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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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15-1206 Things That Are to Be

December 6, 2015 admin5

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15-1205 The Rapture

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15-1202 The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us

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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
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR

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
–copied from The Table Software, available from VGR

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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
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« 1 † ` Minister brothers, and you friends out there, I say it’s a privilege to be here this morning. Such an introduction as that, why, I don’t know how I’m ever going to live up to that one.
2 But just setting there talking, Brother Noel and I, I don’t believe I’ve ever met a person just exactly… We all are made in different molds, but by the same God. Like Brother Jack Moore, he’s certainly been… Brother Noel was just saying, “Since I’ve been here with him…” That’s his son-in-law, and how he had learned to love him and respect his wisdom and things. And that… I can say “amen” to that. The many fine thing… times that we’ve had together, he and I, and Brother Brown, Brother Boutliere here. Fine man of God that I really love them with all my heart.
3 And as I see we’re all not getting any younger, well, I just think of the time now that watching us as we change since about twenty years ago crossing the deserts, and so forth together as younger man. But just knowing that there is a Land where we’ll never get old. We’ll meet there again someday.

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« 4 † Last night when I was leaving the tabernacle, there was a little lady laying back there on a cot, and she said, “Brother Branham, years ago…” I think she had been paralyzed. She said, “You told me…” I forget what the woman’s remark was now, something like this, I hope that I don’t misquote it. Said, “That this affliction I had would be for a purpose,” or something, that she would have a baby. And she couldn’t understand how that would be done and her in that condition.
5 There stood a young, handsome-looking young man, he said, “I’m the baby that she had.” Said, “I’m the baby that she had.”
6 And so many things has happened along the road, we don’t even have time here to talk it over. We will on the other side.

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« 7 † And this Business Man’s chapter. I do not belong to any organization, I guess as you all know, but I… This is the only group that I’m connected with, pack a fellowship card, is… They are interdenominational, it’s just business man. They have been a great asset to me and to the type of ministry that the Lord our Father has given me. It’s… it wasn’t exactly that I don’t like the organization; it’s just a ministry that’s given to me, and if I am not loyal to that call, then I’ll be a disloyal person to God.

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« 8 † And, I’m thinking, just before I left Tucson, maybe many of you were there, one day I was in Los Angeles speaking to the chapter. And there was… I had just raked the organization maybe a little–little hard. I–I didn’t mean to be that way. If you mean that to be mean, then I’d be a hypocrite. You mustn’t do that, no, that’s just throw off on someone. But I had talked about a tree that I saw in Brother Sharrit’s yard. It had about five different kinds of fruit on it. And I said, “I never seen a tree like that in my life.” It was a… it had grapefruit, it had lemons, it had tangerine, tangelo, oranges, everything growing on the same tree. “Well, I say, I sure don’t get that. What kind of a tree is it?”
“It’s a orange tree.”
And I said, “Well, that grapefruit?”
Said, “Yeah.”
I–I said, “How could it?”
Said, “That’s grafted.”
And I said, “Oh, I see.”
9 He said, “They’re all of a citrus family, and any tree that’s of a citrus family be… can be grafted.”
10 I said, “I understand.” Then I started shouting just a little bit, you know, ’cause I am nervous and emotionally.
11 So, he said, “What’s the matter?”

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« 12 † And I said, “Well, I was just thinking of something.” And I said, “Now I want to ask you a question.” I said, “Now, next year when the blooms come on, there won’t be oranges, tangelos, grapefruits, lemons; there’ll all be oranges because it’s in a orange tree, won’t it?”
13 He said, “No, no. No, each branch bears of its own.”
14 Said, “I see.”
15 So that still was sounding real good, because I’m… you know I’ve… course I got a degree out of Hartford and all of these other universities, you know. No… So–so I’m… watch nature, that’s the best university that I’ve ever found yet, the Creator’s university. So as I watch that, I get my sermons from the way I see nature acting.
16 And I said, “Well, that just makes me feel real good.”
17 He said, “What’s the matter?”
18 I said, “I just thought of something.”

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« 19 † So, that day, I was preaching on that. And I said, “Now, you see, when the church first started out, it was… Jesus said…” I was preaching John 15. “‘I am the Vine, ye are the branches. And every branch that don’t bring forth fruit will be cut off, burnt.'”
20 And somebody just straddled my neck real hard on that, said, “You see, I thought if you was actually once filled with the Holy Ghost and saved, you said, ‘they couldn’t get away from it.'”
21 “That’s right.”
22 He said, “What about that?”
23 I said, “Now you’re talking on a different subject. He’s talking about fruit-bearing there, not the Vine; He’s talking about fruitbearing, and not the Life. He said, ‘Well, just cut the tree back so it will grow, bear fruit.'”
24 He said…
25 And I said, “Now, see, this tree, when it started out, was all genuine, Bible Christians. Then along come a branch called Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian: lemons and whatmore.” And I said, “You see, it thrives on the name of Christianity, but it… It’s living off of that Tree, but it’s bearing its own denominational kind. See? But” I said “if that orange tree ever puts out another limb itself, it’ll bear oranges like it did at the beginning.”

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« 26 † There happened to be, setting up there, a head of a great… one of our greatest Pentecostal organizations. I don’t know how to make it so that everybody will understand that it isn’t my idea that–that I’m–I’m against those brethren, sisters; that is wrong. I’m so misunderstood, and I don’t know why. See? People think I don’t even believe in people going to church. That’s a million miles from the Truth. “We must assemble ourselves together, and that much more as we see the day approaching.” See? We must come together in unity. We might not…
27 If I lived in a city and they had nothing there but a… well, some church (I don’t want to call any name), but just any church, if they only believed one thing, that Jesus was Divine, all the rest of it was wrong, I’d go to that church. If I can’t get a whole loaf of bread, I–I’ll take a slice. See? I’ll go listen, worship the, Lord, and show Him that I’m doing my part. I want Him to know I’m alive. I’m–I’m… want everybody to know what side I’m on. I assemble with the Christians, and there worship and–and serve the Lord.

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« 28 † But it’s so hard, I… used to bother me so bad, and then I found out even our Lord was misunderstood in so many things. He’d say anything, and they’d… be misunderstood. I guess it just has to be that way. But those who are wise will understand. See? The Bible said so. They’ll catch It.
29 So this morning while saying this… And I said, “Now, they–they live off of the name of Christianity, but they bear the wrong kind of fruit. It has a denominational fruit. They set a thing, and they’re living right off of it, and living off the very Life.”

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« 30 † It’s what I was trying to say last night, that spirit can be baptized into that Spirit and still not be a Christian. See? You’re living right off of the same Life, but the fruits you bear tells what you are. See? That’s right. See? They can do all the signs, and pray for the sick, and heal the sick, and open eyes, and cast out devils, and–and do all these things, living right off of the same Life that’s in there, but still it’s a lemon. See? That’s right. “The fruits, you’re known,” Jesus said. And so then we find out…
31 And when I got off the platform, this great leader raised up, he said, “You didn’t mean that,” he said, “we know that we’re all grafted in.” Well, that is true that we are grafted, stump grafted, that’s right; but not in the Vine, grafted. So then he said… begin to kinda–kinda slur me back a little bit.

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« 32 † And there was a young fellow there, I think it’s some movie star’s people. His name’s Danny Henry, and he was a Baptist boy. Well, he come to the platform to put his arms around me, and he said, “Brother Branham, I hope this don’t sound sacrilegious, but” said “I believe that could almost be the 23rd chapter of Revelation.”
33 And I said, “Thank you.”
34 And he started to say something else and he started speaking in tongues, a Baptist boy. And when he did, there was a–a woman from here in Louisiana, she was a Frenchman, kind of a big heavyset woman, she wrote down the interpretation.
35 Well, then there was another young fellow setting over here was a Frenchman, he wrote down what he said. They compared the notes, and they both was the same.
36 And then a big, light-headed boy standing way back in the back, at Clifton’s Cafeteria, come walking forth. He said, “Let me see those notes.”

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« 37 † I went to see what they was, and all three of them was the same for the interpretation. He was the interpreter for the U.N., French interpreter. And it said this:
Because thou has chosen this straight and narrow way, the harder way, you’ve done it at your own choosing.
But what a glorious decision you’ve made, because it’s MY WAY.
See? And said… and went ahead and said then:
This in itself is that which will bring to pass, and make and bring to pass, the tremendous victory in the Love Divine.
38 You see, always, even in French, the verb before the adverb there in the–in the–in the interpretation. So in that I couldn’t say… Moses, he made his choice, he had to make his choice. We all have to make our choices and do the best that we can. And God… I respect any man’s message that he’s given about God. I… whatever it is, I respect that with all my heart.

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« 39 † Now, I see some young Brother come a while ago, Brother Stringer, I think from down in Louisiana… or Mississippi, brought us some pictures here that you seen us watching it. It was of the Angel of the Lord, when It appear. How many’s heard the story? I guess every one of you here’s heard it. You’ve had it on tape, and so forth.
40 Now, that was told me one morning at ten o’clock, standing in my room in Indiana. Told me I would be at Tucson, be early in the morning, I’d be picking a cocklebur (what we call there, a goat-header) off of my trouser leg. And seven Angels came and bursted this, and ground bursted and everything else, to… rocks rolled out of the mountains, and seven Angels stood there.
41 And I said, “Well…” I told my wife, and she’s somewhere present this morning, “You get everything ready ’cause no way a man could exist that,” I said, “come out of that. I’m going to Tucson, my work is finished here on earth. I’m going home to be with the Lord Jesus.”
42 “Well,” she said, “are you sure?”
43 I said, “Yes. Yeah, no one could–could stand that. There’s no way of doing it.”

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« 44 † I just preached The Seven Church Ages. That’s where I had called our gallant, little Brother Jack Moore to ask him about this, Jesus, in Revelation 1, standing there with white hair and everything.
45 I said, “He was a young Man.” And that’s where the revelation come about that being a wig on, and not Him; He’s wigged (and I couldn’t understand it), as being Supreme Deity. And the old judges used to in Israel, had to be white-headed. And the white stands for purity. And the English judges till this day, in supreme courts of England, put on a white wig when they come out, because there’s no other law above theirs on earth. See? And they’re supreme judge.

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« 46 † And I remember I went there in Arizona and everything, I was trying my best to… scared to death. I went to Phoenix meeting. Remember I preached the sermon, Sirs, What Time Is It? Remember that? I said that I seen that, I said, “Before it comes to pass, remember, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Something’s going to happen.'” You’ve probably got the tapes in your library of tape now. And there I said, “You remember now the visions that never fails. ‘Something’s going to happen.’ Remember!”

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« 47 † And a few days after that, I was getting nervous, and I thought, “What this? Am I going to die? If… I hope it’s quick so I can get over it. I don’t want to linger.”
48 And one morning the Lord said, “Go up in the top of Sabino Canyon.”
49 And I was up there holding up my hands, praying. I felt something strike my hand. It was a sword. Now, you can just imagine how you’d feel, standing there by yourself and here’s a knife in your hand about that long. I pulled it down and looked at it. It was just a knife, one of them… and I’m scared of a knife, anyhow. And it had a–it had a–a metal, something like one of these knifes, like pot metal or something, real sharp and narrow. Had a sheath around it here, where the dueler’s used to, to keep from cutting one another’s hands, and–and it had a pearl in the handle here. Just fit my hand exactly. Well, I rubbed my face and looked back.
Right on that same spot, the other day, I saw a little, white dove come down. I’ll tell you about that later on.

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« 50 † And I was holding that in my hand, I thought, “That’s strange. Now, Lord, I… am I losing my mind? There’s no one here. I’m miles from anybody and here is a sword. I had my hand up, and where did it come from?” And I thought, “That’s the strangest thing. Now looky here, it’s a sword; see, hit it, and it was a sword.” And I said, “There’s nobody here standing here. I’m up on top of these rocks, plumb on top of the mountain.” And you couldn’t even see Tucson from there, it was so far down.

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« 51 † I thought, “Now, that’s a strange thing. Now, it’s got to be in this vicinity somewhere, Somebody that could create and make a sword and put it in my hand.” And I said, “It could only be the very God that created a ram for Abraham, could create those squirrels,” that you’ve heard. And I said, “Here is the material, three different kinds of material in it, and I’m holding it in my hand just as real as anything else I could hold in my hand.”
52 And I heard a Voice, said, “That’s the King’s Sword!”

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« 53 † And I thought, “Now, where did That come from? Was right along there in them rocks somewhere.” And I held up my hand like that, and I said, “A king’s sword.” And I looked around, and the sword was gone. And I said, “A king’s sword.” That’s to… they knight with–with a sword, I think that’s right, the army or some way, they knight with it, you know. And I said, “Well, that’s what that was probably for. It means that maybe I’m to lay hands upon ministers, or something like, that, to make them ministers.” And then I…
54 A Voice spoke back again, said, “The King’s Sword!” Not a king; the King’s Sword! See?
55 I thought, “Now, I’m either beside myself, my mind has slipped, or there’s something taking place, there’s somebody standing around here by me.”

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« 56 † And brethren, these things are true. I don’t–I don’t know how to tell you, you’ve always seen it always happen like this. See? See? And it’s… I couldn’t understand it. So… It’s the strangest feeling.
57 Just then I thought, “Now, ever Who that is that’s talked to me all my life, since a little, bitty baby boy, is standing right here, and I can’t see Him at all.” I said, “The King’s Sword?” That would be… God is the King. “And what is this sword?”
58 “The Word, It’s been placed in your hand.” Said, “Don’t fear of death, it’s your ministry.”

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« 59 † Oh, my! Down off that mountain I went; crying, screaming, top of my voice, jumping over rocks. I went down, told my wife, I said, “I’m not going to die, see, it’s–it’s–it’s my ministry.” (I told her to get with Billy Paul here, and take the children. I said, “Now, I don’t have anything, but the church will see that you all don’t go hungry and things, and I’ll–I’ll meet you across the border.”) And–and she… I said, “No, I’m not going to die, it’s something about my ministry.”

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« 60 † A few days after that I was coming out from a meeting; had a three page telegram, was from over here at Houston, Texas. And that man that criticized me so bad the night that the Angel of the Lord was taken, the picture of It taken there at Houston, he called me up, he said… sent a telegram, the wife said, “I know, Brother Branham, you’re busy. My son, Ted Kipperman’s sister’s boy, is setting in the death row to die in the chair.” Said… (what if that was Billy Paul?). He said, “He and a little girl has got to die.” And you all read it in the paper, of course. And said, “Only hope we have is for you come and hold a meeting and get the people together.”

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« 61 † And Raymond Hoekstra had already wrote me several times, but you know, I had planned after that meeting to go on a hunting trip with Mr. McAnally and them. And I thought, “Well, if I let them kids die and don’t put my effort forth, I’ll never be able to go hunting again.”
62 So I said, “All right, I’ll come.” I come over to Houston, had the meeting, and course the… they never killed them, they just… they give them life. And that’s what they wanted them to do, just give them life. So that’s about twenty-one years, I guess, in–in Texas.

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« 63 † So then, and going back, I went up in the mountain and I went with Brother Fred Sothmann. He’s here somewhere. Brother Fred, where you at? Right here. Brother Fred Sothmann, Brother Gene Norman; one day, the second day setting there, the Angel of the Lord came right down into the camp where we was at, and begin to tell about their children and things they were doing.
64 I left and went back on the hill. And I had already got my javelina, and I was trying to chase one around to Brother Fred. So I found where they had been eating on the side of a hill, and I said, “Well, now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do, Brother Fred.” I said, “Now, you go over on that point in the morning.” We go up there at daylight, climb up over the mountain. “And go there at daylight, I’ll get over on the other side. Now, I won’t shoot one, but if they run this way, I’ll shoot in front of them and turn them back. And pick out a big one.”
65 “All right,” he said.

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« 66 † So Brother Fred went over there. And Brother Gene Norman (I don’t think Brother Gene come, did he?), he was–he was on the other side. Many of you know Gene Norman, a bosom friend of many, fine brother. And he went down a little below. Where, them pigs, they just wasn’t there that morning. And I could see Brother Fred, wave at him, he was about a mile away from me. Well, I thought, “Where could they have went?” I went down into a great ravine, and come down, I thought, “I’ll see if I can find where they’re at.” Started back up. It was just a little after daylight, the sun was just begin coming up.

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« 67 † And I went around a great big chasm, oh, my, hundreds and hundreds of feet, just great rocks in the great canyon there, them big walls. And it was kindly getting… the sun was raising up, about seven o’clock, I guess, or something like that. And I set down and I was looking around, I happened to look down on my trouser leg and there was that bull-header, burr. And I said, “You know, that seems strange. You know, the Angel of the Lord told me I’d be about forty miles northeast of Tucson, I’d be picking a bull-header off of my leg.” You remember it? Do you? Yes, sir. See? I said, “That’s strange.” I was holding it.

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« 68 † And just as I looked up, I seen about twenty hogs about five hundred yards from me, come out eating this little phyllary and laid down. I said, “Now, if I can just get Brother Fred and get him around to that point there, he’ll get his hog right there. But I know he’s about a mile or two from me now. So,” I said, “if I could cross over this little ridge without them seeing me, up by this little juniper tree there,” I said, “if I get around this side, there’s a deer trail comes down this side, I can run up there and get out of the way. And hang a little piece of paper here where I know which one of the fingers to go out on, on the canyon, and get Brother Fred there just in time.”

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« 69 † I throwed this little bull-header down, forgetting about That. And started across the hill real easy and looked back, they didn’t see me, and run down and hit this deer trail. I had a great big black hat on. I started running up through this canyon real fast, and it happened.
70 The whole earth shook, everywhere. Rocks that size rolled down, dust flying like that. And I looked, and standing before me stood seven Angels; just exactly the way it was. I felt like I was standing way up off the ground. First, I thought somebody had shot me, you know, with that black hat on; looked like a javelina hog, anyhow, you know they’re dark. I thought somebody had shot me, such a… right close. And I–I seen then what it was. Well, as soon as… I got my commission, and the Scripture, “The Seven Seals which is the seven mysteries.” See?

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« 71 † Someone said to me, said, “Now…” Oh, he said, “Well, now, someday the Lord probably (you seeing visions, Brother Branham) will reveal to you what these things are, we can all get closer to God and have more power than we get in speaking in tongues and things.”
72 I said, “It can’t be that way.”
73 Cause, see, I believe the Word to be the Truth. And the Bible said, “Whosoever shall add one word or take one Word from It.” It has to be in this Word. See? It’s the mysteries that the people’s overlooked. Well, right there is where come my Message of Serpent’s Seed and the true Belief of the security of the believer.

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« 74 † I’m not disgrading my Presbyterian brethren there, and some of you Baptist brethren on the way you have security. I’m not saying this to be different, but you didn’t have it just right. See? That’s right. See? But, I had it wrong, too. But when an Angel stands from Heaven and tells you, and here it is right in the Scripture, That’s true. See? That’s right. See, He always speaks exact with the Scripture.

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« 75 † In there I watched it until that circle went up, started sweeping up, and they turned into like a mystic light, like a fog. Just exactly the way… How many seen the picture of It that was taken in Houston? Nearly all. See? Well, that’s just the way this was. It turned into the same thing, It kept going higher and higher.
76 I was running and running, trying to find Brother Fred and them. After while, about a half hour later, I could see him way down, waving his hands; and Brother Gene coming, waving. They knowed something had happened. And so then I got with them. That’s Brother Fred setting right there.

