only evidence,” that killed it. See? Goes right on, see. That did it. Then they started separating this, that, and making denominations; and one’s coming on a cloud, and the other one’s come in a bush. And oh, my, there it goes.

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« 92 † That’s what denominations does. See? God is not a author of denomination, because denomination is Babylon, and He’s not the author of confusion. We see her all… You don’t have to be even intellectual to see that. It’s Babylon! See? Tradition (think of it), sincere people. Now, still, because they believe that, there still needs to be one sincere place where God meets.
93 Now notice verse 2. “Worship in the place that I have chosen.” The sacrifice, of course, where they worship, go do sacrifice. “The place that I chose; not what you chose, what man chose. But what I have chosen, you worship in this place.” There shows there’s then only one place, others is vain. It must be not of your choice, but it must be His choice.
94 “Well, I don’t have to go to the church.” Or, “You are so narrow-minded! Why, you’ll even fuss at women about preaching, and… or women about bobbing their hair, and men about these other things. Why, you’re so narrow-minded!”
95 All right, you don’t have to take God’s Way about it, you go on out where, they do that at. See? And you’ll find out it’s in the Scripture, so, “In vain do they worship Me.” See? Jesus spoke of the same thing. See?

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« 96 † That every little jot, everything, you must be faithful in. Always the little–the little vine, the little–the little fox that spoils the vine. Sometimes you leave… It’s not the big things you do, it’s the little things you leave undone. Remember, a chain is only its strongest at its weakest link. “Blessed are they that do all the commandments of God, that they might have a right to enter in.” Do all God said, and It said for women to have long hair.
97 You say… A man told me not long ago, said, “I don’t preach a clothes-line religion.”
98 I said, “Then you’re not preaching the Gospel.” Yeah.
99 God laid it out there, He said what to do. And you either do it… That’s your natural, reasonable thing. What little thing… what… the little insignificant. Jesus said, “Blessed are they that would take all the little thing, do the little things.” And a woman to let her hair grow, that’s just a… why, it’s just something she can do, and she won’t even do that. She won’t even do that.
100 “Oh, teach us the great things.”
101 How can you teach the great things, when you won’t do the simple, common thing? Because, you see, your motive and your objective is wrong.

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« 102 † It’s your love to God, “Lord, I don’t care what You want me to do, I’m willing to do it.” Then you’re getting somewhere, but if you don’t do it that way, the way He said do it…
103 It’s His choosing, “The place that I have chosen.” That’s where you worship with your sacrifice.”
104 You put… Cain brought his sacrifice, Abel brought his, it depends on what place you take it into. If you take it into the place where, He’s chosen, it’ll be all right, He’ll accept it; if it’s not, He won’t accept it. Don’t care… it’s the same sacrifice, whatever it is, it’s still un-… rejected, unless it’s brought to that one certain place.
105 Now we want to find out where we want to bring this sacrifice. If we could find out… We all want to go to Heaven. Don’t we? And we all know we’ve done wrong. We all believe that Jesus is the Sacrifice. Now we want to know where to take Him, it’ll be–it’ll be accepted. See? That’s right. The Bible tells us where to take Him at, and then it’ll be accepted; outside of there, it won’t be accepted.

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« 106 † Let us notice here also the place that He chose for the sacrifice to be laid, the place that He chose to put the sacrifice. You can’t put it on any of these gates; but the place that He chose to put it, He also put His Name in that place. See, that’s what He said here. He chose to put His Name in it. Now let us search the Scriptures for this place, for that is the place where He put His Name.
107 Now let’s read from the text. And I had a little note laying here that I… this morning, come to me. Let’s take the 2nd verse of this chapter. Now, I don’t want to hold too long, on account of the people. on these hookups out here. Now the 2nd verse of this 16th chapter:
Thou shall therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of thy flocks and thy herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to put his name there.

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« 108 † Now, you can’t take this… your sincerity and all that you want to confess, you just can’t take it to the Methodist altar, to a Baptist altar, to a Pentecostal altar, but there is a altar somewhere that He chose that He… to put His Name in it, and He would meet you at that place. Now, if you get everything running just right, it’s going to run; everything’s set in order. If there’s a short in that wire, that light won’t come on; because it’s been grounded. And when you’ll take one of God’s Words or one of His places, and in your own heart have selfish objectives, it’ll ground the power of God right there. If you do it because you want to be smart, you want to be different from somebody else, or something, right there it’s grounded, it’ll blow the fuse. You’re wrong. You’ve got to come with sincerity, with all your heart. Your motives and your objective, place that on God. Then search for His place, find where He said, and bring it there. See?

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« 109 † Look at Martha and Mary. When Jesus had come back, after He had taught them this Gospel (the Light of His day, Him being Messiah), He was hated, rejected. Oh, the Pharisees and churches despised Him. But Lazarus had died, the brother which was a bosom friend to Him. He let him lay there; and they sent for Him, He didn’t even come.
110 But watch Martha, her attitude. She said, “Lord, if Thou would have been here.” Give Him His right title: Lord, capital L-o-r-d, Yahweh, Jehovah. Glory! “If Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died.” Life and death can’t associate in the same channel, or same house. “Thou would… He would have not have died.”
111 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and Life,” saith God. When He said first, “Thy brother shall live again.”
112 She said, “Yes, Lord, I truly believe that. As a Jewess, I believe that there will be a general resurrection of the dead; and I believe my brother was just as loyal and sincere in worship. And I believe that You are that Messiah, that said in the Bible, because God vindicating His Word in You shows that You’re the Messenger of this hour. You are that Messiah. I believe that You are that Christ that was to come, because Your works testify that God has sent You here to be that Messiah.” Oh, my! Watch the cogs begin to come in place now. See?

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« 113 † Now, she had a right to say, “Why didn’t You come raise my brother? Why didn’t You heal him? You healed others. Your very best friend, and now look what happened.” No, no, that kind of objective don’t get nowhere.
114 “I believe that You’re exactly what You’re identified in the Scripture to be. I believe this is the day that the Messiah should come; we’ve been looking for it. I don’t care what the rest of them say. I believe with all my heart that what I have seen and heard by the Word, that the Word is vindicated in You, that You are that Messiah.” See, way down in her, she–she had something to ask for, but she had to come to the right channel.

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« 115 † What if she’d run up there and say, “And then You tell me You’re that Messiah! And not even the courtesy, gentleman enough to even answer our request; when we fed You and housed You, and everything, and took up for You, and left our churches, as You commanded us to get out of them denominations.” See? “And here we’ve left it, and now we’re counted offcasts and renegades. And everything that we’ve done for You, and then not even the common courtesy to answer my call?” Now, actually, she had that right.
116 Like you say about your short hair, “I’m an American citizen, I can wear shorts, do anything I want to, not illegal.” That’s your rights, but a sheep always forfeits its rights. Uh-huh. If you’re a lamb, you ain’t got nothing but wool, he forfeits that. That’s his God-given rights, but he forfeits it.

