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64-0629 THE.MIGHTY.GOD.UNVEILED.BEFORE.US_ PHILADELPHIA.PA V-3 N-22 MONDAY_
« 1 † ` Have a few Scriptures written down, that I’d like to speak to you from, and I trust that God will bless our feeble efforts.
2 Now, many people has wondered why we are so odd and so noisy. You know, this is kind of a different type of–of a convention than what people are–are used to seeing. And, usually, everything is kind of a cut-and-dried form. But when we come to these conventions, which has been my privilege now for several years since they were first started, and we don’t hardly know what we’re going to do. We just come and surrender ourselves. That’s the only thing that we know to do. And God does the rest of it. So that makes us a very peculiar-acting people.
3 Other day, someone said, “You know, you people are really an oddball.”
I said, “Well, I–I suppose we are.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Rev. William Marrion Branham
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« 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
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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. `
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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