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« 77 † As it went up, I didn’t know that the observatories and things, plumb into Mexico, was taking that picture. Life magazine packed it as It went up. And many of you… Here’s Life magazine packing the picture of It. A mysterious thing here, and they said they don’t know where it come from; it’s too high. It’s above all the spheres and everything else to be… It’s too high for fog, because it’s thirty miles high and twenty-seven miles across after it got up that high. There’s not even humidity or nothing up there, you see.

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« 78 † And they thought of a plane; so they checked all the places, no planes up that day. See, they have to, on account of shaking windows and things. “There’s no planes up.” Here it is right here in the magazine, will tell you the same thing. And–and it went on and on. And today right in the…
79 Here it is in Science magazine, where, they can’t understand it, they don’t know what It is.
80 Tucson, at the university, a friend of mine went over the other day and was talking to them about it. Said, “We can’t understand what…”
81 I said, “Don’t say nothing, won’t do no good. ‘Cast not your pearls before swine.'” See? It’s to the Church, to the Elected, the called-out. See?

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« 82 † And then each one was coming, saying, “Brother Branham, I see your picture here. I see this. I…” You know how it is. But that–that long sweep as this brother has on here where it… Excuse me. [Brother Branham gets the photograph–Ed.] Here’s the way It started up, sweeping up. Actually this was on the right hand side. And you all remember I said, “The noted Angel was the one that talked to me, was on the right hand side,” even before it happened. You remember? His wings pointed back like that. That’s exactly the wings of that Angel as it went up. See, as it… So they started taking the pictures because it was so mysterious. But when the last picture, when It formed Itself into the skies and so forth, this is it as Look here packed it. You see how it rose up just as they begin to see it, you see. And there comes the–the real main and last picture, when it formed.

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« 83 † They don’t know where it come from or where it went, they don’t know yet. Science is completely stumped about it, don’t know what happened. But we know; “there shall be signs in the heaven above.” We know it. See? And He promised these things. See? And the only thing that this was permitted to be taken…
84 But I know we’re just home folks here this morning. If I ever impress you brethren or sisters as a know-it-all, please forgive me. I don’t mean to be that. I’m stand… setting here this morning talking before man who are scholars, man who are smart; I–I’m a illiterate, I can’t even pronounce my Scriptures right. I got a chapter to read this morning, I’m… was going to ask one of the brothers here to read it for me, ’cause I can’t even pronounce the names in it, First Chronicles 13, (if you will, Brother Jack, you can be hunting it up), for my subject. I–I can’t even pronounce those names, I’m letting him do it, ’cause he can pronounce them.
85 And I know I’m talking to smart man. But, brethren, these things are done that you might not look at my illiteracy, but believe that I’m telling you the Truth. It’s God telling you the Truth. That’s the Truth. See?

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« 86 † Now, and when I speak of denominations, I’m not meaning for you to be so cruel and… No, I don’t mean for you not to go to your church. Go to your church, what you’re supposed to do. But just don’t join up with them organizations, because one day I’ll be telling you and prove it by the Scripture, it is the mark of the beast. And you just remember, it’s the mark.

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« 87 † I’m preaching… I wouldn’t preach it in Brother Jack’s church, he’d tell me, “Go ahead and do it”; but I’m going to the tabernacle, it’ll be about four hours long. And my subject is, “The beast at the beginning and the beast at the end, through the trail of a serpent.” See? Takes about four hours. I got my Scriptures all laying out. The beast from the beginning, he was the beast at the Garden of Eden, he’s the beast at the end, and show that he’s a religious person and a denomination (that made the denomination); and come right through the trail of it, and prove it to you by the Scriptures that it is. I didn’t know that till the Holy Spirit give it to me the other day up there.

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« 88 † Now, in this, I was watching this one day, standing, and something said to me… looking at it, and I thought… Brother Hickerson, one of my trustees… or deacons at the church at Jeffersonville… If I don’t believe in going to church, why do I have churches? We had them all across the country, hooked up the other night, every two hundred square miles had one of my churches.
89 Now, this–this picture, I was standing, looking at it, and something… I was standing in my room. Something said, “Turn it to the right.” I listened.
90 I know that sounds like somebody’s a little mentally upset, but, you see, as I said the other night, all these great things are so scholarly… Now, I’m not against that. Remember, we have to have… Send your children to school and get education and so forth, but I’ll tell you right now, it won’t do them no good in the world that is to come, ’cause there’ll be another civilization. All this… so far above this. That civilization won’t even have any… it won’t have any schools in it, it won’t have any death in it, won’t be any sin in it. This has all that; no matter how much civilized we get, more and more death is added all the time. See? That one will be without death. But now we have to have school, we have to wear clothes, we…

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« 91 † I was going to speak this morning on Satan’s Eden (many of you’s got the tape of it), Satan’s Eden. He has made another garden of Eden, and six thousand years it’s taken him to make it, just like God did His at the beginning. God made His Eden, and Satan corrupted it. Now Satan’s made his own Eden, and God’s going to destroy it (that’s right) and put His own.
Something said to me, “Turn it right.”
I thought, “I think I’m looking at it right.”
Said, “Turn it right.” See?
92 I thought, “Maybe that Voice means turn it to the right.” And when I did, you see what it is: Hofmann’s Head of Christ, at thirty-three. Here, look in here, see His black beard, His face, His eyes, His nose, and everything else. See the part in His hair here coming up. And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig to show that the Message of Him being God is the Truth. He is the Supreme Judge of the universe, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. He is God, and nothing else but God. He is God expressed in human form called the Son of God, which the Son was the mask. And if that don’t make our Message exactly right: identified by the Scripture, identified in service, identified by His Presence, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore those Seven Seals are the Truth, brethren. Might disagree with them, but just set down and study with a open heart one time, just let the Holy Spirit lead you from…

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« 93 † Here, when Brother Jack… I called him before preaching this and talked to him one time about “What was this white wig?”
94 He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I declare it to be that it was in… was after His resurrection in His glorified body.” I was talking to Brother Jack. And there’s… I don’t know of anybody in the world that I’d rely on anymore of their teachings on theology and things as I would like Brother Jack Moore and Brother Vayle, and such man as–as that, real theologians that’s read all kinds of books and different angles from everything. Well, but, you see, even with that, and my bosom friend, I–I–I just couldn’t receive it, there was something there just wouldn’t take it.

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« 95 † And then when it come, this, then I see what it is. Here’s His dark beard. You see It, I guess. See? His dark beard and dark hair, His eyes, nose, everything, just perfectly, and even the part in His hair coming over on this side. He is God! See? And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. And this is Look magazine… or Life magazine. I think this is the… I forget what issue it is now; oh, May the seventeenth, 1963. That’s when it come out, if anybody wants the magazine. It’s the same picture that’s got Rockefeller and his–his wife on the back of it. And this is the new Science magazine that “it’s still a mystery.”

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« 96 † What did I say these things for? That it might give you a little view of the things that we’re trying to say, that God is identifying both in heavens and in earth to be right, these discernments, visions. We have plenty of impersonations, we always. But remember, before there can be a bogus dollar, there has to be a real dollar first; first has to be a real dollar, and then they’re made off of that. Just like we had a real Moses and a real Aaron, then we had a Jambres and Jannes after them. You see how it all comes? They see it and then they try to impersonate that, when there’s truly one original. That’s right. Not saying that to harm or to degrade, or misplace something, but just for Truth; to know that I…

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« 97 † I’m getting to be an old man, and I know my time ain’t too long. If Jesus, tarries, I may… could stay a little while; but I know that someday this heart’s going to make its last beat, and I’m entering into a great, dark chamber there called death. But when that comes, I don’t want anything to have to look back for, to try to repent for. I want, when I come to that time, to be clean and pure by the grace of God. I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, when I enter there, with this one thing in my mind: I know Him in the power of His resurrection; and when He calls, I’ll come out from among the dead and live with Him forever. And it’s my purpose here now to try to get every man… not to change your theologies or nothing, but to increase your faith in God’s promise of this day.
Now let us pray:

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« 98 † Dear God, we are a grateful people this morning, but yet, Lord, we’re living in a dark world that… There isn’t a one of us here this morning, Father, but what feels that we–we want a closer walk with You, we want that–that touch of You in our lives that can tender us and make us flexible so that You can change us at anytime, mold us into sons and daughters of God. That–that’s our purpose here, Father, that’s–that’s my only objective that I have is to try to–to live before You and to get Your Word and speak It back to the man and women that… not to be a different person but to try to honor Him who’s give me Life. Grant it, Lord.

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« 99 † May there not be a person here today… Or–or if… We’re hooked up this morning, across the nation, again. May there not be a person that’s in the sound of our voice ever have to go into that great chamber not knowing You in the power of Your resurrection. If there be sinners somewhere across the country, that… or in this building, this great auditorium, setting here this morning. If there are those who don’t know You, may this be the day that their conscience will be shook, woke up, and they’ll realize that they don’t know what minute that we may be called or summoned to answer for our lives, on High. And if our name is still on that stalk book, doomed we’ll be; but if it’s in the Lamb’s Book of Life, the real Life, then we are saved.
100 And may, Lord, as that Life travels from the blade into the pollen, into the shuck, then to the grain, while they’re passing through this morning if there be some Life that goes into the grain that’s laying back in that stalk, bring it out today, Lord, may it follow the moving of the grain, for we ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 101 † Sorry to take so much time. I forgot about this even being on the radio time out there, the phone time.
102 Now let us turn for our reading. And Brother Jack, have you got your Bible there? While I’m finding my Scripture, I’ll ask Brother Jack to read this Scripture because I cannot pronounce these names. Sorry. All right, in First Chronicles 13…?… [Brother Jack Moore reads First Chronicles, the 13th Chapter:
And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
And let us bring again the Ark of our God to us: for we–we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave–drave the cart.
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
And when they came to the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, and because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before the Lord.
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place was called Perez-uzza to this day.
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed–Obed-edom in the house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.–Ed.]

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« 103 † Thank you, Brother Moore, for the reading of the Scripture for me. Now, sorry I couldn’t read that myself, but I–I couldn’t do it.
104 Now I want you to turn with me to Mark 7:7, and we’ll read the first seven verses of Saint Mark the 7th chapter.
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
And when he saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
But the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they’d washed their hands… eat oft not, holding–holding the traditions of the elders.
And when they came forth from the market, except they’d washed, they eat not. And many other things were–were they… which they have received of the… received to hold,… the washing of the cups, and of pots, and brass vessels, and of tables.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hand?
He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man.
Let us pray.

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« 105 † Dear God, honor Your Word now, and may It accomplish that which It is purposed for. Use us as instruments to speak It, and our ears to hear from You, and our hearts to receive It. We ask in Jesus’ Name, for the glory of God. Amen.

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« 106 † Now, my subject for a few moments is this… I…
107 We are on the national telephone hookup this morning. And I understand that my good friend, Roy Borders, is listening in, pretty well tore up about last night. I’d forgot that we were on the radio… or this hookup last night. Roy, wherever you are, if you’re over in San Jose in the church there, or either down to Brother McHughes’ church, or wherever you are, don’t fear, my brother, everything will be all right. Set still, you just… He’ll make it known to me, Roy; don’t worry, son, have faith in God.

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« 108 † My subject this morning is: Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will. Now, that’s a strange text, and I trust that the Lord will reveal this to us now. Remember, “Trying to do God a service without it being the will of God.” Now, that seems very strange. But, in this, maybe God can help us.

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« 109 † Another thing I’d like to say this morning, that we’re glad to have in our midst a friend of mine, a very dear friend, a young fellow. Many of you people on the radio now can… or the… on the telephone hookup, knows who this is. Today is his birthday, ninety-three years old, Brother Bill Dauch setting here before me, ninety-three years old.
110 Several years ago the doctor said, “He cannot live.” I just noticed him setting here now. Under oxygen tent, and his lovely wife called me and said, “Brother Branham, if you expect to see your old friend, Bill, alive, you better come at once.”

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« 111 † And I… One of my tires was cut on the side, my wheel had been knocked out, and I tore a tire off of my car trying to get to him. I was just coming from a–a–a station, filling station, and coming from the restroom where I had stopped in Ohio trying to get to him, and walking out I saw a vision. And there stood Brother Dauch, standing in the church with his hand out; it changed, and I seen you coming down the street and shook my hand. Said, “Go tell him, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD.'”
112 He was about ninety years old then. He had a heart attack with a heart block, and a complete heart failure. Very shrewd doctor. The man is not… he don’t want… No, I won’t say that. He’s just a man who can afford… get any doctor he’d want. He had a very fine Jewish doctor who met me in the hall and said, “There’s not a chance for him to live.”
113 And I went in and slipped my hand under the oxygen tent, I said, “Bill, can you hear me?” He nodded his head. I said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘You’re not going to die now.'”

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« 114 † A week from then, when I got in the pulpit to preach my Message, here come Brother Dauch walking up through the building. And when I went over to Furr’s Restaurant, across… I mean the Blue Boar, across in Louisville, here he was getting out of the car, coming down the street, holding his hand out; just exactly according to the Word of the Lord. And that’s three or four years ago; and here he sets all the way down here, in Shreveport (crosses the nation, not by plane now, by car) uh-huh, setting here this morning. “Happy birthday, Brother Dauch.” That’s from all across the nation, from everywhere. “God bless you!”

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« 115 † I baptized him, after being a trinitarian, I baptized him when he… was one of my first meetings, when Brother Banks Wood had to let him have his clothes (he’s a good-size man, as you see), and he went into the pool and I baptized him at about eighty-five or ninety years old, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. He said he never could feel right until he found that security of something. Then he received a birth-day where he’ll never grow old. That’s right, that great Land. He even is expecting to live to see the Coming of the Lord; it can be done. But if he would sleep, he… and we are awake at that time, he’ll come first. Right. So, Brother Dauch, there’s no way now to miss it. You’re exactly on the line. Stay there, my brother, and God bless you. And I thank the Lord for a good man like that, and for giving him all of these years.

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« 116 † In the Book of the Chronicles, “Trying to do God a service without it being His will.” God is sovereign, first, we want to understand that. The people today are wondering why we can’t have a revival. Do you believe God’s sovereign? See, the Bible speaks this way.
117 And we try… As I was discussing with a group of my fine brothers, Baptist brethren, not long ago, and they said, “Brother Branham, we can only have a revival when we take the Word, word by word, page by page, letter by letter.”
118 And I said, “I believe too, page by page.” He said… I said, “They’ve been trying to do that all along.”
119 He said, “But we must find the Greek interpretation of the Word, what the Greek says.”
120 I said, “I haven’t read too much, but reading the history of the church, and the Nicaea Council, and the pre-Nicaea Council, and Nicaea fathers, so forth, they were arguing back there about the Greek. That’s two thousand years ago. One said, ‘It means this,’ and one says, ‘It means that. The Greek word means this.'”

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« 121 † Just like our language; the word see. Use the word see, you could mean “a body of water, I understand,” or many things. Bored, “to be boring a hole, make a walk,” or–or “you bored me,” or “you paid my board,” or it could mean any… many things. And those little vowels, and so forth, just change the whole meaning. So you’ll never do it like that. God wrote It like that, because…
122 And all of the Word is inspired, and He said that, “I thank Thee, Father, that Thou has hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal” (amen) “to babes such as will learn.” It’s a revelation of Him, as I said last evening, “Will reveal It to babes.”
123 I said, “It won’t work, sir.” I said, “A revival will never come until God, the sovereign God, sends it; and then He might take up a little nitwit that can’t even sign his name, and do it with it, that knows not even good English let alone the Greek.”

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« 124 † That’s what He done in the time when Peter preached at Pentecost, you know, he couldn’t even sign his name, ignorant and unlearned. But God does things in such strange way to our intellectual thinking. That makes it God. If He’d got a bunch of theologians and dignitaries, and so forth, they’d said, “That smart Caiaphas, you see, he had it just right.” But God went down and got fishermen that couldn’t even sign their name, and that’s what He took. That’s God, He takes something that’s nothing and makes something out of it to His Own honor. He took a chaos and made a Eden. Uh-huh, it’s God.

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« 125 † Now, if there’s anybody got the mechanics for a revival, is our noble brother, Billy Graham. But the mechanics is all right, but the mechanics won’t move it, it takes the dynamics to move it. You can build an automobile, put fine seats in it, make fine pistons and–and prove by science what it can do; but unless the dynamics is there, she’s just a dead piece of goods.
126 So, in the Welsh revival, one of our late revivals before our Pentecostal, no one knowed what started the revival, just a bunch of people.
127 Now, when we get all… our friend, Billy Graham, will get all of the Presbyterians, and Lutherans, and Pentecostals, and everything together, go into the city and there they’ll have a great gathering together of thousands, and thirty thousand will come (in two weeks) and give their hearts to Christ; go back another two weeks and you ain’t got a one. See, that’s the mechanics. But let God in His sovereign grace just speak to some little nitwit, as so to say, a little nobody; let His Spirit fall into a city and man can’t go to work, women can’t wash dishes, the maid can’t make the bed, a-screaming and crying with their hands up in the air. That’s revival, that’s in the will of God.

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« 128 † It was said that some noblemen from the church went over to the Wales to understand, or figure out what all the mechanics was in the revival, during the Welsh revival. And when they got off the ship with their tall hats on, and their round collars; see him come down the street, a little policeman, swinging his club around and around like that, whistling; they said, “My good man, could you tell me where the Welsh revival is?”
129 He said, “Yes, my brethren, you’re standing in the middle of it!” Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. He said, “You understand, I am the Welsh revival,” said, “because the Welsh revival’s in me.”

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« 130 † That’s sovereign! That’s what God does, and He alone has a right to send a revival. Not get the mechanics together, it’s pray for God to send the dynamic–dynamic.
131 He only reveals His Word in the predestinated. Now, when I use the word predestinate… Now, it’s a bad word to use in public, especially when we have mixed crowds between the Arminians and the Calvinists. And not a… I’ve asked you not to think I know It all, but they’re both wrong according to the Scripture. Grace is what God did for me, works is what I do for Him. See? Then you’ve got It. If you climb out on either one of the limbs, you’ll sure find yourself out on the end of the limb and can’t get back. The Book of Ephesians pulls it together, I think.
132 Now, but the word, when I use it, predestinated, don’t think that I’m… that’s the only word I know how to–to make… It’s God’s foreknowledge, see, that He knowed. He–He can’t say… He–He died that all might be saved, He did, but by His foreknowledge He knowed who would and who would not. See? That’s what He knows, I don’t know it and you don’t know it, so we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.

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« 133 † Now, but God has His Word set, and has in all ages. His foreknowledge has caused Him to set in the church, and in the people, certain things that He did from the beginning. And then the Gospel that’s being preached to that age is only revealed to that certain people, the rest of them don’t see It. See? “Thank Thee, Father Thou has, hid these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal It to babes such as would learn.” See, that’s predestination. Not that He did it by, you say, “I’ll choose you, and don’t choose you.” By His foreknowledge, He knowed what you would do.
134 By Him being infinite… Do you believe He’s infinite? If He isn’t, He can’t be God. Then, you think, being infinite: He knew every flea that would ever be on the earth, how many times them fleas would bat their eyes, how much tallow was in each flea, every blade of grass it would ever set on; that’s infinite. We are finite, we stumble in darkness. God likened us to sheep, and we must have a leader. And that leader’s not man, that leader is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ among us. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more.” His physical being was raised up to the Throne of God, where the Spirit was on the Throne; now Christ is on the Throne, Jesus. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you to the end of the world, even in you.” The, Throne of God, of Christ, is erected into your heart; and He’s setting on God’s Throne, but in the Millennium He sets on His Own Throne; which, He swore that He’d raise up this Man, His Son, David’s Son, to set on His Throne.