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« 117 † “I have a right to join any denomination.” That’s exactly right, but you forfeit that. See?
118 She forfeit all that she had rights, to, to recognize the Word of God manifested right there before her.
119 He said, “I am the resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?” See, there was one more little clause she hadn’t come in line with. See?
120 “Yea, Lord! I believe that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!” O brother, everything was ready to spark off right then. See?
121 “Where have you laid him?” See? And you know what took place.

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« 122 † See, you’ve got to get in that right place before He will receive your sacrifice. See, got to come into it. Watch.
… in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
Thou shall eat no leavened, bread in it;…
123 What does that typify in the sacrifice? Don’t mix it with any creed, got to be the Word. “No leavened bread.” Leaven is the… You know what a leaven is in anything. “A little leaven leavens the whole lump,” the whole lump is the Body. You can’t put one speck of denomination or creed into Christ. No, sir, it won’t work.
124 You remember the last Thursday night’s message? Your old husband must be dead. Right. Your new Husband is the Word.
… seven days shall thou eat unleavened bread therein,…
125 “Seven days,” what does that typify? The complete Seven Church Ages, seven days. Why’d they have to eat it seven days? Before what? Before going out. And the whole church age, from the beginning to the end, has to live only on the Word of God of that age. So your Roman creed, Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostal creed’s all dead.

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« 126 † Now watch.
… therein, even the bread of affliction;… (Persecuted for It; Luther, Wesley, Pentecostals; all persecuted, and so will you.)… for thou comest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:… thou mayest remain the day when… remember the day when thou comest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
And there shall be no leavened bread seen in… with thee in all thy coast seven days;…
127 In the beautiful Bride of Christ, after Her death through the Dark Ages by the Roman empire, that She had to die, “Unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground.” The Bridegroom had to come, the perfect Masterpiece of God. You all heard my message on that.

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« 128 † And I stood down in Los Angeles at Forest Lawn, one day, and my heart jumped. How many’s ever been in Forest Lawn? There is a… the statue of Moses by–by… -angelo, I believe it is Michelangelo. And it’s a perfect statue, all but on the right knee; there is a nick about a half inch deep. And the guide… I was looking, and he pointed it out to me. He said, “Michelangelo had spent a lifetime of trying to–to make… He was a sculptor, and he was trying to make the image of Moses. Back in his mind, he had in mind what Moses should look like. He had that in his heart, what Moses should look like. And then he spent his lifetime; chisel a little here, and rub it; stand back and look at it. Year after year after year, he worked on it. Finally when it was completed, and he stepped back and laid down his rag and his hammer, he looked at the statue. It was so perfect the image of Moses that he had in his heart, till he got so beside himself, he grabbed the hammer and struck it, hollered, ‘Speak!”‘ It’s called Michelangelo’s Masterpiece. That great something in that sculptor, that vision that he had of what Moses ought to be with, was only portraying in type of the great Father God.

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« 129 † He had in His heart, before the foundation of the world, a Son, because He is a Father. But it was still in the genes of His Word. And He created a man, and He had to put him on free moral agency, but that man fell. But the great Sculptor, God, who made man from the dust of the earth, He didn’t settle for that, He started making man again. And He made a Noah, he died drunk. He made a Moses that failed to keep His Word. He made prophets that run in the time of trouble. And He kept building and molding until after while He wanted a–a masterpiece, to reflect Him, His nature, what was in His heart what a son should be.

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« 130 † One day, down on Jordan, after that Masterpiece had been formed and made, here He come sending down in a… on the wings of a Dove, said, “This is Him!” He was so enthused with this Masterpiece until He struck Him on Calvary, that He would die, for the rest of us was imperfect; that through the shedding of His Blood, He might bring many masterpieces (being a Bride) to His Son. Masterpiece is scarred because the enthusiasm of God to see such a Masterpiece, He, struck Him for us all. See? There He died, to perfect we who are imperfect. The Masterpiece.

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« 131 † Notice in here. He said:
… seven days shall you eat this unleavened bread…
132 Now, bread is typed. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word.” Not just–just a Word here and there as denominations would have you believe It. But the Word of God is perfect! It’s God Himself in letter form, called a “Seed.” And the right kind of unadulterated faith in that Word will bring that Seed to its Life.
133 That’s exactly what you see at night in the discernments, and all these other things, because it’s a promise that God made. And He stood by me and told. me that, and told me these “fakers would rise up, but hold steady.” I believe It. And no selfish motive, to hurt anybody, but to be reverent to God and to do the work that He called me to do, that’s why I say these things. And God confirms it back, and receives the offer and the sacrifice, by vindicating it to be the Truth. No question to It! Now watch that Word!

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« 134 † Now, we notice here, “Seven days,” that’s for every church age. Now, as that Masterpiece had to die, in order to be resurrected to redeem us all. Then He had a church set in order at Pentecost, but that Church had to go through a sacrifice; and the Roman world killed it, put it in the ground.
135 As this author of this book, I can’t think of it now, made so much fun of me, and said, “Of all of the devils, it’s William Branham.” See, that’s what the Devil tries to think. He said, “Visions and things,” said, “that’s of the Devil,” he said, “or he’s some kind of a hypnotist, or working in supersensory perception.” The intellectual world always trying to figure It out.

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« 136 † That’s where they tried to figure out Jesus. “How do You do these things? What done it?”
137 He said, “I’ll ask you a question. Was the ministry of John the Baptist… Was it of God or was it of man?” See?
138 Said, “We can’t say.”
139 Said, “Neither do I tell you.” That’s right, and went on. From henceforth no man asked Him anything. See? Just cut them off, He didn’t tell them nothing about It; none of their business. He had a work to do and He finished it.
140 God help us to do the same thing. We don’t have to answer the Devil’s questions, that’s right, “If thou be, do so-and-so.” You’re responsible for that Gospel, a preacher is, and that’s all; not how It’s written, it’s just responsible for saying It.
141 And as a servant, if you’re a prophet, you’re responsible to God. And if the visions that comes it lightens this Scripture and shows what It is, you’re responsible for every Word that’s in that Bible, ’cause It was all wrote by the same kind of people you are. “God of old moved, by the prophets, and wrote the Ho-… the Holy Bible.” See? And no genuine prophet of God could deny one Word of It, but believe every Word and preach the same. And then God’s obligated out of that channel to make that Word come to pass just exactly the way It’s promised, the Seed will grow.

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« 142 † Now notice again, quickly, we find here that all seven days that this bread was to be eat, through Seven Church Ages. Now, when it had to die and go into the ground.
143 And this critic that talked about me, said, “Of a God that you people worship, that could set in the Dark Ages and watch them mothers, pregnant, some of them with little babies in their arms, sincere people, be throwed into the arena and the lions tear them to pieces, and them screaming; hang them upon crosses and burn them; strip the women naked, young virgins, and throw theirselves back like this, and turn lions in on them.” Said, “A God that could set in Heaven, supposed to be on His throne, and looked down and say He enjoys it.”
144 So then, see, that’s the intellectual conception which is of the Devil. If the man had been spiritual, he would have knowed that that corn of wheat has to die, it had to be buried in a Roman cathedral.

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« 145 † But then the first little sprout of Life come forth in the reformation by Martin Luther, that, “The just shall not live by a blessed kosher that a priest blessed, but by the Word of God. ‘The just shall live by faith!'” It brought two sprigs, the corn of wheat begin to grow.
146 Then along come John Wesley and added to that. (There was many of the others, that… Zwingli and them come forth and denied the virgin birth, and it just died down). But along come the Methodist, the tassel, the pollen, the missionary day. And they preached sanctification; added the tassel.
147 Then along come the Pentecostals in the shuck, so much, to deceive the Elected. Looked like a real grain of wheat, open it up, there’s no wheat at all. But the Life’s passing through the shuck.

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« 148 † Now, have you noticed, every three years after a–a great meeting, what takes place? A denomination. This is twenty years and no denomination. Dear dying Lamb, may it never do that. If I go in this generation, may the people who believe this Message never stand still for a denomination! God will… You’ll die right in your track! Remember that! The very hour that you mention denomination among you, I don’t care how sincere you are, take man for your leader instead of the Holy Spirit to confirm this Word, that’s the hour you die! The genuine Seed cannot, because there’s nothing left after the seed, it’s the same thing was back at the beginning. It’s the Bride that fell into the ground to bring forth the corn of wheat again.

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« 149 † Notice:
… seven days shall you eat unleavened bread…
150 And there shall be with the Bride…
151 Now, you people that had that old shouting Methodist mother, and so forth, that you wondered “If she didn’t speak in tongues, she ain’t going to be there.” That’s a lie! She was that same Holy Spirit that you have today, but it was in tassel form, not restoration of gifts. But all seven days, just eat the unleavened bread, the Word. Them, back, them that denominated, they’re dead. They’re stalk, they’ll just be gathered and burned. But the Life’s going right on through. And what happened? All the Life that was in the stalk, in the tassel, in the shuck, all winds up in the wheat. And that same Holy Ghost that brought Luther, brought Wesley, brought the Pentecostals, winds up in the Bride at the resurrection.

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« 152 † “Seven days, eat unleavened bread.” No leaven shall be found amongst the Bride, no–no word added, no nothing. Remember, one word caused every death that’s in the earth; every illegitimate child was borned because Eve, the first church, the bride of the first Adam, doubted God’s Word and accepted a denominational, or a intellectual, or a school exceptions of It; because It was reasoned out, and “Surely, God is a good God.” God is a good God, but He’s also a just God. We must keep His Word! School, she accepted it.
153 There’s where some of you seminary boys, no doubt a call in your life, but you run off to some Bible school to have this doctrine injected in you, and there’s where you die… Stay with God and His Word. They won’t let you; or, you can’t even belong to their congregation, won’t accept you on the platform. So let them have it, let the dead bury the dead, let’s follow Christ the Word.

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« 154 † Now, seven days there shall be no leaven mixed in the Bride, the Church, seven days.
155 Now notice. Now as no…
And there shall be no leavened bread seen in thee in all thy coast seven days;… (The sacrifice here is a type: the Bride coming forth from the Sacrifice which is Christ.)… neither shall there be any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificed the first day at evening,…
156 And remember–remember how we just went through the Church Ages? The messenger to the church always comes just at the dying of the other church age, always. The dying of the Pentecost brings forth the rapturing of the Bride. See? The dying of Luther brought forth Wesley. See? The dying of Wesley brought forth Pentecost. The dying of Pentecost brings forth the Message now. Here, it’s right here, patterned all through the Scripture. There’s not a scripture in the Bible but what hooks right one with the other. See? All these types. I have no education, but I have the Holy Spirit that shows me through another channel that teaches me that from nature; and that’s by the Word. Has to be the Word, brings His promise.
… flesh,… the sacrifice the first day… even, remain all night until the morning.

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« 157 † Now, even Luther, who had the Truth and taught the church “the just shall live by faith.” You don’t want to hang onto that being the full doctrine, in the Methodist age. What shall you do? Burn it with fire. What was the type of? The denomination that comes out of that Word is a shuck, the stalk, the husks, must be burnt with fire. That denominational part that it come through must not remain, got to die. Don’t leave it till the breaking of another–another age, burn it up! He’s talking now to the Bride here, just the Bride, coming up through every age.
158 Notice how beautiful, “The lamb’s blood.” These are Christ’s Body, the Sacrifice: the lamb’s blood on the door. Now, remember, the lamb was slain which was a type of Christ.
159 Or we could take plenty of time, but I haven’t got… just a few more minutes to stay here. I may just have to stop and start up again tonight, see, because we’re taking too long. It’s… I got twenty pages of this in here, of notes, on this one subject.

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« 160 † Notice now, on this, the–the lamb was Christ in figurative form. Or did I say that right? Type; Christ was the Lamb. He was to be a male, the first from the old mother ewe; or yew, which ever way you choose to call it. It must be her first. And he must be tested first to see if there is a blemish on him.
161 Now, Christ was tested; the lamb first from the mother ewe, Mary the virgin. And was tested by what? Satan against the Word. When he hit Eve, she fell; hit Moses, he fell; but when he flew up against Christ, and tried to quote the Scripture to Him wrong, uh-huh, he found out that that wasn’t Moses. See? He was tested. What did… he turn around, he said, “If thou be the Son of God. Now they tell me you perform miracles, and they tell me that the Messiah’s to do that. Now, if it is, you’re hungry, you haven’t eat, turn these bread into… these stones into bread, and eat.”
162 He said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.'” Your creed, so forth. But by what? Every Word! A part of the Word? “Every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” That’s what man lives by. See? The Lamb was tested, see if there’s anywhere He had fallen.

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« 163 † The Pharisees, “O Rabbi, you young prophet, we think you’re wonderful. You are good.”
164 “Why call thou Me good? There’s only One good, and that’s God. Do you believe that?”
165 “Oh, yes. God.”
166 “Well, I am He, then.” Uh-huh. “You said there’s only One good. Why do you call Me ‘good,’ when you don’t believe I’m God?” Uh-huh. “So why do you call Me good? What makes you do that? What inspired you to say that, when you know there’s only one good, and that’s God?”
167 “We know Thou respects not the dignity of man nor the word of their position. We know it.” Try… He knowed that hypocrite. See?