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« 135 † Now, He reveals these things by His foreknowledge to those who He has ordained to these things, otherwise they don’t see It. Standing right there, looking right at It, and he can’t see It.
136 How many ever seen that picture of a cow in the bush, that you just have to look and look? Did you ever see that? Or, seen the picture of Christ in a bush, or in the sky, or clouds? See, that painter has got that so fixed up till you have to look at it just a certain way. Well, then, when you once see it, you can’t see nothing else but that. Every time you look, there it is. How many’s seen those pictures? Well, sure you have.
137 Well, that’s the way Christ is, Himself, the Gospel, the Message is. When you once see the Message of the hour, there’s nothing else you can see but That. That’s all. Everything else is gone, the rest of it’s just a filler, see, see, when you once see the Message!

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« 138 † That’s–was in Noah’s time. When Noah and his group… see how… When they saw the Message, nothing else mattered. When Moses’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When John’s group saw It, nothing else mattered. When Jesus’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When the apostles’ group saw It, nothing else mattered. When Luther’s group saw It, Wesley’s group saw It, Pentecostal group saw It, nothing else mattered, they pulled away from everything. Why? By His foreknowledge He predestinated these things to happen.

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« 139 † He chooses His own person by His foreknowledge. Like He said in Romans 8 here, that Esau… that the–that the election of God might stand sure. That Esau and Jacob both borned of holy parents, twins, that His election might stand sure and true, He said, “I hate Esau, and love Jacob,” before either boy was borned. See? He knows what’s in man, He knowed it from the beginning what it was, therefore He can make everything work just exactly on clock time. We get all nervous and flusterated; you never seen Him flusterated, they don’t. See? Everything’s working all right, just exactly, the clock’s ticking.
140 These things that’s supposed to happen, all these women with short hair, and these man wearing their… like they got hair like their wives. I see them, absolutely, have these roller-curlers in their hair, curl it up here in front. What a perversion! That’s the results of Satan’s Eden. And like her, she’s trying to cut her hair like her husband. Her husband’s letting his hair grow like his wife. And she is wearing his clothes, and he’s wearing her underneath clothes. See, there you are. She’s getting masculine, and he’s getting feminish. See, it’s Satan’s Eden, contrary to what God made it at the beginning. That’s the Truth.

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« 141 † If I don’t get started, we’ll never get into this. But these things, and the way for Him to do it, and who will do it, that’s His Own chosen way, He chooses. That’s the way He wants it done.
142 As I heard Brother Pearry Green, our pastor at Tucson, preaching the other night about how that God made things some way (I forget what his text was), but he said, “That’s the way God likes it, that’s the way God does it.” Well, that’s right.
143 Now, who is it among us that’s going to tell Him, “He’s wrong”? Who would dare to stand up in God’s face, and say, “You’re wrong, Lord, You should do it the way I want it done, the way Dr. So-and-so said it should be done”? Who is that far gone in their mental faculties, to say a thing like that? No, you wouldn’t come out and say it, but you think it!

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« 144 † Like on my Message of the Antichrist, “There shall rise false christs.” Now, He didn’t say false Jesuses. See, nobody would stand still to be called “Jesus,” in the term of the Lord. But false christs means “the anointed.”
145 Oh, they, each one thinks they got anointing, “Glory to God, he can do this and do that!” But put him on the Word test and find out where he comes out at, see, on the Message of the hour.
146 They had anointing in the time of Jesus, but not on Him.
147 They had anointing in the time… Even Dathan had anointing in the time of Moses. He said, “Now, don’t you think you’re the only holy one among us, God’s got plenty. We’ll just start an organization here, a group of man.”
148 God said to Moses, “Separate yourself from him,” and He opened up the earth and swallowed them up. He had give His original Word to Moses, His prophet; that’s the only way He ever did do it, and the only way He ever will do it. He doesn’t change His plan, see.

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« 149 † So our ideas is wrong, His ideas are right, always. And don’t try to tell Him that He’s “wrong.” No matter who we think is best qualified, it isn’t us to say who’s best qualified. Now, there’s where you get in your organization.
150 Some little brother filled with the Spirit will go into a city and build up an organi-… build up a–a nice group of people, and at the conference they’ll meet, and all the holy brethren get along, you know, and say, “You know what? I believe little Jones here,” (he’s just a little pick among them) “I think he ought to have that nice big tabernacle, I think. Don’t you think that’s right?” No, my. There he goes. And then the congregation’s scattered. See? Separate these! God does the separating, He’s the one Who does it. But they all, each one, wants to take this little one, put him over here, and this one down here. That’s man’s idea.

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« 151 † Man has the keys, but God holds the keys actually. They give the disciples, the holy church, the keys; and watch the first time they used it, when Judas had felled by transgression. They got together and cast lots; and the holy brethren. Who would say they wasn’t holy brethren? Who say they wasn’t holy? But they cast lots, and it fell on Matthias. And when he… What did he ever do? Nothing. But Paul was the elected one! Amen. That was God’s choosing: a little, hook-nosed, sarcastic, high-tempered Jew. Not the Matthias, the D.D., you know, he–he was… But Paul, God chose Paul; the church chose–chose Matthias. See? You have no right to tell God He’s “wrong.” He knows what to do, He knows what the man’s made out of.
152 Who would ever… That church ever chose Paul? Oh, no, never. Said, “That guy’s the one that’s putting us all in jail.”
153 But God said, “I’ll show him what he’ll suffer for Me.” He know what.
154 All right, no matter who we think is right, God knows who’s best qualified because He knows the heart of man, He knows.

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« 155 † Nor does the revival, or does these things, happen at the time that we think they ought to happen. We think, “It’s this time right now, glory to God!” I notice in our chapters and so forth of the Business Man, “There’s coming right away, hallelujah, a great revival!”
156 Don’t be deceived, “He has already come, and they did to Him what was list.” See? But they think there’s a revival. Is it happening? No! It’s done, and dead, it’s over. Uh-huh. Notice, this is lamp-trimming time, coming out and going in. “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.”

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« 157 † Notice here in our text, notice David, king of Israel, he was the one who got the revelation of bringing the ark of God back to his place; that, they never consulted it in the days of Saul ’cause Saul had backslid. So they never consulted the ark at all, the covenant, in the days of Saul, ’cause he had backslid and got away from God. So David, quickly, with inspiration… Now notice this, it’s a very treacherous text if you don’t get it right. And I feel that the hour is coming where we should be man instead of babies. Uh-huh. We should have strong meat instead of milk.

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« 158 † Notice David, king of Israel, the king had just been freshly anointed the king; or elected king, Saul… Samuel anointed him by the will of God; and he was absolutely God’s chosen king, no doubt to it. And here he is, and inspiration strikes him. It was revealed to David. He got the revelation, nobody else had said nothing about it. “Let us go and fetch the, ark, ’cause that’s the will of God that we have the ark here with us, that we consult God by this ark.” Very, very gallant thing. Don’t you think so? All right.

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« 159 † Remember, but, him being king, and got the revelation, he overstepped his place. There was a prophet in the land by the name of Nathan, he was the one that was ordained to get the revelation. There’s anything to be spoke, He said, “The Lord doeth nothing until He reveals it to His servants the prophet.” But, you see, David being king, with the anointing upon him… Now, is that the Scripture? Anointing upon him, and got a true revelation; but it was wrong. Because Nathan was the prophet of that age, and the revelation never come to Nathan, and when the revelation come to David he never even consulted Nathan about it. He’s just going to go ahead and do what he wanted to do. Uh-huh.

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« 160 † But notice who David consulted here in the 13th chapter, “But he consulted the captains of thousands and of hundreds,” back to his congregation. See? “Now, don’t you think we should do…?” That isn’t it. Now, he was trying to do God a service, but he wasn’t ordained to do it; see, ’cause God had a way.
161 Just the same as God could have spoke to the–the king about his sore and getting well, but He didn’t, He had a ordained way of doing it, that was His prophet. So He spoke to the prophet, Isaiah, told him to go back and tell Hezekiah what would happen.
162 Now, Hezekiah was talking face to face with God, and–and God could talk to Hezekiah, of course, but He made certain channels! You understand it? God has His Own set way of doing things: sending revivals, talking, speaking, whatever it is. He has His way of doing it, and we are nobody to tell Him how to do it. He does it the way it pleases Him to do it.

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« 163 † So, you see, David, being inspired… Now, you remember I said the, anointing, the false anointing? Remember the Holy Spirit can come and anoint a person, and still it’s out of the will of God. Here, It proves it right here. See? We have to go through God’s way of doing it, not our ways, God’s way of doing it. Cause, David, being a king, anointed, anointed with the Spirit of God upon him (a type of Jesus Christ), but that wasn’t God’s channel.
164 When all the congregation, “it pleased them,” the Bible said. Notice, captains of thousands and of hundreds, also the priests and theologians thought that was “wonderful.” There is your Bible schools and everything else, they thought it was “wonderful.” Even all of the people agreed, and the priests, and–and all of them agreed that the king’s anointing was right. Notice! But God had not promised to reveal His Word in Its season to them. God had His way of revealing His Word, but not to them. Remember, it was contrary to God.

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« 165 † Something like in the days of Micaiah the son of Imla. Do you remember that story? Judah and Israel were separated, and they had two different kingdoms, and Ahab was the king over one kingdom. And Jehoshaphat was over the king–kingdom of Judah, I believe it was; and Ahab was over Israel, Jerusalem.
166 Notice, and then here come in a bunch of alien and took off part of the God-given land that God had give to Israel, and these Philistines up there, Syrians, were holding that ground and were feeding their own children off of the ground that belonged to Israel. And so they needed that ground to feed their own children and their own families. God gave them… That was their God-given rights.

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« 167 † And so Ahab calls down Jehoshaphat, and said, “Come down.” He said, “Looky there what our enemy’s doing. Is it right that we, the people of God, with a God-given right that we should have this land, it belongs to us, God through His prophet, Joshua, divided this land, it should be ours; it belongs to us, to our children, and here the communists has took it over, and we have… We’re so hungry, and they have got our God-given rights. Don’t you think that we should go up there and take our land back? If you’ll join your forces: if you Methodists, and Presbyterians, and all, and Presbyterians, and Lutheran, and so forth, all take the ecumenical council here now, we’ll all set together, and we’ll take the thing.” (I’m saying and speaking in a parable now) “We’ll go get it.”
168 “Why,” he said, “certainly, we’re all one.” Uh-huh.
169 Now, the Bible said, “How can two walk together except they be agreed?” See?
170 There where that great man, that great Pentecostal man, Jehoshaphat, got mixed up with the wrong crowd. And that’s what happened to our Pentecostals today. There’s some real man in there, but they’re mixed up in that denominational crowd. Get out of that thing! It’s cursed of the Lord!

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« 171 † Notice now! There he was, and he said, “Yes, that sounds reasonable.” Said, “Our chariots is yours, our people; after all, we’re all Jews.” Uh-huh. “Sure, we’ll go up with you.” But is just enough religion left in Jehoshaphat to say, “Don’t you think we–we should consult the Lord first?” See? “I think it’d be a good idea.”
172 Why, Ahab, “Of course.” Said, “Why, oh, sure, I should have thought of that.”
173 “Well, is there a man of God somewhere? Have you got a prophet?”
174 “Ah, I got four hundred of them. I got the whole council down here, the whole denomination. They’re Hebrew prophets.”

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« 175 † Now remember, the Bible said they were “prophets, Hebrew prophets,” not heathen prophets, Hebrew prophets; a school of them, a theological seminary.
176 “Well, bring them up!”
177 And the kings dressed themselves and set before him to impress the prophet. And here come, I believe it was Zedekiah come up, the great chief of the district councilmen, or ever what he was, come up there among them. He made hisself two big horns, he said, “I have heard from God. THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘With these horns you’ll push the Syrians plumb out of the land.'”
178 “O glory!” everybody thought that was wonderful, fine.

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« 179 † Watch how close it gets to that razor edge now, between right and wrong. And remember it’ll fall on one or the other sides, till it comes down sometime like a honed razor between the difference of right and wrong. It’s got to be every Word of God; not just almost every Word, but every Word! And it’s got down today, not to Lutherans, not to Methodists, not to Pentecostals, but to that honed age, in this age where the antichrist anointing is so perfectly, it would deceive the very Elected, they’ll fall on the wrong side if they don’t watch it, like a wedge. Watch! Be careful! We’re not living in a Pentecostal age now. We’re passed that age, just the same as it’s passed Lutheran, and passed… See?

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« 180 † Notice. Now the prophets all prophesied, four hundred of them, well fed, well fixed, Hebrew prophets gave them witness, one accord, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘Go up, the Lord is with you.'”
181 Jehoshaphat said, “Well, that–that sounds all right. But,” said, “have you got another one?”
182 “Another one? We got the whole denomination here, we got the whole council gathered out here. Why do we need another one?”
183 He said, “Ah,” said, “I thought maybe there might be another one.”
184 He said, “Oh, yes, there is another one, but he don’t even belong to this council.” Uh-huh. “He’s an outcast. It’s Micaiah, the son of Imla, and I hate him.” See? Said, “They won’t receive him into fellowship, and he’s just a common outcast to begin with. And he’s constantly, everything he prophesies, he just won’t encourage my seminary a bit.” Uh-huh. “And he does all these things evil, he’s always prophesying evil against me, just to be different.”
185 “Oh,” Jehoshaphat said, “don’t let the king say such a thing as that. But I’d like to hear what this man’s got to say.”

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« 186 † Said, “Well, we’ll find him.” So they sent out somewhere in the wilderness, and they sent a man.
187 Said, told him, said, “Now, on your road back now, I want to tell you something. Do you want to get back in the denomination again?” See? “Do you want to have fellowship with all of them again? If you do, say the same thing the district presbyter says, say the same thing the bishop says, and they’ll bring you right back. Now is the time to do it.”
188 But could you imagine a anointed, true prophet of God compromising on one Word of God? No indeedy!
189 He said, “As the Lord lives, I’ll only say what God says!” We need a son of Imla. “As the Lord lives, I’ll only say what He says.” That’s right, “What He says.”

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« 190 † So when they got down there before the people, all the prophets, they said, “Now, you say they…
191 He said, “Wait, give me tonight, let me see what the Lord’s going to say.” So, that night, the Lord appeared to him in a vision and told him what to say.
192 The next morning he said, “What do you say, Imla?” when they was all standing out… I mean “Micaiah, son of Imla,” said, “what do you say now? We’re all here together, all of the priests, and all of the prophets, and all of the kings, and everything setting here together. What do you say now at this great council?”
193 Said, “Go on up,” said, “but I seen Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd.”
194 And Ahab said, “What did I tell you! That renegade can only prophesy evil against me!”
195 How could he say anything else when God was saying the same thing? A prophet’s supposed to be the mouth of God speaking, not his own thinking. His… You see, he’s com-… so completely yielded to God, he don’t want to hurt nothing, but he has to say what God says, ’cause he has no control of It hisself. See?

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« 196 † He said, “Now, didn’t I tell you?”
197 And then up come the–the big man with the horn, and smacked him in the mouth, he said, “Which a-way went the Spirit of God when It went out of me?” In other words, let me try to break that down, “Looky here in… Looky here, I want to tell you something, Micaiah. Do you realize that I am a master in the Scripture? Do you realize that I have the anointing?” Or, “the Baptism,” we’d say it today. “Do you realize that I have that?”
198 Imla said, “I’m not doubting that.”
199 He said, “But listen! The Spirit of God has told me, and bore witness with all my four hundred here, that we’re ‘going to push the Syrians out of the land.’ And who are you to come around and say that our great king is going to be slain?” He said, “The Spirit of God told me that.”

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« 200 † Let me just break it down so you’ll understand it. And maybe we find Micaiah say, “Last night in the vision, sir, I saw God setting upon a Throne. And I saw all the host of Heaven gathered around Him, uh-huh, and they were having a council in Heaven. They said, ‘Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab? Because under the Throne here is a prophet, a true prophet, his name is Elijah. And he has prophesied by My Word and said that “That wicked Ahab, because he slew Naboth, the dogs will lick the blood of that wicked man,” and we’ve got to make That come to pass because It’s already been spoken, It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD! It has to come to pass, got to be there. And how are we going to do it?'”

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« 201 † “Then down from the creeping regions of the lost, way down in there come a spirit moving up, he said, ‘I’m a deceiver, and if I can do a service to You, I’ll go down and get in his prophet.'” Because they was so organized, they’ll only understand one thing, and that’s a little emotions. “‘And I’ll cause them to prophesy a lie. And I’ll get Ahab to listen to those dignitaries instead of Your real prophet; ’cause he’ll examine everything he says with your Word, he’ll examine his visions by the Word, he’ll examine everything he does by the Word, and if it ain’t with the Word he wouldn’t listen to it. But if it… I can deceive these others, and I’ll… they… Ahab’s got so much confidence in that great unity together of their safety, so they go around together and they’ll get together. And I’ll cause Ahab to listen to them, go out there. And that’s how we’ll do it.'”
202 “God said, ‘You can do it, you’re a real deceiver; you go on down.'”

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« 203 † And then Zedekiah smacked him in the mouth, said, “Where was you…?”
204 He said, “You’ll find out when you’re setting in the inner cell.” Uh-huh.
205 He said, “Go up!” said Zedekiah to the king. Said, “Go up and return in peace!”
206 Ahab said, “Take that fellow and put him into the prison. Put him in shackles, feed him bread of sorrow and water of sorrow. And when I return back with my victory from out here, which my prophets has told me that ‘this revival is sure to happen,'” said, “I’ll tend to that fellow!”
207 Listen at Micaiah’s last words to that man: “If you return at all, then God never spoke to me.” Oh!
208 See, God has His way of doing things. These man thought they were doing God a service. Be careful! Not emotion, not enthusiasm, not imaginations, but it must be “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” must be right. All right, no matter… We find these things so.

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« 209 † Notice now when David had made this great proclamation, and it seemed like that it was good, a good thing to do. There we find out that the… (Am I tiring you? Am I too late to have another?) David made this great proclamation, he consulted not the prophet.
210 Now, anyone knows that Amos 3:7 says that God promised that He would never do nothing until first He revealed it to His prophet. Through the church ages we’ve had reformers; but promised by Malachi 4 that there would be a prophet in the land in the last days (because it has to fit that pattern, see) before the end time come.

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« 211 † Before Jesus come the first, Elijah come, Elijah of Malachi 3. Matthew 11 says so, “If you can understand it, this is who was spoken of, ‘Behold I send My–My messenger before Me.'” Now, He’s prophesied, all theologians believe that; that, in the last day, the Spirit of Elijah is to come, too. It has to come five times, God uses that Spirit: Elisha, Elijah, John the Baptist, and for the Gentile church, and then for the Jews in Revelation the 11th chapter. That’s, God’s g-r-a-c-e, f-a-i-t-h, Je-s-u-s, Jesus, the–the letter five. Can’t stop at four, it has to go to five. See? Notice!

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« 212 † Now, He promised that, so that sets the Bible just exactly to this day, and the Sodom and Gomorrah. And Elijah was not… That wasn’t Elijah; That was the Spirit of God on Elijah; Elijah was just a man. Now, we’ve had Elijahs, and Elijahs’ coats, and Elijahs’ mantles, and Elijahs’ everything. But the Elijah of this day is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is to come according to Matthew the seventeen-… Luke 17:30, says the Son of man is to reveal Himself among His people. Not a man, God! But it’ll come through a prophet. Now, He never had two major prophets at the same time, never, in the world. See? No matter how much there’s… two–two heads can’t… It has to be one head. God has to get one man under His control. See? There’s one God; there was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but one God over it all, notice, and just used them offices. So has He with Elijah, the Spirit of Elijah; He used that Spirit, but the same God controlling It all the time to fulfill His Word.