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« 168 † He was tested to see where He was standing, see, tested in every manner, tested like we are tested. But there was no giving in, to Him, at all. No, sir! That was the Son of God.
169 And the lamb was tested, and was kept up for fourteen days. That was two Sabbaths, or two ages. One’s for the Jews, which they offered the lamb in type; one’s for the Gentile, who has the real Lamb, and all of them was, made perfect by believing this Lamb would come. But He was, tempted fourteen… or examined fourteen days, He was the Word.
170 And you can examine the Old Testament, say “It condemns the New.” You’re wrong! The Old Testament only bears record of the New.
171 A man was going to challenge me not long ago, said, “What’s the matter with him?” Said, “Well, he even teaches out of the Old Testament.” A Christian preacher, think of that. Said, “The Old Testament’s dead and gone.” Oh, no! Oh, no! It’s only a schoolmaster, it shows what’s wrote on the wall. See? Right.

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« 172 † Now, see, fourteen days it was tested, that was Christ. Now notice, then He was killed in the evening time, should be killed, the lamb was. Christ died in the evening time, the afternoon. And then notice, then he was also…
173 The blood was to be put on the doorposts, see, which the blood is the life of the animal. “Thou shall eat the flesh thereof; but the blood thereof which is the life, pour it out.” See? It was to be… The blood was to be put on the lintel of the doorposts of the house wherein the sacrifice was accepted. Glory! What is the Life? The Name. That… He placed the name of the person… Go up to the door, and you look, see what name’s on the door before you ring the bell. See? The blood was put on the lintel of the door as a type of what the sacrifice was on the inside.
174 Now we’re going to find the place of worship, right through there, coming through that Blood. Notice, the blood on the door was speaking the name of what was going… was on the inside, they were in there. Our place of worship, the Lamb, is the Word. We know that.

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« 175 † Now, verse 4, notice, “Leave no bread, leave none of the sacrifice,” or, take one from, one age to another.
176 Try to go back and say, “Well, now, we’re Lutherans, we want to come up here,” you’ve got to die to the Lutheran age to be borned in the Wesley age. You have to die in the Wesley age to be borned in a Pentecostal age. And you have to die in the Pentecostal age, leave nothing of it left, burn it with fire, because it’s going to be burnt like, the stalk that the wheat comes up out of. The stalk, the denomination, it’s got to be burned. So don’t bring your denomination over in the new Message. This is the Word now. That’s what denominated, the stalk; it carried It, that’s right; but It come over into here, then the stalk died. It was a carrier, the denomination, but the Word goes right on. Yeah, the Word goes right on.

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« 177 † Now take the 5th and the 6th verse. Notice, “Not…” Now let’s take the 5th and the 6th verse.
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of the gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
178 Now remember, “Not in any of these gates.” The Lord permits you to have these denominations, see, “these gates.”
But at the place which the LORD… God shall choose to place his name in,…
179 That’s the Gate, the only place. Not many, “these gates,” but God has a Gate.

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« 180 † You say, “Every morning I enter the Methodist gate.” That’s the church. “Every morning I go into the Catholic gate.” Uh-huh. Well, the Lord let His people go in and out them gates. God’s got people in the Catholic church, Methodist church, Presbyterian church, all of them, Pentecostals. Sure, but don’t… you don’t worship the Lord in that gate. See? But the Lord has a certain gate. Glory! He has a gate.
But at the place which the LORD thy God… choose to place his name in, there… shall thou sacrifice the passover at evening,…

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« 181 † When did Rebekah find Isaac? When did Eliezer call her to be the bride? Evening time!
It shall be Light about the evening time,
The way to Glory you will surely find;
In that water way is the Light today,
Buried in the precious Name of Jesus;
Young and old, repent of all your sins,
The Holy Ghost will surely enter in;
The evening Lights have come,
It is a fact that God and Christ are one.
182 That was the beginning of It, now she’s faded on into the Bride Light. See what I mean?

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« 183 † I better close here, start again tonight, ’cause I don’t want you to leave this, you see. No, no, it’s–it’s dinner time. Well, well, I got too many notes wrote here. Oh, my! How about tonight, would that be better? Huh? Well, if you… You want to just try a little further? All right, let’s go a little further then, we’ll hurry right quick. How’s that?

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« 184 † Now, go in at the what? “You, shall not go into any gate that the Lord God has given you, but at the gate that the Lord will put His Name in.” Not go into the house of the–of the gate which is the door. That right? God’s going to put His Name at the door, and you shall not… That’s the gate that enters into the place of worship, the sanctuary. You don’t go in there with your sacrifice to any of these gates, but in the gate that the Lord God chooses to put His Name in. See?
185 Now, has He did that? Where is that Gate? In Saint John 10, Jesus said, “I am the Gate, the Door. I am the Door to the House of God. I am a Door to the sheepfold.” Not the goatfold, the sheepfold. See? “I am the Door to the sheepfold. A man may enter into this Door, be safe.”

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« 186 † And now we could linger a long time on that. But, to save time, He is the Door to that sheepfold. Now, we want to notice here. The shadows and types are really in view right here, but I… if I take that page I’d… it’s going to hold you awhile.
187 All right, notice, this brings in perfect view, Jesus Christ. For all the Old Testament is type of Him, all the feasts, all the worships, and everything. And I’ve got wrote down here, under these line of Scriptures, “Explain it.” There’s where it’d take a long time. Explain how all the feasts… Even the meal offering was a type of Christ. Let’s just take that one.

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« 188 † One time there was a–a school called the school of the ministers, or school of prophets. They trained up, educated prophets. And there was a genuine, God-called prophet one time went up to visit them. They were going to show the old prophet a little courtesy, so one of them went out and picked a big bunch of what he thought to be peas; but they were poison gourds, and he was going to feed them all on that.
189 Oh! How many seminary lapfuls have we had! See? Right. They’re cooking up something. See? They got Methodist lapful, Baptist lapful, Pentecostal lapfuls. But, you see, they are the second growth, the kind that can be pruned off the tree. See, not in the main Vine. Bearing lemons, grapefruit, and so forth; not oranges, but professing to be citrus.

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« 190 † Notice again. Now, in this–in this, when Elijah come around and looked at them, and seen that it was poison gourds that would kill every one of them, they said, “Alas, we got death in the pot!”
191 He said, “Bring me a handful of meal.” And he throwed meal into it, he said, “Now it’s all right, eat what you want.” It changed death to life.
192 And the meal offering that was given to… Christ, He was the Meal offering, and the meal offering must be ground with a certain burr that made every little chunk of meal the same, shows that He’s the same yesterday, today, and, forever. He’s the same thing to put in your denomination and it’ll live, the Word! Christ is the Word, all the types of everything: the tabernacle, the–the–the shewbread, everything. The broken kosher under the plate was His broken body, that the Jews can’t explain yet why they do it. See? And all these other things typed Him.

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« 193 † Now, then, Him in view, we see now all denominations and creed left behind; for He is the pure, unchangeable Word of God, which is the unleavened bread, Saint John 1. That’s right, He’s the unleavened Bread. So you add this, or add that, it’s a leavened added to that what’s already been originally give for you.
194 Looky here. What’s killing the race today? They take and hybrid things. And when you hybrid it, you kill it. “Oh, it looks more pretty.” Sure! Hybrid corn: corn flakes, all the other cereals that comes out of corn. Hybrid corn: great, big, nice long stalks, and great big ears, look like twice as good as the other. But it’s death! Science even found that out. See? Don’t cross it, it’ll kill you.

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« 195 † Now, here, let me show you. The other day I was watering some flowers in my yard. And the lady had some hybrid flowers that was in the little pot here, the little planter beside the house. We have to water them things at least three times a week, or four, or they’ll die. And there stood the original plant out in the yard. It hasn’t rained there for six month, just as dry… If it rains, in ten minutes you can blow a dust. But that little fellow laying out there, just prettier and brighter than the hybrid was with all the water. You keep that water off of him, he’ll die. But where did he get his water? And another thing, you have to go all along spraying them every day or two, to keep the lice off of him. They don’t, the lice will eat him up, he’s so tender and soft. But there ain’t a louse that’ll get on that original. No, no! He’ll crawl up to him and crawl away. He’s original! See what the hybriding has done?

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« 196 † That’s the same thing in the church. They’re trying to mix the denomination with the Word, to make the… try to make the Word say what the denomination says. And when you do that, you have to spray them, and baby them, and–and give them gold stars to come to Sunday school, and everything else. That’s right. When, a genuine, borned-again Christian, borned with the Word of God, he’s rugged. That’s you. The lice and things of the world don’t bother him. He’s an eagle, he flies plumb past it. See, soars in the heavenly. See? It is true. Nothing…

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« 197 † Notice. Now, we must understand that here, the denomination, creeds, and anything that’s added of the leavened bread cannot mix with the unleavened bread. And the Bible foreshadows here in the sacrament, of going into the worship, that no unleaven can be taken with you, and God will receive it.
198 You say, “I’m Methodist.” Right there you die! “I’m Pentecostal’s.” You die!
199 I am of Christ. That’s right. You’ve got to stand on something. That’s right. You’re–you’re standing on something.
200 Churchill once said, held up two fingers and said, “We are got the victory.” And England stood by that, they believed Churchill.
201 And believe it or not, this morning, you are standing by something. There’s only one thing that you can live and stand by, and that’s Christ, the Word. True!

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« 202 † Notice, nothing in the Bible types the denominations but Babylon. And Babylon was founded by Nimrod, and Nimrod was a renegade. And he had a bunch of women in there, was supposed to be his queens, that was prophetess. They even think that old Balaam come from that section, they had roots and so forth. They worshipped, you know (many of you scholars that reading Hislop’s Two Babylons, and so forth, and the history of the church), and how they–they did. And they had women that done this, and women… a goddess, and everything, and it was a forced religion. Everybody, every city around Babylon was compelled to come to Babylon to worship under Nimrod at the tower. See? That’s right. They were forced to do it, debate it. There’s where the confusion come.
203 And that’s exactly what the church is today, “If you don’t attend Sunday school, if you don’t do this, and have to hire you to do this and do this and do that, you’re out of the picture.”

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« 204 † Out there in Tucson, is listening in this morning, I once wondered… I’ve always constraining people, “Go to church, no matter where you go.” And I seen the people kind of pulling back, and going this way. And I thought, “What’s the matter?”
205 I went to some of them, “The first day you’re there, they’ll approach you, ‘Join our church.’ If you don’t do it, you’re not welcome.” See? See? It’s a forced thing, it’s forced upon you, see, and that’s Babylon. But in Christ, you come in by election; not by force, your heart pulls you in.
206 God did not put His name then in Babylon. Closely now. He cannot put His Name in Babylon, the churches. Oh, they, they put His Name in there, but He never. No.

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« 207 † You say, “Well, now, Brother Branham!” Wait, wait, just sit still just a minute. You asked me to stay a little longer. All right. Now notice, they put His Name in there, but He didn’t.
208 Now, He said, “The place that I’m going to meet you and receive your sacrifice is where I choose to put My Name. You come in at this gate, this door where I choose to put My Name. There’s where you come.”
209 Well, they put, “This is the Church of Christ.” If there’s anything that’s wrong in that declaration, it left out one word: “anti.” Uh-huh, all that He taught, they disagree with It. Modern Pharisees.

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« 210 † But we must find where He did put His Name, for in It is His only provided gate. Amen! Glory! Watch! Where did He put His Name? In His Son.
211 “Oh,” you say, “now wait a minute, Brother Branham. That was the Son, not the Father.”
212 The son always takes the name of his father in every case. I come to this earth in the name of a Branham because my father’s name was Branham.
213 Jesus said, “I came in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.” You want the Scripture on that? Saint John 5:43. See? “I–I came in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.” Then the Father put His Own Name, which is “Jesus,” in the Son. And He’s the Way, He’s the Door, He’s the House, He’s where God chose to put His Name. God never put His Name in me, He never put It in the church, He never put It in the Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, but He put It in Christ the Anointed Emmanuel.

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« 214 † And the Name is in the Word because He is the Word. Amen! What is He then? The Word interpreted is the manifestation of the Name of God. No wonder. “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in Heaven has revealed this to you, Who I am. And upon this rock I’ll build My place of worship, and the gates of hell can’t shake It down.” Amen! O living Church of God, stand in firm foundation on Jesus Christ alone. You can sing the song, but if you’re not on Christ the Word, you’re on teetering, faltering sand. “But upon this Rock,” Christ, “My Word.”

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« 215 † He built the Lutheran message and they denominated it. It was growing, the footstool. Then He growed up into the leg part, the Methodist, and so forth. There’s where He built His Church, upon His Word! Now, He’s not all foot or all thigh, He’s a body; and now is the capping part. Did you notice in the pyramids? Which, I don’t preach a pyramid religion, now.
216 But the first Bible was ever wrote, was wrote in the sky, the zo-… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.] Did you notice it? It starts off with the virgin, the first figure in the zodiac. The last figure is Leo the lion. He come first by the virgin, He comes next as the Lion of the tribe of Juda. Just before that, a cancer age, a cross fish, all the rest the ages. If we had time to go through it; which we have, at the tabernacle.

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« 217 † And the pyra-… pyramid being those foundations, up into the king’s chamber. And just before you hit the seventh wall, there’s a little introduction plank there, where a messenger comes out to bring you to the king. (The messenger, John the Baptist, that introduced, to the King.) But the Headstone was rejected. And they don’t know, the Stone of Scone, or whatever it is, they don’t know where it’s at, because it’s a rejected stone. But that’s the stone that caps the whole thing, that makes it the pyramid through the complete seven church ages. Add grace, add this, add this, there’s seven adds, the last one is Christ. Add this to your charity, add grace to your grace, add something else, and something else, till it gets up to Christ is the Headstone, “And I am the Door.”