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« 213 † Now, notice in this now, David thought he had everything in order. And he was inspired. See how the Holy Spirit can anoint a man? But it’s got to be in the order of the anointing. The outside spirit can be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and the soul as dark as pitch. The cocklebur grows on the same water that builds… puts life into the wheat, puts life into the cocklebur; but at the bottom of the cocklebur, it’s a cocklebur life. It’s rejoicing, and blooming, and got life, and doing everything that the wheat does, but the soul of it is cocklebur. See? False teachers can rise, teaching all kind of trinitarianism and everything else, and be anointed with the Holy Ghost, and perform just as many miracles as the true Gospel can. But by the Word here, that’s what does it. See what I mean? Now, it’s all right to teach this, I guess, I’m–I’m in a interdenominational tabernacle this morning, in–in this hotel here.

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« 214 † Notice, watch what we’re saying. Now, well, listen. David had all the emotion that the real revival had. Notice! They shouted, they screamed, they danced, they really got something out of that anointing. Sure did! All like a real revival, but, you notice, God was not in it. God was not in it. He had a prophet setting right there in the land that they ought to have knowed. See? David should have knowed that.
215 Same thing today, we got all the mechanics, like the great denominations, crusades of our time, but the result’s turning out the same as it was then; our results of our great crusades, and all of our big fine reason, our big buildings, and our big… building thousands, and adding members and things, it turns out the same way, all a flop. I’m not saying that to be different, I’m saying that to be honest before God Whose Book I’m standing by this morning. See? All turns out a flop, same results.

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« 216 † Now let us see what happened when God (in His time and age) and His prophets are not considered, just depend on theology, priests, denominationalism like we do today. Now, closely. It all gets messed up. If the true Spirit of God there, It’ll direct it into the Word; not just one place in the Word, the entire Word for the entire age. See?
217 The Day of Pentecost, the Spirit directed it right into That, to Joel 2:38. See? The day of Luther, It directed it right into That; Wesley; in this last pentecostal move; but this is another age, this is the calling out of the Bride. Not two thousand years ago at Pentecost, or the repeat, or the return. Pentecost…

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« 218 † The Holy Spirit was in Luther, the Holy Spirit was in Wesley; it’s God’s Word being anointed. And the Holy Spirit returned to the people of the age and they begin to have the restoration of the gifts. They found out, by yielding themself to God, the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues through them. They laid their hands on the sick, and they was recovered. They danced in the Spirit. See? That was the age of the reformation bringing the church back into order. And the last order of the church was placing the gifts into the church; like Luther placed justification, Wesley placed sanctification, Pentecost placed the gifts. But what did they do? The same mistake, as nature has patterned to the wheat stalk, they denominated (which is against God, contrary to God).

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« 219 † Now, we find out that when… Then when these stalk gathers comes together, they form their own idea. And no matter… When the “new issue,” as they call it, come forth out of the Assemblies of God, what did they do? They couldn’t receive It. No matter how much Truth it was, the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, they were already the General Council. Man had done took it over, the Spirit had done left them. Right! And then this come forth… I’ve talked to some of your best leaders; they say, “Well, what would we do now?” They would embarrass themselves. When they know it’s the Truth; if they don’t, they’re spiritually blind and ignorant to the Bible. Not saying that nasty, now, saying that reverently. Cause, there’s not a place in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized using those titles, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” And never was used till after the ecumenical council, the Roman Catholic church. Their own catechism witnesses the same thing. It’s a Catholic dogma! Not a Bible doctrine, but a Catholic dogma. And you Methodists brought out your catechisms and everything just like they had, just gradually growing out of it. And now when you come to Pentecost, and spread out some of those dogmas, you still held on to them.
220 But now is the Bride-calling, now is when the Seven Seals has been opened, now when the complete things that the reformers left has to be opened; and only Malachi 4 can do that, because it takes the revelation straight from God to an individual to do so. That’s right! It can’t come to a group, never did. One man! That’s what God promised in the shadows of the coming for His Bride, an Eliezer. See?

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« 221 † Notice when priests, ministers, and so forth, get their own inspiration, and truly anointed. David was anointed. The Bible said so. But, you see, he went through the wrong resource, he went to the wrong channel. He channeled his anointing on the wrong side, to the people and what they thought, to the captains, what they thought, instead of to God’s holy channel to find out what THUS SAITH THE LORD was, “Is this the time for this? Is this the season for this? Is this the will of God?”

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« 222 † Then if he’s a true prophet of God, he’ll go before God first, say, “Father, what is it?” like Nathan did later on to David.
David said, “Is it right for me to live in a house of cedar, and the ark of my God under tents out here?”
223 And look at Nathanael, said, “David, do all that’s in your heart, for God is with you. You’re a anointed vessel of God.”
224 But that being a prophet, and his mistake, and God’s duty bound to His prophet. That night He appeared to him, said, “Go tell My servant David, I admire his courage, I love him for this, ’cause he’s a man after My Own heart, and I know it’s time that My ark would be that way, put under something, but I just… It ain’t the season for it to happen. I’ll let his son do it, but I won’t let him do it.”
225 Then here come Nathan with, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, David, the great revelation you had is as wrong as it was when you brought the ark up.” (Uh-huh! Uh-huh! See?) “Don’t you do it. Don’t try it! But God said He’ll have ‘your son to do it.'” There! See? There you are!

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« 226 † David was anointed to say that because aforehand he could see it, just as Abraham sought for a City on the earth. You know, he was looking for It because he was going to live here someday, Abraham is, in that City. And he went around looking for It. And right on the same grounds where he looked, it was just above him then, and will return in the Millennium and he’ll live in that City. But being a prophet, he was ordained and inspired, he knowed there was a City somewhere, and he was looking for It. But, you see, the whole revelation of it was hid from him, it wasn’t for his age. [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… on down to John, where he saw It coming down from God out of Heaven. That was the City.

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« 227 † See, everything has to be in its season. You plant your wheat in the spring and… or in the fall and cut it the next summer. See? It’s got to come up through the stalk, then come up through the tassel, and shuck, and on into the… It’s got to be in season. All nature runs in continuity. The Spirit of God made nature, and all God and nature in continuity. All the things that’s put in the temple was a pattern of what He saw in Heaven.

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« 228 † You see a tree struggling trying to live, that means there’s a tree that don’t die. You see a man struggling for life, it shows that there is a tabernacle waiting somewhere that don’t die. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved we have one already waiting.” The good Heavenly Father permitted me to walk behind that curtain one day and see it. How many heard the…?… See? Looking a-pass the curtain of time. There it was just the same as I’m preaching to you all, there they stood. Souls under the altar crying, “How long?” Not just a myth, somebody who had intelligence: “How long, Lord?” See? While we feel that now, as our age, like Brother Bill Dauch setting here at ninety-three. There’s something longing for that young man again. There’s something… You’d give anything. How I’d like to. Brother Jack, and all the rest of us. Go back, Brother Gerholtzer, in here, into that young manhood. What do you want to do it for? To be young and run around again? No, sir! Because we feel we’d have more time to glorify this God that we love.

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« 229 † And my dear brethren, I have this Message this morning, there is a Land beyond the river that they call that sweet forever. There we’ll glorify Him through the ages, and all the ages, and Eternity. Why do we feel that? Because the deep is calling to the deep. And as long as the deep’s a-calling, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that call or there wouldn’t be no call. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a creator first to create the creation, or there’s no… That shows the very evidence that there is.

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« 230 † Notice these priests, all out of line. Notice the anointing, all right, nothing wrong with the anointing. Same with you Pentecostals, but watch what channel you’re moving in now. The day has changed since Pentecost, something else for us. If there’d been no prophet in the land, perhaps David would’ve been right. That’s right. But there stood Nathan, vindicated, ordained, witnessed by God to be a prophet.
231 Watch! The ark in the Bible always is a type of the Word to us, because it was the Word of God in the ark. And was… Notice the ark that they brought up, look how they did it. It was not put in its original God-ordained position. Now, God said back here in the Law that it must… how it must be done, how this ark must be moved, and who it must be moved by. But David, under his anointing…

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« 232 † My brethren, don’t you miss this. And my sisters, you who want to be women preachers and so forth, don’t you miss this. No matter how much your anointing is, you’ve got to get in God’s provided position. David’s anointing was all right, but in doing it he got enthused and stepped over the boundary line. What did he do? He stepped over the boundary line. Instead of putting the ark in its original position, he carried it on a new cart and not over the hearts of the Levites. It was supposed to be carried on the shoulder of the Levites, which is over the heart. The Word is not in the mind, It’s in the heart! “Not on a new cart.” What was that? Some… Represented something new, David did there, spoke of every denomination there’d ever be. God’s Word is not to be by… carried by state presbyters or bishops, and so forth, of denominations. It’s the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in the heart of man, and not in some ecclesiastical move. The Holy Spirit is a treasure of God’s love in the heart of man and women to obey. See?

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« 233 † Was on the shoulders of His ministers, His ministers was the Levites. Put it up over their left shoulder and packed that ark like that, because it was up over their heart. They had the burden of the Word on their heart. Amen! Now you got the burden of your denomination on your heart, the burden of your congregation: whether you’re going to build this, or do that, or do something else. The burden of how many more you’re going to get to your denomination; instead of the burden of the Word of the Lord, till that people will see only the Word of God and nothing else. But you got It on a new cart now. See? They’re packing It up here in the ecumenical council even, shouldered. I don’t want to get critical, and may God help me, now. I just telling you the Truth.

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« 234 † Now, influenced by creeds and ecumenical councils, the Word, the real Word of the season of that age was ignored, because they had a lot of emotion. But David, the anointed king… He was king, but he was anointed king. You say, “I’m a minister, anointed.” Then stay a minister, don’t try to be a prophet. See? If you’re evangelist, stay evangelist.
235 Remember Uzziah, in the days of Isaiah, the young king… the young prophet. Uzziah was a great man, anointed man, God blessed him; blessed hisself. Yeah, I preached on that to you here one time. And one day he got so highly up till he thought he could just take the office of a priest, and he took the fire and went in before the Lord, and the… them priests told him, “Don’t do that, Uzziah!” But he got exalted. The prophet couldn’t tell him nothing. The priests knowed their order, they was keeping their order, he said, “That’s not your order, Uzziah. Don’t do, that!”

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« 236 † Well, he made them “Shut up!” And he went with the–with the fire, in to offer, take a priest’s job; he was anointed king, not a priest. And those priests was trying to tell him, “You’re a wonderful king, you’re anointed, God has blessed us now; but you’re a king, not a priest.”
237 And you pastors shouldn’t never tell a prophet what to do, or you evangelists tell a pastor. See, each one has his office if it is perfectly identified.
238 So he went in with the fire, and was stricken down with leprosy and died.

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« 239 † Now here’s David, king, David’s trying to do the same thing here. He’s taken it upon hisself. “Well, that’s fine, got to go. Looky, lots of people. What do you say, captain? You have ten thousand.”
240 “Glory to God, David, I feel the Spirit.” Oh, he did! He did feel It. “What do you think, David? Do you feel It?”
241 “Glory to God, It’s all over me! Let’s check it and see if it’s right, let’s see. Where does the ark belong?”
242 “With us! Belongs among us.”
243 “Who should we consult? Sure, the ark. Just the same thing as that ground belonged to–to Israel instead of the Philistines. That’s right. They belong to us. And as I feel the anointing, too.”
244 The captains of hundreds, all the congregation, “Glory to God!” They clapped, and they shouted, and they danced, and jumped up and down.
245 They had the Spirit, but what do you think Father was thinking? “How I’ve sent Nathan, that prophet down there! They know what to do, and so does David, but now he’s just all enthused and stepped right over his boundary line and went to do this.”

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« 246 † All right, notice, “carry It on the shoulders” was God’s original plan. There is five must’s. I want you to put these down, if you’re… I see you’re writing. (And it’s twenty minutes, twenty something minutes after ten, so I’ll try to be through by eleven, if possible. I’ll hurry just as quick as I can.) No matter how sincere a man may be in doing God a service, no matter how sincere, how much anointed, how much of a Presbyterian, Baptist, Pentecostal; no matter whether you’re a bishop, deacon, whatever you are, pastor, evangelist, prophet, whatever it might be; there’s five must’s that must be considered first. No matter how much anointing, how good it seemed, how the people shouting, everything the Spirit’s a-doing, there is a must.

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« 247 † Now, my brethren, while you’re getting your paper ready, can you understand now why? Now remember, you’ve all thought, and have been taught among you, not… (see, I’m speaking across the nation)… that I did not believe in speaking in tongues. I do believe in speaking in tongues, but you can still speak in tongues and not have the Holy Ghost. First Corinthians 13, says, “Though I speak with tongue of man and angels, I ain’t nothing yet.” See? That’s the anointing of the Holy Ghost, that has nothing to do with the soul inside you. You can speak in tongues and deny the Word. I’ve seen it done, and you see it too. See? A woman can preach the Gospel and… See? They can do all… They cut their hair, and still shout and speak in tongues and everything else. Uh-huh, that’s exactly right. You got to line up with the Truth of the Word.

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« 248 † Notice! No matter how sincere a man may be, no matter how great he’s used of God, no matter what he is, he must be this: must be… The thing that he’s speaking of must be timely by the Bible. Somebody say, “Well, Moses back there.” I know what Moses did, but that not what God’s doing today. “Well, back yonder, thirty years ago, Luther said…” That might be fine, but that’s not what He’s doing today. “Well, forty years ago, Pentecost fell.” But that’s not what He’s doing today. See? It must be timely.
249 It must be according to the Scripture. It must be in season, the second one. Thirdly, and it must be according to the way that God’s Word spoke it would be.

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« 250 † And you say, “Glory to God! The Holy Ghost fell on me, hallelujah, just like It did on the Day of Pentecost.” But that might be different today. It fell on David, too, didn’t it? Sure, It did. Fell on Uzziah, but it was wrong! See, you got to go deeper than that now. See? You got to go deeper than that. Now, don’t feel hurt, just–just be reverent. See?
251 And notice, and it also must come to the man of God’s choosing. Not a denominational choosing, none of the people’s choosing, but according to God’s choosing. And if it’s a message from God, of a great revelation from God, it must come to His prophet. Now, if you want the Scripture of that, it’s Amos 3:7. See? Now, it must.
252 There’s five things it must be: It must be in season. It must be at the time God said it would be. It must be written in the Word of God. It must be in the season of God’s time, see. And it must be by God’s choosing.

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« 253 † And God doesn’t need any of us to interpret His Word, God is His Own interpreter. He don’t need our seminaries. He don’t need our wisdom, it’s nonsense. See? Eve got that, uh-huh, and missed the Interpretation by her wisdom.
254 Say, “Oh, boy, that guy’s a smart man.” Well, that don’t mean a thing. Sure. Ahab was a smart man. Belteshazzar was a smart man. Satan was most cunning and crude, subtle, none of you could withstand him, none at all.
255 I don’t depend on… none… no wisdom, just depend on God. See? How is God? He is the Word. And then how does God interpret His Own Word? Listen close now, don’t miss these things. How does God interpret His Own Word? By making It come to pass, not just one here, but all of it for that season.
256 Not say, “Noah go out and preach,” the inspired, but, “Build an ark, put doors in it, fix it this way, and that way.” What if he put the door on top instead of the bottom? What if he put the window on the bottom, the door on top? See? It’s got to be instructed according to the time, because that’s exactly what God’s going to use it for. It must be that way, and it must come by inspiration.

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« 257 † I heard a guy say one time, said, “I believe that man prays for the sick, I believe it’s fine. But as being a prophet,” said “I believe he’s God’s prophet; but as a teacher, why, he’s a ‘Jesus only.'” What a… What kind of a person would you call that? A man doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
258 The very word prophet means that “he is a revealer of the Word of God,” the Interpretation only comes to that. And that’s why today we’re in such a need of this great person that’s supposed to be sent to us in the form of the prophet Elijah, because it’ll be the revelation of God made known to us by vindication, showing that it’s the day and the hour and the season that God promised it to be in. And, remember, he’ll be spoken against; always has been, always will be. Rejected, just like the shuck will pull… First he’ll be accepted, because the shuck only holds the wheat until it’s able to get forth to the sun. Pentecost will only sheltered the Message, give It an open door until It gets scattered, and then the shuck will pull away, and the wheat will lay in the Presence of the Son, see, to ripen.

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« 259 † There won’t be any denomination, you just remember. Brother Jack here’s a historian, many of you here are. There’s never been a revival but about three years after the revival they started a denomination on it. Is that right? And this last great miracle move of God in this last days, it’s went twenty years; and it’s a million miles from a denomination, going further away all the time; the shuck’s pulling away, no cooperation, no nothing with It. See? Always it pulls away from It. There can’t be no more, it’s a wheat now. But we’re plenty green. Uh-huh. That’s right. Have to lay in the Presence of the Son to be mellowed up, that’s all of it. Plenty green; we haven’t got the sincerity, the sacredness, the thing we ought to have in our midst, to know that the Spirit of the living God, moving in His Word and showing us the things yet.

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« 260 † We have false impersonators rise up. What’s that to do? To deceive. The Bible said they would. “As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so, will these in the last days.” See? They do the same thing, come right along impersonating It, just exactly. See? Be careful! Watch the Doctrine of the Bible. Watch the message that follows them signs! Still the same old school of message? Forget it!
261 God sent the miracles and signs to attract attention of His people. When Jesus come just healing the sick and so forth, so did the prophets. They thought, “Oh, glory, He’s a-coming, He’s going to be a Pharisee. He’s going to be a Sadducee.”
262 But He said, “You generation of serpents and vipers.” Said, “You’re of your father the Devil, his works you’ll do.” Said, “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, there’s no Life in you.” He didn’t explain It. He didn’t have to explain It. Hallelujah. That was for another season. Uh-huh. He just said what He had to say, “I always do that what is pleasing to the Father, and that’s keeping His Word. If I don’t, My life and My works don’t compare with His Word I’m supposed to do, then don’t believe Me, I’m not Him; but if it does, then believe the works if you can’t believe Me,” He said.
263 Notice now these must’s that must be done.

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« 264 † Now, see, God had not revealed the thing to them by His provided way, He had revealed it by inspiration, but it was in the wrong channel. See, inspiration will go fine, but if it’s in the wrong channel, it’ll be channeled wrong. Like you take a bullet and shoot it directly to a target, it’s making its way right to the target, but a puff of wind can blow it out. Now, in your automobile, you go down the road sixty, seventy miles an hour and a puff of wind blows you, you can straighten your wheels back up, throw it back on the road again. But you can’t a bullet; ain’t nothing there to straighten its wheels up, it misses the target. See, it must travel in its original channel.

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« 265 † So must the Word of God travel in Its original channel. No little puff of wind’s going to blow It off; no little denomination, or nothing, is going to blow It off; no little persecution’s going to blow It off: It’s directed to the point! It’s going to hit there, too. And then God… When It hits that point, God will vindicate It, “Bull’s-eye!” Uh-huh, exactly what He said He’ll do. Here it is in the Scriptures, this, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘It shall come to pass!'” Here it is. See? There you are.

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« 266 † Now, God had not revealed it in His provided way. So they went about to do it apart from His Word, and apart from the season, just the same as they have now. When man, no matter how sincere, trying to do Him a service outside of His provided way, they always mess it up. Like Balaam, Balaam thought he was doing God a service.
267 Do you think God lies? Does God ever change His mind? Well, people act today like He did. When He said for women not to cut their hair; they say, “We can cut it, Dr. So-and-so said we could. Brother So-and-so said you’re just too narrow-minded.” Uh-huh, uh-huh. See?
268 “Well, can this happen? This happen?”
269 “Yeah, uh-huh, So-and-so said so.”
270 God don’t change His mind.