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« 218 † Now, a son always comes in his father’s name. Any son comes in his father’s name. And Jesus said, “I came in My Father’s Name.” Then what is the Name of the Father? What is the Name of the Son? And He said, “A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me.” Yeah, He’s come in the form of the Holy Ghost, That’s Name is Jesus. That was the reason they was worshipping, “O Jesus!” See? See? Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: It’s the Lord Jesus, Christ. That’s all. “I come in My Father’s Name, and you received Me not.”

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« 219 † Now, remember, He also added here and warns us, “another will come,” a denomination, a creed. “They’ll come in their name and you will receive them. You won’t receive Me, the Word vindicated and proved before you.”
220 As He was right then, so is He today. Don’t you miss that, people across this nation! “Another will come, a church, and you’ll believe that, because you can just do any way. I won’t vindicate it.” He’s never (at any time, ever) vindicated anything (in any church) outside of the Message that was given: Luther’s, justification; Wesley, sanctification; Pentecostal, restoration of the gifts. After… And as soon as they make a denomination out of it, there it died. Search the Scriptures.

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« 221 † But He said, “I’ll choose the place to put My Name.” And the Name was Jesus. And Jesus is the Word, Saint John 1. Is that right? That’s the place of worship, in Christ the Word. “I come in My Father’s Name.”
222 The prophet said, “His Name shall be called Emmanuel.” That’s Matthew 1:23, if you want to… wrote it… that down. Jesus, Jehovah, the Saviour.
223 Now, the 5th verse shows that He is the Door. By now, many other invisible proofs, this Gate, and Name, and Place can be proved to be there’s only one place that God meets man to worship, and that’s when he’s in Christ.
224 Now, now the question is, “How do we get in Him?” Now, this may pinch just a little bit; but, you know, like taking medicine, if it don’t make you sick, it don’t do you no good. See?

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« 225 † Now, the Lutherans wanted to get in one way, by joining the Lutheran church. The Methodist wanted to get in by shouting. The Pentecostals wanted to get in by speaking in tongues. That still ain’t it! See? No, that’s gifts, so forth. But First Corinthians 12 says, “By one Spirit.” Spirit of God, which is the Life-giver to the Word (the Seed), to vindicate that Seed for that season. See?
226 Here’s the Methodist-age seed laying there, it taken the Holy Spirit to make that seed come to life and pure… purify the church by sanctification; Luther didn’t preach that, ’cause he didn’t know it. The Pentecostals wanted to speak in tongues for the restoration of the gifts. Each one declares, “That’s It! That’s It!” See?

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« 227 † “But by one Spirit we’re all baptized into one Body,” and that Body is a family, the family of God. And that’s the house of God, and the house of God is the Name of Jesus Christ. “The Name of the Lord is a mighty tower, the righteous run into It and are safe.”
228 Now, how you going to come in by a title? How’s your check going to be received by saying, “Paid to the order of–of Reverend, Doctor, Minister”? See? See? You might be a reverend, doctor, minister. But the name of the Lord is “Jesus Christ.” See?
229 “I have chose to put My Name at the door of the house of My worship, for My family will be gathered in there under the Blood; like it was in Egypt, anything outside died. And in there there’s no leavened bread! There’s no denominational mixture in It anywhere, My house! My children, borned of My genes!” Amen! Glory to God! “My genes are in them! My… I put My Word in them. I’ll write them upon the tables of their heart. That’s My family, the family of the Body of Jesus Christ; the family. And this door you’ll come in, not Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal, but in the door where I put My Name.” It ain’t Methodist. God’s Name ain’t Methodist. God’s Name ain’t Pentecostal. God’s Name ain’t Baptist. God’s Name ain’t Catholic. Stay out of the doors then. See? See? See?

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« 230 † “But in a place where I choose to put My Name.” Now, there’s not another place in the Bible given where that God ever put His Name, only in Jesus Christ, for He is the Son of God taking the Name of God, and God’s human Name. “And there’s not another name given under Heaven whereby you must be saved.” I don’t care, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, catechisms, or whatever you want to do; only through the Name of Jesus Christ where every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to it, Him being Lord. There’s how you come in.
231 And if you were just baptized in water right–right, and then deny the Word, then you’re illegitimate; your birth wasn’t correct. You claim that you believed Him then, and you deny Him.
232 How could I deny my family? When… How could I deny Charles Branham being my father? A blood test on the door shows it. Uh-huh.

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« 233 † My action, and the vindication of God’s Word in my life shows whether I’m a child of God or not. Now, there’s God’s only place. See it? The only place that God will receive your sacrifice (I don’t care how sincere you are) is in Christ.
234 And remember… You say, “Well, I believed I come in too.” Remember, the Bible says… You say, “Well, the Bible said, ‘Whosoever believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is saved, shall be saved.'”
235 It says that, but remember it also is written, also is written, “No man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost.” See? You might say “he is,” but he isn’t until the Holy Spirit Itself which gives Life to the Word proves it by vindication that you are the son of God. That’s the Scripture.

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« 236 † “The place that I chose to put My Name. You shall not worship in any other gate, but in the gate I put My Name in; then I will receive you, you’re in My family.”
237 Now, the family of God obeys the order of the Father of the family. “And He is the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father; and of His dominion and reign there shall be no end, the government shall be upon His shoulder.” And Him being Governor, King, Emmanuel, First, Last, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, everlasting Father, every one of His children obey every Word to the order because they’re a part of Him.

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« 238 † We live in our home like Branhams live. You live in your home, the Joneses, like the Joneses live.
239 And in the House of God we live by the Word of God and every One that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; and any other, fraud, we won’t listen to him. See? “You shall eat unleavened bread, every church age, just as I give It to you.” But don’t try to go back and inject that over into This, because it’s come into a stalk. “You shall take the bones and things that’s left over of the sacrifice and burn them!” Gone, the church age died, went on; we’re in another one now. Amen!
240 “The place I choose to put My Name in.” Oh, my! First Corinthians 12.

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« 241 † Notice Ephesians 4:30.
… grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the… (next revival?)… until the day of your redemption.
… grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption.
242 Now notice. Let’s apply that to our Scripture lesson. Then we better go, I think I’m wearing the people out. Don’t you? People getting up and going home, see, ’cause they got–they got dinner cooking. And somebody else wanting to leave, they didn’t expect come down here to listen all day long. See? But look, you know the…

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« 243 † Ben, I–I ought to work on you! Bless you! Thank you, Brother Ben. I love you, Brother Ben.
244 If you know what that boy’s suffered for us in that war; he’s shot all to pieces, and blowed up, and everything else. He’s had a life of everything, but God’s blessed him. He stayed true. His wife left him, run away and married again, and took his children. Oh, my, I just can’t think about it.
245 But, anyhow, God bless you, Ben.
246 He’s laying right now full of shrapnel, pressing against his nerves and everything else. Which, you have to know the background of things, you see. God, bless that boy. Yes.
… whereby you’re sealed until the day of your redemption.

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« 247 † Notice! Now this might pinch just a little bit, but notice. Don’t fall out with me. Just remember.
248 When Israel once looked on that door, with that blood on the door, the name (the blood, the life), and entered in under that blood, they never went out again until they went out of Egypt.
… grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you go in and don’t go out anymore until the day that you are redeemed out. (See?)
249 You know, the Bible is always right. He puts Words in There, you’ve got to place It out where It goes, to make It, make the whole picture of redemption. See? See?
… grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until your redemption. (Till you’re redeemed.)

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« 250 † You’re sealed in there, you’re beneath the Blood. You don’t go out no more. And then what are you? God’s son in God’s family, sealed in by the Holy Spirit. The Devil couldn’t get you if he had to; for you are dead, your old husband part is dead; and you are buried, and your life is hid in God through Christ, and sealed by the Holy Ghost. How’s he going to get you? How you going to get out? You’re there! Glory! Now I’ll leave that alone; just enough so you’ll know what I’m talking about.

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« 251 † Then a new creation, not to a denomination but to the Word. You’re a creation of the Word. Because the foundation stone was laid in you before the foundation of the world, predestinated to be sons and daughters of God.
252 And upon this come stone upon stone, in each age, to vindicate that Word that’s coming up, just exactly as Jesus did in His age, which is, the Capstone of it all. In Him laid every age. In Jesus was Moses. In Jesus was David. In Jesus was the prophets. Is that right? Look at Joseph, sold for almost thirty pieces of silver, throwed in, supposed to be dead, taken out, went and come to the right hand of Pharaoh. Look, exactly, Jesus was… Joseph was in Jesus.
253 And when He come, He was the fulness of the kings, prophets (hallelujah), the godhead bodily rested in Him. He come to redeem out of there a Bride, a Masterpiece. A Masterpiece that says to Satan that…
254 When he says, “Days of miracles is past. There’s no such a thing as these things you’re talking about.”
255 “Get thee behind me, Satan.” See? See, a Masterpiece standing and guarding.

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« 256 † Sometime the Capstone will return, the head of all of it, and receive the Bride unto Himself; which the woman is took from the man, a part of the man. Every… Genes of the man is in the woman, what makes the woman. And that’s the way the Word of God is in the Church, what makes the Church the Bride. Not a denomination, that’s of the Devil, every one of them. I ain’t calling the people in there that; they are poor deceived people, like Jesus said, “Blind leading the blind.” And He could not call them out.
257 And they said, “Why, you are borned of fornication! Who tells you to come to here? What school, what seminary recognized you?” Said, “We have Moses. We are…”
258 He said, “If you’d have knowed Moses, you’d have knowed Me.”
259 Cause Moses wrote Him in his four books, “The Lord your God shall raise up a Giver of the Word, a Prophet likened unto me, and who will not hear that prophet will be cut off from amongst the people.” That’s all there is to it. And what is He? The Word. And what is It? Don’t leave none of the leaven left in the… Just don’t put no leaven amongst It. Don’t add any creed, any denomination, for it’s polluted right there, your sacrifice is finished.

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« 260 † Let’s hurry now, right quick, so you can go eat.
261 Notice! Now, then, you are a son of God in the house of God, you are a part of God’s economy. Romans 8:1, “Then there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” For they are dead to the world, alive in Him, and living in this present day, making the Word that God has used them for, foreordained them, placing their names in this Bride Book. And when the Waters comes upon that seed that’s in the heart, raises it up to the Bride of Christ. Oh, my! Just perfect as it can be. In every age it’s been that way.

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« 262 † The Lutherans, under justification, the feet, raised it like that; Wesley, under sanctification. The Pentecostals under the arms, the works and deeds and so forth, had to be Calvinists… or had to be Arminian, had to be legalists. But now we come to the head, the capstone. “Grace! Grace!” the capstone cried.
263 The headstone crying what? “Grace! Grace!” Passed from death and creed, into a living Word of the living God. God’s only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that’s lit off of something to make it alive; and seated now in heavenly places (in present tense), already alive and subject to every promise in the Word. Then what does that do? You being a part of God’s gene, a part of the Word, other men a part of God’s Word, seated together, manifest the entire Body of Christ, because there’s no leaven among you. (See what He’s talking about, Brother Brown?) No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in heavenly places, in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus.

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« 264 † No leaven among you, that brings the entire fulness of the godhead bodily among you. Couldn’t do it in Luther’s age, couldn’t do it in Wesley’s age, couldn’t do it in Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet-God. Oh! Glory! Promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of God, seated (in present tense).

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« 265 † Now, quickly, let us look just real fast now, and we’ll go in about… in ten minutes we’ll be gone, the Lord willing.
266 Now let us look at some that has been quickened into this house of God, of their age.
267 Enoch! (In ten minutes we’ll go, if you can just suffer that much longer.) Look, Enoch was the living Word of God of his age, he was a prophet.
268 A prophet is God’s reflector. How many knows that? The–the reflector doesn’t reflect itself, the–the reflector isn’t the reflection. There has to be something strike the reflector–reflector to make it reflect. So a prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect nothing at all but he’s in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect the image of Christ the Word. See, nothing else can do it. You are a reflector, that’s the reason the prophet had to eat the book. That’s the reason he had to eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?

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« 269 † Notice Enoch, God’s perfect reflector in type. When God was through–through with him, He just translated him, took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and took him up.
270 Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection… Reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God. They laid a dead man on it, he sparked to life again. We are flesh and bone of Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. Do you believe that? All right. He died for us, and we died to ourselves and are buried in His Name, that we would “no more be of the world, but in Him,” of which both the family in Heaven is named after Jesus Christ. That’s Ephesians 1:21. For both Heaven… the family in Heaven. What’s the family in Heaven named? Jesus. What’s the family on earth named? Well, that’s the house of God where the Blood’s at. Is that right? That’s the door, that’s the gate, that’s the place He put His Name, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. It’s the Word reflecting and sparking off the age that you’re living in. That’s what He was, that’s what Moses was, that’s what Jacob was, that’s what the rest of them was, sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect image of God, Jesus Christ, God’s Masterpiece; was struck that He might take the rest of them for a Bride that’s been reflecting Him.

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« 271 † Moses was in Him. Joshua was in Him. And if you are in Him, you was in Him before the foundation of the world, the family of God; you suffered with Him, you died with Him, you went to the cross with Him, you raised with Him; and now you’re still with Him, setting in Heavenly places, reflecting the Message of the age to the world, the Light of the world. “Ye are the Light of the world,” but if it’s hid by a denominational bushel basket, how are, they going to see It? For your traditions, you make the Light of no effect! By trying… You denominationals, trying to keep the Light away from your church; you won’t go in, neither will you let them. Amen.
272 Let’s just stop. My, I got too much here. We–we could go on… Oh, my! Five minutes we got.