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« 271 † Do you believe Balaam was a prophet? The Bible said he was. Do you believe he was a prophet? Now, remember, Balak come to him and said, “Go down and curse this people, for they’re all over the face of the earth. They’re not even a denomination, not a nation, they’re just a scattered bunch; and we are the dignitaries of the land. Now you go down there and curse them people, and I’ll pay you for it.”
272 And Balaam done exactly what a prophet should do, he said, “I’ll not go. You just wait here, overnight, let me see what God says do.”
273 So he went in, he said, “Lord, there’s some people out here with me that come, wanted me go down and curse some other people down there.” Said, “What do You want me to do about it?”
274 God said, “Don’t you go, for them’s My people!”
275 Balaam went out, said, “Go on back to your house. I can’t go with you, God told me not to do it.” Now, there’s God’s original Word: “Don’t go!”
276 Well, then they went back, said, “You know, your bishop wouldn’t listen.”
277 “Well,” the king said, “tell you what we do. He needs a little money, I believe that could persuade him. Or maybe I’ll make him state presbyter, maybe I’ll get him some great something to do. I’ll might make him the bishop, you can’t tell what I might do. Here, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You fellows ain’t got enough education to persuade him anyhow; your his and hain’ts, and tote and fetch and carry, ain’t right. He wouldn’t listen to you, we’ll send a real educated bunch down, more dignitary.”

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« 278 † They went down there, said, “Doctor Balaam, Doctor Balaam, greetings to you. I bring you salutations from the king.”
279 “Morning, brethren.” See?
280 “Now, Doctor Balaam…” And, oh, the vocabulary, how it was really poured on. And said, “Now, the king has said that he will exalt you, and he will also give you great honor. And, you know, they only offered you so much money to take this charge, but the king says he’ll triple it, quad-triple it, if you’ll just come to take it.” Then, Balaam, got itching hands. He got foolish ideas and he stirred his mind.
281 Now, remember, he called God by it, anointed, but he stirred God right away from the original plan. And that’s exactly what Pentecost has done! To be popular, you Oneness, you Trinity, for popularity you denominated to be different, you organized and you’re dead! You’ll never rise again. But, you see, you ought to have stayed with God’s orig-… He pulled you out of that Assembly to make you a people, but you organized and went right back into the same puke you come (excuse me) out of, the same stuff you come out of, “As a dog goes to its vomit and a hog to its wallow.” I’m sorry I said that, forgive me, that’s not right for the platform here. See? I just said that in the flesh. Notice now that that’s what I mean, to vomit. I should have said it like that. The word was all right, but just misused. See? It was used all right, but just a missound, uh-huh…?… Vomit, “As a dog returns to its vomit.”

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« 282 † If the Assemblies of God, the General Council, organized Pentecost at the first place and got them into that so they could not accept the revelation, don’t you know, Oneness, you done the same thing. How could you receive a Message of “serpent’s seed, Eternal security,” and these other things that’s come forth? You’re so tightly organized till you won’t even let It in your door, uh-huh, uh-huh, same thing Balaam did. But God didn’t change His mind.

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« 283 † So Balaam went over and said, “Lord, now look, I really got an opportunity now to be somebody. You know I been a nobody, but I got a opportunity to be somebody. What do You say about it now, Lord?” Now, he should never have said that! He knowed exactly what God said do!
284 So do every one of you that’s baptized in the name of the “Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” on these other issues of the Bible that’s supposed to be in this day, you know what to do about It, is accept It! When you see God plainly vindicate “It’s the Truth,” that’s God interpreting His Own Word. But will you do it? No, your organization won’t let you do it!

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« 285 † Many of the ministers there in Tucson that’s listening in this morning. Brother Gilmore, I have nothing against you; Brother Brock, First Assembly, and Friendly church. You man, I was there all that time, you wouldn’t even let me come in. I… Sure, you couldn’t, you can’t and remain what you are. You can’t accept revelation, ’cause you’re denominated. And listen, just as Uzziah was killed because he was under that false inspiration, so is many true Christians losing their experience back in those old dead denominations, because they’re putting their hand on the Ark when they’re not ordained to do so. Now you can believe It, or not believe It, that’s up to you. God’s your Judge. God never did take back His Word. What He said the first time, He says for every time.
286 He told Balaam, “Don’t you go!”
287 And then Balaam come back, said, “But Lord, could I go?”
288 Now look! God said, “Go on!” Now, He give him permission to go. There is a permissive will of God, and not the original will of God. You see what a trouble he got into?

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« 289 † And any man that builds anything, any organization, or anything outside of upon the Word of God, it’s shaking sands and will fall! It’ll die as sure as anything, because the Word of God is a growing Body of the Bride. You can’t have it all foot, all arm, all thigh. These things come in their season.
290 And Pentecost, you made it all one thing, therefore you can’t accept new revelation. That’s the reason you stay right where you’re at and die; moves on. (So much, don’t want to wear you out.) But God doesn’t change His mind, His first decision is exactly right. So God doesn’t change His mind, He just let you go on in your permissive will. “God’s a good God,” as Oral Roberts says. He’s also a fearful God!

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« 291 † Look, just like you say, “Glory to God, I want to speak with tongues!”He’ll let you do it, but that ain’t no sign you got the Holy Ghost.
292 Remember what Thomas said, the old doubter? “Unless I have some evidence, got to stick my fingers in His nails, His hands, and in His side, I–I–I–I won’t even believe It.” Now, there you are, the same thing.
293 Jesus said, “Here you are, Thomas, stick your hands in here then if that’s what you want to know.” See? See? Now, if you want the Thomas route, go ahead. But what did He say? “How much greater is their reward who has never seen and yet believe.” Uh-huh.

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« 294 † Notice, notice, by doing this, he caused the death of sincere man; putting his hand on the ark when he shouldn’t have done it. A great, sincere man, think the anointing and everything was just right, but the ark was moving in it’s wrong way. “The oxen,” the Bible said, “stumbled,” not the Levites. The oxen stumbled and the cart was being pitched over; and a sincere man, with his heart full of love, put his hand upon the ark to hold it back, and was stricken dead because no man could touch that ark but a Levite. See how God keeps His Word, keeps His channel, keeps His order? Uzziah was smitten with leprosy. Here is David, altogether caused the death of a man, and a great disaster; being anointed with the Spirit, both of them, but out of God’s channel. Is that right? He died. Oh, it scared David to death, it called the–the name of the place, as Brother Jack read it. See? He marked him there.

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« 295 † How many times denominations has done the same thing to sincere believers. The Catholic church, the Methodist, the Baptist, Church of Christ, even the Pentecostals, has caused a-many spiritual death with that same thing. When It come, with these things, they found… and they can’t go no further, because that’s what their denomination believes.
296 Look today, the big crusades, same thing. They don’t do nothing but make them more a “twofold child of hell, worse than they was in the first place.” Makes them harder, really, come to the Truth. Have one of these big revivals, and all of them come in, carry on a little while, and go back out and they start all this sin again. Hear of another revival, say, “Ah, I had so much stuff; I tried it, there’s nothing to it.” See? They don’t know the channel. Don’t see.

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« 297 † I heard our great evangelist Billy Graham, set one morning at a breakfast like this, and he said, “I…” Here, he puts up the Bible, in Louisville, Kentucky, said, “There is God’s example.” And that’s true, the man said the truth. He said, “You go… Paul went into a city and had one convert, come back a year from then had thirty out of that convert.” Said, “But I go into a city and have thirty thousand converts, and come back in six months and can’t find thirty.” He said, “You know what’s a matter?” Said, “You lazy preachers,” said “you set around with your foot upon the desk and–and call these people by phone instead of visiting them after supper and talking to them.”
298 Oh, my heart was burning. I thought, “O great man of God, I hate to disagree with you here, but who was the lazy preachers on Paul’s one convert? What he done, he took him into the Word, he took him into the Message, he took him to where he found God; his heart was on fire, he set the country afire! And only thing you do is put them in a Baptist or Methodist church, or something, no wonder there’s nothing to burn.” Uh-huh. Yes, sir!

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« 299 † Then look what the Word has promised for today. Let’s find out whether it’s Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, or what, for today. Now you can go to read your Scriptures. Take these Scriptures I’ve been quoting to you. Also Revelation…
300 If I had time, I’d read it, but I just haven’t. I got about twelve or fourteen more minutes. I got to close on time, at eleven, if I get out right.

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« 301 † Notice Malachi 4, Revelation 10, Seven Seals. Didn’t the Bible say… Now watch! There was a Angel, a Messenger from above; and a earthly messenger. And each messenger was for the age of the church. He said, “In the days…” speaking now, “there came a angel, messenger” (word angel, English word means “messenger”). “… came down from Heaven, and He put His foot on the land and sea, and swore by Him that lives forever that time shall be no more.” Is that right? A rainbow around His head, and all these things just taking place. That Angel was Christ! Certainly! But what did He say? “But in the days of the seventh angel, the seventh church age.”

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« 302 † Always it’s right at the end of the church age where they got the thing so… the ecclesiastic so messed up until God sends a messenger, and that’s the Message to that church age. Then they take his message, ’cause he just lives a little while, and God… then they take his message instead of carrying it on with the rest of It, they make a–a denomination. And then they come make another denomination; another messenger, take another one.
303 You all seen in my book, it’ll all be drawed out in The Seven Church Ages, which He told me; which I stand by as a witness to God to be judged at the day of Judgment for It. It come from God, not from my thinking. Notice, here. I thought–I thought different from that, if I was going to have my own thought. Like Brother Jack told me about the Angel there, how that “That Christ was a glorified body.” But it wasn’t, it was showing that the Message being right, the Supreme Deity, He was God. See? Just the very thing I had been preaching from the Word. The Word always bears record of the Word.

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« 304 † Now, quickly now, as we are fixing to close in a few moments.
305 Now, He said, “In the days of the Message of the seventh angel, the earthly angel, seventh church age, then all these mysteries that’s been lost back through these other six church ages should be revealed right then.” Well, that’s exactly what those Angels said. Here is the Seven Seals, or the opening of these mysteries. And you try to get It before those denominations. Contrary to what they… Brother, they close up like a clam, but they’ve always done it. But it’s season!
306 How many knows that this is the seventh church age? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] The Laodicean Age, a lukewarm that God spues out of His mouth. And they spue God out of their mouth; there’s not another age in the Bible where Jesus was found on the outside trying to knock, get back in. They put Him out, no cooperation. Who is Jesus? The Word! The Word was put out. The husks throwed out the wheat! He said, “I stand at the door and knock, and any man in them shackles out there will hear My Voice.” O God, have mercy!

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« 307 † It was at then, when that man died, that David with the anointing saw what he had done wrong. O David, you pastor, can’t you see your dead creeds and denominations you’re holding on to? Can’t you see what it’s doing? It’s killing a Uzziah. Spiritually dead, and you wonder why there ain’t no revival; letting your women cut their hair, paint their face, wear shorts; send your boys away to ricky schools, and so forth like that, where half of them comes home homosexuals, and everything.

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« 308 † Notice David’s objective: he was bringing the ark to his own house. That wasn’t the capitol, that wasn’t the place, it belonged in Jerusalem. But David was bringing it to his own house, he wanted the revival to be on his own denomination. “Oh, if you’re Assembly, all right. If you’re Oneness, all right. If you’re Pentecostal, okay.”
309 Like somebody said, said, “Brother Branham, how you ever have anybody to listen to you?” Said, “I can see Billy Graham, he’s got every denomination in the country with him. I can see Oral Roberts, every Pentecostal hangs right to him. But,” said “you’re against the whole thing.” Uh-huh. Said, “How in the world do you ever get anybody?”
310 I said, “It’s God!”
311 “I the Lord hath planted it before the foundation of the world. I’ll water it day and night unless some of them should pluck it from My hand,” Isaiah. “I’ll water, I planted it. I put their names on the Book before the foundation of the world, by predestination. I’ll water it, just keep on moving. I’ll furnish the water, you just spray It out.” Right. See? “I’ll water it day and night unless one of them gets plucked out of My hand.” There you are.

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« 312 † Want It come to the city of David, the city of Jerusalem. There was no place ready for it at that time, and so is it today. These great mysteries that’s been unfolded by the Seven Seals, there’s not a place in any denomination… would have to quit being a denomination to take It. All the way from Luther on down to the Pentecostal Oneness, there’s not a place can receive It. Neither can a man receive It and stay in his denomination. He’ll have to follow the wheat or go with the shuck, either one he wants to.

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« 313 † Christ is our Ark, the Word. They want their denomination. He cannot, notice, cannot be carried on the new carts of the denominations, His Message cannot go on the cart of a new denomination when It’s supposed to be bore and come on the heart of a prophet. It cannot. He promised it, It would be thus, and that’s the way It must be.
314 So the denomination will never receive It, neither can they receive It. And they’re just as blinded to It as the Jews was when they hung Jesus to the cross, when Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t even know what they’re doing.” Don’t despise them, but just think: for what if you was in that same condition with your eyes so blind that you can’t wake up and see what’s going on?

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« 315 † Neither could they see that That was their very God. When He was hanging there on the cross, and them singing the 22nd Psalm in the temple, two hundred yards away, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? They pierced My feet and My hands.” See? “All My bones, they stare at Me. Why has Thou forsaken Me?” And there, the very God that they had sung about, blind enough to have Him tacked to the cross, and didn’t know it.
316 Now, don’t the Bible say that the Laodicean church, that thinks that she’s so great by her denominational members, she’d be “naked, miserable, poor, blind, and don’t know it”? What does the blind mean? The blind means for this Laodicean church like it did the ending of the Jewish church, blind to the very Christ that they had on the outside, knocking, trying to get in; “naked, miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don’t know it.” O God of mercy!

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« 317 † Why can’t the wheat lay out in the Presence of that Son yonder, to see the hour we’re living in? Yes, Christ is our Ark, but His original way to do it. Then here He is… They had His Spirit all right, we know that. They wait upon the Lord, see His plan on His original Word in Its season to be vindicated, that’s what we should be doing right now. And He–He reveals their faith by His Word, seeing Him confirm every plan that He promised, not man’s schemes of denomination, not making members for our own ark.
318 They got a Methodist ark, a Baptist ark, a Presbyterian ark, everybody’s going into this ark for the great tribulation coming; “Glory to God! I was baptized in the Methodist ark, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostal ark.” There’s only one Ark, that’s Jesus Christ, and He is the Word!

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« 319 † Notice, God told the prophet, said, “Eat the scroll,” in the Old Testament. The prophet of the New Testament, He said, “Eat the little book.” Why? That the prophet and the Word would be one! See? That’s the Ark, the Word of God.
320 God has promised His Word, how It would be fulfilled and how It would come to pass when He chose His Bride, how it would be done. It’s happening right before you, in the Name of the Lord, and that’s by the original Word! The evening-time Message is here.
321 How many remembers Haywood when he wrote:
It shall be Light about the evening time,
The path to Glory you will surely find.

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« 322 † Yes, the evening promise of the Seven Seals, of Revelation 10, Malachi 4, Luke 30 and 10. Read Deuteronomy 4, 4: 1 and 4, then 25th and 26th verse, and see what He said about for this last day. This was Moses saying to Israel to “Keep every Word, don’t you add one thing!” Moses, that prophet had been up there and seen that Word of God. And It was wrote out to him and a-vindicated by God’s Own hand writing It. He said, “You keep every Word, don’t you add one thing to It or take one thing from It.” You can read that in the 25th and 26th verse of Deuteronomy 4.
323 Notice! Don’t you add to It, don’t you take away from It; ’cause if you do, God will take your part from the Book of Life. And it shows that you wasn’t His seed.”

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« 324 † Remember! Everything that God has promised us, everything that God’s spoke to us, everything that’s been told to you in the Name of the Lord, it has happened! God has never made one promise null, but He’s kept every promise that He said, has told us, has been the Truth for these twenty years, Shreveport. I’ve preached to you through the power of God, and the courtesy of your pastor, and I take you to record today. Even to women passed bearing; man, children, afflictions, healing, prophesy, things that would happen, not one of them has ever failed! Now, stay away from those denominations, they’re leading you to death.

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« 325 † Samuel stood one day, and they said, “We want a king, we want to be like the rest of the world.”
326 Well, Samuel said, “Don’t take that king. He’ll take your sons, and daughters, and he’ll do this and do that.”
327 He said, “Yeah, I know you’re right.”
328 But Samuel said, “Listen to me. Did I ever take any of your money? Did I ever beg you for a living? Did I ever tell you you had to give me so much salary to hold a meeting for you?” Now judge yourselves, even now! See? He said, “Did I ever tell you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?” Not one thing.
329 “Oh, yes, Samuel, you never did beg us for money, you never did want big things. Samuel, that’s true, and everything you told us in the Name of the Lord come to pass. But, Samuel, we want our denomination anyhow!”
330 “Then go take it. It’s up to you.” That’s right.

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« 331 † You can think you’re doing God a service, and if you’re going out of God’s way of doing it, you’re going to keep messing it up, on and on. O Church of the living God! Please forgive my Irish way and my sense of humor, but in the sincerity and sacredness of my heart, you Assemblies of God, you Oneness, Presbyterian, Methodist, whatever you are, flee for your life. Remember, get out from there.
Nations are breaking, Israel’s awakening, (getting ready for that remnant)
The signs that the prophets foretold;
The denominational days are numbered with horrors encumbered,
Return, O dispersed, to your own.
The day of redemption is near,
Man’s hearts are failing for fear,
Be filled with His Spirit,
Have your lamps trimmed and clear,
Look up, your redemption is near.
332 Do you believe that? We’re at the end time, we’re here. The handwriting’s on the wall, the second Coming is at hand, the Bride is being chosen, watered, drawed out.

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« 333 † Now, that don’t mean drawed out from church, that means drawed out from denominationalism. You must go to church, but don’t join any organization. Jesus went with all the organizations, but He never joined a one of them. Neither did He side with any of them, no indeed, but He was among them. There’s where the Light’s got to be scattered. And you stay right where you are, scattering the Light. See? That’s what God’s using you for. A hungry-hearted people, let them know that Jesus Christ is real, just the same as He was yesterday, He is today; and will be forever.

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« 334 † It is possible, a man or woman with all sincerity, trying their best to do God a service, and stirred it in the wrong way. With a genuine anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them, but stirred it contrary to God’s plan for the age, and chaos the whole thing. Now, if you believe that’s the Truth, say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen!”–Ed.] We just read It. Chaos the whole thing by not coming God’s provided way to do it.
Let us pray.

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« 335 † O church, here and across the nation, listen to your humble servant this morning. Will you? Look where you were at a few years ago when this first started; now look what impersonations has capitalized on It, and great millions and billions of dollars has flown into the organizations. See? Still away from the Word of God. Buildings and organizations is not the way God stirs His Spirit. He stirs It right into His Word, to make It live. And if you were ordained from the beginning of the earth to that Word, every Word will come right on top of the Word. Like a human cell will not have one human cell, and the next the cell of a dog, and the next the cell of a cat; it’ll be human cells. But it’s got to have a cell first to start with. Is that right? say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] Well, if it is the Word cell to start with, the other Word cells are ordained to make it a full body.
336 Don’t be children, only in love, but be man in Spirit and in judgment. Judge ye whether I’ve told you the Truth or not. Judge ye whether It’s the Word of God or not. Judge ye whether it’s the hour we’re talking about or not. Judge ye whether these things are promised. Now, are they vindicated? By things that there’s not a human being in the world could do it. But It’s become so common to us till we’re letting It flow right on a-past us. Wait, church, wait.

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« 337 † If there’s one in here this morning that doesn’t know Jesus Christ, doesn’t stand justified this morning, your sins all gone as though you never had sinned, and you want to be that way… ’cause remember, one day, maybe today, maybe in the next five minutes, but one day that heart’s going to stop. And that inside of the inside is going to take its flight to stand in the Presence of God to be judged according to what you do with this Message this morning, according to this Message that you see. Not… It ain’t me, I’m just a mouthpiece. Like this microphone, it can’t say a thing ‘less I’m talking in it. And neither could I say anything unless God was talking through it, but you see God’s vindicated it to be the Truth. You want to be a real Christian.
338 Now, we have no place for an altar call, but right at the table where you’re setting. The place is packed and jammed, overflowed. I couldn’t call you to an altar, there’s no altar here to call you to. But the altar is in your heart. Won’t you let that little conviction that “Jesus Christ is real” move right up close today and call the rest of His body to you, manger Him in your heart? If He isn’t there, would you raise your hand, in a sign to Him, saying, “Lord, fill me, fill me with Your Word and with Your Presence, that I might live by You”?

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« 339 † While every head is bowed, every eye closed, all across the nation, raise your hands here in the visible audience and out there too; and I’ll offer prayer for you. That’s all I can do, I cannot fill it. God bless you. I cannot fill it. God bless you; and you. God can fill it. God bless you. Hands are going up here in the visible audience, everywhere. “Fill it. Fill me, O Lord. Fill me.” And now, after I… Thank you, sister. Thank you, brother. God bless you. After I… God bless you, sister dear. You. After… I think now I’ve caught the most of the sincere, trying to be, I want to raise my hands with you.
340 O Lord, never let me come to a standstill. Continually, Lord, let me not stop at one thing, let me just move on, Lord, till I’ve completed everything that You ordained for me to do. Regardless of the price, regardless of the cost, regardless of the critizism, how hard the cross is, I’ll remember the cross that You bore.
So this consecrated cross I’ll bear
Until death shall set me free;
Then go home, a crown to wear,
There’s a crown for me.
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there’s a cross for every one of His sons,
There’s a cross for me.

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« 341 † Dear God, the Word has gone forth. It cannot return void, It’ll find Its place somewhere. If the seed has already been planted, It’ll water it till it grows. And none can pluck it from Your hand, “All the Father has given Me will come to Me, no man can pluck them out of My hand. My Father has given them to Me before the foundation of the world”; when the plans were all drawed up, as so, Jesus was given His Church, His Bride.
342 The bogus marriage of the world, to these denominations. You came and died into the world, You redeemed Her, You justified Her, She never did it at the first place. She was trapped into it, blind. And as the song says:
I once was lost and now I’m found,
I was once in Laodicea, blind, but now I see.
And it’s grace that taught my heart to fear,
It was grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
And the water of God fell upon my soul. I was parching.

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« 343 † God, at this little altar of every heart present here and around the nation, may the waters from under the altar of God gush out this morning upon Your Church; and water it, Lord, for the season’s just about finished. Give it Life, the Waters of Life, that it might be able to lay in the Presence of the Son to be ripened for Your great garner.
344 Father, I pray for them. But the stalk must dry, so I cannot pray for it; it must die, so it is dead. But I pray for the wheat, Lord, that’s forming into the Body of Christ. Grant, Lord, that the fresh waters of God will keep Its cheeks bathed with tears of joy and understanding until the combine comes to take it Home. In Jesus’ Name, I commit it all to You, Lord; the results is Yours. Amen.

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« 345 † [A sister in congregation gives a message–Ed.] Amen.
346 So Father, God, we thank You. And, Father, we pray for our little sister, handsmaid here, for her strength. I’m thinking of a time that when I–I walked in the presence of her, how that the Spirit came upon her and gave the same message that the Angel of the Lord gave on the River that day: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord Jesus, you are sent to forerun the second.”
347 Seeing it shaping up now into the wheat part, God, we thank You for everything You’ve done. Our hearts are filled beyond speaking. I feel so full, Lord, I just don’t know how to say anything else. But thank You Father, again, for all that You have done for us. Through Jesus Christ’s Name.
I love Him,…
Let’s just sing to Him, now. Remember, He’s here.
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.

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« 348 † Does it make you feel real little, real little? All emptied out, just ready for the Spirit, see.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Build your hopes on things Eternal, (no denomination, now)
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!

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« 349 † How many is trying to do that? Raise your hand. Now reach right across the table, put your hands in one anothers’ hands, like this. Together… You can be seated, that’s all right, or whatever you want to do. Listen closely. Let’s sing it together now. This represents our unbroken chain of the love of God. We’re holding one anothers’ hands because we believe in God. We touch each other because we’re brothers and sisters, the same vibrating Spirit, the Eternal Word of God dwelling in our hearts being made manifest.
When our journey is completed,
If to God we have been true,
Fair and bright our home in Glory,
Our enraptured soul shall view!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand! (Spirit of the Lord!)
Hold to God…
Just get your mind on Him, see. This is the kind of meetings we must set in in the future.
… unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal, (The Word is the only thing that is Eternal.)
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Covet not this world’s vain popularity, education,
That so rapidly decay, (Look at it today, what it’s done.)
Seek to gain the heavenly treasure,
They will never pass away!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!

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« 350 † [A sister speaks in another tongue. Brother Branham begins humming Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand. Another sister gives an interpretation–Ed.]
351 How we thank You, Lord. As we set in this solemn moment, almost like a funeral, for we’re facing the burial of a dying, dead world; a dying, dead church.
O God, gather Your wheat quickly, Father. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
352 Bless Thy people, Father, bring sincerity and deepness to the hearts of the people. May we get off of those fragile bubble dances, settle down into the deep riches of the honey of God. Grant it, Lord. Keep our hearts established with love and sincerity.
353 Bless Thy people everywhere, Father. As we leave this place may we go in the Name of the Lord Jesus to speak that which is sincere, that which is Truth, that which is right, may we shun that what’s wrong, Lord. When a man begins to lie to us, may we quickly turn our back upon him, turn our back to all dirty, filthy jokes and things of the world, and just turn our back and walk away. Help us, dear God. Mold us, make us, break us, and make us into the images of sons and daughters of God that we might act with the virtue of the Holy Spirit. We commit ourself to You, with our hands in each others’, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let’s stand. Brother Noel. `

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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« 234 † Now just–just keep your head… keep praying, just keep praying. Everybody, see, just keep praying. I pray for you. I’ll do all I can, but I can’t give you the Holy Ghost. God has to do it. Look, form Christ right before you, in your mind. Look out there and see if you see Christ before you, as you close your eyes. Then walk right into Him, and say, “Lord Jesus, here I am. You and I are going to be one, from this on. I’ll take every Word that You’ve told me tonight.” Now just stay there, just keep staying, if you stay tonight, tomorrow, the next day, just stay until it’s all over, praying, believing that God will fill you with the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
235 Come here, Don, lead them in a prayer. God bless you, Don. `
–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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15-1122E Then Jesus Came And Called

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« 1 † ` Saint John, the 11th chapter, beginning with the 18th verse, I wish to read.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died.
But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou will ask… God, God will give it thee.
Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and… life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (And watch that!)
Then when she had said so, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

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« 2 † Let us pray. Heavenly Father, confirm those Words to our hearts, tonight, as we wait on Thee now. Thy Word, Thy servant, and the text, is all committed to You, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
You may be seated.

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« 3 † My purpose of being here is to try to help the people of God. Not insomuch as to pray, and lay hands upon the sick, but that they might recognize Jesus Christ in our midst, the Son of God in our midst. We are speaking tonight on this subject: Then Jesus Came And Called.

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« 4 † Now on this time that we’re speaking of, it was a very sad time. If you ever read the story in the life of our Lord, we find out that He was a great friend to this boy, Lazarus. He was… After the going away of Joseph, or he had left and come to live with Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. And they were great friends. They had… He was like a pastor to them, a–a real friend. And made Him little things to wear, a coat to wear, I believe, they claim, and it was wove throughout without a seam. And then they had done things for Him, because they believed in Him. It was they–they had believed and had seen that. They had left the church, and so forth, to follow Him. And that was a great thing in that day, which even the penalty of it could be death, to–to go away from it.

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« 5 † But, Jesus, this Fellow that was going round as they claimed, tearing up their churches, and saying evil thing about their priest, and–and so forth, He had–He had done a great harm to them, they thought. And–and to even confess Him would a-been to–to be put out of the synagogues. And then if you’re out from the church, they–they thought you had no–no chance for redemption. If you didn’t belong to one of their sect, like Pharisee, Sadducee, or something, there was no redemption if you was outside of that. And if they had the right, the keys, and they could just kick you out if they wanted to. That was their own saying. No wonder Jesus said, “You, by your tradition, has made the Word of God of no effect.” See?

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« 6 † And now it’s repeated again, ’cause we all know history repeats itself every so often. And it’s sad to say, but it was prophesied to repeat, and it has done it again.
We find that Jesus wasn’t well thought of.
7 Many times, people want to judge the man who doesn’t agree with them. We’re not to do that. We can disagree with one another, yet be friendly. If I couldn’t disagree with a man, and still love him and pray for him, and disagree with him upon the basis of the Scripture, and for better enlightenment, then I won’t say nothing to him. I always want to disagree with him, friendly, ’cause I love him, and I–I certainly don’t want him to be lost. And he should do the same thing with me; we don’t want to be lost. And we must base our thoughts upon what the Word says. Let the Word be Truth. Not our creed or what our thoughts, but what He says; no private interpretation, just what the Word said.

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« 8 † The other night, I did something and it seemed sacrilegious almost, I believe it was at a ministerial breakfast the other morning. I put Jesus on a trial. I said, “Just as they did then, so do they do today.” Maybe it would be good if I repeat it just for a moment, if we have the time. Now, I said, today we find out that…
9 In Luther’s reformation, he, in the time of that, he said the just shall live by faith. “The man that believes, he that’s got It.” But we found out many of them said they believed, and didn’t have It.
10 In the days of–of John Wesley, if they got the second blessing, they called it sanctification, entire sanctification, they got happy and shouted. “Everybody shouted, had It.” But they found out they didn’t have It. A lot of them shouted, and didn’t have It.
11 The days of Pentecost, they said, “Now the restoration of the gifts has come, the baptism of the Spirit. He that speaks in tongues, has got It.” We find out that many spoke with tongues, and didn’t have It.

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« 12 † So they say, “Well, the fruit of the Spirit, that’s what It is.” Oh, no, not the fruit of the Spirit. Christian Science has that, where hardly… Love is the fruit of the Spirit. Then, and they have more love than anybody, and deny the Deity of Jesus Christ; just call Him a prophet, just an ordinarily man. See? So that doesn’t do it.
13 Let me question that just a minute. Let’s take Jesus on trial. And God forgive me for this statement, from the platform, but I’m going to be against Him for a minute, just to bring you the Light. See?

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« 14 † “Now I’ve got you people here tonight; I’m talking to you. I was back in another day when Jesus of Nazareth was on earth. I come to you, and to reason with you against this Fellow, Jesus of Nazareth. Now we all know that God is love. The Bible says He is. All right, and the love, the Spirit is long-… long-suffering, gentleness, patience, meekness, and so forth, and love. Now I’d say, I want to ask you something. We’re going to take what–what we know, a Christian.
15 “Look at this old priest of yours. His great-great-great- grandfather was a priest. He had to be born in that lineage of Levites, to be a priest. We find out, now, he doesn’t have a young man’s life like the rest of you did. What does he do? He sacrifices himself, he is up there to study the Word, the Word of God. He goes through it, day and night, day and night, has to know every letter of it, every word on the scroll. He has to know it by heart. He–he, just something about it that he must know.

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« 16 † “Then, besides that, when your father and mother was married, who joined them together as husband and wife? Your godly old priest. Who was it come to your father when he was in need and had owed some money on his farm, that the mortgagers was going to take it. Who stood by him? Your kind old priest. Who stood by your mother in the room there when she was giving birth to you? Kind old priest. Who comes to you when you’re sick and needy? Your kind old priest. Who was it blessed you and committed you to God, and circumcised you the eighth day? Your kind old priest. When your father and mother was about to divorce, who brought them back together, held them together? Your kind old priest. When there is trouble in the neighborhood, who takes care of it? Your kind old priest. Certainly.

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« 17 † “Now this kind old priest knows that the Bible said that God requires a lamb for a sacrifice. Many of you man are businessmen, so you don’t raise sheep, yet God requires a sheep. They made some stalls up there, they sold their sheep so that the–the businessmen could go up and buy it, offering a sacrifice for their soul, that God requires.
18 “What did this young Fellow, called Jesus? Where did He come from? Said He was born, a virgin birth. Whoever heard of such a nonsense thing? We know His mother had Him before her and Joseph was born… or her and Joseph was married, He was born. Now we find out that He’s a–He’s a bad name, to begin with.
19 “What membership card does He have? If He was a godly Man, what group did He join with? When your priest studied, studied, studied, studied, to know that Word; here He comes around, tearing down what he has built up. Would you call that ‘God’? Certainly not.

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« 20 † “Now, the other day, when your priest had made that place up there, the… and for where you could buy the sacrifice, what did this young fellow do? Kindness? He beat, put some ropes together, some…?… and looked out upon the people, with anger; kicked over those tables, and beat them out of there. And you call that fruits of the Spirit, looking upon them, with anger? And, look, depriving the man of his opportunity to worship Jehovah! The businessman wants to worship Him; he don’t raise lambs, and he went there to buy it. And He turned it over, and kicked them, and run them out.”
21 Who has the fruit of the Spirit there? See? There you are. See, not fruit of the Spirit, not speaking in tongues, not shouting.

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« 22 † You say, “Then, Brother Branham, what is the evidence? What is the evidence?” The vindication of the Word in the hour.
23 They had the Bible. He was exactly what Jehovah said would happen. It don’t need any interpretation. It interpreted there. There was your priests, there was all they had, and everything else just so routined and everything, but yet they failed to see the Word. And He made that Word live out for that age. That’s the evidence of that age.
24 Luther had the evidence of his age, Wesley of his age, Pentecost of its age, but we’re in another age. Those things are good. But like the baby, has got a finger, an eye, and nose, but after a while he has to become a human being. He has to become a–a matured child; then be born, have a soul, body, spirit, can move around.

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« 25 † Now we find out that, all this, Jesus had declared it in just a few. Just those who He had ordained to Life, saw Him. Not great crowds; His crowd could never like be like Caiaphas’ crowds. Why, Caiaphas could have called the whole nation together. Jesus called just a few together. Not many knew Him. Thousands times thousands, when He came on the earth. He went through the earth, and they never even knowed He was here.
26 So did they again! He’ll come to those who are called to Life. He knows who is called to Life. And He’ll not… It’s His business to take care of that.

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« 27 † Now we notice that then they come out of the church, and they had believed Him. Everything the Word had been saying about Him, there He was.
28 And one day He left their home. I want to speak of three things: Jesus had left; death had come; and all hopes was gone. I want to speak on those three things for a few minutes.
29 Jesus had left. And when He left, trouble come in. Now when He leaves you, or your home where you dwell at, trouble is on its road. Satan has got an open door when Jesus leaves.
30 He had gone, and–and as soon as He did, then death came in. And when Jesus goes out, death comes in. To be separated from Him is death, so death come in when Jesus went out.

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« 31 † And death had lingered with Lazarus. And then the One that they believed in and loved, they had sent to Him to come pray for Lazarus, ’cause they had seen Him and knowed that He knowed God, that whatever God… Martha expressed it back there, “Whatever Thou sayest to God now, God will do it.” She recognized that He and God was one. He was the Word of the hour, so she recognized that. And she knew, if she could ever get in contact with Him, but He was gone and they couldn’t get a hold of Him. And they sent for Him, and, instead of Him coming, He went on further. And then they sent again, and, instead of Him coming, He went on further.
32 Sometimes we wonder why those things happen, but doesn’t the Scripture say that, “All things work together for good to them that love God”? He knows what He is doing. If He delays, that’s all right. He knows what He is doing. There was a purpose.

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« 33 † We find out that He said, in Saint John 5:19, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing.”
34 The Father had told Him to go away, and to be away so many days. After the days was accomplished, then He said what He said then, that, “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.”
And he said, “Well, he does good.”
35 He said, “He is dead. And for your sake I’m glad I wasn’t there.” Cause, they’d a-been trying to get Him to go to him, to heal him or say what had to be done. But He knowed what had to be done, so He had done just exactly what He was ordained to do: stay away. You notice Him at the grave when He come back. He expressed that when He came back and found this home.

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« 36 † All hopes was gone. Lazarus had died. Every hour, they kept thinking, “He might come on the scene. He might come on the scene. He might come back.” Finally, he died, the breath left him.
37 They went out, embalmed him, taking the blood from his body, wrapped him in linen, spices, and embalmed him and laid him into the grave, put a rock over the grave, which was their custom of burying in them days. A hole in the ground, just maybe in the rock, and lay a rock over the top of it, that was their custom.
38 First day passed, second day passed, third day passed, fourth day passed, the man was already rottening in the grave. His nose had probably fell in. That, I think that’s the first thing that falls in, is the nose. And he was already rotten. His–his flesh had gone back to the dust, of the earth, or going back. His soul was four-days journey somewhere, from him.
39 All hopes of ever seeing him again, in this life, was gone. And then when all hopes was gone… They had waited, “Maybe if He’ll come the first day, second day!” No. Then he died, and He hadn’t come. Then desperation set in.

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« 40 † After a while there was somebody must have told her, “The Master is outside.” Here goes Martha down the street!
41 Jesus came in that dark hour when every hope was gone. That’s usually when He comes. See? He comes just at that darkest time, then Jesus appears on the scene.
42 Now watch, He come and called for Martha. His Presence brought new hopes. No matter if the boy was dead, yet His Presence brings new hope.

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« 43 † You might be setting here tonight, my friend, where the doctors has give you up, with cancer, heart trouble. Maybe in a chair, crippled, all science has said there is no hope for you; the deposit of calcium has–has knotted your–your–your bones, that you can’t bend them no more. Or, either your–your heart is so bad, the doctor says you might go at any minute. Oh, and great bunches of people with cancer and TB, maybe the last hope you got, and it seems like that the doctor has turned you down. Yet, to be in the Presence and recognition of the Presence of Jesus Christ, brings hopes again.

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« 44 † Somebody can even name it to you. Maybe you’ve never heard of it before, but let somebody say, “I know where there is a church, they believe in God and they pray for the sick,” quickly now (you’re ready to die), see, new hopes spring up. It always does. In that dark hour, that’s usually when somebody says something about it, tell you about Jesus. His Presence brought new hopes.
45 May It do the same thing tonight, like It did last night, when we see that vindicated Word beyond any shadow of doubt, that’s been made manifest and proved; that that Jesus that lived nineteen hundred years ago, that died on Calvary, rose up on the third day, and appeared to those disciples and opened their eyes, and made this promise of the day, is right here tonight in our presence now. It’s bound to bring hopes to people. New hopes flash up.

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« 46 † Maybe somebody said, “The church has been kind of dry for a while. We haven’t had any good fresh water for–for–for a few months. We haven’t had a revival. Looks like everybody is so stagnant, or something another. We just go to church and sing a hymn, and–and hear a few messages and go back.” But all of a sudden, then, when we begin to get dry, then Jesus comes on the scene, freshens us up, brings something new to us. He is always there to do that. New hopes comes when–when Jesus comes in. His Presence brings new hope.
47 She knew that He was that manifested Word of God. She had seen that age. Or, if she wouldn’t, she’d a-still been Orthodox. She’d a-still belonged to the church. But she had seen that promised Word. She had seen that promised Word manifested by Him and she knew that He was that living Word. And when she heard about it, she didn’t care how many criticized her, what else, she took out for Him just as hard as she could go. See? She knew He was that manifested Word.

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« 48 † No doubt but what she had read of the story of Elijah in his day. Now, he was God’s manifested Word in that day. He was a prophet, and the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. And there was a woman in there, who had a little baby that had been given to her by a blessing that the prophet had blessed her by, and she had the child.
49 One day, about eleven o’clock, he must have had a sunstroke. He was out in the field with his father, the Bible doesn’t said it was, say it was sunstroke, but he begin to cry, “My head! My head!” About eleven o’clock in the day. And he had a servant, the father did, to take him to the house. He laid on his mother’s lap till about noon, got sicker and sicker, and finally died.

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« 50 † And now, instead of going to spare, all the neighbors come in screaming and going on. But that steady mother, her baby was dead, she took it up in that little room that she had provided for the prophet, and laid him upon his bed, like that. And she said to the servant, “Saddle me a mule, and you ride straight, and don’t you stop unless I tell you to.” Oh, my! That’s it!
51 We ain’t got time for debating and fussing. This is past that day. Let’s go on. We got to get there. We got a need.
52 And so he said, “You go forward, and don’t you slack your riding unless I command you to.” And they went till they got to Elijah.
53 Elijah, being a man of God, not like Christ; Christ knew all things, ’cause He was God. Elijah was a portion of God. That was Christ in Elijah. And that was the message of the hour, for the Word of the Lord for that hour was with that prophet.
54 Jesus was the fulness of all those prophets, every one of them only manifested Him. That’s all. All the way from Joseph, from thirty pieces of silver, everywhere, He–He portrayed Christ. So did Moses!

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« 55 † David, setting as a rejected king upon the hill, weeping because he was rejected. Eight hundred years after that, the Son of David set on a hill. That was the Spirit of Christ in David there. And He… My! He was both Root and Offspring of David. And so He set up on the hill, weeping, as a rejected King, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, as a hen would her brood.” What was it? It was Christ back there.
56 It was Christ crying when David wrote the hymn, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me. All My bones, they stare at Me. They pierced My feet and My hands. They parted My garments among them. They cast lots for My vesture.” That was Christ speaking in David. That’s right. He was the manifestation of the Word. Christ come to fulfill them things that had been spoken by the prophets, ’cause the Word was with the prophets.
57 He said that in the lesson last night, that He come to fulfill what the prophets had said about Him, ’cause they had the Word. And Elijah was God’s prophet, the Word of that day.

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« 58 † So the Shunammite woman stayed with that prophet until he come and manifested the power of God, and laid hisself upon the baby, and the baby come to life.
59 Now Martha must have recognized this, although she had been busy taking care of a house, dishwashing, and so forth. But there she showed her color. She showed really what was in her. She went to get Him immediately. If God was in Elijah, God had to be in Christ, ’cause He had proved that He was that Person. Amen. I like that, that determination! She goes to Him. She had to get to Him. And she find out there, as she got to Him–to Him; now remember, knew that He had never changed, that God never changes His program. If He was in Elijah and could raise the dead, He was in Christ and could raise the dead, though He hadn’t done it, ’cause it’s the same God.

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« 60 † Neither has He changed yet! Just as much God tonight as He ever was. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. He changes not.
61 And He knew she knew that it was in Him. Watch, just in a few minutes it proved it, when she said something to Him about her brother, and she said, “Lord, I–I believe that You are.”
62 And He said, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. I AM.” That’s the I AM was in the burning bush, with Moses. “I am the Resurrection. I am the Life. I was the wall. I am still He. I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die.” After this great assurance that she had, that He was the promised Word; when He said, being a Prophet, He could not lie; therefore He, when He said, “I am the I AM. I am He that is the Resurrection and Life.”

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« 63 † She said, “I believe that You are the One, the Son of God that should come in the world. Although my brother is dead, laying out there in the grave, he’s… his body has decaying now; but even now, whatever You say, it’ll come to pass.” Right!
64 All she wanted was to hear Him say it! Amen. Oh, Martha, where are we tonight? “Just speak the Word; my servant will live!” Just hear Him say it! They might have come told her He said it, but here He was Hisself. O God, open blinded eyes, that they might be able to see! When He, in His Presence, speaks the Word, always is manifested.
65 She said, “Whatever You ask God, God will give it to You. Just let me hear!” She wanted Him to say the Word. That’s all she wanted to hear. Just get the Word, that’s all she needed, was hear Him say He would do it.

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« 66 † And He would have done it right then, but, you see, by the vision that the Father had showed Him, He had to be standing by the grave. Oh, my! Hold your faith! God is working everything right. It’ll be all right. Just wait till she got to the grave.
67 Notice, she could just get Him to say it, even when he was yet… All hopes gone, all everything. He was dead, rottening in the grave, but just hear Him say it, is all she wanted.
68 Now when He said, “I am the Resurrection and Life,” she believed it. She believed it. Now notice, now she had to believe for the impossibles, when she heard Him say, “I am the Resurrection and Life. Though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” Said, “Do you believe this?”
69 And she said, “Yes, Lord, I believe it. I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world.” I like that. I like that.

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« 70 † I’ve said this before. It might stand again now. I was talking to a woman not long ago, it was a certain church that I mentioned a while ago, that doesn’t believe that He was God, His Deity; He was just a prophet, an ordinary man.
71 He was that, truly. He was that, plus God. See, He was the manifestation. Jesus is the body, the Boy, the Man; God was what dwelt in Him. God was in Him. He was a God-man. He was a Man, yet He was God manifested in flesh. When we see Jesus, we see God. That’s what He said, “When you see the Father, see Me, you see the Father.” Because, He was the reflection, because He was the Word, amen, that was in the beginning. Amen.

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« 72 † He called the prophets, “God.” Do you know that? He said, “You call them ‘God’ who the Word of God come to. How can you condemn Me when I say, ‘I’m the Son of God’?”
73 Cause, the same Word said He would be there, and there is the Word made manifest again. And still they wouldn’t believe it.
74 This woman said to me, “I can prove to you.” Said, “I like to hear you preach, but there is one thing you do too much.”
“Well, what’s that?”
Said, “You brag too much on Jesus.”
75 I said, “I hope that’s all He has against me when He comes.” And she said… I said, “I hope that’s all He can, fault He can find in me.” I said, “If I had ten thousand tongues, I could not speak enough, oh, my, what He is!”
She said, “But, you, you make Him God.”
76 Said, “He was. Or, if He wasn’t, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had.”
She said, “He was a prophet.”
77 I said, “He was a prophet, that’s true: a God-prophet, the fullness of the Word. The prophet just had the Word come to him, that’s what make him–made him a prophet. But He was the fullness of that Word.”
78 And she said, “I can prove to you.” Said, “You make Him Divine.”
I said, “He was Divine.”
And she said, “He can’t be Divine.”
I said, “But He was.”
She said, “You said you believed the Bible.”
I said, “I do.”

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« 79 † She said, “I’ll prove to you, by your own Bible, that He wasn’t Divine.”
80 I said, “Do it. If the Bible says so, then I’ll believe it, ’cause I believe the Word is right.”
81 She said, “On the road from down to Lazarus’ grave, you remember that in Saint John 11?”
I said, “I certainly do, madam.”
82 Said, “Well, now, on the road down, He cried. The Bible said, ‘He wept.'”
I said, “Certainly, the Bible said He wept.”
Said, “How could He be Divine and weep?”
I said, “He was human.”
“Human and Divine?”
83 I said, “Yes, lady. You fail to see. He was a–a man going along there, crying with those that were crying, that’s right, grieving with those who grieved. He was a Man. But when He straightened His little, frail body up, and said, ‘Lazarus, come forth,’ and a man that been dead four days, stood on his feet. That took more than a man, that was God in the Man.” Who can raise the dead, but God? He is the Resurrection and the Life! That’s right.

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« 84 † That night out on the sea, when He was out there, tired, laying in the back of the boat, where ten thousand devils swore they would drown Him that night, and that little old boat flopping around like a bottle stopper out there on a stormy sea. Them devils thought, “We got Him now. He is asleep; we’ll sink the whole bunch.” Oh, He was a Man, tired, but when once aroused, He stood His foot up on the brail, and looked up and said, “Peace, be still,” and the winds and the waves obeyed Him. That was more than a man.
85 He was a man when He was hungry. He come down off the mountain, looking for a piece of bread or something to eat, or a fig off of a tree. But when He took five biscuits and two fishes, and fed five thousand, that was God in that Man. That’s right.

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« 86 † Oh, every man that’s ever amounted to a hill-of-beans believed that, all the poets that believed that. No wonder one wrote:
Living He love me; and dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever;
Someday He is coming, O glorious day!
87 Eddie Perronet, when his songs would not sell. One day, staggering under the impact of the Holy Spirit, grabbed a pen, he wrote the inauguration song, when he wrote:
All hail the power of Jesus’ Name!
Let Angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
Crown Him Lord of all!
88 Hallelujah! Certainly, that’s what we believe He was. Yes, sir.

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« 89 † She has got to believe for the impossibles now, to modern thinking of that day. So do you have to believe for the impossibles, to see new Life, to see something happen. But if He recognized… She recognized Him to be the Word, then the impossibles can take place, because He is the creator, and will stand by everything He said.
90 “And all things are possible to them that can believe.” That’s His Word. But the impossibles are made manifested when God is took at His Word. Yes, sir. When God is took at His Word, the impossibles are–are made manifest. When God says it’ll be, then you take that Word and watch what, the impossibles happen. It certainly will.
91 But notice, even in all that, she said, “Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it.” She knew that she could just get that Word to come from Him. That’s all she needed to do, was get that Word. Yes, it was her darkest hour, and Jesus come along and called. Oh, what a thing they saw, a resurrection!
Let’s look at some more where the dark hours come.

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« 92 † There was a man one time, named Job, one of the oldest prophets in the Bible. He was a great man. He had–he had loved the Lord, and he done all he knowed how to do. And Satan desired to sift him, so he said to God one day… Yeah, God said to him, rather, “Where have you been, Satan?”
93 He said, “Oh, walking to-and-fro and up-and-down on the earth.”
94 He said, “Have you considered My servant Job? There is none like him in the earth. He is a perfect man.”
95 “Oh,” he said, “sure, You give him everything, do everything for him. Certainly, he’s a great man. But let me have him one time, I’ll change the tune. I’ll make him curse You, to Your face.”
96 He said, “You can’t do it.” That’s His confidence in a believer. Why? He is Infinite. He is Eternal. He knows the end from the beginning. He knowed Satan couldn’t do it. For, He is the Word, He knowed what Job would do.

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« 97 † Now, remember, Job, he broke him out in boils, killed his children, took everything he’s had. His health was gone. Even his comforters came, and they couldn’t do nothing but just accuse him of being a secret sinner. And old Job got in such a place until he got so distressed.
98 You have to get in distress, first. You have to get to a time we’re at the end of the road.
99 Job got into the end of the road, when he said, “Cursed be the day that I was born. May the sun not even shine, and may the moon not shine by the night, may the name never be called.” And in that distress, then Jesus came along. He looked down, and he said, “I see a man. A flower die, and it rises again in the spring. If a tree blows down, it comes up again through the scent of water.” He seen all botany life living again, but said, “A man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost, where is he?” You knowed he was an old man. He said, “His sons come to mourn over him, and he perceive it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave and keep me in the secret place, till Thy wrath be passed. Appoint me a time and set me a time. We went…” And going on like that, talking. He was at the end, of his distress, “What would happen? The leaves live, come back in the tree, the flowers come back again, everything else come up, but a man layeth down and giveth up the ghost!” He was in distress. He didn’t know what could happen to him, and him at that age.

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« 100 † When he did, then Jesus came along. God pointed his head towards the sky, and he saw Jesus coming in the last days.
101 That darkest of hour when his wife said, “Curse God and die the death,” yet he said, “Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.” Even his wife turned him down. His church turned him down. Everybody turned him down.
102 In that dark hour, where he didn’t know where he was going from there, Jesus came along. Then he screamed out, “I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He’ll stand upon the earth. And though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself.” In his darkest hour, then Jesus come along. Yes, sir.

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« 103 † Moses, for Moses, the darkest hour come for him in Israel. He was right in the line of duty; met God up there in a bush, and said, “I AM THE I AM.” He went down and fought through all kind of impersonations of Jannes and Jambres, trying to impersonate his work. All this, he had stood true to God. He finally got Israel to believe. And here he comes out of Egypt, going up to the–to the promised land, where God said, “You’ll worship Me on this mountain.” That was the Word of God. Moses knowed he had to go to that mountain. Amen. God said so! No Pharaoh can kill him. No Devil can kill him. Nothing can kill him. He is coming to that mountain. Amen! Hallelujah! I feel religious. He is going to that mountain.
104 So are we on our road to Glory! Nothing is going to stop us. No, sir. God is going to vindicate His Word. I don’t care what takes place, He is going to do it, anyhow.

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« 105 † He is on his road, right in the path of duty. Here he is, hemmed in between the mountains. He listens and hears a roar behind him. What is it? Pharaoh’s chariots, by the thousands, coming; armored, and spears and things, to ride them down and trample them down. There is the Red Sea, had him cut off. What did he do? He got in di-… He got in distress. The people all screaming, “Oh, we’re in for it now. Pharaoh will kill us, his swords will be run through us. Our babies will die here in the wilderness.”
Moses cried out, “O God!”
106 And then Jesus came on the scene. He was the Pillar of Fire. That’s right. He come down and He hung between him and the danger. Amen. He is our go-between. He’s the stand-between, amen, a mediator. There He stood, standing there; darkness to the Egyptians, those who were coming to try to do something about it. He was light to them, to walk by. Then in the morning when the wind started blowing real hard, that night, then what did He do? He had come in the form of the Pillar of Fire.

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« 107 † Remember, He is still that Pillar of Fire. Yes, sir. When He was on earth, He said, “I come from God, and I go to God.”
108 And after His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension; Saint Paul, on his road down to Damascus, he was struck down by that Pillar of Fire. Remember, he was a Hebrew. He would have not said this… He said, “Lord, Who are You?” Capital L-o-r-d, Elohim. “Who are You that I persecute?”
He said, “I am Jesus.”
109 Amen! Hallelujah! He’s the First and the Last. He’s everything. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet you will see Me. I’ll be with you, even in you.” The same Pillar of Fire, the same God doing the same thing, with the same promise, amen, making His Word manifested. “I am the Resurrection and Life. I am He that Was, He that Is, and He that Shall come.” Yes, sir. Yeah.
“Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness.”
110 He said, “They’re, every one, dead. But, I AM THAT I AM.” Moses… In the burning bush, that was the I AM. He is still the I AM, not I was; I AM, present tense, all time.

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« 111 † We find out here that Moses is backed out into this corner, and the Christ had come down. Now, and the Bible said that, that, “Moses esteemed the–the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.” The reproach of Christ! Christ was the anointing, the Logos that went out of God. The Angel, any Bible reader knows that that Angel was Christ. And there He was in the wilderness, and He came on the scene, in the form that He was supposed to be manifested in. Glory to God!
112 He comes today in the form, the same Christ, manifesting Him.
113 He told them He would take them out. He was doing it. There He come to stand by His Word, to vindicate It. Then after He had done come, like He did to Martha, then He called. He said, “Moses, why are you crying to Me? Speak to this people, that ye go forward.” That dark hour, the Red Sea opened up and they went across, on their journey to fulfill the Word of God. Yes, at Moses’ darkest hour, then Jesus come along. We got time now… And He called Moses.

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« 114 † We want to draw your attention to another little man. His name was Jairus. There is so many of them in the world today. He was a secret believer. He loved Jesus. He had heard about Him. He believed Him. But, you see, he had already joined hisself to an organization. Yeah. He–he–he just… He couldn’t come out and confess it. He believed it, but he couldn’t confess it, so he had done joined up with the unbelievers. But he really believed it.
115 You know, when a man gets in that shape, sometime God brings Him to the showdown. It’s in distress when we really show our colors, what we really are.
116 So there he was, he was already joined up to the unbelievers, and he had done went over and put his name on the book, and so forth. And he was a priest, and so he–he just couldn’t hardly make a confession, ’cause that was his meal ticket. So, but he still believed Jesus.

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« 117 † One day, his little girl got sick. Oh, my. He, no doubt the man, if he… like that, would have called the doctor. The physician come, attended to the child. The fever got worse and worse. After a while she got so hot, and everything, she finally got to the point of death. He was in distress. He had to do something. He, he just didn’t know what to do. Now he thought, “If I could only find Him, wherever He is.” Now he never waited until it got nighttime, like Nicodemus did, to have a private interview. Time was for action, the time had come for action and he must act then.
118 And I think, brother, sister, the same is now. The time has come for action. The time has come to believe or don’t believe. That separating line comes to every man and woman. It comes to every child. Sometimes when you pass that line, there is only one thing left, that’s judgment, when you pass between mercy and judgment, when you pass that line.

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« 119 † Remember, he got in distress. He didn’t know what to do. There stood his priests, all the rabbis standing around him. The fellowship was with him, all down there, watching his little girl die. The doctor standing on the outside, with his hands folded, shaking his hands, “I’ve give every medicine that I knowed, and still…”
120 See, it was Jesus a working all the time. Jesus was doing this for a purpose, to bring the color out of that little fellow. After a while, I can see him go get his little black hat and pulled it on, put his little priest coat on.
“Where you going?”
121 “I heard He’s down at the river. I’m going after Him!” Oh, my! Away he went!

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« 122 † In that hour of distress, he had to make a decision: let his child die, or he knowed that was the manifestation of the Word. He was a priest, and he had read the Word, and he knowed that that was God’s manifestation. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He knew that, and he was forced to the issue. He had to make a mistake, let his child die, or make his confession. When he got in that distress, it was about that time that Jesus came along. He went to see Him. He said, he said, “I’ll go with You, whatever You say.” And out on the road, here come a runner, the dark thing there. Had made his confession, that he believed Him. He had done excommunicated himself then, and put hisself in public eyes then, that he was a believer on Jesus.

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« 123 † And here come a runner, said, “Don’t bother nobody, ’cause your girl has already died. She died yesterday. She is already dead. Don’t, don’t fool with it no more.”
124 And, oh, his little heart like to a failed. But he looked and seen those eyes of Jesus, said, “Didn’t I say to You? Don’t fear, if you want to see the glory of God. What you scared about? I’ve already told you I would go.”
125 He has already said He would come. He has already said He would do this, and here He is doing it. Amen. He said He would rise on the scene in the last days and do these things as He did, as we’ve read last night and talked. Here He is doing it. What are you scared about?
126 Remember, when He came, and He called her from the dead. He came on the scene and called her from the dead.
Old blind Bartimaeus, one time, hit his darkest hour.

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« 127 † Jesus was down there, organized a Full Gospel Business Men’s breakfast down there in–in Jericho, and He had Zacchaeus down there. He had met him in a tree, down the street. So when He was… Well, He wouldn’t organize anything else, I’m sure. See? So then when He come down there, He–He had him, Zacchaeus had went with Him.
128 Old blind Bartimaeus had been blind since he was a little boy. So he thought Jesus might come out that gate, and he was waiting. After a while he heard a lot of noise, and everybody coming by.
129 And he heard the priest saying, “Hey! Hey, You, You going up the hill there! Did–did–did… We hear that You raise the dead. We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. If You be the Messiah, if You be the Messiah, come up here and raise these dead.”
130 You know, that same devil still lives, see, in the form of religion, the same way. See?
131 “If You be the Messiah, we… You raise the dead; we got a graveyard full of them up here. Come.” And, oh, everybody screaming. One hollering, “Hosanna to the Prophet!” Another one hollering this, that, or the other. Such a confusion!
132 This old blind man thought, “Oh, I missed Him. He come out down there, and I thought He’d come here. I’ve been put in the wrong place.” And he got to screaming. He thought, “If He is the Word, He is God; He has got to be.” So, “O Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!” In that hour of distress, he called out.

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« 133 † Now Jesus, if you’ll mark it here, was at Jericho. Where they said he was setting, he was a hundred and fifty yards from where Jesus was. With thousands of people rushing around Him, He couldn’t have heard that man’s cry. No. But He felt it. He stopped.
134 I want to preach, one of these nights: “And then Jesus stopped.” Oh! “And then Jesus stooped.” Oh!
135 But when Jesus stopped, what was it? He called him. “The Master has come. Don’t be weary,” said the disciples, “He calleth thee. He is calling you.” Called him out from that crowd.
He does the same thing now. Does it soak in? See?
136 “The Master has come and has called for you.” And He is calling from–from blindness to light, from darkness to light. And He called him, passed from death to Life. “The Master has come and He calls for you.” And when He called him, He give him back his sight.

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« 137 † The little woman with the blood issue, one time, up on the hill, had spent all of her money, with the doctors. She no doubt had sold the–the team. They had sold the–the farm, had it mortgaged. They had spent all they could with the physicians, none of them done her any good. She constantly got worse and worse. The blood wouldn’t stop. Constantly, on and on it went, she got deeper and deeper.
138 And one day, while setting there knitting, up on the hill from where she lived, she looked down into the valley, and she seen a boat come in. Everybody begin to run, “Hosanna to the Prophet!”

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« 139 † She had heard about Him. Faith comes by hearing. Now she said, “I’ll go down and get a look at Him.”
140 And when she walked down there, and she first got a sight of the Word of God manifested in flesh, there was something about His talk and His looks, that she knowed that was Him. Yes, sir. “Oh, if I could only attract His attention some way, if I could only touch Him in some manner!” And she slipped through the crowd and she touched His garment.
141 Now remember, it wasn’t her finger that He felt. No, sir, because the Palestinian garment hangs loose. And He…
Then Peter said, “Everybody has touched You.”
142 He said, “But this is a different touch. I perceive that I have gotten weak.”

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« 143 † Jesus had come. Her money was gone, everything was gone; but in that dark hour when the blood wouldn’t stop, and the doctors couldn’t stop it, Jesus come. And what did He do? He called her. Looked around till He found her, and He said, “You had a blood issue, but it stopped.”
144 “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” “The Master has come and He calls for you. He has come and He called.” He called her back to health.

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« 145 † The little woman at the well, that we spoke of last night, all hopes was gone. Perhaps, maybe her fifth husband had left her, and she just took the sixth one that night, and she–she was in a little doubt about him. Morally, she was gone. She wanted to be a real lady; she, no doubt, she had been reading the Bible.
146 And she was going along there, going up about eleven o’clock. She couldn’t come early in the morning when the righteous women come. And they packed their water up on their head, and the jugs, and went back down. And so she couldn’t come, mix with them. They, they had a segregation of that in that day, the right and wrong didn’t mix together. The immoral stayed in their place, so she couldn’t come with the rest of them. They wouldn’t let her come. So after everybody had got their waters and went back… She come for Better.

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« 147 † And then she come up there with this pot on her head, no doubt she was going along, thinking, “Now, the man that I married, got a hold of last night, I’m doubting him. He’s a man, he acts so funny. I–I just don’t know about him. I haven’t got a chance. I’m ousted from society. And I can’t go to those churches, they don’t… Just look at them! I don’t know what to do. I’m in distress. And I’ve been reading the Bible; surely, someday, that Prophet will come on the scene. Now I know they’ve claimed that there is no such a thing, and, ‘this is so maybe a hundred years off, and a thousand years off. We’ve been looking for it for thousands of years, and it’s never happened yet, so we ain’t looking for it now. Everything is so. Oh, no, we got churches and things. We don’t need nothing like that now.'” So then she was going along there, thinking.
148 You know, when you think about Him, that’s when He appears to you. Like we had last night, when they was on their road to Emmaus.

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« 149 † When she thought on those things, she heard a Man say, “Bring Me a drink.”
150 What about it? In her darkest of hours, when her morals was gone. Maybe a pretty little lady, been turned on the street to live that. Sometimes it’s not the little girl’s fault, it’s her parents’ fault, to let her get out like that. And there she was, maybe her little curls all hanging down; she was depleted, going along, weary, and nobody had anything to do with her, the child, and may be a big story behind it.
151 Anyhow, I know one thing, she had read the Bible, and she believed the Bible. And there was a little seed laying down in her heart, says, “If it ever happens, I’ll know it.” She was predestinated to that.

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« 152 † Look at that old Judas standing there and acting like what he did. It was black down in the bottom of his heart. The Light was shining up here in his works, but down in his heart he didn’t believe It. And here she was… See, the Light couldn’t get down to that. But here she was, believe, she believed It, but her life was blacked out; when the Light struck, It took the blackness out. But when the Light struck up here, It blacked it all over. That’s the difference.
153 See, she was born for that purpose. She, she said, when He told her how many husbands she had, she… What happened? She got all at once excited like. She got in distress. She said, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. I know that when the Messiah cometh, He’ll do these things.”
154 Then He called her. Then He called her. “I am He, He that speaks with you.” She recognized it by the Word of God. He called her from her sins, to a Life. And her name is in the Bible, and she has got immortal Life today.
155 He can call you the same way, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The…
156 Yeah, her morals was gone, but still she knew that He had that discernment. She knowed that that had to be the Messiah. Then when Jesus said, “I am He, I am He,” she knowed that was.

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« 157 † One time the disciples was out on the boat, all hopes was gone. The storms, they had went away without Jesus, and the storms was just–just like it was at Lazarus’ house. All hopes was gone. The little old boat had waterlogged. And they was screaming and crying, and maybe praying and going on, and the lightning a flashing, and the boat filled up with water, the mast poles dropped down, the oars broke, and they were holding one another, crying.
158 And in that real darkest of hour, then Jesus come walking along. But He looked like a shadow to them. He looked scary, like a spirit, and they cried out with fear.
159 That’s what’s the matter today. Jesus comes in the hour of your dark hour, and you’re afraid of It. You don’t know what It is.
160 They didn’t know what He was. They said, “Oh, it’s a spirit!” They was screaming.

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« 161 † And then He called them, said, “Fear not, it is I.” In the darkest of hour, Jesus come along, their help. That’s the way He always does, comes in the darkest of hour. Then Jesus came and manifested Himself, and come to them.
Peter said, “If it be You, bid me come on water.”
Jesus said, “Come on.”
162 You know what, friends? Soon He will come for those in this last days. Now, isn’t it strange that the church has got in this dark hour again?

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« 163 † Now, I’m going to say something here. It’s not a doctrine. I’m just prophesying. You know what’s happened? It’s going to come to a place, soon, mark my word, that all denominations are going to have to join the Ecumenical Council. If they don’t, they can’t have the support of the Council. Therefore, there’ll be a boycott, and nobody can go to these churches, or go to any churches; unless you have a mark from your own church, you cannot buy or sell. You see it just as it was, so is it going to be again, a mark unto the beast. And the church, they’re realizing that, spiritual people.
164 And you Pentecostal people, anyhow, are recognizing it. You’ve begin to feel it. When your churches, many of the organizations of the Pentecostal; and I don’t have to call your names, but you know right now they are, they are coming into it. They’ve done witnessed that they were. And when you do that, what are you going to have to do? You’re going to have to forfeit your Evangelical teaching of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You’re going to have to forfeit your doctrine of the Bible.
165 And the members is not going to stand for it. Real born-again Christians will die, first. They are born by the Word. They know this thing is coming. Yes, sir.

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« 166 † And isn’t it strange? And right in this darkest of hour, then Jesus comes along and calls us, said, “Don’t get scared. It’s Me. I’m still with you. I’m here to manifest My Word.” As He was then, so is He now. He said He would do that. Oh, my! The Master has come and has called for us.
167 Many sick people here, no doubt, that they’re sitting here, and the doctor has told you there is no–no hope for you. You may be in your darkest of hour, but, remember, the Master has come and called for you.

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« 168 † And someday, someday, the Master is going to come and call for every name that’s wrote on the Lamb’s Book of Life. If yours are not there, get it on there now, for He is going to come and call. Even those that are in the grave shall hear His Voice and come forth to Life. The Master will come and call for you. And while He is calling today, answer and make preparations for that Day, is my advise to you.
169 The promise of this age, He promised He would be here. The things that He did, He would do again, and now again the Master has come and calls for you.

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« 170 † Let us bow our heads. I got about six more pages here, but I–I can’t get to that now. Let’s bow our heads. I promised to let you out early, and it’s already quarter after.
171 Heavenly Father, O Lord, let it happen again. All these things that I have said, “Jesus has come and calls for thee.” What does He do when He comes? He calls. And let it happen again, Lord. Let Thy Holy Spirit come among the people tonight, the Lord Jesus in the form of–of the Spirit. Let Him come tonight and reveal Himself, and then manifest Himself. Like those people, how they believed, we will believe, also, Lord. There is many here, maybe, that’s never had this opportunity. We pray that You’ll grant it to them again tonight. For we ask it for the glory of God, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

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« 172 † That’s it, sister, but just go ahead with that. That’s fine. Go right ahead. Oh, real quiet, everybody.
173 Do you believe He has come? He has. Does He still call when He comes? Now if you’ll just only believe. If you’ll just believe the Word of God, God will grant it.
174 Now look, I haven’t got time to call the prayer line up here. I’m going to call them tonight, out there, if the Lord willing. The Master has come. He has come to fulfill His Word in the last day. And what He was then, He is today. What His manifestation or identification was then, it is today, because He is still the Word of God. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] And the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts, intents of the heart. And way He did then, is the way He has always did. He is still the same. If He would do that just now, would you believe Him? Would it make you believe Him?
175 You people out there now, let me look first and see if there is anybody that I know, setting anywhere in here, that I know.

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« 176 † All that’s around, up in here, that don’t know me, raise up your hands; know that I don’t know nothing about you, and you’re sick, raise up your hands. I guess, everybody. All right, now, you believe. You just believe with all your heart. Don’t doubt. Have faith. Believe God.
177 I’m going to ask you to be real quiet, be seated. Don’t stir around now, please don’t. See? See? You are a–a soul, body, and spirit. And your spirit… And the Holy Spirit is real timid.

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« 178 † How many remembers, many years ago, that the Holy Spirit, when I come out here and told you? When I take the people by the hand, He told me this discernment would come, and then go on? You remember it, remember that? But He said, “If you can get the people to believe you.” Remember them days, many years ago? [Congregation says, “Amen.”–Ed.] You’ve got to believe.
179 I seen a man, I believe it was down here at the other meeting, setting right there. And the Holy Spirit… I been watching him when I was preaching. He was a crippled man. He had crutches under his arms. And just when I started to make the call, Satan come to the man, a black shadow. And I watched it with my own eyes. He got up and walked out. He’ll always be crippled, see. And so, he, where he’d be healed right there if he just–just… See? But, just, I don’t know why. I guess he just listened to the enemy. But if you’d stand and watch those shadows, see those things in forms, the way they are, and watch them how they do. See, it would be.

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« 180 † Now, I cannot heal. The man that tells you he can heal you, he’s wrong. You’re already healed. But, it’s recognizing the Presence of Jesus Christ. Now if Martha knew that if she could see Him again, that she would get her desire, because He was the manifested Word, can’t we believe that much tonight, to believe it? Sure, we ought to. He has come. He has come, He has come in the form of the Holy Ghost. That’s Who He is. Now you just pray.
181 See, up here, if I had somebody standing here, right here by me, just–just praying; seen so many people praying, it’s all over the building. You just have to watch it. You can’t say. “Say, Brother Branham…” No, sir. I–I couldn’t do it, no more than you can dream me a dream. See? You might dream. You, God could have you dream a dream of me, you believe that, but you can’t do it yourself. You can’t say, that, “Brother Branham, I’m going to dream a dream of you now.” No, you can’t do that. Neither can I see a vision. Ever who gives a dream to you, that’s the one has to do it. The same way it is by a vision.

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« 182 † I see a man sitting right here at the end of the row, with arthritis. If he will believe with all of his heart, God will heal him of the arthritis. Do you believe He’ll do it, sir? Sitting out there, the Mexican man, sitting at the end of the row, will you believe it? All right, sir.
183 The lady sitting next to you, she also has arthritis, too. Do you believe God will heal you, lady? (Has this got a rebound to it? I’m afraid the people don’t hear it.) You will? All right.
184 How about the other little Mexican lady sitting by her? She is suffering with a stomach trouble. Do you believe God will heal your stomach, lady?
185 She got it. When I see that Light go down, that means it happened. Yeah. That’s it. It struck her. There It was, swirling right around… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… that does it. See? When He can find the faith! See, “Many things He could not do because of their unbelief.”

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« 186 † Here is a lady sitting here praying, right here. She is scared. She should be. She has got a cancerous condition, real bad. I don’t know you, but God knows you. Do you believe that God can tell me about this cancer, or something another? Look at me. There is so many there praying, you see, is what I’m saying it for. Look at us. Now, yes, you’re not from here, this is not your home. You’re from a place called Porterville, California. That’s right. Do you believe God can tell me who you are? He knows. Your name is Mrs. Wintham. That’s right. Now believe, and the cancer will leave you. If thou canst believe! That’s all God asks you to do. If thou canst believe!
187 Don’t you believe that with all your heart? Somebody in this section in here, can’t you believe? The Master has come and called for you. He is calling you from death to Life, from sickness to health.

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« 188 † Here is a man setting right back here, head down, praying. He is really not praying for himself, he is praying about somebody else. It’s a–a girl. It’s his daughter. Do you believe, sir? You got trouble with your legs. You got trouble with your knee. That’s right. No need of weeping, that’s Him there by you. Your daughter is in a hospital, isn’t she? Tuberculosis case. You believe. You believe? The Master has come and calls for her. Will you believe that you’ll find her totally well? You will? May He visit her tonight, and you. May it be over.
189 Here is a little boy, little brown-faced boy. He is suffering with a skin disease, and asthma, a little Mexican boy, Mexican boy sitting there. He isn’t from here. He is from San Jose. Do you believe, son? Another thing, your father is here with you. He is a minister. That is right. Do you believe God can tell me what your name is? Would it make you believe real strong? Your name is Reuben. Now believe. All right.
190 The Master has come and He calls for you. Oh, sinner, oh, sick person, don’t you see the Master manifested in a human beings, between believers? He has come to call His believing children to health. He has come to call the sinner to repentance. Backslider, church member, the Master has come and calls for you.

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« 191 † Do you believe it? Do you believe it for your need right now? If you do, raise up your hand, say, “I believe for my need.” Then raise up on your feet now and accept it. The Master is come and calls for thee. And whoever you are, whatever need you have for, the Master has come and He calls for you. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
192 That little women went into the city, and said, “Come, see a Man Who told me what was wrong.” You didn’t go into the city. You come and seen it, yourself, so the Master has come and calls for thee.
193 Raise up your hands and praise Him, and say, “Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner; forgive me. I’m a backslider; take me back, Lord. I need the Holy Ghost; fill me. I’m sick; heal me. I’m crippled; make me well.” The Master has come and calls for thee. Raise up your hands now and give Him praise. Amen.

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« 194 † Give us a little chord here, “I will praise Him, I will praise Him.” You know, “I will praise Him.” You know that, don’t you? Do you believe?
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
195 You love Him? Now don’t you love to sing to Him while He is here? He is a Spirit moving around through the building. He knows your hearts, knows all about you. Let’s sing it to Him, with all of our heart.
I will praise Him, (raise your hands when you do it), I… (now just praise Him)… praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinner slain;
Oh, give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
196 Oh, lady, you in the wheel chair, if you’ll just believe a little more right there. “I…” Let’s try it once more. I’m waiting on something.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
197 Now while we sing that again, turn around, get a hold of somebody’s hand, while we sing it, sing, “I’ll praise Him.” Come on, all together 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.

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« 198 † Oh, sinner friend, won’t you walk up here now? Come up and give Him praise, all ye people. All you people that wants to confess Him as Saviour. In His Presence, while the saints are worshiping in the Spirit, won’t you come here and stand? Say, “I want to testify, tonight. I want to give Him praise. I want to come. I’m not ashamed of Him. I want the world to know that I accept Him as my Saviour, right here while He is present.” Come while we sing it.
I will praise Him, (won’t you come?) I will praise Him,
Oh, praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Oh, give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.

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« 199 † Oh, that’s it, lady, come right on. Who else will come, in the Presence of Christ? Come right up here, sister, stand here.
200 Some other person that wants Him to be your Saviour, right now, that’s not ashamed. He said, “If you’re ashamed of Me before man, I’ll be ashamed of you before My Father and the holy Angels.” If you’re not ashamed of Him now, and you want Him for your Saviour, while He’s here! You’ve seen Him. It’s so perfect, the Word Himself make It known. Come up while the saints are worshiping now. Won’t you come up?
201 God bless you, sir. Here comes an old lady, coming to a real age. Won’t you come now?
I will… (sing it now)… I will praise…
202 That’s right, young folks, come right on around. Just praise. God bless you, lady, that’s the way to do it. God bless you, young ones.
… sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
203 While the ministers are going to these people now won’t somebody else come? Backslider, will you come, say, “I’m ashamed of my life”? Here He is. You believe me to be God’s servant? Raise your hands. Why, Jesus Christ is in the midst of us. Won’t you come?
Give Him glory… (Won’t you come, give Him glory?)… people,
For His Blood has washed away…

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« 204 † Martha, are you coming, or are you going to set in the house with Mary? Are you going to stay back in some organization, and say, “Oh, my church don’t believe It this way,” when Christ is made manifest? Are you going to set back and say that, or are you coming out? “Well, I’ll tell you, when I…” No. Today, this is the hour. Death hangs around you, like Jairus’ daughter.
205 Come now! Backslider, come now. Sinner, come now. This is the time. The Master has come and He calls for you. He is calling you. You say, “How do I know?” He is using my voice. If He uses my voice to tell sickness, afflictions and things, don’t you know He is calling also for sin. Come out! Come now, this may be the last opportunity you’ll ever have.

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« 206 † Once more, there is more in here ought to come, friends. I don’t want to embarrass you, to call you out like this. That’s not right. If you’ll sometimes maybe… Them Pharisees thought they were saved, but they wasn’t. You are thinking the same thing. Come now.
207 Be sure! Don’t, don’t just take a halfway chance on it. If there’s a little doubt in your mind, don’t take no chance. Come on now. Now is the time, now while the Fountain is open, while the Holy Spirit is here. The Master has come. That little doubt, is what He is trying to tell you, “You’re doubting.” Give it over. Come on, now. The Master has come and calls for thee. That’s right, just keep coming, keep right on coming.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him, (Won’t you come give Him praise?)
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain;
Give Him glory, all ye people,
For His Blood has washed away each stain.
208 Now while the sinners are coming, to claim Him; let the people give Him praise, as we sing it now. Up with your hands, sing, and praise Him, all together.
I will praise Him, I will praise Him,
Praise the Lamb for sinners slain!
209 Just give Him praise! You people around here, pray, ask Him to forgive you. That’s what He’ll do. The Master has come and calls for you. God bless you. `

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

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