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« 273 † You see who the door is? Where did God put His Name? In Jesus. How do you get in His Name? How do you get in there? By being baptized in there! How? By water? By Spirit! “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.” That’s Holy Ghost baptism.
274 The water baptism just put you in fellowship with the people, that you recognized that you have accepted Christ. That’s the Truth. But it’s Spirit baptism. I can call the Name of Jesus over you and baptize you, that doesn’t make it so.
275 But when once that Holy Spirit really… genuine Word comes into you (the Word, Jesus), then, brother, the Message is no secret to you then; you know It, brother, It’s all lit up before you. Hallelujah! Praise be to God! Amen!
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salva-…
Dear God, I pray that You will heal these people, Lord, and make each one of them well. In Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
276 Oh! Love! Oh!
E’er since, by faith I saw that stream
Thy flowing wounds supplied, (from that Masterpiece)
Redeeming love has been my theme,

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« 277 † How can you… God is Love. “He that loveth is of God,” divine, holy love, not dirty love; clean, pure, holy love, love of God the Word. “Thy laws have I hid in my heart, that I sin not against Thee,” oh, my, that David crying out. Isn’t He wonderful? Don’t you love Him?
278 Now, there is a Way, a pure, holy Way, a only meeting place that God will meet you. Not because you say, “God, now, I’m a good Methodist. I’m a good Baptist. I’m a good Pentecostal.” No! Because that you are in Jesus the Word, the part of the Word that’s being manifested to today, this day’s Message; not Luther’s, Wesley’s, Pentecostal; but your Jesus, the reflection, that has come up into this. You can’t go back to that, that’s adding leaven to your holy Bread, that, “Man shall live by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, in Its season.”

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« 279 † O come, Lord Jesus, the great, Headstone. Look laying yonder, the dust of them Lutherans that died back yonder under martyrdom; look at them Methodist.
280 Those Pentecostals and so forth, coming up now, that real strain that come out.
281 You Assemblies of God went and organized, when the very thing God brought you out of, you turned right back like a hog to its wallow.
282 You Oneness, United, the old J.C. of… Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ. One for the colored, and separated yourselves because of segregation. You that did that, and then united yourself and call it “United.” And then organized, and fussed at the Assemblies: “As a dog turns to its vomit.” If the vomit made the dog sick in the first place, won’t it make him sick again? Change your diet from your denomination to the Word, and live with Christ. Shame on you!
I’ve got a Father over yonder,
I’ve got a Father over yonder,
I’ve got a Father over yonder,
On the other shore.
Some bright day I’ll go and see Him,
Some bright day… go and see Him,
Some bright day I’ll go and see Him,
On the other shore.
Oh, won’t that be a happy meeting,
Won’t that… (Word goes to Word!) meeting,
(When the Bride goes up, Word by Word.)… happy meeting,
On the other shore.
Oh, that bright day may be tomorrow,
That bright day may be tomorrow,
That bright day may be tomorrow,
On the other shore.
283 You say, “You mean that, Brother Branham?”

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« 284 † Yes, sir! When the Lutheran of that age, the Wesley’s of their age, the pentecostals of their age (the true ones, not the denominationals); the Pentecostals, the one that added leaven (their denomination), died. But this true Word moving on, see. Just like Jesus said, “At that day, you will. know that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, and I in you and you in Me.” It’s all the Word!
Oh, won’t that be a happy meet-… (when His sons gather to His gate)
… happy meeting,
Won’t that be a happy meeting,
On the other shore.

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« 285 † Now, church, we’re teaching now. But, remember, when you leave here, start moving out of the shuck now; you’re going into the grain, but lay in the Presence of the Son. Don’t add to what I’ve said, don’t take away what I’ve said. Because, I speak the Truth as far as I know It, as the Father has given to me. See? Don’t add to It, just say what I said.
286 The thing of it is, just tell the people to come seek the Lord Jesus. And then you yourself lay right in His Presence, just make love to Him, “O Lord Jesus, Son of God, I love You. Tender my heart, Lord. Take away all the filth and the love of the world, and let me live holy in this present world before You.”
287 Shall we bow our heads for prayer. Now, let’s see, have you got anybody chosen to dismiss in prayer? Or, I will, then. Be real reverent.

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« 288 † Dear God, we thank You that we have had our spiritual diet. We thank You, Lord, that the vitamin of the Word grows sons of God. It does not affect on any other type of character, only on sons and daughters of God. So we thank You for It. And we pray, God, that we will profit therewith, that we will not only thank Thee. We thank You for It, but may we use the strength to try to (by Love) persuade people to believe in our God; the wayward, the sinners, the women, the man, the boys, the, girls, in this age.
289 Seeing, Lord, that the mental condition, the nervous age that the people’s living in, it’s driving them out of their mind; to exactly fulfill what the Scripture said and promised, the great hideous things would come upon the earth; like locusts, to haunt the women that cut their hair, they’ll have long hair like a woman. And different hideous sights that they’ll be able to see, Lord, in that mental, diluted conditions they’re in, and then screaming for the rocks and the mountains. Women who would mother dogs and cats, and not raise children to honor You. Those that You did give children to and they did conceive them, turn them loose on the streets to do as they want. No wonder You said, Lord, when You were going to the cross, “Then they’ll begin to cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them.”

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« 290 † We see every other thing moving right up to this time. We see the Scripture being vindicated, proved. And just as we see That, Lord, You with our own eyes (being made, manifest), someday there will be a Rapture and we’ll see the manifestation of that Word, “For the Son of man shall come in the clouds of glory, with His holy angels with Him, and we’ll be caught up to meet Him in the air.” It will then be… We hear of it now, then we’ll see it with our own eye.
291 May we be found in Him, Lord, the only provided Place. And He is the Sacrifice. We bring Him, what we’ve heard about, Jesus Christ, into the house of God by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, through the Name of Jesus Christ. And there our Sacrifice is accepted and we’re brought into the family; because, yet straying out in the world, we were ordained sons and daughters of God before the foundation of the world. Thank You for that, Father. Oh, how could anyone ever turn back on something like that, when they found the Truth, that God had selected them out of the world? There were millions lost, the day that I was saved.

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« 292 † O dying Lamb, how can I ever thank You? How can my heart ever be reverent enough before. You? Help me, dear God, to live true. Help my people to live true. I pray for them, Lord, every one, that You will… God, somehow, I don’t… I–I wouldn’t know how… I don’t know how, just how to ask, Lord; and I may of not even asking that in the right manner. But You forgive my ignorance, Lord, and just look at my heart. I pray that not one of them will be lost, not one of them, Father. I claim them, every one, for You. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
I love Him, I…
And if you love Him, you love one another. Shake one another’s hand. `

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR