THE  CAPSTONE
[ 1962 - 1965 ]

1962

22.  Ministry hones for Headstone, rapture.

SPOKEN WORD ORIGINAL SEED.   JEFF. IN   62-0318E
107-1   Did you notice that the great seal, it's the pyramid? Anybody ever know that the pyramid never had the capstone put on it? How many knows that? Sure. I been there in Egypt, Cairo: seen it. Never had the capstone, why? It was rejected, the cornerstone. That was the cornerstone that held this building, is a keystone. How many knows what a keystone is? When the arch is built, then the keystone holds it together. The cornerstone's what holds up the building, is that right? And the cornerstone in the pyramid was the capstone, was the keystone that held the rest of it together. Now, this keystone was rejected.
Did you notice, up there, it's standing up above, up above the pyramid. Now, what did that represent when Enoch built it?

SPOKEN WORD ORIGINAL SEED.   JEFF. IN   62-0318E
127-1   Now, this ministry here has to hone into a place till the very same works that Jesus did... Because when He comes, the Headstone will catch right into it, because they won't... There'll be a rapture come, and they'll be taken, and the rest of the body will come with it; and she'll be gone into heaven. Not a denomination, friends; a church of the Word of God... You believe it?

SIGN OF HIS COMING.   CLEVELAND, TN   62-0407
E-119   Look and what... do... If you got a dollar bill in your pocket, take it out. On one side, the right side, it's got the American seal, a eagle with the arrows in his paw. That's the seal of the United States. Then on the other side it's got the pyramid. And the cap never was put on the pyramid. It's got like a big eye shining there for the cap, and it said "The Great Seal."
Why would that be the Great Seal in the United States instead of our own seal? Did you ever think of it? Look on it, see if it don't say "The Great Seal." Why wasn't the pyramid ever had a cap on it? Same thing is in the temple of Solomon: the headstone was rejected. Certainly. But it's coming down.
And I've been to the pyramids in Egypt. And them stones are laid in there so perfect you can't take a razor blade, hardly, and go between them. Now, they fit perfectly. How they built it, they don't know, and the sphinx and so forth. They can't tell. But look; right where that headstone's supposed to fit, it's honed. If they ever could find the headstone, it would fit just so perfectly snug it would bind the whole thing together. That's the Bride of Jesus Christ. When the headstone comes, there will be a church here on earth to receive it. It'll have a ministry just exactly like His. It'll just go right in there, bringing up the feet, Luther, and all the rest of them for the resurrection.
Some fell asleep in one watch, some in the next watch, and some on down to the seventh watch. That's the seven church ages. But when the Bridegroom come they woke (Amen), come out from--from among the dead, and rose in the resurrection. We're living in the last days.
You say, "What did you say? Luther, Wesley: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost?" Yes. And then the headstone. Is that right? The headstone was in the pyramid.
Let's take the ark. Let's take... Here's one. Let's get away from that part, come back here. Let's take the ark: one floor, two floors, three floors. Is that right? Where did the light come from? Where was the window? Upstairs on the third floor. That's where the power of God will come to a church. A sun (s-u-n) shined through there, but the S-o-n will come in this way to the church that God's honing out and getting ready, bringing in a ministry to the church just exactly like what the palmerworm, and--and the locust, and the caterpillar eat up back there.
E-121   This stump's growed from Wesley through--from Luther, to Wesley, to Pentecost; and now is honing out those Pentecostals, and those that's got the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And shall come someday the headstone, Christ Jesus, in these last days... And we'll have to have a ministry just exactly like His--His whole Spirit as it gets closer, closer, closer, closer. The negative becomes so positive that after while the negative and positive blends together, Church and Christ to make one: for we're flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone. Amen. You believe it? "It shall be Light in the evening time." Amen. We're here today.

STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN.   JEFF. IN   62-1014M
47-1   Now, in building the virtue, building this monument, building this statue (See?), it starts off and the foundation that's on faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness. Now, what's it do? Then they're waiting for the Headstone which is love; for God is love, and He controls, and He is the Strength of every one of these things. Yes, sir. Right in here. Right in here. See, I got in between all these works in here, and here there's little waves coming. What is that? The Holy Ghost coming down through Christ (See?), Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is above all this, welding this together, building a what? A perfect church for the capstone to cap it off. What's it been done again? It's manifested through seven church ages and seven church messengers.

CONFERENCES.   TUCSON, AZ   63-0608
E-88   Just let this fire come to this fire, and after while you'll find out it'll move that. It's come up through Luther, Wesley, Pentecost. And find out the pyramid will be capped one of these days. You know it never was capped, the pyramid on the back of your dollar. "The Great Seal," it says. And we in America... Here's the American seal on this side, but why'd they say the Great Seal, the one that Enoch made? Not pyramid doctrines now, 'cause I don't believe in that kind of stuff.
But they never did cap the pyramid. Why? The--the capstone was rejected. But it will come again someday. Praise the Lord. And see in that pyramid (I've been there.), it's honed so close till even you can't run a razor blade, there's no mortar between it. It just perfectly sets together like the same stone. And when that church gets honed into the perfect image of Jesus Christ, He will come, resurrect all the saints when He comes and take them with Him. The church of the living God will be caught up.

23.  God’s prophets make no mistakes.

CONFLICT BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN.   CLARKSVILLE, IN   62-0531
E-62   Noah went in; he followed the will of God. And God shut the door behind him. But it never rained for seven more days. Wonder what Noah thought all that time in there? Noah setting in the ark, the door shut, he thought, "Just any time, children, you'll hear it. We'll pull the door, the lid up here on top." They was up on the top floor, you know. The animals on the bottom, the birds in the next, and they was on top. "That sun, oh, in the morning, there'll be--there'll be something over there, dark, and the rain will come." But the next morning up come the sun.
Maybe some people that kind of halfway believed Noah might've went up there and stood around the ark, and said, "You know what? That old man might have been right. We'd better stand here." Well then, they seen a mistake. God's prophets make no mistake. God's Word can't fail.

24.  Sweep to gather the Bride.
25.  Revelation 18 is Laodicea messenger.  [Revelation 18:1-4]
REVELATION 18:4   And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

26.  Jesus outside churches knocking.  [Revelation 3:14-22]
REVELATION 3:20
   Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

LETTING OFF THE PRESSURE.   GREEN LAKE, WI   62-0518
E-112   Every church age and every star, every minister through the church age, every Angel to the church has done made its manifestation. And did you know that this church age was the only church age that Jesus was put out of His church and found knocking at the door trying to get back in the Laodicean Church Age? Don't you see the hour we're living? Wished I could come here for about a--a two or three weeks just on Bible teaching of prophecy and things. See where we're living, friends. What's the matter with people? Can't you see we're at the end time? It's all over. The next thing will be a sweep that’ll get that little group together. In a month or so she'll be gone, as soon as she's gathered together. Well, we're at the end. There's no hopes left nowhere. Run to Christ, people.

WHY AGAINST ORGANIZED RELIGION.   JEFF. IN   62-1111E
206   God sent (in this 18th chapter) a mighty angel after that mystery was known, a mighty angel, or, a messenger. Watch here.
... after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, with great power; and the earth was lightened by his glory.
And he cried... with a loud voice,... Babylon... (confusion)... the great is falling,... and is become the habitation of devils,... the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every clean and hate... unclean and hateful bird.
And all nations have drank of the wine of the wrath of her fornications, and the kings of the earth... committed fornications with her, and the merchants of the earth has waxed rich through the abundance of her desolance.
Look, immediately after her mystery was made known, who she was, what she was, who her daughters was, the mystery has been made known, then God sent an angel, a messenger to what? Call out. "Come out.. " the Message of the hour.
Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her plagues...
He's going to curse her. Watch.
"Come out of her." God sent a many--mighty angel, or, a messenger. And his Light wasn't in a corner; It scattered over the earth. "Come out of her." What? Her, and her sisters too... To lighten the earth, and call His people out of her... Now, you know that's the Truth. A messenger was sent from heaven to call God's people out of Babylon. And his Light lighted the earth, great Holy Spirit.
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216   What did this angel say, "Come out of her." Yes, sir. This angel came to the earth, and he come to bring the Light, and he shined the Light around the world. He was a mighty angel. And he come to proclaim the message of "Come out of Babylon. Touch not her unclean things."
Got a whole cage full of them, said, "She's the cage of every hateful bird." Yeah, she got a cage full of them now, the World Council of Churches, or lodges. She's got the whole bunch caged up now; they're all coming together. She become a cage, all right, full of hateful birds. That's right. Try to talk to one of them one time; just try it, boy, smart in the world's wisdom, but know no more about God than a rabbit does about snowshoes. That's right. Just, that's just it (See?), just all they know is some wisdom they can put this and do that in there. But when it comes to knowing Him? Huh. Yeah, got caught in her cage with her dogmas. The Protestant churches begin the same and come her daughters, caused this by denying the Word of God. That she does. She denies the Word. And when you accept something else instead of the Word, you deny It yourself. And when you join up in one of them, you've also denied the Word. God don't want you that way, no place of it for the Scripture.
Notice, this is the Angel of Light. Remember, the last Angel, it's the Angel in the church age to the Laodicea. It's the Laodicea messenger, that it's the last... Because the very next chapter is the 19 chapter, which is the coming Bride. And this is in the Scripture, the last Angel that came to bring Light before the coming of the Bride to go meet Christ. It was the Laodicean church age then. What was the Laodicean church age messenger? Calling them out of Babylon. Look. Churches caught in her cage with her, with her dogmas, denying the Word and accepting dogmas. This is the Angel of Light to the Laodicean church that had rejected Christ and His Word for dogma and had put Him outside. And He stood at the door, knocking, trying to get in. See it? The church age had rejected the Christ, and Christ is the Word, and had rejected It, and He was on the outside. The only church age that we have of Christ on the outside, knocking, trying to get in. And this angel's Message, messenger come from God, was echoing his message on the earth to come out of Babylon; come out of the organizations." The Holy Spirit today, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit is that Angel trying to get the people back to the Word, 'cause the Holy Spirit will only vindicate the Word. It can't vindicate dogmas; there's no life in them. He's Life. Notice, the Laodicean church age had denied Him, rejected Him, and had put Him on the outside.
219   Notice, this Angel is the last messenger before the coming of Christ in the 19th chapter of Revelation. The messenger's voice, if we notice, when he gave his voice on the earth, there was a voice echoed again in heaven: 4th verse, if you want to read it (All right.), 4th verse, the 19th chapter. This messenger on the earth was so inclined with God until, when he spoke it on the earth, God echoed the same thing out of heaven. What is that 4th verse translation? What does it mean? God's voice speaking to His predestinated people, saying, "Come out of her," just exactly what the voice was. He's got people all out in there, all out through Babylon. Come out of her, that you be not partakers of her sins (Yes, sir.), out of that dogma and creeds to the Word made Spirit and Life. Amen.

INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1125
8-5   Now, please let me say again to the local assembly: Don't feel bad now. I'm--I'm speaking to all out across the country to the, what I think the elect Lady. So if there happened to be ministers in here that doesn't agree, well, just hold your peace for a little while. See? Notice, just listen...
Notice this character. When you see women just go on the rampage, just doing anything they want to do, watch, the church is doing the same thing. See? Notice. But watch when the spiritual Bride when She begins to have a revival, when She begins to come back and line Herself up with the Word of God, watch then again (You see?), how that the Scriptures, at that time there'll be a message sweep out to catch that Bride, catch that woman, elect. For as the world... Satan the deceiver, who deceived the first bride to sinning against the--God by misbelieving His Word...

27.  Perfected Bride by perfected Word.
28.  One Prophet Messenger to Age.

PERSEVERANCE.   SOUTHERN PINES, NC   62-0608
E-94   You know, when Jesus preached, there wasn't one--one--one percent of the one millionth of the people on earth ever heard Him. Look what heard John to make preparation. See? It's the elected that hears it. That's all. That's right. "No man can come to me except My Father draws him first. And all the Father has given Me will come." That's right.
Now, I believe that there's a church coming into that perfection, that ministry of perfection, where the offices, where apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists for the perfecting of the church, them pastors, and teachers, and so forth, will be so with the Word until the whole thing will work right up to the coming of the Lord. I believe that, and I believe we're nearing that time now. I believe it's

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823E
1005-56  (…)  I Corinthians 13 says this: "When that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away with." So all these little things of jumping up-and-down like a kid, trying to talk in tongues, and all these other things, when that which is perfect... And we do have today, by God's help, the perfect interpretation of the Word with Divine vindication. Then that which is in part is done away with. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child; but when I become a man, I put away childish things." Amen.

THINGS THAT ARE TO BE   RIALTO, CA   65-1205
62   Oh, but the other one is called my Father's house. "I'll go and prepare a place for you, take you out of this pesthouse and deliver you unto My Father's house." Amen. There you are. Take you out of this old earthly pesthouse...
He's gone to prepare a place, a perfect place, where no evil exist, no sickness exists, no old age exists, no death exists. It's a perfect place calling you to that perfection, and you have to be perfect to get there. The Bible said so. Jesus said, "
Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect." And it's a perfect Kingdom, so it must be a perfect people come; because you have to stand and be married to a perfect Son of God; and you must be a perfect Bride. So how can you do it through anything else but the perfect Word of God, which is the Waters of separation that washes us from our sins. Amen. That's right. The Blood of Jesus Christ... Think of it. The dripping, bloody Word (Amen.), the Blood, the--the Word of God bleeding Blood to wash the Bride in. Amen. Yes, sir. She stands perfect, virgin, unadulterated; She never sinned in the first place. Amen. She was trapped into it. See? There's the Father's house that He's gone to prepare.

LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE.   CHURCH AGE BOOK.  CHAPTER 9.
328-3   Before we close this section on the messenger of the Laodicean Age, we must seriously consider these two thoughts. First, this age will have ONE Prophet-Messenger. Revelation 10:7, says, "When he (singular) shall begin to sound." There has never been an age where God gave His people two major prophets at one time. He gave Enoch (alone); He gave Noah (alone); He gave Moses (he alone had the Word though others prophesied); John the Baptist came ALONE. Now in this last day there is to be a PROPHET (not a prophetess--though in this age there are more women purporting to give God's revelation than men), and the infallible Word says that he (the prophet) will reveal the mysteries to the end time people, and turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers.
There are those who say that God's people are going to come together through a collective revelation. I challenge that statement. It is a bald, invalid assumption in the face of Revelation 10:7. Now I do not deny that people will prophesy in this last age and their ministries can and will be correct. I do not deny that there will be prophets even as in the days of Paul when there was "one Agabus a prophet who prophesied of a famine". I agree that is so. BUT I DENY UPON THE INFALLIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE WORD THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MAJOR PROPHET-MESSENGER WHO WILL REVEAL THE MYSTERIES AS CONTAINED IN THE WORD, AND WHO HAS THE MINISTRY TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS. "Thus saith the Lord" by His unfailing Word stands, and shall stand and be vindicated. There is one prophet-messenger to this age.
On the basis of human behavior alone, anyone knows that where there are many people there is even divided opinion on lesser points of a major doctrine which they all hold together. Who then will have the power of infallibility which is to be restored in this last age, for this last age is going to go back to manifesting the Pure Word Bride? That means we will have the Word once again as it was perfectly given, and perfectly understood in the days of Paul. I will tell you who will have it. It will be a prophet as thoroughly vindicated, or even more thoroughly vindicated than was any prophet in all the ages from Enoch to this day, because this man will of necessity have the capstone prophetic ministry, and God will shew him forth. He won't need to speak for himself, God will speak for him by the voice of the sign. Amen.
334-1   "He is the True Witness."
Now this word, true, is the same word we saw back there in Revelation 3:7. You recall that it does not mean 'true' as in contrast with 'false.' It has a richer, deeper meaning by far. It expresses perfect realization in contrast to partial realization. Now back in the Philadelphian Age, the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh. What great love that age manifested for Him.
It reminds me of those beautiful words of I Peter 1:8,
 "Whom having not seen ye love, in Whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory."
With them we rejoice also. We haven't seen Him, but we have felt Him. We know Him now as much as our limiting senses can let us. But one day it will be face to face. That is for this age. He is coming at the end of this age. Partial realization will be made PERFECT REALIZATION, COMPLETED REALIZATION. Hallelujah! We have been looking through a glass darkly, but soon it will be face to face. We have been going from glory to glory, but soon it will be right in the glory; and in HIS GLORY WE'LL SHINE. WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM, WONDROUSLY LIKE HIM, JESUS OUR SAVIOUR DIVINE! Isn't that wonderful? We are complete in Him. That is true. He would not lie to us about that. But one day we will be changed in the atoms. We will put on immortality. We will be all swallowed up in life. Then we will REALIZE REALIZATION.

LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE.   CHURCH AGE BOOK.  CHAPTER 9.
365-1   But thank God, at this moment, this age is not over. He is yet crying. And His cry is not only in the spiritual ears of men by His Spirit, but once again a prophet is in the land. Once more God will reveal the truth as He did to Paul. In the days of the seventh messenger, in the days of the Laodicean Age, its messenger will reveal the mysteries of God as revealed to Paul. He will speak out, and those who receive that prophet in his own name will receive the beneficent effect of that prophet's ministry. And they that hear him will be blessed and become part of that bride of the last day who are mentioned in Revelation 22:17,
 "The Spirit and the bride say come."
The corn of wheat (the Bride Wheat) that fell into the ground at Nicaea has come back to original Word Grain again. Praise God forever. Yes, listen to the authenticated prophet of God who appears in this last age. What he says from God, the bride will say. The Spirit and the prophet and the bride will be saying the same thing. And what they will say will have already been said in the Word. They are saying it now, "Come out from among her now and be ye separate." The cry has gone out. The cry is going out. How long will the voice cry? We do not know, but one thing we do know, it won't be long, for this is the last age.

29.  Vision of second climax.  [Ministry to be crowned.]

CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED.   SHREVEPORT, LA   62-1125M
E-11   And you know, I had a vision not long ago, a few weeks ago that I was preaching from the sun, and had a great audience. And it will come to pass. And I was preaching, and my audience was a--a--a cathedral in the forest. And the sun that I was standing in was shining down on many places. I had two climaxes to make, and I was showing them about Divine healing, about visions, and how that God had promised, and everything. And they was rejoicing.
But then, when I got down to make... My first climax was to tell them that all these things was the Word. And when I got to say that, everybody got hungry. I do preach awful long. But they got hungry and wanted to go get something to eat, and they started going away.
I said, "Wait a minute. You haven't heard. See, I want to tell you where it comes from. It's the Word, the Word." And when I started to say it--talk it back about the Word, and how it was done by the Word, everybody left. Well, that's the way it's happened. And when I was stand there, the Scriptures come to me... (in the vision setting in a chair, about nine o'clock one morning at my home.)
And then, you know, our Lord when He was His young ministry, when He was healing the sick and everything, that young Rabbi from Galilee, He was a great fellow. But one day He begin to get down on the Word. And when He got on the Word, the people walked away. The seventy left Him. And then He turned and said to twelve, "Will you go also?." See?
Then I happened to think in my vision, "Yes, that's right. See, I got another climax, a great climax I've got to make. See? But the sun's a shining bright now. But the evening shadows will be falling after while. They'll all be coming back again. Then I'll make this other climax. I raised up my hand, and said, "Glory to God. I won't have to study no more, because my commission in the beginning was stay with the Word, and I'll stay with that. And then when I start again, I'll just background what I said, and then wait for this climax." And I thought, "I mustn't forget it." And I come out of the vision. I don't know what--what text I had. But there's another climax coming, just as sure.

REPROACH FOR THE WORD.   JEFF. IN   62-1223
7-7   In the vision the other day, you know as I had here not long ago telling me about what was going to happen, how I was preaching in--from the sun into this place, and--and then He said, "Now, remember, the second climax is yet to come."
And I thought, "There'll be a message." You remember my message here? The opening of that capstone, where those seven voices and Seals was not even wrote in the Word of God. Remember? And It took me into that pyramid. And Junie Jackson (if you are here), that dream that you give me not long ago, I won't tell it this morning, you were so... God was so perfectly... Excuse me for not giving you the interpretation, 'cause I seen something moving.
J. T., same thing. See? And I--I--I knew that. And Sister Collins, exactly the same. See? And six of those leading right straight to the same thing, and then the vision that I told you all years ago, it happened just the other day (See?), that would happen. And there it is laying right everything laying right out there. It's just something moving. I don't know what it is. God help me, is my prayer. Let us pray.

30.  Jean Dyer’s healing.

ZACCHAEUS THE BUSINESSMAN.   TUCSON, AZ   63-0121
E-8   And this young fellow just kept persistent. And I got in the--the next morning around two o'clock. And about five my son called me, and he said, "Do you know a girl named Jean Dyer?"
I said, "Jean Dyer, sounds familiar."
He said, "She said she used to play the piano for you."
"Oh," I said. "That isn't Dr. Dyer, the surgeon here, a famous surgeon in Louisville?"
Said, "That's--that's it. Well, his daughter Jean is dying over at the St. Edwards Hospital in--or, St. Anthony Hospital, rather, in Louisville," and said, "her husband has laid right on the steps all day."
"Well, I..." Said, "Well, I'll try to wedge it in today."
Said, "Now, she doesn't know she's got cancer. Don't tell her."
E-9   So finally that day, when I got over to the room, a fine young lady, she had played the piano for me in the--when I was at the auditorium where I seen the--the Brother Allen's people here tonight. Brother Allen just left that same auditorium in Louisville. That's Memorial Auditorium. And Jean Dyer was the pianist at the Church of the Open Door, the old synagogue. And so she had seen some great things that the Lord God had did. She told her father.
He just said, "That's pure psychology. The man's only reading the mind of the people...?... He just guessed at that."
She said, "Daddy, it can't be a guess every time." See? Said, "It just can't be."
"Well," he said, "Jean, forget that stuff."
And she was engaged to a fine boy that was going to the Baptist seminary at the time. She got married and moved over to Rockford, Illinois, to where this boy's home was. And somehow or another she tried to hold on to her testimony. But the boy went out in secular work and after while got almost away from the Lord.
The girl had a--a female disorder. She went home to her father. He knew she needed an operation. He found in her what is called in the (I don't know the medical term of it but--'cause I know there's a couple of doctors setting here now.)... So it was called, like, the chocolate tumor, and it's... The inside, when they taken it out he must've spilled some of it, and the cells was malignant. And they sewed her up, give her some x-ray and therapy. So when she got home she continued on having pain and trouble.E-11   A year later she returned for a complete hysterectomy. And when they removed the organs, they found the cancer had went up into the colon and wrapped around. There was nothing could be done. They tried x-ray again, and it didn't work. So they just taken her to the hospital and told her she just had a severe female trouble and trying to cure it up, and the girl was dying.
Her husband knew it. So he'd come over and had got ahold of some of the books of mine that Jean had read. And so he begin to come to the hospital, reading them to her. And when we went in to pray for her, she was telling me about it; I said, "Jean, he's a fine boy." And I didn't want to let--I--keep the secret, 'cause I knew that--that he--she didn't know she had cancer. And so, two days afterwards they was going to have a--a colostomy.
So taking--before taking the girl up, well, they let me come over and pray with her. And I got her in a room, and soon as I got... There was an unbelieving nurse on duty: had three nurses, three hour shifts. And as soon as we could get rid of the nurse, and get her out of the room so a vision could happen...
And we prayed with her a little while there, and I seen her. She was dark haired. She was only about thirty-six years old. Dark hair had turned gray, she was standing in the vision. I said, "Jean, now look. I'm going to be real honest with you." I said, "You've been in the meetings long enough to know that I would not tell you nothing in the Name of the Lord unless it was so." And I said, "Now, Jean, you got cancer."
She said, "I suspicioned it, Brother Branham."
And I said, "That operation day after tomorrow is a colostomy, but don't worry. I've seen from the Lord. You're going to be well." And she just rejoiced. So I went home.
E-13   And the next day they was going to--the day after, rather, they were going to take her for the colostomy that morning, and they had to--they had to wait a few minutes after they had her prepped, and so forth, and ready to go. And there was... She had the regular feeling that human beings should have at that time, and they'd taken her to the bathroom, and she had a complete normal elimination. The doctor was so astounded he checked her again. The next morning... They let it go, canceled the operation. Dr. Hume, a very fine specialist, surgeon, friend of mine, was going to perform the operation. And the next morning she had a complete normal elimination again. And her father, Dr. Dyer, called me on the phone, and between sobs said, "Brother Branham, I've been a critic of what you're talking about." He said, "But I'm a believer now, that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob still lives."

31.  Doctors & Medicine.  [See 1949m  #11]

REPROACH FOR THE WORD.   JEFF. IN   62-1223
21-4   Setting awhile ago with a little sweet girl here, first I combed that family through to see if there was anything wrong. God will heal, but it's under conditions. See? Only thing that I found was the mother, afraid it was wrong to take medicine, and I said, "Don't you think that, sister; get that out of your mind. Go right ahead with the child. Give it the medicine. God will make that known." See?

32.  North Star & Compass.

THE ABSOLUTE.   JEFF. IN   62-1230M
23-6   It's your North Star when you're lost at sea. You know, we got a lot of stars, but there's only one true star, and it don't move; that's the North Star, 'cause it sets in the center of the earth. No matter whether you're on the backside, upside, or wherever you're at, that North Star is just the same. It's your North Star.
Now, you see, there's a lot of stars that shift from place to place. But if you're in a--on the sea, why, any seaman knows; or any hunter that roams the woods, knows that your North Star is your--is your place; that's all. Then it's like your--your--your compass. Your compass won't point to Mars, or Jupiter, or somewhere; it'll point to the North Star. Why? That's your absolute.
Oh, my. Notice, your absolute. Oh, I'm going to say something; I just feel it coming on. Notice. I feel very religious at this time, because this is the assurance. Notice. Your compass can only point to the North Star. That's the only place it can point. If it's a true compass it'll strike the North Star every time. Is that right? Then if you have the Holy Spirit, It can only point to the Word. It'll never point to a denomination; It'll never point to a creed; It'll never point away somewhere; It'll point straight to the Word. I feel like shouting.
Notice, it's--it's something inside of man, pulsating. When you see your Star standing out yonder, Jesus Christ, the Word, and you see the Spirit that's in you won't let It move right or left, that's the only One that can... He come to take the things of God and to show them and manifest them.

THE ABSOLUTE.   JEFF. IN   62-1230M
53-6   That's why I know the Holy Spirit is my Compass that guides me. He is the One that makes me know this Word is true; He is my Absolute; He is my Sunshine; He's my Life; He's my Anchor. When troubles are on, He's my North Star. When I'm lost, the Holy Spirit is my Compass that guides me back to the place.
Denominations are like other stars; they shift with the world. Other stars shift as the world shifts, but not the North Star. The world can shift where it wants to, but it stays put. Oh, brother. The North Star is anchored. The others shift around; you can see them here and there, and everywhere else. That's the way with the denominational churches. But Christ is the absolute. He's the One you can put confidence in. When the denominations got you all twisted up, just look at the North Star. The Holy Spirit is your Compass.

33.  Rapturing faith laying in the Message.  [Final climax]

THE ABSOLUTE.   JEFF. IN   62-1230
35-3   Oh, and I remember when He swept down there in that big Light, standing yonder at the bottom of the river, 1933, in June, when He said, "As--as John the Baptist was sent forth and forerun the first coming of Christ, I send you with a Message to the world to forerun the second coming of Christ." And around the world she's went, when revival fires had been built for fifteen years on nearly every mountain...?... Divine healing across the nations, and the power, and restoration... And now, I believe she's ready to strike that final climax yonder to bring forth a faith that'll rapture the Church into glory (It's the truth.), and She's laying in the Messages. We're really at the end time. We've talked about it and everything, but the thing has moved upon us now. Hear them. Yes, sir. Here's one. That's right.

ACCEPTING GOD'S PROVIDED WAY.  PHOENIX, AZ  63-0115
E-103   Then when you say, "Well, I'm exactly on His Word," then He a-vindicates that to be the truth. Now, He's still on course tonight, if we'll just believe it. Will you do it? Let's bow our heads.
Now, just as reverent as you can be for a moment... God's provided a way that He might bring the believers to a rapturing faith: God's way, His provided way to bring believers to rapturing faith.

PERFECT FAITH.   JEFF. IN   63-0825E
158   Are we going to walk into eternity like it was in the days of Noah, with eight souls saved? Are we going to come like Lot, with three out of Sodom? Are we going to come, like in the days of John the Baptist with six believers? Let us believe, for His works is perfect. They're manifested daily and perfectly before us, showing that He is the Word: the Word. Hebrews, the 4th chapter, says the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, and--or even a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Think of that! The Word of God is That, a Discerner of the intents of the heart. “For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and of spirit, and of the joints and of the marrow, and is a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” The Word made flesh (Hallelujah.), the Word operating in human flesh by physical signs, by material signs, by Scriptural signs, perfectly, to bring to you a perfect faith for a perfect rapture.

34.  “…don’t say it ‘less it’s on the tape.”

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
3-7  (…)  But tonight I'm going to speak on something that I do not know. And now, that's quite a thing for a minister to say: that he's going to speak on something that he doesn't know about. But I am adventuring out to the best of my knowledge, to--that this church might understand. And I would not, by no means, hold anything back from you that's profitable.
And then this tape... (I suppose the boys are making the tape.) and if you happen to get the tape, whoever is listening to the tape, remember, if something is puzzling to you, don't say it 'less it's on the tape. Don't say something contrary to what's on the tape.
So many write in on the serpent's seed and say that I said such-and-such. I go get the tape, play it over. I did not say it that way. See, people misjudge things.
You know, Jesus, one time after His resurrection, was walking down the shore with the apostles, and John was leaning on His bosom, and they said, "What will happen to this man?"
Jesus said, "What is it to thee if he tarries till I come?" And there went out a saying that John was going to live to see Jesus come. And the Scripture says, "Howbeit, He never said it that way." You see, He--He never said that. He just said, "What is it to you if he tarries till I come?" He never said he would tarry, but the misunderstanding, it's so easy.
4-8   And now, it's--it's not that I'm condemning someone for doing it, because I do it myself. And all people does it. If the apostles who walked with our Lord misunderstood Him, and they never did clearly understand Him… Right at last they said, "Lo, now we understand. Now, we believe, and we are sure that no man has to tell You anything for Thou knowest all things."
And Jesus said, "Do you now believe? See, after all that time, do you finally... Did it finally get to you (See?), that you believe?"
And that's just human, and we're all human. So we're going to misunderstand, but if it's kind of a little puzzling to you, play the tape back. Listen close then. Now, I am sure the Holy Spirit will reveal to you.

35.  Dream about three-cornered stick.  [Triune baptism.]

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
23-4   Last Saturday morning, one week from yesterday, along about three o'clock in the morning, I'd gotten up and got a drink of water, and put the cover over Joseph in his room, and then I'd come back and was just laid down and went to sleep. And when I went to sleep... I'm getting these little dreams and things off, so you'll see the background of what I'm fixing to say. I--I covered up Joseph, and I went back, and laid down, and went to sleep; and I dreamed a dream: and I dreamed that I saw a man that was supposed to be my father, though he was a great big man; and I saw a woman that was supposed to be my mother; only she didn't look like my mother. And this man was very mean to his wife. And he had a three cornered stick, where he'd claved this wood and made a--you know when you chop a wood across a log it makes a three cornered stick. And every time this woman would start to stand up, he'd just grab her by the neck, and hit her on the head, and knock her out. And then she'd lay there, and snub and cry, and then she'd start coming back up again. He'd walk around proud, with his chest stuck out, great big fellow, and when she'd raise up again, he would take her by the neck, take this three cornered stick, and crack her on the head with it, drop her down. Walk back, and stick out his chest like he'd done something big.
And I was standing off watching it. And I thought, "I can't tackle that man. He's too big. And then he's supposed to be my papa. But he ain't my papa." And I said, "He ain't got no business treating that woman like that." And I got kinda a little bit upset with him. So then, all at once I got up enough courage, and I went over to him, and gabbed him by the collar, and turned him around. And I said, "You have no right to strike her." And when I said that, muscles growed; I looked like a giant. And the man looked at those muscles, and then he got scared of me. And I said, "You strike her again, you're going to deal with me." And he kinda hesitated to strike her again. And then I woke up.
And I laid there a little while. I thought, "What is that? Strange I'd dream about that woman." And just in a moment, here He come. I got the interpretation.
24-2   The woman represents the church of the world today, all the world. I was born right in this mess, and here I am. She's supposed to be kind of a--a mother of--if she was a mother of harlot, but yet I was born right into it. And the--her husband is the denominations that rule her. The three cornered stick that she had is that triune baptism in false names, that every time she starts to rise up, the congregation, to accept it, he whacks her down with it. And 'course, him being so big, I turned around, was a little afraid of him, and then I dashed into him anyhow, and the muscles was faith muscles. That made me think, "If God's with me, can give me muscles, let me stand up for her." Quit striking her.

36.  Message revealed hidden mysteries in Book.  [Revelation 3:14,  Revelation 10]
       [Seventh angel of Revelation 10:7 is the church age messenger of Revelation 3:14.]

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
29-5   I believe that the seventh angel of Revelations 10 is the seventh church age messenger of Revelations 3:14. Remember... Now, let me read... look... where I can read... Now, this was the seventh angel.
 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel... (7th verse)... when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.
Now, you notice, this was a angel; and it's the angel of the seventh church age, because it says here, it is the seventh angel of the seventh church age. Found that... If you want to see who the--where the angel is, Revelations 3:14, it's the angel to the Laodicean church.
Now, you remember when that was told there, the angels and the church ages. And now in this, it'll dovetail right into these seven seals that we're coming to speak. And the seven seals that we're trying to speak of when I come this time, is the seven written seals. And these seven seals, as you know, is just the manifestation of the seven angels of the seven churches. But there are seven other seals that's on the back side of the Book, that's outside the Bible. Notice, we'll get to it in a moment.
Now, before I start this, are you tired? Would you like to stand, change position?
Now, listen close. The seventh angel of Revelations 10:7 is the seventh church age messenger. See? Now, watch. And in the days... Now, watch here.
 But in the day's of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished...
Now, sounding forth, this messenger, the seventh angel here, is sounding forth his message to the Laodicean church. Notice his type of message. Now, it wasn't to the first angel (wasn't given that), second angel, third, fourth, fifth, sixth; but it is the seventh angel that had this type of message. What was it? Notice, his type of message: finishing all the mysteries of God that are written in the Book. The seventh angel is winding up all the mysteries that's lain loose-ended, all out through these organizations and denominations. The seventh angel gathers them up and finishes the entire mystery. That's what the Bible said: finishes the mystery of the written Book.

INFLUENCE.   PHOENIX, AZ   63-0112
E-70   The power of God, the end-time is here. The Angel has gathered up the loose ends, and we're here. Amen. He was about to write those thunders, and He said, "Don't write them. Seal them up. And at that day of the sounding of this last seventh Angel, seventh church age, the Laodicean church age, the mystery of God, all about God, how that God's not a big bunch of gods, but one God, and all these other things, should all be finished in that time."

THE BREACH.   JEFF. IN   63-0317E
74-1   Now, but it--it is a Book, a mysterious Book. It's a Book of Redemption. (We'll get into that in a little while.) And now, we know that this Book of Redemption will not be thoroughly understood: it's probed at through six church ages, but at the end, when the seventh angel begins to sound his mystery, he winds up all of the loose ends that these fellows probed at, and the mysteries comes down from God as the Word of God and reveals the entire revelation of God. Then the Godhead and everything else is settled. All the mysteries: serpent's seed and whatever more is to be revealed.
Now, you see, I'm just not making that up. That's what... It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. I'll read it to you out of the Book: the sounding of the seventh angel's message, the mystery of God should be finished that's been declared by His holy prophets. That's the prophets who has wrote the Word. At the sounding of the seventh church age, the last church age, all the loose ends that through these church ages have been probed at, will be wound up together. And when the Seals are broke and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea with a rainbow over His head. Now remember, this seventh angel is on earth at the time of this coming.
Just as John was giving his message, the same time that Messiah come in the days... John knew he would see Him, because he was going to introduce Him. And we realize that in the Scriptures over in Malachi 4, there's to be a one like John, a--an Elijah, to whom the Word of God can come to, and he is to reveal by the Holy Spirit all the mysteries of God and restore the faith of the children back to the faith of the apostolic fathers: restore back all these mysteries that's been probed at through these denominational years. Now, that's what the Word said. I'm just responsible for what It said. See? It's--it's written is right. That's what It is.
74-4   Now, we see that this seven-sealed Book now, is the mystery of redemption. It's a Book of Redemption from God. Now, all the mysteries at this time should be finished at the sounding of this messenger. Now, here's the angel on earth, and another Angel, mighty Messenger come down. See, this angel was a earthly angel, messenger. But here comes One down from heaven: a rainbow, covenant. See? Only Christ, it could be; just exactly like it was in Revelations 1st chapter, standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks with a rainbow to look upon as jasper and sardius stone. 
And here He returns back in the 10th chapter after the coming time, that all the mysteries is to be finished, and the Seals are to be broke, and proclaiming that its time is no more. And he said, When the seventh angel has begin to sound, then the mysteries should be finished and time for the Angel to appear. We're close, somewhere. That's right.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
145-5   But in the last days it'll have to be a prophet to take up the mysteries of God, bring it back, because the mysteries was only re--known by prophets. So it has to be this fellow come. See what I mean now? He can't be a reformer; it's got to be a prophet, because it's got to be somebody that's gifted and set there that catches the Word.
Now, them reformers knowed there was something wrong. Luther knowed that--that--that the bread wasn't the body of Christ, and so he preached, "The just shall live by faith," and that was his message.
And when John Wesley come along, he saw that there was sanctification, so he preached sanctification. That was his message. See?
The Pentecostals brought in the message of the Holy Ghost and so forth. But in the last days in this last age the messenger is not to start any reformation, but is to take all the mysteries that those reformers left off, and gather them together, and solve them to the people.

37.  Vision of the seven Angels of Revelation 10:1-7.

REPROACH FOR THE WORD.   JEFF. IN   62-1223
4-1   About--we'd been up about two hours, or three, I guess; and my daughter (one of them) Rebekah, back there, she works at the Methodist Hospital in Louisville. It's oh, that amateur form of nurse training; it's "Candy Stripers" they call them, or something like that. And she was a--she... They called her to come over that morning, and that's what got me up. And it's early, and she with some other little school colleague here (they--they work there together) and was going to take them over to Louisville. They had to be there at ten o'clock. And the wife wondered why she couldn't get in the bedroom. I had it locked.
Now, I have had many things to happen in my life, but I never had anything like that. I went into a trance. I don't know the interpretation. I've never had anything like it in my life. But before me, it seemingly that I realized that it was a vision, and I was in the vision. But I was talking to my son, Joseph which he was not in the room at the time. But somehow, just as it struck me, I was talking to Joseph.
And I--I looked up, and kind of in the shape of a pyramid, standing before me, was little small birds, something like a half-inch long. And they were up at the top on the limbs, they was a--may say three or four, and the next--next limb had maybe eight or ten, and down at the bottom had fifteen or twenty. They were little warriors, because their feathers was beaten; and looked like they were trying to talk to me, saying something.
And I was in the west, seemingly around Tucson, Arizona. And the birds were looking east, and I was listening close to--trying to say... Looked like they were trying to tell me something. And they had--little feathers was all been beat up and things. They were pretty well battle-scarred.
Then all of a sudden, one bird begin to take the other one's place--jumping like that--and they, the little birds, swiftly left, flying eastward. And when they did, from that came a larger bird, more like doves, with the pointed wings; and--and--and they come in a swarm and swiftly--more swift than what the little birds was--flew eastward.
And I, still in my--the two consciouses together, I knowed I was standing here, and I knowed I was somewhere else. See? And I thought, "Now, this is vision, and I must learn what this means." And no more than the second group of birds come by, I looked to the west; and it looked like in a form of a pyramid, like two on each side with one in the top, came five of the mightiest Angels I ever seen in my life. Such a terrific speed I never seen... Their heads back and their pointed wings just sailing quickly.
And the power of Almighty God struck me in such a way till it lifted me plumb from the ground, all the way from the ground up. I could hear Joseph still speaking. And sound like the sound barrier breaking, that--that a great roar went off way in the distance to the south.
And when I was lifted up, and there was such a terrific speed of the Angels. And I--I can just see them right now (See?), as--as they were coming in that shape like that, just sweeping right into me. Now, not dreaming now. No, I was right there wide awake as I am now. See?
5-3   But here they come. And they were so terrifically fast, till I thought when it lifted up... I heard that explosion like, or like a blast that went out, like a sound barrier; and when it did, I thought, "Well, this must mean that I'm fixing to be killed (See?) in a blast of some sort." And--and I--and while I thought on those things, I thought, "No, it wouldn't be that, because if it was a blast, it would've got Joseph too, because there he is still talking, thinking that I'm there. I can hear him. It wasn't that."
This is all still in the vision. It wasn't... See, it's in the vision. And then all at once, as I realized that I had been... They were around me. I couldn't see them, but I'd been brought into this constellation of a pyramid of them, inside this constellation of--of Angels, of five. And I thought, "Now, a death angel would be one, five would be grace." I was thinking that; I thought, "Oh, it's the--it's coming with my message. That's my second climax. They're coming to bring me the message from the Lord." And I screamed out with all of my might, as loud as I could, "Oh Jesus, what would You have me do?" And when I did, it just--just went away from me.
(…)
6-4   And I was crying out to the Lord to help me. And I--I wanted Him to give me the interpretation, because I wondered if it meant--if it meant that I was going to go away--I was going to be killed. And if it was, I wasn't going to say anything to the family about it. If it's my time to go home, I'll just go home; that's all of it. But if--if that's what it meant, I didn't want to tell the family, didn't want them to know nothing about it; just let done, and that--that would be all of it.
And I said, "Lord, help me. I don't want to tell the family if--if You're... If it's my call home, why, I--I'll be going," You see? I said--and I... You know... You say, "Why didn't you think about what you said in the vision, what the vision said?" But you can't think of things like that then. You... I can't anyhow.
And I thought... I was just troubled, upset. You don't know how to think; you can't think. And I said, "Heavenly Father, if that meant that--that an explosion was going to take me, why, let me know now, so I won't say anything about it. Let Your glory and power come upon me again, and lift me up again, or let Your glory come upon me, and then I'll--I'll know then that it meant--it meant that; and so I can keep it to myself." And nothing happened. So then I said, "Then, Lord, if it meant that You're going to send Your messengers for my commission, then let Thy power come again." It like to took me out of the room.
(…)
REPROACH FOR THE WORD.   JEFF. IN   62-1223
7-2   My wife's a very odd woman, one of the best in the world. But a little while, I didn't say nothing about it; I went ahead. She knew there was something happened. So when I told her, she said, "You know, Bill, I see and hear you in many of those things." Said, "You know I believe you with all my heart." She said--she said, "But that really had something."
It just seem to just shakes me, that blasting, and that swift coming of those Angels, like that, five of them together in a constellation of them, like--kind of like a... Like I had that pyramid drawn here. It looked to be... First it looked like, kind of a... In the distance it looked kind of like that color of doves. And they were in a--in a--coming from this way. And they were looked like one, two, three, four, and then one right at the top, making five. And they come with such a speed. There is nothing, no jets, no nothing else can compare with that.
And I can just see them with their heads kind of turned sideways and those wings tipped back, full armored, and here they come. Whew [Brother Branham makes a whistling sound for description--Ed.], like that. Just come right down and took me right into this pyramid of a constellation of them. I seen I was off--up off the ground. I thought maybe... I heard way in a distance that roar. "Whoom," like a plane when it crosses the sound barrier. You've heard it happen like that, just like a distant roar.
(…)
7-7   In the vision the other day, you know as I had here not long ago telling me about what was going to happen, how I was preaching in--from the sun into this place, and--and then He said, "Now, remember, the second climax is yet to come."
And I thought, "There'll be a message." You remember my message here? The opening of that capstone, where those seven voices and Seals was not even wrote in the Word of God. Remember? And It took me into that pyramid. And Junie Jackson (if you are here), that dream that you give me not long ago, I won't tell it this morning, you were so... God was so perfectly... Excuse me for not giving you the interpretation, 'cause I seen something moving.
J. T., same thing. See? And I--I--I knew that. And Sister Collins, exactly the same. See? And six of those leading right straight to the same thing, and then the vision that I told you all years ago, it happened just the other day (See?), that would happen. And there it is laying right everything laying right out there. It's just something moving. I don't know what it is. God help me, is my prayer. Let us pray.

38.  Vision calls prophet to go West.

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
13-2   One day, coming down five years ago from Brother Norman's, I was driving down the road. And I just had a meeting up there, and the Lord God appeared to me in a vision. And I was setting in front of my gate up here at my house. And it seemed to be bad weather.
Many of you people will remember the vision. It's wrote in my book of visions. I put them down so that I'd be sure that I don't forget them.
And in this vision I saw, there was something that had come through the lane, and there was stones lying all over my yard. And there was graders and scrapers up and down the lane, and trees had been cut down and rooted up. And I started to turn into the gate, and it was all blocked off with stones. And I got out to say to the man, "Why this?" And he got very hostile, shoved me backwards and said, "That's the way with you preachers."
I said, "I only ask you, why do you do this? You--you're coming over on my side of the street here. Why did you do this?" And he just almost slapped me and shoved me back.
13-6   And I thought, "I am just going to tell him that he doesn't know what he is talking about," and a voice spoke, said, "Don't do that. You are a minister."
And I said, "Very well."
And I turned around, and to my right, setting in front of the gate, was an old prairie schooner. If you know what: a covered wagon, with horses hitched to it. And setting opposite the driver's side was my wife. I looked back in the back, and my children was setting back there. I climbed up on the wagon. I said to my wife, "Honey, I've stood all I can stand."
And I picked up the lines, and pulled the lead horse, and started heading westward. And a voice said to me, "When this comes to pass, then go westward."

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
28-5   Let me say, that because that I am going west, it isn't that I am leaving this tabernacle. This is the church that the Lord God gave me. Here's my headquarters. Here's where I stay. I'm only going in obedience to a commandment that's given me by vision. My son, Billy Paul, will remain my secretary. My office will be right here at this church. By the help of God, I'll be here when this thing is finished and preach the Seven Seals; and any tapes that I make, or anything else, will be made right here at this church. And right here, as far as I know, is the place where I can preach with more liberty than I can anywhere else in the world, because of the group of people here that believe and are hungry and holding on. And this feels like home to me. This is the place. And if you notice, the dream spoke the same thing. See, where the food...
Now, but I don't know what lays in the future. But I know Who holds the future. That's the main thing.

39.  Six dreams in a row than a vision.
[Brother Junior Jackson’s dream, #1.]
IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, .SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
14-1   Now, the strange thing happened about a year ago. I was having services one night down at Brother Junior Jackson's, setting right here, a Methodist minister that's received the Holy Ghost and been baptized into the Name of Jesus Christ, and is pastoring one of our sister churches.
Just to show you how God deals with His people... I say this with all my heart. I don't know of any congregation in the entire world, a congregation together any more, where I believe the Spirit of God is than in this congregation. They've got their differences. They're sure not up to where they should be, none of us, but they're as close as anybody else that I know of.
Now, I show you, knowing what was going to happen, Brother Jackson dreamed a dream. He couldn't get away from it. And I was leaving his church, and he just couldn't stand it. How long ago has it been Brother Jackson? [Brother Jackson says, "I had the dream in February of '61."--Ed.]
February of '61 he had the dream. And he come to me, and he said, "Something is on my heart; I must tell you, Brother Branham."
I said, "Go on, Brother Jackson."
And he said, "I dreamed a dream," and there it was. I just set still. And I listened and watched. He said, "I dreamed that there was a great big hill, like out in a field where bluegrass, or something was." And said, "Up on top of this hill, where the water had washed away the soil, there was a top rock up on top of the hill; like the--the top of the mountain. It was rock, no grass. And where the water had washed down, it had cut some kind of readings on these stones, and you were standing there interpreting this reading on these stones." And said, "All of it..." And here's the way he put it, said, "The brethren from Georgia, and from all around, we were all standing together, listening to you interpret that mysterious writing on those stones that mountain."
And said, "Then you picked up something, like from the air, something like a wrecking bar, or--or a crowbar," wasn't it, brother? Something like that, a wrecking bar, real sharp, and said, "How you done it, I don't know." And said, "You struck the top of that mountain, ripped it around, and lifted the cap of it off. It was in the shape of a pyramid. And you ripped the top of it off." Now, that was months and months and months before the pyramid message was preached. And said, "Beneath that was white stone, granite, and you said, 'The sun, or the light, has never shined on this before. Look in on this. Watch this.'"
And that's right, because in the formation of the world, the world was formed before there was light. We all know that. God moved upon the water, and--and then in the beginning He spoke for light. And naturally, down under there in the age that formation was, that light had never come upon that stone.
15-3   And he said, "Look upon this. Light has never come upon it before." And when all of them got up, and I told them to watch that, and all of them come up to look in. But he said while they were looking in, he looked out of the corner of his eye, I believe it was, and watched me. I slipped off to one side and started going towards the west, towards the setting of the sun, coming up a hill, going down a hill, coming up a hill, going down a hill, getting smaller and smaller, and went all the way out of sight.
And he said then, when I did that... He said, "Then the brethren turned around after while, and said, 'Did he vanish? Where did he go?'" And said, "Some took out that way, some took one way, and some another, but a very few stayed and looked on to what I had told them."
Now, notice, the interpretation of the dream, which I never told him one thing, or none of these did I tell any of them. But I said, "Yes," and my heart shaking, I was watching. Now, the mysterious writing... Wait; I'll just leave it for a little bit.
[Brother Beeler’s dream, #2.]
15-6   Not long ago, Brother Beeler... Brother Beeler's usually with us. Are you here Brother Beeler? Yes, back here. Billy said, "Brother Beeler's all tore up. He had a strange dream." I went to Brother Beeler, and he said, down at his house one night when I was going on some calls. And he said, "Brother Branham, I had a strange dream." Said, "I dreamed that I was going down a stream of water towards the west. And there was a road on the left side, and I was on the left side, going westward on the road, seeming like, hunting for cattle. And on the right side, I happened to notice after I got down there, there you were. And you were rounding up a big bunch of cattle, and there was plenty of feed over there." And said, "Then you got those cattle and started them back up the river." And seemingly that I must've nodded to him to watch those cattle, and he said, "Now, it'll be easy for those cattle; I know they'll go the way of least resistance; but Brother Branham wants them to stay on the right side of that river. So I'll go back up this road, and keep them from coming across the river on this side and keep them on that side," but he noticed, I never followed the cattle, but went on westward.
He said, "He must be hunting strays."
No more than he spoke the dream, I saw it. And then, notice, he said he got a little leery about me, so he went back to look. And said that I was coming to a solid mountain. And all at once I vanished. And he wondered what was wrong. He went down, and then he had a little stream on his side that forked off to the left (I think that's right, Brother Beeler. Yeah.) And he noticed from--and over on my side was a terrific falls. And then, he thought I could've got in those falls and--and perished. Then he noticed then, and he said he looked around and he seen the effects of those falls had went down this way, and was causing an artesian well to spurt up; but the water wasn't going back in the ground. He looked across the little branch, or little stream, and he seen some little animals with round ears. And said, "I believe I'll take one." And he crossed.
16-2   Then he got to thinking about me. And he got up on a little knoll to look over and see if there was a little, bitty, narrow ledge you know, that I could've walked around, but said, "There wasn't nothing." And he got worried and said, "What happened to our brother? Wonder what happened to Brother Branham?" And when he got scared, he said he heard me speak. I was standing up on top of a mountain, and told Brother Beeler an interpretation of a dream that I'd give him not long ago, and told him to wait on the Lord, that someday I'd meet him on an island and there he was.
Now, the interpretation of that dream is this: Insomuch that the stream was large, it was the Stream of Life. I was going westward on it, and so was he, because he was on a road... He was running down this road, and on the other side was lots of grass, but lots of thickets, and briars, and jungle. But in there was much grass. That's the way we hunt for the Lord, and the food of the Lord, through difficult. Rounding up the cattle was this church, keeping them on that side. Cattle will actually go on the smooth road, the denomination, if they can, which the road represented denomination.
I started him back up the road to see that they did not go to any denomination. Insomuch that he saw a wall, that was totally impossible to pass, that kept me from going west was that tax case with the government. Nobody can understand how I ever got out of it. It was a wall that blocked me off, but the Lord taken me through it, and I was over it. I'll meet you, Brother Beeler, on the island.
[Brother Roy Roberson’s dream, #3.]
17-2   So now, then immediately after that, Brother Roy Roberson... Brother Roy, are you here tonight? Yes, I--I believe... What? Over at the side. He called me, and he had a dream. And he dreamed that we were rounding cattle (Now, that is the third one.), rounding up cattle. And there was grass belly-deep, plenty of food. All of us brethren were together. And we come to a place for dinner, and Brother Fred Sothmann raised up and said, "Elijah, the great prophet, will speak from here today at noon." And then when we all had dinner, everybody went away, and he wondered why they didn't wait to hear it being spoke.
Now, see how that exactly curbs with Brother Jackson? See that exactly, hits exactly what Brother Beeler said? No one waited to find out.
[Sister Collins’ dream, #4.]
17-4   Notice, immediately after that, Sister Collins (Are you here, Sister Collins?), dreamed a dream of being here at the church, and there was a wedding fixing to take place. And when she did, she saw the bridegroom come in perfect, but the bride wasn't very perfect, yet it was the bride. Now, that's the church. And there was like a communion, or a--a service, going on here, like a dinner being set. And it kind of got next to her because that Brother Neville was serving a dinner in the church, but she said it was the best food that she'd ever seen. She was so hungry. But she thought maybe that in the dream that he shouldn't serve it, and she and Brother Willard was going to go up to the Ranch House and eat. And when they did, the light on the right hand side went out. Now, you know what that is.
Now, the food: the Bride isn't perfect, but the Bridegroom is perfect. The Bride is not perfect yet, but the food that was being given was not literal food; it is the spiritual Food that you have been having all along. Let me stop here on that fourth dream, just a moment.
(…)
[Brother Parnell’s dream, #5.]
20-1   Notice, then what took place? Then immediately after that fourth vision come on, or fourth dream that was told me, up come a Brother Parnell. He's here somewhere: right here. And Billy wasn't here, and the man was frantic. He is from Bloomington I believe, or Bedford? Lafayette, holding meetings... And he had a dream, and he come down to Brother Wood. And he said, "I just can't let this go. I've got to tell it, got to tell Brother Branham. It's bothering me." And God knows, not one dream in between them. Just come one, two, three, four, five, six.
Brother Parnell said, "I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I was going to have a meeting up there, and somehow another there was a meeting here in a new church like." And he said... This new church, how it come out, that he wondered why they wasn't cooperating between the two, or something on that way. And said he was standing here, thought, "Well, I have been in here; I'll just wait, and I'll attend the service." And said a man come through the building with a brown suit on and a book. I think he was writing. And he told Brother Parnell, said, "This is a closed meeting. It's only for deacons and trustees." Well, he kinda felt a little stepped on. So he went out the door of the new church, the church that had been erected, or this one repaired, fixed over; and when he went outside it was snowing, bad weather, wintertime. And none of these people knowed nothing about this.
And when he went out the door, I was standing there, looking westward. And I said, "Don't feel stepped on, Brother Parnell. I'll direct you what you should do."
And Brother Parnell and any of the rest of them knowed I never told them no interpretation. It's right now. Yet seeing it when they would speak it. Did you notice how quick I got out of there, Brother Parnell, to keep from having to tell you? And went on up never said nothing to Brother Wood or nobody else, nobody. Just left it, 'cause I wanted to see what it was leading to. Have you heard me say lately, "I'm bothered?" That is what it was.
And then, Brother Parnell, he said that I said to him, "Brother Parnell, start, and the first place you'll come to will be Zipporah," Zipporah? "Zipporah," which means "hyphen, or stop or something." I said, "Don't stay there." Then go next, and you'll find an old woman; and then don't stop there. Go again, you'll find a real old woman; don't stop there. And all the time we were--I was talking, we were walking through the snow. And I said, "Go till you find my wife, and when you find my wife, stop there." And said he looked, and we was out of the snow on the desert. And I'd vanished. And he looked back and he saw his wife pumping water from a well, and some minister pulling on her, to pull her away from the pump. She was watching him, and he woke up.
21-1   Here's the interpretation of your dream. And I could've told you that night, but I just turned away. Insomuch that Zipporah, and one old woman, and another real, real, old woman, that's churches. See? And Zipporah, being actually the--the wife of Moses, Zipporah, and we notice that I told him not to stop at them; no matter how old they was, they were organizations. Don't stop at them. They've lived their time. But when he comes to my wife, which is my church that Jesus Christ has sent me to in this last day, and here it is; stop there. And I was gone westward.
[Sister Steffy’s dream, #6.]
21-2   Then Sister Steffy... She may not be here because she's been in the hospital. I don't know where... Is Sister Steffy... Yes, here she is. Sister Steffy comes to my house for prayer before she went to the hospital for surgery, that God would help her and bless her, and He certainly did.
And she said, "I had a strange dream, Brother Branham."
I said, "Yes."
And she said, "I dreamed that I was out west and I..." That's the sixth one. And she said, "I dreamed I was out west, and it's rolling country, and when I looked, standing upon a hill, there was a real old man with long white beards, and what hair he had, was growed down across his face, and he had a white wrap-around, something, garment," said, "the wind was blowing it." I think that's right, Sister Steffy, like that. And said, "I kept drawing closer; he was standing up on top of a mountain, watching eastward." And said, "I wondered, 'Who is this old man?'" And she moved closer, closer; and when she got closer, she recognized who it was. It was the immortal Elijah the prophet, standing up there watching the east.
She said, "I must see him." She had a need. And she ran up the hill, and fell down there to speak to him in the name of Elijah, and said when she spoke, she heard a voice say, "What do you want, Sister Steffy?" And it was me.
Your dream was fulfilled right there, Sister Steffy. For immediately after that, I'd went to Louisville. What you was needing was the prayer, see that she got through all right at the hospital; and the sign of me going westward, watching eastward, for my flock.
Notice, when... I went to Louisville, and when I come back, I kind of started in the gate, and there was stobs drove there over my gate. Mr. Goyne, of the city street here, was going up the lane. He said, "Billy, come here." He said, "You have to move your gates and things: fence, stone fence, and gates.
I said, "Well, okay Bill. I said, "I--I'll do it. When?"
He said, "I'll tell you. I'll let you know when."
I said...
"Right, the first of the year they're going to start doing it.
I said, "All right."

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
53-4   The people are present now, the six people that had those dreams. Isn't it strange there wasn't seven? Isn't it very strange that six led right up, and then that vision immediately. The people are here. Brother Jackson here was one; Brother Parnell was another one; Sister Collins was another one; Sister Steffy was another one; Brother Roberson was another one, and Brother Beeler was another one. And the heavenly Father knows there was not one more pertaining to it. At the end of that seventh one, which was Sister Steffy, immediately, the vision broke forth.
[Vision capped six dreams, #7.]
IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
22-1   So I started to go back in the house, and wife said, "I have got to grocery right quick." And I went down the lane, and a boy, Raymond King, which is a city engineer... I always called him "Mud Ear" 'cause when we was little kids swimming together, he hit a guy in the ear with a lump of mud, and we always called him, "Mud Ear." He lives right down the lane from me, about--about second door below Brother Wood.
And so, I said, "Mud, come here a minute."
He said, "All right, Billy." He come over there.
I said, "That stake that you drove down..."
He said, "Billy, it's--they are going to take the whole thing in." Said, "All these trees, these fences, and everything else has got to be moved."
I said, "Well, the engineer told me that my property come to the middle of the street."
He said, "Yes, but they're going to expand it. Going to take it in anyhow." He said, "Mine's also."
I said, "Well Brother Wood is a--is a stonemason." And I said, "I--I'll just get him to move it back."
He said, "Billy, don't touch it. Let the contractor do that. That's the parsonage, ain't it?"
I said, "Yes sir."
He said, "Let him do it." He said, "You know what I mean."
I said, "Yes."
And I turned away, and that quick something struck it. I went home, went into my den room, picked up that book, and there it was. Wasn't concrete blocks; it was stones. I said, "Meda, get ready."
23-1   Six straight dreams, and then the vision capped it. "When these things comes to pass, turn westward."
I called Tucson. Brother Norman's got a place. I don't know where I'm going. I don't know what to do. I'm just in a... I'm standing... I don't know what to do. I'm leaving a home I don't have to pay rent on. My wages is a hundred dollars a week. And I almost have to pay a hundred dollars a month for a house. I'm right here with my brothers and sisters, where I am loved. And I'm going, I don't know where. I don't know why. I can't tell you why. But there's only one thing I know: just follow what He says do. I don't know which a-way to turn, what to do; it's none of my...
I guess Abraham felt that way when He told him, "Go over across the river." He didn't know what to do. "But sojourn." Separate himself. I didn't know what to do.

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END. SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
45-1   And then if this is a continuation for the sounding of these last trumpets or these last seven thunders that's coming forth, the mysteries, the last seals, it will have to compete--or compare with the rest the Scripture. And if them first ones in there opened with a blast of thunder, the second ones will too, that's on the backside.
Watch what happens. If the vision was Scripture, then it must be interpreted by the Scripture, or a continuation of the same Scripture.
Notice, Revelations 3 and 4. Seven thunders--seven thunders and then notice... (3 and 4). And then what? An oath from that mighty angel that time was finished. When these thunders (You see?), brought forth their voices, then the angel... Just think of it. A Angel clothed in a cloud, and a rainbow covered over His head. Why, you know Who that is. Put one foot on the land and on the sea and lift up His hand and swore that when them seven thunders uttered their voices, that time would be no more. And if the ministry of the mysteries of God is finished... What if that is them seven mysteries coming forth?
In a humble little church like ours, that the Almighty has come and regarded the low estate of His people.

40.  Demos Shakarian and the Full Gospel Business Men Association.

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
54-1   Now, I hate--I didn't want to come tell you this, but I wouldn't hold nothing back from you. Now, as far as I know... Let me tell you. As far as I know, I'll be leaving in the next two or three days, Wednesday morning, to--for Tucson. I'm not going to Tucson to preach; I'm not going there to preach. I'm going to Tucson to establish my family in school, and then become a wanderer. I'm going up to Phoenix to hold that little line of meetings, which will probably be just little messages around; and--and then... maybe... I don't... I think they want me to preach in the convention one night. They never said nothing about it; they just said I'd be there. See, that don't sound very good to me. And I've got a word, THUS SAITH THE LORD to Brother Shakarian too. I don't know what he'll do about it, but I've got the word to tell him. I don't know what he'll do; it's up to him.
54-2   Did you notice the last "Voice"? It is supposed not to be an organization, but they declared their creed. An organization, then I'll drop away. I'm out of such.

1963

1. Thus Saith The Lord.  [Dreams]

INFLUENCE.   PHOENIX, AZ   63-0112
E-36   Now, a little girl come to me the other day. She may be setting present now. And she said, "Brother Branham, I gave you a dream. And in this dream I--I had a certain thing; and I--I want you to tell me." And I set down. Now, if there's any out in here outside of Pentecostal realms, let me excuse myself to you a moment.
And she said, "You never told me my dream."
I said, "Honey, set down just a minute." And I said, "Your father and mother are very good friends of mine, retired farmers, who came from a long ways to sojourn with us." And I said, "They--they believe me as a servant of Christ. You're just a child about twelve years old." I think she goes to school with my Becky.
And I said, "Look, you're going to meet a lot things out here, honey, in the name of Christianity." And I said, "When you find a man that's got every interpretation, just like this, got every--just like that, in the Name of the Lord," I said, "you be careful about that. That's contrary to the Scripture."
Jesus said there was many lepers in the days of Elijah, but only one was sent to him: one. Many widows in the days of Elisha, but only one was he sent to. Many things that Jesus did not do, many times. Those gimmicks that's got every answer, be careful. When somebody stands up and speaks in the Name of the Lord, that must be true. It must be exactly the truth.
You might in your mind be impressed. I said, "Now, honey, I believe I could tell you what I think your dream is, but to tell you in the Name of the Lord, no, sir." 'Cause she knows the things... I said, "Have I ever spoke to you in the Name of the Lord but what it happened?"
I said, "Thousands has come and said this, that." I said, "I cannot tell you what your dream is till I see it over again, and then He tells me. Then I can say the Lord told me. Until then, I don't know."
I don't want to take my own influence and my own opinions. I can't say "THUS SAITH THE LORD," because that's me thinking it. That's the best of my opinion. We must be sincere, because we've got the greatest thing in the world. The greatest treasure of heaven is Christ among us. Why do we want a substitute of some little influence to try to make ourselves somebody big, among somebody here? Why not be a humble servant to Christ?

2.  Striking organization.

AN ABSOLUTE.   PHOENIX, AZ   63-0127
E-70  (…)  I come to Phoenix the other day with a determination I'd never strike again at any organization. The first thing you know, a vision struck before me the first night, and I seen myself turned towards the desert. Something turned me around and showed me a great big, old, cold church, said, "Stay there, 'fore you go there." Oh, my. There's something I can't keep from doing. It's an absolute that's on the inside of me: more than my life to me. Yes. I can no more change it than I could change the color of my eyes. I couldn't do it. Now, by His grace I'm tied to Him, the One that said, like He did in the days of Moses, "I AM."

LEAN NOT UNTO THY OWN UNDERSTANDING.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0120
108   Now, notice the churches of today do the same thing. They have formed a great super race of understanding in their denominational systems. That they have such a super understanding, they don't want nobody else to fool with it, nobody to come in unless they belong to that group.
Don't tell me; I live in Tucson, Arizona. I come down there three years ago; I met with the council of churches, and I said, "I never come to start a church. I come to fellowship with you. I come to help you. I'm a missionary, evangelist, whatever I do."
They said, "Are you coming here to start a church?"
I said, "No, sir. I come here... If I want a church, I got one in Indiana." I said, "I come here because the Lord led me here in a vision. I'm going to stay for a while now, unless He leads me away, but I never come to start a church. I come to help you brethren."
That's been three years ago; I've never been invited to one place. Why? Because there was a get-together right after that, and said, if any man had me in their pulpit, they would excommute that preacher. See why? Leaning to their own understanding! Certainly, that's is--is so-called; they form their super understanding.
'Less you put your name on their book, you say--you're lost. A minister told me that. "Oh," you say, "that was some quack." It was a Pentecostal.
Jack Moore and I set there and listened at him in Dallas, Texas. He said he was going to have to take a man off the book.
I said, "Why?"
"'Cause he fellowshipped with you."
I said, "Well, take it off."
He said, "Well, he's lost then."
I said, "Lost?"
"Why," he said, "if his name is not on it..."
I said, "You mean you're a district presbyter and believe that?"
He said, "That's the truth."
I said, "Get off the phone, mister. You--you... That ain't the grace of God, that--that. See?"
"For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body, and become members of that Body." I don't care what brand you got on you, that don't have nothing to do with it. You are absolutely a Christian by birth; that's the only way. That's the only way you can be; not by joining, not by creeds, not exciting this, or reciting this, or any other thing, or by education, theology. You're a Christian when you're borned again, and you cannot be borned again 'less you've been elected to be borned again. "For no man can come to Me except My Father draws him, and all that My Father has given Me will come. (Amen.) I'll raise him up again at the last day."
These great so-called Bible schools we have, they'll say, lean upon their own learning. Oh, my. They, no matter what the Word says, they can so plainly explained it, oh, to their ownselves, make their ownselves believe it, and their own kind believe it, that, "The days of miracles is passed. There is no such thing as prophet, prophets, apostles. There is no such a thing as gifts of healing, and so forth. It all ended back in the Bible days." They can make themselves believe that.
118   You know, the Bible said you can believe a lie and be damned by it. See? That's exactly the truth. They form, no matter what the Word of God says, they lean to their own understanding. They--they lean on it; they believe it; they think It's the Truth. You can keep believing a lie over and over and over till it's the truth to you. That's right.
But how do we know whether it's Truth or not? God proved it's Truth, 'cause it's in His Word and He a-vindicates It. He does His own interpretation of It.

3.  Sword in my hand is the Word.  [March, 1963]

THE BREACH.   JEFF. IN   63-0317E
68-1  (…)  How many in here has read "What Time Is It, Sirs?" or has heard it, you know, "What Time Is It, Sirs?" That's bothered me quite a bit. If you haven't, I wish some way, if you could get a--to hear it or some way... Kind of bothered me, I just wanted to drop this before starting the service. About--about a week or ten days ago I was so disturbed, I just... I--I--I just didn't... I wouldn't take services or anything, because I--I didn't know. It--it seemed like it could be something that was bad, and I didn't know just what it was. So I...
One early morning, I got up to go up into Sabino Canyon, which from the house is only about thirty minutes drive to the--or forty to the head of the Sabino Canyon; then there's a road that runs thirty miles up into the mountain: strange country up there. I can be here on the desert where it's eighty and ninety, right now, and in thirty minutes be in eight foot of snow (See?), on top of the mountain.
We was at Phoenix just recently where it was twenty something, twenty-eight degrees (They had the swimming pool heated, people swimming.) and about forty minutes drive from there, it was forty below zero at Flagstaff. See? That's the difference from the up currents and the desert... And very healthy for asthmatics and so forth. But...
Now, I went up in the canyon, and I climbed way as high as I could go, and I--I--I asked the Lord, while setting up in there, what all this meant and so forth. I was kinda bothered and didn't know just what to do.
And so, while I was praying, and strange thing happened. I--I--I want to be honest. Now, I could've fallen asleep. It could've been like a trance, or it could've been a--a vision. I'm more less inclined to believe that it was a vision that... I had my hands out saying, "Lord, what does this blast mean, and what does these seven Angels in a constellation of--of the pyramid, picking me up from off the ground and turning eastward: what does it mean?"
68-6   I was standing there in prayer, and something happened. And now, something fell in my hand. Now, I know if you don't understand spiritual things, it may seem very strange. But something struck in my hand; and when I looked, it was a sword. And the handle was made of pearl, the prettiest pearl I ever seen. And the--the guard (you know, where I guess, it's to keep your hands from being lanced, you know, while you're--the--the people were dueling) was gold. And the saber's blade wasn't too long, but it was just razor sharp, and it was glistening silver. And it was the prettiest thing I ever seen. It just fit my hand exactly, and I was holding it. I said, "Isn't that pretty?" I looked at it, and I thought, "But you know, I always afraid of a sword." I was kind of glad that I lived out of the days that they used them, because I--I'm afraid of a knife. And so I--I thought, "What would I do with that?"
And while holding it in my hand, a voice from somewhere said, "That is the King's sword." And then it left me.

ONE IN A MILLION.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0424
15   Now, radio audience, this may seem strange that I have said, but it's the truth. And God is my Judge.
I looked in my hand, and there was a sword, had a sheath over the handle part. And the handle itself was made of pearl, and just looked like kind of a gold-like guard over the handle part. And the--the knife itself looked rather like it was kind of a shiny like, oh, something like chrome or something glistening in the sun.
Now, it was about ten or eleven o'clock in the morning, way on top of a mountain. You can imagine how a person (that I feel that I'm in my right mind) would feel standing there with a sword from nowhere, people for miles and miles, holding that in your hand. I felt of it, took and waved the blade back and forth, and, why, it was a sword.
And I looked around. I said, "Well, now, how could that ever happen? Here I am standing here, right here, and no one around for miles and miles, and where did that come from?" I said, "Well, I--I suppose maybe it's the--the Lord telling me it's my end time."
And a Voice spoke and said, "This is the Sword of the Lord."
And I thought, "Well, a sword, then it's to--for like a king to knight." You know how they used to do in England and different places. I thought, "That's what that is for, to knight." And I thought, "Well, maybe I'm supposed to lay hands on people, or..." I had all kinds... The human mind can be all messed up, you know. You don't know. Our minds is finite; His is infinite. So and as I was, it... Then it left my hand and I didn't know where it went, just disappeared. Why, if a person didn't understand a little bit about spiritual things, you--you'd go crazy like that. You'd be standing there, wondering what happened.
And He said, "The vision is not your end time. It's for your ministry. That Sword is the Word. The Seven Seals will be opened, the mysteries of..."
21   And then two weeks after that, or two months, rather, after that, I was up in the mountain with a bunch of friends when it happened. Seven Angels, just as clear as you're standing here, came sweeping down from heaven. The rocks in the mountains rolled out and down the hills, and--and people standing there were screaming and going on, you know, and the dust flying everywhere. And when it was, He said, "Return to your home. Now, will be, each Angel will be one of the seals of the Seven Seals."
Which it's on tape. And the book will be out pretty soon, being now it's kind of grammarized. As you know, my grammar's not very good, and people wouldn't... You just have to be people that love me and know how to understand me on my grammar. But some theologian is grammarizing it for me, and taking out all the--the... Well, maybe I said the wrong word there. I don't even know. So I heard someone laughing, so I guess that "grammarize" wasn't right. But like the Dutchman, you take me for what I mean and not what I say, really.

4.  Rapturing faith needed.

ISRAEL AT THE RED SEA. 1.   JEFF. IN   53-0326
43   But God's just now loosening up the church everywhere, getting in order now so He can get into the rapture, got to give it rapturing faith before it can go in the rapture.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
127-4   Now, remember, in the days of the seventh angel, his sounding forth, blasting forth the Gospel Trumpet, he is to finish all the mysteries of God. Just like here come forth in the early church ages (We'll get it after while.), a doctrine, then it become a saying first, then a doctrine, and then become a statute, then become a church, and through the dark ages, and out of the dark ages come the first Reformation--Luther. And he brought with him all kinds of mysterious things that happened during that church age, all back in there, then... But he never finished it up.
Then along come Wesley with sanctification, got some more of it, but still never finished it, left loose ends everywhere, such as sprinkling instead of baptism, and Luther took "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" instead of the "Lord Jesus Christ," all these different things.
Then along come the Pentecostal age with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and they cabbaged down on that. Now, there cannot be no more ages. That's all of it; that's the Philadelphia, or the--not--the Laodicea Age. But then the... We found in the studying of the Scripture that the messenger to the age come right at the end of the age every time. Paul come at the end of the age. We find out that Irenaeus come at the end of the age. Martin, end of the age. Luther, the end of the Catholic age; and what?--Wesley, at the end of the Lutheran age; and Pentecost, at the end of the age of sanctification through the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
And at the end of the Pentecostal age we are supposed to receive, according to the Word, as God help me tonight to show you through here, that we are to see--receive a messenger that will take all those loose ends out there and reveal the whole secret of God for the rapturing of the Church.
And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we--we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we--we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth, and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written.

THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS.   JEFF. IN   63-1124E
15-1   That's the reason I do believe that when that Bride is called out and elected and set in the Book of Life, there'll come a sound from heaven that'll take such a baptism of the Holy Spirit into that Bride that'll take Her from the earth in a rapturing grace. God promised it.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
4   And I want you to get built up now in the--the holy Oracles of God, in the faith, the faith of this hour. The faith, it's going to take more faith than ever was in any age, for this has to be rapturing faith, be taken up. And so we want you to believe tonight in all that you have seen, heard, the Word that you have heard preached, the--the signs and wonders that you've seen done. We want you to accumulate all that together in your heart and consider it whether if that be God or not.

5.  Israel and Rome.  [See 1957  #5]

THE FIRST SEAL   JEFF. IN   63-0318
168-4   And after the church is taken away, Rome and--and the Jews will make a covenant with one another. The Bible said they would, with the holy people. And now notice, they'll make it, because why? This nation is going to be busted, and the rest of the world that's on the gold standard is busted. You know that. If we're living off of taxes, due bills for forty years from now, where are we at? There's only one thing can happen. That's to call in the currency and pay off the bonds; and we can't do it. Wall Street owns them, and Wall Street's controlled by the Jews; the rest of it's in the Vatican, and the Jews has got the rest of it in Wall Street with the commerce of the world.

6.  Vision of constellation of seven Angels.  [The King’s Sword.]

THE SEVENTH SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0324E
559-5   Now, notice, remember the vision of the constellation? Charlie, I... Here you are. Something going on, I told you, this week that you... It's been all around you, but I wonder if you noticed it. Remember the constellation of the vision of the Angels when I left here to go to Arizona? You remember, "What Time Is It, Sirs?" Do you remember that?
Notice, there was only one great burst of thunder, and seven Angels appeared. Is that right? One burst of thunder, seven Angels appeared.
And I saw the Lamb when He had opened the First Seal, and I heard as it was a voice of a thunder, and one of the four beasts said, Come and see. Notice, one thunder, seven messages that's been sealed up and cannot be revealed until the last day, at this age. See what I mean?
Now, have you noticed the mysterious parts of this week? That's what it is. That's what it's been. It's been, not a human being, a man; it has been the Angels of the Lord. Notice, there's witnesses of three setting in here, that a week ago (a little over a week ago) I was up way back into the mountains, nearly to Mexico, with two brethren that's setting here, picking cocklebur--or sand burrs off of my trouser leg, and a blast went off that almost, looked like, shook the mountains down. Now, that's right. I never told my brethren, but they noticed a difference. And He said to me, "Now, be ready. Go east."
Here's the interpretation of that vision. See? "Now, to let you know, Brother Sothmann has not got the game that he went after." We was trying to get it for him. And He said, "Now, tonight, for a sign to you, he isn't going to do it. You must consecrate yourself at this time for the visitation of these Angels." And I felt beside myself, you remember. And I was in the west; the Angels was coming east. And as they come by, I was picked up with them (You remember that?), coming east.
And Brother Fred in here tonight is a witness, and Brother Norman. As we went down, I almost persuaded that man to stay and get his game. Is that right, Brother Sothmann? Yeah, there he stands right there. I persuaded... but yet, He said, "He won't do it." I never said nothing, went on. Something setting by the side of the tent the day that... You remember, Brother Sothmann, that I, as soon as some things was being told that I put you and Brother Norman... Where's Brother Norman? Back there. Put them under oath that they wouldn't mention what was taking place. Is that right? Did I turn around and walk away from that tent, like that? Is that right? Because this is what it was, exactly what it was, and knowing that I couldn't say it till it happened to see if the people would understand it.
And did you notice that one Angel, I said in there, was a strange Angel? He looked more to me than any of the rest of them. You remember that? They were in a constellation--three on a side and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would've been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of them. You remember, I said he had his chest out like that, and was flying eastward. You remember like that? And I said, "It picked me up, lifted me up." Do you remember that?
Here it is. The one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I've wondered all my life. Amen. Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don't know what this has meant. For one time in life... I prayed; I cried out to God. I--I--I--after that Phoenix meeting, any of the people there with me know; I laid in the mountains. One morning I got up and went up in Sabino Canyon; it's a great rugged high mountains. And I'd went up in there, and there was a little foot trail after you lead off--go on up into Lemmon Mountain which is a thirty mile walk, and there about thirty foot of snow up there.
561-2   So, up in the mountain real early before day, going up through this little foot trail, rolling rocks along, I felt led to turn this a-way. And I turned and went up into some great jagged rocks, oh, my, hundreds of feet high. And I knelt down between those rocks. I laid down this Bible and laid down this book, this little tablet. I said, "Lord God, what does this vision mean?" I'm--I'm--I'm... I said, "Lord, does it mean my dying?" (You remember I told you I thought it might mean my death, 'cause something exploded till it just shook me to pieces. You remember. How many knows--have heard it was? Why, sure, all of you.) And I thought it could mean my death. And then in the room, I said, "Was--what--what--what was it, Lord. What--what does it mean? Does it mean I'm going to die? If it is, all right; I won't tell my family. Just let me go on (See?), if my work's finished." And I said... Now, what was it? But He sent a witness back (You remember me telling you?) that it wasn't that, it was a furtherment of my work.
Oh, you get it. See? And setting up in Sabino Canyon... The heavenly Father knows this, just as true as you see that come to pass, those Angels come right down and a-vindicated every message to be the same. Then you know whether it comes from God or not. It was foretold you by a vision. I couldn't tell you until the service was over, 'cause I was forbidden to.
In Sabino Canyon, sitting up there that morning, I had my hands up, and my--the wind had blowed my old black hat down. When I was standing there with my hands up, praying. I said, "Lord God, what does this mean? I can't understand it, Lord. What am I to do? If it's my going home time, let me go up here where they'll never find me. I don't want nobody to be mourning around if I'm going. I--I want just the family to think that I just took a walk, and they--they won't find me. Hide me away somewhere. If I'm going to go away, why, just let me go. Maybe Joseph will find my Bible laying here someday, and let him use It. See? If I'm going away, let me go, Lord."
And I had my hands out, and all at once something hit my hand. I don't know. I can't say. Did I go to sleep? I don't know. Did I go into a trance? I don't know. Was it a vision? I can't tell you. Only thing I can say is when I... Just the same thing like them Angels was. And it struck my hand, and I looked, and it was a sword, and it had pearl handles, real pretty; and had a guard over it with gold, and the blade looked like, something like a chrome, like silver, only it was real shiny. And it was so feather-edge sharp, Oh, my. And I thought, "Isn't that the prettiest thing?" just fit my hand. I thought, "That's awful pretty." But I said, "Hey, I'm always 'fraid of them things"--a sword. And I thought, "What will I do with that?"
And just then a voice shook down through there that rocked the rocks, said, "It's the Sword of the King." And then I come out of it. "The Sword of the King..."
Now, if it said, "a Sword of a King..." but it said, "The Sword of the King," and there's only one "the King," and that's God. and He has one Sword; that's His Word, what I live by. And so help me, God, standing over His holy desk here with this holy Word laying here, It's the Word. Amen.
Oh, what a day we're living in, what a great thing. See the mystery and secret? The third... Standing there, when this left me, something just come to me and said, "Don't fear." Now, I didn't hear no voice, like on the inside of me spoke. I just tell you the truth, just exactly what happened. Something hit and said, "Don't fear. This is that third pull."
Third pull, you remember it? He said, "You've had so many impersonators on this, what you tried to explain." But said, "Don't even try this." Do you remember it? How many remembers that vision? Why, it's all over the tape and everywhere. That's been about six years ago--seven years ago: been seven years ago. Said, "Don't try to explain that." Said, "This is the third pull, b ut I'll meet you in there." That right? He said, "Don't try..."
I was standing with a--a little baby's shoe when He told me, there, "Make your first pull; and when you do, the fish will run after the lure." Said, "Then watch your second pull" said, "because there'll only be small fish." He said, "Then the third pull will get it."
And all them ministers got around me, said, "Brother Branham, we know you can do it. Hallelujah, Brother Branham." (That's where I always get tied up--with a bunch of preachers. See? I love people; they want you to explain everything, this, that.)
And I said, "Well, oh, all...?..." I said, "I--I don't know." I said, "I've understand fishing." I--I said, "Now, the first thing you do... Here's the way it's done. You see all the fish around; you got to jerk the lure." (Well, that's exactly the tactics of fishing.) So I said, "Jerk the lure." Now, you see when I jerked the lure the first time, now the fish takes out after it, but they were little ones. That's just like they were catching. So then I--I said, "Then you'll--you'll set..." and I jerked it out on the bank and I had a fish, but it looked like a skin over the lure; it just--he was so little. And then I was standing there and something said, "I told you not to do that." And I started crying.
All the line was tangled around me like this, and I had--was standing there crying with my head down like that. I said, "God, oh, I... Forgive me. I'm a stupid person. Lord, don't... Forgive me." And I had this line and that, what I had in my hand, was a little baby's shoe, about that long. And I had... That string was about as big around as my finger, about a half inch, like. And the eyelet in this shoe was just about the size of a--littler than one-sixteenth, probably, of an inch of the eyelet. And I was trying to lace this little shoe up with this great big inch cord. And a voice come, said, "You can't teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things." Said, "Now, let them alone."
563-5   And just then He picked me up. And He took me up and set me way up high to where a meeting was going on, looked like a tent or a cathedral of some sort. And I looked, and there was a little box-like, little place over in the side. And I seen that Light was talking to somebody above me, that Light that you see there on the picture. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over to that tent, and said, "I'll meet you there." And said, "This will be the third pull, and you won't tell it to nobody."
And in Sabino Canyon, He said, "This is the third pull." And there's three great things that goes with it, and one unfolded today, or yesterday, the other one unfolded today, and there's one thing that I cannot interpret, because it's in an unknown language. But I was standing right there and looked right straight at it, and this is the third pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God... Oh, my. That's the reason all heaven was silent.
Now, I--I'd better stop right here. See? I just--I just feel checked not to say no more about it. See? So just remember, the Seventh Seal, the reason it was not opened (See?), the reason It did not reveal it, no one should know about it. And I want you to know before I even knowed any word about that, that vision come years ago. You remember that? And here it is just as this other has--slides right straight into the Word exactly where it was. And God knows my heart; I never one time thought of such a thing as that, and here it was. It's later than we think.
Oh, my. Just shows it's from God, for (See?), it fits exactly in the promises of God from the end of the--the message.
You notice. Notice now, for the end of time message this Seal, after all... He--He's revealed all the six Seals, but it don't say nothing about the Seventh. And the end time Seal, when it starts, will be absolutely a total secret according to the Bible. Before knowing that... And remember, Revelations 10:1, 7 (1-7, chapter 10:1-7) at the end of the seventh angel's message, all the mysteries of God would be known. We're at the end time, the opening of the Seventh Seal.
Now, how did I know the other day, last Sunday, a week ago today, when I was preaching on "Be humble, be humble; remember God deals in little things." I didn't realize what it really was talking about, and now I see it. It is in such a humble way. You'd think that something like that would be revealed to the Vatican, or, but it comes just like John the Baptist. It comes like the birth of our Lord in a stable. Glory to God. So help me, the hour is at hand. We're here. Oh, my.
Now, do you see it? The Truth of God's vision, the seven Angels, bringing me from the west. They were coming from the west, coming back east, bringing here for this message tonight. Oh, my.
Now, the voice of that great thunder and the mission that was brought here has been revealed that it--and proven that it was of God. Just think now. I knew not these Seals, and they been revealed this week. Did anybody think of that? Of those seven Angels, being this being the message that was coming forth, them Angels bringing me back here for that?
Remember, the seventh messenger was... The seven messengers was... The noted one to me, the seventh Angel, it seemed more to me than any. Now, see, they were standing like this (Now, we just want you to notice.), and I was standing here, and I was watching those other... See, one... First bunch of little birds, feathers all beat down. You remember them? and they all flew eastward. And the second bunch were brighter, bigger birds, looked like doves, pointed wings; they flew eastward: first pull, second pull. Then the next was Angels.
And as--I was standing right there, and this explosion left, and I was looking this way, towards the west, and they come and just picked me up in there, and I went plumb out of my knowing. And the one of them coming was the one that looked so strange to me, was the one on my, be to left where I entered the constellation at, but counting from the left to the right, it would've been the seventh Angel (See?), coming across.
Now, remember the seven messengers. Do you remember the pyramid of white rock of Junior Jackson's dream that I interpreted to you? Notice, the night that I left... And I--there were six dreams came, and every one of them directly to the same thing. Then the vision started and sent me west. Is Junior... He was watching... Why, notice. Look how perfect. Now, I'm--I'm hoping and trusting that you people realize that I'm trying to put this grace on Jesus Christ, Who is the Author of all of it; and the only reason you never heard me talk like this before in your life... But this hour is approaching. See it?
566-1   Notice now, to make it sure to you, so it could be driven down... I'm fixing to leave you again. I don't know where I go. I must preach the Gospel other places. But now, that you might say, "I've heard all that kind of fanaticism." I don't know what. I can't judge any other man. I only have to answer to God for what I--for--for myself. But has there ever been one time I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord it wasn't right in all these years? Nobody else can say so, because I always told it just the way He told it.

7.  Cloud of Angels and face of Jesus photographed on Feb. 28.  [Daniel 7,  Revelation 1]
DANIEL 7:13
   I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
REVELATION 1:14
   His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

8.  Sealed on back of Book.  [Article in “Life” magazine May 1963 “Odd Sights at Heights”]
LUKE 21:25-27
   And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 
   Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 
   And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
   And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY.   JEFF. IN   63-0728
33-3   The reason that was such a tremendous thing, that He spoke of it here and showed those Seven Thunders and "Look" and "Life" my "Life" magazine there, packed that circle of cloud and light there that they could not understand and don't know it yet, but here telling, "Go there and wait for these mysteries to be revealed" and here months before it happened; and then it happened, and exactly the way He said it would do.
Did you notice in that picture even that Angel on the right when He was being materialized, coming down, with His wings back and His head setting sideways? There it is right there in the picture just exactly: months before it happened, told here that He's going to bring the Body of believers together to reveal, take up them lost ends.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
80   I got in the room there and got to speaking to God. I run my concordance to take Him back to Daniel, where it said, "And he came to the Ancient of Days Whose hair was white as wool." I said, "Lord, I--I--I don't know what to say, and I've got the responsibility." Now, that was before the--and remember, before the Seven Seals was opened, about a year or more before. I was praying there, "Lord, what was it?"
And I looked, standing before me, and there stood a man and he was a judge, and he had a white wig on. The old judges of ancient days used to wear a white wig to show that he was a supreme authority.
And then when I seen Jesus with the white wig, I said it only vindicates the truth that we know, that He is the supreme Authority. God witnessed the same thing on Mount Transfiguration, said, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him," the supreme authority.
Then back out there at the beginning of the Seven Seals, when those seven Angels come down in that pyramid form, stood there, and told me to return back here and speak on those Seven Seals. He'd be with me. He showed me what they were, the lost things. I always thought it was sealed on the back of the Book and it'd be something wasn't wrote in the Book; but it turned out that it was made known that He cannot do that. It isn't something that's written in the Book... It's something that's been hid in the Book. "For whosoever shall take one Word from It or add one word to It..." So it is a mystery that's been in the Book in these seven church ages. Each one of them produced a--a mystery, all about water baptism, and these other things that they've fumbled about so long.
Then when that went up, the big observatories from way down in California, plumb down in Mexico, over Tucson, everywhere, taking the picture of It. It was a mysterious sight. Brother Fred Sothmann there, setting right back there, and I and Brother Gene Norman, standing right there present when it went up... They took the picture, still they don't know what about it. Here sometime ago, everybody saying, "Looky here at this, looks like this, and the--them angels' wings, how they're folded in there."
85   One day, turning it to the right, looking, there was Jesus Christ just as perfect as Hofmann ever drawed Him. It was standing there with a white wig on, looking back down towards the earth, showing that He's supreme Authority. The heavens declare it; the Bible declares it; the Message declares it. It's all the same: Supreme Authority, with the white wig on. You see His black beard under it. Many of you have seen the picture. We got it back there. Just turn it to the right, sideways; look at it. There He is, just as perfect as it was--if it would been photographed of Him. They're looking at it from the wrong angle. You got to look at it in the right angle. And only the Lord God can reveal which is the right angle. Turn it to your right and look at it. There He is just as perfect, and it'd been photographed up there.
The first time I ever seen Him, He looked like a Head of Hofmann. I had never seen that before; and in Billy Sunday's tabernacle years later, I saw it. My house has never been without one of the pictures since.
Then, here in the skies, saying that the very God that I saw up in this vision out here, just a little boy out here by where this schoolhouse stands, He looked like that. And here in the heavens, thirty-three years later, declare it, that it's the truth. That's the way He looks: not some mystic something of somebody's idea.

CHRIST REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD.   JEFF. IN   65-0822M
160   A little lady here, she don't belong in this organization (this organization)--belong in this congregation. She comes from somewhere else, and she come in this morning, got a picture there. She was--give it to my son, was very much astonished. I don't know whether she ever heard about this or not. I don't know. She had a picture of this Angel of the Lord that was on the Seven Church Ages--Seven Seals opened out there. When it did, said, "looked back through there" and she seen that standing in the sky in a dream. And she looked back through there and seen that--seen somebody in white marching forward and behind it. Said it looked, said, "Brother Branham, it was you." And said marched in there, said, "Behind you was people of different colors packing banners, Georgia, Alabama, all different kinds of places, marching forward coming up into the Headship to where Christ was being revealed into the vision. Oh, hallelujah. We're in the last days, and the last hours of the days.

I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE.   Shreveport, LA   65-1127E
209   How many of you take the tapes? You heard of: "What Time Is It, Sirs?" Did we show those magazines and things a year before it happened? Science is stumped on it. There was the Lord Jesus crowned and with that white wig on as you see in the Bible, in Revelations 1, and the Daniel: Supreme Judge of heaven and earth. Right there, when science can't even see It themselves. And in the observatory, out there in the University of Arizona and down through Mexico, they're searching, have been for the last two years. And there it was told you, it was going to happen before.

9.  Cowboy’s Meditation.

THE BREACH.   JEFF. IN   63-0317E
107-3   Daniel said the judgment was set, and the books were opened, and ten thousands times ten thousands of thousands ministered to Him: King and Queen. And then another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life. That's for the church. And the Queen and the King stood there.
   As the cowboy's meditation said...

   Last night as I laid on the prairie,
   I gazed to the stars in the sky;
   And I wondered if ever a cowboy,
   Could drift to that sweet by and by.
   There's a road to that bright happy region;
   But it's dim there, a trail, so they say,
   But the broad one that leads to perdition,
   Is posted and blazed all the way.
   They speak of another great Owner...

He's speaking in the terms of his cattle life. If you was ever in a roundup, you can see it plain.

   They speak of another great Owner,
   And He's never over stocked, so they say.
   He'll always make room for a sinner,
   That'll drift on that straight narrow way.
   They say He will never forsake you,
   And He knows every action and look,
   For--for safety we'd better get branded,
   Have our name on His great tally Book.
   For they say there will be a great roundup,
   When cowboys like dogies will stand,
   To be marked by the riders of judgment (Them prophets and seers),
   That's posted and knows every brand.

108-1   If you ever were in a roundup, see a boss stand out there, and riders and milling in that herd of cattle. He will see his own brand go by, and he will motion to the boss; and the boss will see it, and give him a nod. His pony runs right in around, around this milling cropping bunch of horns like that and cut his own cows out. See?

   They say there will be a great roundup,
   And cowboys like dogies will stand,
   That'll be marked by the riders of judgment,
   That's posted and knows every brand.
   See? So he said:
   I guess I will be a stray yearling,
   Just a man that's condemned to die; (Unbranded; he--they make soup out of him.)
   That'll be cut in the bunch with the rusties,
   When the boss of those riders come by.

See Who it is? The Boss of the riders. That's the Lamb to the seven messengers who's posted and knows every brand. See? Hm.
108-2   Notice, here He comes, leaves the throne as an Intercessor, as a slain Lamb to become a lion, King, to bring the whole world into judgment that's rejected. Our Kinsman Redeemer then is King over all. Why? He's got the Title Deed of Redemption. It all lays within His hand. I'm glad I know Him...?...

10.  Seven thunders utter their voices.  [Revelation 10:1-7]  [Book of redemption.]
II THESSALONIANS 1:7
   And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
25-5   And as soon as they left, a constellation of larger birds came. They looked like doves, sharp pointed wings, kind of a gray color, a little lighter color than what these first little messengers was. And they were coming eastward swiftly. And no sooner than they got out of my sight, I turned again to look westward, and there it happened. There was a blast that actually shook the whole earth. Now, don't miss this. And you on tape, be sure you get this right.
First a blast. And I thought it sounded like a sound barrier, or ever-what you call it when planes cross the sound, and the sound comes back to the earth: just shook like roared, everything: Then it could've been a--a great clap of thunder and lightning like. I didn't see the lightning. I just heard that great blast that went forth that sounded like it was south from me, towards Mexico.
But it shook the earth, and when it did, I was still looking westward. And way off into eternity I saw a constellation of something coming. It looked like that it might've been little dots. There could've been no less than five, and not more than seven. But they were in the shape of a pyramid, like these messengers coming.
And when it did, the power of Almighty God lifted me up to meet them. And I can see it. I... It's never left me. Eight days is gone, and I can't forget it yet. I never had anything to bother me like that has. My family will tell you.
I could see those Angels, those shaped-back wings traveling faster than sound could travel. They come from eternity in a split like a twinkling of an eye, not enough to bat your eye, just a twinkle. They were there. I didn't have time to count. I didn't have time, no more than just look. Mighty ones, great powerful Angels, snow white, wings set in head, and they were "whew wheeew," [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] and when it did, I was caught up into this pyramid of constellation. And I thought, "Now, this is it." I was numbed all over, and I said, "Oh, my. This means that there will be a blast that will kill me. I'm at the end of my road now. I mustn't tell my people when this vision leaves. I don't want them to know about it, but the heavenly Father has let me know now that my time is finished. I won't tell my family so they'll worry about me, because He's fixing to go and these Angels has come for me, and I'll be killed pretty soon now in some kind of an explosion."
Then it came to me, while I was in this constellation, "No, that isn't it. If it would've killed you it would've killed Joseph, and I could hear Joseph calling me." Well, then I turned again, and I thought, "Lord God, what does this vision mean?" And I wondered, and then it come to me, not a voice, just come to me. Oh, that is the Angels of the Lord coming to give me my new commission. And when I thought that, I raised up my hands, and I said, "O Lord Jesus, what will You have me do?" And the vision left me. For almost an hour, I couldn't feel.
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IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
37-3   Notice, Revelations 5:1. Listen at this now.
And I saw in the right hand of him that set upon the throne a book written within... (The writing was with inside.)... and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Now, there's writing on the inside of the Book, but the backside had seven seals on the back of it that wasn't written in the Book. Now, this is the revelator talking: John. Now, remember, it wasn't written in the Book. "And in the days of the voice of the seventh angel all this mystery that's written within should be finished." It should be taken care of in that day. Now, do you see what I mean? Are you following me?
Then is the time for the seven voices of Revelations 10 to be revealed. When the Book is finished, there's only one thing left, and that is the seven mysterious voices of thunder that was wrote on the backside of the Book that John was forbidden to write. Let me read it.
And I saw an angel--a mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
And he had in his hand a little book open:... (See, now watch this.)... and he set his right foot on the sea,... his left on the earth.
And he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. (Watch.).
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write:
There was something said. It just wasn't a noise. Something was said. He was about to write.
... and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me...
Look where the voices was in the thunders, not in heaven, on earth. The thunders never uttered from the heavens; they uttered from the earth.
And I was about to write: when I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal... (Capital S-e-a-l)... Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
It's on the backside. When a book is complete... Now, He didn't say on the front side; He said on the backside. After it's all done completed, then these seven thunder voices is the only thing that is stuck to the Book, that's not revealed. It's not even written in the Book.
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IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
39-3   Now, when he begins to sound, the mystery will be finished. Now, note. Then it's time for the seven sealed voices of Revelations 10 to be revealed. Do you understand? When all the mysteries of the Book is completed, and the Bible said here that he would finish the mysteries... When men back in other ages has fought for truth; they fought for justification; they wondered why. Sanctification, they fought for this, and they fought for that, they fought for this. What did they do? Turned right around and organized into it. Same thing, Pentecostals, and the Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans; every one done the same thing, turned right around and done the same thing. And the Bible said in Revelations 17 that's what they'd do: Old mother whore and her daughters, the mystery Babylon.
The Bible said here that that would be one of the mysteries that would be unfolded. Protestants, prostitutes committing spiritual fornications, leading people by denominations with their cup of iniquity of manmade doctrine, and pulling them away from the fountain filled with Blood, where the power of Almighty God flows freely to manifest Jesus Christ.
If that's true, then God will back it up; and He has done it; and He will continue. But when that comes to pass, the Word is finished.
Now, there's only one thing left. That is the seven thunders that we don't know; and it would not have thundered in vain. God don't do something just to be playing. We play and act silly, but not God. Everything with God is "yea and nay." He doesn't just fool. He doesn't kid. He means what He says, and He says nothing 'less there's something meaning to it.
And seven thunders right in the revelation here of Jesus Christ, is some mystery. Does not the Bible say that this is the revelation of Jesus Christ? Why, there's some hidden mystery then of it. What is it? The seven thunders have it. For John was just about to write, and a voice came down from heaven, said, "Don't write it. But seal it. Seal it up. Put it on the backside of the Book." It's got to be revealed. It's the mysteries.
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IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
43-2   Now, look, when it is time for the seven voices, then it's time for the seven voices when the Book is completed of Revelations 10 to be revealed. Now, notice, listen. Now, I won't keep you too much longer; I know I'm wearing you out here; its twenty minutes till ten. Listen close now. I know standing up and you all changing positions and things. I'll be glad when the church gets fixed so we won't have to be cramped up. We can take all day to preach it.
Now, notice. Now, note, the seven voices was thunders: blast.
God help us. If I'm wrong, Lord forgive me.
I'm asking you the question. It blasted with thunder when this voice rung out. Did you notice that when the seven seals, that followed the seven church ages; when the first seal was opened, that there was a thunder? The first seals in the Book was opened, there was a thunder. Would not the first seal on the outside Book open the same way? God doesn't change His program.
Let's turn over to Revelation 6.
And I saw when the Lamb had opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it was the noise of a thunder, and one of the four beasts said, Come and see.
Now, there never was another thunder; and the last seal was opened, there was space in heaven for a half hour of silence. But the first seal was opened, there was a blast of thunder.
Oh, church, could it be? Are we that far? Friends, think. Maybe... I hope it isn't, but what if it is? What was that blast? Before God and this open Bible, I lie not. Blast that shook the earth, and when the first seal of the seven that was opened in the Bible, it come forth, just one, but a blast that shook the whole thing: a thunder. And then, if the seals that's on the backside would open, would not it be a thunder too? I don't know. I can't say.
There was a thunder. The first seal... And the seal was a thunder, the trumpet was opened at that time, and the trumpet was blown at Pentecost, of course. I won't get into that.
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44-3   Now, is it plain? When the first seal was opened, the seals that was inside the Book, these mysteries that was sounded forth: justification, sanctification, Roman Catholic church, Protestants, and when all their little battles and things left these loose ends in the Word of God, the seventh angel comes on and gathers them all up and explains them. See? And then he finishes; seven thunders utter out. John started to write. He said, "Don't write it, but seal it." And the first seal was opened of the seals on the inside of the Book; it opened with a thunder.
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IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?   JEFF. IN   62-1230E
45-1   And then if this is a continuation for the sounding of these last trumpets or these last seven thunders that's coming forth, the mysteries, the last seals, it will have to compete--or compare with the rest the Scripture. And if them first ones in there opened with a blast of thunder, the second ones will too, that's on the backside.
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45-7   Now, listen. This Angel come down from heaven. See, the other seven angels of the seven churches was earthly messengers, but this Angel... All the message is finished. The seventh angel winds up the whole thing. And this Angel comes, not to the earth; He isn't a man from the earth as the messengers to the church ages; that's finished. But this Angel brings the next announcement. And a angel means a messenger. And He comes down from heaven clothed in that Pillar of Light, cloud, with a rainbow over His head. And a rainbow is a covenant. It was Christ, with one foot on land and one on the sea, and swore that time will be no more.
Where are we at, sirs? What's all of this about? I'm asking you.
The other angels was messengers, men of the earth. But this Angel... This said, to the angel of the church of Laodicea; to the angel of the church of Ephesus, messengers of the earth (See?), men, messengers, prophets, and so forth to the church. But this One didn't come from the earth; He come down from heaven, because the mystery's all finished. And when the mystery's finished, the Angel said, "Time shall be no more," and seven thunders throwed their voices out.

INFLUENCE.   PHOENIX, AZ   63-0112
E-69  (…)  What we've seen happen should put every soul in action. It should make a church that would make a revival here in Phoenix, that people would be flying in from Europe to see what taken place. They'd say, "There's a place in Arizona called the Maricopa Valley, a city called Phoenix. There's something broke out there until the seven thunders of Revelations 10, that's not even wrote in the Bible, is being manifested."
The power of God, the end-time is here. The angel has gathered up the loose ends, and we're here. Amen. He was about to write those thunders, and He said, "Don't write them. Seal them up. And at that day of the sounding of this last seventh angel, seventh church age, the Laodicean church age, the mystery of God, all about God, how that God's not a big bunch of gods, but one God, and all these other things, should all be finished in that time."
The great battles back before has got the loose ends hanging out. It ought to be all wrapped up together in this last days. Said, "Then when that sounds, an Angel come down and said, 'Time shall be no more. I'll swear by Him that lives forever and ever. Time shall be no more.'"

EVENING MESSENGER.   MESA, AZ   63-0116
77   And then we notice that He put His--had a rainbow over His head and raised up His hand and swore by Him that lives for ever and ever, that time should be no more when these seven voices uttered, seven thunders uttered their voices. And He told them, "Don't write, but seal it." And we found it was on the back side of the Book.
But when the seventh angel had finished his Message, his prophesying of the day, then the mystery of God should be finished (Everybody knows the Bible says that.): the mystery of God what God is, Who God is, and all about the way into the baptism and things, that should all be settled in that day.

THE BREACH.   JEFF. IN   63-0317E
73-1   Now, see, the mystery of this seven-sealed Book will be revealed at the sounding of the seventh church angel's message. See? The seventh angel begins to sound, and there's the messages wrote out there, and we got it in tape and book form.
Now, at the beginning of the sounding of the message, the mystery of God should be finished (See?) at that time. Now, we will notice, the Book of the mystery of God is not revealed until the seventh angel's message is sounded.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
123-4   Now, the seven-seal, roll Book is now being released by the Lamb. We approach that place tonight. God help us. As the Seals are broken and released, the mysteries of the Book are revealed. Now, you see, this is a sealed Book. Now, we believe that, do we not? We believe that it is a sealed Book. Now, we never knowed this before, but it is. It's sealed with Seven Seals; that is, on the back of the Book the Book is sealed with Seven Seals.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
124-5   Now, the mystery of the Book are revealed when the Seals are broken. And when the Seals completely are broken, the time of redemption is over, because the Lamb left the intercession post to walk out to take His claims. He was a Mediator between that, but when the real revelation happens on the Seals as they begin to break, the Lamb is coming forth from the sanctuary. It's according to the Word. We read it last night. He come from the--out of the midst and took the Book. So He's no more Mediator, because even they called Him a Lion, and that's the--that's the King, and He's not a Mediator then.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
137-4   Now, the Seal. Let's just read it a little bit now. I--I want to--to get this... Just we'll read it. I get to talking. I...
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals... (What happened?)... and I heard, as it was the noise of a thunder...
Oh, how I'd like to dwell on that just a few minutes. I hope now that all the people that know these things and are waiting for the consolation of the Lord will now study real close, and on the tapes also that you'll think of this. The first thing happened... When that Lamb broke that First Seal, a thunder roared.
Now, that's got a significance; it's got--it's--it's a--it's--it's got a meaning. It's a meaning. Nothing happens without a meaning. All right, a thunder, a thunder roared. Wonder what that thunder was?
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138-3   You say, "Well, Him coming to the end of the road and you got trouble? What does it make you think when some great spiritual something happens that troubles you? Oh, my.
Now, is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this--unto this hour.
Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
The people said... that stood by, that heard it, they said... it thundered:...
Then when the Lamb took the Book and broke that First Seal, God spoke from His eternal throne to say what that Seal was to be revealed. But when it's placed before John, it was in a symbol. When John saw it, it was still a mystery. Why? It wasn't even revealed right then. It cannot be revealed until what He said here at the end time. But it come in a symbol.
When the thunder... Remember, a loud clapping noise of a thunder is the voice of God. That's what the Bible said (See?), a clap of thunder. They thought it was a thunder, but it was God. He understood it, for it was revealed to Him. See? It was a thunder. And notice, the First Seal opened--the First Seal when it was open in the symbol form it thundered. Now, what about when it's opened in its reality form?
139-3   It thundered as soon as the Lamb struck back the Seal. And what did it reveal? Not all of Itself. First it's with God; next It's in a symbol; then It's revealed: three things. See? It's coming forth from the throne. First It can't be seen, heard, or nothing. It's sealed up. The Lamb's Blood paid the price. It thundered when He spoke it out. And when He did, a white horse rider started out. And it still was a symbol.

THE THIRD SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0320
235-1   And the... John said everybody in heaven, everything beneath the earth, and everything heard him praising God about it. John must've found his name on there, you know... And all that time...
Then he said, "He is worthy to take the Book of Redemption." Now, it doesn't belong back to the Judge any more. It belongs to the Redeemer, and He's done done the work of redemption.
Now, He's going to show the church what He done. See? Then He just takes... But the Book is closed. No one knowed at all. They know it was a Book of Redemption on it there, but it's to be revealed in the last days according to Revelations 10. The seventh angel is going to be given the message of that, because it said that in the time of the sounding of the seventh church age--the seventh angel, when he sounds, all the mysteries of God should be finished up by his sounding. Then after it's revealed, the Angel come down from heaven, which was Christ (Now remember, this angel and is on earth, a messenger). Down comes Christ (You see Him in the 10th chapter of Revelations.), puts one foot upon the land and the other one on the sea, rainbow over His head, eyes and, like--and feet like fire and so forth, raises up His hand and swears by Him that lives forever and ever on the throne, that time shall be no more.
And when He takes this oath, seven thunders utter their voices, and the writer... Which when John was taken up, was supposed to write what he saw. He started to write down. He said, "Don't write it, because... Don't write that. It is an un..." He said, "Seal it up." What in? "Seal up; don't say it." See? It's to be revealed, but it's not even written in the Word. And then when He begin to open the Seals, we find out they were all puzzling. See? When he opened the First Seal, he thought, "Now, here He's going to say, 'And it will come that So-and-so will take the throne and certain do this and this will do that.'" But when it was, here he's went a white horse riding, and a rider on it. Well, "He had a bow in his hand, and he was given a crown after while," he said. That's all.
236-1   Then the Lamb turned back again and pulled another Seal off and here went out a black--a red horse rider. And he had a--given a sword, and he was going to make war and given great power and take peace from the earth and kill one another. That was kind of a--still a mysterious thing, wasn't it when He opened it up? And then goes on and said, in the day just before these seven thunders, all the mysteries here are revealed.
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237-2   And now, we find out then that these mysteries are supposed to be revealed. And why didn't these other men, Wesley, Luther, and those great reformers who brought out justification, and sanctification, the Pentecostal age with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and things, why didn't he catch these--these messages? Why didn't they get them? Because they were reformers. See?
Just like, take it on the other side, there was people come in who was--had power as kings but wasn't kings. See, see? You have to notice the Bible terminology of anything. See? Now, watch. But these--the reason that all the stray ends of the mysterious part about justification, the mysterious part of sanctification, the mysterious part of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and why... What kind did... Did Eve eat an apple, or did she eat a pomegranate or something? See? Did... What was the serpent's seed? And--and... Is the baptism in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, or the Name of the Lord Jesus right? And oh, a hundreds of those things that has been left loose-ended. See?
237-4   And then in the last hour this fellow is to come on and reveal the thing (See?), take up the Scriptures. It'll be properly identified. Yes, sir. And... Now, it won't be a great big thing now. It looks like here in the Bible it'd be something big.

11.  Bride’s revival.  [“… the Bride hasn’t had a revival yet.”]

THE THIRD SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0320
253-2   Now, that's what's the reason today that the--the revivals that we're supposed to have... We have denominational revivals; we haven't had a real stirring. No, no, no, no. No, sir. Don't think we got revivals. We haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No, no.
The--the Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it. Now, now, watch. Now, she was--she was dead.

THE INDICTMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0707M
62-2   I pray that You'll save every one, Lord. May there come forth a revival of the just and a great power come among the church just before Its going. It's not hard to pray that, because You promised it. And we're looking, Lord, for that third pull that we know that'll do great things for us in our midst.

12.  Four horse riders of Revelations 6.  [Read: The Seven Seals]
13.  Four creatures of Revelation 6.

GOD IN SIMPLICITY.   JEFF. IN   63-0317M
66-6  (…)  The Lord willing, I'll be speaking tonight on the subject of the Seven Sealed Book. And then Monday night the white horse rider; Tuesday night the black horse rider; Wednesday night the grizzled horse, the pale horse and then the red horse rider. Then go into the 6th--4th, 5th and 6th and then Sunday night... Next Sunday morning maybe a healing service I don't know.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
141-1   Left the Father's throne to take His own throne... He now has come forth from His intercessory work to claim His own throne, His redeemed subjects. That's what He come forth from the throne to do. It is then that the Lion-like creature said to John, "Come, see." Watch. Now, you reading it?
... one of the seals, and it..., as if it was the noise of a thunder, and one of the four beasts...
You know what the beasts were. We took them; one like a lion, one like a calf, and one like a man, and one like an eagle. Now, this first beast said... Watch; each time there's a different beast till them four horse riders pass. There's four beasts, and there's four horse riders.
Notice, each one of them beasts announce: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. We're going to get back in and prove which one Matthew; Mark; which one Mark--Mark; which one was John, each one as they went.

WHITE HORSE RIDER.  [Revelation 6:1-2]
THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
139-3   It thundered as soon as the Lamb struck back the Seal. And what did it reveal? Not all of Itself. First it's with God; next It's in a symbol; then It's revealed: three things. See? It's coming forth from the throne. First It can't be seen, heard, or nothing. It's sealed up. The Lamb's Blood paid the price. It thundered when He spoke it out. And when He did, a white horse rider started out. And it still was a symbol.
Now, watch, He said it would be known in the last day, but it comes forth in a church symbol. Do you understand it, church? It comes forth in a--a symbol of a church that they know there is a Seal, but just what it is yet, they don't know, because it's a white horse rider.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318
160-1   The Second Seal comes forth and goes right on out into the end. The Third Seal comes forth and goes right on out into the end. Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh; every one of them winds right up out here in the end.
And at the end time, these Books that's been rolled up all this time with these mysteries in them, is broken. Then out comes the mystery to see what it is. But actually they started forth at the first church age, because at the first church age received the message, like this.
A white horse rider went out. See? Who is he? He's mighty in his conquering power, is a great fellow in his conquering power. You want me to tell you who he is? He's the antichrist. That's exactly what he is.
Now, because, you see, if an antichrist... Jesus said that the two would be so close together until it would deceive the very elected, the Bride, if it was possible. Antichrist, it's the antichrist spirit.
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160-6   Notice. Look, he starts out to conquer. Notice, he has no crown. The white horse rider; I'm speaking of here. See? A bow and a crown was given him afterwards. See? He had no crown to start with, but a crown was given him. Notice, later he was given a crown: yeah, three of them, three on one. That was three hundred years later at the Nicaea Council when he started out a spirit of Nicolaitia to form an organization among the people, and then it kept on going on, going on; it become a saying, then it become a doctrine.
You remember Christ speaking back to the church, said, "Thou hatest the deeds of these Nicolaitanes which I hate too," trying to conquer, take the Holy Spirit: just on one holy man; he can forgive all the sins and everything. Have we just read it over there, Paul spoke of it: that thing would set in the last days, and he couldn't be revealed till the last days? Then He that letteth will take the Spirit of God out of there, and then he'll reveal himself.
Today he's under the disguisement of a white horse. Watch how he changes from that white horse in a few minutes. He don't only become a white horse; he becomes a beast with many heads and horns. See, see? The white horse, he's a deceiver now, and that's the reason the people hasn't known it all this time. They thought it, but here it is now; it's going to be revealed by the Scripture.
161-3   Notice, when Nicolaitia (See?), antichrist is finally... He's incarnate in a man; then he's crowned. When he starts off as a Nicolaitia spirit in the church, he's a spirit. You can't crown a spirit. But three hundred years later he become a pope. And then they crowned him. He had no crown to start with, but he got a crown later (See?), when that spirit become incarnate. See? He become a man. Nicolaitane doctrine become a man; then they could crown it. They couldn't do it because he was just a doctrine. Glory.

THE FIRST SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0318  [Confederation of Churches]
171-3   Notice, this rider is nothing but Satan's superman, a incarnate devil. He's a educated genius. Now, I hope you got your ears open. They was trying one of his children out not long ago in a television cast to see if he wasn't smarter than the next man to run for presidency; but however, he's got a lot of wisdom; so has Satan. He tries to sell it. He sold it to Eve; he sold it to us. We've been wanting a superman; we got it. All right. The whole world's wanting a superman; they're going to get it. Just wait till the Church goes up, and Satan's cast out. He'll incarnate. That's right. They want somebody who can really do the job; he'll do it.
Educated... This is the Satan's superman with education, with wisdom, with church theology of his own word, of his own making, and he rides his white denominational horse to deceive the people. And he will conquer every religion of the world, 'cause they've all going into the confederation of--of the--of churches and the world confederation of churches. And they already got their buildings built and everything setting right in line. There ain't one thing left. Every denomination's stuck right into it, the federation of churches. And what's backing it? Rome. And the pope's now crying, "We're all one. Let's come together and walk together."
And these people, even some of you Full Gospel people, deny--have to deny your evangelical teaching to take such a step as that. What have you done? So blind to that denominational thing you've rejected Truth. And Truth was set before them, and they--they walked away from it and left it, and now they've been given over to a strong delusion to believe a lie and be damned with it. That's exactly what it is, and the antichrist takes it all. And the Bible said that he deceived all, a-double-l, all upon the face of the earth whose names were not written under those Seals from the foundation of the world. Now, if the Bible said he did it, he did it.
They say, "Well, I belong..." There you are. See? That's just exactly. It's the same prostitute institution. It's the same system that started in the beginning which is antichrist throughout. I'll hear from it, but that's--it's the Truth. I expect to. Amen.
172-3   Now, notice, he'll conquer and almost has in his grip right now, while he's still antichrist before he can becomes beast. You talk about cruel punishment. You just wait. Watch what them that's left here on earth will have to go through with. There will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. For the dragon, Rome, spurted water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the woman's seed that was left upon the earth after the Bride had been selected and took out. And the dragon made war with the remnant that didn't want to come in, was hunted down. And the real Church will go through that if it was possible, but you see, they are done under this Blood by the grace of Christ, and is not going through...?... have no tribulation period. The next thing for the Church is rapture. Amen and amen. Praise be God.

RED HORSE RIDER.  [Revelation 6:3-4]
THE SECOND SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0319
211-2  (…)  Now, notice. Let us now consider what John saw then, of these things what he saw: A red horse and his rider goes forth; power given to him to slay with a great sword.
Now, here's my revelation of it: This is Satan again. It's the devil again in another form. Now, we know that--that Seals pertained... (As I said the other night) and trumpets pertained to--to--to civil wars (You see?), amongst the people, or among nations. But you find out here that this man has a sword so he pertains to church political war. Now, you might not think that, but just watch it a minute, just a few minutes.
Notice the change of color of these horses: same rider. Change of color of horses... And a horse is a beast, and the beast in the Bible under a symbol represents a power. The same system riding on another color power from the innocent white to a bloody red... See? Watch him now how he's coming.

BLACK HORSE RIDER.  [Revelation 6:5-6]
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262-3   Now, the Lamb's got the Book in His hand breaking the Seal. Broke the first one, second one, and now, He breaks the third one. And as He breaks it, the Lamb breaks it, the Third Seal, the third beast... Now, how many knows what the third beast looked like? Looked like a man. The first one looked like a lion; the other one looked like a calf or an ox, and the third one looked like a man, as a man.
And he heard the--the living creature that--the beast, living creature like a man said to John, "Come, see what it is, this mystery that's been hid." All down through the years of redemption, since the foundation of the world, It's been hid under this Seal, what's going to happen. Now, come, look what it is." And so he opens it up; a thunder blasts; and the Lamb opens the Seals.

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263-5   Now, last night we found out that the same rider that rode the white horse was the same one on the red one. And the voice said--in the midst of the beast called out (You see?) to come to see what it was; he was in this living creature. And he saw this black horse, and when the voice in the midst of the four beasts called out, "A measure of wheat for a penny, and--and three measures of barley for a penny, but see that thou hurt not the--the oil and the wine." See?
This rider, let's discuss him. If you'll notice the first rider, who he was, and we found out last night, Scripturally, that the second rider was exactly the same man, only he was on another horse. What happened? He changed his ministry. See? That's right. We found out he was an antichrist, and he'd changed his position. We found out that when he first just was a white horse, he become a doctrine. Now, we're taking every one of these right back in the Scriptures. See?
Now, watch where we're at tonight, that other church age now. See? We're come down to the third church age now. See? Just exactly on the third church age is just exactly like the third horse. See?
Now, the first church age what it was? The Nicolaitane's had a doctrine (See?) just the first one. All right. And then the first thing we know this Nicolaitane doctrine, it become sanctioned and was right, went into action. And they crowned this fellow. Then this spirit, antichrist, become incarnate in a man. See? And we find out later on he becomes an incarnate devil too. The demon goes away, and the devil comes in.
And just as that church is--that kinda antichrist church progresses, so has the Bride come along with different things; through justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, just moving right on (See?), just like that. Only they taken their revival first, and the Church is taking it the last.
Their first three years--first three stages of them that went to the dark age, then the third three stages comes the Church out from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost again, incarnate God made manifest among us.
Here he comes in as the antichrist, as the false prophet, then the beast, then in dark age. And the Church comes out of that dark age, justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, incarnate Word, the way now. Uh-huh. And he goes down. he does... He goes down; the Church goes up. See? It's just as perfect as it can be. Oh, it's beautiful. I just love it.
This rider is the same one but another stage of his ministry. The first stage, a white horse (See?), he was just a teacher, just an antichrist teacher; he was against the Word of God. And now, how can you be an antichrist? Anybody that denies that every Word of this--isn't true and to be taught just the same, is an antichrist, 'cause they deny the--the--the--the--the Word, and He is the Word.
264-7   Now, first stage, white horse, he was just a teacher, but an antichrist spirit in its doctrine and its quality. It was innocent. It couldn't hurt nothing, seemed like, just going on... That's the way Satan comes in. Oh, he's a slick bird.
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265-6   Same rider now... This first stage, he was innocent; and second (Now, if you went a little bit higher, a little more than that, in the second stage the Bible said he'd be given a crown, and they crowned a man, a superman. See?), crowned him. And then the Bible didn't call him a pope. The Bible called him a false prophet. Why? Yeah. Of course he must be a false prophet by his antichrist spirit that taught antichrist against the original Word. 'Cause if you taught against the original Word, it was antichrist, it was--and the Word is God (See?), Christ. All right. 
Now, after that, we find him then crowned. When he got crowned... Now, he's a very innocent, helpless; he's just a little fellow. But then in the Nicene Council, he was made... And Constantine give him all the property. And then what did he do? Then he... See, Satan give him his throne and authority. The Bible said so as we have went through it.
Now, the next thing we find out that the devil controls all politics that ever has been or ever will be. We find that in Matthew 4:11. And now, we find out then that Satan already had politics, but he's trying to get the church. So he goes down to deceive it. He gets his superman, works him into an organization and crowns him vicar (See?) of Christ. Christ acted instead of God. See this guy's a vicar instead of God. See? Just the same: instead of God, what he's supposed to be, a vicar under Christ.
Now, now, when he did that, then what did he do then? He... Satan took his political power (which he was already over) and took the religious power (which he had already been crowned) and put them together, and then he made him another crown over hell. And then when they had passed on, if they pay enough money, he'd get them out. See? So now he's--he's vicar over heaven, over purgatory, as he wants to call it. No such thing in the Bible (See?), but he had to make something. The Bible said he come out of the bottomless pit and returns back the same way, and on earth, a ruler...
Now, what was he given then? First he had a bow, but he didn't have any arrows. But now he's got a mighty sword in his hand. He can do something now. Then he jumps off his white horse; the white horse rides on out. Now he straddles what? A red horse, blood, blood red horse. He really rides that one. Oh, sure. Now, he's given great power and a great sword to kill; then he rides his blood red horse.
We see from the Second Seal that was broke last night, he taken peace from the earth and did kill one another. And his own martyrology of the Roman Catholic church shows that they put sixty-eight million Protestants to death from the time of Saint Hippo of--after Saint Augustine of Hippo until 1580 something: sixty-eight million. (Smucker's "Great Reform," if you want to read it--"Glorious Reform," it was. See?) Now, sixty-eight million recorded on the martyrology...
When one of their so-called saints got the revelation that anybody that disagreed with the Roman church should die as a heretic... That just set them around then. Boy, he went to spilling the blood. He--he jumped on his white horse--on his red horse, and he went to riding.
Oh, now, his great power comes; he was made vicar of heaven and worshipped as God, ruler of the earth. By uniting the church and state together made him ruler on earth, give him a crown over that. He could pray the souls out of purgatory. He could also inter... He was just like God on earth: instead of God.
267-3   Together he had great power to kill whomever did not agree with his command. Who's going to say anything to him? The church can't say nothing; he's head of it. State can't say nothing; he's head of it. So they died by the millions. All them little churches, brother, was busted up, and killed, and murdered, and fed to lions and everything else. See? The dragon, Rome, give him his seat and authority. The Bible said so. See? So he rode his typed red horse through human blood till it become a red horse.
Now, John sees him on a black horse. He changed something else. Now, I have to--to say this just the way it comes to me; and then... And if it come to me and didn't compare with the rest of the Scriptures, then God never give it. See, the Scriptures has to every one; it's just one great big--big thing, like that. Scripture has to agree with Scripture, and anything contrary to the Scripture... If that Angel of the Lord told me anything that wasn't Scriptural, I wouldn't believe Him.
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269-2   Now, now, here is the mystery of this. And now, It... When it revealed to me early this morning 'fore daylight, then I went quickly to the Scripture and begin to look--search it up. Here it was. Three of them so far has been absolutely supernaturally revealed. That's right. Now, here is the mystery of the black horse according to what it was revealed to me. See?
He has started riding him in the time of the dark ages. That's what the dark horse represented: the dark ages, for it was a time of midnight to the true believers that was left. Watch now in that church age, that middle church age, the dark church age. Watch how he says, "You just have a little strength." It was a midnight to them for the true believer.
Now, watch. Practically all hope had been taken from the true church for this fellow controlled both church and state. What are they going to do? See? Catholicism had taken over both church and state, and all didn't agree with Catholicism was killed. That's the reason he was on a dark horse. And watch what a dark thing he done (See?), then you can see. And you just... If you know your history, watch it. And you... Well, you won't have to even know it to know this.
Now, watch. All hope was gone; that's his black horse. Now, he rode in on his white horse, cunning; then he was give power, he took peace, slaughtered the millions. That's what he was going to do as he rode on through; and he still does it. See? Now, here he is on his black horse now, coming forth, dark age, that was that time, just about the time after the church got set up and got in power, they smothered out everything else and went through about hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years is what every reader knows that was the dark ages. How many knows that? Sure, the dark ages. There's your dark horse, representing that dark age.

PALE HORSE RIDER.  [Revelation 6:7-8]
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295-5   Notice. But now, on this here, we find that this fellow here is an eagle, this man that, or this living creature that's poured forth here now. Or in other words, there's four different ages of it. There was an age of the lion. And we find out that this being the fourth age... And he said, "Come and see the fourth mystery of the Book of Redemption that's been hidden in this Book. Come, see." And John went to see, and he saw a pale horse and again the same rider upon this pale horse. Now, he has a name called death.
Now, notice, none of the other rider... None of the other horses or no time that this rider ever rode, they didn't have--that man had no name, but now he is called death. It's not mentioned. See? He's revealed now what he is--is death. Well, how we could linger on that for a sermon and make it real plain. But anything that's anti, that's against the real, has to be death because there's only two subjects: that's life and death. And that proves that the Holy Spirit's revelation of this in this day is exactly the Truth. The anti, he's death, because the Word (as we'll see later here) is Life. See? And this man is called death. Now, it was not mentioned of the other times of this rider. But since... Now, it is mentioned that he's called death.

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300-5   See the rider? The first place, as an antichrist he was death to begin with, but he's innocent then. Then he received a crown, a triple one, and when he did, then he united... Satan united his church and state, because he was over both of them then. Antichrist was Satan in the form of a man.
And then also Saint Matthew, I believe it is, the 4th chapter, tells us that--that Satan took Jesus, our Lord, up and showed Him the kingdoms of the world, all of them, in a moment of time, and the glory of them, offered them to Him, and he said that they--they were his.
So, you see then, if he can unite his state and his church together, then the red horse rider could ride sure enough. See? Truly.
Now, then we find out his mystery here in his church and state. The fourth stage of his ministry, he's called the beast. First he's called the antichrist (See?), then he's called false prophet, and he's called the beast. Now, we find him here being called as the beast.
Now, I want you to notice that's after the fourth horse, and in this fourth horse, if you'll notice, all... The first one was white, and then the next one was red, and the next one was black, and the fourth one... All of these other three was represented in it, because pale is red and--and white and so mixed together. See? He... It's--it's all mixed in this one horse. See? And there he become four, or actually the three in one, and it was all mixed up in that one thing.
Now, I want you to notice the four of them. Notice the off-mark of four of the spiritual mathematics. God is threes. This is four. He's in four here. First, antichrist, white; second, false prophet, red; third, vicar of heavens and earth and--and purgatory, black; fourth, the beast, pale horse, Satan being kicked out of heaven. You want to read that? Revelations 12:13, Satan being kicked out of heaven...
Then in Revelations 13:1-8, he is incarnate in the person of the beast. He's first the antichrist, just--just a teaching called Nicolaitia; then he becomes from that to a false prophet. If he's an antichrist, antichrist is against. Anything that's against God's Word is against God, because the Word is God.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was made flesh, Christ, and dwelt among us." And now, he is against the Word, so he'd be antichrist; but a spirit cannot be crowned. That's the reason he didn't receive a crown, just a bow with no arrows.
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301-8   And then when he come to crowning time, then he become the false prophet of his antichrist teaching. Get it? Then he gets a sword, because he unites his powers together; then he don't have to ask nobody. He's governor of state; he's governor of heaven: receives a triple crown, makes himself an idea called purgatory, where if--if some of them died back there, and they got some money they want to pay them out, he can pray them out of it, 'cause he's got the power to do so. He's a vicar. Certainly he is. He takes the place of God on earth. If that ain't as plain as anything...
We find it, pull it on down through the Bible and count his numeral numbers and everything else. Here he is; play him up back here in number four, not number three, number four. See?
Now, let's turn, Revelations 12. Let's just read this just a little bit 'cause we--we'll have time to do it. And let's read Revelations the--the 12th chapter and the 13th verse.
And the same hour there was a great earthquake... (No, I got the--I got the wrong place, the 13th)
And when the dragon saw that he was cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
302-3   Now, you see, he was cast out of the earth and becomes incarnate. As the antichrist spirit become incarnate into a man, that man changes from one thing to another, from an antichrist spirit to a false prophet, and then the beast comes into him.
Just exactly like the church grows. His church went from--from antichrist to false prophet, and in the great age to come the beast that is to rise up, so the church comes the same way, through justification, sanctification, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost as Christ being in the people, just exactly. And he's got the antetype of it over there, the (See?), the type of it, rather. There he is just exactly. That's him: kicked out of heaven.

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307-4   Notice, the antichrist was on a pale horse, mixed color. A horse is a beast that represents a power. His power is all mixed up. Why? It's politics; it's--it's national powers; it's religious powers; it's demon powers; it's all kinds of powers mixed together, a mixed pale horse was. He's got all kinds of powers.
But when Jesus comes, it's on a one solid colored horse--the Word. Amen. This one mixes its colors of red, white, black. Three colors in one--represented in one, and three powers represented in one: a white horse, a black horse, red horse, and three crowns in one. See? Sure.
I seen the crown myself--stood, oh, that close and looked at it. Wouldn't let me get to it on account of the glass. So there it was, a big lock on it, setting in a case, triple crown; so I know it's the truth. So there he was--triple crown. Vicar of heaven, purgatory, and earth. Three powers united together, see, all mixed up in a color, pale. Death spoke in a whole thing. Political, and--and religious, and--and demon powers mixed together. Politics, he is the king of politics; Satan is. Smart? Whew. Sure, don't try to outwit him; just trust the Lord.

14.  Seven Seals inside the Book and Seven Seals on back of Book.
15.  Seventh angel’s ministry is the mysteries of God.  [7 thunders]

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126-3   Now, notice: But it's to be revealed when the Lamb leaves His intercessory place from the Father. (Now, that's Revelation 5). Now, He takes the Book of Seals, the Book of Seals or a Book sealed with Seals, breaks them and shows them (look) at the end of the age now, after the intercessory is over; the church ages has done finished up. He come in the first age, the Ephesian Age, revealed, sent the messenger. Notice what happened as we go along.
Here's the plan of it: The first thing happens, there is a--a--an announcement in the heavens first. What happened? A Seal is opened. What is that? A mystery is unfolded. See? And when a mystery unfolds, then a trumpet sounds. It declares a war. Or a plague falls, and a church age opened. See? What is the war part? The angel of the Church catches the mystery of God, not fully yet revealed, but when he does, he catches this mystery of God, and then he goes forth to the people (after the mystery has been given to him), goes forth to the people. What does he do out there? He begins to proclaim that message, and what does it start? A war, a spiritual war.
And then God takes His messenger with the elect of that age, and lays them away asleep, and then He drops a plague upon them who rejected it: a temporary judgment. And then, after that is over, then he goes on, and they denominate, and bring in denominations, and start off with that man's work like of--of Wesley and all the rest of them, and then it gets all in a scrapple again; and then another mystery comes forth. Then what happens? Another messenger arrives on earth for a church age. See?
Then when he arrives, he--the--the trumpet sounds. He declares war. See? And then what happens? Finally then he's caught away. And then when he's laid away, then plague falls destroys them. Spiritual death hits the church and she's gone, that group. Then He goes on to another one.
Oh, it's a great plan until it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no certain mystery, but he gathers up all that's been lost in them other ages, all the truths that wasn't truly revealed yet (See?), as the revelation come. Then he reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is: A Revelations 10:1 to--1 to about 4. You'll get it. All right. See?
127-3   Takes the Book and... of Seals and breaks them and shows the seventh angel, for this alone, the mysteries of God, is the ministry of the seventh angel. Now, we just come through the church ages with even history and prove that. See? It is the--the angel's message of the seventh church.
All right, reveals all the mysteries that's been in the past, all the things in the past: Revelations 10:1-7. That's to be. Now, remember, in the days of the seventh angel, his sounding forth, blasting forth the Gospel Trumpet, he is to finish all the mysteries of God.
Just like here come forth in the early church ages (We'll get it after while.), a doctrine, then it become a saying first, then a doctrine, and then become a statute, then become a church, and through the dark ages, and out of the dark ages come the first Reformation--Luther. And he brought with him all kinds of mysterious things that happened during that church age, all back in there; then… but he never finished it up.
Then along come Wesley with sanctification, got some more of it, but still never finished it, left loose ends everywhere, such as sprinkling instead of baptism, and Luther took "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" instead of the "Lord Jesus Christ," all these different things.
Then along come the Pentecostal age with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and they cabbaged down on that. Now, there cannot be no more ages. That's all of it; that's the Philadelphia, or the--not--the Laodicea Age. But then the... We found in the studying of the Scripture that the messenger to the age come right at the end of the age every time. Paul come at the end of the age. We find out that Irenaeus come at the end of the age. Martin, end of the age. Luther, the end of the Catholic age; and what?--Wesley, at the end of the Lutheran age; and Pentecost, at the end of the age of sanctification through the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
And at the end of the Pentecostal age we are supposed to receive, according to the Word, as God help me tonight to show you through here, that we are to see--receive a messenger that will take all those loose ends out there and reveal the whole secret of God for the rapturing of the Church.
128-2   And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we--we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we--we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth, and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written.

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141-5   Now, He's come to claim His Own. So He takes the Book, stands out there before John, and He pulls it back, and breaks the Seal, pulls the Seal down; and when He pulls the Seal down, a thunder clapped through the place. And when a thunder clapped, no doubt John might've jumped up in the air, when a thunder roared; and then one of the four beasts said, "Now, come and see what it is, what's revealed beneath here. (Oh, my.) John, write what you see."
So John goes to look, see what it was. John goes to see what the thunder said. It's then that this creature told John come and see what the mystery is under the First Seal. The thunder, the voice of the Creator has uttered it. Now, He ought to know what's there. Amen. Oh, my.
But think, now he wrote this, but when he started to write those other seven thunders, he said, "Don't write it." He'd been commissioned to write everything he seen. But when these seven thunders over in Revelations 10 uttered, he said, "Don't write them at all." They're mysteries. We don't know what they are yet; but my opinion they'll be revealed right away. And when it do, it'll give faith for that rapturing grace for that Church to move out. We just move through everything that we know of; through all the dispensations we've watched everything. We've seen the mysteries of God. We've seen the appearing of the--of the great gathering together of the Bride in the last days, but yet there's something in there that we just can't lighten ourself with. There's something another. But I imagine when them mysteries begins to come forth... God said, "Hold it back now. Wait a minute. I'll reveal it in that day. Don't write it at all, John, 'cause they'll stagger over it. Just let--let it go. (See?) But I'll reveal it in that day when it has need to done."
They never uttered for nothing. You remember, like the little drop of ink, everything is for a purpose. Everything's for a cause. But notice, the Creator uttered, and he had a--he heard this voice, and he went to see.
142-3   But now the Lamb is showing John in the symbol of s--of a--of a church Scripture like, for the church (you know) what to write. He just show him, said, "Now, don't--don't tell this, just what it is. Don't go down, John, and say, 'Now, this is just what this is.' Now, what's under this Seventh Seal, don't--don't go down and tell that, for if I tell John that, then all down through the age the whole plan will be broke: it's a secret." See? He just wants to...
His coming... He said, "I--I... Nobody's going to know when I'm coming; I'm just coming." See, see? That's all. It ain't for my business to know when, I'll just be ready. You see? So...

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146-3   Let me just read it again. It sounds so good to me; I--I like to read it.
... I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud:... a rainbow... upon his head, and his face was... the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Now, we saw the same thing, which was Christ. And we know Christ is always the Messenger to the Church. All right. He's called a Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the covenant and so forth.
And he had in his hand a little book opened:... (Now, the Seals had done been broke here. We're breaking them now; but this, the thing's opened.)... and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left... on the earth,
And he cried... a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he... cried, seven thunders uttered their voices... (My, the complete)
... when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I... (John)... was about to write:... (Write what? What they said.)...  and I heard a voice from heaven... (God)... saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. (Don't write them. See?)
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea... lifted up his hands to heaven,
And sware by him that lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens, and the things... in there they are, and the earth, and the things that are there--in there..., and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Watch. Don't forget this now, as we go.
But in the days... (days)... of the voice of the seventh angel,... (That last angel, earthly angel.)
This Angel come down from heaven. Wasn't Him. He come from heaven, but He's speaking here the voice of the seventh angel. Which is a "angel" means "a messenger." Anybody knows that. And the messenger to the church age...
... in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery... (Seven Seals, all--all the mysteries)... of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
The entire mystery is unfolded. That's the ministry of that angel. See? Be so simple people just drop off the top of it. But yet it'll be perfectly a-vindicated everywhere, just be perfectly normal. See? Everybody that--that wants to see it can see it. See? That's right. But those... Jesus said, as He said when He come, said, "You got eyes and can't see, Isaiah said you did. (See?) And you got ears and you can't hear." Now... So we find out that...
147-3    Notice. I love this. Others reformers, but by being great men of God, seeing the need of the day, and brought forth reformation... But Revelations 10 said his message was to reveal not reform, reveal the secrets, reveal secrets. It's the Word in the man. Hebrews 4 said that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, a piercing even to the sunder of bone, and a Revealer of the secrets of the heart. See? This man is not a reformer; he's a revealer, revealer of what? The mysteries of God. Where the church has got it all tied up and everything, he's to come forth with the Word of God and reveal the thing out, because he is to restore the faith of the children back to the fathers. The original Bible faith is to be restored by the seventh angel.
Now, oh, how I love this. All the mysteries of the Seals that the reformers never understood fully... See?

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155-4   Now, let us find the symbols. We found out what the thunder means. That's perfectly; we know that. See? The thunder was the Voice of God when the Seal opened.

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262-3   Now, the Lamb's got the Book in His hand breaking the Seal. Broke the first one, second one, and now, He breaks the third one. And as He breaks it, the Lamb breaks it, the Third Seal, the third beast... Now, how many knows what the third beast looked like? Looked like a man. The first one looked like a lion; the other one looked like a calf or an ox, and the third one looked like a man, as a man.
And he heard the--the living creature that--the beast, living creature like a man said to John, "Come, see what it is, this mystery that's been hid." All down through the years of redemption, since the foundation of the world, It's been hid under this Seal, what's going to happen. Now, come, look what it is." And so he opens it up; a thunder blasts; and the Lamb opens the Seals.

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283-5   And now, notice that there's something wrong somewhere in the churches. And I think it's the denominational systems that's twisted the people's minds and so forth until they don't know how to do it. That's right. But we're promised that it would be revealed.
And now, these Seven Seals that this Book is sealed with, and those Seven Seals... Now... And then after these Seven Seals are completed, we find in Revelations 10 there was seven mysterious thunders that John was commissioned to write but then forbidden to write those. And at the time of those thunders, we find Christ, or the Angel come down with a rainbow, and put His feet on the land and sea and swore that time had run out at that time.
And then we find--find out that in the revealing of the Seals that the--the Lamb had left His mediatorial work as an Intercessor and had come forth now to claim His rights, all that He had redeemed by His death.
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THE FOURTH SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0321
304-1   Now, we had him coming last night with his great sword to kill. We find out that he gets killed with the Sword too, the sword of the Word. God's Word, sharp, two-edged sword slays him, puts him right down. Wait till them seven thunders utter their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God and hand it there. It'll slice and cut. And they can close the heavens; they can shut this or do that, whatever they want to. Glory.
He will be slayed by the Word that proceeds from His mouth; it's sharper than a two-edged sword. They could call for a hundred billion tons of flies if they wanted to. Amen. Whatever they say's going to happen, because it's the Word of God coming from the mouth of God. Amen.
God always... It's His Word, but He always uses man to work it. God could call for them flies down in Egypt, but He said, "Moses, that's your job. I'll just tell you what to do, and you go do it." He fully done that. See? He--He could've chosen the sun to call them; He could have caused the moon to call it or the wind to call it, but He--He said, "Moses..." That--that... He chooses men. All right.

16.  Seven unknown thunders wake the Bride up.  [No Bride’s revival.]

THE THIRD SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0320
252-4   All right. They miss Him, the living Word manifested in the flesh by the Word that is promised. The Word promised to do these things. The promise was made, and it'll be like this in the last days. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Now, watch what happened at Sodom. "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." See? Watch what happened then. See? Now, He said it'd be the same thing, and we live in that day where that it could be... I guess I could get six hundred promises of them like that out of the Scripture just referring to it. See? Now... But they rejected.
She held to her traditions and substitute instead of the--the... She held to the substitute blood instead of the real Blood. Jesus, the Word said... When He was manifested to her... Because she held to these traditions, Jesus the manifested Word, said to the bride, Hebrew bride, "Because you hold to your traditions, you make the Word of God without any effect to you." It can't be effective.
Now, that's what's the reason today that the--the revivals that we're supposed to have... We have denominational revivals; we haven't had a real stirring. No, no, no, no. No, sir. Don't think we got revivals. We haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No, no.
The--the Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it. Now, now, watch. Now, she was--she was dead.

17.  Seventh Seals inside the Book, end of all things.  [The third pull.]

THE SEVENTH SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0324E
555-6   Now, we'll turn now to the 8th verse of the--or the 1st verse, I mean, of the 8th chapter, of Revelations 8:1. (I know you're tired. Now, just try to listen just for a few minutes now. And God of heaven help us, is my prayer.)
We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time of all things. That's right. The things written in the Seven Seal Book (sealed up of the plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world), it every bit ends. It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It's the end of struggling nature. It's the end of everything. In there is the end of the trumpets. It's the end of the vials. It's the end of the earth. It's the...It's even the end of time. Time runs out; the Bible said so.
Matthew the 7th chapter--I mean Revelations the 7th chap--10th chapter and the--and 1 to the 7th verse. Time runs out. The angel said, "Time will be no more," when that--in the days of this great thing to happen. Everything runs out in this time, the end of the--of the--at the end of this Seventh Seal.
Notice, it's the end of the church age. It's the--the end of the Seven Seals. It's the end of the trumpets. It's the end of the vials, and even ends the ushering in of the millennium; that's on the Seventh Seal.
It's just like firing a rocket into the air, and that rocket explodes here, and it goes up, then it explodes again. It puts out five stars. One of those stars explodes and blows out five stars from it; and then one of them stars explodes, blows out five stars from it (See?); it fades on out. That's what the Seventh Seal; it just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It means the time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time... Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal.
Now, how is He going to do it? That's what we don't know, isn't it? We don't know. It's even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the millennium.
Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great that heaven was hushed by it in silence for the space of a half hour. Now, is it great? What is it? It was hushed: heaven. There wasn't a thing moved for a half hour.
Now, a half hour might not be long if you're having a good time, but in the suspense of between death and life, it seemed like a millennium. It was so great, Jesus never mentioned it: none of the rest of them. John couldn't even write of it. No, he was forbidden to write here. See, there's just... He just... He didn't write, but it's just is silence.
And the four and twenty elders that stood before God there harping with their harps, they quit playing their harps. The Angels hushed their singing in heaven. Think, the holy Cherubims and Seraphims, that Isaiah saw it in the temple with six sets... or three sets of wings, three on--two over his face and two over his feet, and flying. And he's day and night they're before God, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty." And even when they walked in, or come into the temple, the posts of the temple moved with their--their presence. And these holy Seraphims hushed up. Angels quit singing. (Whew.) Flying in the Presence of God, singing, "Holy, holy, holy..." they shut up.
No angels singing, no praises, no--no altar service, no nothing. There was silence, hush, deadly silence in heaven for a half hour. All the host of heaven was silent for this half hour, when this Seventh Seal mystery in the Book of Redemption was broke open. Think of it; but it's broke. The Lamb breaks it. You know what? They were awed by it, I believe. They didn't know. There it was; they just stopped. Why? What is it?
557-3   Now, none of us know; but I'm--I'm going to tell you in my con--my revelation of it. And now, I am not prone to be a fanatic. If I am, I'm ignorant of it. See? I am--I'm not given away to such as "leerious" or carry-ons and imaginary things. I've said some things might been kind of strange to some people, but when God comes around behind it and vindicates it and says it's the Truth, then that's God's Word. It may seem strange that way. See?
And now, as certain as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the revelation that revealed... It's in a threefold manner. That, I will speak to you by God's help of a fold of it. And then you... Let's go over there first. Here's the revelation to begin what... I want to tell you what it is. What happens is that those seven thunders that he heard thunder and was forbidden to write, that's what the mystery is laying behind those seven consecutive thunders rolling out.
Now, why? Let us prove it. Why? It is the secret that no one knows about. John was forbidding to write about it, even, even write a symbol about it. Why? This is why there was no active in--activity in heaven; it might give away the secret. Do you see it now? If it's so great it must be included, because it's got to happen, but when the seven thunders...
Now, notice, when the seven angels come forth to sound their trumpets, there was one thunder. When Israel was gathered, there was a trumpet. When time shall be no more, the last trumpet... One thunder, but here is seven straight thunders right in a row: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, that perfect number. Seven thunders in a row, uttered not... making just--just one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, straight. Then heavens couldn't write that. Heavens can't know about it, nothing else, because there's nothing to go on. It's a relaxing time. It was so great till it's kept secret from the Angels. Now, why?
If Satan should get ahold of it, he might do great damage. There's one thing he don't know. Now, he can interpret anything he wants to, and impersonate any kind of a gift (I hope you're learning.), but he can't know this. It's not even written in the Word. It's a total secret. The Angels, everything shut up. If they made one move it might give something away, so they just shut up, quit harping; everything stopped. 
A… Seven, God's perfect number, Seven [Brother Branham knocks six times on pulpit--Ed.] just right down the row. Seven thunders uttered straight together like they're spelling out something. Notice, at that time, John started to write, and He said, "Don't write it." Jesus never spoke of it. John couldn't write it. Angels know nothing about it.
What is it? It's the thing that Jesus said even the Angels of heaven didn't know nothing about it. See, see? He didn't know it Himself, said only God would know it, but He told us when we begin to see these signs coming up... (Now, you getting somewhere? All right.) Notice, we can see these signs coming up. See? If Satan could get a hold of it... 
If you want something to happen... Now, you'll have to take my word for this. If I'm planning on doing something, I know better than to tell anybody about it. Not that that person will tell it, but Satan will hear it. See? He can't get it in my heart there, as long as God's got it closed up with the Holy Spirit, so it's between me and God. See? He don't know nothing about it until you speak it, then he hears it.
And I'll try... I'll people I'll do a certain, certain thing, and watch the devil cut off every wheel he can to get there (See?), to beat me to it. But if I can get the revelation from God and just don't say nothing about it, then it's different.
Remember, Satan will try to impersonate. He will try to impersonate everything that the Church will do. He's tried to do it. We've noticed it through the antichrist; but this is one thing he cannot impersonate. There'll be no mimics to this (See?), 'cause he don't know it. There's no way for him to know it. It's the third pull. He just knows nothing about it. See? He doesn't understand it.

18.  Revelation 10, this day this Scripture is fulfilled.

THIS DAY THIS SCRIPTURE.   JEFF. IN   65-0219
22-6   Look at the vision of Tucson three years ago. When standing up there on the lane, when five years before that He said, "The day that the city drives a stake down in front of that gate, turn yourself towards the west." My tabernacle folks that's here knows that that's prop--at that time. That's right.
And the day that Mr. Goyne and them was up there and drove that stake down, I said to the wife, "There's something about this."
She said, "What is it?"
And I went in and looked in my little book; there it was. And that next morning at ten o'clock, setting in there in my room there about ten o'clock, the Angel of the Lord came down and He said, "Go to Tucson. You'll be northeast of Tucson and there'll come seven Angels in a cluster that will shake the whole earth around you." And said, "It'll be told you from there."
How many remembers that here, way before it happened? There's men setting right here in this building tonight was standing right there when it happened, and said the Seven Seals of the hidden mysteries of the entire Bible would be open and fulfill Revelations 10, that in the seventh angel's Message these things should come to pass. This day this Scripture is fulfilled before our eyes. This day this Scripture is fulfilled.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
139   I met Brother Fred and them a little after. Said, "What was it?"
I said, "That was it."
"What are you going to do?"
"Return home. For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the seven mysteries that's been hid in the Bible all these years, these denominations and everything, God is going to open those seven mysteries to us in the Seven Seals."
There was that circle coming up from the earth, like a mist forming. When it did, it went plumb up into the mountain, begin to circle on westward from the way it come. Science found it after while, thirty miles high and twenty-five miles across, just exactly in the circle of the pyramid.

SHALOM.   SIERRA VISTA, AZ   64-0112
158   Just exactly like He showed us in seven church ages, what would come. Just exactly what He showed us what would come when He set that Light up there in revelation to it to show the world. When He sent the seven angels to reveal the seven messengers that'd been down through there, and show the loose ends, each Angel coming each day and revealing the loose ends that Luther left, and Wesley left, and Pentecost left, is all represented in there. And in the very type and shadow of the great Shalom, Jehovah, Jahveh. See? Exactly. Throwed It in the skies, and there is the mechanical eye taking a picture of It. See? Thank the Lord.

19.  Sixth seal is the purification of the Church.  [Great earthquake as at resurrection.]
20.  Marriage of the Bride.

THE SIXTH SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0323
408-4   We find out now, John said, "I beheld when He had opened the Sixth Seal, there was a great earthquake." Then all nature was interrupted. See? God's been doing great things, like healing the sick, and open the eyes of the blind, and doing great works, but we find out here that nature took a tumble. Yes, all nature...
Look what taken place, the--the earth quaked; the sun went black; and the moon wouldn't give its light; and the stars shook and fell; and, why, everything happened (See?) right at the time of the opening of this Sixth Seal. That's when it takes place, right immediately after the announcing of those martyrs. See? The martyrs had been finished.
Now, you see, we're right close into that hour now. It could be at any time (See?), because the Church is just about ready to take its flight. But remember, when these things happen, the Bride won't be here. Just remember, the Bride's gone. She don't have to go through any of it. This is a time of tribulation of purification of the--of the church. It's put upon her for her to go through it, not the Bride; He takes His sweetheart out of the way. Yes, sir. She's... done redeemed Her. See it's kind of a... That's His own selection, His own choice, like any man takes his bride. See?

THE SIXTH SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0323
440-2   Brother, the earthquake burst open, and the stars shake; volcanics will come forth, and the earth will renew itself. New lava will break forth from the center of the earth, and she'll crumble all around and around and around when she spins out in yonder.
And I tell you, one morning when Jesus and His Bride comes back to the earth, there'll be a paradise of God there that... Oh, my. Them old warriors of the battle walk down through there with their friends and loved ones; the anthems will fill the air, of an Angelic host. "Oh, it was well done, my good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of the Lord that's been prepared for you like you should've had back yonder before Eve started the ball to rolling in sin." Amen. Whew.
Yes, Sixth Seal's going to do something. Yes, sir. Truly the whole world is groaning and paining for the millennium age.
Now, the one now is so soaked up with filth. As I preached here not long ago, I believe, preached in the Tabernacle, "The World Falling Apart..." That's exact. Look what's falling apart in the world. The... Everything's falling of it. Certainly it is. It's--it's got to fall apart. Yes, sir. Look, its frame. Let me show you the reason the world's got to do it. The frame of this world: the iron and the brass and the materials of this earth has been pulled out of it, its framework, for war and industry until it's just about ready...
Well, we never had an earthquake till the other day over here in this part of the country, till just the other day here (You see?), St. Louis and down through there. She's getting so thin. They've pulled everything out of it. See?
Its politics are so polluted there's hardly a honest, among them. See? Its systems... Its morals is so low, they just don't have any. That's all. See? Sure. Its religion is cankered. Yes, sir.
440-8   It's time for the Sixth Seal, pretty soon, to be opening up, and when she does, oh, my. The end... The Bride has done gone forth. She's done... The Queen's done went to take her place. She's being married now to the King, while this was going on. And Israel's remnant is sealed and ready to go, and then nature lets go. Oh, what a time.

THE SIXTH SEAL.   JEFF. IN   63-0323
445-5   Then, Father, pour down the Holy Spirit of Oil upon them, that they might be placed into the service of the Lord God, that they might be workers in this last evil day. For we realize we have just a short time, and the Church might go at any time.
The Lamb might at any time leave the sanctuary up there or--or the throne of sacrifice, come forth from the throne of God where the sacrifice laid, and then it's over. There's no more hopes for the world; she's finished. Then she goes into flusterations of great spasms of earthquakes and--and great shakings like it was at--at the resurrection.
And--and the--the--as Christ rose from the grave, when the saints rise, the same thing will take place. Lord, it could be at any minute. We're watching for that glad day to arrive. Take Your children under Your arm, Father, now. Draw Your little lambs to Your bosom. Grant it, and feed them on the Word till they're in strength for service.

CONFERENCES.   TUCSON, AZ   63-0608
E-32   And that's the way God is trying to do His church, is to beat it till all the creeds, and the nonsense, and, oh, all the world is beat out of it, till it reflects back the Life of Jesus Christ. Remember, the church... I've just come off of the great meeting at home where the six seals... And that sixth seal... Or, seven seals, and that sixth one was the purification of the church. The church, of course, goes through the tribulation period for its purifying. But the bride is raptured. There's a difference between the bride and the church.

ONLY ONE WAY PROVIDED BY GOD.   Chicago, IL   63-0731
185   There won't be one building setting by another one in Chicago one of these days or nowhere else. God is fixing to rain out that sixth seal upon the earth, break that seal and turn loose the wrath of God upon the earth. But before He does that, the Church will be gone. The Bride will be gone; the church won't; she'll go through the tribulation, but the Bride will be gone. His little wife won't go through that.

21.  Tony Fontaine Story.

WORLD'S FALLING APART.   ALBUQUERQUE, NM   63-0412M
E-37   I just led--read a piece that somebody give me here in the paper. It--it come from Memphis, Tennessee. It's called the "Tony Fontaine Story." If you want to see a burlesque advertisement, look at that in the paper, supposed to be Pentecost. It's sponsored by the Assemblies of God, one of the biggest organization of the Pentecost. Take a look at it. I'll leave it here. A bobbed-haired, Jezebel-looking woman, and some Frenchman there. You call that conversion? Why, it's emotion. There's nothing to it towards conversion. A--a Spirit of God will clean a man or a woman up, and make them different than what they was. That's right. But what've we got? We've got Hollywood moved into Pentecost.
What is it? Because of their educational programs, and things, that's the reason we can't have revival. That's the reason something can't go on. That's the reason we've been going on, because you've got to get back to that Word again, my brother. That's right. Such a pity of a thing like that, under the auspices of a Pentecostal movement. You couldn't say God sponsored a thing like that. Certainly not.
But what is it? It's something that's got glamor. You've seen too much television. You're too much impersonated with the world. That's the reason the whole thing's rotten, and corrupted, and falling apart. Right. It stinks before God. I don't care how much you speak with tongues, how much you shout, and run around through the room. I don't care how much you do this, or how big you grow, how many dignitaries you get among you. That has nothing to do with it. You ought to oust some of that, and get the Holy Ghost among you that'll clean you up, and make a real church out of you. There's the thing. That's exactly the truth.

WORLD'S FALLING APART.   ALBUQUERQUE, NM   63-0412M
E-112   Our heavenly Father, as I look down just before I closed my eyes, Lord, and seen this publication here, this ad in the paper, the story of Tony Fontaine: blonds, gimmicks, dancing upon the platform, music, immoral dressed women, men... As Jesus said, "What did you go out to see, when you went to see John? A man of soft raiments (turned around collars, and so forth)? No." Said, "They're in kings' palaces. Did you go to see a--a reed shaken with the wind?  (Anybody that would when an organization offering something a little better than the other, and he'd go to it.)" Not John. He wasn't a reed shaken with wind. He never compromised on anything. Said, "What did you go to see then? A prophet?" Said, "I say to you, more than a prophet."
O Father God, we realize that there's no hopes left for the church organization. It's gone, Lord. It was against Your will in the beginning. There's no hope for the nation. It's gone.

22.  Oscar’s horses found

THE ODDBALL.   JEFF. IN   64-0614E
89   I got a letter that come in day before yesterday, laying right back there in the file. Last fall while on a hunting trip... The last spring it was a year ago, an Indian boy named Oscar, that we hunted on the highway up there with, the--where the Angel of the Lord (I told you across here.) would bring that caribou and--and that silver-tip grizzly. All of you remember it. Then that boy, when I walked into the... He walked into the tent last spring, and when Bud asked me to ask the blessing (He took off his gloves--he was riding.)--he put them gloves on and was ready to go out. He was a Catholic, didn't have nothing to do with it.
Last fall when he could... Standing by my side when his mother was back there, dying with a heart attack, he said, "Won't you come back and pray for her?" I went back in this little hut of the Indians there. And there all of them gathered around this mother, and her dying, couldn't speak a word of English. And the Holy Spirit came down and told the mother through an interpreter, her daughter, what had taken place, which was--even called her name, and told her what she was, and what tribe she was from, and how that this would happen. And the mother was instantly healed.
And the next morning when I went back to see them, as I rode out, going forty miles back for a sheep, there they was all setting there, she was all--getting on the horse to go back to dry moose meat. And I said, "Last night when I prayed, I said, 'Our Father Who art in heaven.'" I said, "Louise, I--I... Was a Catholic prayer. You all started, and then, of course, I left you." And I said, "Now, I'm just going to thank God. We don't say prayers; we pray."
She said, "We no more Catholic." She said, "We believe like you believe. We want you to take all of us and baptize us the way you baptize. We want the Holy Ghost."
On the trip back... The boy had lost his horses months before that, couldn't find them. And the guide was bawling him out, said, "Oscar, you knowed better than to leave them horses like that. The bears (lot of grizzlies) would eat them horses up by this time."
And he kept standing close to me, and he said--one night he said, "Me ask you something?"
I said, "Yes."
Said, "Brother Branham, pray God. God give me my ponies back."
I said, "Bud said the bear eat them up."
Said, "Brother Branham, ask God. God give Oscar his ponies back."
I said, "You believe that, Oscar?"
He said, "I believe. God make my mother well; God tell you where bear was, where game was; that God know where game is, know where my horses is." Think of it.
94   A year ago while standing back there with Fred Sothmann (He's here tonight.), Billy Paul my son, the Holy Spirit came down. I said, "Oscar, you'll find your ponies. They'll be standing in the snow." There lays the letter, wrote me last week, and I got it Friday... Come in here... It's laying right in the file now: "Brother Branham, Oscar find ponies standing in snow."

23.  Brother Way raised from dead.

STANDING IN THE GAP.   JEFF. IN   63-0623M
173   God bless you each one and we hope to see you again real soon. Till then, will you do this one favor for me now, both here and on tapes also, you brethren? Pray that God will place into my heart that something that I lost out there in that complex. It's so easy to build a complex. I had a interview the other day with my Brother Way setting here, setting here in front of us: a good man but built hisself around a complex, another kind of a complex. Did the same thing. Brother Way, you can so easily do it. It's... You just get a little something in your mind, keep thinking that way... Go back and check it with the Scripture, see if it's right or not, and then go from there on. Yeah. Don't lose the feeling of the people. See? You must remember they're not made out of sawdust; they're flesh and blood, human beings with a soul. Pray for me, all of you, if you will. God bless you now.
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176   Let us pray now, Brother... [Woman in congregation cries out.] Someone fainted. Just a minute, set still now.
Heavenly Father, let Thy mercy just...?... in Brother Way...?... In the Name of Jesus Christ...?... come to pass. Give him back, Lord, give him the strength...?...
So help me, his heart starts beating again...?... Lord Jesus, let Thy goodness and mercy be...?... It's over. As I stand here on this altar where funerals has been preached, where I stand here where hundreds of people that's prayed through to Christ... I reached down; his eyes was set; his pulse was gone. And no more than called the Name of Jesus Christ, and his pulse started jumping back...?... Praise the Lord. As a minister of the cross, I say that in the Name of Jesus Christ. Isn't He wonderful? A heart attack... See? I'm so thankful it happened just now, instead of waiting till we got away. See the grace of God? The Lord be blessed. Let us just bow our heads.

WHY?   HOT SPRINGS, AR   63-0626
15   Sunday, while speaking, we... I was asking the people to turn around in the Tabernacle and shake hands with each other. And there was a--a dear friend; I've just learned to love him. He just come into the church, he and his wife. His wife's a registered nurse. And he himself is an Englishman. She's a Norwegian. How that ever happened, I don't know. But, however, they're both fine people. And this--this brother has had a little something wrong, kind of in his heart. And very fine Christian man, and an intellectual man too; he does secular work for accountants and so forth. And he turned around, and, when he did, a heart attack struck him, and he pitched over on the floor, dead.
And his wife, being a nurse, she grabbed him quickly, and grabbed his pulse over his heart, "He's gone." And I looked at his face, real dark; his eyes was turned back, not just closed his eyes, but his eyes pushed out in front. And he was... I'd come over the platform, tried to get the audience quietened, many people was trying to help the sister, of course, in that condition, with her husband. Someone laid something over his head, or under his head, rather.
I took ahold of his heart, to--his pulse at his arm, and no more pulse than there is on that piece of wood. And then I knelt down and prayed, "Lord Jesus, I pray Thee, give back our Brother Way his life." And his heart beat four or five times, and started off beating regular again. And he jumped back up again, and he was trying to talk. He couldn't talk; he was... The blood stops, you know, when the heart stops. And it was quite some time before his blood got circulating just right. And I heard him call my name, and then I got back in the platform.
Brother Way, I wonder if you'd just stand up so the people would see who the man was. That's the man that dropped dead, Sunday morning of a heart attack. [The congregation rejoices.] Sister Way, his wife, a nurse who's standing there to take his pulse to see, and see that he... So I... That sounds very strange, maybe, to people who wouldn't believe these things. But I have seen the Lord Jesus raise the dead many times. And that's not new to us, so we wouldn't... I think it's fine to brag on Jesus, but I think it ought to be some truth, what you're bragging about. So we've seen Him... I've seen Him, in the last fifteen years, of many infallible cases, raise up the dead.

24.  Martin Luther King.  [Integration & Segregation]

LORD JUST ONCE MORE.   HOT SPRINGS, AR   63-0628A
17   Long time ago... I was just looking around over the audience to see if I could see one of the people, and that's some of our colored friends, the Negro. You know, a long time ago, down here in the south, they used to make slaves out of them. Now, I'm a southerner. And there's one thing I'd like to say about them; I wish I could talk to Martin Luther King. That man, being a Christian, don't know he's leading his people right into a death trap, where there's going to be millions of them killed. See? He's wrong.
I love my brethren, my colored brethren. I wouldn't be in Africa and around preaching to them, if I didn't love them. They're God's people, the same as we are. But I don't believe that that man under this, is only going to cause many, many, many more of them to be killed. Then it'll start a revolutionary again, that'll never wade out of the people down here. So they're not slaves. They have as much freedom as anybody else. They... If they were slaves, I'd be on that side. But they're not slaves.
It's just because they want to go to school. They got schools. Let them go to school. That's right.
Was there... Remember that old colored brother standing up, that morning, in that riot. He asked the militia if he could speak. He said, "I never was ashamed of being a black man. My Maker made me a black man. But this morning, I'm ashamed the way my race is acting. And what's them people doing to us? Only been good to us."
"The white woman," raised up and said, "I don't want my children schooled by a white woman," said, "because they... she won't pay the--the interest, take interest in my children like a colored woman was in my own race." Said, "They're... Just to look at our schools. They got swimming pools. They got better schools and everything. Why do we want to go to their schools?" That's right.
I believe God is a God of--of, well, I'd say He's a God of variety. He makes big mountains and little mountains. He makes deserts. He makes forests. He makes white men, black men, red men. We should never cross that up. It becomes a hybrid. And anything hybrid cannot rebreed itself. You're ruining the race of people. There's some things about a colored man that a white man don't even possess them traits. A white man's always stewing and worrying; a colored man's satisfied in the state he's in, so they don't need those things.
But back in the slave time, they were selling slaves, human beings, like an auction block, like they would a used car lot. There's a buyer come forth through the country, and he'd buy them up, and go sell them, and make money on them, just like you would on a used car or something.
Never was God's program, God made man; man made slaves. One's not to rule over the other one. We're to live together in unity and peace.
And this man come to an old plantation. He--he wants. "How many slaves you got?"
Said, "A hundred or more."
He looked them over, and he happened to notice, there was one slave among those people...
The slaves were sad. The Boers of Africa had caught the slaves, brought them over here, and made, and sold them. And they knowed they'd never go back to the homeland. They knowed they were here for the rest their life. They'd never see their children again. They'd never see papa and mama. They were here for all the time, and they were sad. And they'd even carry whips, and whip them, to make them work. And so they had to make them work, because they didn't want to work. They were just all broke down.
This slave buyer looked over there, and he found among these slaves, there was one young fellow. They didn't have to whip him: chest up, chin up, right on the job. And the broker said to the owner of the slaves, said, "I want to buy that slave."
Said, "He's not for sale."
He said, "He seems to be different from the other slaves."
Said, "He is."
Said, "What makes the difference? Is he a boss over the rest of them?"
He said, "No, no. He's just a slave."
Said, "Maybe you feed him different than you do the rest of them."
He said, "No, he eats in the galley with the rest of the slaves."
Said, "What makes him so much different?"
He said, "I always wondered that myself, till I found out. Over in the homeland in Africa where he come from, his father is the king of the tribe. And regardless of where he's at, he still knows he's the son of a king, and he acts like one."
Hallelujah. If you're a daughter of a King, then don't act like the world. If you're a son of the King, don't act like the world. We are... We know that we are sons and daughters of God. Though we're here in a dark world of death and sorrow, yet we know where our heritage is. We are sons and daughters of a King; not a king, but the King. Let's act like it.
34   A few moments ago, reason I was late, a little Ethiopian girl making up the room, and I noticed she was doing something. I was trying to write out some Scripture text for something I wanted to speak on. Don't come to speak just to be heard; I come to say something that'll help the church to do some help. And then I studying, and this little lady kept kind of holding around. Directly she said, "Would you pardon me, sir?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am."
And she said, "They tell me that you is the man who did got favor before God, that when you pray for the sick, that God answers your prayer."
I said, "He don't only answer mine, but He answers anybody that'll believe Him."
She said, "I'm sick, sir. Would it be out of the way that if I ask you to have a little prayer for me?"
Said, "Not at all."
I stepped up to her. I prayed something like this. "Lord Jesus, many years ago, when You were dragging an old rugged cross up a sandy hill, and dragging out the footprints of the Blood that was trailing down off Your back, Your little, frail body got so weak that a--You fell beneath the load. There was one standing by, by the name of Simon, a Negro; he picked up the cross and help You bear it. Here's one of his children this morning, sick." About that time, it happened. He's God of the whole human race.

THIRD EXODUS.   JEFF. IN   63-0630M
20-3   And I think if any man was spiritual, could see what's taking place now. We're getting a pharaoh who knows not freedom of religion. When our president took his office, he would not swear to that, that he believed in freedom of religion.
What about the other day when we had this question of segregation down in the south, when this governor of--of Alabama... I wished I could talk to that minister--that Martin Luther King, how can the man be a leader and leading his people into a death trap?
If those people were slaves, I'd be down there, my coat off, beating a way for them people. They're not slaves, they're citizens; they're citizens of the nation.
The question of going to school, them people--if they got a hard heart and don't know those things, you can't drive into a people spiritual things, what's beat in there with political powers. They've got to accept it, be born again, and then they'll see these things.
But this man, if I could only speak to him--leading those precious people, under the name of religion into a death trap, where he's going to kill thousands times thousands of them. They don't... They just get the--the natural side.
This man, the colored brother, when that great uprise come in Louisiana, I was there at the time. When the... There's a colored minister, precious old brother, stood up out there and said, asked the militia, "Could I speak to them; they're my people."
And this old minister stood up out there and said, "I want to say this morning; I never was ashamed of my color. My Maker made me what I am."
That's the way He wants him to remain. That's the way He wants every man to remain. He makes white flowers and blue flowers and all colors of flowers. Don't interbreed them. Don't cross them up. You get against nature.
He said, "I've never been ashamed of my color, until this morning." He said, "When I see my people rise up and do the things they're doing now," he said, "it makes me ashamed of them."
I thought, "God bless that voice."
He said, "You're only going to cause trouble." Said, "Look at the schools here. If we had no schools," he said, "it would be different. But who's got the best schools here in Louisiana?"
He said, "Let's take for instance, our city, Shreveport." He said, "There's a white school over there that's the old school. They built up another one. They haven't got one instrument, one play thing for the children; we got a yard full. And besides that, they've built us a great big marble swimming pool for our children; and we got the best of teachers that can be got." Said "Why do you want to go over there, when we got a better here? What's the matter with you?" he said.
And them people just a--a--a--ah and deadened the voice. There you are. See? Wrong inspiration. Them people were slaves. They're my brothers and sisters. If they were slaves, I'd say, "Let's just join with them and go down through the street and protest that thing."
21-6   They're not slaves. They're citizens with the same rights that anybody else has got. It's just a bunch of inspiration coming from hell to cause a million of them to be killed. They'll start a revolutionary; certainly it is. It's not right.
Men and women have their own rights. Our colored brothers and our Japanese and the yellow, white, black, and whatever they was, there's no difference in the color of our God. We all come from one man: Adam. But if God separated us and turned us different colors, let's remain that way. If I was a yellow man, I'd want to remain a Japanese or Chinese. If I was a colored man, I'd want to remain that way; God made me that way.
Frankly, there's a lot about the colored race that the white race ought to have. They don't have the worry; they're more spiritual. There's a thousand things about them that the white man can't even touch. God made them thus. Who could ever out-sing a colored choir? Where could you find voices?
I've seen them come from the lands back there, didn't know which was right and left hand, thirty or forty different tribes of them, and they sing to a place till the masters stand there and say, "I just can't touch it."
They've trained choirs for years and one will be an octave high and low and everything and say, "Listen to that," just perfectly, even in different language. They're gifted.
But you see, all this stuff has to happen; all because of a politician that you people elected with your crooked machines. And the other day when that governor stood there, sworn and elected into that office by the people, and the question of segregation according to the constitution is, that each--each state can take its own thought about that.
He didn't care, but he read the constitution and said, "Now, the school stands for segregation." They got a school over there, and only two colored children wanted to enter that school when they got their own college. But he stood and said... What he did... He read the constitution.
Then when it come back to this fellow we got up here that knows not Joseph, freedom, pulling for those colored votes, and not knowing it was the Republican party that freed them in the first place, selling out their birthrights to such a thing as that to lead them into a death trap to show that every manmade system's got to fall. That's exactly right.
And Mr. Kennedy, nationalized that "guard" and sent those men right back into the face of their own fathers, standing there under the constitution; that broke the constitution again. Said, "We'll not fight, no, sir," and said, "I hope the nation can find out that we're not living anymore under a democracy, but under military dictatorship."
You know the old saying, "Once a southern Democrat, always." I don't know now. Surely a man will have sense enough to wake up to something. Let those precious people alone; don't kill them off down there like that guy shot that brother in the back the other night with that gun, and his little children and wife in the house. I don't care who he is; that's lowdown and little. Yes, sir.
I'd like to be the judge on that case once. Shoot that man coming home to his wife and children, he's a citizen, has a right to stand for what he thinks is right, a good man.
Picture in Life magazine--that little boy crying for his daddy; and some renegade out there, shoot him in the back out of an ambush... That's what you get to when you reject Christ. That's right. That's where the whole nation's got to, all under politics. It's such a shame, but that's what we wanted. We proved it in this election.
23-4   My little son said to me this morning, "Daddy, the pilgrim fathers, when they come over here, were they all belong to this certain denomination church? Were they all..." said, "They had on big coats."
And I said, "No, honey, they come here for freedom of religion. That's what they come here to get out from under such stuff as that."
You see where it's got to now? Shows that all these kingdoms must fall. (I must hurry.)
One thing, I pray that Brother Martin Luther King will certainly soon wake up. He loves his people; there's no doubt. But if he only--see where his inspiration...
What good would it do if you went to school and a million of you laying yonder dead? Would it just be going to school just the same?
Now, if for hunger, if it was for something another, slaves, the man would be a martyr to give his life for such a cause, a worthy cause; and that would be a worthy cause. But just to go to school, I--I don't see it.
I don't think the Holy Spirit's agreeing with him at all on that. It's got the people all worked up in a bunch of ballyhoo. You see? Just--just like Hitler did over in Germany, led them right into a death trap, them precious Germans; and they laid by the billions, or millions, piled up there on top of one another. That's exactly the same thing, and remember I'm on tape; you'll see it after--maybe after I'm gone.
That's exactly what's going to happen. Them precious people will die down there like flies. Starts a revolutionary, both white and colored will fight again and die like flies. And what you got when it's all over? A bunch of dead people.
But there raised up a pharaoh who didn't know Joseph. It's the same thing today. A man has raised up and took oath in the--in the White House that will not swear to his oath--will not take his oath, that he believes in freedom of religion.
What's this new pope saying? One--four things that he has, one of them is to unite the Protestants and the Catholic together. And to any intellectual person, that's the thing to do. But according to the Bible, it's the wrong thing to do, and the Bible said they would do that. (Let's go a little farther.)
At this time Raamses in Egypt was growing. His power's growing. The natural man, Raamses, was growing. The natural man, the antichrist, is growing now through politics. He's already got to the White House. In religion, he's got all the people so scrupled up till actually they'd fall right for it. And the denominational leaders... Practically every church that there is in the nation is already in the confederation of churches. Raamses is growing, and they're all uniting together, and that's what they'll have. And what does it do? It makes a power, a beast just like the first one.
Then there's a persecution coming upon all those who won't unite with it, and a boycott. It'll be too late then; you've already took the mark. Don't say, "I'll do it then." You better do it now. Raamses was growing.
But remember while Raamses was growing in the power in Egypt, God had Moses in the wilderness. He was growing too. Raamses had a political system. God had a spiritual system under a prophet ready to come down and speak to the people. They're both growing again. It'll be a showdown one of these days. The time ain't far off when there'll come a showdown.
As the natural--as the Scripture says... The natural types the spiritual. You can't get away from it. There it is; it's right before your eyes. It's truth.
Look at the church now, calling out, coming into power, the Holy Spirit coming down, the mysteries of God being revealed and set in order. See? The right here, she's already in the White House, and the church is pulling itself together (Amen.), not a denomination, but out of the bondage of iniquities, away from the Amorites. A people that's free... Oh.
God had Moses, His to-be prophet, though he had already prophesied, and had proved that he was right, but yet, he was in the school of wilderness, hid away from the rest of the world. But he was schooled, being trained out in the wilderness.
The enemy will propose always his system, and unbelief will accept it, because the enemy is the intellectual sign. Now, remember, there's only two... Don't forget this. There's only two powers. One is spiritual power of the Holy Spirit; the other one is the devil working through intellectual power. For that's where he entered in the garden of Eden: through intellectual powers to make Eve believe in intellectual conception against the Word. It's just as plain as it can be; the kids could get that. See? And that's the way it's been all the way down. Here it is in Egypt this morning.
There is an intellectual power working in Raamses, bringing him up to power and raising him up, who knows not the freedom to let--what Joseph had done, what the church had done in the beginning.
And now, we see the same thing, an intellectual power weaving among the churches, and it's raised up to an ecclesiastical head, that don't care about what the Bible says. They've got their own system, not what the Bible says; it's what the church says.
And the Protestants weaved right into that till all the little groups like this... "Well, sure, I know it says this, but I tell you, them days are gone." Form of godliness, but denying the power... Every Scripture in the Bible points straight to it.
Now, you see why I wanted to tape this and send it to the people. The hour has arrived. Truth's got to be known. The exodus is at hand. See, the--the intellectual part looks perfect, and it is perfect. It's exactly... But perfect, the inspiration of Satan.
26-1   And then all the time that this intellectual Raamses was growing and coming to the throne... And remember, he raised up as a brother to Moses (See?), a brother to Moses. One of them had to take the intellectual seat, just like Joseph to his brethren. And what did they do with the little Joseph? Excommunicated him from the Word. The Word's God. And they excommunicated the Word and accepted a creed; and now, the creed has growed to power. Oh God, let people see that.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1179-169   Down there that day in Shreveport when that uprise come, and them--and there was all them young colored inspired out there, communistic...
I've told you here in this pulpit, Martin Luther King is the greatest indebtment the colored people's ever had. Right. That man's going to lead a--thousands of them to a slaughter (That's right.), inspired by communism.
Let me prove my point. I said that about two years ago. Look what's happening right now. They said they were fighting for integration, and when the law give them integration... And to you people that don't believe in integration, be ashamed of you. Our nation permits integration, and we should do what the big boss says do. That's exactly right.
And now, you say... Not to come in places, and so forth like that, or shopping, or set in the back of the bus, and so forth, no, sir. The law says they're just the same as we are, so we're the same as they are; so let's act that way. Let's be that way. And that's exactly what all really true borned again people believe. And now, I believe that's in their heart.
I never had such a feeling for people as I have them poor people in Africa, the way they were treated. And I do not believe in that stuff. I'm a southerner; I was borned across the river yonder, but I'm like Abraham Lincoln; I come here, because I believe that men were born equal. That's right. And I do not believe in separating people and things like that, when them people... baptized with the Holy Ghost and so forth.
But look, it isn't them real genuine borned again Christian colored people that's causing all this trouble. You want to condemn them for that, what about some of our renegade white kids? See? Now, what sauce for the goose is for the gander. Why, our white kids cause twice as much trouble as they have. That's exactly right. Where's it at? In our colleges and things like that. Some of our higher educated people is causing those things. See?

25.  New revelations

GREATER THAN SOLOMON.   HOT SPRINGS, AR   63-0628E
99   But in sincerity, men do receive God and believe Him, but if they would just... Then they pull theirselves off, and, "That... We got this and that's all there's to it." Then they separate themself. Then they won't take no new revelation. They organize it. "This is it. This is our doctrine," end with a--a period. If you'd have a denomination would end your doctrine with a comma, "We believe this, plus as much as God will show us," then that's all right; I'll go for that; but never with a period. 'Cause God's God, and time is moving on.

A TRIAL.   TUCSON, AZ   64-0427
E-50   May I stop here a minute? You Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists, or you Pentecostals, fifty years ago we'd have got the promised land, but you got to fussing among one another, making organizations out from one side, and this and getting this, one this and getting this, and a new revelation, instead of following the Word. And now, we've been fifty years this side the full promise.
But remember, it was forty years but Joshua wants you all to know that God kept His Word with a brand new generation. He took the promised land just as it was promised, 'cause he stilled the people on the Word of God to let them know that God made the promise, that this prophet they were following was not a false prophet, because the things that he was doing was exactly with the Scripture.

TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE.   JEFF. IN   65-0718M
189   Don't take some new thing. They're flying everywhere, and there'll be more than that come. But don't take these new things. The Lord your God has declared to you what is Truth. The Lord your God has vindicated what is Truth by His Word and by His Spirit. "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit." And the Spirit... God seeks those who worship Him in the Spirit and Truth. "Thy Word is Truth." And He's thoroughly a-vindicated that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's showed the evening seeds to you. He's revealed it to you in the Word. He's proven it to you by His Spirit.

TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1127B
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.
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.

THE RAPTURE.   YUMA, AZ   65-1204
58   Why, as I was speaking the other night at Shreveport in those--the communion when they'd kill that sacrificial lamb, there was to be no leaven among them through the entire seven days. And no leaven, no leaven bread, everything had to be unleavened. That represented the seven church ages that we get in the book here. And there's no leaven what it--it's something mixed with it. And we've the mixed creed, and denomination, and everything else with the Word and still try to call It the Word. No leaven shall be the entire seven days. And even what is eat today, don't try to keep it for tomorrow, burn it with fire before the daylight comes, for there's a new message coming forth and a new thing.

MODERN EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY.   SAN BERNARDINO, CA   65-1206
36   Now, all of us know that whenever a message is given, in three years they form an organization. When they do that, it kills it right there; it did in the days of Luther; so it did it in the days of Wesley; it did it in the days of Alexander Campbell, and all the rest of them; and it did it in the days of Pentecost. Exactly. See? You get to a place, each one gets starchy, and gets off, and they can't receive new revelation. They're settled down; and there they are, and there they die. And the life goes right through that, and goes right on to make the wheat. And when the wheat comes, that life that's traveled through that wheat, the resurrection brings the whole thing out; brings up for the rapture.

26.  Time for third exodus. [Waited forty years for rejecting message.]

THIRD EXODUS.   JEFF. IN   63-0630M
16-3   Now, we find out that all this has took place because... waited... revivals... The Methodists, the Lutherans, the Baptist, the Campbellites and--and all different ones; they've had great revivals. The Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and Pentecostals, all had great revivals; but the great exodus hasn't come. Why?
God told Abraham He'd keep him in the land right then, but the iniquity of the Amorites wasn't yet full. And God has waited patient. Them people trying to figure out; they can see the Scripture run right into something, run right into something; they say, "This is the day; this is the time," but you fail to understand that the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet fulfilled.
Four hundred years, they would journey down there in Egypt and be brought out; but they actually stayed four hundred and forty years, because of the rejection of the prophet. They had to suffer another, about forty years down there in the wilderness before God brought them out. Moses was out in the wilderness forty years before he ever returned back to deliver them. You see? Forty years went overtime, lapsed, because that they rejected the message.
Now, forty years in God's time would be about one and a half minutes to our time. That's how much difference is, a thousand years is only one day (See?), wouldn't be even a minute, hardly. Notice in that.
Now, we're running late. Why? God's been long-suffering, waiting, watching. Let the--the Lutheran rise in a revival, then organize. Let the Methodist rise in a revival: organize. Let John Smith of the Baptist church rise up with a great revival: organized. Let the Pentecostals raise up with the restoration of the gifts: organized; until the iniquity gets plumb full, then God's tired.
Then there comes an exodus, and we see it; that the people themselves can see back down the stream of time, that the thing is cursed. They take a wedge and a fine Babylonian garment again. And that's the thing that curses amongst the people, when man tries to inject his own ideas about things.
We got to stay with that Word; that's commandments of God was not to touch nothing in that city, that cursed city. Don't touch it; leave it alone.
And Achan thought that he could take this gold wedge and live pretty decently like the rest of the world... and fine Babylonian garment. Oh, at the Achans in the camps... See? But the thing's cursed, and it continually's cursed. It was cursed since the very Nicene Council at Nicaea, Rome. It's been cursed ever since, but God's let the iniquity fill up until the time of the Amorites is about fulfilled.
17-4   And now, anybody with spiritual understanding, remember, I keep quoting, "spiritual understanding." You can see that the iniquity of this nation is filled up. She's organized and reorganized and organized and organized, and now she's confederated and joining with something else. The iniquity is filled up.
It's time for exodus. It's time for a calling out to the promised land, not the promise of just another country to go to, but a home, the millennium, time for a calling out. The iniquity of this nation (strike on it again tonight, the Lord willing) is filled up. She's filthy.

27.  Old system is done.
28.  Word come into full effect, recently.

THE INDICTMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0707M
19-4   Now, and Christ is God's provided Lamb. Notice how appropriate it was now, showing that that Jerusalem had--was ceasing. When? It was in effect until that hour; the blood of the lamb was all right until that day. But now, at the crucifixion it changes. The old system is done. There was a new one, and the--the Lamb was at the sacrifice. The Lamb, the sacrificial Lamb, was on the grounds. They were condemning and doing the very thing there that they had to do. That's right.
God be blessed for seeing this wonderful, heavenly Light in this last day, because the churches is doing the same thing today. Until the hour that organization religion is condemned and proved to be sacrificing Christ's Word, from then on comes the Word and the Word only. From... The old paschal lamb passed away, and Christ become our Lamb at the day of the crucifixion. And the day that the denomination crucified the Word of God and accepted a creed in the stead of the Word, that's the day the Word come into full effect. That's just been recently.

29.  I indict this generation.  [Denominations]

THE INDICTMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0707M
20-3   Notice, "They," the worshippers, the men who had looked for the promise, the men who had looked for it through years and ages and with nothing to do but in that constant seminary; but they had divided the Word according to the teaching of the seminary, and they had missed the very truth of It. "They," the priests, the ministry of that day; "there," at their headquarters, "they," the ministry of that day was killing the very God, the very Lamb. The very One that they claimed they were worshipping, they were killing.
And today I indict this bunch of ordained ministers. In their creeds and denominations they are crucifying to the people the very God that they claim that they love and serve. I indict these ministers in the Name of the Lord Jesus, upon their doctrine, that claim that the days of miracles is past, and that the water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ is not sufficient and not right. Upon any of these words that they have substituted creeds for, I indict them as guilty, and the Blood of Jesus Christ upon their hands, for crucifying afresh the Lord Jesus the second time. They are crucifying Christ to the public, taking from them the thing that they're supposed to be giving to them, and they substituted something else in Its place: a church creed for popularity.
There "They, they," the ones who ought to have knowed better... If anybody should've known better, it should been them ministers. If anybody should know better, it should be the clergy of this day. If anybody ought to know, the--the bishops, and archbishops, and--and ministers, and doctors of divinity ought to know different. But why can't they? Oh, what a contradiction. What have we got before us here but a contradiction? They claim that they worship God, and they are killing the Prince of Life.
"They, There they crucified Him," and here "they" again do the same thing, for He is the Word. That's what... He's only a reflection of the Word. And that's what He is today, a reflection of the Word, trying to find--find somebody to reflect Himself through.
21-3   And these people keep the congregation away from God. And--and if there's anything happens, and it's spoke of in the congregation, they condemn it from the platform, from the pulpit, and say, "It's fanaticism; stay away from it." In doing so, they crucified Jesus Christ in 1963, and are just as guilty as those guys at the--at that day. That's an awful statement, but it's the truth.
Upon... That's exactly what they do today. And upon this grounds, upon the grounds of crucifying Christ, upon the grounds of taking the Word, and taking It away from the people, is exactly what they were doing there. The very Word that God was reflecting through His own Son to prove It was, and the One that they claim that they loved, the Jehovah that had manifested Himself by the Scriptures, done exactly what He said He would do, exactly what God said He would do, and reflected It before them. Because the love of their church groups and things like that, they condemned the Prince of Life. And I condemn the same group today and indict them as guilty before the--God, by the Word of God, that they're doing the same thing. This generation is indicted.

THE INDICTMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0707M
43-1   I challenge any man to show me anybody (And I know this tape goes around the world.), any man, any bishop, that'll come to my study or before this congregation and point their finger to one place anybody was ever baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost in the New Testament. I'll show you where every person that ever was baptized, and those who were baptized different had to come to be rebaptized to get the Holy Ghost. What are you going to do about it? Stay out there in your creeds? Stay out there in your dogmas and die. You're guilty, wicked hands, you've took the Prince of Life, the Word of Life, and crucified It to the people.
Now, what did they do? They didn't know it. Today men walk ignorantly; they don't know that's the Truth. They think it's some kind of a ism. They don't dig down deep enough to get into the spirit of revelation. They don't pray enough; they don't call upon God enough. They just lightly take it, "Oh, well, I believe it's God. Sure." The devil believes the same thing. The devil believes it more than some people claim to believe; the devil believes it and trembles. People just believe it and go on, but the devil trembles, knowing his judgment is coming. And people believe it and don't pay no attention that judgment that's coming.
Guilty of crucifying Him. Sure. I indict this generation, finding them guilty by the same Word that found them guilty at the beginning. That's right. Jesus said, "Who can condemn Me?" He was the Word made flesh. And today the same Word's made flesh.

30.  Calling for revival; but rejecting Word.

THE INDICTMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0707M
26-4   They call for a revival everywhere. How you going to have a revival when the Word Itself can't work through the people? I'd like for somebody to answer that for me. How can it do, when you deny the very revival itself? Well did the prophet speak of them, "forms of godliness." Their own forms back there denied the Word of Life. Their own forms today deny the thing that can bring them a revival. Their creeds and forms... Yes, sir. They take the denomination and their creeds instead of the--the Word, and that crucifies His Word and makes His Word of no effect to the people. When they see the Word of God so vividly in--It just place Itself, that God made the promise He would do this, and here He is doing it, and they make fun of It and get away from It, it's blasphemy. And they try to crucify the Word Itself. Why do they crucify It? They can't crucify the Word no more than they could crucify God. They could crucify the body that held God, the Son of God; they could crucify that, but they can't crucify God. He had to be that time, on account of being the Sacrifice to bring in many sons that's predestinated to Eternal Life. They had to do it then, but they can't do it now. They can't do it, for the Word Itself will live on.

31.  Anointed Word for Age.  [Anointed messiah]

THE INDICTMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0707M
30-4   The church hated Him. Why? He was their very God. They hated Him and denied Him to be their Messiah. No, sir, they didn't want such a Messiah as that. And today the church does the same thing; it denies the Word. They don't want It; It's contradictory to what they've been taught to believe by their creeds. And the Word is the Messiah. You believe that? Well, the reflection of the Word then is what? A reflecting of Messiah, which is the Holy Ghost among us. He's reflecting Himself, tries to, wherever He can find a lamp that He can look through, that ain't smoked up with creeds and things. He can give Light through.

WORLD AGAIN FALLING APART.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1127
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. That's right. Yes, sir.
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's 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'd be just exactly what the Word said It would be in this age.

WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS?   PHOENIX, AZ   64-1227
70   And again, the--the church seen Him in His great power of manifesting. Manifesting what? Not manifesting a creed, He was manifesting the Word. He was the Anointed Word, Himself. And when they seen that taking place, the manifestation, the anointed Messiah, they turned It down. They didn't want It. It wasn't in their taste. That's the pitiful part. How many... Just think of it. Just as in other days.
See, each had their own interpretation of the Word. That's what--the reason Israel didn't recognize Moses. That's the reason the world didn't recognize Noah. That's the reason all the prophets wasn't recognized. They had their own interpretation of the Word. But God in every age has had His Messiah. To reject Noah's Message was to rejecting God. To reject Noah was to perish. To reject Moses was to perish. It was... They were the anointed messiah's for that age, the Word that was promised for that age.

WHO DO YOU SAY THISIS?   PHOENIX, AZ   64-1227
84   I wonder if this great thing, this Ecumenical Council that we got in the world today, and the World Council of Churches forming together make us all one, I wonder if they realize that that is exactly what the Scriptures said they would do. But they think it's the most wonderful thing in the world, that all of us can join hands and be one. Said, "Jesus prayed that we might be one." That is true. But not that kind of one.
He said, "Be one as I and the Father are One." Yeah, be that kind of One. Then how will that be? The Word in us would be the anointed Word. That is the oneness of God. See, the oneness of God is the Word anointed in you. See? And then you become a son, a messiah of the age.

32.  Pillar of Fire over tape recorder in Jamaica.

PAUL A PRISONER OF CHRIST.   JEFF. IN   63-0717
3-6   Then what... By the end of the week, maybe by Sunday, we're getting the small photograph blowed up to a large size so that it can be put on the billboard where your picture hangs out there on the billboard. I don't know whether you noticed it or not. And then, and about a week ago in--in Jamaica where I was missionaring... We sent tapes all over the world; and the Seven Seals had got back into, a way back into the inlands of Jamaica, way in the interior. And it's very primitive back in there behind Blue Mountain. And the natives, sometimes they have a--a tape recorder you get for them that you have to--to, like the old Victrola, crank it, and then let it play like that, and every few minutes somebody has to crank it.
This group had a little battery, six-volt battery or something or another, playing this tape recorder, and they was all were setting together (about what's here tonight) listening to those Seals, I believe it was. And while I was speaking, they noticed coming in the room, came that same Pillar of Fire, moved over where the tape recorder was and settled down over the top of it; and they went and got a camera and took the picture of It. And just the same one; here it is hanging right there over it. Now, we're getting it blowed up so we can put it on the--the billboard out there, that you can see it.
We are so grateful for the grace of God that's been brought into our ... us into His Presence in this day.

33.  Gifts & Callings.  [See 1949m  #8]

WARNING THEN JUDGMENT.   JEFF. IN   63-0724
43   When you plead anything to God, you got to be a reason for it. It's just like this Scripture that I so often refer to, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you said." Now, that's altogether controlled on motive and objective (See?) or it--or it won't happen. See?
You just can't go out here... That's where many of us makes a many mistakes, is going out and say, "Now, I'll show you I got faith to do this." Now, you're wrong to begin with. God don't give you gifts just to play with it.
As I was saying awhile ago, He don't show you visions just to play with. That's nothing to play with; that's sacred. Just use it in--as the Lord will let you. Be a prisoner to Him. No matter how much you want to tell that guy he's wrong, and what this, that, or the other, you hold still till God says so. Then when God says so, then you can come with THUS SAITH THE LORD. Until that, just forget about him.

34.  “Come back to Arizona” wrote across the wall.  [Last year highest time for visions.]

CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY.   JEFF. IN   63-0728
5-1   Then I come back next Monday evening sometime--afternoon or evening. And Tuesday we go back to Arizona for our--to put the children in school and so forth. And then I don't know just exactly when to be back again, because the Lord... I want Him to lead me on just what to do.
A very strange thing happened... I might as well... I know that this is taped, and I might as well place it on here. And right while visions and leadings of the Holy Spirit is moving, I like to strike just exactly while It's moving. That's... Now, in the last year it's been one of--right along with one of the most highest time for visions that I've ever had in all my ministry--has been this last year--of things that has taken place, that you people know that is foretold before it happens, and it happens just the way it--it said.
Now, we come back here and--and to visit. The climate in this place I certainly don't like 'cause it... I'm... Just breaks me down as soon as we get here. And I just... I can cross the top of the knobs up there and come down in this valley, and then I'm here about ten minutes and I've got hives, get sick (weather), swimmy-headed; everything looks spooky, dark, and I--I just have to get out of it. See?
5-4   And the other day I was talking to the wife... But what brings me in first... What brings me in here is you people (See?), this church. I tell you, of all the places I went in life, this is my favorite place to come preach the Gospel. And looks like that we can make a tape from here; it's ten times better than anywhere else. See? See, that's the reason I say, "Where God's a-doing something, then stay right with that." But I think where the great thing is, that was me failing to go out at the first time when He called me; and therefore, He makes it kind of rough on me when I come in. Obedience is better than sacrifice.
And then I'll be coming back and forth all the time, preaching in the Tabernacle. And you people that's from out of town, you'll be notified. Billy Paul will be here, right in the office, and--and he can be reached at any time through him. And we'll be coming back here to hold... And then the Seven Trumpets is coming up right away, the Lord willing, Seven Last Plagues and the Vials, and so forth, just as we can, get a little cooler weather or maybe or something, however the Lord leads...
And now, the other day coming in, I--there was a question brought up about, something about someone had given me a check and said personally, exactly, just to me and me only, tax paid, free, everything else. Well, we went and... Billy knew that I kinda had need of that check, and I... He went and asked the attorneys if we could cash it. He said, "Why, he's an American citizen; why can't he cash it?" See? Says "'Tax paid and everything else--free.' Any citizen can do that."
6-2   So then, he couldn't be satisfied with that (Billy), so he goes to the public accountant, and he said, "Why certainly, he can cash that." Said, "He's a citizen of the United States." So well, he couldn't think good about that, so he called Merle Miller (that's the head of the--the tax association at Indianapolis that was our attorneys), and so (Issen, Miller)--and so, "Sure, it's all right. (See?) Sure he can have that check. It's--it's made out to him, endorsee only." I can--only one can endorse it and so forth, and it couldn't be stamped with our...
See, I don't cash no checks. That's what they got me for the other time. Somebody'd bring in a bunch of checks, and say, "Here, Brother Branham..." at the meeting. I'd say, "William Branham, William Branham..." Well, the government was taking care of all of that all the time. And I was signing them to myself and was paying the debts out there, but they said I owed delinquent taxes on all of it, anyhow: $300,000.00. So--so then, that's where the fuss came.
So then, as soon as I put this check in, whammy! here come the agent right back. Said, "We'll reopen the case for him now." So it made it kind of rough.
And Brother Lee Vayle setting here (I guess it is all right to say it,) we just... He come down, and this fine scholared Baptist here (I baptized him in the Name of Jesus Christ here in the pool the other day.)--Brother Lee Vayle. And so, he's really a fine man, a brother in Christ; he's preached for us here before, highly intellectually educated, and besides that, a Spirit-led man. When the Light flashed across him, he said he tried to get away, but just couldn't do it. So I baptized him right here the other morning. Couldn't stand it any longer, so we just come down here, put on our clothes, went in, and was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Well, I thought being he had taken that fine spiritual food, maybe to talk a little bit, we'd take some natural food. So we goes over to the Blue Boar, sets down, was talking. And the subject come up, "How do you let people talk about you like that?" Now, Brother Vayle is one of the finest men I ever knowed, but he's just a little too quick on the trigger, I always told him, you know. And so he--so I said... (I hope that's all right, Brother Vayle.) So he--I said, "Don't fly loose all at once; set still. God's the One that's a-doing it."
He said, "Aw, it might be all right for you," he said--he said, "but, well, he--he..." I believe he--he's so smart till that's what he's been meeting (those smart intellectual people), so he just knows how to pour it in there, and they ain't got no place to stand. That's all.
7-3   So I said, "Look, Brother Vayle..." We was sitting at the Blue Boar. I said, "David, one day after being throwed from the throne by his own son, run off the throne, mutiny, Israel divided, and David took off the throne by his own son, and was going out of the city, weeping... And a guy that didn't like his last day Message, you know; he didn't care for him, little old fellow, kind of crippled up, going along there making fun of him, and he spit on David. And that guard drew that sword, said, 'I'll let the head of that dog stay on him and spit on my king?' David said, 'Let him alone; the Lord told him to do that.' See? Spit on him; making fun of him and then spit on him. Said, 'The Lord told him to do that.' Well, we know the story, how it returned back." Brother Vayle thought that took a whole lot of grace to do that.
So no more than coming back and entering the office, the public accountant called Billy Paul and told him about this. So Brother Vayle went up the house with me, and I walked in; I said to the wife (long about sometime in the afternoon)... We went in a room. I said, "I got something to tell you, honey."
We had just been talking before I left. She said, "Bill, I know that God sent you out there; we all know that; but He never told you to come back." She said, "Now, that's where I'm worried about."
I said, "Well, I think it's for you and the children. Don't matter for me. I'm going to serve Him, Lord willing, wherever I go."
And so, walked back, and I told her about it like that. So I just turned around, laid my hat up, and somebody said something about, "Oh, this tax collector...?..." Just kind of raved it out, something like that... Not thinking of what I had told of Brother Vayle, I said, "Let him alone. Maybe the Lord told him to do that." I no more than said that, till a Light flashed on the wall and wrote across there (Brother Vayle and my wife setting there), "Come on back to Arizona." With letters wrote across the wall, "Come on back to Arizona." That's right. So, here I go (Amen!) back to Arizona.
8-1   Now, this week has been a week of great blessings. We had private interviews this week of people who'd been waiting since the Seven Seals. And I don't doubt but some of them of 'course was called in from out of the town--across the nation. But the morning before the interviews started, setting in the room, the Holy Spirit let me write out exactly everything they knew, everything they wanted to ask, rotate the questions just the way they wanted to, and tell them their dreams and interpretations before they ever told me.
Now, the people are in the room here--there. And I'd go ahead and let them talk. They'd say, "Well, Brother Branham, I come such and such."

35.  End of the Second Pull.

CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY.   JEFF. IN   63-0728
94-1   Not knowing (of course, being spiritual, you watch spiritual things)--not knowing this, God knows it. But if you'll turn and look at the clock, it's on the dot 2 o'clock: the end of the Second Pull, the Third Pull is at hand.
   At the name of Jesus bowing,
   Falling prostrate at His feet,
   King of kings in heaven we'll crown Him,
   When our journey is complete.
   Precious name... (Second Pull has been made manifested.)
   Hope of earth and joy of heaven;
   Precious name, O how sweet!
   Hope of earth and joy of heaven.
94-2   Did you notice the Spirit take the same song and picked it up an octave higher like that? The next Pull is at hand. Amen.

36.  Ecumenical move in time of emergency.  [Storeroom]

INFLUENCE.   CHICAGO, IL   63-0803E
155   Now, this great ecumenical move, if a church isn't in this ecumenical move in a time of--of an emergency, that church cannot be used as a church. "And no minister can minister to anybody; he'll be put to death by doing so. If he ministers any blessing to the people outside, he's with the ecumenical move." That's exactly in the writings today by the Lutheran; I forget his name. See? That's right. "Your church cannot be worshipped in; it'll be made a storeroom." See, the mark of the beast already coming in effect, and we're looking at it. The time... Oh, it ought to put the church in action. Certainly, it ought to.

37.  Brother Branham’s vision of hell.  [Totally lost.]

SOULS IN PRISON NOW.   JEFF. IN   63-1110M
11-1   And then I was out hunting one time, which seems to be a second nature to me, to love to hunt. And I was out hunting with a boy, Jim Poole, a lovely kid. I think his boy comes to church here, little Jim. And fine family of people. I know the Pooles. Jimmy and I slept together, lived together since we were little boys in school... We're about six months apart in age. And Jimmy let his gun go off and shot me through both legs, real close to me--a shotgun, and I was taken to the hospital and there--laying there dying. No penicillin or nothing in those days. And they had a rubber sheet under me, and I know that night, they was going to operate the next morning. They just took and cleaned off the wound, and big pieces of flesh blowed up, and they'd take the scissors and cut if off, and I had to hold a man's hands. And they had--Frankie Eich, he just recently committed suicide, and I had to hold and pry my hands loose from his wrists, when--when they got through.
I screamed and cried, holding onto, like that, and them cutting that part of the leg off. I was fourteen years old, just a boy. And that night I tried to go to sleep, and they... I woke up and something splashed. And here was blood, nearly a half a gallon, I guess, that had come from them veins. And they--they taken an x-ray, and they said the shot was laying so close to that artery on either side that just a little scratch would cut it right in to, and I'd start bleeding. "Well," I thought, "This is the end of me."
And I put my hands down like this and raised it up, and the blood running down my hands; it was my own blood I was laying in. I called, rang the bell. The nurse came, and she just soaked it up with towels 'cause there's nothing they could do. And the next morning, under those weakening conditions (They didn't give the blood transfusions in them days, you know), so they--they operated on me. They gave me ether. And when I... The old ether... I guess you remember; it's the old anesthetic. And under that ether, when I came out... I was coming out of the ether after eight hours. They had to give me so much; they thought I couldn't--I wouldn't wake up. They couldn't get me awake.
I remember Mrs. Roeder stood by me out there in the hospital. I'll never forget that woman; no matter whatever happens, I can never forget her. She was just a young woman then. Her husband was superintendent down here at the car works; and I--I remember she standing by me, her and Mrs. Stewart. And they was the ones actually that paid my hospital bill. I... We didn't even have food to eat in the house; so how could I pay a hospital bill of hundreds of dollars?
But she, through her church society and the Klu Klux Klan paid the hospital bill for me: Mason's. I can never forget it. No matter what they do or what, I still... There's something that that stays with me (See?), what they did for me. And they paid the bill to Dr. Reeder. He's still living--lives here in Port Fulton, could tell you the story.
When I came out from under that ether, there's something happened to me there. I've always believed it to be a vision. 'Cause I was so weak, they thought I was dying. She was crying. When I opened my eyes to look, I could hear her talking, and then I went back to sleep and woke up two or three times.
And then I had a vision then... And then about seven months later I had to go and have shotgun wads and greasy hunting clothes taken out of my legs that the Doctor didn't get them. And so I had blood poison; both legs just swelled up and doubled back under me, and they wanted to take both legs off at my hips. And I said, "No, just come higher and take it off up here." I just couldn't stand it. See? And so finally, Dr. Reeder and Dr. Pearl, from Louisville, performed the operation, and cut down in there and taken it out; and today I've got wonderful legs by the grace of God.
But under the--the last vision that I had... The first vision when I come to, and then I went into this trance, and I thought I was in hell, just as plain... [A woman is sick--Brother Branham prays for her--Ed.] All right. Somebody lay your hands on her and she--probably get her to the air. Now, ever who's standing there, lay your hands on her. Let's pray.
Dear Lord Jesus, may our sister who is sick this morning, and she's fainted in the room, may Thy grace and strength and power... There's hands laid upon her now, representing You. And the Scripture has said, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." And now, may our sister come out of this sickness and be made well for the glory of God. In the Name of Jesus Christ we ask it, and commit her to You. Amen.
Now, get her to the air. It's awful stuffy. I can feel it here, real real bad. It's just a fainty feeling in--in here on the platform. I've felt it four or five times here. If the... Soon as she gets feeling a little better, why, get her to where she can get to the air. That's good. Uh-huh. See, it's just so awful stuffy you know.
Human beings create--each one of us, so many square feet of just sickness. If somebody has some water there or something to put on the sister. She's--she's through all right now. All right now. See? I... All right. Yeah, maybe if you could open up the doors maybe, or give just a little bit of air, as much as we possibly can, in some way. See?
Now, in this time, as I had this vision and thinking that I had passed from this life into torment. And seven months later, here at the Clark County Memorial Hospital, I had the second operation. And at that time, when I come out, I thought I was standing out in the west. I had another vision, and there was a great golden cross in the skies, and the Glory of the Lord flowing off of that cross, and I stood with my hands out like this, and that Glory was falling into my chest. And I--the vision left me.
My father was standing there looking at me, when the vision came.
13-2   I've always felt... You... And all the people that's knowed me all these years knows I've always wanted to go west. You know how it is. It's always been something to the west. But because an astronomer told me one time the same thing, that I should go west... The stars, when they cross their cycles and so forth, I was born under that sign, and I'd never be a success in the east, I'd have to go west. And last year I took off west to--to fulfill what a lifetime's desire has been (See?) to--to do it.   (…)   
14-2   And now--now in this, I tell you what happened: In the vision that I had... I'll go back, because I brought that--the two visions in, to show you about one of them; I was to be out west. I've always longed for there.
And now, the purpose of the Message this morning is to post the church in everything that He will let me post the church to, as far as I know, until the--as I go along. And this struck me, so I wanted to post the church. Now, this is to this Tabernacle only (See?) to hear. Now--and in this vision, the first one, here's what taken place: After the vision struck me, and I was so weak, and I'd lost all that blood, and went... I thought I was sinking into a endless eternity. Many of you has heard me tell this before. And--and sinking into an endless eternity...
First, I was going through like clouds, and then through darkness, and sinking on down, down, down. And the first thing you know, I got into the regions of the lost. And in there I--I--I screamed, and I looked, and there was just everything; there was no foundation to it. I could never stop falling--for eternity looked like, I was going to fall; there was no stopping nowhere.
And then, what a difference it was from the vision I had here not long ago of being in glory with the people, the contrast. But in this, as I was falling, I finally... I--I screamed for my daddy. 'Course, being just a kid, that's what I would do. I screamed for my daddy; and my daddy wasn't there. I screamed for my mother; "Somebody catch me!" and was no mother there. I was just going. And I screamed then to God; there was no God there. There was nothing there.
And after while I heard the most mournful sound that I ever heard; and it was the awfullest feeling. There's no way, even a literal burning fire would be a pleasure to the sight of what this was.
Now, those visions has never been wrong. And it was just one of the most horrible feelings I ever had, and what did... I heard a noise, sounded like some kind of a haunted affair. And when it was, I looked coming, and it was women, and they had green stuff, you could just see their face, and they had green stuff under their eyes, and their eyes looked like, run back like the women today paint their eyes. Run back like that and just their eyes and face, and they were going, "UH, UH, UH, UH." Oh, my. I just screamed out, "Oh, God, have mercy upon me. Have mercy, oh God. Where are You? If You'll only let me go back and live, I promise You to be a good boy." Now, that's the only thing I could say. Now, God knows, and at the day of judgment, He will judge me for that statement. That's what I said, "Lord God, let me go back and I'll promise You I'll be a good boy."
And when I got shot, I had told lies; I had done pretty near everything there was to be done, only one thing that I say... I might as well just clean it out while I'm right here now. And when I looked down and seen I was half blowed in two almost, I said, "God, have mercy on me. You know I never did commit adultery."
That's the only thing I could say to God. I'd never accepted His pardon and all these things. I just say--could say, "I never did commit adultery." And then they taken me out there, and then in that, I cried, "God, be merciful to me. I'll be a good boy, if You'll only let me go back," for I knew there was a God somewhere. And so help me, those weary creatures all around, I'd just been a new arrival. And the most hideous, horrible, ungodly feeling in that... Looked like great big eyes--big eyelashes out like that, and run back like a cat, like--back like this, and green stuff and like it cankered or something, and they were--they were going, "UH, UH, UH."
15-4   Oh, what a feeling. Now, when I... Then in a moment's time, I had come back to natural life again. That thing has bothered me. I've thought, "Oh, let it be that I'll never go to a place like that, no other human being will ever have to go to a place like that." Seven months later, I had the vision of standing in the west and seeing that gold cross coming down upon me. And I--I knew that there were the regions of the damned somewhere.
Now, I never noticed it too much until about four weeks ago. The wife... Never thought of it in this terms... About four weeks ago, the wife and I went down to Tucson to do some shopping, and while we were setting... The wife, we'd went in downstairs, and--and there was a bunch of sissy-like boys had their hair ratted (you know, like the women does), and--and bangs combed down here in front, and these real high trousers on, kind of--I guess the beatniks or ever what you call them.
And they were in there, and everybody was looking at them, and their heads was that big like the women that wear these here water head haircuts, you know; and they were down there. A young woman came by, and she said, "What do you think about that?"
I said, "Then you ought to be ashamed of yourself if you can think that." I said, "He has just as much right to do it as you do. Neither one of you have a right."
(…)
16-2   So I went upstairs, and I set down and when I did, there was an escalator (It was at J. C. Penny's store.), and the escalator bringing the people up. Well, I really turned sick at my stomach seeing those women come up there; young, old, and indifferent, wrinkled, young, and every way, with little bitty shorts on, their filthy body, and those sexy dressed women with those great big heads like that, and here they come, and one coming out of that escalator was just coming right up like that where I was setting back in a chair, setting there with my head down, and I turned and looked. One of them coming up the steps was saying (Spanish speaking) to another woman; she was a white woman speaking to the Spanish woman. And when I looked, all at once I was changed. There I'd seen that before.
Her eyes... You know how the women are doing now, painting their eyes, just recently like cat, you know put it up like this, and wearing cat glasses and everything, you know, with eyes up like this, and that green stuff under their eyes. There was that thing that I seen when I was a child. There was the woman just exactly. And I just got numb all over, and I begin to look around, and there was those people mumbling, you know, going on about the prices and things in the building.
And I just... Looked like that I just changed for a moment. And I looked; I thought, "That's what I saw in hell." There they was, that canker. I thought because they were in hell what made them that way, a greenish blue under their eyes. And here was these women painted with greenish-blue just the way that vision said about forty years ago. See? (And about forty years ago, is what it's been. I'm fifty-four, and I was fourteen.) So about forty years ago, I... And that's the--the--that's the number anyhow of the judgment. You see?
Now, there was... I'd seen that, and I couldn't even speak to my wife when she come. She was over there trying to get Sarah and the kids something, kind of a dress or something for school, and I--I couldn't even... I couldn't even speak to her. She said, "Bill, what's the matter with you?"
I said, "Honey, I'm as--I'm almost a dead man."
She said, "What's the matter? Are you sick?"
I said, "No. Something's just happened." Now, she don't know. She's waiting for this tape to return. I've never said it to nobody. And I thought, "I'd wait," and as I promised, bring it to the church first (See?), bring it to the church. That was my promise. And you'll realize after tonight the reason I try and keep my promise. See?
I thought then as I noticed them cankered looking eyes on them women... There was the Spanish, and French, and Indian, and white, and all together, but that great big heads, you know, bushed up, with that combs, the way they comb it back, way big, and then comes out, you know... You know how they do it, fix it like they do it. And then, them cankered looking eyes and the eyes with the paint that run back like a cat's eyes; and them talking, and there I was again, standing there in J. C. Penny's store, back in hell again.
I got so scared; I thought, "Lord, surely I haven't died and You've let me come to this place after all." And there they were making... just around like that... in that vision like you could just barely hear it with your ears, you know, just the mumble and going on of people, and them women coming up that escalator and walking around there and that "Uh, uh," and there was those green, funny-looking eyes, mournful.
17-4   And wife come up and I said, "Just let me alone a minute, honey." I said, "If you don't mind, I want to go home."
She said, "Are you sick?"
I said, "No, just go ahead, honey, if you've got any shopping to do."
She said, "No, I'm finished."
And I said, "Let me take you by the arm." See? I walked out.
She said, "What's the matter?"
I said, "Meda, I--I--I...?... Something happened up there." And while I was under that, I thought this: "What day are we living in? Could this be the Third Pull?" Now, I've got some notes here.

38.  Preach to total lost.  [The Third Pull.]

SOULS IN PRISON NOW.   JEFF. IN   63-1110M
42-1   Jesus' ministry, when He was healing the sick, He was so wonderful. "That young Prophet of Galilee, why, He makes the blind to see. He's even raised the dead. We got three cases of it. He actually raised the dead."
But one day He turned around; He said, "You generation of vipers. You make the outside of the platter clean. You appear to be holy, but the inside of you, you're nothing but a bunch of snakes."
Oh, when that prophecy went forth, condemning that organization, then it changed. They turned against Him. That's right. And finally, by rejecting Him, they crucified Him. But you can't kill the ministry; it lives on. You can put the messenger to sleep, but you can't put the message. That's right. He lived on.
And notice, when the Third Pull of His ministry come, the First was healing the sick, the Second was rebuking their organizations and prophesying what they had done, what they were, and what was coming: what is, what is--will come, what was--what is and will come. That's what He done. Is that right? But His Third Pull was when He preached to the lost that couldn't be saved no more. They were down there where them big painted eyes was. Preached to the souls in hell that did not accept mercy, but were eternally separated from the Presence of God; yet they had to recognize it; what He was, because God made Him there. Wonder if His ministry climbs out the same way in the last days. As it was, "As the Father sent Me, so send I you. The works that I do shall you also."
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45-2   Was that what that vision was give me as a little bitty boy out yonder? And I have went West, and there's the golden Cross of the Gospel shining down and has declared the sign from heaven just exactly. You remember, the Cross was in a panoramic like a--like a pyramid also, built. Could it be that it's the Head part where it's ended and started and here come up to the Headship, like the pyramid come up through Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, and them there... Capping of the stone, could it be that? If that's it, where are we at?
This might... I hope it isn't, but it's got to be. It's going to be. Just remember, them ministries has to... They always dovetail just the same with the other one. It had to come then; God don't change. Think of it. Bite your conscience with your spiritual teeth and find out where we're at. What if it is, and you're still the way you are? Then you just might as well walk... You're finished. Them that's outside, after the Book is taken by the Lamb, the Sixth Seal is revealed and all the seals, it's over. It could be. I hope it isn't; it could be.
All right. Now, is that why this Third Pull has lingered so long? You notice the First Pull and the Second Pull went from one to the other. I predicted, you remember, when I first started about the First, and I said, "There'll come a time that I'll even know the secrets of the heart." You remember. How many... Why, all of you remember that in my meetings around. And one night I'd just walked into Regina, up there, and walked on the platform, Brother Baxter there, several thousand people, and a man walked up on the platform, and there it was. And from that it's been the same.
46-1   But it's been years since I come off the field, four, about five years since I come off... What is it? What's done this? Is that been why it was like it was in the beginning in Genesis, "God's long-suffering"? Remember, when He made the world, the seventh day He made nothing. He rested. See? God was long-suffering in that sixth year, not willing that any should perish, but all might come to repentance. God was long-suffering.
Again also in Genesis 15:16 (if you want to put it down) 16:15, He told Abraham, over in that land of the Amorites, their iniquity (They were Gentiles now.), "I can't take you in there right now, because the iniquity of the Amorites, the Gentiles, is not fulled up yet, but I will judge them. I'll come in that fourth generation, and then I'll judge that nation with a rod of iron." Is that right?

WORLD AGAIN FALLING APART.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1127
189  (…)  I wonder if at this late hour when. It may be almost passed feeling time (See?), because there'll come a time like that when the Spirit of God will be with-taken from the earth, there'll 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'll be a ministry now that'll preach to the eternal lost after they have refused to receive it.

39.  Message is the Third Pull.

SOULS IN PRISON NOW.   JEFF. IN   63-1110M
43-2   In the days of Sodom, the First Pull was to righteous Lot. And the Bible said, "The sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul daily," how them women acted and done. You remember, "As it was in the days of Noah..." What was they doing? Eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage: women (See?), women. What was the days of--of Sodom? Women. And the first message was Lot. They laughed him to scorn.
Then He sent another messengers, two of them, and they went down. That was His Second Pull for Lot--for Sodom. But look at that one that went last. Just more and more mercy; it was all over then--all over at that time. That third Messenger that went down there, the Third Pull, what was He? What kind of a ministry did He have? He set with the elected and told them what was taking place behind Him. Is that right?

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
27   So I've got my mind set on this Message. That's that Third Pull, and it's the one I must be loyal and reverent to.

40.  World peace by World Council of Churches.
JEREMIAH 6:14
   They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

WHAT SHALL I DO WITH JESUS.   JEFF. IN   63-1124M
112   Now, the big machine is setting up now, and ready to move. The mechanics is already there. They've already got the mechanical system of an organization that's going to bring upon the earth a peace, they say. They got a--like a U.N. The nations are united together. It's a uniting time. I just preached on it recently. They're--they're uniting together to bring what? A world peace. They did that in the League of Nations. They've always done it, and it never works. It can't work. The U.N. is nothing but a big rubber balloon that's carried about by every nation's wind of doctrine. It'll bust and blow up at anything. It can't work; neither can the Council of Churches work. It's an organization by man, contrary to the system--with their system contrary to the Word of God. And it can't work.
How can two walk together unless they be agreed? You can't do it. And how can the Christian church... will have to... The--the Pentecostals, the Assemblies of God, and the--the great other churches of the--of the Pentecostal kingdom, and of the Full Gospel people... How can they forfeit their evangelical teachings, the very principles that they've stood on? And where they was raised up to come out of those organizations and condemn it. And they have to forfeit their evangelical doctrine to walk with man, who disagree upon the principles of the Bible, and Divine healing, and the power, of God, and Jesus Christ. How can two walk together except they be agreed?
There you are. That's the hour that we have arrived at. And that's the big machine that's set up. Now, they've got the mechanics. The only thing they have to have is Satan in there with the dynamics to force the marking of the beast. When she's forced down, then the dynamics is working. The mechanics is there. They've already got them.
115   Let me say something too. This uniting time--you see churches uniting nations uniting... It's a uniting time of God and His Bride too. And I say this with reverence and respect. I believe that the Bride of Christ is called; I believe She's sealed in the Kingdom of God. I believe the mechanics is there. They're waiting for the Dynamics, that'll take Her off the earth into glory in the rapture. I believe it with all my heart. Yes, sir

41.  Cannot totally annihilate.

THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS.   JEFF. IN   63-1124E
4-7   I was speaking to a couple this afternoon about you cannot totally annihilate anything. Human beings can't annihilate. They can tear down, but not annihilate. Someone said, "Well what about taking and burning a piece of paper. Does that annihilate it?" No sir. It only breaks the chemicals apart, the heat of the fire. It goes right back to the gases, what it was in the beginning. You cannot annihilate. And if the world stood long enough that same gases that--and--and chemical that was in that paper could come right back and be a piece of paper again. That's exact... You cannot annihilate. It's exact.
God then... If there is a resurrection to everything back again and no annihilation, there's a resurrection of the just, and we're got to come back. That's all there is to it; there's no way at all of doing it. No matter if you're burnt up, if you're drowned, wherever it takes place, they cannot annihilate.

GOD'S GIFTS ALWAYS FIND PLACE.   JEFF. IN   63-1222
57   There is nothing that man can annihilate; there isn't one thing. You can't do nothing to completely destroy anything. You might take a piece of paper and burn it up; you might burn a building down; you might burn a tree down; you didn't annihilate it. You... That heat in there, that--that fire that breaks up, that's only chemicals bursting. They're turning back to what they was at the beginning. They're not annihilated. If you burn up a piece of wood and the world say... If we lived in eternity like God, and that chemicals out of that wood and that fire went back to its original beginnings and its--in whatever it was, the breakings of the atoms and so forth, the--the world say, stand for millions of years" that could come right straight back again and be another tree, just exactly like it was.
You cannot annihilate anything because it is a spoken Word of God. Amen. Oh, and that gets me feeling religious, now. See? What God says, it's forever stands. Amen. See, you cannot annihilate. We are a part of this earth, and we can never be completely annihilated. No, sir. The sin, the soul will be annihilated, we realize that. But the--the body that we live in cannot be annihilated. See?

42.  Broke into eternity.

WORLD AGAIN FALLING APART.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1127
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--or 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...

43.  Storm spoken away in October, 1963.  [Third Pull.]
44.  Crushed for five years.  [Tax case.]

TESTIMONY.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1128M
35   But just, It's done something to me, now I--in myself. For five years now, I've wondered what was wrong. I felt in my heart like I was--I was all crushed down with something, and I--I couldn't make out what it was. During the time of this great crushing, and so forth, I just plastered around and around, across the country.
And the government had me under an investigation because when we have the meetings, somebody write a check "William Branham" and I'd just sign it and hand it back. And then we got a package of all the--all of our meetings, and when they looked through there and found out that it went in to pay the campaign. Yet, as I signed my name to it, I identified the check to myself, and they had me I owed the government three hundred thousand dollars. And it--they wouldn't let me leave, and I had to stay here, and so forth, for a great time to search through all of this. And--and I'm not, everything went... They said, "Yes, it went into the campaign, but the people made the check to you. And when you endorsed it, you identified yourself with the check, and you owe taxes on it. If you never even held it a second in your hand, it's still yours because you endorsed it."
I didn't know it. I don't know all the mechanics of this, the laws and things. I was supposed to have a stamp to stamp it, instead of sign it. When I signed it, it means it's mine. And then they cut right into the package and find there it was placed right into the fund and spent out like that. I draw a salary from my church of a hundred dollars a week. There sets a trustee, setting right there, that knows that's right. And that's all I get from that. And I--otherwise, it goes right into the campaign.
38   Now, I felt like I was crushed, for the last four or five years. Well, I'd went up into Canada, just recently, on a little trip of going hunting. And when I did, the Lord helped me up there to lead a whole tribe of Indians to the Lord Jesus. And I have to go back when the--when the--the creeks thaw up, up there, and things, to baptize the whole tribe, in the Name of the Lord Jesus; because the healing of an Indian woman dying in a heart attack, that the priest wouldn't come to, way back in the jungles where I had to ride for hours, horseback. There are those setting here now, who was present when it happened.
And now, then, coming down, I had to stop over in Colorado, to visit some of my friends there, some ministers. I'm a--I'm a guide in Colorado, and I was taking them on a hunting trip. Two or three of those men, three or four, five of them are setting right present now to know this. And it's been awful dry in Colorado this year, as it has been across the nation. And fires were very--going to be very bad, so they delayed the hunting season awhile.
But while we were up there, there come forth an issue that--that there was coming a blizzard. And it's dangerous to be in the mountains at that time, 'cause you--sometimes I've seen you couldn't even see your hand before you for hours after hours, and thirty foot of snow dumped right out in one time, just in a few hours, right on top of you, and you perish. So I told my brethren, that morning when we was leaving out, I said, "Now the blizzard..."
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TESTIMONY.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1128M
47   I'd been feeling that horrible burden. "I've cried. I've prayed. I've confessed. What can I do? What is it that I done?" Like you'd done something real evil; like you'd hurt somebody, and you know you ought to make it right. What was I condemned about? I knew not. I said, "Lord, if You'll only reveal it to me, I'll make it right. But what have I done but stand and preach, and do all that I knowed to do? And I've tried to live clean, clear, and just according to Your Words. But what have I done?" And still that burden would not let up, year after year. I thought about it on the mountain that morning, and I started down.

HE THAT IS IN YOU.   JEFF. IN   63-1110E
76   As we were in Colorado (See?), as we were up there, we went back, and it'd been rear dry. Game was scarce. Brother Wheeler, the Lord blessed him and gave him a--a fine trophy, and we was so happy about that, is the first time he's ever in the woods hunting. And the Lord blessed him. And then I had shot a big trophy that I had looked for for twenty years, been watching him, Brother Banks and I been after him for a long time. And when I did, shooting my rifle in down in the hot country, bringing it up into a cold, it swelled the stock although it was glass bedded, and it shot it several inches off. And hit the animal, standing between trees, where it oughtn't to hit him; lower than that which would've humanely killed the animal in a second. But it hit him so high, it... He jumped and like he fell like that.
And Billy was with me, and he said, "That got him." And I thought it did too; but when we went over there, it wasn't. So he said, "You hit a tree." I looked up and down, there was no mark on a tree. And then I went to searching for it. And then, there come a warning sign. There was practically a hundred men, just above us. And Brother Palmer and them is a witness of that. And Brother Evans, that's right, he was there; Brother Welch Evans and his boy Ronnie (I believe I called them awhile ago.). And great loads of men had went up above us, what they call the "cow camp" up there, where the cowboy stays and rides, keeps the cows separated. I used to stay in that camp myself and herd those cattle and keep them apart.
And then... So in there there was about a hundred men. But anyone knows in that country, when a blizzard is forecast, you'd better get away right now. That's why Brother Palmer and them left early, because they only had a three-speed transmission in their car, and they had to get out of there, 'cause weather... You're there, and you might stay for weeks. So they said, "There is a blizzard coming," the forecast, the papers, the radio. Load after load, practically everything from up around in there left out. They'd gone, right now, 'cause they knowed to get out of there.
But my brethren had two deer license, and they--they didn't want to go. So I--I said, "Well, we'll stay." But I had a meeting coming up in about six days, and I had to go back to Tucson.
So my little wife... Now, we been married twenty-two years. And twenty years on our anniversary, I'd been up there every time; just happened to hit there. So I--I got a little place I always walk out and pray, and it looked like the place where I took her.
You know, I made kind of a little thing, you know; I didn't have enough money to take the hunting trip and my honeymoon, so I--I--I kinda took my wife on a hunting trip for the honeymoon. So we was in New York, and I remember helping her up over logs and things, a-getting to a place. And I got a little place out there, I always think of her when I go there on our anniversary. October twenty-third is when season's open there, and twenty years I haven't been home, always up there.
82   So that day was our anniversary. And Brother Mann... I said, "Now, if you brethren..." I stood to the fire that morning, "Now, if..." that night, rather, "If you an want to stay now, remember, we may be in here for a month." 'Cause I've seen twenty foot of snow fall just in a little, just overnight, just... You'd go out there and you--just as dry and nice, and the next morning, snow is this deep, over--maybe over top of your tent. So then I said... And then you stay there till that melts off. So you're about fifteen to twenty miles back in the wilderness. And so then I said... And if it gets emergency, 'course they send in helicopters and get you out, but usually they just, nobody perishing, they just have to wait there.
So everybody scats just as soon as they hear that broadcast, and or forecast, rather. So we were back there, and I said, "Now, you make up your mind. If you want to stay, I'm here to hunt with you, and I'll call my wife and tell her 'Happy Anniversary!'" But I said, "Then in that, I will also... I'll... We well--we'll get some groceries, 'cause we might have to stay in here." We was out of bread then. And I don't want to see anymore flapjacks for a long time, them pancakes. So then... I'd been eating them in Canada for about twenty-one days, and I sure had a fill of them things. And so then, I wanted to get some bread.
So they just said they wanted to stay. So there wasn't nothing to do to stay. But Brother Mann and I went out, and we went down there, and I got the groceries. And I called the wife, and the phone wouldn't answer. No one answered; so I waited about a hour till we got the groceries shopped, went back, called; she didn't answer. And I had to call Sister Evans. I believe Sister Evans is here. And I told... Yeah, Brother Evans and Sister Evans is here.
So I called Sister Evans for Brother Evans and told him; she said, "I'll call Sister Branham and tell her a 'Happy Anniversary,' of course, you know. So... But she'd gone shopping to get some groceries for the children.
And then we come back; and the next morning, what was in the skies but clouds. It hadn't rained up there all fall, and it was really dry. And they had to prolong the hunting season a few days extra on account of the dryness.
Well, I said to the brethren that morning, "Now, the first drop of rain starts to fall, the first snow, the first sleet, anything, take for the camp just as hard as you can, 'cause within fifteen minutes you can't see your hand before you. See? And it'll just twist and blow, and I don't care how well you know the country, you--you're going to stay right there, and you'll perish. 'Cause sometimes you can't even breathe, the sleet blowing so, you die right there." And I said, "As soon as it starts with that sleet, you take for the camp just at hard as you can; I don't care where you are."
Well, I said, "Go up here and set in these gulches, and I'll climb way high and roll rocks over the hill and so forth, scare the deers off the top and run them down; you pick out what you want."
So I started climbing high, and about time I got up to where we call the saddle, a little place there that I always cross over to go to a place called Quaker Knob, right on the continental divide there, way high. And when I got to almost this little saddle, the clouds was getting blacker and blacker. Wasn't a car left, just us up there as far--and a cowboy on the camp. So it got--it got worse and worse, so it... In a few minutes it started to raining. Well, I took my gun and put it under my coat, keep the scope from smoking up and--and the stock getting wet; whether run into a bear or something, coming back, so I--I held my scope like that and set down under a tree a little bit. And I set there and prayed. I said, "Lord, God, You're the great Jehovah, and I love You."
How many experiences have I had. I pointed out to the brethren, Brother Palmer and them, the places where the eagle, you know,... I seen him rise up that day, you know, and how... That's the places where it all taken place in there. It's a temperamental thing to me in there. I've had so many great experiences with my Lord up in them mountains. So you just can't go there without seeing Him; He's just everywhere.
So then, as I--I set there, then the sleet started, and the wind twisting, like that. And I said, "Well, I know the way down, but I better get off of here right now."
So I said, "It--it..." Looked down, and I couldn't even see the bottoms no more, them clouds just whirling and twisting, and sleet a-blowing. And there it was, the blizzard, forecast for several days, a big blizzard coming.
Brother Tom is here. Brother Tom Simpson, coming down from Canada, heard the forecast, and he was advised not to go through that part of the country, 'cause this forecast said. "It'll be blizzard." Where are you, Brother Tom? I think that... Yeah, right here. And he... The blizzard was coming. Everybody had done set in for it.
Well, I put my gun back under my shirt, like this, my red shirt, started walking down the mountain. And as I started, got about half a mile from the saddle; and oh, my, those big drops of snow like that, and the wind twisting up on that mountain and blowing. I couldn't see the bottom no more. I could see about twenty feet in front of me, or thirty, and I knowed to come right down this little, what we call a little hogback, little ridge, and I'd come off to the creek, and then I knowed to follow the creek, and where to go to if it got real bad.
94   And so then I started down, and got about half way down there, and Something said to me, just as plain as you hear me, "Stop and go back."
Well, I thought, "What was I thinking about? Maybe it's just my mind." And I just couldn't make another step forward.
David had fixed me a sandwich that morning, and I think he tried to get even with me for fixing his daddy one, one time, of onion and honey; that's all we had. So he fixed me a baloney and, oh, I don't know what all it was, wrapped in there. And I had it in my shirt, and it done got wet through my shirt, I thought, "I'll just stop and eat this, and maybe I'll--it'll be all right then." So I pulled out the sandwich, about ten o'clock, and I started eating the sandwich. And as I eat the sandwich, I thought, "Now, I'll be all right." And I started to move on, but something said, "Go back where you come from."
"Go back through that storm, a half a mile or more back up the mountain into that dark timber where you..." Can then hardly see as far as that organ... But I'm getting to be an old man, and I been a Christian now for thirty-three years; and I know no matter what, how ridiculous it seems, mind the Lord. Do what the Lord says.
And I turned and went back to the saddle, feeling my way back, oh, sleet getting harder and harder, getting darker and darker. And I set down there, and just put my coat up like this, or my shirt over the scope again; set down. I thought, "What am I doing here? Why would I come back up here?"
99   And I just waited a few minutes. And I started to get up again, and just as plain as I've ever want to hear, a voice said, "I am the Creator of heavens and earth. I make the wind and the rain."
I took off my hat; I said, "Great Jehovah, is that You?"
He said, "I was the One Who made the winds to cease upon the sea. I was the One Who made the waves to go down. I created heavens and earth. Was not I--I not the One that told you to speak to those--for squirrels and they come into existence? I am God."
Now, when a voice speaks to you, watch the Scripture. If it's not Scriptural, you leave it alone; I don't care how plain it is; you stay away from it.
I said, "Yes, Lord."
He said, "Speak to those winds and that storm, and it'll go away." Now, this Bible lays before me, which my life is in That.
I raised up; I said, "I do not doubt Your voice, Lord." I said, "Clouds, snow, rain, sleet, I resent your coming. In the Name of Jesus Christ, go to your places. I say that the sun must come out immediately and shine for four days till our hunting trip is over and I leave with my brethren."
It was just gushing, just going "Whooosssh," like that. And it started go--going, "Whoosh"; and then went "whew, whew, whew, whew." Stopped... I stood real still. My brethren up there, wondering what was happening. And the sleet and rain stopped. There came a wind whirling down through the mountain, lifted up the clouds, and one went this way: east, north, west, and south. And within a few minutes, the sun was shining nice and warm. That's truth. God knows that's truth. I just stood there, just looking around with my hat off, looking.
"Are..." You say... I got numb all over. I thought, "The very God of creation, it's all in His hand. What's He telling me?"
And I picked up my gun, wiped off the scope, started walk back, go down the hill. And Something said to me, "Why don't you stroll with Me through this wilderness, walk with Me?"
I said, "Yes, Lord, with all my heart, would be one of the greatest things I could do was walk with You." So I put my gun over my shoulder, and I started walking down through that (never a axe laid in it, virgin timber), walking through there.
And as I did, walked along, down along these game trails, I felt like, "I believe I will go up to the place where... yesterday was our anniversary, and I will stand there just a few minutes, just as a little salute to Meda, at where there's a little bunch of quaking asp upon a little knob." And I said, "I believe I'll walk up there, just as a salute to our anniversary. Then I'll go back down on this other side in these dark timbers, and walk around, and go right over by--towards Corral Peaks, and come back down that way."
113   Just walking and rejoicing, I was saying, "Father, I know You are walking with me, and what a privilege. There's nobody greater I could be walking with; the very God." And that warm sunshine...
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HE THAT IS IN YOU.   JEFF. IN   63-1110E
123   Walking up there, I was going along... Now, this part, I hope my wife don't get this tape. See? But I'm going to tell you something. And now, I--I don't tell you... I just tell you the truth. See, and that's the only way to do it. I've often wondered why she didn't complain about me going on these trips on an anniversary. You know what I had made up in my mind? I said, "There's so many people around the house. And then I'm always, you know how I am, nervous, and everything I talk, I want to talk about is God, the Bible, or something. Maybe she just thinks it's a little rest for her. She'd get me away for a few days, go hunting." I, half thinking that, going along there.
Now, that I'm... I--I apologize to her, and I'm--I'm ask God to forgive me for such thoughts," 'cause I was going away. I thought, "Well, she thinks... Well, my goodness, she--she's a worker, you know, and--and all the time when she's out in the kitchen or somewhere out in the..."
And any of you knows her, that washing machine's going all the time. And so, I'd go out, I'd pull her... I said, "Don't be washing like that. Talk to me. (See?) I--I love you. I want you to tell me something: tell me you do too."
She said, "Well, you know I do," then right on washing just as hard as she...?...
"I don't want you to do that; I want you to come in here and set down by me."
"O Bill, I got so much work to do."
And I thought, "Well, see, go on up here, she gets time to do her work." Go along there thinking that.
Now, remember, I laid this Bible up here so you'd see that I'm before the Word.
130   As I was walking along, something happened to me. As I started, first I was thinking about when I taken her on the honeymoon up there, she was a pretty, little, black-headed, brown-eyed girl, and I was lifting her over these logs, you know, and everything, and trying to get her up there in this place where I'd kill some bear. And I wanted to show her, you know, and so where I got these bear. And she had on my cowboy boots. And that's about twenty-two years, or twenty-one years before that, twenty-two years, I believe it was, ago. We were married on 1941. And I was picking her up, you know, over these logs.
And I thought, "Now, poor little fellow, putting up with me, she's done turned gray." And I thought, "Well..." I went... [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.]. And I hadn't shaved for a few days, and I found out I was gray too. And I seen my beard sticking out of here, gray, and I thought, "Old boy, you just about finished now. See, you--you going to do anything, you better hurry up. You're getting old too." See?
And so, as I went along like that, something taken place. All of a sudden, in every motion, principle, I was a boy; I thought as a boy. I had my head down, and I looked up and just as plain as I ever saw her, there she stood before me with her arms out. And I stopped, rubbed my face; I looked. Said, "Meda, is that you, honey?"
I looked here; I thought, "Now, what's happened?" And I thought, "Yes, I'm walking with Him." And it changed then, I was back an old man again; and the vision was gone from front of me.
And I stopped; I took my hat off again, put it over my heart. I said, "Jesus, my heart has been so burdened for years. I don't have to tell You that I'm burdened. I've repented; I've repented; I've done everything I know. And why has it this burden don't leave me?"
And I just started walking on. And as I climbed this little knoll, just about thirty forty yards in front of me; I started up this little knoll, I begin to feel real weak. And there was a little quaking asp about ten inches through, come up and made like a "L," and then went up again. And just as I got there, I felt so weak I was staggery. So I just... I had my cap back on again. And I just laid my head up against this; fit me just right to lay my head right here against that little quaking asp, like this. It's really a poplar; it's like--looks like a birch. You see? And it's--it's a... I was laying against there. And I was just standing there with my head down, that warm sun hitting me in the back, and I think, "The very God that departed that rain and that wind..."
And I heard something going, "pat, pat, pat."
I thought, "What's that? The water's all blowed off. The sun is out. What's that splat?" I looked down; it was water from my own eyes, cutting down through the gray beard and dropping off on the dry leaves that God had dried up, laying before me. And I just stood there like this, just against the tree. And my hands--this hand down, my head laying against the tree, my hand on the rifle sling, like this, a-standing there, crying.
I said, "God, I'm not worthy to be Your servant." I said, "I--I'm sorry; I--I made a... I've made many mistakes. I didn't mean to make mistakes, Lord. You've been so good to me."
My eyes closed; and I heard something going, "stomp, stomp; stomp, stomp." I raised my eyes, and standing right in front of me come three deer. And I thought, "There's Brother Evans' one, Brother Wood's, and there's the three deer. (See?) Just what I'm looking for, and I ranged right up. I reached to get my rifle, as "I can't do that. I promised God that I wouldn't do that. (See?) I promised Him I wouldn't do it."
And something said to me, "But there it is."
And I thought, "Yeah, that's what a--a man told David, one time, 'God delivered him.' (I said...) 'into your hands.'" You know, king Saul.
And Joab told him, said, "Kill him. There he lays."
He said, "God forbid I touch His anointed."
And those deer stood there and looked at me. And I thought, "They can't get away. There's no way for them to get away. They're not thirty yards from me, and I got this rifle. Standing here, and there's three deer. Aw, I can't do it. I--I just can't do it." It was a doe and two big fawns. So I--I--I just couldn't take the rifle. I said, "I can't." I--I never moved. I just stayed there. I said, "I can't do it, 'cause I promised God I wouldn't do it. Though them brethren, they--they don't need them deer. (See?) Now, I can't do this. I just can't do it."
And that doe come, walked... Now, listen, there'd been a hundred men shooting at them up there for four or five days. Scary? The first sign of red (and I had a red shirt, red cap), the first sign, they're gone; but they were standing there, all three of them, looking right at me.
I said, "Mother, take your babies and go on out in the woods. You're in my hand. Your life is in my hands; I ain't going to hurt you. I promised God that I wouldn't." See? And she walked closer. She looked at me. All of them walked closer, till they come so close they could eat out of my hands nearly. They don't... And the wind blowing right on them. So she turned around, walked back a little piece, all three of them.
And here she come back again, walked right up to me. I never moved, just stood there. I said, "Go on out into the woods; I love it too. Live. (See?) Your life is in my hand, but I'll spare you. You couldn't get away; you know you couldn't." I can kill all three of them in--in just about one second, three seconds anyhow, just as fast as I could fire; and they couldn't get away, standing right by me. See? I said, "I spare you. Go on; live." I stood there. They went walking on, went on into the woods.
149   I wiped my face like that, and just then something happened. A voice spoke out just as clear, right out of them blue skies, not a cloud. It all been within just about--just a little bit of time. And a voice spoke out, and said, "You remembered your promise, didn't you?"
I said, "Yes, Lord."
He said, "I'll remember Mine too. I'll never leave you nor forsake you." The burden left my heart. It hasn't been there since. May it never again.
Then I come to Tucson. Strange thing, I have never had so much happening since I've come down. I--I believe it was God holding for that hour. I believe the time is now at hand where something must take place.

HE THAT IS IN YOU.   JEFF. IN   63-1110E
114   Even to when I come out of the mountains, I stopped at filling stations, and I said, "Beautiful day," three days later. It never rained in that part of the country until the four days was over. The sun shined every day. Is that right, brethren? See? And not a cloud in the sky...
And I come out to the filling station; I said, "Sure a beautiful day."
"Yes, it is."
I said, "Been awful dry?"
Said, "It's a strange thing," this attendant said--said, "You know, they told us we was going to get a big blizzard, but all of a sudden it stopped."
I come on down, on the New Mexico line. Billy and I, my son, we went into a little place there to get some--the morning we left, and I said, "Sure a pretty day."
"Yes, it is."
I said, "Look like it's been pretty dry."
"Yes, it has been."
I said, "Are you from here?"
Said, "No, I'm from Wisconsin," or somewhere. Said, "I been out here about twenty years, so I guess you could call it home."
I said, "You're a native then, I guess." So I said, "Yes, sir," I said, "looks like it's been awful dusty."
Said, "You know, the strangest thing happened." Said, "We had a forecast that we was going to get a blizzard and a lot of snow; and it actually started and then quit."
I said, "You don't say so."
And I come home. And Brother Tom said that he was told not to go that way, a blizzard was due. And he come right through the country without even a sprinkle of rain or anything. He's still God (See?), just as much as He ever was to me.

TESTIMONY.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1128M
83   He's still God, just as much God as He ever was. But how can a man say those things unless God tells him first to say it? See, not under impression, but you know what you're saying, then do it. But wait, don't try to say, "Oh, that's the way. Many people, I think, and--and gifts of God... Wait till you know it's--you know it's God. See? Wait till the Voice comes, and you hear It, and know It, see It, then you can say, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD." If it isn't THUS SAITH THE LORD, then it's your impression; it's what somebody else thinks. People requests people, "Say this for me. Do this for me." How can you do it, if you're honest with God, until God first tells you? How can I tell you, "Thus saith Jack Moore," and Jack Moore hasn't said nothing to me? See? It's got to come first from God, not impressed. It's got to be God, and then it'll happen, for it is then THUS SAITH THE LORD.

45.  This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled.  [Gentiles reject Him first.]

WHAT SHALL I DO WITH JESUS?   JEFF. IN   63-1124M
52   Then when Jesus come as the anointed Messiah, and done just exactly what the Word of God said He would do... And yet, the Jews were looking for something else: A king coming with a rod of iron in his hand (which was way in the future). But He fulfilled every Word. There one day in Capernaum when He picked up the Scripture and read; did you notice, He just read part of that Scripture and then He laid the Book down, and said, "Today, this is fulfilled."
When He was to preach the year of jubilee... Now, why didn't He read the rest of It? Because It pertains to His other coming. They had no need of knowing that. That's for the age that when He will come in. But the age that He was in... That's the reason He could say, "This Scripture is fulfilled today in your eyes. Right here, you see It: to preach the acceptable season, and bind up the brokenhearted, and heal the sick." That's what He come for. The rest of It was--was to bring judgment to the Gentiles and so forth, so that comes next. See, the Gentile had to reject Him first.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
106   Notice the Scripture so accurately gives it. Watch what this... to show the... them who wants to believe, them who wants to see. Remember Jesus stopped in the middle of a Scripture, 'cause part of it was fulfilled then, the rest for His Second Coming? "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, bind up the brokenhearted," and stopped; not "bring judgment to the Gentile" until His Second Coming.

46.  Meda’s tumor disappears in November 1963.  [Third Pull]

TESTIMONY.   SHREVEPORT, LA   63-1128M
122   And Brother Malicki said to me, said, "Brother Branham, how do you do that?"
I said, "I don't know. I can't tell you how it is. It's God."
And so I held my hand out like that. I said, "Here, here's my wife, I know there is nothing wrong with her. Lay your hands upon mine, honey." And she did, and there a tumor vibrated from female. And I said, "Sweetheart, you have a tumor, honey, in the female glands."
And she said, "I--I feel no effects."
I said, "Sweetheart, here it is on my hand. Raise your hand up." She raised up, then lay it back down. "See it?"
Well, when we went, come home, we got a very fine doctor friend; I went to school with him. We took her down, an examination. Said, "Billy, there's nothing wrong with her." Said, "She's all right. No tumor there."
I said, "Sam, I don't want to doubt your word (See?), because you examined her, but there's tumor there."
Everybody, over three or four years, when I go to get my physical, when I go overseas, she goes with me for a physical. And when it was, never seen it.
And about two years ago, I come in one day. Now, I--I must tell all truth. See, you don't want to just bypass anything; you must tell all truth. And I've expressed to you my love for my wife. But yet we have to watch in them things. I'm telling you the truth. The heavenly Father, Who is my Witness right here now, knows it's true. Oh, at the house, how it is, just this, that, and everything. The poor little thing is going through the change of life at this time: menopause.
And for the last couple years, about two years ago, when we had a physical, then the doctor found a tumor on the left ovary. It had growed to about the size of a--of a walnut. He said, "Let me examine that again, Brother Branham." Said, "About three months, if that goes to growing, it has to come out." Well, then we...
130   But just before that, I got something to tell you. I forgot that. One day I come in, and from the house, and I was come in to do something, and I turned around and went out. And I said... She said, "Can you go down town with me, Bill?"
And I said, "Not right now, honey."
And she said, "What are we going to do about Becky, a certain-certain?"
I said, "Well, honey, I don't know just what to do."
And there's something come up, and she was so nervous she could hardly hold herself together: people at the house all night long, and like night before last, even at one o'clock in the morning, here were people in, around the house, around the windows and every... So then she was real nervous, and she said something to me snappy, that she oughtn't to have said it. See? She said, "Then, Bill, you're always gone, and I have to take care of these children myself." She said, "You're never here. We can't make our decisions together. You're either out, gone," and she started crying, went in and shut the door.
Right then I said, "Oh, poor little fellow." I said, "My, I ought..." And I started out.
And It said, "Read II Chronicles 22." It was when Miriam rebuked Moses for marrying an Ethiopian girl; be better that her father had spit in her face, than to do this.
And I--I went back in; I said, "Sweetheart, you said the wrong thing." And she was crying. I said, "You said the wrong thing, honey. God's going to make you pay for that. You shouldn't have done that. I'm all tore up myself. You shouldn't have said that."
And she said, "Well, Bill, I--I get so tore up." And I just turned and walked back, 'cause I knowed she wasn't in any mood to receive it, so I went back out.
And the next examination about a month after that, showed the tumor.
Last year, here it come again. When she tried it again, now it was up to the size of an orange. The doctor said, "Don't put her off any longer. You must operate. That's at a fast growing tumor, is malignant. If it gets off that ovary and gets hooked into the side, what are you going to do?"
I said, "Doctor, we have faith in God."
I never said to the church, or nothing; I just let it go. We started praying. And I said, "Lord God, help us, please. I pray You help us," and on like that. The tumor growed on and on.

LOOK AWAY TO JESUS.   JEFF. IN   63-1229E
19-1   Constantly we prayed, and the more we prayed, the bigger the tumor growed, till it got to a place till it was sticking out on her side. We kept it quiet (A few of the people here knew it.) trying to see what would happen. On and on it went.
Finally, when I came down from Canada from where I left... The Lord let me lead that tribe of Indians to Christ (I'm going back to baptize them in the Name of the Lord Jesus this spring, the Lord willing.) Now, come down, and it's time for her to go, when I was in New York, or down here to have another operation--to have the operation, or to be examined for the last time. I went on to New York, and when I come back, I stopped in here and went up... After I had the meeting here, the last meeting. I went up there and called her from Brother Wood; and she said, "Bill, I can't even stand my clothes to touch it." It was just way out like this on her side then. And her leg on that side, she could just hobbled along. And the worst week she'd ever had... Now, she's setting there listening at me, worst week she'd ever had.
And she said, "I've got to go day after tomorrow for that examination."
I thought, "Oh God, if they cut it out, that'll keep us from going home at Christmas, and I done told the people I'd be there." And I said, "What a time... Oh, my." I thought, "Tell him if he's going to operate, 'Let it go a little longer till after Christmas.'" Then I got to thinking: It might be malignant, and back over here, you know, that's a bad thing: run back into the kidneys, and if goes malignant, it'll kill you. So then, I thought, "What can I do?"
And Meda said, "Well now, you call me," said... The day that I got in Shreveport (which would be the day after that) when I got in Shreveport, she had to go for the examination. And so she went to the... Mrs. Norman was going... Sister Norman: all of you know her, the people that come here to the Tabernacle, she was going with her and to this specialist. And so she said, "Wait till you have your first night and then come back, 'cause the difference (two hours) in time, then call me when you come back after that meeting, I'll tell you what I've got to do."
And I said, "All right."
So I went on, and the next morning before I left I was going to get Billy and Loyce (They're both setting present.) and always... We got an old stool there that Brother Palmer covered for us here not long ago, and we always get around that stool and pray whatever we're... Old ottoman like you know, footstool, whenever we get around there and pray when I go on a meeting; we ask God to help us.
And I'd been up there a couple of days, and I was--I was lonesome. The house, the kids gone, her gone. You know, many of you know I had to go through that one time, go back to an empty house. Only I buried that wife: Hope. And I... It all over again. When I got down, I thought, "Well, I'll pray and then go pick up Billy and Loyce and go on."
20-3   So as I got down to pray, I said, "Lord, I miss them this morning around here." I said, "I pray that You'll help them and bless them, and may we come back to this place again. And now... I said, "They're out there because that You sent me there in a vision, and You fulfilled it; now, I'm wanting to wait to see what You're going to tell me to do next." I said, "I pray  for... be merciful to her." And I said, "Help me in the meeting down there." Then I kept... I said Lord, "Don't let it be malignant.  And let that doctor wait till after the first of the year to take it out. I--I just hate to see her..." I said, "Lord, she didn't mean what she did that morning. She didn't mean that." I said, "Lord, not one time has she ever said one word about me going in the meetings, staying months, or whatever it was; not one time has she ever opened her mouth about it. She's always sent my clothes to the cleaners and washed my shirts, and had everything ready to go in the meeting. And then, she wonders how she can serve God." You women, as you serve your husband, you serve God, of course.
And now... And then when I came in all tired, wore out; people coming from everywhere, I'd have to go out somewhere on a fishing trip, or hunting trip. Why, many women would've blowed up at that. What'd she do? Got my hunting clothes ready for me to go--let me go. I said, "Lord, she didn't mean that." And I said, "She's had to be cut open three times on account of she's cesarean," and I said. "Lord, I--I hate to see her have to do it again."
Just then I heard something in the room. I looked up, and a voice said, "Stand up." Said, "Now, whatever you say, that's the way it'll be."
I waited just a minute, and I said, "Before the doctor's hand shall touch her, the hand of God shall take the tumor away, and it won't even be found."
That settled it to me. I never called her. We went right on; went got Billy and Loyce and went to Shreveport.
The next night I called her. She was happy and she said, "Bill, I want to tell you..." (Now, here she is, and she can verify this.) Had to hobble her way over there. Went in the room with the nurse and Mrs. Norman, and put her clothes on for--the gown for the examination. The doctor came out, and she could hardly get on the table, the tumor hanging up there so big. And when she... The doctor came in and was talking to her, and he came over to raise back the sheet to touch her, and just before he touched her, it left; and the doctor didn't know which side it was on.
21-3   He said, "Wait a minute." With the drawed diagrams and all the pictures and everything else, he couldn't find one trace of it. He examined her over and over. He said, "I might not be able to explain it, but, Mrs. Branham, that tumor isn't there." And she's never had one symptom of it since.
What was it? Notice, just exactly the way It said: "Before the doctor's hand can touch it." One split second and his hand would've touched it. How perfect is the Word of the Lord.
Now, there's my wife, and we're both before God. But before the doctor's hand could even touch her body, on the road coming to her like that, something happened. The tumor left. And they couldn't even... He said--I believe it was, wasn't it sweetheart? "I want to reassure you, Mrs. Branham," Is that right the way he said it? That's right. "that that tumor isn't there. You don't have any tumor." What was it? Just exactly according to the Word of the Lord that was spoke. Amen.
That's the fifth time. Five is the number of grace, a number of f-a-i-t-h too. There's no more doubt in my mind. I know what the third pull is, and I know what it does. Now, be reverent; just keep quiet. The hour will soon arrive, where God is going to do some great things for us.

47.  Creator in His own creation.  [See Deity..1949m  #14]

GOD'S GIFTS ALWAYS FIND PLACE.   JEFF. IN   63-1222
55   Now, how fitting these gifts was to Christ's journey on earth, a baby born here on earth. And these gifts that the wise men brought Him, fitted just exactly His commission from God and His journey on earth.
Now, the first thing: God. This was God; Jesus was God in the form of man. That's hard for people to swallow that even today, that "He was God." And He... That's what He was. He wasn't nothing less than God. He was God manifested in flesh. He was the Creator in His Own creation. Now, that... He was the Creator in His creation, by the creation, for the creation. He was the Creator in His creation, by His creation, for His creation. All winds right back in God, the whole thing. Don't you see? Fullness of God... He was the Creator insomuch that He was God. And He was a Being on earth (a Being of time), which mean that He must had a beginning, therefore He created Himself a body to live in. God Himself created a body for Himself (See?), that by this creation, He might save the lost creation that He had created.

48.  Now the Message is out.

CHURCH ORDER.   JEFF. IN   63-1226
907-160   Because I've found this, that a service that's... It stands up, and the message is given in the power; if you go too far, you wear the people out and they don't get it. The reason I been giving... I knowed that all along. See? The most successful speakers are those who have exactly... Jesus was a Man of few words, watch His sermons. Watch Paul's sermon on the day of Pentecost, probably taken him fifteen minutes, and he punched the--there, something that--that--that sent three thousand souls into the Kingdom of God. See, just right straight to the spot... See?
And I--I am guilty. Because, the reason I have done this, not because I didn't know different, but I'm making tapes (See?), and these tapes will be played in houses for hours after hours after hours. But as you'll find out in the coming Sunday, the reason that I've done it, this coming Sunday, the reason I have done these things... I might say it right now on the tape. The reason that I have did this is because of this tremendous weight upon me for the Message of this hour to get It out. Now the Message is out, now I'm taking a thirty minutes or something like that, after the first of the year, in my meetings out in the--everywhere I go, and try and even set my watch to a thirty minute, or not over forty at the most; punch to that message, and make the altar call if I--or whatever I'm going to do, or call a prayer line; and not take that much time, because you do wear the people out. I know that.

49.  Billy Paul’s dream of stone cut without hands.

MAN THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT.   JEFF. IN   63-1229M
138   My son Billy Paul, he talks in his sleep, but he doesn't have dreams very often. He had one the other night that shook him up. Said he'd dreamed he was at a church, and--and they... I hadn't come in yet. Said when I come in, fire was flying out of the eyes. And I said, "The time is here; it's over." And everybody begin screaming, "I can't, my children." And me...
My wife said, "I can't get Sarah to ask the blessing at the table," and so forth. And I said...
He said, "I've got to go get Loyce and--and the baby."
I said, "Loyce can't come now. The baby's too young to know. Billy the hour is here; we must go." I said, "It's midnight now, before daylight Jesus will be here. If it isn't then I'm a false witness of Christ."
And somebody spoke up and said, "No man knows the minute or hour."
"I never said minute or hour; I said sometime between now and daylight." I said, "Let's--let's go, Billy. And I said something... I said, "But we're at the time; let's go." And we got in the car and started. And we started up the mountain. And when we did, it was--looked like the light was coming, and the skies were dark upon the earth. He said I pulled off the side of the road, held my hands over like this, fire still flying from my eyes. And he said I said, "Lord, I have did this at Your command. I have did this just because that You told me to do it this a-way. I have did these things according to what You've told me." And I motioned to a big granite mountain, and a--a Light without hands cut a stone out of the mountain weighing hundreds of tons and here it come. I said, "Turn your heads; don't look. It'll be--all be over just in a few minutes." Said, "Then a great holy hush come everywhere as this Stone come towards the place."
142   It may be later than we think. There... See, that's exactly Scriptural (You see?), the Stone without hands cut out of the mountain. And so one of these days it's going to be that way when you're going to scream for something. I said to him, "You've already had that time. God has constantly warned you time after time." Yeah, I said, "Even if it's my own kid or whoever it is, the hour is here. I can only say what He's told me to say, and it'll be here, and it was." And--and then all of a sudden here He come a Stone cut out of the mountain without hands. Daniel saw that, you know, back many years ago. And Billy knowed nothing about that, but it was a--it was a dream sent to him from the Lord.
Now, see, they claim to be worshipping that very God that they were making fun of. And the same thing has reversed again today by the same reason, living in a glare instead of the Light. Great Lights has a shine. All right.

50.  Third pull has now been vindicated.  [Ministry dropping back. Third Pull starts rapturing faith.]

LOOK AWAY TO JESUS.   JEFF. IN   63-1229E
6-1   So now, I am going to say something to you now that I haven't said all along. And that is, the thing that we have looked forward to for so long, or at least many years, four or five years or maybe longer, the third pull has now been vindicated, and I'm sure you all know what it is.
Now, remember, there'll never be any impersonation of that, 'cause it can't be. It cannot be. Now, it's in existence, and I have--I am warned of this, that soon, right at this time now, it's just happened, so it could identify its presence among you. See? But it will not be used in a great way, until this council begins to tighten up. And when it does, when that does... The Pentecostals and so forth can almost impersonate anything could be done, but when that time comes, when the squeeze comes down, then you'll see what you have seen temporarily, be manifested in the fullness of its power. See...?... see?
Now, I must continue in evangelism, just as I was commissioned first; I must continue on. Therefore, you've had the Word, and you know what to look for, how to stand. I must continue on in evangelism. And friends of mine, keep still and just keep moving on, for the hour is approaching swiftly (See?), that when something is going to be done.
Now, you might see some little odd things happen from me, nothing sinful, I don't mean that, but I mean something odd to what the regular trend, because what I have reached to now in the ministry, I'm dropping back here, watching that spot and waiting for the time to use it. But it's going to be used. And everyone knows that for as certain as the first was identified, so has the second been identified; and if you'll think real closely, you who are spiritual (as the Bible said, "Here's to him who has wisdom.") the third is properly identified. See? We know where it is. So the third pull is here.
6-5   It is so sacred that I mustn't not say much about it, as He told me in the beginning. Said, "This, say nothing of it." You remember that years ago? It speaks for Itself. See? But to... I've tried to explain the others, and I made a mistake. This will be the thing that, to my opinion (I don't say the Lord tells me this.)--this will be the thing that will start the rapturing faith for the going away. See, see? Now, and that... I must lay quiet for just a little while.
Now, remember (and who's listening to this tape) you might see such a change in my ministry right away, dropping back... Not going up, dropping back... We're right at the age now, and it be--can't go any further. We have to wait here just a minute until this happens over here to catch up, then the time comes. But it's thoroughly identified.
There's coming a time upon--in this nation, to where this nation is going to exercise all the power that the beast had before (which was pagan Rome, when it become papal Rome. See?) that this nation will do that. Revelations 13 plainly explains it. The lamb came up out of the earth. The other beast came up out of water, thickness and multitudes of people. This lamb came up where there was no people.
A lamb represents religion--the Lamb of God. And remember, it spoke like a lamb; it was a lamb, and then after while it received power and spoke like a dragon, and exercised all the power the--the dragon--power the dragon had before him; and the dragon is Rome always. So don't you see, Roman denomination, a marked Protestant denomination, an image unto the beast, making a power that'll force all Protestants like a union. You'll have to be into this council of churches, or you won't be able to have fellowship or to--to... Well, it's--it's practically that way now. You can't go to a church and preach, 'less you have a fellowship card or some identification.
7-4   And now, on persons like ourselves, we're going to be cut out of all that altogether. That's exactly, because they won't be able to do it. It's tightening; and then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where you're pressed out, then watch (what I am fixing to tell you in a few minutes) watch the third pull then. It'll be absolutely to the total lost, but it--it will be for the Bride and the church.
Now, we're closer than it seems to be. I don't know when, but it's real, real, close. I may be building a platform for somebody else to step on. I may be taken before that time. I don't know. And that time may be this coming week that the Holy Spirit will come with--and bring Christ Jesus. He may come this next week. He may come yet tonight. I don't know when He will come. He doesn't tell us that. But I do believe that we are so close, that I would never die with old age. Yet at fifty-four years old, I'd never die with old age until He's here. See? Unless I am shot, killed, or something, or other, some way killed; just old age wouldn't kill me, until He's come. And I believe that... And I want to say this; I have never said it before, but according to Scripture, according to what He said thirty years ago, thirty-three years ago on the river down there (in 1933, rather), what He said, everything has happened just exactly. I may not do it, but this message will introduce Jesus Christ to the world. "For as John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming, so is the message to forerun the second coming." And John said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." See? So it--it paralleled it in every way, and I know it will. The message will go on.

51.  Body of Christ restored.  [Luther, Wesley, Pentecost & Head.]

PROVING HIS WORD.   JEFF. IN   64-0816
210   He proves all of His Words, all of His Words. Just think of it, all of His Words. And you were His Word. He was the Word, and you were part of His Word. And that's the reason you're sent here to confirm your place in life. I--I--I don't think you got that. See? He is the Word. Now, you get it?
He was in the feet in Luther; in the thighs in Wesley; in the shoulders in Pentecost. See what I mean? He is the Head. You have a part that joins that together, this hour that we're living now: not the feet part, not the thigh part, not the shoulder part, but the neck part. Is that right? It joins to the head. That's the part of the body. Those that are asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. The trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Is that right?
See, you become a part of that Word; you become a part of Him. And you take His Name to recognize it (See?) you're placed in there, baptized into His Name into His Body, "By one Spirit we're all baptized in one Body," into here, just exactly like the same position. He never changes His way. If... How many believes the early church is in Him? Let's see; how many believes it? How were they baptized? All right. See? He's unchangeable God. We proved that. We could stay here till midnight tonight proving that, and still go on and on and on. See, unchangeable... See? You are in Him and a part of Him, because you were a part of the thinking of Him. Before the foundation of the world, He called you.

CHRIST REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD.   JEFF. IN   65-0822M
76  (…)  So you see, you can't--you mustn't misinterpret the Bible, for Jesus Himself is the Interpretation of the Bible when He's made manifest in the age that the part of His Body is being made manifest. If it's a hand age, it must be a hand; it can't be a head age. If it's a voice age, well then, it can't be a foot age. See? And now, we're at the eye age. And now, the next is Him Hisself to come. Seeing, prophetic...
See, down through the age we started off from the foundation, from the first church age when the Seed went in the ground, the complete Seed. Then it come out through the feet, Luther, come back out then through Wesley, then into Pentecostals, the tongues and the lips. See? Now, it's in the eyes, prophetic, of Malachi 4 and so forth. And now, there's nothing else left for it to come, but Him Himself to step into that, 'cause that's the last thing there is. The next is the intelligence, and we have no intelligence of our own; it's His. See? We have no sight of our own. How can a man foresee those things? He can't do it; It's God Himself. See, it's--it's becoming to a place... And He's governed the body all the way through. Then the complete Body of Christ is revealed in the form of a Bride that was taken out of His side, like Adam did at the beginning--like Adam's was, rather, at the beginning.

CHRIST REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD.   JEFF. IN   65-0822M
143   The entire Bible is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ, making Himself known to every age. He made Hisself known in the days of Luther as a foundation, the church, the foot, the leg, like He did in King Nebuchadnezzar. You remember how he dreamed those dreams. It come from the head down. See? Now, He comes from the feet up. See? In the Babylonian kingdom He showed all those Old Testaments, He come from the head down, until He come down to God Himself become flesh at the foot of the ladder. Now, here in the New Testament He brings Hisself right back up again to the Head again, the Head of gold to be crowned. See? Look, you get it? See, God was in the beginning; and He kept coming down through the prophets and on down until God Himself became human like us, plumb down at the foot of the ladder, a baby born in a manger, hated, rejected, despised, and a bad name, and everything He was. Then He started rising (See?), and from the feet He begin to build the church, the Bride, coming back, on back, and now coming out into the Headstone, where it all joins together and makes the one great transfigured Body of Jesus Christ.

1964

1.  Pope Paul VI visited Jerusalem in January 1964.  [Moon blackout.]

SHALOM.   SIERRA VISTA, AZ   64-0112
75   Now, we find that in this, all this thing and how I've blasted against organization, isn't it a strange thing that the pope of Rome would leave Rome for his first time to go back to Jerusalem? And doing this... Jerusalem is known the oldest church in all the world.
When Melchisedec met Abraham from the slaughter of the kings, he was the King of Jerusalem, a Priest, which was Christ; it was God; no one else could be Melchisedec but Christ Himself, God Himself, rather (See?), God Himself, because He was without father and without mother. See? Jesus had both father and mother. See? So this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life. And whoever He was, He still lives. And He was King at that time of Salem, which is interpreted, "King of Peace, Shalom," King of Jerusalem, Who met Abraham and give him wine and bread, communion, after the battle. A very beautiful type there in the 7th chapter of Hebrews, we find it. Now, gave him bread and wine after the battle was over. As He...
That's the first thing we'll take after we enter into the New Kingdom, we will eat it anew with Him in the Father's Kingdom, the bread and wine. "I'll not drink the fruit of the vine, or eat the bread anymore, until I eat it with you anew in the Father's Kingdom, and at that day."
Now, now when we find out that after King Shalom was in the--come from the city, then creed took it over later. And it's constantly been creed, but it represents the old church. And we're taught in the New Testament (Don't fail to get this.)--in the New Testament, that we are not of this city, Jerusalem on earth, but we are from the New Jerusalem above. So this must be the moon, Jerusalem, and not the New Jerusalem above. So the moon representing the church, earthly...
And isn't it strange that just before the pope took his journey to Jerusalem, that the moon in the heavens made a total blackout, just a few days before he took it, his journey. He's coming here also, you know. See? Now, that's never been known. See? But what does it show? That this, he's doing this to win fellowship as he met on the day after he come into Jerusalem, he met the Greek Orthodox hierarchy. And what does that reflect? Fellowship, they're wanting Protestants and Catholicism joining together, which they are doing and will completely do. And God reflected this to us in the moon of a total blackout. By His mercy and grace...
Did any of you see the paper where they took the pictures of the moon? I have it here. If it ain't a perfect image, leaving out the seventh age which is not yet, exactly the way I drawed by the Holy Spirit, the church ages. There's the six of them; the seventh is not finished yet. The six conditions of the moon, how in its brightness in the first church age, dark in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth; just the way the Holy Spirit let me draw them on the board, and then identified them with Hisself on the wall of the Tabernacle two years ago. The moon reflects itself, and science again picks up the picture of the church ages, just as they picked up that Light yonder and put it in "Life" Magazine, of the opening of the Seals, of the revealing in the age of the seventh angel. In the days of his ministry, the seventh messenger, the mysteries of God, which all the mysteries has been along the ages, should be revealed, made manifest; it should be at that time. And He did it. His Words don't fail. Isn't that a mysterious thing? God drawing in the heavens the same thing that they hold, same God let me draw on the blackboard, and then by Himself. That's three times He's perfectly identified it, and just before the pope goes into Jerusalem.
Which that was the church, the moon is the church, represents the church. And before the church, the shadow of the world crosses the moon. And the shadow of worldlyism, the shadow of worldliness, worldly church, has swept across to blackout the entire Light of the Bible. The world got in the light of the reflection. Do you understand? The world crossed in the light of the moon, and blinded out the sun. And the reflection of the moon that's supposed to be giving light to the earth, it was blacked out. And It come in and drawed the pictures just exactly like It did, by inspiration, before it happened.
Now, that, I believe, Sister Simpson, was the Tucson paper. I don't know if Sister Simpson knew... She didn't understand it then. She said, "I cut out some pictures for you and some notes out of the paper," and handed it to me.
And I thought something strange. I went in there and picked it up, and looked at it; I said, "There it is, just exactly (See?), just what I've been looking for." And there it was in the paper.
Sister Simpson might tell you what paper it's in, if you want to get a copy of it. [Sister Simpson says, "It's December the 28th--Ed.] And--and what say? ["It's the evening edition of December the 28th"--Ed.] Evening edition of December the 28th.
See, before he went to Jerusalem to block out its Light, or what access it does have. What time, position, and what rights it has to shine, now it's cutting it off altogether, for the last age, the seventh church age where she goes into darkness. What a great thing the Lord is telling us. In everything, It's never failed but what God in the heaven has declared it and told it, looked to it, and here has identified it and a-vindicated it, that it is the absolute truth.
Darkness, this Laodicea church age. Now, when Jesus, which is the Word, in the Laodicea church age was on the outside of the church, knocking at the door, trying to get in. Darkness, gross darkness upon this people. Was the Bible right?
The perfection of the Scripture, glory of His great Name... The pope's visit was a sign of the churches blackening out His manifested... The manifested Light of the world was the Bible. Jesus said He was the Light of the world. The Bible said that He is the Word. And the manifested, or the a-vindicated Scripture is the Light. And now, you'll not be permitted to do it when this takes ahold. And we see it foreshadowed, told by inspiration before it happened, foreshadowed by the moon, and show it's happening, and here it is taking place.
88   The hour is upon us, darkness, gross darkness, gross darkness on the people now, that's what it is. What does it all mean? Where we standing? What hour are we in? How close are we to the coming? Why, you say, "When all they have a revival..."
"Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." All right.
What does it mean? God has begin to separate the Light from the darkness (See?), pressing it behind, like He did in the beginning to show the dawn of a new day. The church ages are fading out. Pardon me. The church ages are fading out. God is pressing the darkness into a place; it has to do it to fade out the church organizations, fade out the world. The world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing. Then isn't God right? By worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living, it's the world.
Ye are not of the world, little children. You are of heaven. This is not your home.

2.  Bride Age.  [Bride time.]

TURN ON THE LIGHT.   PHOENIX, AZ   64-0125
74   But did you realize we've moved on from that? We're in the Bride time, the selecting time, the time that the Bride--they said we would have. "All the caterpillar left," said Joel 2:28, "all the caterpillar left, the--the palmerworm eaten; all the palmerworm left, the locust eaten."
Each one of those organizations, if you've read the Seven Seals of the Bible, each one of those reformers went forth and preached the Word, but left something off. Then what did they do after the reformers over, and the light begin to dim out? Instead of walking on into further Light, they organized it. And when they organized it, "We believe this light. This is the light. This is it." What did they do? Wesley come right on moved away from them.

SEED NOT HEIR WITH SHUCK.   JEFF. IN   65-0218
111   Now, it's seed time or Bride time. The shucks are dead. The shucks are dried up. The virgin Word time, not touched... It's a virgin. Remember, a virgin Word time. If you put it in the hands of a denomination, it sure won't be virgin. It'll be man-handled time you get to it. But God's church is not touched by denomination (Hallelujah.); It's a virgin born Word of God made manifest: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah. How--how wonderful. I love it. I believe it. I know that it's the Truth. It'll not be touched. There'll be no denominational man-handling in the virgin birth of the Bride. No, sir. She's--she's commanded by God to come out of such. "Touch not their unclean things..." become vultures.

MODERN EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY.   SAN BERNARDINO, CA   65-1206
55   See, a man can say anything, but 'less God interprets that Word... See, now, we have our own interpretation; we say It means this. And this one, Methodist says this; the Baptist says this; the Pentecostal said this; the Oneness says this, the Twoness says this. And, oh, my, there you are. But God don't need no interpreter; He's His own Interpreter. He interprets His own Word by vindicating It in the age that It's purposed for, the age that It's given for.
We're not living in a Pentecostal age; we're living in another age. See? We're not living in a Methodist age; we're living in another age. We're living on up here to the Bride age, the calling out of the church and getting it together for the rapture. That's the age that we're now living.

3.  God’s His own interpreter.  [2 Peter 1:20-21, John 1]

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH JESUS?   PHOENIX, AZ   64-0126
80   You may say to me, "Brother Branham, you've got the wrong interpretation of It." Well, that's to your opinion.
God don't need any interpreter. God's His Own Interpreter. That's what the trouble of it is today; we got too many manmade interpreters. God can interpret Himself. His Own vindication of His Word is the interpretation.
The Pharisees might've cried out too, "We got the interpretation."
The Sadducee says, "We got It." But Jesus was the interpretation. Amen.
The manifestation of God's revealed power, promised, is the vindication. Read the Scriptures and see what the church is supposed to be today. Yes, sir. God don't need any interpreter.
That's a--what they done to Jesus. They found out back there that they thought He didn't have the interpretation. He was the interpretation. God didn't have to interpret It. Jesus' Life interpreted. He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life; They are They that testify of Me. And if I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. If the works that was spoke of this day, don't manifest Itself in Me," He said, "then don't believe it."
Did They do it? God said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. You believe it? Certainly; but they didn't. "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. It said the lame shall walk, the blind shall see, and what would take place. It proved they would do it, and Jesus was the manifestation.
Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet like unto Me." The Word comes to the prophet. And the prophet... The Word is a Discerner of the thoughts of the heart. When they see Him doing that discernment, they said, "This is Beelzebub, a fortuneteller." That's no more than a name they pin on Him, the same thing today, called, "holy-roller," or something like that. That's right.
87   Though He needs no interpretation, He was the interpretation. God proved it by Himself. Who is that sinful man today, or who was that sinful man then, that would deny that the Word wasn't interpreted?
Jesus asked them, said, "Search the Scriptures. They testify Who I am. They are the interpretation. If My life doesn't interpretate what I'm talking about, then don't believe Me."
What sinful man could there be today, that could look in the face of the Bible and see if the Holy Spirit isn't the Interpreter of the Word today, making Hisself known by manifestations of promises of the gifts, and the things that He promised to do in this day: Malachi 4 being fulfilled, all the rest of the Scriptures being fulfilled, and see it right here at the end of the time. You don't need any man to interpret it. No, sir. It interprets Itself. It proves It's the Message of the hour. Repent and turn to God, all the world. You churches, repent and turn to God. Don't try to wash Him from your hands, 'cause you can't do it. The issue's right on now, as it was then.
He said, "Search the Scriptures; They testify of Me." Jesus said, "My works are My interpreter."

GREATER THAN SOLOMON.   DALLAS, TX   64-0306
26   And God is His own Word. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He still... God don't need any interpreter.
We interpret; we say, "This, there... This is that, and this is that," and so forth. God don't need an interpreter. He's His own Interpreter. God don't need us to interpret His Word. The Bible, It's written, and It said It's of no private interpretation. God said in the beginning, "Let there be light," and there was light. That's the interpretation of it. God said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. That's the interpretation of It. It doesn't need anybody to interpret.
God said, in this day, these things would happen, and they are. It don't need any interpretation. It's God doing His own interpretation. It happens. No matter how much we try to twist It, and say it don't mean this, and don't mean that. It means just exactly, and God is His own Interpreter. He vindicates His Word, and that's His interpretation of It, because it's brought to pass.

WHEN THEIR EYES WERE OPENED.   BEAUMONT, TX   64-0312
E-27   As I said last night, God don't need any interpreter. I can't interpret His Word. Neither can anybody interpret His Word. He's His own Interpreter. When He said He'd do anything, He does it, and that settles it. That's all there is to it. He said He would do it, and He did it. That settles it. There ain't nobody tells this is that, or that's that. He does it Himself. Our interpretations is nothing to the Scripture. He speaks Himself, and that's the way it is.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
156   To speak a word, is a man; confirm a word, is God. To say something, is one thing; God to do it is another thing. God don't need any interpreter, He does His Own interpretation.

THINGS THAT ARE TO BE.   RIALTO, CA   65-1205
10   Now, I believe that in... God, in the beginning, being the infinite God, He's finite and--or infinite, rather; we're the finite. His mind is so much greater, and we in our little finite mind cannot understand His great, infinite wisdom. But therefore, when He speaks anything, it may seem very strange to us to hear Him say a certain thing in the Scripture, but it's got to happen. I believe that His Words will never pass away; therefore, I believe that God that--knowing that we in our little finite mind could not interpret His--His great mind, He interprets His own Word. He doesn't need any interpreter. He interprets His own Word by vindicating that Word in Its season.

4.  Whirlwind declares judgment on West Coast.  [“Judgments start into the earth”; declared about March 25th 1964.]
    [Anchorage earthquake on Good Friday, March 27th 1964.]

ONE IN A MILLION.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0424
30   Just a personal testimony before I pray for the sick out in the radio land. It was a few days ago I was setting up in a mountains where a great thing had taken place before fifteen or twenty brethren there, where the Angel of the Lord came so down, and great Light flying like a comet, bursting around through the mountains, and rocks flying for two hundred feet, or more, across the earth, cutting the top of the trees out. And I was standing right under It. And told them just a few moments before it happened, it would be there and what would happen; frankly, it was told the day before. And all these men running under trucks and everything, trying to get away, they didn't know what had taken place. And He spoke and said what would take place right immediately afterward.

UNVEILING OF GOD.   JEFF. IN   64-0614M
35   And so we find even back as far as Job. Job knew that there was a God. He knew it. And there's not a--a--a human being in their right mind but what knows there's got to be Something somewhere. And now, Job wanted to talk to Him. And I want you to notice the form that God chose to talk to Job in. God was veiled when He talked to Job. He was veiled in a whirlwind, came down in a whirlwind. You believe that God still comes in a whirlwind to unveil Himself?
There's several setting here, a number, that was with us the other day when He came in a whirlwind, told us the day before, Brother Banks Wood, them, when He said, "Take up this rock; throw it up in the air, and say, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD. You will see it right away.'" And I picked up the rock up on top of the mountain, threw it up in the air, and the... 'Course, coming down, it started a whirlwind (See?), the suction of it.
You have to do something to cause something to follow it. Jesus took a piece of bread and broke it, then multiplied from that piece of bread. He took water, poured it into a pitcher. Elijah took salt, put it in a cruse; cut down a stick, throwed it on the water. It's something to symbolize. And picking up this rock and throwing it into the air, and coming down started the whirlwind.

WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS?   PHOENIX, AZ   64-1227
157   Stand there and see a whirlwind come out of the sky. It blowed a mountain half in two, standing there where we was at; cut the top of trees off and things like that. And a blast of Word come out and shook there three times, said, "Watch it go to the west coast." Went right over there and shook down Alaska. And coming right down the west coast now. Just exactly.
Day before, I took a rock and throwed it up in the air, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, The hour is here; judgments will start into the earth. Earthquakes and everything will be taking place. And all the west coast will be shook and so forth." Look how perfect, day by day, everything just exactly the way He said. How can we turn back, brethren? Let us keep our faith towards Him.

MAN RUNNING FROM PRESENCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0217
81   Looking back there at some friends that was with me up there when the Angel of the Lord... These boys setting here, I believe they found the place where it happened up there. And just remember what the Lord said that day to Brother Wood when we was walking up the hill. And--and he was kinda weeping because of his wife being sick. And the Lord said, "Pick up that rock, and throw it up in the air, and say THUS SAITH THE LORD." And I did that. And Brother Wood is setting as a witness.
And I said, "Brother Wood, it won't be long till you're going to see something happen." And the next day when we were standing there, all of us together... And a bunch of the men standing right here tonight...
A young preacher was there, and he was a... I noticed... I just met him the night before; he was in our camp. He come up to be with us. And he said to me; he said, "Brother Branham, do you ever see visions out like this?"
I said, "Yes, sir. But I come out here to get away from it, to kinda rest a little bit." He said... "Well," I said, "of course He shows me things out here." And I said, "Just over the hill here where the Seven Angels appeared down in there."
He said, "Yeah, I understand." Said, "I was one of the sponsors on your meeting over in California."
I said, "Well, I'm certainly glad to know that."
And while standing there, just then I looked around and I seen kind of a heavy-set doctor looking into his eyes, and I heard him say, "You're going to lose that eye, because there's a allergy in there. And I've doctored it for two years, and you're going to lose that eye." I said," Reason you ask me that, because your doctor told you the other day you was going to lose that eye."
And he said, "That's right."
And he looked around like that, and I seen his mother take off one of her stockings and hold her foot out with little tumors hanging down between her toes, up-and-down her leg and said, "If you see Brother Branham, tell him to pray for this." And I said, "Your mother hand her--stuck her foot out like that and said she had--she's got little tumors all over her--her toes and like that, and said, 'Have Brother Branham pray.'"
He said, "Brother Branham, that's the truth."
And I looked back, and when I did, I seen him standing there looking at me like that with his eyes just as bright. I met him this fall; he had better eyes than anybody in the camp. The Lord had healed him and made him well.
88   While I was standing there the Lord said--showed me what was going to happen: "Judgment's fixing to strike the west coast." And He said, "Get over there beside that fireplace."
And I had a shovel in my hand, walked over there... Brother Roy Roberson, all of us know him here; he's not here tonight as I know of; he's in Arizona out there. He's the chairman of the trustees here. And I knowed him being a veteran. And something was going to happen. A real, pretty, still morning about ten o'clock in the morning, and the boys all around there, ten or twelve of us, letting down tents, and skinning out pigs, and things. So we, I walked around, said, "Roy, hide quick. Something is fixing to happen." I couldn't tell him no more. And just the time I got over there... And coming down from the heavens come the whirlwind of God and clapped like, shook the hill, run inside of that mountain, cut a streak plumb around it about five feet above my head, and cut all the tops of them trees off as the rocks went out, went up in the air and come down again with another big baptism, and struck across the mountain, and throwed the rocks out like that. Did it three times, then went up in the air.
And Brother Banks come over to me and, "Is that what you said yesterday?"
I said, "Yes, sir; that's exactly it." See? And then two days after that Alaska sunk almost up there. And up and down that west coast has been thunders and pushings and everything happening. And one of these days she's going to slide beneath the ocean. That's right. What is it? We're living in the hour of the coming of the Lord.

WORKS IS FAITH EXPRESSED.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1126
59   Right beside a great canyon, eight or ten times higher than this building, just a box canyon; like a fire come down from the heavens, like a whirlwind, just a few feet above where I was standing, and ripped the rocks right out of the mountain, went out through and cut the tops of the mesquite trees off, for a hundred yards out. Everybody running, and trying to get under trucks and everything else. It went back up again and clapped like a great thunder, went back up in the skies again, and come down again, and done that three times. And when it was all over, they come over and asked, "What did it mean?"
I said, "I don't want to tell you, it was a judgment sign. In a few days a great earthquake's going to strike on the west. And it won't stop. California, Los Angeles will sink. It's going down. It'll slide right into the ocean." And two days after that, the Alaskan earthquake shook Alaska.

5.  Jesus officially turned out of churches.  [Good Friday earthquake in 1964.]
REVELATION 3:20
   Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES.   BIRMINGHAM, AL  64-0409
E-63   Remember, we're looking for a promised Son. And we are the seed of Abraham (Is that right?), royal seed through Christ. And they were looking for a promised son, Isaac. And the royal seed today, we're looking for a promised sign (Is that right?), a promised Son of God to return. And the... They'd had all kinds of messages, and all kinds of things Abraham had seen. But just before the promised son, the last sign before the Gentile world was destroyed, was this God manifested in the flesh that knew the secrets of the heart.
Now, that's the last sign that the church in the spiritual church gets. That's the last sign that the natural church gets, and the Gentile world will be destroyed. And she's ready for it right now, the earth shaking all over with earthquakes. Why?
The first time the earthquake ever shook the whole earth was on Good Friday. The last time it shook it was another Good Friday. What did it shake for? Because they had rejected their Messiah. Why did it shake again? They've done the same thing. See? Laodicea church age, any scholar knows that He was on the outside knocking, try, "Lo, I stand at the door and knock." The only church age that ever completely put Him out.
And the ecumenical council, that's just exactly what you've done to form the mark of the beast, and taking in there... Well, what's... How can two walk together unless they be agreed? And by doing that, they've rejected the Word again. It's on the outside. Can't even get cooperation nowhere. That's exactly right. O God, have mercy, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let us bow our heads.

CHRIST IS IDENTIFIED THE SAME.   TAMPA, FL   64-0415
E-21   We pray, Father, that You'll save every soul that's saveable in this country while this meeting's going on. Grant it, Father. Then when the meeting's over, if we miss them, may there come a revival throughout all the churches. And--and hurry, Lord, come. We see the earthquakes again breaking up the earth in divers places, and men's hearts failing, fear and perplex of nations, distress of nations. And we--we're just at the end-time.
We think of the great earthquake the other day, and never was one like it. Only nineteen hundred years ago on another Good Friday, when Jesus had been rejected by the world, the earth shook all over. And God, He's rejected again. The earth shook the other day, and hills and mountains fell in, cities collapsed, and--and water dashed in the air, and the whole world felt it. What will it be when You return, Lord? No wonder they cry to the rocks and the mountains. Let us be ready for that great going home time, Father. Grant every request, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES.   TOPEKA, KS   64-0617
145   Heavenly Father, take Thy Word, place It in human heart, that they... All the people together, tonight, this little bunch of people out here, we realize, Lord, that we are--we're living in the shadows of His coming, and the shadows are becoming more positive year by year. We see the signs appearing, fearful sights. We see in the newspapers and in the magazines. The moon's turning to blood. We hear of earthquakes all around the world, blasting the whole world.
And, now, one day it shook the whole world, when the Son of God was officially turned down and crucified. And now, we find out that a great group, called the World Council of Churches, they are officially turned Him out, like they said in the--this Laodicean age, He was on the outside of the church, knocking at the door, trying to get back in. And now we find there was another earthquake who struck this, not the other nations, this nation, shook the whole world: Jesus officially turned out. And He stands begging tonight, thoroughly identified the same yesterday, today, and forever.

6.  Brother Branham’s dream about prison house.

WORKS IS FAITH EXPRESSED.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1126
24   I had a dream, the other morning. I don't dream very often; I'm not a dreamer. But I--I dreamed that I seen a man, a young fellow in shackles, he was trying to get out, and--and I said... Somebody told me, said, "Those are horrible people; don't have nothing to do with them."
And I seen this young fellow getting out of his shackles, so I just let him alone. I thought, "I'll just see what he does." So he got out, and he was a nice fellow. I seen others trying to get out.
Now, this is only a dream. And I walked over this a-way and I seen a--a Brother Roy Borders, a very good friend of mine, lives in California. Looked like there's something wrong, his eyes was half closed, and great big--maybe cancer or something over his eyes. Now, someone was trying to pull me away from him. I screamed, "Brother Borders, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, snap out of that."
And he just barely could speak, saying, "Brother Branham, it'll have to take something more than this. I just can't grasp it, Brother Branham. I just can't grasp it."
I said, "O Brother Borders." I love him.
And someone pulled me away, and I looked, and it was a lady standing over here. When I was a little boy, I--I used to haul groceries from the grocery store to the people. And her name was Mrs. Fenton; she lives in Jeffersonville yet: a personal friend to the wife and I.
And she said, "Brother Branham, deliver us from this." Said, "This is a house of hell." And said, "You've been misunderstood." And said, "These... And you misunderstood these people too." Said, "These are fine people, but..." I looked over there, and like a great big cellar, or--or big walls, down beneath a great big cave, and great iron bars, eight or ten inches thick. And people, out of their mind, twisted arms and legs, beating their head like that. And she was crying, saying, "Deliver the people, Brother Branham." Said--said, "Help us; we're in trouble." She herself, I know her, she belongs to the--I believe the Church of Christ, or the Christian Church, called Church of the Brethren. So she...
31   I looked around, and I said, "I wished I could." And go on, looking around; and I... My little, bitty body and--and them great, big iron bars, and those poor people in there, and you couldn't get to them, them iron bars was setting close together. And I looked, and they were beating their head like they were out of their mind.
And I seen some lights flickering around in there. And I looked up, and there stood the Lord Jesus with the--of a lights of rainbow around Him. He was looking right straight to me, said, "Deliver those people." And He went away.
And I thought, "Well, how could I deliver them? I--I haven't got strength enough in my arms to break those bars."
So I said, "House of hell, give away to the Name of Jesus Christ."
And all the creaking and popping, and--and the rocks a-rolling, and--and bars a-falling; and people running, screaming, "Delivered!" and screaming at the top of their voice, and was all delivered.

7.  Marriage of the Lamb soon the ceremony will take place.  [Uniting time]

SIRS WE WOULD SEE JESUS.   DALLAS, TX   64-0304
120   Heavenly Father, we would see Jesus. Let Him come tonight, Lord Jesus. Come in the power of Your resurrection. I've been long speaking, but just a word or two from You will mean more than all anyone could say, and then let the church not be asleep. Let the... God's last manifestation, as He promised, "As it was in the days of Sodom, before the fire fell on the Gentiles, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." The shadow, the negative and the positive coming so close together, till after while there'll be a uniting time.
We see the nations are uniting, called the U.N. The churches are uniting, ecumenical council uniting with the Vatican. All churches uniting together, believers and unbelievers. The labor is uniting in labor unions.
Lord, let the Church wake up and see it's uniting time, that Jesus is uniting with His Church, Husband and Wife. Soon the ceremony will take place and they'll become One. As He shakes the last sign to us, or shows us His promise, may we see Jesus and glorify Him, for it's in His Name we pray. Amen.

8.  I am not no Messiah, I’m no Christ.

GOD IDENTIFIED BY HIS CHARACTERISTICS.   BEAUMONT, TX   64-0311
159   A vision. Now, remember, I am not no Messiah. I'm no Christ. But He is here. That's what I'm trying to get you to see. He's here; He's keeping His Word.

9.  En Morphe.  [Form of man]
PHILIPPIANS 2:6
   Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

UNVEILING OF GOD.   JEFF. IN   64-0614M
52   If you notice here in Philippians he said, "Not thinking it robbery, but took the form of man..."
Now, the Greek word there for that form, I've been looking at it all day yesterday, trying to think out what it was, I find, come with this word of "en morphe." It's spelled e-n m-o-r-p-h-e. Looking in the Greek to find out what "en morphe" was... I may pronounce that wrong, but I... Reason I spell it, when if the tape is released, the people will, scholars will know what I--I mean by it. He... When the "en morphe"... That means that "He changed Hisself." He--He come down. Now, the Greek word there means that "something that could not be seen, yet it's there, and then it's changed, and the eye can catch it." See?
Like Elijah was at Dothan. See, the--the servant couldn't see all those Angels around there, and God just changed, not brought the Angels down, but He changed the seeing of the servant. And there was the mountains full of Angels, and fire, and horses of fire, chariots of fire, all around His prophet. See? They... He changed the seeing. The--the thing is already there.
So that what I'm trying to say, that God that always was is here. The only thing He done when He become man, He changed His mask. See? He--He... This en morphe, He--He changed Himself to what He was, to what He is, or His mask, another act.
Like in a great drama... As I was speaking this morning, kind of catching up on this of Shakespeare. It's been a long time. But when Shakespeare wrote the--the--the drama, the--for King James of England, when he... The character of Macbeth... See, Shakespeare did not believe in witches, but in the play... Where the King did believe in witches, so he had to include witches. See? And now, in order to do this, they changed the cast.
Becky here, in Carmen they acted that in the--in the school where she just graduated a few weeks ago. Now, maybe one person played three or four parts. In order to do that he--he changed his mask. Sometimes he comes out he's this character, and the next time he comes out he's another character. But it is the same person all the time.
And that's God. He changed Himself from--from a Pillar of Fire to become a Man; then changed Hisself from that back in the Spirit again, that He might dwell in man: God acting in man what He really was. Jesus Christ was God acting in Man, in a Man, in a Man. That's what He was. He changed from the Pillar of Fire, and then had come in, which was the veil in the wilderness that hid God from Israel. Moses seen the shape of His body, but really He was hid all the time behind this Pillar of Fire, which was the Logos that went from God.
Now, we find here, now, since Pentecost God is not acting in man, or acting--now He's acting through man. See? He was acting in a Man then: Jesus. Now, He's acting through man that He has chosen for this purpose. God in the form of man, He changed Himself from the form of--of a--of God to a form of man.
60   He came in three names, three sons' names. He came in the Son--the name of the Son of--of man, the Son of David, and the Son of God: three sons' names.

IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES.   TOPEKA, KS   64-0617
77   Remember, God changes His form. "En morphe," the Greek word means "He puts on a different mask." Like in Carmen or something, or--or Shakespeare's plays, He's--He's like an Actor, He changes His form. All what those prophets were, that was God in those prophets. Jesus said so, "You call them gods, who the Word of God came to: and here I am, the Son of God, how do you condemn Me?" Oh, my.

10.  Kenos.

UNVEILING OF GOD.   JEFF. IN   64-0614M
77   Now, when It said here that He emptied Himself or poured out, now, we'd think like this, that He "vomit up," the English word of "emptied or poured out from Him (See?), something went out of Him that was different from Him." But the word "Kenos," in the Greek, does not mean that He "vomit up," or some--His arm went off, or His eye went out another person.
That is, He changed Himself; He "poured Himself into," (Amen!), into another mask, into another form; not another person went out of Him called the Holy Spirit, but It was He Himself. You get it? He Himself poured Himself into the people: Christ in you. How beautiful, how wonderful to think, God pouring Himself into the human being, into the believer: pour out. It was a part of His drama to do so. God, all the Fullness, all the Godhead bodily was in this Person Jesus Christ. He was God and God alone, not a third person, or a second person, or a first person; but the Person, God veiled in human flesh.
79   I Timothy 3:16: "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; for G-o-d, Elohim..." Capital G-o-d in the Bible referred it back, anybody, it refers to in the original, It said, "Elohim. In the beginning Elohim... (See?) And Elohim... Without controversy great is the mystery of Elohim; for Elohim was made flesh, and we handled Him." Elohim veiled in human flesh, the great Jehovah that covered all space, time, and everywhere, was made man. We handled Him: Elohim. "In the beginning Elohim... And Elohim was made flesh, dwelled among us."

11.  Last seed comes in.

THEN JESUS CAME AND CALLED.   TAMPA, FL   64-0417
E-3   It's good to be back here again tonight and to be serving the Lord. Nice to see this bottom floor about packed out tonight. So we are very grateful for your attendance. And being the first time ever being here, I think that's real well.
Now, it doesn't matter how much we speak to, we speak the same thing. I've spoke in companies of just three or four, and then I've spoke five hundred thousand at one time, two hundred and fifty thousand at another time. And it don't matter what it is, what Christ sends to me to listen, I speak the... I wouldn't change my subject one bit if this was a million people setting here tonight--just the same. Because I'm only sowing seed and it has to fall on the ground somewhere. And when that last seed has been brought in, there won't be any more. We know there might be...
We wonder why the revival's not going on right now, why we don't see the enthusiasm with the people. I don't know why, but let's just think. What if it's like this? Maybe there's a little boy in here tonight, or a little girl was born over in Seattle, Washington. Now, that Book holds her name. He come to redeem whose name was on that Book. "Redeem" means "bring back from where it fell from," and in the human race she was fell. And she can't accept it now; she's too young. So the church will slug right along, just play along. We'll have meetings, and so forth, till that last person is brought in. Then that Book is closed. There's no more added. Then it's all over until... When that time will be, none of us know, but let's just keep doing all that we can to His glory until that time is over.
We don't know who that person is, that may already be in. We're just waiting His coming. We do not know, and it'll never be revealed to man, the time of His coming, because not even the Angels of heaven know when it's going to be. But we're just looking for it at any time, and waiting, watching, for His coming.

12.  Red moon.  [Acts 2:20]
ACTS 2:20
   The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

PRESENCE OF GOD UNRECOGNIZED.   TOPEKA, KS  64-0618
111   And I just wonder if we're not looking too forward ahead for something that's right by us. Wonder if it could be the same way, if we could pass by our opportunity? Remember, as the old types, the types can never break. The last sign, according to Jesus, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the days when the Son of man (not Son of God now), when the Son of man is being revealed." Look at here where it's setting today. Friends, I could tell you some things here which is not right for me to tell you, but it would startle you.
I want to ask you a little question while we stop, before we continue on with this service, just a few minutes. I wonder if I could ask you this.
Anyone knows that the world, positionally, everything's setting in order for His coming: "Earthquakes in divers places; the moon is spurting out red blood, or red volcanic all over it, covering it," as Jesus said watch for that sign in the last days; "sea a roaring, men's hearts failing for fear, and perplexed of time, distress between the nations."

13.  Oil in Kentucky.  [Motive and objective must be right.]

I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1127E
58   Someone come not long ago, a group of men, some of them listening in tonight, and told me, said... I kept telling them, "Go to Kentucky; oil's down there." I knew it was; I seen it in a vision.
Well, Brother Demas and them didn't go for a long time. After while, finally, they said (after Texas had moved in)--and they said, "Now, we're going down."
I said, "You ought to have went a long time ago." But they didn't do it.
Demas said, "I made a great mistake in that, by not doing that, Brother Branham."
I said, "If you'd have went down there, you'd have had it all."
Well, they wouldn't listen to it. Then the first... Then 'fore we left that night (the--the place where we were having lunch) the Holy Spirit showed me a great crack in the earth, and in that was full of oil, and these overflows in Kentucky was just little beds of oil that they were pumping from, but this one come from the main stream. And I said, "Brother Demas, it's there."
So they went to searching for it. Said, "Go down and tell us where the--where the oil well is."
I said, "Oh, no. No, no."
See, we don't use the gift of God for commercial. No, no. He could tell me where it was at, but I don't have any need of it. I wouldn't even have faith enough to ask Him. See? If I had a need of it, I believe if I'd ask Him, He'd tell me. But first (You see?), your motives and objectives has to be right. You have to have reasons for this. God don't give you those things just because you ask. And you cannot ask in faith unless there's a real objective to that, to be in the will of God. See? If you want to be well, what do you want to be well for? See? If you want to be healed, what's the reason you want to be healed? What are you telling God? What do you want to do with you life when you get healed? See? There's got to be... You've got to have a motive and objective, and they have to be right according to the will of God. And then's when the faith is revealed to you, and God by His sovereign grace places that faith in there, then it's over. See? Now. See?
Now, to make that Word true, when the brethren got down there, they got... One fellow went over and bought a bunch of stuff, and sold leases, and cheated the other one this way. I said, "You see, it won't work." Now, just to make the prophecy sure, within a hundred yards of where these men were digging their well, some man struck the big gusher. And it's there, eleven hundred barrels of oil in a half a day, or something or other like that: still putting it out, right in that main stream. But just to make the prophecy, the Word that had been said that it was there, it was there. The rest of them nearly's all dried up, everywhere through Kentucky. Little ponds, they pump them a little while, and they go. It's only the overflow from this. See?
68   But because of the selfishness got among it, the objectives was wrong, signing up a bunch of stuff "it would be this way," when they promised they would do it for the Kingdom of God, but looked like it's for themselves. See?
And it won't work; no selfish thing will work. Your motives and objectives has to be exactly, perfectly right, then you have faith there. "If our hearts condemn us not, then we have confidence." See, see? We've got to have confidence. "I want this to the honor and glory of God."

14.  Baptism of the Holy Ghost made way for the Holy Ghost Itself. 
15.  Three stages to original seed; stalk, pollen and then the husk.  [Nature and Word coordinating together.]

THE MASTERPIECE.   JEFF. IN   64-0705
135   Watch how perfect the Word and these--nature works together. Just like we prove the resurrection: Rise; the sun setting and the sun rising again; the leaf going out of the tree down in--the sap into the root, and comes back up and--and the leaf comes back up with it again and falls on the ground. The life of the tree sucks it right back, the calcium and potash, and brings it right up to another leaf again. See? All nature, everything works right with--with the Word of God. And here it is exactly perfectly in these church ages. That's the reason the Holy Ghost came down and drawed those things and made them out for us the way He has. That's exactly.
Notice here. The life that was in the husk, in the stalk, and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the seed. And the life that was in the stalk, went--one went to make the other. Justification made a way for sanctification. Sanctification made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of the Holy Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again to manifest Itself.
But what denominated, dies. Like Life in Luther went to make Wesley. And--and from the Wesley It went to Pentecost, and from Pentecost to make the original seed. On to... Pentecost comes out of the Wesley until that time. The reason that Pentecost come out of Wesley, because it was no denomination--Pentecost was. Then Pentecost went to denominate. And what did it do? It turned to the husk. It looked like the real thing. And anybody...
How many ever seen a seed--a seed of wheat start to grow? What's the first little thing? It's just exactly like the seed, but it's the husk. See the three stages? Stalk, tassel or the pollen, then the husk. And then, out of the husk comes the original seed. Not a seed, it was the Life of the seed growing through this to come to the seed. Amen, amen. Do you see it? What is it? A resurrection, coming back to a Masterpiece again, like the one that went in.
Pentecost came out of the Wesley, because Wesley was an organization. Pentecost come out as no organization and then turned to one. It had to to make the husk. The true Word of Life on it was on its way then to the original grain through these stages: through the stalk, then into the pollen; from the pollen into the husk; and from the husk it made seed. No... Stalk, tassel, husk.
Living, they produced in their early revival a holder of a certain portion of the seed Life; but when they organized, the Life moved out of it. That's proved by all history. Never an organization ever done a thing after it organized. It was dead. That's right. Watch, the life's traveling on now. It's moving on.
Notice. What they have done, all these have done, is proved by history just exactly the way the church has come, never to be useful to Him again. Organization is laid on the shelf. There never has been in all the history of church after it organized, but what it died. And the organization died and never did raise again. Can't you see it? Men who are blind, open your eyes. Nature and the Word coordinating together and proving it right here that this is the Truth, that it is the Truth: That Life leaves the stalk to make the tassel; from the tassel it makes the husk; and from the husk it goes into the original again. Notice, never again to be useful to Him.
143   How noticeable this life is in its travel in the corn of wheat than it is in the tree. God called His people like a tree. See? The life goes down in a tree and comes back up again, goes down and comes back up. See? It goes down and comes back up. But in the corn of wheat it goes up from the original stalk through the stalk, tassel, and husk; and the thing that it passed through dies so it can't get back through it again. What is it? It's no use any more. It goes on to its perfection. Amen. Don't you see why He never used an organization? He can't get back in it again. It's dead. But the Life passes on from one to the other. See? They put creeds and inject... "Whosoever shall add one word or take one word out..." See? He's blocked off from it. It must be the Life seed traveling on.

16.  Preview of the Bride  [Vision about July 3, 1964.]

THE MASTERPIECE.   JEFF. IN   64-0705
186   I got seven minutes to tell you something that happened day before yesterday to get out on time. July the third, I was over here setting in the--the center over here (shopping center, right out from us here). I been in Pigalle in Rome--in France, and I've been in New York City, Los Angeles; but the filthiest bunch of women I ever seen in my life is Jeffersonville, Indiana. I never seen so much gaum and filth in my life as I see amongst them people. I set there till my heart ached, and the Lord had gave me a vision. Now, I'm going to tell the vision. I don't know that I can interpret it, but I--I'm going to tell the vision for my first time.
I fell into a trance. And when I did, there was somebody with me. I didn't see the person. It was just a voice. And I--I looked. And as I--I looked this way, he said, "The Bride will come in view for preview." And I looked coming to me, and I seen the most--the most prettiest bunch of clean-dressed women I ever seen in my life. But each one of them, looked like, was dressed different. They all had long hair, and they were... longer sleeves and skirts and so forth, young women... They looked kind of, I'd say about, maybe, twenty.
Now, I have the Bible open here before me. See? I can only say what I seen. If you say, "What are you looking at?" I'm looking at a clock. "What are you looking for?" I'm looking for people--looking at people. "What are you looking at?" I'm looking at the Bible. That's what... I'm telling the truth; that's what I see. And I can only say what I seen. I don't--I don't know what it--all about it, I just have to tell you.
But when this Bride... She was looking right at... (The one was talking to me, and I--standing together.) Her eyes... She was the cleanest, sweetest looking people I ever seen in my life. Look like it could been a dozen or more, just... I don't know how many was abreast, but there was just a group of them. And She passed by, sweetly with a air, and her eyes up, watching as She passed by. Oh, She was beautiful. I looked at her.
And as She passed by, he said, "Now, we shall review..." Said, "That's the Bride. Now, we will review the churches." And they come. I noticed them coming up. And when they come up, each one, look like, got worse. I never seen such a filthy bunch in my life. And when he said, "Next..." I heard a noise. And it said, "Next," said, "here comes the American group."
190   Now, I am an American, but this just made me sick. I am not eloquent enough to, in a mixed audience, to say what was taking place; I--I--I... You'll have to read between the lines. But when the women were coming, the leader of them was a witch. She had a great long nose and a great big mouth. And all of them was dressed with some kind of lower clothes down here, but the top just had a strap that just--a little, about half inch strap that moved up and went around them like this. And each woman had something on the order... Many of you, years ago used to... Remember, when we used to cut that paper, you know, newspaper, and make an old fly-bush?
How many remembers it? You know. Why, I think you used it in carnivals, you know. Hanging down like that, fringed paper, lace paper. They had something holding below them, like this, holding below them. All of this part was exposed. And each one had hair cut up real short, and frizzy-looking things all over it like that, real short cut hair, and full of makeup: absolutely nothing but looked like street prostitutes. And they were walking with this paper. And the vulgarity... Now, the paper was what was hold in front of them; but when they passed the review stand, in the back of them... And to see the way they were going on in their foremost and their back part, and how they were acting... I thought, "Is that the church?"
And there she went. And they were singing this here twist-and-roll songs, you know, ever what you call, going down, singing like, going behind... I said, "Is that the church?" And I was standing there. And in my heart I was crying. And this witch... To my notion it's nothing else in the world, but she's the--she's that World Council of Churches leading them right straight down the road where she was going. They went off to the left and disappeared in chaos, still beating this music and making real funny sounds, and shaking their bodies one side and then the other side, and then like that, carrying on like that, walking.
And I just started to bow my head, and he said, "Wait, the Bride must come again." And I looked, and here they come again. And they passed by, sweet-looking little ladies. They was all looking right at me as they passed by. And I noticed each one was dressed different. And one in the back had kinda long hair hanging down and had it rolled around like this, might been German or something like that. And I watched them. And then, as they started leaving, two or three of them in the back...?... get out of step. And I was going to holler at them, and they was trying to get back in step again. And I seen them just--the vision just fade out and change from me.
Now, here is the interpretation thereof: The reason... Now, remember. I had just got through writing... I hadn't finished; I hadn't wrote these notes yet. But in preaching this morning, I caught what it was right in my sermon. Did you notice, the church only came in view... Now, that's the truth, friends. The heavenly Father, Who writes the Word, knows that I tell the truth. See? I know--I just say the truth. And not knowing it till just a few minutes ago, looked like or just recently... See? Did you notice the Bride come in view twice? The first Seed and the second Seed, both of them exactly the same one. And the reason they were dressed--dressed in different parts, she'll come from all nations; it'll make up the Bride. Each one had long hair and no makeup, and real pretty girls. And they were watching me. That represented the Bride coming out of all nations. See? She... Each one represented a nation, as they marched perfectly in line with the Word. See?
And then, I have to watch Her. She'll get out of step with that Word if I don't watch, when she's passing by, if she gets by. Maybe it'll be my time when I'm over (See?), when I'm finished, or whatever it is.
Watch. They was getting back, trying their best. They was getting back; they was getting in line, 'cause they was--they was looking out somewhere else, watching about that church that just went out of--into chaos. But two... The front ones never. The back ones--just two or three of them, was kinda stepped out a little bit to the right-hand side, and looked like was trying to get back in line as they went by. They was just passing me, oh, far as here to the wall, passing me. I was standing there. And then I just seen them all just move out and leave.
But you notice, the church only came into view once, each nation, the church. But the Bride come in twice. See? See what it was? Now, not knowing it, but look at it with my message this morning, not knowing that. See?
197   The Seed fell in the ground at Nicaea. That was the original seed. And She's come through the process of these denominations which only comes in existence once. But the Bride returns back again in the last days: "I will restore." See? The Masterpiece is brought up. That's the reason She was in view--reviewed the second time. She was reviewed the first time; then she was reviewed the second time. And She's perfectly the second time like She was the first time. Oh, God, have mercy. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Life, get in the Grain right quick.
All others never appeared no more. They went out never to come back again. But the Bride came back, 'cause She was Alpha and Omega. God, the Great Sculptor, has made Him a Masterpiece, for It is a piece of His first Masterpiece. Like He made in the garden of Eden and took a piece from and made another piece, and that was marred and fell; now He's been all this time building it up again. And He brought forth this Masterpiece, and was smitten in order--that part that was smitten was in order to bring back again that Masterpiece again.
So the Masterpiece and the Son of God--the Masterpiece and the Bride... And It's a piece of Him, which must be the fulfilling of the Word. The Word has been fulfilled, and we're ready for the coming of the Lord.
Oh, Church of the living God, bow your hearts and your--yourselves before God. These things are true. I know that it--it sounds like that as such a great a thing as that would be, would be so spread out over the nations; it never was. He doesn't change His way.
Just be thankful, Church, be thankful that you are where you are today if you're in Christ. Because, you see... Now... And when that... Remember, all that Life will be gathered right into the Grain for the resurrection, but the stalk must be burned, the rest of it. The husk and all must be destroyed, and it will be. Don't trust in your--them denominations. You stay in the Word, the Life, God and His Masterpiece.
Then what is it in the millennium? Christ and His Bride, back in the garden of the millennium. Amen.

17.  Africa trip cancelled.  [Joseph Boze & Sidney Jackson]

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
2-2   Now today, I was--want to announce that the meeting that we were planning--I was planning on going to this next coming week in--in Africa, over with Brother Joseph Boze in Kenya and Tanganyika. We are unable to have the meeting, with a telegram back from Brother Boze. "Last week three of our own missionaries was killed and--murdered." And they're having an uprise there now, and the communists are slipping guns in to the natives; claiming they got fish boats setting around (Red China and Russia), and getting guns to the natives; and they don't know no better than to use them just on anything that they see to use it on. So their--the--the--the government thought that it wouldn't be wise to have the meeting at this time. And as I understand, also that Brother Boze cannot even have his school open in this area where I was going at this time. But it's not canceled; it's just postponed until they can get it quietened again.
Very happy this morning to see in the midst of us again, for many years absence, Brother Jackson--Brother Sidney Jackson and Sister Jackson from South Africa. Has he spoke? [Brother. Neville answers "Yes"--Ed.] And these people was my real brothers, and sister, and coworkers in the campaign in South Africa, the last trip over, which we trust that someday by God's grace to get back with them again; for it's needy. And I've been trying for nine years to get back, but on the account of the organizations and so forth they won't let me back.
So I wrote them a letter recently and said, "Then let the blood of those lost souls be on you and not on me." For I believe that God was--been wanting to use my ministry over there for those people for some time. And by their denominational difference they won't let me come back. But all right, the Lord will take care of that.

18.  Seven Trumpets not apply to church and age it's to Israel only.

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
21-4   Now notice, the trumpet is to call together the people--assemble themselves together for something. Sometime it announced a important person like in Joseph. They sounded the trumpet and Joseph was appearing, which was a--a symbol of the Great Trumpet (that we speak of and get to after while) in Isaiah that says when that Great Trumpet sounds and the ensign will be lifted up out there, then there'll come a time when the Great Trumpet will be sound; and all the nations will gather to Jerusalem. That's when the millennium starts, the Great Trumpet.
The--this calling of the Feast of the Trumpets, the approaching of something... Notice Revelations 8 and 7, if you want to write it down. We notice the first trumpet there scattered hail, blood, fire upon the earth. Just exactly with Exodus, when God was calling His people out of the exodus.
Now, the reason that these Seven Trumpets does not apply to this church and this age is because it's to Israel only. It's the calling of, the gathering of the people. And now, there's only one significance in here, that I want you to get to in a few minutes, is where you'll see why this doesn't apply to this age that we're living in, the Seven Trumpets.

19.  Euphrates loose 200,000 spiritual demons.  [Revelation 9:15-20]
      [That Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know; that's His coming.]

REVELATION 9:16-17
   And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
   And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 
FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
23-4   Notice, making ready the people. How perfect then the Seventh Trumpet and the Seventh Seal is. Perfectly together the persecution of the Jews... Note, in Revelations the 9th chapter and the 13th verse (Now notice real close.), under the Sixth Trumpet (Revelations 9:13), under the Sixth Trumpet, note, there was two hundred thousand horsemen that had been bound in the river of Euphrates was turned loose under the Sixth Trumpet. Now, there's not two hundred thousand horsemen in the world, but there was two hundred thousand horsemen.
Notice it. (I want you just jot it down, so you can read it.) They wasn't natural horses. They breathed fire, and they had breastplates of jasper, and--and they had tails, and the end of the tail looked like a serpent, a snake's head on the end of it, stinging. See? It was spiritual horses, spiritual devils, chargers, that had been bound in Euphrates all these years, supernatural devils. What was it? The old Roman Empire being revived, the persecution of the Jews. And they'd been bound for nearly two thousand years at the river Euphrates, can't cross to the promise, a religious sect that was trying to get to the other side. Euphrates, you know, come through Eden. But they were bound there, two hundred thousand devils of persecution.
And notice what happens under that Sixth Trumpet. They were turned loose on the Jews, the persecution of the Jews. Supernatural devils, nearly two thousand years, then loosed by Stalin, Hitler, upon the Jews.
You say, "Well, that isn't Roman." It's the same spirit that done the same things it did to the Christians in the old pagan Roman days (Now, watch the natural Israel and the spiritual Church now, as we separate it here.) turned loose on the Jews.
You remember, under the Sixth Seal how every one of those martyrs are calling--according to the Word of God receive robes? It was given to them by the grace, because they're blinded that they can't see the Gospel, that this people might be called out of the Gentiles for the--the Bride. They were given robes; the Bible said so under that trumpet, them Jews, who absolutely is against Christ and everything. The reason they are, is because the Bible said they're blinded; and they were blinded for your sake. And the just God knows that they would receive It, but they were made blind for your sake. The Bible said so.
24-4   There's that Roman empire bound there by what? The ecclesiastical powers, which Rome, pagan Rome become papal Rome, and was bound there in its traditions of Christian, what part of Christian and--and superstitions it had of Rome, putting together all these worship of women, and all these other kind of stuff, and Christmas days, and holidays, and holy days, and things. It's been bound by that tradition that it cannot let loose, because it's against Christian principles. Still the same ungodly, pagan spirit... And that spirit caught into the nations of the world, according to the prophecies of Ezekiel, and the rest of them. And they were loosed upon the Jew, who knowed nothing of the spirit. There's your mysteries that's hid under that seal there. See?
Notice that we went through it. And that'll show you this trumpet here, this last trumpet, what takes place. There they are; these trumpets are let loose on the Jews (Don't you see?), not on the Gentiles. The Gentile, when them Seals was opened is sealed away. Time has ended; the Church is called.

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
26-2   Now, now, he loosed upon... Under that Sixth Seal, these two hundred thousand spiritual demons, started in Rome, Germany--Hitler. Notice, over in the Bible where they received--never--they received power as kings, but wasn't crowned. A dictator's not a crowned king, just receive power as a king.
Oh, the Spirit of God is moving through me now (you know?) just saying something; I don't know how to say it, nor what to say and maybe I'd better not.
Notice, two hundred thousand demons turned loose upon those Jews, when they burned them, they crucified them; they put bubbles in their veins; they killed them till they had no more gas to kill them with; and they shot them till they had no more bullets to shoot with; and they--and they done everything they could do. They cremated their bodies and everything, and hung them on fences, children and all, innocent people. Because they were Jews, they were done that way. But God said He give each one of them a robe, undeserving as they was, but His grace to blind them so that we could see...
That Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know; that's His coming.

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
31-2   Oh, my. Revelations 9:1, under the Fifth Trumpet their king... Notice (Revelations 9:1 now) the king of this great group of two hundred thousand horses. They had a king over them, and if we notice, it was a fallen star. "Why art thou fallen from heaven, Oh Lucifer?" (Oh, how Dr. Smith got that so scrupled up there, but it's all right. See? Wasn't for his hour. See? All right.)... Was a bottomless pit... Their king was the king of the bottomless pit, Revelations 17:8 (I wrote something down here; I'm just going to read it. You see here Revelations 17:8, I want to see what it says here, 'cause I don't know just how to hit this next...), 17:8:
    And the beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life of the--life--from the foundation of the world, when they beheld the beast which was, which is not, and which yet is.
See? Was, one pope dies, another one ascends--beast which was, which is not, which is, which is not, which is, don't change its order. Pope, same time, everything--everything has to go in the same system.
And it shall come where? To the bottomless pits. And the Bible said here, that the leader of these fellows was from the bottomless pits, and that was their king; and he sets with a triple crown and joining the Protestants with him.

20.  Two more things to happen just before the coming.  [Catholic Church rise up in USA, and bombed by Russia.]
  
FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
25-3   Two thousand years, this spirit through the Roman people, the Roman church, could not move. But that same spirit, coming up first down there into Mussolini in Rome, the dictator...
You know the five--seven things He showed me in '33 would come to pass? Five of them's already passed. Doctor Lee Vayle's writing a book on it there now. See? Five things perfectly, and just two more things to happen. Said it'd happen just before the coming. Here we are right at the end now, and look like that sixth thing's moving right up. See? Perfectly, exactly, even the wars and how they'd happen exactly on the dot, and not one time did it miss.
Listen folks, we ought to take inventory every hour. We don't know where we're standing--real close.

21.  Feast of Pentecost, Feast of Atonement.  [6th Trumpet & 6th Seal]
22.  Civilization in three stages.  [Martyrs, reformers, calling out time]

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
32-4   See? The atonement followed the... Watch now. The atonement followed the trumpet sound. See? How beautiful. See? The atonement day followed the trumpet. Now--now, the fifty days of the trumpets for us symbolize when the trumpet sounded at Pentecost, which was fifty days. Now--now--now, after this, the Jews rejected that; now the Trumpets is to call them back to that atonement (See?), the atonement they rejected. And they rejected, so our eyes could be opened; theirs was closed. And during this time, these Seals opened up and the--the--the Trumpets blowed. And now, in the blowing of the Trumpets, just before the Messiah comes, 'cause they've got to be in Palestine. And you remember God had to harden Pharaoh's heart to run them out of Egypt; and He hardened Stalin, Mussolini, and all that to get them back into the promised land, where the one hundred and forty-four thousand's supposed to be. And now, for the first time for thousands of years, twenty-five hundred years, that Israel is a nation with its own flag, own army own--and it--considered in the--in the U.N. First time it's been... The oldest flag that ever flew on earth, at this time flies again. The five--six-point star of David. He said He'd lift that ensign in the last days, when she'd be coming back. We're at the end. There's just no doubt about it; we're here.
Notice, now quickly Revelations 9 (under the Seventh Trumpet, their king is from the bottomless pits), and in Leviticus now, how perfect the interpretation is here with the Word, because (See?) immediately following the Pentecostal jubilee followed the day of an atonement. The order of the feast time, between the Pentecostal feast to the atonement, the sound of the Trumpets for the atonement was the Pentecostal feast, the long period of time.
Look, there was a long period of time between the Pentecostal feast to the calling of the--of the trump--the sounding of the Trumpets, the--the Trumpets to be sound, a long period of time. Frankly, it was fifty days from the--from the--from the Feast of Pentecost to the Feast of the Atonement, was fifty days. Now, fifty days is exactly seven sabbaths. And seven sabbaths is the seven church years--church ages. Get it? See, see?

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
34-5   And notice, civilization has went with the sun. The oldest civilization we have is China (anyone knows that). Where did the Holy Ghost fall? On the eastern country on eastern people. And the Gospel has traveled with the sun. It come from where? From over in the east into Germany; from Germany to England (crossed a channel three times); Mediterranean into Germany; from the Mediterranean--from the east into Germany, through the Mediterranean; from Germany across the English Channel into England; from English Channel across the Pacific over into--or the Atlantic over into the United States; and now, she's at the west coast. She's crossed the nation that she's civilized, and went across, and went on. Civilization traveled; the Gospel's traveled with it. Now, all the riffraff's on the west coast, where everything had picked up, like the tidal wave coming in.
But the prophet said the sun will not shine through this day; it'll be a day of gloom. They've had enough light, like a real rainy day; they could join churches, and believe the Lord, and things like that; but He said in the evening time the clouds will move away; the denominations will fade; and the same Gospel, the same Word made flesh (as He promised in Luke 17:33), the same Gospel with the same thing would take place in the evening time, just when the shadows are getting low.
The same Gospel, the same Christ, that lived in flesh back yonder at the beginning on the eastern people, shall live again in the western people at the end time. "It shall be Light in the evening time." All Scriptures is given by inspiration and cannot be broken. The big fifty days has passed over; the Pentecostal feast has passed over. Seven sabbaths, until the Trumpets, a type of the seventh church age.
Remember, remember, the--under the Sixth Trumpet the Jew (Are you listening?)--under the Sixth Trumpet the--the Pentecostals reject the Bible, the--the lukewarm, not only the Pentecostals, all the rest. The church world rejects Christ, and He's put on the outside. And in the same trumpet--or the same seal, rather, when it was opened, they showed Jesus on the outside of the church trying to get back in; at the same time the trumpet sounds for the Jews, and the Jews recognize the Atonement. Glory. Hallelujah. Oh, my.
The Holy Spirit's been bound by these denominational rivers for almost two thousand years, but is to be loosed in the evening time by the evening time Message: the Holy Spirit back in the Church again, Christ, Himself, revealed in human flesh in the evening time. He said it; He promised it.
36-1    There was three stages of it, as I said: the martyrs, age the martyr for it, and then the stage of the reformers, and now the calling-out time. When finished, the Laodicean age, according to Revelations 10, the mystery of all the Bible would be knowed to the Bride. Is that right?
Revelations 10... Listen close now. Bride called out by the Word, Christ Himself calling out the Bride, making plain Hebrews 13:8 (that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, does the same, is the same; "He that believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also." See?), Luke 22--or Luke 17:30, and also Malachi 4, Hebrews 4, all these Scriptures that's promised, this is to be between the Sixth and the Seventh Seal and the Sixth and the Seventh Trumpet.
Pentecost feast finishes at the period of the Seventh Trumpet, for the next is the coming of the--or Seventh Seal, for the next is the mystery of the coming of Christ, and also the trumpet is sound for the Jews. Their Sixth Trumpet is sound, and when it does, it makes known to them the revealed Son of God. One-half hour is fixed. Remember, all trumpets sound on this Sixth Seal. The Sixth Seal finishes the mystery--under the Sixth Seal just before the Seventh opened.
Notice, here's Leviticus 23 and 26. How in order is the Scripture. After the long period of Pentecost, which Israel did reject back there... And He called the Gentile church out through this Pentecostal feast.
How many understand what the Pentecostal feast is? It's the fruit of--firstfruit of the harvest, the firstfruit of the resurrection, the Pentecostal feast.
Don't miss this people. And you on tape listen close. This has been the time of Pentecostal feast. The Jews has laid silent; they rejected it. Now, they've got to be called back to the Atonement. We know Who the Atonement was; they didn't. And the trumpet sound after the Pentecostal jubilee calls the Jews together. Can't you see how that trumpet of persecution under Hitler and them blasted, and the Jews was forced to come together to fulfill the Scriptures? Now, you got it? All that's got it say, "Amen." [Congregation replies "Amen"--Ed.] Good. All right.
Notice, here in Leviticus 26 now, the order of the Scriptures. After the long period of Pentecost, which ends in the calling out of the Bride... The Bride is called out by a servant, the rejected. Next to be known to Israel, the Feast of the Atonement. Notice, here is the same as in Leviticus the 16th chapter now, when He ordered the Feast of Pentecost--or the Feast of Atonement. But in this place they are called (Oh, how perfect; see it preacher? Don't miss it, ministers.), in this Feast of Pentecost, which is represented in Leviticus 23:26--or 23 and 24, is a feast of mourning, not a killing of a feast. The feast was killed--the atonement was killed, rather, the atonement was killed (Leviticus 16, it's exactly a parallel to it.), only in this place it's called Israel to mourn for their sins.
How perfect it is today. It's not the rekilling of it (which Moses symbolized in striking the rock the second time; it didn't work), not a killing of a beast, but a mourning of rejecting the Atonement. Oh, my.
37-2   This will be the trumpet, the feast be a rejected, then their Messiah made known. Notice. They'll know their Messiah when they see Him. He's coming in power this time, the One they looked for. He's coming in power for the Gentile Bride, and the Jews are going to recognize Him.

23.  Malachi 4:5-6 is not connected with the two witnesses.  [Revelation 11:3-13. is Moses and Elijah.]

FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS.   JEFF. IN   64-0719M
42-4   Now, why did the Holy Spirit say to me (when I started up to there to show them that He was the Son of God), said, "Not yet"? You remember that about five years ago on my way to India? Said, "Don't do it."
I said... They said, "If this be the Messiah, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet; we believe the prophet."
Brother Lewi Pethrus and them sent me those Bibles, when he give a million of them out to them Jews coming from Iran and everywhere coming back, assembling themselves together, become a nation.
I thought, "This is my time." I was already in Cairo, Egypt. He said, "Don't do it now; the hour is not yet." Then I returned home.
42-6   Oh, my. Moses and Elijah's got to call. The Pentecostal jubilee's still going, or had up till this time. See? Now, the Feast of Trumpets has to be known. And this one over here of Malachi 4 is not connected with that one over there: not at all, not at all.
Notice. Watch here. The ministry will be Moses and Elijah, changing and calling Israel from the Jewish traditions (Listen.), from the Jewish traditions that they been mixed up in (being prophets, they believe--they'll believe Him), calling them to the Feast of the Atonement (Christ), letting them recognize Christ. They'll say, "He's coming, He'll be here." The Jews will be gathering, things like that, and then when He comes say, "Here I am." See?
"Where'd you get them scars?"
"In the house of My friends."

24.  The Trumpets for Israel under Sixth Seal.  [Pope visits Palestine.]  [Israel is God’s timepiece.]

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
26   Now, as we started last Sunday... We've been speaking of going to preach on the Trumpets, the last Seven Trumpets of the Bible. And me in myself, I thought they would break forth just like the Seals. But I've noticed on each one of these openings there has been a tremendous thing happen. And as we preached the Seven Church Ages... And they were so perfectly, until the Holy Spirit Himself come down among us and vindicated it, and put it upon the papers, and throwed it across the nation, and showed it in the moon in the heavens, and proved it to us weeks and months before it happened that--just the way it would be, perfectly. Here in the tabernacle He made it known. Here on the--in the time He made it known. On the moon and the sun He made it known. And in the position of the nations at this time He made it known, as the hierarchy of Rome left and went back to Palestine; supposedly had been the first pope back since (they claim) Peter, being the pope. Now, it was so tremendous.
Then we see before the Seven Seals that hid all the mysteries... Me not knowing what I was drawing on the board for the church ages, I never... God knows. Just by vision I drawed it, not knowing that God, a year and six months later was going to vindicate it in the skies by the moon and slip it across the national papers. I didn't know that. I didn't know there'd be a mysterious blackout in the moon to represent this Laodicea age.
Now, on the papers you only get the six ages. It's because the Laodicea church was blacked out completely. And if you notice the spiritual application? As God said it in the heaven... When I said it here on earth, I left a little bitty space, as you see, just a teeny little bit of light; that was just before the very elected was to be called from the earth, the reason I placed it on there for the seventh age; but when God put it in the heavens it was totally blacked out. Means maybe the last one is called from that Laodicea age; we don't know. There could be a sermon on it.
Now, notice again before the--the Seven Seals, which I had no idea it was that way... Here at the tabernacle He spoke of it and sent me to Tucson, Arizona, telling you all what would happen. And there's men setting present today who was there to see it happen just exactly the way it was told here would happen: seven angels would come. Then the newspapers packed that, and the magazines, across the nation: Mysterious circle of Light, in a form of a pyramid, just like I drawed it here and showed you, raised up from where those angels was standing and went thirty miles high and was twenty-seven miles across, or either twenty-seven miles high and thirty miles across, I forget which it was. And was seen throughout the states, just up above Tucson, Arizona, right where it happened, same time.
30   See, the--the Bible... God is not just... This is just not someone trying to--to press something to you, but to reveal to you the very spiritual application of this hour.
And then, the next message... That opened up the Seven Seals, which undone all the hidden mysteries of the Bible, the doctrines and so forth, which the world so rudely attacks nowadays, attacks it and says it's wrong, this, that...
Here the other day in Arizona, splicing tapes to try to make me say things that I didn't say. Just remember the vision about the Arizona proposition. The Bible said it was far better for you that you had a rock at your neck. And another thing: "That whosoever (let him be preacher or what he will) will take one word away from It or add one word to It..." People putting their own interpretation upon the Word as It's been given, trying to make It say something that I did not say, and not my word, It's His Word. "Who shall add to or take away..."
And then in the vision we seen these prophets whirl down, as I explained to you, I believe, several Sundays ago. It'll all be. I said, "Just keep away from it." As long as I'm fighting it, then God can't fight it. But let's let Him have it. He's the One Who takes care of it. See?
Now, we noticed last Sunday there was--preaching the feast days... And there was a feast of Pentecost. And between the feast of Pentecost and the feast of Trumpets there was a long period of time, exactly fifty days between Pentecost and the feast of the Trumpets. And fifty days, which Pentecost means "fifty"; and it was the sheaf-waving, or the in-gathering, the firstfruits of the harvest was brought in. And we see that it was in type back there with the natural firstfruits, representing the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit to be poured out upon the people. And we find out then that them fifty days was received by the Gentiles, which God called from the Gentiles a people for His Name--the feast of the Pentecost. And we have been going through that long feast of Pentecost.
Now, actually from the fifty days would be exactly seven sabbaths. And seven sabbaths represented the seven church ages to be called in the time of the Pentecostal--feast of Pentecost, to call a people from the Gentiles for His Name. Now, at the end of these seven Sabbaths which has been, there was to be the Day of Atonement, which was the Seven Trumpets. And the Seven Trumpets was to call a day of mourning back for the sacrifice or the atonement. And we find out then that Israel--the Seven Trumpets pertained only to Israel.
36   And then, why He wouldn't let me preach them Seven Trumpets... I even was ready to announce it, had the halls ready and everything to go into to preach the Seven Trumpets. And I said, "There's something bothering me so bad." I said... We kept on working, and Billy and all of us, trying to get everything ready for the air-conditioned building for this next coming week for the Seven Trumpets, having ten days--or eight days: had the school auditorium. But the Holy Spirit wouldn't let me do it for some reason. And I wondered why. And when I went in to pray... I told the wife, "I'm going in." And sincerely I knelt down before God to pray. And He revealed to me them that seven trumpets sounded under the Sixth Seal, and I've done preached it, supernaturally. See? It's the hand of God, the whole thing. It pertains to Israel; and we picked it up under the Sixth Seal, you all who have that, how the persecution of the Jews...

25.  New heavens and new earth.  [Isaiah 65:17-25,  Revelation 21]
ISAIAH 67:17
   For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come to mind.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
26-3   Notice here, Peter said, "And will melt with fervent heat and the works therein burn up," not the planet, the works therein: the works of man. All their politicians, and their schemes, and all their denominations and manmade schemes will all go with it when it burns.
"And--and heavens will pass away with a great noise." Did you notice here? "Heavens will pass away with a great noise." Listen, the whole earth will be on fire and will ignite the gases that's in the earth and explode it. It's exactly.
Talk... The Bible said here--Peter said, "And the heavens will pass away and earth with a great noise." Such an explosion will rock it (Oh, my.), 'cause it's got to kill every disease, every thistle, every thorn, everything there is to be done, the fire'll burn it up. And remember, it's not altogether just a literal fire; it's also a holy Fire (See?), that will take away Satan and all of his, all of the devils. Both heaven and earth (Amen.) will pass away, killing all the germs, all the insects, all natural life on it and around it, even the H2O, the water, will explode. Think of it. Talk about a noise...
You think that little noise out here in Tucson was something, when He opened the six seals, that shook the country around about and caused the talk, wait till this earth receives her baptism!
You know, when a man receives the baptism of Fire there's a lot of noise around there. They think that's a shame to hear people scream and shout like that. Just wait till this earth gets her baptism. Yeah, it'll explain--explode it, the H2O, the water; for the Bible said here in Revelations 21, "and there was no more sea." Explode it.
This will change the whole surface of the entire earth. She'll burst and blow to pieces. All the outside, the crust and for hundreds of feet below it, it'll just simply be completely demolished. The atmospheres, the gases that's in the earth now, where they're finding these missiles that can't get through it--a great sphere up in there (way up in some kind of a sphere) that--there's all kinds of gases, they say, and that'll burst. The holy wrath of God will come upon it, and will cleanse it, will change the entire surface.
Now, many of you that want to put down this word, the Greek word, "pass away," it comes from the Word... I had to find it. I thought, "How's this world going to pass away, and yet we're going to live on it?" But if you'll notice (some of you people that wants to put it down, I'll spell it for you; I couldn't pronounce it), p-a-r-e-r-e-c-h-o-m-i-a; I don't know how to pronounce it.
Now, that way, as I said, when I get--the inspiration strikes me for something, then I go back to find out the word. Now, here I can't spell the word; I can't--I can't pronounce it. But in that the Lord has still give me a way: I go and find out what that word means; then I got it. (See?); then I got it again. See, "Heavens and earth will pass away." Now, this word means "passing from one form to another." It does not mean annihilation, as the English word would mean, pass away: it's annihilated. But the Hebrew word--or the Greek word here does not mean pass away; it means "from passing from one thing to another." Look, but to pass from one condition it says to another...
Now notice, Paul used it (if you want to read it now--put it down you can read it later), in Titus 3:5. Paul is using this same word: means regeneration of men, that man is passed from a sinner to a saint, not completely annihilated. When a man's changed, he isn't annihilated, but he's a changed person. He's been changed from what he was to what he is, not annihilated.
28-1   Jesus used the same word in Matthew 19:28--now, not 28:19 now, 19:28. He said to them, "You've set with me in my Father's Kingdom," regenerated (You see?), changed--when you're changed. He used the same word. And He used the same word when He said to the colt; said, "Loose the colt and let him go." Said the same thing at the resurrection of Lazarus, "Loose him: change him. He's been tied; let him go.
What does it mean? The earth will be loosed from the grip of Satan. It'll be loosed. It'll be loosed from politics; it'll be loosed from denominational religious systems to be used for the Kingdom of God, to be establish it here on the earth. But as long as it's in the hands of Satan, politics, Satan the ruler of the earth, he owns it. It belonged to him, but now Christ has redeemed it.

26.  Mount of Olive cleaves in half.  [Zechariah 14,  Isaiah 29:6,  Revelation 16:9]

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
56-1   It won't be long. Everything's perfectly, geographically: Sodom, the messengers, everything setting just exactly right. What does it mean? Just think, coming to this one little tabernacle, fifteen hundred miles square, from the same dimensions.
Why is it God so thought and cared so much about that little place of Palestine (See?) when it's just a little spot? But right in there is where the temple will set. That's where the New Jerusalem will break up right there. Olive... Mount of Olives shall cleave part to the right and left (sure) when she pushes up from the beneath. Now, if they said pushing apart like this... It's pushing up, in that day when He stands, His holy feet upon the mountain...
Notice, on His throne fifteen hundred miles high.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
96   Now, we see a last-day happening! Let's just turn a few pages on, in Zechariah, and see what he said about it. Let's turn it over then for the last days. That was the middle age; let's turn now to the last days. And turn over to Zechariah, the 14th chapter, and beginning with the 4th verse. And listen! And we're going to read down a portion of the Scripture, about nine verses, from 4 to 9. Listen close. And it's prophesying of His Coming, the last days, so listen close now. This is THUS SAITH THE LORD, It's the Scriptures. Zechariah 14. Remember Zechariah 9, what It said? And they didn't recognize It. Now, what is it today? Zechariah 14, speaking of His Coming:
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives again, which is before Jerusalem on the east, on the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof towards the east and towards the west, and there shall be a very great valley;... half of the mountain shall be moved towards the north, and half... towards the south.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountain; for the valley of the mountain shall reach from Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like you fled in the days of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah:...
Another earthquake splitting open the earth! If you want to follow out a Scripture here, notice in this 5th verse, it applies that the cleaving of the Mount of Olives is due to an earthquake, and this is confirmed by Isaiah 29:6 and Revelation 16:9. Exactly! What is it? The same prophet told of His first coming, seen His second Coming! Notice, "As in the days of the earthquake." See what the earthquakes are doing, see the predictions of them?
... and the LORD your God shall come, and all of His saints with thee.
And it shall come to pass in that day, (Hallelujah.) in that day, that the light shall not be clear, or dark:
But it shall be one day with... one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that in the evening time it shall be light. (O God!)
98   "It shall be Light about the evening time," same prophet. And the people is blind! What's the attraction? Let's read a couple more verses:
And it shall be in that day, that the living waters shall go forth from Jerusalem; half of them towards the former sea, and half... towards the hinder sea: in the summer and... winter shall it be. (The Gospel going forth both Jew and Gentile)
And the LORD shall be king over... the earth: in that day and there shall be one LORD, and his name one.
It shall be Light about the evening time, (right!)

27.  Malachi 3 & 4, the two comings of Elijah.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
102   Here's the coming of Elijah:
Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet...
The last closing Scripture of the Old Testament:
... I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of that great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Now, that couldn't have been John. No. See, the world wasn't burnt up and the righteous walked out on the wicked. See? No, no.
... before the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Notice the accuracy of the Holy Spirit, that It would not confuse them two comings of Elijah. Malachi 3, said, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face." Jesus was asked about John, He said, "If you can receive it, this is who the prophets said, 'I'll send My messenger before My face.' This is the Elias that was to come." Malachi 3.
106   Notice the Scripture so accurately gives it. Watch what this... to show the... them who wants to believe, them who wants to see. Remember Jesus stopped in the middle of a Scripture, 'cause part of it was fulfilled then, the rest for His Second Coming? "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, bind up the brokenhearted," and stopped; not "bring judgment to the Gentile" until His Second Coming.
107   Notice this Scripture here parallels that. "And he, Elijah, shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children." (Now, speaking of Malachi 4, do not get it mixed, or Malachi 3.) John, Elijah, who came in the days before the first coming of Christ, turned the hearts of the old patriarch fathers to the message of the children, the new message.
Now, watch! "And the hearts of the children to the fathers." In his second coming, in the last days, he turns back to the apostolic Faith again. See how perfect the Scriptures line up?
That was the end of the Old Testament, the Old Testament. Now, we see there's Light in the evening time. What is It? It's the top, Mount Treetop. Ha.

28.  I got something mixed up.  [“Feast Of The Trumpets”, 64-0719]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823M
965-204   Like the other day, I got something mixed up; I happened to hear it, and it's... I caught it right there; and it's on the tape, and I--I'll probably hear from it. When I was talking about the Seven Trumpets, I said it was seven trumpets. I was referring to the Pentecostal feast. From the Pentecostal feast until the seven--until the--the Trumpets, there was seven Sabbaths. Seven Sabbaths was between the feast of Passover to Pentecost (you see?), which made the fifty days. See? But what I was referring to, being that, I said, "That means the Seven Church Ages."
On that tape (if you happen to get it or anything)--on that tape it should be, that the seventh month after that brought in the--the feast of the Trumpets, which meant the Seven Church Ages: seven months, not seven Sabbaths. Seven Sabbaths went to... I did explain it on there. I said the seven Sabbaths, like that, but then I carried that same thought on over, when it's the seventh month after the Feast of the Passover--or at the feast of--of Pentecost, then come the feast after the sheaf was brought in, waved. You see then--then... Remember there, the sheaf turns into a loaf of bread after that time. See? When the--the sheaf of--one sheaf, then all goes into one loaf. Oh, it's a great teaching there; I didn't touch the edge of it. But if you happen to catch that on your tape, remember, look in the Bible. You see, it's seven months after that. Count off seven months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July--it'd be July, seven months, which represents the full Seven Church Ages. Some minister might pick that up, and then you'd have it. You see there? All right.

29.  Evidence of the Holy Ghost is receiving the Word of the hour.  [See 1953  #6.]
JOHN 14:26
   But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

POSSESSING GATE OF THE ENEMY.   DENHAM SPRING, LA   64-0322
E-16   Now, a man that possesses that faith still will take God's Word, regardless of circumstances. Now, if you can't do that, then you're not Abraham's seed. That's the faith that Abraham had. His seed... The promise of Abraham was that his seed, now, his royal seed, also, as I told you awhile ago... And this seal that He give Abraham was the seal of promise. And the royal seed, according to Ephesians 4:30, is sealed by the Holy Ghost after they have stood the test.
Try to think of it. Many think they got the Holy Ghost. Many claim to have the Holy Ghost. Many can show many evidences and signs of It. But still, if it can't stay with this Word, it's not the Holy Ghost. See? You believe every Word, then you're sealed after the test. When we believe every promise in the Word, then we are sealed by the Spirit to confirm the promise. That's what he--that's what Abraham, way he did it. Then and then only, have we the right to possess the gate of our enemy. You cannot do it until first you become that seed.

BROKEN CISTERNS.   JEFF. IN   64-0726E
66   Today I was talking with my good friend Dr. Lee Vayle, who's present now. And he's a--quite a theologian. And so we usually have some--have some pretty good discussions on the Scripture. Very smart, and he asked me one time what I thought about the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, was it speaking in tongues? (It's been many years ago.) I said, "No, can't see that."
He said, "Neither do I." said, "though I've been taught that." He said, "What would you think would be a evidence?"
I said, "The most perfect evidence I can think of is love." And so we got to talking on that. And then I thought, "That sounded pretty good." So I just held that: If a man's got love. But one day the Lord in a vision straightened me out, and He said that the evidence of the Spirit was those who could receive the Word, neither love nor speaking in tongues, but it's receiving the Word.
68   And then Dr. Vayle was saying to me that that is Scriptural. He said, "Because in John 14 Jesus said, 'When He, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will reveal these things to you that I've taught you, and will show you things to come.'" So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost. He's never told me anything wrong yet. That it is; the evidence of the Holy Ghost is he who can believe the Word, who can receive It. 'Cause Jesus never said, "When the Holy Ghost is come, you'll speak with tongues." He never said, "The Holy Ghost come you'd do any of those things," but He said, "He will take these things of Mine and show them to you, and will show you things that is to come." So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost according to Jesus Himself.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
30-1   There that's what we was talking the other day, the evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? The evidence of the Holy Ghost is when you can receive the Word, not some system, but have a clear understanding. How do you know the Word's clear understand? Watch It vindicate Itself. "Well," you say, "I see this do it and that..." Oh, yes, weeds live the same way (See?), but it's got to be the entire Word. To be the Bride you have to be part of Him; He is the Word. See? And what part of Him is it? The Word that's promised for this day when He calls His Bride. You're a part of that. You get it? Now, don't--don't lose that now.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823E
1002-44   Now, that's no evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? You can't rely upon that. You can't rely upon the fruit of the Spirit, because the first fruit of the Spirit is love. And the Christian Science exercise more love than anybody I know of, and they even deny Jesus Christ being Divine. See? There's only one evidence of the Holy Spirit that I know of, and that is a genuine faith in the promised Word of the hour.

RISING OF THE SUN.   JEFF. IN   65-0418M
32-4  (…)  Now, Notice. Quickened into the Presence of God. Why? It was the Spirit of God that raised up Jesus from the grave. And the Spirit of God... "I give unto them Eternal Life (come from the Greek word, if you look it up, Zoe), which moves It through you and then quickens their, even their mind.
33-2   Now, look. How can you say that that Spirit dwells in you though you done everything that you thought was right? Here's your evidence whether you've got It or not: if the Spirit that was in Christ is in you, It also quickens you to the Word, for He is the Word. And if it, contrary, quickens you away from the Word, then it isn't the Spirit of Christ. Don't care what you done, until that moves you in the Word... "My sheep hear My Voice and they shall live by every Word," every Word.

30.  Gray is a mixed, deceiving color.

MICAIAH THE PROPHET.   CHICAGO, IL   61-0426
E-42   You know, it used to be black was black and white was white. You mix it together and you got gray. So that's just the way it it. They're so mixed up. What is the drawing line between right and wrong? Methodists is right, what about Baptists? If Presbyterian's right, what about Pentecost? There's a drawing line somewhere. That drawing line is God's Word. That's the Word. God's drawing line is His Word. "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine the Truth."

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
41   Then He turned me to the right side, and He showed me each church as they've come up out of the ages. And oh, how vulgar. And the last one was this last day church age, which was led by a witch. And they were so immorally dressed, so filthy looking. And they were marching to the time of twist and rock-and-roll. And those women throwing themselves just in twist, with holding just paper, gray, hypocritical. The word... Gray is between a white and a black, which is a deceiving color. Gray is neither white or black. It's a deceiving color. And gray-looking paper, holding in front of them, with lace-like hula skirts, holding in front of them; and completely nude from their waist up. And was marching to the--or time, or twisting, and carrying on with that music, walking up. And said, "That is the church."
And when it passed by me, my heart like to fainted. I thought, "If that's what is trying to be presented to Christ as a bride... Of all the efforts and things that men has put forth to try to bring forth a bride for Christ--and a vulgar, dirty, filthy-looking prostitute like that to be the bride of Christ." It made me sick at my heart.

31.  Tape splicing, adding or taking away for messages.

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
32   Here the other day in Arizona, splicing tapes to try to make me say things that I didn't say. Just remember the vision about the Arizona proposition. The Bible said it was far better for you that you had a rock at your neck. And another thing: "That whosoever (let him be preacher or what he will) will take one word away from It or add one word to It..." People putting their own interpretation upon the Word as It's been given, trying to make It say something that I did not say, and not my word, It's His Word. "Who shall add to or take away..."
And then in the vision we seen these prophets whirl down, as I explained to you, I believe, several Sundays ago. It'll all be. I said, "Just keep away from it." As long as I'm fighting it, then God can't fight it. But let's let Him have it. He's the One Who takes care of it. See?

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
187   Now, some lewd person in Phoenix just got up and said, played that part on the--a tape and said... I said here, "I must be baptized in Jesus' Name," said that. And then said, "Now, you see here, over here he said... "when I was talking about Africa, how they baptized three times face forward and back... Said I said, "'Don't make any difference.'" See, he never played the rest of the tape, just that part, and cut it off, which would be a penitentiary offense to do it; them tapes are absolutely franchised. No one can mess with them. You'd better not. If you do, you got the law on you. But would we do it? No. He said, "Let them alone." God told me what's going to take place. Just watch, just keep your eye on that person. See?
The same time the Bride has realized the evening Light. If Sodom would've recognized their hour...
Now, this same person put on tape, said, "Look here, to you Pentecostal people," said, "and you Baptists: This man, false prophet, William Branham (See?), has said that Oral Roberts and Billy Graham was in Sodom." See? Then cut the tape off. That's all. See? Wouldn't go ahead to say that they were messengers to Sodom, not in Sodom; they're there as a messenger to Sodom. Anybody knows I said that. Play your tape. Whosoever shall take from or add to, the same shall be taken from him. See? If it's the Word of the Lord, It stands that way.

32.  Bride leaves before Israel’s revival.  [Moses & Elijah,  Revelation 11.]
33.  Revival after 2,000 years for Israel.
HOSEA 6:1-3
   Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
   After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
   Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
57   The church this day is prophesied to be blinded to reject the evening time Message; Revelation 3 said so; "Thou art wretched, miserable..." Notice the Bride's condition the other night--or the church: naked, blind, and don't know it. Lord Jesus, be merciful to us. The Bible said she was naked. I never saw it till just now. Laodicea church was naked. And when she appeared the other night, she was naked (never noticed it), and didn't know it.
Oh, how thankful, how... No wonder we are so grateful. I feel that we're not grateful enough for the things that God is making known to us.
Naked, and the vision said--showed me she was naked and didn't know it. Blinded. As Israel was blinded, so that the Gentiles could come in, now the Gentiles are blinded so the Bride can be taken out and Israel can receive their feast of trumpets. Just perfectly.
"After two days He will revive us (or give us a revival), bringing us together (the Jews speaking on these trumpets now). And He shall--and we shall live in His sight (or have Eternal Life. See?). We'll be in His sight." The Bible said here in Hosea, said, "And we shall live in His sight--like--have Life in His sight (That's His own Life, Eternal Life), have Life in His sight." She that lives in pleasure's dead while she's alive. So we promise that Israel again would have Life in His sight. She's been dead to the facts and to the Pentecostal feast.
Notice carefully. Then after two days... Now, that didn't mean two twenty-four hour days, 'cause it's been--that happened way back yonder many hundreds of years ago. See? It meant two days with the Lord--after two thousand years. Now, you know how long it's been since that time? It's been twenty-seven hundred years since that, 'cause in Hosea here it's B.C. 780--1964. See, it's been something over twenty-seven hundred years ago. He said, "After two days, in the third day He will revive us again and give us Life in His sight." There's your Trumpets coming in. That's the hour that we're living, the day that we're living.
Now, they have been scattered, blinded, gathered, and are far into the third day. You see it? They were scattered from Palestine throughout the world. They were blinded to reject the Messiah. And now they have been gathered in their homeland, ready for the Trumpets to recognize the Atonement. As the Bible said, when they receive it and find Him with the nail scars (after the church is taken), and they say, "Where did You get these scars?" He said, "In the house of My friends." And He said they would separate, each family, and would cry and weep for days like a family that lost their only son. And remember, that feast of Trumpets was to do that--to weep, mourn for the killed Sacrifice; and they had rejected It.
They're in their land. They were scattered, blinded, and now gathered. And it was all under that Sixth Seal their Seven Trumpets sounded to gather them together. The Sixth Trumpet... That seventh is that great Trumpet (as we had last Sunday). The Six Trumpets sounded under the Sixth Seal just like our Sixth Seal opened, everything at the same time; only theirs all sounded at once, where we've been two thousand years in the Pentecostal feast.
Now, twenty-seven hundred years since that time... He said, "In the third day we'll be gathered again. After two days, in the third day we'll be gathered again and receive Life in His sight." Do you see the promise? The hour perfectly wrote on the wall. We see where we are living.
Now, in the homeland waiting for the feast of the trumpets, or the recognizing of the Atonement, and to wait for the coming, to mourn for their rejection of the first time that they rejected it; they're in the homeland for that, waiting where they all... Everything is positionally placed.
As a minister of the Gospel I can't see one thing left but the going of the Bride. And the Bride has to be taken away before they could recognize what's happened. They were bound, scattered; I mean, they were scattered, blinded, and now gathered. What's left? The Bride to be taken out of the way, waiting for the going of her Bride, so their prophets of Revelations 11 can call them to the feast of the trumpets, to make them to recognize what they have done.
67   Remember, right between those Seals came forth the Sixth Seal, and there was the hundred and forty-four thousand chosen and called. And between the Sixth and Seventh Trumpet, Revelations 11 appears right there exactly in line with the Sixth Seal.
What to do? What was it to do? And this was to bring forth two witnesses, Moses and Elias, prophets; which the Jews only believe their prophets. And they'll come forth with the sign of the prophets, and their work will be that of the prophet, for they did exactly, showing one thing, that men when you die, or whatever--when you leave this world your nature doesn't change.

34.  Awakening of the Bride not recognized.  [Matthew 25:1-13]
MATTHEW 25:6
   And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
82   Everywhere now there's no revival. Everybody's complaining, ministers crying. I was reading one of the--the outstanding papers that comes here to the church, a very fine paper. And I know the editor, and I know the people. And they're godly people, very fine, Brother and Sister Moore, of the "Herald of His Coming," one of the finest papers on the field, "Herald of His Coming." But they hardly will print anything unless it's about, "Fast, pray, fast, pray. Sound a trumpet. Get..." How many reads it? You know, you see it all the time. "Fast, pray, fast, pray!" That's all you hear. "Fast, pray. We're going to have a great breaking of the day. There's a great thing going to happen. All of you pray, pray, pray. We're not too late yet."
Why do they do that? Why do they do that? They want a great awakening. They're crying, believing that there will be awakened. They're good people. Why is it? What have they done? They have not recognized the awakening of the Bride. See? By being a Christian they feel the pull of the hour, but they haven't recognized what's been done. That's what's making them feel that way. They know something's supposed to happen; but (See?), they are looking for it way off in the future to come, when it's already happened right by you.

35.  National force placed Israel in its homeland.
36.  National forces will put church in the World Council of Churches.

RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY.   JEFF. IN   64-0726M
192  (…)  The church has not recognized her day, like Israel back in her promised land. She don't know how she got back there. She was just automatically put back there. Why? National force put her in her place. Now, I'm going to say something. National force put Israel in her homeland. National force will put the church in the World Council of Churches. But the power of God will put the people in the Bride. The world forces this way, and the world forces that way, but God forces upward, the Spirit of God, which is the Word of God ("My Word is Spirit and Life will put the Bride in her place, 'cause she'll recognize her position in the Word; then she's in Christ.") will put her in her place. No national force will do it. But the national force did drive Israel to the homeland. The national forces of the council of churches will drive every organization into it, but the power of God will raise the Bride into glory, out of it.

37.  Revelation 12 between coming of the Lord and ending of the trumpets.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
9-5   Now, I think in this that not knowing what time that the Lord Jesus might appear, I thought it would be good; it seemed pleasing to the Holy Spirit, that we speak on this and--and maybe come back to it again two or three times, because I won't have quite ample time to get all this out. As where you hit a subject that might be a little stumbling to someone, you can't carry it all the way out to make it plain. Then you come back again to catch the next subject; and then later on in the--if the Lord willing, when we come into the twelve seals (or not, pardon me)--the 12th chapter of Revelations, which lays between the coming of the Lord and the ending of the trumpets, and so forth. We'll try to bring that back to show who's Satan, what he did, where he come from, what's his purpose, and how that his great beauty that was give him caused his fall. His deceit caused him to fall: beauty.

38.  New heaven & New earth.  [Millennium reign]  [Justification, sanctification and baptism of the Holy Ghost.]
2 PETER 3:13
   Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
REVELATION 21:1
   And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
ISAIAH 65:17
   For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
10-1   Now, we understand here that these two Scriptures... The reason I read II Peter the 3rd chapter and compared it with Revelations 21, they both here are speaking the same subject, but John never--never wrote it out like Peter did. See? We understand that this great home of the Bride is to be here on earth.
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11-3   And now, also in the Book of Isaiah (Now if you want to put these Scriptures down), in Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah speaking of the millennium (that thousand years of rest for the--for the people of God)--Isaiah spoke of it, and he said, "I... There was a..." All the former things had passed away, and how they'll build houses and inhabit them. If we had time--maybe we just take time and--and read this just a minute, Isaiah 65. And let's just read for a few minutes here; and here it is right for us. Now, to begin, Isaiah 65:17:
And... behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
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12-1   What a promise of these prophets and great sages, teachers of the Bible, way back in ancient days seeing this glorious day come.
By these passages one might think, or be led rather, to believe that the whole planet of this earth will be destroyed. ("I make a new heaven and a new earth." See?), that the heavens will be gone and the earth will be gone, completely annihilated. But a close study, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can see the truth of this, and that's what we're going into.
It is only the atmospheres around it and the sin that's upon the earth that will be destroyed. See? Now, we realize that the heavens means the atmospheres above. See? What does it do?
It... Then these thistles, and sickness, and death, and politics, and sinful man, and sinful woman, and evil spirits will all be gone away and annihilated. See? It has to be done that way, because we are going to live right here. We'll prove that by the Bible. Right here is where we live.
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[3 Stages of the world.]
FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
14-2   Here the apostle, in II Peter here, the 2nd chapter, and the 5th--and the--and the 5th and 6th verse (yes, I've got it), he refers to three stages of the earth. See, he--he gets three stages of it. Notice how he brings them. The old world stood out of the water. Now, that was the antediluvian world.
Now, the one that is--the present world we live in now (called it a world), the old world that stood out of water (Genesis 1:1), now (and the world that is now present), and then again he refers to another one, the world that is to come, the new world--three worlds, three stages of the world.
And notice how God makes plain to us His plan of redemption. Oh, this just thrilled my soul when I saw it. How He makes plain to us here now, His plan of redemption. Now, compare what we see with our own eyes what God has done to redeem His world. He's done the same plan to redeem His people. For the unchangeable God changes not any of His plans or anything. Such a glorious thing.
How He led us to Himself, to a-tabernacle in us by three stages of grace, just like He's led the world in three stages to come through the world. As God will come to the world after it's gone through three different stages of purification, that's exactly how He comes to us through three stages of grace. I've taught that at the beginning; I've never changed since. It's God's Word.
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15-6   Now, the first step is repentance towards God, and then follows after that, is water baptism. Water baptism: "Repent and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ." See? Water baptism follows, showing that repentance was genuine, or, to remit our past sins. Now, that has nothing to do with future sin. It only remits. "Repent and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ." What for? Remission, taking away of past sin: has nothing to do with the future. Just your sin has been chopped off, what you did.
You can't repent for what Adam done. You never done it; Adam did. You just get forgiveness for what you done. The old nature is still there. Let me take is board just a minute. [Brother Branham steps to a blackboard to illustrate--Ed.]
Now, here is a human heart. Now, I'm not... I'm a long ways from being an artist. See? Here is a human heart, and here is a human heart. Now, this one over here has a snake in it; that's sin. Here he has is life. This one over here has a Dove in it, which is the Holy Spirit. Here he has a life. Well, this one here he has malice, hatred, envy. That's what's causing it: this fellow here. Well, this one over here has love, and joy, and long-suffering, and that's what does it down here.
Now, when you're asked--or you are forgiven of your sins, you've only done this, taken that away. But the thing that made you do it is still there. That's the old root of evil. It's still there.
Notice, then you repent and are baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, that He forgave you of your sins.
16-5   Notice, then secondly comes sanctification, which sets our mind in order for holiness: to think right, taking away. "Sanctification" is a compound Greek word which means "cleaned and set aside for service."
Then the next comes the baptism of the Fire and Holy Ghost that God might dwell in us, and the Fire of God cleanses our hearts from sin and puts the Holy Ghost inside. Then we bring forth the same Life that this did, because that's in us.
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17-2   Now notice, sanctification, the third stage--second stage of it, cleanses the mind, sets the heart, the mind of the heart in order of holiness.
A man can repent of sin and he's still thinking of... Well, maybe he's a immoral man. Every immoral looking woman he finds; it's still there. Maybe he's a drunkard. Every time he smells a drink; it's still there. See? But then when he gets sanctified, that cleanses that desire out of him. See? It takes the want of it away. He can still be tempted, but He takes the want of it away. Still he's not right yet. Then he is baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire, cleansed, burnt out, cleaned up, and then put into the service of God. Sanctification only sets him aside for service.
And notice just exactly how that comes, the messages coming: Martin Luther, justification; John Wesley, sanctification; the Pentecostal, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The messages, that's so where there can't be no more ages of it. See? We're at the end time. Three stages... Baptism cleanses the heart with the Holy Ghost.
How striking now. He takes the place where we are to dwell in through the same process. Now He's called the Church through justification, called it through sanctification, then filled it with the Holy Ghost and Fire, and He took it through a process that He Himself, the Holy Spirit Himself, the Son of God, could dwell in the human heart. Now, it has to go through that before He can come into it. Notice, He done the world (where that Bride's going to live in) the same way, His same plan of--of salvation.
17-6   Notice the antediluvian world. He... After it had repented by--through the bride of that day, Noah, He give it a water baptism, covered it over with water; then justification, showing that He's on His road to call this fallen world from Eden back to its restoration again. Then Christ came and shed His Blood upon it, cleansing it and claiming it. See? That's the world that we live in now.
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18-2   Then it is now to get a baptism of Fire. See, it has now... What happened? Christ came and called the Church to repentance, baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission, sanctified the Church, and with the Fire of God come down and burn out all the filth and come and dwells in the human heart.
Now, the world, to be redeemed for this redeemed person, He uses His same method. He baptized it in water after the antediluvian destruction, shed His Blood upon it to sanctify it and claim it. It's His.
Satan tried to say, "I'll give it to you."
He said, "No, sir, I'll buy it." Let it be a witness. He was lifted up for an ensign--that He bought it; He purchased it. But now it has to go through a baptism of fire, holy fire from God which cleanses the earth and the heavens around it. Then it's purchased so that the redeemed can live on it--live in it in peace.
Notice, the baptism of fire is to cleanse it from sin, from sickness, from disease germs, from sinners, from the devil and all of his group. He's to be cast out into the lake of fire. Holy fire from God comes down from God out of heaven and burns it up (notice) to make it ready for God to dwell in. For God, in the new world that is to come, is to dwell in the earth 'cause... You say, "God? He dwells in the human heart." But He and the Bride becomes One, and they go to their home in the new world. And the same plan of redemption is used to redeem both world and the persons that live in it.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
26-2  (…)  Notice, in Peter, in the 2nd chapter of Peter here--3rd chapter, rather, he uses the word "world" as a Greek word, "Kosmos," which means "the world order." The earth shall pass away, melt the elements with fervent heat. See? Doesn't mean that the earth, the planet's going to pass away, but the world,, the politics, the sinners, the system, sin, disease, germs, everything that's wrong will pass away.
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27-4   Now, many of you that want to put down this word, the Greek word, "pass away," it comes from the Word... I had to find it. I thought, "How's this world going to pass away, and yet we're going to live on it?" But if you'll notice (some of you people that wants to put it down, I'll spell it for you; I couldn't pronounce it), p-a-r-e-r-e-c-h-o-m-i-a; I don't know how to pronounce it.
Now, that way, as I said, when I get--the inspiration strikes me for something, then I go back to find out the word. Now, here I can't spell the word; I can't--I can't pronounce it. But in that the Lord has still give me a way: I go and find out what that word means; then I got it. (See?); then I got it again. See, "Heavens and earth will pass away." Now, this word means "passing from one form to another." It does not mean annihilation, as the English word would mean, pass away: it's annihilated. But the Hebrew word--or the Greek word here does not mean pass away; it means "from passing from one thing to another." Look, but to pass from one condition it says to another...

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
20-5   Now, perfectly Noah was a type of those carried over. Remember, when Noah come out, Ham was with him. Sin was still in there. Sin went right on over through the ark, unbelief, doubt went over in the ark, carried above the judgment; but Enoch went higher than the ark. He went on into the Presence of God, but Noah went through and come out, and there was still sin: type of the millennium--of the world's condition.
The millennium is not the end of it; there'll still be time after the millennium. The millennium is a space of time, but not the new earth. No, indeed.

39.  You was His attribute His genes.  [No representation in heaven.]

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
23-5   By the same means... For the world is one of His attributes just the same as you are one of His attributes. The world becomes one of His attributes, because it was God's thinking in the beginning to have a world, to be on a throne, to be a King, to be a Redeemer, to be a Healer. That's His attributes, just like an attribute of you.
I can't say "a--a post" lest I think of post. I can't say "man" lest I think of man. And when I think of man; then say "man," the thinking is my attribute and the expression is the word. See? Like Isaiah--how could he say that a virgin was going to conceive? What is a thought?
Now, many of you wonder how them--that discernment comes? I'm going to tell you. See, it's a word that I say, and it isn't my thinking, 'cause I don't know. I don't know of the thinking of it. How can I tell you who you are and where you come from, when I don't know you? How can I tell you what you done ten years ago, when I never seen you in my life? How can I tell you where you do and what you'll do ten years from now? How do I know the future? But it is Somebody Else's thought.
"Let the mind that was in Christ be in you. Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." See, then it isn't your thinking; it's His thinking through you, and you're not expressing your own words; you're expressing His Words.
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24-5  (…)  "But if there be one among you who's a prophet, I, the Lord, will speak to him; and if what he says happens, then that's Me (See?), 'cause he's not expressing his own; he's expressing My thoughts. My attributes are the things that has to come, and I'll use his mouth to express them by. And after he's said them, they've got to come to pass. Heavens and earth will pass away but My Word shall never fail."
Isaiah said, "A virgin shall conceive." That settles it: she's going to conceive. What God said, He does.
Oh, make known by His prophets all of His manifestations, because it's His attributes of His thoughts expressed. Now, here it was in this little woman; she was one of His attributes. See?

INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1125
10-3   Now, remember, you say, "Well, we believe this, but we don't believe that." If you're married to Christ, Christ is the Word of God. In St. John the 1st chapter said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the same was made flesh and dwelled among us. Christ was the living Word. He always was the Word; He's still the Word; He always will be the Word.
He was only the manifestation of the attributes of God, for He was the Son of God, and any son is the attributes of his father. And just as you were in the genes of your father, in the body of your father when he was a young boy... You were in him, yet he could not have fellowship with you, because he didn't know you. But then through the bedding grounds of a mother, you were brought forth into the earth and become in the image of your father; then he could fellowship with you. And so were you sons of God and daughters of God before there even was a moon, stars, or a molecule; you were sons and daughters of God. For you are only the physical manifestation of the attributes that was in God at the beginning. For there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that was you before... You don't know nothing about it; neither did you know when you were in your earthly father. But you're manifested in His image; in the image of God you are made, and you were manifested for the glory and the fellowship of God.
And therefore, as sure as your genes had to be in your father before your natural birth, your spiritual genes had to be in God, because you're an expression of the attributes of His thoughts before the foundation of the world. That's right. No way around it. That's right.

THINGS THAT ARE TO BE.   RIALTO, CA   65-1205
32   Now, the only way that you can be a son or daughter of God... Because you have to be the--have to have Eternal Life... And there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God's Life. Only one form of Eternal Life, that was God. There to be a son of God, you had to be in Him always. The gene of your life, spiritual life tonight, was in God the Father before there was even a molecule. See? And you are nothing but the manifestation of the gene of Life that was in God as a son of God. Now, you're expressed, after His Word has come in you to light up this age.
You are the--expressing God's Life in you, because you are a son or a daughter of God. Therefore... You get what I mean? See? You are in--you are now made... You're setting in this church tonight, because your duty is to express God to this nation, and this people, and this neighborhood where you associate. Wherever you are, God knew that you would be here, because you have to be one of His genes or His attributes. You had to be. If you ever--if you've got Eternal Life, then it always was Eternal Life. And God before there was a foundation of the world knew that you would be here. And when the Word--or the water, the washing of the water of the Word fell upon you, you--it was expressed in a being. Now, you have fellowship with your Father, God, just as you have with you earthly father. See? You are citizens of the King, not citizens, but you are children, sons and daughters of the living God if it be that the Eternal Life dwells in you.

MODERN EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY.   SAN BERNARDINO, CA   65-1206
172   But the real, ordained of God, that real gene, that real germ, a soul of God that was in God before the foundation of the world... Remember, you that's really got the Spirit of God in you tonight, you were here in Christ, because He was the Fullness of the Word. He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. Do you believe that? Look, He was in Christ. Then if you were in God, a gene, a word, a attribute from the beginning, then you walked with Him here on earth; you talked with Him on earth, you suffered with Him on earth; you died with Him at Calvary; and you rose with Him again; and now you're setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, communing with Him, the Word, as It feeds into your soul, that, "Man shall live by ever Word that proceedeth..."

40.  Will all born again believers go in the rapture?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF.IN   64-0823E
1040-Q-317   Will all borned again believers go in the rapture?
No, just the remnant, just the remnant, not all born again believers. The Bible said, "And the rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years," and then they was raised up and separated, the sheep from the goats. Not all borned again will go in the... according to the Scripture.

41.  Believe not the way you preach It?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823M
954-155   "Please explain, because you said that there would be just a small number go in the rapture."
That is these on the earth that's going to be changed. Jesus said,
"Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, but few there'll be that find it."
"What about the people that believe in the Lord now and don't--and not the way you preach?"
They don't have to believe this. They don't have to believe the way I preach it. See? Don't have to believe that. "... for the last day Message. Will they be saved?" Yes, if they believe the Lord. See? And if they--if they disagree and say, "I don't believe He's the Word. I don't believe that this is right. I don't believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost," that shows where they're headed for, the tribulation period. But those who can accept the Word in Its fullness, not me preaching It, because It's the Bible says so. Those who accept that is free, because they--the Word's already been judged.

42.  Going to Church.  [Fishing or hunting on Sunday.]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823M
966-Q-256   Brother Branham, should we go to the other churches even when they disagree with you?
Sure, yep. Jesus did when they disagreed with Him. Go ahead. We notice here, says, "Should we go to another church that disagrees with you?" Sure, I don't... I'm not the only pebble on the beach, you know. There's--there's just other godly men everywhere; I hope I'm one of them. See? But don't never get down here...
I was called in on something like this the other day. A--a group in Arizona called my attention to that. See? A ministerial group said, "The only thing that we have against you, Brother Branham, is (one of the things) the people that comes out here with you, we can't get them to go to church anywhere." Said, "They got children and everything; they won't go to church." And said, "Well, we told them they was welcome to come--come to our church."
Now, I know they put a pressure on you and want you to join, but you don't have to join; but put them kids in Sunday school somewhere. And you go to church; don't set at home, go fishing, and hunting, and things like that on Sunday.
You say, "Well, I'm not a legalist."
Well, you'd better be in that manner for a while, dishonoring the resurrection of Christ. You go to church somewhere.
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968-215   If you can't go... If you can't come here at the Tabernacle, get some church somewhere; go to it. You don't have to take all they do. What part of the bread they're serving, you serve the bread. When they got the garlic, why, you just leave it alone. See? That's right. I can't make them...?... that's exact... Sure, you go to church. Wherever the church door opens, you take off as hard as you can go. If they don't believe, well... Now, you don't have to partake. Don't join them; don't join any of them churches; but go to them; fellowship with them. How do you know it's not the Lord? He said He'd make everything work together for the good. And maybe there's a soul in there that ought to be saved, and you can shine the Light to them. See? Go on down there. Don't go arrogant, go sweet; and the people begin to say, "That's such a Christian woman, and a Christian couple; that's such a Christian boy or girl. My, I'd like to... Boy, they really act like they've got something." See? And say, "What is it?"
"Here it is." Then tell them. But you just be salty, and they'll get thirsty.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830M
1109-Q-353  (…)  If you don't have a church to go to, should you just listen to the tapes?
Yes. That's--I'd--I... That'd be fine.

CHOOSING OF A BRIDE.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0429E
9-1   The same applies of choosing a church. Now, you must pray over the church that you are fellowshipping in. Remember, churches have spirits. Now, I don't want to be critical, but I realize that I'm an old man, and I got to leave here one of these days. I've got to answer at the day of the judgment for what I say tonight or any other time, and I--therefore, I've got to be dead earnest and truly convicted. But you go into a church, and if you'll watch the behavior of that church, you just watch the pastor awhile, and you'll usually find that the church acts like the pastor.
Sometimes I wonder if we just don't get one another's spirit instead of the Holy Spirit. You get to a place where a pastor's real radical and carrying on, you'll find out the congregation's the same way. I'll bring you to a church where I seen the pastor stand, jerk their heads back and forth. You watch the congregation; they do the same thing. You take a pastor that'll just gulp down anything, usually the church will do the same thing. So if I was choosing a church, I'd choose a genuine, fundamental, full Gospel Bible church, if I was choosing one to put my family in.

43.  Third pull, question on speaking the Word.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823M
955-Q-248… this the third pull and is speaking the Word. It seems entirely possible for you to speak the word and one would be completely and fully restored, placed entirely ready for the rapture in the resurrection, the Son of man. This is so, or is it not? And you would do this if properly pressed upon. Would you not "escape all these things (it's got a ditto there) escape all these things and stand before the Son of man"? (Luke 21:36)
Now, my--my dear friend. See? Now, I think here that you--you--you got a--you got a good statement. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Now, that would be so. You said, "Brother Branham..." In other words, here's what I'm... I don't think that it's... I can... I believe I... Not polishing up what you said, but I believe I can make it a little clearer to people. See? You are believing, because of the Spoken Words and things like that that He said about. And all of you here witnessed the squirrels and all these other things that's been done. But did you notice, that was Sovereignly given. I never asked Him, "Lord, let me do this, speak these things in like that, do these things there." I never asked Him that. He by His own Divine will came to me and said, "You go do this." See? I wasn't asking one thing about it. Moses never asked to go down in Egypt, but was God that sent him down to Egypt. See?
Now, I believe that the Holy Spirit would come to me and say in a vision, "Go tell certain, certain person that they are not--they're trying to overcome a certain thing, and they cannot do it. (And they're smoking; they're drinking; they're lying, stealing, or committing adultery, whatever it might be; or they got lustful spirit.) And you just go where they are and say, 'Thou spirit, come out of there; I set this captive free.'" Would it take place? Absolutely. Yes, indeed, it absolutely would; it'd take place. But now, upon my own presuming... Now, "presume" is--means "to adventure without authority." See? I'd go down there to help this person; I'm just presuming that it'll be all right. See? Then I don't know; I can call the Name of the Lord over them; I can pray for them, do whatever I wish to.
956-160   If I had my own way this morning... I--I just had a interview with this little lady setting here in this wheelchair. To come to this meeting today, they had to have the fire department to take her out of her house in Chicago; and people live across the street and don't come to the meetings. See?
What would I do? If it was in my power... It is in... I have the authority to do it, but I have to wait for orders to do it. See? I have the authority from God to do it; but now, when He gives the orders, she'd go back home well. See? I know that is the truth. See? I'd just be as willing to die this morning on that as I--I'd be in anything. See? That's the truth.
But first, you see, it's all that... No one, even Jesus Himself said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He seeth the Father do, that doeth the Son likewise." We know that? St. John 5:19. All right. "The Son does nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that the Son will do likewise." All right.

44.  Beatles; it’s a spirit.  [Rock-and-roll]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823E
993-3  (…)  And--and so now, before we start, I would just like to say that if anybody wanted to see this article on "A Church Rocks as the Drums Roll," the Presbyterian minister here leading his congregation in rock-and-roll, a program for the--for the sacrament... Let me just see just a minute.
Youthful members swing out to jazz--jazz. Passion play tells of the crucifixion in modern i-d-i-o-m, rock-and-roll.
The pastor here leading all the teen-agers up there and going through the passions of Christ, the crucifixion played out in rock-and-roll and jazz. Well... It's in Maryland. Now, isn't that something?
And then, here is the picture of those... I was telling you this morning of those Beatles, "Return of Beatles," and there's the articles; you just should read it out of the magazine and all of the different things. "... as it were, had founded a new religion." Now, their manager... I've got a note out of the paper here. You haven't got time... If anybody wants to read these or I can put them on the bulletin board, then you can read them. And I just want to show you the hour that we're living in is shocking. You might not understand it; but, people, try to understand it, that--what these things are. I've asked Brother Capps; he's got a good education and can read better than I, I've asked him to read this article from the manager of the Beatles. Can you do it, Brother Capps, at this time?
994-7   [Brother Capps reads the article on the Beatles.]
 States that:
The Beatles wonder about themselves and draw no answers. "It's incredible, absolutely incredible!" says Derek Taylor, the Beatles' press officer, "Here are these four boys from Liverpool. They're rude; they're profane; they're vulgar; and they've taken over the world. It's as if they'd founded a new religion. They're completely antichrist. I mean; I'm antichrist as well; but they're so antichrist they shock me, which isn't an easy thing. But I'm obsessed with them. Isn't everybody? I'm obsessed with their honesty, and the people who like them most are the people who should be outraged most. In Australia, for example, each time we'd arrive at an airport, it was as if deGaulle had landed, or better yet, the Messiah. The routes were lined solid. Cripples threw away their sticks. Sick people rushed up to the car, as if a touch from one of the boys would make them well again. Old women stood watching with their grandchildren as we'd pass by. I could see the look on their faces. It was as if some saviour had arrived and all these people were happy and relieved, as if things somehow were going to be better now." Taylor paused and stuck a cigarette in his mouth, "The only thing left for the Beatles," he said, "is to go on a healing tour."--Ed.]
Isn't that what He said? "Many shall come to Me in that day and say, 'Lord have not I...'" See? Now, can't you see that you can't put your trust in healing campaigns? You can't put your trust in any kind of a sign like that. The only thing you can put your trust in is THUS SAITH THE LORD from the Bible. Now, Church, that is exactly where I have tried to keep you, my children. And if something happens to me and God takes me out of this earth, don't you never fail. Remember this with all your heart: stay with that Word. Don't you leave that Word. Anything contrary to It, leave it alone, no matter what it is. Then you know It's right. See?
A healing campaign now... Sinful men that even shocked their own managers with their vulgar, and dirt, and filth; and people throw away their crutches and get healed by looking at these boys. It's so filthy, and dirty, and antichrist. You see, it's Satan on a mock campaign. See? He does anything that the Christ can do, but he can't confirm the Word. See? He'll take part of It here and part of It here, but he can't take It altogether. See? He can't get It together. So you see, no wonder the Bible said that would almost fool the very Elected if it was possible: the antichrist spirit.
Now, even their own press manager here, press agent, he's for them, believes in them, and said he's possessed of the same thing, because they've won him over.
Them evil things, them... Now, don't you see, women, why I am trying to tell you about this short-wearing, hair cutting, bobbing, and things. It's a spirit. It is a spirit. Here it is right in our leading magazines and everything of what's shown out, rock-and-roll and stuff in the church. Why, it's a setup exactly for Satan, and they're still churches and denominations.
Back to the Word, children, as fast as you know; don't you dare to leave It. You stay right with that Word.
See, how that antichrist spirit, it can speak in tongues, can show signs and wonders; it can heal the sick; it can do all these things. See? Them people thinking they're approaching God, that them boys are God sent, because the church has let down on the Word.
Those boys belong to church. Elvis Presley is a Pentecostal. Pat Boone is a Church of Christ. Look at them guys, Pentecostals, Church of Christ, and all of those like that with them evil spirits on them. Red Foley, a golden voice, Church of Christ, sing the religious songs like nobody can sing them and rock-and-roll in the next voice. By their fruits you know them. Look what churches they belong to. Elvis Presley are members of the Assemblies of God. There you are, each one of them wanted that, and Satan give it to them.
Don't you see, friends, how... Don't let loose of that Word. See, it's a spirit that gets on you.
996-15   And I tell these women, when they make themselves look sexy in these dresses, that God's going to make you answer for committing adultery. If you believe me to be what you say, God's servant, a prophet, listen to what I'm telling you. See? You might not be able to understand it, and if you can't, then you just do what I tell you to do. God will hold me responsible for what I say. See? You listen real close, and remember that those things are spirit.

45.  Fanaticism following Brother Branham’s ministry.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0823M
972-Q-265   Brother Branham, is... (Let's see what this is.) Brother Branham, it is commonly believed by many that follow your message that you are the Messiah of this day. Is that so?
No, sir.
Plainly tell us, Brother Branham. You seem to hesitate in making yourself known, and we know that with such a ministry as God has given you, you should be identified in the Scriptures somewhere.
Number 2: You told us your purpose of going to Arizona the first time. You told us why, and it came to pass, but you did not tell us why you went back again.
First place, I am not a Messiah. See? Messiah is Jesus Christ, but we are "Messiahettes," every one of us. Messiah, "Messiah" means "anointed One." And in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily; in me just dwells part of His Spirit, the same as dwells in you. I've been given a gift to--to--to know little things and foresee things. That makes me just still your brother. See? I am not the--no Messiah; I am your brother (See?), just a shepherd to the flock. And if I told you I was the Messiah, I'd be a liar. See? And I don't want to be a liar.
"Now, why did I go to Arizona the first time?" You understood that. I went in the Name of the Lord, because I was sent there by a vision. I returned the second time for a purpose. Just let it alone. I know what I went for; I can't tell everything. When you... Devil don't know--can't get it out of my heart. If I speak it out, then he can get that, but he ain't--he can't get it when it's in my heart. If I say, "Wait till it comes to pass."... Just remember, hold this tape; I have went to Arizona for a purpose. Please bear with me. See? Just do what I tell you to do (See?); just--just do as I say do. See?
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I have heard people say that you have advised people to sell all their homes and follow you to Arizona or--or they would not be in the rapture. Is this true?
That's a lie. See? Uh-huh.
... or should we sell our homes, or did you even say this?
No, sir. I did not say it. If anything, I've advised people not to do it. Uh-huh. Remember, remember "Junie" Jackson's dream that time when I went out there? "Junie" dreamed that he saw this... How many remembers the dream, and how the Lord gave the interpretation: that great mountain, we was standing upon it, and old washed-out letters there; and I was trying to interpret it, and I couldn't do it. And I--I was interpreting it to them. After I got it all interpreted, all of it interpreted, then I reached over and got (in his dream now) a some kind of a--like a bar and just cut the top of the mountain off and looked in there, and it was all snow white, like marble. But it wasn't written on, and I said, "You all stay here and look in on this now, while I go yonder."
And "Junie"... All of them went up and all the brothers and all looking in on it, another... They couldn't understand; said, "Well, what do you know? It's not even written here, but yet he was reading the outside of it. Why isn't it written in here? We can't understand."
And Junior turned around and looked, and he seen me going towards the west, towards the setting of the sun, going over one mountain, another mountain, real fast, just getting... And then he turned around and looked and seen me gone; a whole big group of them took off that way, and they wanted to go this and do that, after I told them to stay there. Stay there, stay right here; this is the place.
And then, when I did that, then--and I went just exactly; and a little bit after that, the Angel of the Lord appeared to me, say, "Go out to Arizona yonder." I heard that blast go off and went there, and what was it? That boy dreamed that dream just exactly right, and the Lord gave the right... Remember, I said, "There's something I'm going there for." And when I went there, it was the mystery of the Seven Seals, that was sealed up on the inside of that mountain of the Lord. Come right back with the opening of the Seven Seals. See?
No, you shouldn't do that. If you want to go, that's up to you. 'Course, I don't... My, I don't care where you go, but just to do that, think the Bride's going to go from there, you're mistaken.
Also I have heard this... I have (Let me... I got it wrong somewhere here. Let's see.)... the rapture. Is this true or should we sell our homes, or did you ever say this?
No, I never said it. I never... I've always advised people to stay where you are and keep on keeping on till Jesus comes. If I've told you many times, let this tape be a memorial; let this day be a memorial; let my word be a memorial; I have never, at one time, ever told anybody, ever proselyted, ever tried to get somebody to come to this church. I have never... As far as telling them to leave their own church and sell out their goods and things, God knows that I've always advised people to remain a Christian and stay where you are until God calls you. Everybody knows that. Stay right there. But now, to tell people... Somebody say, "Well, I want to go over here. I want to live over..." You go wherever you want to go; that's all right. I don't care where you go; that's not my business for that.
But now, to think that... See, what does it? It starts a cult (See?), and then I get in trouble. They got a group out there now that's going to be on charity pretty soon. And then what's it going to be? "We come out here for the rapture of the Bride." That's just what the newspapers are waiting for. They're waiting to get it when they fall on charity and can't go back to their homes. Then what they going to do?
"Why, we followed Brother Branham out here. Supposed to be..." And I am just as innocent of it as I can be. The dear, sweet people, they--they know that I love them, and even in their error. And they... Why, that... They... I love them anyhow. See? I love them; they're my children; but they just won't listen to me, what I'm trying to tell them. I'm trying to work out something in the Name of the Lord, and they won't let me do it. See? They're actually going against me instead of for me. They're doing...
Didn't I tell you if ever a message was preached, it'd be right here at this Tabernacle; anything I had to do, I'd come here and tell you first, right straight from this Tabernacle? That's my promise.
975-Q-268   Also, I have heard there is a teaching out, that a book you wrote several years ago about the bread of life... They interpret it that we must all be with you or miss the rapture.
Well, the book is wrong. The book of "The Bread of Life," I remember that now. That was feed the church universally, everywhere. See, the trouble of it is... Now, now, you people, you're solid yourself, but you've got to have that. That follows every meeting. The--the...
I was reading about Martin Luther here not long ago, not comparing ourselves with that; but this is a reformation just the same as that was. And the--the question was... The--the--the historians, they said, "It's a marvelous thing to think that Martin Luther could protest the Catholic church and get by with it. That was a wonderful thing." But said, "The most wonderful thing about Martin Luther wasn't that. How he could hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed his meeting and still stay true to the Word, his calling..." See?
No, sir! Don't put your own... Any man or woman that puts anything to what I say, don't believe what I say. They don't... They say... They...
976-Q-269   Also about these families that have sold out and moved to Sierra Vista, Arizona, where they have interpreted from one of your tapes titled (just a minute) "Little Bethlehem," "Little Bethlehem," the rapture will take place in Arizona. Did you advise them to go there?
I certainly did not. When they wrote a letter about that, somebody up here in Connecticut or something, I answered the letter back and said, "You're making the worst move you ever made in your life. Don't you do a thing like that." See, you can't... Well, you just remember, you people... Now, you all know that I'm not telling them people to do that; I'm telling them not to do it. But you see, that's got to follow the meeting. Why does people call me Messiah? Why does people... They got carry... Well, one fellow out there showed me the other day, he had a little thing and he was go--carrying on, wanted all the people to be baptized in my name. That'd make me a antichrist. But I'm not for those things, and all you people know that. But you see, this has got... That only identifies the Message true.
Did not they come and try to tell John, the--that forerun the first coming of Christ, "Aren't you the Messiah?"
He said, "I am not. I'm not even worthy to loose His shoes. I'm not even worthy to look at Him." See? But he said, "He that cometh after me..."
976-Q-270   Now, Brother Branham, are we missing out on something? These people claim to believe every word that you say to be true. (But they don't. They don't believe it. Their own actions prove that they don't.) Please let me know your straight answer: yes or no (You've got it. All right.) about these things, and if it is true, we want to make ready to go join with the rest of them there--the rest of them. I--I thank you very much for your answers to these questions, as I will be waiting to hear them this Sunday, if the Lord should tarry.
Oh, my. Well, brother, sister, I--I hope it's understood (See?) that I did not, do not... Now, if people... Oh, sure, if you want to come out to Arizona to live... And now, I'll be out in Arizona maybe this first semester. I'll have to come back here. I'll have... I--I want to stay there; kids are healthier and everything. I--I want to stay there a little while, and I've got a purpose. Remember now, on the tape, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I have a purpose in doing what I'm doing; you know I have; but I can't tell you that.
Why am I telling you not to sell your homes, you're going to come up missing, and you're going to be on the short end of the rope. Don't do that. I won't stay in Arizona but a little bit. Why? I can't do it now.
If I let those people stay out there and go on charity, what's going to happen? Then that's just exactly what the denominations and all of them is looking for. "Aha, I told you what was behind him, another school of prophets or something." See? There you are; that's just what they're looking for. After all, them people, I'm responsible for them; though they have not done what I told them to do, and they've done exactly... You say, "Let them go; they--they did what you told them not to do." That isn't in my heart. I still want to go for them. They're my kids. I might give them a little spanking when I get them back, but I--but I--I'm sure going after them. And how am I going to do out there?
They said, "We come to follow the Word." I haven't even got a church to send them to there. The kind of churches they'll go to there is the same kind you leave at other places, maybe worse. See? And they won't go to church anyhow, and I have no church to preach to them. Then I'm morally obligated to take my children out of Arizona, where...
I ask you something. I've preached better than thirty messages in this church last year. And for five years, outside, since I been in Arizona, I've preached more in this church in one year than I did in five years any other time (Certainly.), here in the church. This is my home base; this is my headquarters; here's where we're set up at. Now, hold that in mind no matter what takes place. Now, if you're wise, you'll catch something. No matter what takes place, this is our headquarters, right here. And keep that in mind and refer back to this tape someday, that you heard me prophesying. All right, remember that.
If you want--if you must leave and come to the church, don't go out there to find it, 'cause I'm not even there. I have no place to go; I have no place to preach from. They won't let me preach in their churches. I have not even a place, and I promised the men when I come there... They all got scared I was going to come there and build a big building, drain out the churches. But that's not my purpose of life. See? I--I get the people saved. It's up to them. Like the Samaritan come down and took the man to the inn, then let them take care of them from there on. I'm not here to break up churches; I'm here to get converts to Christ. See? And it makes me misunderstood among the people (See?) when--when they're interpreting their own way and not--and--saying what I'm saying. See?
Don't you remember the vision? How many remembers Junior Jackson's dream? And all them follow it just exactly. What was it? Stay here till I go yonder. See? And got the interpretation and come back. Now, I've got something else in my heart that I've been warned of the Lord to do, some move to make pertaining to this Tabernacle, and this church; that I must go there or somewhere for a short time. It's for a purpose, a great purpose, a purpose that you know nothing about. But remember, I'm just not "ratting" around, 'cause I act like I am. I'm working in the will of the Lord, as far as I know how to work in it. See? That's the reason if you believe what I say, then do what I say do (See?); then listen to me and believe me as your brother. If you believe me to be a prophet, don't misinterpret my words.
If there's anything, so help me, if there's anything that you should know that God would tell me, God knows I would tell you just exactly. And don't add to it or take away from it; just do it just the way I say it (See?), 'cause I'm telling you from my heart the best that I know. See? You just believe that. Just--just take just--just what I say about it, and just leave it go like that. All right.
So now, I've got to bring them kids back here for something to eat. They're down there in the desert starving.
979-258   A minister came to me the other day, said, "Brother Branham, they're getting the awfullest cult down there you ever seen." Said, "Each one of them, every morning, they go out; and they said they ain't going to work; it's too close to the rapture." They're not going to work. Well, that just shows you don't even understand. See? Right. (This tape's going down there.) So, yes, sir. You ought to take a lesson from the ant, the Bible says, you know. If they don't work, they don't eat. So that's just exactly right.

46.  Time didn’t cease when the Seals were opened.
47.  Seven Seals was to make known the dispensations behind us.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830M
1092-Q-339   Now, if time ceases when the Seals were opened, then--is... If time ceased (pardon me) when the Seals were opened, then the millennium is also--then the millennium is also finished, is it not?
No, no. Time didn't cease when the Seals were opened. Misunderstood it. What happened, the mysteries was revealed, not time ceased. See? Just look. Watch real close now, and will--play your tape if you got it from a tape. See?
Time never ceased until the... This must be a post-millennialist or something that asked the question. Because see? We got a thousand years after the church has gone home and comes back upon the earth. Then time ceases in the new heavens and new earth.
Now, the millennium is not the new heavens and new earth. There will still be sin after the millennium. The millennium is a type of Noah going in the ark, and carried over, and brought Ham and them on the other side. And sin even come out of the ark. See.
But Enoch, the translated one, was a type of the Bride that went up, not the one that was carried over. So sin will still be on the other side of the millennium, but not during the millennium. See? During the millennium is peace. See? But sin will be dealt with the other side of the millennium, and then time fades out.
And now, the opening of the Seven Seals that was given by the Holy Spirit, the Seven Seals only was to make known what had been left off in the dispensations behind us.
Now, as some great theologian tried to corner me on that, he said, "Brother Branham, you--God someday will give you the secret of those Seven Seals. Those Seven Seals will be something that we've never learned yet, that it'll be something that's not even in the Bible." No, no. It won't be that, because if you do, that would make it a... If I told you that, I'd be a false prophet, because (You see?) this Word... There... Everything that's--that's... The whole revelation of Jesus Christ is all completed in this Word. See? And if the Seven Seals pertained to the seven churches, it had to be already past, because we're in the Laodicea church age... And the Seven Seals was only revealing what they had left off back there, and it opened up what they had left: what Luther left, what Wesley left, and all the reformers, and Pentecostals, and down to the present time.

48.  Is mercy over? Don’t never think that.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830M
1105-Q-348   Brother Branham, some say mercy is over and no one can be saved. Now, is this true? (I'm glad I got this one.) We watch and pray--we watch the prayer lines, and it seems some are still finding mercy.
Now, that's the first question, you got two.
"Is mercy over?" Don't never think that. See? Just keep right on doing everything you can until you're taken away. See?
"We notice in the prayer line some's finds mercy." Sure. Mercy's--the doors are open. See? I think where you got this--this thought might lay between... See, I don't have time to give each one of these Scriptures their right place (You see?), each one of these things their right place. They... In the prayer line you find mercy, certainly.
If I knowed Jesus was coming this afternoon, I'd be doing just the thing I'm doing right now (See?), just continuing right on. Mercy is always open. See?
And now, where I think you get it, is about the finishing of the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals being loosed. See? The Seven Seals, it's manifested what takes place has--what has took place. The seventh church age, we're at the end of the seventh church age. When I say the end, that doesn't mean it's this very hour, this very minute. You remember, the Bible said, back in the times of--of the Lord Jesus, Paul said, "For the time is at hand." Do you realize how long that was in God's time? That was yesterday. My time, it's been two thousand years. See? The time is at hand. See? What God calls at hand is not what we call at hand. See?
So just keep on believing, keep on praying, keep on... God's still got mercy open; just keep flowing into it as fast as you can. God will do the stopping when it's time to stop. See?

49.  Preachers still needed.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830M
1106-Q-349   Now. Brother Branham, is it true that no one should preach but you? We have seen your--we have seen you ordain men. We do--don't believe you would do that if there were not--if they were not to preach.
Mercy. Brother, sister, ever who told you that nobody's to preach but me, I'd sure be a poor subject to God with all that. No. Every man or that feels a call of God upon his life, get into the ministry and start preaching; we need them.
Men of God are anointed all over the world to preach the Gospel. See? I'm just one little pebble on the beach among many big stones. See? So I... There's just many that's more eligible, more worthy, more of anything to preach than me; I'm just one little, humble person laying out here. I'm one grain of wheat in a whole garner. See? So that just a... You know what I mean. Any man that's called of God needs to preach the Gospel.

50.  Millennium.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1165-Q-404   When the millennium starts, how will the unbelievers be taken off of the earth?
The unbelievers will go down in the tribulation period with the sleeping virgin, and all those others (unbelievers, and sleeping virgin), and the remnant of Israel that's to be taken out.

51.  Receive ye the Holy Ghost..
JOHN 20:22
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1157-Q-383   Dear Brother Branham, what is the difference when Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost," and when they--when they had to go to the upper room to tarry?
It was a promise He gave them, breathed upon them His promise, said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." It was a promise. They went to the upper room to wait for the promise to be fulfilled.
The same thing is when we lay hands upon you to be healed, then you go on about your business waiting for the promise to be fulfilled.

52.  Thinking your own thoughts.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1158-Q-387   Brother Branham, please explain how a person knows if he is thinking his own thoughts, or if the devil is placing thoughts in his mind to make him think wrong, especially, if you know you do not want to think them.
Then, if it's contrary to the Word, it's the devil's thinking. If it's with the Word, it's God thinking. If it's the wrong thoughts, it's the devil. If it's good thoughts of the Word and of God, it's God's thinking.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1159-Q-388   If the case may be that the devil is placing thoughts in your mind about a certain thing, how may it be overcome or got rid of?
Take the very vice versa from it. If the devil makes you think that--that--that you are... If you know you're a Christian, and he tries to make you think you're not a Christian, just take the versa, say, "I am a Christian." As long as your experience matches in God's Word say, "I'm a Christian." Anything else, the same way.

53.  Has the Laodicea church age ended?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1160-Q-391   Brother Branham, have you made statements recently concerning that church age has ended, Laodicea?
No, I never said it's ended. If I did, you misunderstood, or I said it wrong. It is--this is the last church age; it's the end of church ages, the Laodicea. It hasn't ended; when it ends, the church is gone. So as long as the church is here, it hasn't ended. See?

54.  Seven Thunders revealed in seven Seals.  [Revelation 10.]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1161-Q-395   Have the seven thunders which equals seven mysteries already been revealed? Were they revealed in the seven Seals, but are yet--but are yet not known to us as the thunders yet?
No, they were revealed in the seven Seals; that's what the thunders was about. They was to reveal... The seven thunders that had uttered their voices and no one could make out what it was... John knew what it was, but he was forbidden to write it. He said, "But the seventh angel, in the days of his sounding, the seven mysteries of the seven thunders would be revealed." And the seventh angel is a messenger of the seventh church age. See?

55.  Malachi 4 and 7th angel of Revelation 10 is the same person.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.   JEFF. IN   64-0830E
1177-Q-422   It--is the seventh angel, as spoken of, of Revelations 10, the same person as Elijah of Malachi 4?
Did I answer that? That don't sound like I answered that. Yes, it's the same person. Revelations 10 is the seventh angel's Message, which--seventh angel messenger of the seventh church age, which is 
Malachi 4.

56.  Two systems and three classes of people.

WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS?   PHOENIX, AZ   64-1227
91   Therefore, there is a system in the world: two systems, and one of them is the right system, and the other is a perverted system. And one of them is God's Word, which is right; and every man's word is a lie. And this denominational system we got today, forming a World Council of Churches to make a mark of the beast to emerge them together is the wrong thing. And men are blindly walking into it.
God's done put the thing on earth for them to be delivered by. But they think it's a bunch of fanaticism. They don't want it. They turn it off. They think they've got to do something about it. They got to make their own system. God's got the system already here: His Word. But we don't want That. So we find ourselves today, just like they was then.
Now, seeing that people are designed to be that way... Notice, you say... I know I take a lot of time, but I don't want to keep watching that 'cause it makes me nervous. See?
Politics: now we take like... Let's just take for instance, see if people's designed to be in three--three classes. Let's take politics. There's some that's red-hot for a man. And another group hates him. And another group don't know what to do about him; they don't know which, and it throws them into confusion.
This man said, "Oh, he's a great man. He--he'll make us the best President."
The other one said, "He's nothing but a renegade."
Then the in-between said, "Now, I don't know what to do." See? See, we're designed that way. We're made up that way. That's the way human beings are. It had to be that way to fulfill God's great economy. And to make His achievement that He's going to achieve upon the earth, man had to be designed thus. One is right. The other one's wrong. And the other one's in between the two. It's always been that way.
Notice, they do that every time that they don't know... The man in between, it's a bad place, because one can show the matter, why he thinks he's right; the other one can show why he thinks he's wrong; and the one in between don't know nothing about the matter; he don't know which way to turn. And that's just the way it is in religion. People do the same thing today about their eternal destination.
Now we're going to hurt, just a minute. They do it about their eternal destination. A man will go down here to a--at this--to eat. And if you'd find a spider in your bowl of soup, you'd want to sue that company or that restaurant. Why, you wouldn't eat that soup; it'd be poisoned. You--you--you--you wouldn't take it at all, a big roach or something boiled up in a bowl of soup. Why, you wouldn't have it at all. It would make you sick to think about it. But yet, you'll let some bunch of theologians push something down your throat that'll send you a million miles from God, and gulp over it, when man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. It's a chain that your soul is hanging over hell with. And as I've said before, "A chain is its best at its weakest point." One link to break... that's all you have to do is break one of them; that's all. The rest of them lets loose with it. It's only as strong as its weakest link.
Now... And a person that knows if you eat that soup with a poison spider in it, it would probably make you sick. You'd have to go to the hospital, and--and have your stomach pumped, and a lot of trouble to go through. And it could actually kill you. But, my, you'd... Why, you'd never go around a place like that. You'd never want to darken the door again, because you--you--you're afraid you'd get poisoned and die. And then you'll absolutely join up, put your names on books, and fight for the very cause of the thing that the Bible said that's not damning your body, but sending your soul to hell. See? How strange that people do. They--they've--they take their eternal destination, base it upon some theological term. And you can bring them the Scripture, said, "This is what the Bible said. Here it is right here."
And the theologian look at It, "Well, that was for another day." (See?) And you listen to him. You see what God says. A real, true Christian only listens to that Word, and that's all. Men of God live by that Bread.
101   Notice, some--some believe in the Word. While there's others believe in their denominational interpretation. And there's others, by this confusion, that don't know what to believe.
Now, some of them said, "Oh, this World Council of Churches, that's going to be the thing. It's going to make us all one. Oh, that's just it."
And others say, "Why, it's of the devil. Here it is in the Scripture."
Then the man that don't take time to set down and pray and seek it out, he said, "Oh, forget it." Uh-huh. Forget it? It's your--by your statement, brother, by your position, by what term you take, is going to send you to your eternal destination where you'll be forever. Don't do that.

1965

1.  Tucson, new home for Brother Branham..

LEAN NOT UNTO THY OWN UNDERSTANDING.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0120
107   Why? They was leaning to their own understanding instead of the Word of the Lord. Because Isaiah said, "The blind would see; the lame would leap like a hart; deserts would break forth in joy." But, you see, they leaned to their own understanding, not to the Word; their own system they had drawed up.
Now, notice the churches of today do the same thing. They have formed a great super race of understanding in their denominational systems. That they have such a super understanding, they don't want nobody else to fool with it, nobody to come in unless they belong to that group.
Don't tell me; I live in Tucson, Arizona. I come down there three years ago; I met with the council of churches, and I said, "I never come to start a church. I come to fellowship with you. I come to help you. I'm a missionary, evangelist, whatever I do."
They said, "Are you coming here to start a church?"
I said, "No, sir. I come here... If I want a church, I got one in Indiana." I said, "I come here because the Lord led me here in a vision. I'm going to stay for a while now, unless He leads me away, but I never come to start a church. I come to help you brethren."
111   That's been three years ago; I've never been invited to one place. Why? Because there was a get-together right after that, and said, if any man had me in their pulpit, they would excommute that preacher. See why? Leaning to their own understanding! Certainly, that's is--is so-called; they form their super understanding.

LEAN NOT UNTO THY OWN UNDERSTANDING.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0120
192   The other day, up on the mountain, I was standing there. I said, "Lord, I got one open door in the whole nation, as far as I know; that's Phoenix, Arizona, is the only one I got." And I started down off the mountain. Just as plain as I ever heard anybody speak, said, "What's that to thee? Follow thou Me." Amen. No more of my own understanding. I'll lean upon His promise.

2.  Bibles.

A PARADOX.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0117
31   Now, I'm--I'm wore out one Bible, since I started in the healing campaigns, or praying for the sick, rather. At Houston, Texas, was given me a Bible years ago, some eighteen years ago, by Brother Kidson and his group. And I wore that Bible, back and forth, around the world, until it just completely wore out, pages come out of it.
I was just given a new Bible. And the strange thing... I am not superstitious; and I hope you people don't think me to be superstitious. When this Bible was given to me, they'd had a little--two little markers in it, little ribbons. It's a Bible like I had.
Brother Kidson gave me one was a Scofield Bible. Now, not because that I agree with Mr. Scofield in his notes... Now, probably some of you do, some of you don't, but I just let you know that I just don't take Scofield Bible because I believe that. Because he has got it so paragraphed off. That was one of my first Bibles, and I just learned to read it like that. And I just keep the same Bible. Which I--if I'd have had the Thompson Chain, it would been much better. I could've found my text much faster on a Thompson Chain Reference.
But when I opened the Bible, the first little ribbon in the Bible was a very strange thing, where it was. Was when Solomon dedicated the temple of God, and the glory of God was so great, the Shekinah Glory in the building, till the priests couldn't even minister.
And then the next string was laying where Ezra returned and dedicated the temple.
And the--the third little marker, that my wife had gotten me and put in the Bible, not knowing, with my name on it, and so forth, was laying to Mark 11:22. She just stuck it in the Bible, and that's where it was at. That's, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved'..." And all of you know when that Scripture was in my mind, you tape people, that's when those squirrels come right in, into the... That--that's exactly.
37   And then the strange thing of it was, my favorite bird, robin, picture was on the marker, the little bird with the red breast. As the legend goes, that one time he was a brown bird; but there was a Man dying one day on a cross, and he felt so sorry for the Man till he flew in to try to pull the nails out himself, and he got Blood all over his little chest, and since then he's been a red breast. That's the way I--I want to meet my Saviour too, with His Blood on my--inside my chest on my heart.

3.  Sons of God.  [Attribute, Seed]
4.  Part of God.

GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0119
42   Now, if you've got Eternal Life tonight, if we have Eternal Life, then we always were, because there's only one form of Eternal Life. We always were. And the reason we were, because we are a part of God. And God is the only thing that's eternal.
And like Melchisedec received tithes from Abraham, and it was 'lotted to his great-grandson, Levi, who was yet in the loins of Abraham; paid tithes, for he was yet in the loins of Abraham when he met Melchisedec. I want to speak on that over at the other place, one morning: Who Is This Melchisedec? Now, notice that. Way back, God knew this boy coming down. He knowed all things.
Now, we are a part of God. You always was. You don't remember it, because you were only an attribute in God. You were only in His thinking. Your very name, if it ever was on the Book of Life, it was put there before the foundation of the world. He knew what you were.
I'm only saying this, not to mix up doctrine, but to straighten it out, that we might get away from this fear and scare: you don't know who you are. You are not going to be, but now you are the sons of God. See, you always were the sons of God. See?
For when God had you in His thinking at the beginning, you have to be, some part of you, your Life that's in you now, had to be with God before there... Well, when you--before you even become material here on earth, before there was anything, but God, you were one of His attributes. He knowed what your name would be. He knowed the color of hair you'd have. He knowed all about you. The only thing happened is when you, being a sinner...
Many of you can--can fellowship with me on this thought. When you was a little boy, or a little girl, you'd walk around and there would be certain things that would just, where it wouldn't bother the other kids, it seemed like there was something in you that cried out. There was God somewhere, yet you were a sinner. You remember that? Certainly. Now, what was that? That was that little form of Life in you then.
And then after while, you heard the Gospel. Maybe you went to church; you picked out this and that, and went from denomination to denomination. But one day, you being part of God, you had to be part of the Word. And when you heard the Word, you know where you come from, you knowed what was the Truth. You were always, the seed was in you always. The Word seen the Word that was in you, that was before the foundation of the world, saw the Word and you come to It.
49   Like my little eagle story, of how the little eagle was hatched out under a hen. And the little fellow walked with the chickens, he, the hen clucked, and he didn't understand her clucking. And--and the little chickens, their diet they had in the barnyard, he--he didn't understand that, how that they did that. But there was something in him, seemed to be different from what that chicken was, because at the beginning he was a eagle. That's right. One day his mama come hunting him, and, when he heard that scream of the eagle, it was different from the cluck of the hen.
And that's the way it is with every born again believer. You can hear all the theology you want to and all the manmade discrepancy; but when that Word flashes out there, then there's something takes ahold, you come to It. "You who were once dead in sin; that life has He quickened." There has to be a Life there to quicken to, first. God by His foreknowledge knowed all things. And we were predestinated to be sons and daughters of God. "Ye who were once dead in sin and trespasses, wherein we all had our times past, but hath He quickened."

KNOWETH IT NOT.   JEFF. IN   65-0815
19-2   Now, the only way up here in these spheres that you could ever be in this little inside man, you have to be foreordained, because you was with God; you're part of God.
I was in my father. I also was in my grandfather, my grandfather's grandfather. By seed, I was in that. And I was in Christ. You were in Christ before the foundation of the world. He came to redeem His own, His own that was in Him (Hallelujah.), His children, that was in Him.
He never came to--to save the devil's children. They never will know it. And they are so shrewd in the ways of their intellectual learning, that you can't compare with them at all. You can't out-talk them. But by faith you see it.

INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1125
10-3   Now, remember, you say, "Well, we believe this, but we don't believe that." If you're married to Christ, Christ is the Word of God. In St. John the 1st chapter said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the same was made flesh and dwelled among us. Christ was the living Word. He always was the Word; He's still the Word; He always will be the Word.
He was only the manifestation of the attributes of God, for He was the Son of God, and any son is the attributes of his father. And just as you were in the genes of your father, in the body of your father when he was a young boy... You were in him, yet he could not have fellowship with you, because he didn't know you. But then through the bedding grounds of a mother, you were brought forth into the earth and become in the image of your father; then he could fellowship with you. And so were you sons of God and daughters of God before there even was a moon, stars, or a molecule; you were sons and daughters of God. For you are only the physical manifestation of the attributes that was in God at the beginning. For there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that was you before... You don't know nothing about it; neither did you know when you were in your earthly father. But you're manifested in His image; in the image of God you are made, and you were manifested for the glory and the fellowship of God.
And therefore, as sure as your genes had to be in your father before your natural birth, your spiritual genes had to be in God, because you're an expression of the attributes of His thoughts before the foundation of the world. That's right. No way around it. That's right.

SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE.   CHURCH AGE BOOK.  CHAPTER 4.
152-1   Now then, here we are coming to a conclusion. As the eternal Logos (God) was manifest in the Son, and in Jesus dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and that Eternal One was the Father manifest in flesh, and thereby gained the title of Son, even so we, eternal in His thoughts in our turn became the many membered Spoken Word Seed, manifest in flesh, and those eternal thoughts now manifest in flesh are the sons of God, even as we are so called. WE DID NOT BECOME SEED BY THE REBIRTH, WE WERE SEED AND THEREFORE WERE REBORN FOR ONLY THE ELECT CAN BE REBORN. Because we WERE SEED is the reason we could be quickened. In NON-SEED there is nothing to quicken.

5.  Florence Shakarian’s: Brother Branham’s vision and prophecy of her dying.  [Demos’ sister]

IDENTIFICATION.   TULARE, CA   64-0216
108   A lady asked me, coming down the road the other day from up here, she said... It's Florence Shakarian, Brother Demos's sister, Sister Williams and them, setting in the car. She said, "Brother Branham, I fast, and fast, and fast, and still I can't cast out devils."
I said, "You wasn't born to do such. Your duty is fast. The Holy Spirit's working on somebody else out there for that." You don't know the place.
If we had time we'd teach those things in long meetings, how if one person's burdened like this for something over here. You don't know... You don't... It's not for you to know. It's Him doing it. You're just submissive to your call. Always line it up with the Scriptures, see if it's right or not.

MAN RUNNING FROM PRESENCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0217
155   I come in the other night to the Christian Business Men's meeting, and--international; old "Pop" Shakarian, Demos' father, he used to set there and just keep looking till I come in; then he'd smile, and that little wave, he'd wave at me. He wasn't there; he's gone. Then I had to come to that family with THUS SAITH THE LORD, their daughter's going to die too: Florence. I saw her in a vision, saw her go. And I know she's going. And I said, "Pray, just pray. You know, there's a prophet one time was told to go tell a king to put his house in order. And he prayed, and He spared his life fifteen years longer." I said, "Pray, but...?..."

GOD'S POWER TO TRANSFORM.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0911
1   Thank you Brother. [Brother Williams speaks--Ed.] Thank--thank you Brother Williams. Good morning, friends. I... This--the Shakarian family, Brother Williams, and Sister Williams and many of them here know about it. I saw that in a vision, about two, three years before she got sick, and happened.
And last year when we were here, I believe it was in January, at the convention, it was the time that that priest (What's his name? I forget his name now.) was here. [Someone says, "Stanley."--Ed.] Stanley, Bishop Stanley, from the Catholic church. You remember when he brought me the Bible, you know, and he said to me.
It was several prophesying, "My daughter, you're healed."
And he knew that the vision had said that she would not get well. "She would die between two and three o'clock in the morning." Remember that? So at two or three o'clock...
And I couldn't tell Demos. And yet I told her stepmother, right over in the room, right across the place here. I said, "She isn't going to get well."
Mrs. Shakarian said, "Well, everybody is prophesying."
I said, "Course, I could be wrong, myself, but I said that she isn't going to get well."
I told many of them. About three years ago I saw her running for her life, and she went into a bed. And she raised her hands and screamed to me, like that. And I--I couldn't even reach her. And then I seen her die. And I looked; there was something, there was a clock, and it said it's something between two and three o'clock."
And so the bishop said, "Well, I'll just watch and see how that comes to pass." So it did come to pass.
We are certainly sorry. I feel the church has lost a great person in Sister Florence Shakarian. But she was a great singer; she was a Spirit-filled woman.
I was with her mother; her mother was one of the first contacts I had on the west coast, when her mother was healed. When the doctors... She was in--in a coma and all swollen up. And so the--the doctor that was there told me, said, "Now, be real quiet when you pray. Don't make much noise. The woman's dying."
And said, "Yes, sir."
And said... And just kept on telling me. And, why, I didn't even have a chance to open my mouth like.
So it was Brother Demos told me to go ahead and just go up the stairs.
So I went upstairs. And Florence was kneeling on the floor, then a beautiful little girl, and some more women. And went over and prayed for her, and told her. And she was unconscious and told her she'd get up again. And she did. A couple years later, she died. And now, God answers our prayers.
And we know that, we believe that we all has come here by the will of God, and we leave the same way. One by one, we'll each one cross that portal. And that's why we're here this morning, gathered together in this Christian Business Men's Fellowship, is to speak of these things and prepare for them, 'cause we know they're sure to come.
Now, Sister Florence is a young woman, forty-two years old, Brother Williams just told me, and very young. But before they--she knew that she had this disease, why, I saw a vision of her and told me her outcome. Then it would be. God knows all about it, and her seeing Jesus in the room before she left. We just don't want to pray for her, because we've done that so much. We just want to thank God for a life that was among us, that inspired us all, as Sister Shakarian.
And we want to pray for Brother Demos, Sister Rose. And remember, they've had an awful hard hit in their life in the last... It's his father, and his sister now in this the last years. The... Then you... Yes... [Somebody speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Less than, less... Ten months... And sister, Sister Edna also...
16   So I know how to sympathize with Brother Demos. I had a father, brother, wife, and baby, to go within a few days apart, so I--I know how he feels this morning. You only know when you stand in them shoes; that's when you know how to sympathize.

6.  Book of Redemption.  [Book of Joshua parallels Ephesians.]

GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0119
29   Now, if many of you like to just mark down Scriptures that a minister reads... And I would like for you to tonight, if you would, to turn to Ephesians.
And I was speaking last Sunday on the Ephesians, how that the Book of Joshua was the Ephesians of the Old Testament, and how it was a Book of redemption. And redemption has two different parts: "come out of" and "entering into." First, you have to come out. Some people wants to bring the world in with them; but you got to come out of the world to enter into Christ. You have to come out of unbelief to enter into faith. There cannot be one thing in your way. To really have genuine faith, you must absolutely leave everything that's contrary to the Word of God behind to enter into faith.

7.  This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled.  [Preached January 25, 1965]

THIS DAY THIS SCRIPTURE.  JEFF. IN   65-0219
4-3   And on this Scripture, what caused me to fall my eyes upon this was of something that happened just recently in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the last day of the service that I was to speak at the international convention of the Full Gospel Business Men, and in this convention there was a visitor with us which was a Catholic bishop, which is, he's of the Chaldean Rites of the Apostolic Catholic church, the Most Reverend John S. Stanley, O. S. D. He is the Archbishop of Metropolitan United States in the Catholic church. This happened to be his card and his--and his address.
And he was a visitor with the Christian Business Men, and I had seen him there the day before. And when I was speaking on Saturday night, I believe it was, or Saturday morning at the breakfast, and I--as I was speaking he kept watching me. I thought "That man certainly is disagreeing with everything I say." And, you know, you could--you could just see him; he'd keep his head up and down, but I didn't know what was just exactly working on him.
So on Sunday afternoon when I got up to speak, I was going to take my text on "Birth Pains," where Jesus said that as a woman in travail with a child, she's travailing in birth. And so I was going to speak from there as "Birth Pains" (the subject), saying that the world is in birth pains now. The old has to be done away with so the new can be born; just like a--a seed has to rot away in order to give new life. And how the pains, birth pains, struck the world in World War I. She had a terrific pain, because they had poison gas and so forth that almost could destroy the world. And in World War II she struck another harder pain; they had blockbusters and also an atomic bomb. She cannot stand another labor pain. With these missiles and things today, one more war will throw her out into space, for she will now be delivered, and there'll be a new earth. The Bible said there will be.
Under every prophet's message Israel got a birth pain, because that these prophets would come on the scene after the theologians and clergymen would have the church all in a organization form. And when them prophets come on the scene with THUS SAITH THE LORD, they shook them churches and she had a birth pain. Finally she had birth pains plumb on up until she delivered a Son of the Gospel which was the Word Itself made flesh.
So the church really is in birth pains tonight again for the deliverance of the Son--Son of God to come again. All of our theologians, all of our systems, all of our denominations has rotted right out from under us. So we are in birth pains. And a Message from God always throws the church in heavier pains. But after while she's going to be delivered of a bride that'll bring forth Jesus Christ to His Bride.
And then, thinking this man had disagreed with me so much, when I raised up to speak this message, I turned in my Bible to find the page, and my wife had just given me a new Bible for Christmas. My old Bible was about fifteen years old, and the thing was just about tore to pieces. The pages, every time I'd open it up, would fly out of it and--but I knowed just where to find every Scripture. So I'd studied close in that Bible, and I'd just picked up the new one because the other one looked so ragged to go to church with.
And when I started to turn over in St. John where the Scripture was found, I started to read the 16th chapter, and the verse that I was looking for wasn't there. So I thought, "Strange." I turned back again; still it wasn't there. And Brother Jack Moore from Shreveport, Louisiana, a bosom friend of mine, he was setting there. I said, "Brother Jack, isn't that found in St. John 16?"
He said, "Yes."
And this Catholic priest got up out of his seat, from about a hundred clergymen setting on the platform, walked over close to me, with all of his robes and gowns and crosses and so forth, and got right up close to me; and he said, "My son, be steady. God is fixing to move."
And I thought, "A Catholic bishop telling me that."
He said, "Read it out of my Book."
And I read the Scripture out of his Book, and took my text and went on, preached my sermon.
Afterwards, when I got through, he got up after I was gone and said, "There's one thing that has to happen. After that, the church has to get out of the mess that it's in, or we have to get out of the mess the church is in." So one or the other.
And I was on my road home (back down to Tucson) that evening, and the kids was crying for a sandwich, and I stopped to get a sandwich at a little stand. And my wife said, "Bill, I never was so nervous in all my life to see you standing up there fumbling through that Bible." Said, "Didn't it make you nervous?"
I said, "Nope." I said, "I knowed it was in there somewhere; they just didn't have the page in. It's a misprint."
And she said, "To think that I got you that Bible. It looked like every eye in there was right upon me."
And I said, "Well, you couldn't help that. That was a misprint in the Bible." I said, "They just never put the page in."
Well, I got down and looked at it again. Just perfectly as it could be, but the 16th chapter, ends portion--the portion of it just about three inches from the bottom, over at the 17th chapter, on the other side does the same thing; and being a new Bible, those two pages had perfectly stuck together, and I was reading from the 17th chapter in the stead of the 16th.
"Well," I said, "that's all fine. It's for some cause."
6-5   And just as plain as you could hear any voice, a Voice come to me and said, "He entered into Nazareth to where He was brought up at and went into the synagogue as it was His custom. And the priest gave Him the Scriptures to read, and He read Isaiah 61. And when He had read the Scriptures, He set down, handed the priest back the Bible, the Book, and set down. And all the eyes of the congregation was upon Him, and precious words proceeded from His mouth and He said, 'This day this Scripture is fulfilled.'"
"This day this Scripture is fulfilled." How accurate is the Scripture. If you'll notice this, in Isaiah 61:1-2 is where our Lord was reading from: Isaiah 61:1-2. But in the middle of the second verse of Isaiah 61, He stopped where it said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me to preach the acceptable year." Then He stopped. Why? The other part, to bring judgment, it didn't apply to His first coming, but His second coming. See, it didn't apply there; how the Scriptures never make a mistake. They're always perfect. Jesus stopped just where the Scripture stopped, 'cause that was exactly what was to be vindicated in His day.
(…)
THIS DAY THIS SCRIPTURE.   JEFF. IN   65-0219
17-1   How I could stop here and tell you what that old priest told me. He said, "Son, you never finished that message."
I said, "Keep still."
He said, "You mean them Pentecostals don't see that?"
I said, "No."
He said, "I see it." And a Catholic priest too. He said, "Why didn't you go on?"
I said, "Keep still."
He said, "Glory to God, I see it."
And about that time the Holy Ghost fell on his sister setting out there in the meeting, and she raised up speaking in unknown tongues and gave the interpretation of the very thing that the priest and I were talking about on the platform. The whole church, the whole place went into a roar. Carried on over into Oral Robert's convention last week, or week before last, and was the talk of the convention. How that that priest setting under... The Holy Spirit revealed out there through a woman (his sister, I believe it was) of what was taking place up there on the platform and revealed that thing that we were hiding.
The hour that we're living, this day this Scripture is fulfilled. This day the evening lights have come, and we fail to see it.

8.  Trinity of Satan.

RISING OF THE SUN.   JEFF. IN   65-0418M
9-2   Notice now, as the gloom covered the earth and the seeds could not live without the s-u-n to rise; and gloom had covered the earth, and now, the S-o-n was risen and all gloom was vanished by this Light, as It spread across a--the nations to the people that "He is not here, but He has risen." What a--what a statement.
He had proved His Word; He had proved it be--to be true, for He had now conquered death, hell, and the grave, the trinity of the devil: death, hell, and the grave. For Satan is the author of death; he is the possessor of hell and also the grave. And that was the trinity of Satan, being caused by one thing, that was death--death you go with the grave and being a sinner you go to hell. All the very... One thing, the trinity of Satan, which was death that had held man in captivity all these years, but now, the true trinity of God being One, manifested in Christ, Who was Life, and had broke the Seals and conquered the enemy and rose up the one, true, and living God. "I am He that was dead, and I'm alive forevermore and have the keys of death and hell."
God in One, made man and dwelled among us, and conquered every enemy, and had proved that the trinity of Satan was conquered, and that the trinity of God was made known, 'cause only God alone had power to bring life back again. He was that Immanuel. God had been manifested in the flesh.
No wonder He could claim there, Matthew the 27th chapter, "All powers in heaven and earth is given into My hands. I send you to be My witnesses to all the world." He had conquered both death, hell, and the grave. Not only did He do that and come out triumph with all the power in heavens and the earth, all that was the Father, all that was the Holy Ghost, and all that there ever was, was in Him. "All powers in heaven and in earth is given unto Me." Everything else is powerless; He had conquered it.

9.  Generation ends each day.

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND.   JEFF. IN   65-0418E
15   Now, there's not going to be a great millions and multitudes come out of a generation and march in. There--there can't be. Now, remember, each day ends a generation, each day. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man, wherein eight souls was saved by water." But each day ends a forty year period for somebody, for some. See? And each day so many is sealed away in the Kingdom. One day the last day will arrive.

10.  Pollution in the church.  [Balaam, permissive will, Doctrine]  [Watch morals among your women.]

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND.   JEFF. IN   65-0418E
167   Balaam had a gift of faith and could've used it to the perfect original Word of God. Many men on the field today with gifts of healing could do the same thing. Many men out here, people speaking in tongues, people prophesying, a gift--could use it for the Kingdom of God, but they don't do it; they take... And God blesses them anyhow, gets the permissive will. But for popularity, and pleasures, personal gain, sold their birthrights as Esau did (See?), sold out to a organization, sold out like Balaam did. See? And so many are doing today the same thing. We know that's right. They sell out their birthright. Women professing the Holy Ghost, wearing shorts, men permitting them in the pulpit, bobbed-haired women in the pulpit, paint on their face, with religious gowns on, it's the biggest stumbling block the church has ever had.
If you want to know in political powers what time it is in the Kingdom age, see where the Jews are. Watch how the Jews are, because they are a nation. If you want to know where the nations are standing, watch the Jews. If you want to know where the church is standing, watch the women. Watch the morals among the women, 'cause she's a representation of the church. When you see the pollution amongst the women, you find a pollution in the church. What she become a painted-up Jezebel, just exactly what the church has become. See? Now, that's the truth and you know that. See? If you want to know where the church is, watch the morals among your women, 'cause she is--the church is a woman. If you want to know of the national status, watch the Jews.
Notice, as God said to Balaam, after he had heard the true cut decision Word, "Don't go"... Yes, then He told him after He seen it in his heart, what it was to do, He give him His permissive will, so He said, "Go."
And you can do the same thing. If you don't want to walk in the truth... You can go to have--have to have a great ministry. Certainly you can. But you're taking His permissive will; you're walking over His Word. He'll prosper you (certainly); the--just like He did Balaam. He was a success, but he couldn't curse that people. He couldn't do it, 'cause every time he started to curse, he blessed. See, he couldn't do it. But when he come to being prosperous in his achievement, he taught those people, through Balak, to commit adultery. He brought in the camp of Israel and married them off. He said, "Why, we're all one. Why, you worship the same God. We got a prophet up here; you got a prophet down there. And we have the same sacrifice, the same Jehovah as our fathers. Now, why not you all just come and associate with us." The Bible said, "Don't join yourself up amongst unbelievers. Don't yoke up with them at all." If they don't believe it, stay away from them. See? "Come out, be separate," saith the Lord, "and I'll receive you. (See?) Touch not their unclean things." That's right. Their filth against the Word and things like that, stay away from it; don't listen to it.
And here we find out that Balaam went down there and he begin to teach the people, and he had an error. And he--he run in the way of Balaam, how that he did, and taught Balak, and the children of Israel committed adultery, and a plague struck the nation of Israel, the people, and thousands of them died in one day. And while they were all there before the altar of God praying, here come an Israelite man with a Midianite woman, a denominational woman, and went into the tent. And the priest's son walked over there and took a javelin and killed them both. And that stayed God's wrath. You know that's the Scripture. Is that right? See?
172   But what happened? Balaam. He succeeded in weakening Israel. What did he do? He weakened their camp. God let him go and weaken their camp, and it polluted the whole camp. And when some doctrine starts that's not the Bible truth, it pollutes the whole camp. Somebody raise up with a different idea, like Korah, and say, "Well, this, that, and the other. And I got a different idea," it pollutes the whole camp. And that's what's done the whole church camp today. That's right.
Teaching, as he did, weakening the whole camp for Kadesh Barnea, the Word showdown... When they got to Kadesh Barnea, then in the weakening of the camp, they come back, said... Went right... After... Remember, they'd eat Angels' food; they had the Word of God every night made manifest, and they eat the food. They drink from the rock. They did all--seen the miracles; they watched Moses and seen his word, seen his prophesies, everything. And then finally when they listened to this false teacher come in among them and teach wrong, he weakened the camp, and prospered by it. He might've built a million dollar buildings; he might've had great denominations; he might've added thousands times thousands, and done great works, and mighty works, and was a prophet. That's all right, but as long as it's not with the Word of God, you'd better stay away from it. God don't change His mind. Stay right with His Word, 'cause that's what's going to come out in the end: the Word, word by word. "Whosoever shall take one word away from It or add one word to It..." It's got to stay that Word.

11.  Plagues, a time people will go completely insane.  [Radio & Television]  [Male & female]  [Man born of Spirit]

KNOWETH IT NOT.   JEFF. IN   65-0815
21-7   Now, look here. Therefore the man that's borned of the Spirit of God... See, here is the outside flesh. Now, I speak in a mixed audience, but I speak as your--as your pastor, as your brother. Here's the flesh; it's weak. It's bound to. A little lady walks down the street and some young man just in his young age, when he's seventeen, eighteen, twenty years old, twenty-five, thirty, walks around in there; and this young lady comes twisting every form of body, walking with a pair of high-heeled shoes on, her dress stuck all out in front and back, and dresses that high above her knees, or a pair of shorts on... You know the Bible said she'd act like that? You know the Bible said that's the way she'd act, how she'd be so filthy.
Did you read this here--this month's "Reader's Digest" that men and women of this day, little girls from twenty or twenty-five years old is in menopause; that you go through the change of life in the middle-age of life, according to science, between twenty and twenty-five. It used to be around thirty or thirty-five in my age; in my mother's age, a woman never struck menopause till she was forty or forty-five. What is it? It's through science, and the food, the hybrids that's perverted the whole human body till we become a bunch of--of a mass of corruption. Well, if the physical being is corrupted, isn't the brain cell in that physical being?
Now, watch the spirit following it. There'll come a time in the Name of the Lord, that people will go completely insane. The Bible said so. They'll scream and holler: great hideous things in their imaginary mind... The radios and things, or television programs are producing it. There'll be such things as ants raise up on the earth that'll be as high as fourteen trees. There'll be... A bird will fly across the earth with wings four or five miles across, and people seeing them; they'll scream and holler and cry for mercy; but it'll be the plague. Wait till I preach on those plagues opening up.
Watch what Moses done under the physical being, not the Spirit. When He said, "Moses..." God said to Moses, "Go out there," (to His prophet), "pick up a hand full of dust; throw it up in the air and say, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, fleas will come upon the earth.'" There was no fleas. The first thing you know they begin to see something crawl on a bush. Looked over; there's something else. And after while they were so deep, you couldn't wade through them. Where did they come from? God is the Creator. He can do what He will. He's sovereign. He can make a bird that will reach his wings from one side of the earth to the other.
He said, "Let there come flies, and clothed upon all the earth. There wasn't a fly in the land. First thing you know, an old blowfly began to fly around. First thing there's eight, or ten, twelve. First thing you know, you couldn't walk through them. God the Creator keeps His Word.
22-5   Then he stretched forth his rod at the command of God and said, "Let frogs come up and cover the earth." And the frogs come till they heaped them up in piles, and stink was everywhere, maybe forty or fifty feet high of frogs. They were in the cupboard of--of Pharaoh. They were in the... Turn down the sheets and there'd be five hundred frogs under the sheet, under the bed, in the rugs. Everywhere they went was frogs, frogs, frogs. Where did they come from? God the Creator is sovereign. What He says, He will do.
And He said there would be hideous sights upon the earth: locusts with hair like women, long hair to haunt them women that cut their hair. Teeth like lions, stingers in their tails like scorpions... They will torment men months.
Just wait till we get in to open those plagues and seals and them seven thunders. Watch what takes place. Oh, brother, you better get to Goshen while there's time to get to Goshen. Don't pay any attention to this outside.
Looky here, here's a little lady twist herself down the street. Here's a young fellow; his eyes catches it; he's a member of the church; he's a Pentecostal; he's whatever he is; but the first thing you know there's no hold post in there.
She'll say, "Hello." He's got curly hair and kind of nice-looking, straight shouldered young man, maybe tried to live right. She starts walking up to him. Even a preacher... The first thing you know... What is it? This out here, the flesh desire, and the spirit down here, yet anointed, saying, "Don't do it, don't do it." But what will it do? It'll move right around, there the hold; there he goes. First thing you know he's trying to make a date with her. He's guilty of committing adultery whether he touches her or not. But a genuine borned again son of God... Amen.
23-5   You can't do it yourself. It's totally impossible for a--a red-blooded male to walk before a female like that without something taking place. But when there is something on the inside, that little borned again something there... Though that man might've shouted, spoke in tongues, jumped, danced, everything else, anointed with the Spirit, done all the signs and wonders that God said in there, by His Spirit...
Jesus said, "Many will come to Me in that day and say, 'Lord have not I prophesied Your Name? Haven't I cast out devils in Your Name? Have not I...'" He said, "Depart from Me, you that work iniquity." What is iniquity? Something that you know to do, and don't do it. "Depart from Me, you that work iniquity, I didn't even know you."
But down on the inside of that man, if that little tie-post had been there, that Seed of God that was predestinated before the foundation of the world, I don't care what takes place; it holds him; it's there to stay.

12.  Deuteronomy means “two laws”.  [Law of death and law of Life.]

GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE WORSHIP.   JEFF. IN   65-0220
21   Now, we took this text out of Deuteronomy. It's a Greek word, which has a compound meanings, or it means "two laws." The Greek word "Deuteronomy" means "two different laws." And that's just what God has: two different laws. And one of them is a law of death, and the other one is a law of Life. God has two laws. To follow Him, and serve Him, and worship Him is Life; to reject it is death. There's two laws in God.
Now, one of those laws was made--recognized to the world at Mount Sinai. God gave the law to Moses and Israel. Not that the law can help them, but the law only pointed out to them that they were sinners. Until that time they didn't know what sin was, till they had a law. There cannot be a law without a penalty. A law's not a law without penalty. So therefore, the transgression of the law is sin, and the wages of sin is death. So therefore, until God made them a law, there was no transgression reckoned to them. If there's no law here that says you can't run over twenty miles an hour, then you can run over twenty miles an hour. But when there's a law says you can't do it, then there's a law and a penalty behind it.
Now, death was--the law of death was the commandments given on Mount Sinai which told man that he was a sinner, and to transgress God's law he died. But there's no salvation in the law. The... It was only a policeman that could put you in jail; it had nothing to bring you out with. But then He gave another law. That was at Mount Calvary, where sin was reckoned in Jesus Christ. And there the penalty was paid, and not with--without law, but by grace you are saved by the grace of God through predestination of God's foreknowledge of your being.
Now, we see these two laws, Deuteronomy, speaking of two laws. There was two laws; one was the law of death and the other one, the law of Life.
25   There was also two covenants give to the people. We're going to speak of them in the morning. One of them was given to Adam on condition: "If you do this and don't do that..." But that law was broken. Adam and Eve broke that in the garden of Eden. Then God made the second covenant, and give that to Abraham; and that law was unconditional. "It isn't what you've done or what you will do;" He said, "I've already done it." That's grace; that's the law of Life. God did that for Abraham and his seed after him. That's all of Abraham's seed, as the Bible said, "All Israel will be saved." But that don't mean Jews, as Paul said, "That Israel which is inward or Israel outward..." Outward, as we spoke of the other night, it was Isaac's children by sex. But the law of God was through Christ, which was Abraham's Royal Seed, that by grace all Israel is saved. That's all that's in Christ is saved, all--God's second covenant. But all these things foreshadowed Christ.

13.  Marriage and Divorce taught.  [February 21, 1965]

FIVE IDENTIFICATIONS.   JEFF. IN   60-0911E
54   ... precious stones... pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of the abomination of the filthiness of her fornications…(her doctrines, what she was giving out),.. kings of the earth drinking it.
Anybody could believe that could believe Brother Jagger's vitamin pills, that you can sprinkle water on a woman that's been married to a man for thirty years and had a bunch of children, and turn her back to a virgin and send her to her bridal bed that night with her husband. Anybody could believe that holy water will do that, can believe anything. That's right. But the kings of the earth commit such things as that. It's so they can live and have a peaceful feeling. Down in your heart you know you're rotten. Take the Blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse you.

WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR.   TUCSON, AZ   63-1216
65   Now, we find out that the forecast foretells future events before they happen. Strange as it seems, that almighty God foretold and took the welfare of the Baby, Jesus, and revealed it by a dream, what to do. Now, that God in this secondarily way, to His own Son, revealed it to Joseph by a dream. The Bible said He did. Yes, sir. Now, Joseph was a good man; he was the son of David, and he was espoused to Mary.
I'd like to pass this on before we go further. Espousing in the east was the same as marriage: is betrothal. As soon as they--as they were espoused, they were married. When that sacred vow between them was taken, read Deuteronomy 22:23, and you'll find out that when this woman and man agreed to be married (yet they did not take the vows for months later), if they even broke that vow, they were guilty of adultery. That's right. When they was espoused, they were just the same as marriage. The law had not give them rights to live together as husband and wife yet, but before God, when they promised one another, their words were sealed in God's Kingdom. And to break that was just committing adultery. And now, Joseph was espoused to Mary. If minister brothers, if you'd study that right good, it'd clear you up on this marriage and divorce case that's so--so hard and different amongst the people today. Now, notice Joseph, her husband, being a just man... See? Now, we find out that this could not be broken.

THIRD EXODUS.   JEFF. IN   63-0630M
4-5   So maybe before we leave--we got to go back now, in about thirty days, you know, back to Arizona. And so if... Before I leave, the Lord willing, I would like to take this Scripture, and don't tape it. If you do, don't sell the tape--don't let it get out. I want to explain the real truth of marriage and divorce. It's a question and this is the last hours, that when all the mysteries of God should be finished.
And yesterday, coming up across the mountains about daylight, the Holy Spirit seemed to say to me, "Tape that and lay it away."
I don't know why; but the real truth of marriage and divorce... Some of them says, "People can marry if they can swear they was in adultery," and others says, "Well, if they mistreat one another and--and they can't live together, it's better to live on earth in peace, than live in hell on earth," and all those different questions, and some marry them just any old way. And some wants to sprinkle holy water on them, turn them back and say they never was married, and bless them, and turn them over to the church again. There's all kinds of confusion. But if there's that much confusion, there's a truth somewhere.
I believe, and say this with reverence: I believe the Lord has revealed it to me, and I--the truth. And if it would get amongst the churches, it'd tear the thing to pieces, which maybe it ought to be. But it's... I'd rather just let the pastors, just let the pastors of the churches get the tape, then let them play it and then they can lead from there on. But I'd like to just tape that to show the real truth of it.
I believe this is the hour when these mysteries are to be finished, completed. They've been struck on as we've said down through the ages of the tapes as we brought, those Seven Seals and Seven Church Ages, and we're now facing the time for the Seven Trumpets and then the Vials. And maybe we could put a two weeks meeting and put both of them together.
I'd like to get it taped. And then besides that I'm trying now to get it proofread and make books out of it of a Church Ages, seven books of the Church Ages, seven tapes, and make it in such we can get it done just as cheap as we possibly can, so everybody can get it.
5-5   Then if the Lord tarries, and I move on, you'll see that the things that I've said in the Name of the Lord will be--come to pass just as it was said. Never has failed yet, and some of it has to happen later.
And I--I trust that the Lord will let us do that right away. We'll notify the people, a time, because there's many likes to come and hear those things, and I--and I appreciate that.
If nobody believed it or listened to it, what good would it do me to stand here and say anything about it? See? It'd be like casting bread upon the waters (See?); it'd be like... If no one was going to believe it, then it'd be like casting pearls before swine. But there's thousands times thousands that believe that (See?), and they hold onto every word; and we'd like to get as many in as possible when we--when we get ready to have these services and for the glory of the Lord. And we trust that God will give it to us, and I don't want to have that, until I'm Divinely inspired to do it.
God has a time for everything. See? You mustn't go ahead of it. If you cut your wheat before--you put the combine in there before it's ripe, you'll lose the bigger part of your wheat. See? So when the sickle's ready to be thrust in, God will thrust it in. Then we'll go to reaping.
But I just--when I feel pressed like that, I thought I'd shake out of it in a little while. All day yesterday, I couldn't get it off my mind; all night last night. Went to bed around twelve o'clock, had about three hours sleep the night before, and last night I couldn't sleep, still. Something said, "Tape that marriage and divorce." See?
The Lord willing, if that keeps on my heart and the Lord shows me some more about it, well then, I'll--I--I may tape that. See?
But remember, only for ministers. You come, but--and listen, but the tape itself, let... See, 'cause it gets out amongst the congregations, and some's this way and some that way, and they draw their own opinion. And I want minister brothers to have this in their own study, and then let them go from there, 'cause they're the ones that's responsible; they're the ones.
6-4   Might go down and play it to the judge, some of these squires, and see what the Lord said about this marriage and divorce. It's more sacred than people think it is. And it'll blend right in with the serpents seed,  just the same thing, just moving right on; that's them mysteries.
You remember, in the days of the seventh angel, all the mysteries of God should be finished, those unknown things that the Lord would wind up.

[Two schools of thought.]
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0221M
11-3   Now, if that be so, we have two schools of thought on marriage and divorce. And that is, one of them says that a man can only be married once unless his wife is dead. And that's one of the questions. But you go to following that, you go overboard. And then the next says, "Oh, if the wife or the husband (either one) has committed adultery, either one of them can be put away and married again." You find yourself overboard with that.
So see, it's neither southeast or northeast; we want directly east. You run out of Scripture when you go this way. You run out of Scripture when you go that way. We want to know where Scripture meets Scripture and know what's the truth of it. Each takes a different way and fail to bring up the correct answer, but there still must be an answer.
It's just like today; there is two great schools of doctrine in the church: one of them is Calvinism; the other one is Armin--Arminianism. One of them is legalist, and the other one's grace. And we come to find out that the people who believe in grace (the Calvinists), they say, "Bless God, it don't hurt me to smoke; it don't hurt me to drink. I can do these things; I've got eternal security." Then we find the other side (on the legalists) said, "Oh, I would like to bawl him out; I'd like to show him a piece of my mind, but I'm a Christian; I have to keep still."
See, you find yourself on two different roads, and neither one of them is right. Now, that's hard to say that, but it is the truth. We find ourselves on two different roads: one going one way; one, another. Now, let's see what truth is.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0221M
32-3   Now, the world is to be repopulated, not by the original creation of God like in the beginning, not by the original creation, but by sex desire. Now, that takes care of the beginning, doesn't it? In the beginning there's only one man and one woman, one male, one female. But when she crossed that line and brought this sin, now the world's to be repopulated again by sex; not by creation; by sex. See where the woman's at now? Now, but that's the way the world's populated today, through women.
That's the reason Jesus had to come through the woman to bring it back to its original beginning again, without sex desire. He's virgin born. But, hallelujah. there will come a time where it won't be no more sex, but God shall call His children from the dust of the earth, back like they was in the original. Not through any woman, but through the molding of the clay and the cosmic lights and the petroleum; He'll create again like He did Adam at the first time.
Jesus made this possible by God making Himself a man and come into the world so He could die, through this--this woman. Now, is testing time by sin.
Now, you see, then after the beginning it was--something else was introduced. Now, this is going to shock you. (Are you tired? Just set still just a little longer.) Then when the double covenant was made by man and woman through sex (another covenant altogether; not the original covenant, but another covenant), now what's introduced? Polygamy in all. Then after the beginning, polygamy was introduced both in man and in beast, after the beginning, the fall.
God now secondarily sets a new nature again by sex. God created the first without sex. Do you believe that? Now, it's another covenant with nature; He sets it in another order by sex. Second covenant: one male, many females; one buck deer, a whole harem of does (That right?); one bull a whole herd of cattle, cows; one rooster, a yard full of hens (That right?); one David, after His own heart, with five hundred wives, with a hundred children born to him in one year of different women: a man after God's own heart; one Solomon with a thousand wives. But notice now, it wasn't so at the beginning. But now, it's after the beginning. The woman's done this, then she just becomes what she is now. See?
33-5   David, the king which represented Christ... (Hold that in your mind.) David represented Christ. You believe that? Christ is setting--going to set on his throne. And this David, a man after God's own heart, had five hundred wives. See what I mean? David with his five hundred wives, Solomon with his thousand; and Solomon is the son of David in the natural, which represents Jesus Christ, the Son of David in the spiritual. But that's natural sex life; this is going to be spiritual created why, created. That's the way it was at the beginning, but not now in this life we live in now.
Notice. (Don't fail this now; take it all down to your hearts.) But not one of those women could even have one more husband. He's the original creation, not her. Not one of those women could have one more husband, but that one husband could have a thousand wives. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's the Bible.
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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0221M
36-1   Now, let us, in view of these vindicated truths of God, search a little further, if you want to. All right.
Now, this may hurt just a little bit till we get down to the bottom of it. I'm just going to show you truth of it.
There is no minister that can marry a widow. Did you know that? You want to read that? All right, you get in Leviticles--Leviticus 21:7 and Ezekiel 44:22 and it will show you that the priesthood was not to marry a woman that's been touched by man. This type is of the virgin Bride of Jesus Christ, because they handled the fire of God, the priests did, Aaron's sons. (We haven't got time to read it all and get out by noon. We got twenty minutes yet.) And them's Aaron's sons that handled the--the--the fire of God. So they could not marry a woman that had been touched by another man. The unchanging God said so. They could not marry another woman (and woman had been touched by a man), showing in type here, if you want to see it, that the church of the living God is purely, unadulterated the Word of God and not a denomination that's been handled by man.
36-4   Note, let's read this here. I want to get this to you. Matthew 5, Jesus spoke here of something that's really of a vital importance. We want to see it. Matthew 5. I wrote on my--I marked out some of the things I was going to say just to the men, so had quite a little time saying it just before our sisters. But I want to--to go out here now before... Now, sister, I want to put you into the place where God's Word promised you, and you see then--you stay in that place too.
Matthew 5:32. I want you to notice here, to support this same idea of one and many. Matthew 30... I think it's Matthew 5:32--31 to begin with.
It has been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: (Now, Jesus speaking, the One said, "From the beginning." Now, watch.)
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving... the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery:... (See?)... whosoever shall put away his wife, saving... the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery:... (Why? She'll marry again.)... and whosoever... marries her that is divorced committed adultery.
37-1   See, she's got a living husband, so no man can marry her. Care what she does and who she is, she's got a living husband. There's no grounds for her at all. But it's not for him: causes her, not him. Get it? You have to make the Word run in continuity. See? Nothing saying he couldn't, but she can't. See? 'Causes her, not him. That's just exactly what the Bible says. "Causes her..." It is not stated against him to remarry, but her. Why?
Christ in the type. Notice, it is stated that he cannot remarry, only a virgin. He can remarry; he can marry--he can remarry again if it's a virgin; but he can't marry somebody's else's wife. No, indeedy. And if he does marry a divorced woman, he is living in adultery; I don't care who he is. The Bible said, "Whosoever marries her that is put away, liveth in adultery." There you are, not no divorcee.
See that original back yonder from the beginning now? Remarrying... Now notice, he can, but she can't. Like David, like Solomon, like the continuity of the whole Bible. Now, same as David and the rest of them...
37-4   Now, you notice in I Corinthians 7:10, notice, Paul commands the wife that is--that divorces her husband to remain single or be reconciled, not to remarry. She must remain single or to be reconciled back to her husband. She cannot remarry; she must remain single. But notice, he never said about the man. See, you can't make the Word lie. From the beginning, the sex law by polygamy.
Now, the Word of God runs true with nature of God, runs in continuity. See how there is one school went east and the other one went west on it? You got to come back to the truth to find out what it is. It's always been that way. That's the regular covenant with God from the beginning.
First, before the beginning, from the beginning, there's just one and one. After the sin came in, then there was one man and a bunch of women. Run that way in nature, every animal; and human beings in natural flesh is animal. We are mammal. We know that, all of us. See? And it's all God's nature in continuity.
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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0221M
44-1   Now, notice that, that how it is. But you see, woman, you are--you are a jewel if you want to be a jewel, but the desire has to be by you. And you see why the marriage and divorce was, that Jesus pointed back yonder? It was because your kind was the cause of all sin. That's the reason polygamy and divorce and things was introduced. At the beginning it never was so and it won't be so in the world over yonder.

14.  Message is Word of God.  [Message and messenger is one.]

EASTER SEAL.   PHOENIX, AZ   65-0410
29-6   As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. And as it was in the days of Lot, so will it be in the hours that the Son of man will be revealed on earth, not Son of God no more, Son of man come back as the prophetic message for the last day, when that eagle will be flying, not the lion, not the ox in the sacrifice age.
See, every time a religious power went forth to meet the challenge of the political power of the world... When the lion raised up the religious power, it went to meet the Roman power. And then when it come the sacrifice hour, the ox went, because he's a sacrifice beast to the Lord. Then come the reformers down through the church ages, come the face of a man. And them reformers have been since: Luther, Wesley, oh, Calvin and on down--down Pentecostal age. But in the last message that went forth, there came a flying eagle. It's eagle time, reveal time, the Word of God made manifest, the Word of God proved.
Oh, children, walk into this baptism of the Holy Spirit. Come in and believe it with all your heart. God will fill you.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
66   We find out that when a man comes, sent from God, ordained of God with the true THUS SAITH THE LORD, the message and the messenger are one and the same. Because he is sent to represent THUS SAITH THE LORD, Word by Word, so he and his message is the same.
A denominational man under denominational auspices, he and the church is the "one." A theologian under theology made by some denomination, he and his message are one: church of theology, a theologian. It's correctly.
Then when a man comes with THIS SAITH THE LORD, he and the Message is one. And when Elijah come with THUS SAITH THE LORD, he and his message became one. Just as Jesus, when He come, He was the Word, Saint John 1. So the Word of God and the messenger of the age was the selfsame thing all the time. That's right.

POWER OF TRANSFORMATION.   PRESCOTT, AZ   65-1031M
52   Now, that's what we are here for. That's my message, has been all along, is the Word of God. We must hold to That regardless of what other things take place. Always stay with that Word. Always to--check out your motives and objectives, if it is according to the Word of God. If it isn't, leave it alone. See? But if it's with the Word of God, and lines up with the Word of God, then that, you hold to that.

TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1127B
135   Now, He reveals these things by His foreknowledge to those who He has ordained to these things; otherwise they don't see it. Stand right there looking right at it and can't see it.
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.
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.
That's--was in Noah's time. When Noah and his group...?... 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.

15.  Vision of return to Africa.

RISING OF THE SUN.   JEFF. IN   65-0418M
51-4   You all know where I'm going, don't you? Africa. I've called for a long time, for years I've tried to get back. Now, a vision, the Spirit of the Lord has prepared the way. They said when those poor natives heard it, that I didn't come the last time when--there, they laid on the ground day and night and moaned and cried, saying, "Lord, what have we done?"--thousands of them. Those people don't even believe they got a soul. See? And they cried, and they moaned, and they cried, "Don't you send no word ahead. Please don't." See? If that visa would happen to go through there and get amongst of them ministers, they'd stop me right there. I have to go in as a hunter.
I'm going up to the queen that brought seventeen trainloads down and come down to the meeting. I get to go up and hunt on her territory. And I go in; my passport and everything calls for a hunter, not a religious service.
Then there's going to be one brother meet me, say, "Why don't you have a little meeting for us?" The stadiums are already rented; they don't even know it. See? Oh, glory. Pray that the will of God will not be hindered, that my soul that's cried for Africa since I've left, may I be able to return again and then bring you a message of a great meeting.
52-1   I probably won't see you no more from today until I return back. We're going in just a few days now, the 10th of May. Will you pray for me? Remember, you don't know what troubles are till you hit there: witch doctors on every side and devils; and don't think they don't know what to do. See? And you better know what you're talking about, when you stand before them. "But I know in Whom I have believed, and I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day."

16.  Unwritten law of choosing.

CHOOSING OF A BRIDE.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0429E
5-4   Now, choosing a bride... In many things of life we are given a choice. The way of life itself is a choice. We have a right to make our own way, choose our own way that we want to live. Education is a choice. We can choose whether we are going to be educated, or whether we are not going to be educated. That's a choice that we have. Right and wrong is a choice. Every man, every woman, boy, and girl has to choose whether they are going to try to live right or not live right. It's a choice. Choice is a great thing.
Your eternal destination is a choice, and maybe tonight some of you will make that--that choice of where you'll spend eternity, before this service ends tonight. There'll be one time that... If you turn God down many times, there'll be one time you'll turn Him down the last time. There is a line between mercy and judgment, and it's a dangerous thing for a man or a woman, boy or girl, to step across that line, for there's no return when you step across that deadline. So tonight it might be the time that many will make their--their decision where they will spend the endless eternity.
There's another choice that we have in life. That's a life's companion. A young man or a young woman, stepping out on life has a--has been given a right to make a choice. The young man chooses, the young woman has a right to accept or reject it, but it's still a choice on both sides; both man and woman, they have a right to choice.
Also you have a choice as a Christian. You have a choice of the church here in America (so far) that you can go to. That's your own American privilege to choose any church that you want to belong to. That's a choice. You don't have to go to any of them if you don't want to, but if you want to change from the Methodist to the Baptist, or the Catholic to a Protestant, or so forth, there's nobody can tell you or make you come to any certain church. That's our--that's our freedom. That's what our democracy is that every man can choose for himself freedom of religion, and that's a great thing. God help us to keep it as long as we can.
6-4   You have also a choice whether... When you choose this church, you can choose whether you, in this church whether you choose a church that will guide you to your eternal destination. You can choose a church that has a certain creed, that you might think that creed's just what you want; or the other church has their creed. And then there is the Word of God you have a choice of. You have to make your choice. There's an unwritten law among us of choosing.

17.  Judgment prophecy spoken for Los Angeles.  [Earthquake]
     [Prophecy of ocean weeping its way into the Salton Sea.]

WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS?   PHOENIX, AZ   64-1227
47   We find ourselves at this Christmas, just about like they did the first Christmas though. The world's just about to fall apart, as I preached on once somewhere, about a Christmas message, "The World Falling Apart." And the world again is just about to come to pieces. Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict before the coming of the Lord Jesus, that God will sink that place. I believe that Hollywood, and Los Angeles, and them filthy places over there, that God Almighty will sink them. They'll go beneath the bottom of the sea. And it's so much sin (You see?), it's the barrier.
Civilization has traveled with the sun, from... And it started in the east going west. And now it's at the west coast. If it goes any further, it'll be back east again. So that's the barrier. And sin has traveled with civilization, and it becomes the cesspool of all ages. Things they do that--that human beings in any other age wouldn't have thought of such a thing. Women has throwed theirself to such a filth, till no woman in any age would've ever thought of such a thing as we do today. And then still call ourselves Christians. What a disgrace.

[Prophecy]
CHOOSING OF A BRIDE.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0429E
35-3   That's solemn warning. We don't know what time. And you don't know what time that this city one day is going to be laying out here in the bottom of this ocean.
"O, Capernaum," said Jesus, "thou who exalted into heaven will be brought down into hell, for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah, it'd have been standing till this day." And Sodom and Gomorrah lays at the bottom of the Dead Sea, and Capernaum's in the bottom of the sea.
Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who's exalted yourself into heaven and sent all the dirty filthy things of fashions and things, till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, with your fine churches and steeples, and so forth the way you do; remember, one day you'll be laying in the bottom of this sea. You're great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you. How much longer He'll hold this sandbar hanging over that, when that ocean out yonder a mile deep will slide in there plumb back to the Salton Sea. It'll be worse than the last day of Pompeii. Repent, Los Angeles. Repent the rest of you and turn to God. The hour of His wrath is upon the earth. Flee while there's time to flee and come into Christ." Let us pray.
35-6   Dear God, when in my spirit is shaking, my heart is dropping teardrops of warning, grant, O God, that men and women will not think of what I've said as a joke, and the church people will not think of it as something that was prejudice or against them. May they see, Lord, it's in love. Thou barest me record, Almighty God, that up and down this coast I went, year after year, proclaiming Your Word. Bear me record, O God, if it would happen tonight, I've told the truth. Thou knowest this vision of the Bride is the truth. I've took Your Name by it, Lord, and said it was, THUS SAITH THE LORD, and I feel that I'm conscious, Lord, of what I'm doing.
So I pray Thee, Lord, in Jesus' Name, let people shake themselves tonight and flee from the wrath that is to come, for the--Ichabod is wrote over the doors and over the nation. A black check mark is come across it; the Spirit of God is grieved away from it; and they're weighed in the balances and found wanting. The feast of King Nebuchadnezzar has repeated again with drunken parties and half-dressed women calling themselves Christians.
O God of heaven, have mercy upon a sinful world and a sinful people, Lord, as we are tonight. God, I'm trying to stand in the breach and ask for Divine mercy that You'll speak into this crowd tonight and call Your Bride to attention, Lord, to march not by the sign of any creed, but by the sound of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Grant it, O God. Let it be known this night, that Thou art God, and--and Thy Word is Truth. While solemnly in the face of this people, we call them to attention of Thy Word. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray for them, Lord.

ASHAMED OF HIM.   JEFF. IN   65-0711
48   My last meeting, last meeting I had. This will be my first message, really, to preach since then. I was preaching in Los Angeles, at the Biltmore Auditorium, and I was speaking on a man choosing himself a wife. You probably got the tape of it. It's... I said, "It reflects his character and his ambition." That when a man takes a woman, he takes a young girl and to be his wife; he takes, you know, a modern girl that's a common Ricketta, it--it just shows what he's... If he marries a beauty queen or a sex queen, whatever it is, it shows his, what's really in the man. But a Christian, he looks for character in a woman because he's planning a future home with that woman. He plan, he gets a homemaker. And I said, "Then Christ, according to His Word here, tells us what our future home will be. What kind of a wife will He choose then, a denominational prostitute? Never. He'll choose a woman that's characterized by His Word; that'll be the Bride."
And while in there Something struck me; I didn't know nothing for about thirty minutes. There was a prophecy went out. First thing I remember, Brother Mosley and Billy; I was out on the street, walking. And It said, "Thou Capernaum, which calls yourself by the name of the Angels," that's Los Angeles, city of angels (See?), the angels, "which are exalted into heaven, will be brought down into hell. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom, that's been done in you, it would've been standing till this day." And that was all unconsciously to me. See?
And how I just got through exhorting Christ, exalting Him and telling the church. I said, "You women, no matter how I try to come to you and preach against these things that... And you men, you preachers; you constantly conned all the time, do it just the same. You walk over It as if the Word of God wasn't nothing."
And when I understood that, I went; I said, "There is a Scripture about that somewhere." And I went and found it was Jesus rebuking Capernaum by the seacoast. That night I looked up the Scriptures. Come home, got the history book; and Sodom and Gomorrah was once a--a thriving city, a Gentile headquarters of the world. And you know that city by an earthquake sank into the Dead Sea. And Jesus stood, and said, "Capernaum, if Sodom would've had the works done in it that you've had done in you, it would've been standing today. But now you must be brought down to hell." And about two hundred or three hundred years after His prophecy, with all them coastal towns, every one of them still standing but Capernaum, and it lays in the bottom of the sea. A earthquake sunk it into the sea.
And then prophesying, "Los Angeles will be in the bottom of the sea." And I come home and went to Africa. And while I was in Africa, they had an earthquake. And scientists... You seen it; it was on a broadcast that some big, fine homes tumbled in in Los Angeles, and a motel, and so forth. And now there is a...
Since that earthquake, there is a two or three-inch crack that come in the earth, starting in Alaska, goes around through the Aleutian Islands, comes out about a hundred and fifty or two hundred miles in the sea, comes back up at San Diego; takes in California, or Los Angeles, and comes out again just below the northern part of California there, a little place called San Jose, just below there.
And this scientist was speaking, being on a interview. We was watching on television. And he said, "Beneath that is just a churning lava." And he said this; he said, "That is... A chunk will break loose," and said, "and it will..."
And this inter--man on--scientist interviewing this chief scientist, said to him, said, "Well, that could then all sink?"
He said, "Could? It's got to."
Said, "Well, 'course, will probably be many, many years from now."
He said, "It can be in five minutes from now, or it can be in five years from now." He just 'lotted five years.
But just as I surely was standing there under that Inspiration, put judgment on that west coast, and then followed it right up here with the sinking of Los Angeles; she's gone! That's right. It will happen. When? I don't know.
But, oh, what happened? You know, we only got six continents now. We had seven; that one that sunk between Africa and the United States... Oh, it's historical; you know about it. Now, if that goes down, then I want you to watch when...
60   This was a sermon that I preached on when, I believe, Brother Elij' Perry might have been deacon here in the church at the time, for all I know. But it said, "The time will come..." I didn't know it till Mrs. Simpson brought me the--the sermon the other day. And I got it wrote in a little book, that the desert, that the ocean shall weep its way into the desert. That was thirty years ago.
And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that'll throw a tidal wave plumb to Arizona. Sure, it would.
Oh, we're at the end time, glorious hour, the appearing of the Lord Jesus. He said, "There shall be earthquakes in divers places, perplexed of time, distress between nations, men's hearts failing in fear." Said, "When these things begin to happen, raise 
   up your head, your redemption's drawing nigh." Oh, my.

LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE.   CHURCH AGE BOOK.
322-5  (…)  What is left? Nothing except Hebrews 12:26. "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." Once more God will shake the earth and with it shake everything loose that can be shaken. Then He will renovate it. Just last March, 1964, that Good Friday earthquake of Alaska shook the whole world though it did not unbalance it. But God was warning by a world tremor what He will soon do on a greater scale. He is going to blast and rock this sin-cursed world, my brother, my sister, and there is only one place that can stand that shock, and that is in the fold of the Lord Jesus. And I would beseech you while God's mercy is still available to you, that you give your whole life, unreservedly to Jesus Christ, Who as the faithful Shepherd will save you and care for you and present you faultless in glory with exceeding great joy.

18.  African trip.  [May-1965]

LAST VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA.   SOUTH AFRICA   65-0527
E-1   This is one of the highest moments of my life. I have waited fifteen years for this time. My heart has longed to see you again, ever since I left you. I have prayed very much to get to come back.
And a few weeks ago, I was under great anticipations, believing that I would get to come and have a meeting. But when I got the visa, "restricted," I almost had a heart attack. Ha. I wanted to come so bad. But I do believe that through God I will minister again in the Name of the Lord Jesus among the people of Africa. God has promised to give us the desire of our heart. And that's one of the desires of my heart.
I can remember the great meetings here in Johannesburg.
I remember the boy with the short leg coming long again, normal.
And the lady that--the little girl was healed from a back condition and her mother fainted and fell back in the--the cot. [The translator says, "That's my wife's cousin"--Ed.] Your wife...? Oh my!
There's so many great things. No doubt, there is many of those people attended those meetings are with the Lord now. I have gotten old too since then. It won't be too long till my time to go up. Then we will be together forever. No visas. Ha Ha. I--I would feel like bringing the Message. Ha Ha. But it is written in the Scripture, "Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." I am expecting to meet you here in a few moments, shake your hand, and have fellowship again together. I appreciate all these fine man. I wish I had all my brethren in Africa here today of all the denominations. That we could just get together and talk all evening. And I would like to hear what the Lord's been doing over here for you. And I would like to tell you what He's doing for us across the sea. Maybe he will permit that some day. Until that day, I will be praying for you. Will you be praying for me? God bless you.

ASHAMED OF HIM.   JEFF. IN   65-0711
7   I'd planned on, so hard, coming back, burdened in the heart. I just returned from Africa, as you all know. And when I got over there, I had a restricted visa, and wouldn't let me, wouldn't let me preach, because it gathers too many together. And they're expecting an uprise there at any time, and--and they--they wouldn't let me preach because of that gathering too many people together. The only way I could, would to have some organization that's represented by the government, in the government, to invite me over, then that would automatically let the government send out a militia for protection. See, they're just... There's just going to be an uprise, and that's all there is to it. It's just right in hand. See? That government man said, "The last time you was here, you had about a quarter of a million people together." And he said, "Then, you see, that'd just be the very thing that communism is looking for, for an uprise." So I couldn't preach.
Those people standing there, waving their hands, and crying, "Remember my mother. Remember, my brother died... My..." There, and in behind a bar, you know, bars of wire, and it just made you feel real bad. And I come back home.

19.  Dreaming he’s back at Public Service Company.

ASHAMED OF HIM.   JEFF. IN   65-0711
68   Coming back from Africa the other day, I kinda tired. You see, it's just it's nighttime there now, and you have to turn around. And then time I got turned around, I come back again. We had a wonderful trip, hunting trip, one of the best I ever had in my life. Then Billy's got some pictures, maybe he'd have a time he can show it somewhere, and show you the trip.
I had a dream. I'm always dreaming of being back at that Public Service Company somehow. So I--I thought I was kind of ratting on the job; I was supposed... They just let me have my own way, and I thought I'd... Instead of going out and walking the lines or collecting the bills, or something I was supposed to do, I just said, "Well, I'm my own boss." I just went swimming. And I got down there and took off my--these clothes, and put on my swimming clothes. I was by myself. And I thought, "Say, this ain't right, the company... This is daytime; the company is paying me for this time." Thought, "That's strange."
And then I thought, "Well, the money I collected on the route..." I had both the patrol and the route mixed together, and I said, "Well, the money I collected, I've done something, roving around here; I've lost all my tickets; and I got their money and my money mixed together. Now, how will I know who paid the bills?" I thought, "Just because I wasn't paying any attention."
I thought, "That's not right. There's only one thing for me to do, that's go back to my superintendent and tell him." That was Don Willis. I said, "Don, I lost those tickets. Now, here's all the money I got, and here's their money together. Leave it here at the cashier. And the people, when they come in, they'll have a receipt that I received the bill."
Probably people setting right here that (I--I... I know there is.)--that I collected from them in--in the days, and I'd... And I'd give a receipt. You know, it was only ten percent if you let your bill run over. And maybe, a dollar and a half, be fifteen cents over. A lot of them people lived... We just liked to get together and talk, and they'd just let their bill go, wanting me come talk to them awhile. That was... Give fifteen cents, you know, just to set down and talk a little while, to collect their bill. So it got it ragged; they just got so many bills I couldn't collect them.
Well, I thought that's the only way I could do it. And I woke up.
The place where we live, Sister Larson. I don't think she's here. She's been very nice to us; and she don't like for me to say that. But she's a very fine lady, and we've been living in her rooms. She's got two apartments, small apartments together; we rented them both. And wife and I sleep over here in--in the other apartment where I kind of receive the people when I can, and there's a couple of little twin beds in there.
I woke up. She wasn't awake yet. And after while she woke up. And I waved over at her, and she looked back, batted her eyes a few times. I said, "You sleep good?"
She said, "Nope."
And I said, "I had the awfullest dream. I was back at that Public Service Company again." I said, "What have I done?"
I remember as a little boy, or a young man, I'd walked all those lines at Salem, Indiana, different... I'd go in buy a--a breakfast, maybe a bowl of oats. In that hot sun and everything, it's... I'd--it'd just make me sick to eat breakfast. I'd turn in ten cents on my petty cash. The superintendent come down and said--said, "You know what they said in the--in the meeting? 'Who is that knothead that would turn in ten cents for breakfast?' Said, "You ought to at least turn in fifty cents." Now, all of you know, fifty cents was a big breakfast in them days.
And I said, "Well, I don't eat that much."
He said, "Well, the rest of them turns in fifty cents. You ought to turn in fifty cents."
I said, "Well, I don't use it."
Said, "Turn it in anyhow." That was my superintendent.
Well, I thought, "Well, what can I do? I have to charge fifty cents, and I eat ten cents." So I'd go out on the street and get some little kids that didn't have no breakfast, and get them forty-cents worth of breakfast.
So then I thought, "Well, what could I... Maybe that's what He holds against me."
And I remember, here not long ago, they come through on the patrol, tore up that back yard back there, and said, "Turn in your bill." You know they got patrol rights, but they have to pay for damage.
I just wrote back and said, "You don't owe nothing." I thought, "That'll pay for them forty-cents. Maybe I've spent twenty or thirty dollars during that time, giving it to kids. Maybe that'll do it." Kept on dreaming.
Then I had a big tree out there, the kids played under it, and the patrol... Now, they patrol in a helicopter. So he come in and said, "Billy, how about cutting that tree out?"
I said, "No, don't cut it. We're going to trim it." I said, "Brother Wood and I are going to trim it."
Said, "Well, I'll just have the man come by and trim it."
I said, "Now, don't cut it."
He said, "I won't cut it."
I went off on a trip. When I come back, she was cut plumb on the ground. Then I had a lawsuit coming. You see? I said, "Well, Lord, this will clear it up, what I owed." So I struck that off, that was all right, just let it go. Well, I still dreamed it.
82   When I got up the other morning, I said, "Well..." The first thing we do of a morning when we get up is pray together, then pray when we go to bed at night. And then after she went on over to get the kiddies' breakfast, I started to pray. I said, "Lord, I must have been an awful guy. What have I done in life, that I--I can't get away from that Public Service Company?"
I went in and took a bath, come back out. Something just seemed to say to me, "Maybe I'm ratting on His job." I thought, "Here's about five years I ain't done nothing, just waiting on Him."
Standing up there the other day. They built us a new home up there, and Brother Mosley come down, was talking about it. I said, "That's just a little gift from my Father." He started crying. I said, "You see, He said, 'If you'll leave your homes, houses, lands, fathers, mothers, I'll give you houses, lands, fathers, mothers, and hundredfold in this life, and Eternal Life to come.'" I said, "See, I had to leave the Tabernacle that I love so dearly. My home that the Lord give me up there, had to leave it. He just give me this one back." I said, "He's wonderful. You see?" And he started crying.
Well, I--I said, "I had to come out here and separate myself, come to this desert." And I thought, "Wonder why God bring me to a desert, out here where there's nothing but scorpions and Gila monsters?"
And it's not only a desert; is it hot, but it's spiritually a desert. Oh, my. There's no spiritual life at all in the churches, they're against... Why, you never seen such in your life. We don't even have a church to go to or nothing. And then when... The people almost perish spiritually. I noticed it in the people that come out there, see the differences in them, watching it.
And so you stay under the Spirit of God; your life becomes sweet, tender, like water brings this grass and soft buds. If... This grass in Arizona wouldn't grow; these trees would be cactus, them leaves just wind up and make stickery. That's the way it is when you get dry around the church, everybody's sticking one another, you know, and just... See? You got to have soft waters of rain soften you up, and make leaves, and shade for the pilgrim that passes by.
And so something said to me, "Maybe you're ratting on God's job." So I prayed for a vision.
And Meda just got me a new Bible, and Brother--Brother Brown from up in Ohio got me a new Bible, both of them at the same time, at Christmas. I went and got one of the new Bibles. I said, "Lord, in the days gone by, You had a Urim and Thummim."
Now, listen, let me say this. 'Course, they're not... This is not taping this meeting, the reason I'm ask--saying this. Let me say: don't do this. It's not a good thing.
But I said, "Lord, it used to be, when a dreamer dreamed a dream, that they took it down to the Urim and Thummim and told it. And if the--if the Urim and Thummim flashed the lights back, a supernatural Light, the dream was true." I said, "But that priesthood and that Urim and Thummim's done away with. Your Bible is the Urim and Thummim now; Lord, may I never do this again. I've asked You and prayed to You to give me a vision, speak to me about why am I dreaming these dreams. What have I done? If I've harmed, if I've done anything to any person in the world, let me know. I'll--I'll--I'll go make it right. If I owe the Public Service Company, if I done something wrong to them or any other person, if I done something wrong to You, let me know. I--I want to make it right."
Let's make it right now. Don't wait till after while, it may be too late. Let's do it now.
And I said, "Surely, there's something in this Word of God, from Genesis to Revelations, that some character in there that You dealt with, would be on the same basis that would be my question. If somebody done something, and--and You got after him about it, then let me turn to that place in the Bible. And if somebody, whatever they done, it'll lean my way. Where I've done wrong, or something You want me to do, or haven't done, let me see some character in the Bible like that."
And I closed my eyes, just let the Bible fall open, put my finger on a Scripture, Genesis 24:7, Eliezer, Abraham's faithful servant, the model servant of the Bible, being sent to hunt the bride for Isaac. Chills run over me. Sure, that's my... That's right with the rest of my message, pulling out the Bride.
He said, "Swear that you'll not take a bride out of these, but go to my own people."
He said, "What if the woman won't come with me?"
Said, "Then you're free of this oath." He said, "And the God will--of heaven will send His Angel before you to direct you." He went right straight out and begin praying, and he met the beautiful Rebekah that become the bride of Isaac.
Just a perfect Message back to the Word. "Go get that Bride." That's a duty. That's what I'm here for. That's what I'm trying to do, is call out a Bride.
98   Remember in California there, that interview of the Bride, preview, I had it here. How that Bride come up first, and seen Her go by. Then here come Miss America, Miss Asia, and all, oh, the awfullest looking thing. And then the same Bride passed by again. One of them got out of step, and I was getting Her back in step; two of them, it was. And that's what I was supposed to do, keep that Bride in step, hunt that man.
I said, "God, I'm going back home, renew my vows again, and start out anew." So that's what we're planning on doing; that's what I'm here for.

20.  Mormons believe in prophecy.  [Vision of lion shot in half.]

PROVING HIS WORD.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0426
35   I just had a--a little experience here about a week ago, as you all know that I--I hunt. And when I come back from my meeting, I been lion hunting. And after I moved into Arizona, it's good, I like to hunt big game, and I like to get out amongst nature and watch it.
Now, I'm not a killer. I just hunt. So I--I don't like to destroy game; I--I don't think it's right. I think it's just as much sin to kill game, when you're not using it and going to use it for a purpose, as it would be to kill anything else. I believe it's wrong. We shouldn't do that. God gave it to us for food and for purposes, and we should not destroy it. But now, what the law says you can take, all right. Just don't waste it.
And I down there, the season is out for everything else. Lions kill a lot of cattle. And I know a lot of ranchers up in the country. And every time they get a kill, why, they call me, when a lion gets amongst sheep. A certain friend of mine, the other night, lost about thirty-five hundred dollars in one night by one lion killing just lambs. He got in, and 'course, the rest of the lions are going to have to pay for his sin. And so I got the lion, and so it was a great big lion, and was nine foot long, and weighed close two-something, so it was--it was a good big lion.
And then I went from the country of Arizona, up into Utah, to hunt. And so I was told that there was people up there, that a man that I was going to hunt with, was a government trapper, "And for goodness sakes, don't mention anything about religion around him." Said, "He was really a rough fellow."
And I said... Well, I told the man I was going with, I said, "I won't mention it."
He said, "Don't say 'preacher.' If you do, you'll never get to go hunting. He wouldn't take you." Said, "I hunted with him three days, and slept with him every night, eat with him every day, and he never even said, 'Good morning. How do you do? You want something to eat? Wash the dishes.' Nothing." Said, "Now, just don't say nothing about it."
I said, "I won't say a word." So I didn't tell him I wouldn't pray, but I just kept on telling him that I... And I'd prayed.
42   So when we got up there, the--the man was a very hard character, and I didn't think he believed anything. And he'd just lost a baby a few nights before that, a stillborn baby. So we went hunting. And on the second day, the man I was hunting with had told him, said I get to hunt everywhere around the country. So when the other hunter, was with me, had left, we were way in top of peaks, where we just run a lion till we got him into the rocks, and he'd got away. And so we were setting there waiting for the dog to return. And this man said to me; he said, "The other hunter, your friend, tells me that you get to hunt everywhere. You got plenty of money?" Said, "I guess it's none of my business."
And I said, "No," I said, "isn't plenty of money." I said, "I--I'm sponsored."
And he said, "Oh, I see." He said, "Well, I guess it's none of my business again," but said, "are you with a firm that sponsors you?"
He was pulling it right out of me. I promised I wouldn't. See? So I said... Yeah. I said, "No, sir. I'm a preacher, a missionary."
He said, "A what?"
And I said, "Missionary." And he just stood and looked at me for a few minutes.
I said, "Do you have any hope for Life hereafter? What is your hope?"
He said, "I'm a Jack Mormon."
And I said, "A what?"
He said, "A Jack Mormon."
I said, "What kind's that?"
Said, "The one that swears and drinks coffee, and smokes cigarettes."
I said, "Well, an honest confession's good for the soul."
And then he said--he said, "I want to ask you something." He said, "I am told that the Mormon church is the only true church there is." He said, "Do you believe that?"
I said, "When it comes to church, I guess it's as good as any of them. I only know one Truth, and that's Jesus Christ." I said, "I know He's True."
"Well," he said, "I had a baby born the other night, stillborn." He said, "I am told that this baby, because it was stillborn, God never did breathe the breath of life into it, that I'll never see it again." He said, "What do you think about that?"
"Well," I said, "you won't as a Jack Mormon. You sure won't. That's one thing sure; you won't see it as long as you stay a Jack Mormon." And he said... Well, he had been pushing at me, so I push him back a little bit. You see? We had--had time to push back. And so he said--he said... I said, "What's the matter?"
He said, "Oh, I don't know." And he said, "Well, what do you think?"
I said, "I am acquainted with many fine..."
53   I didn't know he was a Mormon. And I was a very... I know, being it in Utah, it probably was, but I... 'cause most the people up there are Mormon, around Salt Lake City. This wasn't Salt Lake City, however. So I thought, "Well, I've had some fine Mormon friends, been in the prayer lines, fine people."
And I said, "I have met some very fine men who are--are Mormons." And he said, well, he said... I said, "I don't know their teaching on that, and I wouldn't want to say something contrary to their teaching, because that's what you are, and I respect that highly." And I said, "Well, and you believe that?"
He said, "Yes, sir, I do." But said, "I don't live to it."
I said, "Well, I believe that the Bible teaches that God knew that baby millions of years ago before the foundation of the world." I said, "God told Jeremiah, 'Before you was ever conceived in your mother's womb, before you ever was come forth from the belly, I knew you, sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations.'" I said, "That's how much He knew about it. See?"
He said, "Well," he said, "thank you."
He started walking down the hill. And then he met with this other fellow, and he said, "Why didn't you tell me that guy was a preacher?" And so we... He talked to him a little bit and begin to tell him about the meetings.
Now, Mormons believe prophecy. I don't--might not be any here, but they--but they do believe in--in prophecy. But, so, now, maybe I'm talking out of school, well I... Yeah. Yeah. But, however, they believe.
And he say, he come back to me, said, "I understand that you are a prophet."
I said, "No, sir." I said, "I... The Lord has showed me a few things to happen."
And he took off right away, said, "Let's go in." And he got in his car, and went down to the... There was a little city from where he lived. In a few moments he was missing. We was fixing the dogs to take another hunt right after lunch. And when we did, why, he took off in a car.
In a few moments, a fine-looking young man come back, about seventeen years old, a real saintly-looking Christian gentleman. He said, "This is my brother." Said, "He is not a Jack Mormon. He's a real Mormon."
I said, "How do you do, son?"
And he said, "I understand, that my brother tells me that you are a prophet."
I said, "No, sir." I said, "It isn't that I am a prophet." I said, "The Lord has showed me things to come to pass."
He said, "I have a shot in my arm right now; I'm supposed to be on the operating table." He said, "But my brother told me this. And I said, 'If that's so, I don't need the operation.'" He looked me right straight in the eye, an honest, true, sincere look, said, "You lay your hands upon me. If these things are so, I won't need the operation." He went home well.
This brother, Christian friend of mine, was hunting with me from Phoenix. He said to me, he said... Some of these boys are setting right here now. One of them I know is here present. We went home. He said, "Brother Branham, if the Lord would show you a vision and let you tell them Mormons just what's going to happen, that will do it, because they are looking for it."
So I prayed and I prayed. And on my road back home, I was coming up on the following Monday, Sunday, about ten o'clock, I was standing in the room, after church that morning, and was looking out.
And I saw flashlights flashing, or some kind of a light flashing. And I saw a lion that was in a tree, and--and it was too small for me to shoot. I didn't want it. And there was someone else shot it, and when they did, they shot it with too big a gun. It blowed the lion up. I didn't appreciate the--the--the way it was done.
68   When I got up to Phoenix, I told Brother Dawson that and Brother Mosley. I know he's here. I seen him the other day somewhere here. And he was going up with me, he and his wife. And I said, "You watch and see; that's THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's going to happen that way.
Nights we waited, four or five nights we'd hunted, or days. Seldom you ever tree a lion at night. Happened to be, coming home, they turned the dogs loose, this hunter, this Mormon boy. And the--the lion struck a trail, or the dog struck the trail of the lion, rather, and run him up in a tree. And at ten o'clock at night they come, got us out of bed. We went out there, and there was that same lion in the tree. Flashing the lights, Brother Mosley shot him with about a forty-four caliber, liked to have blowed the lion half in two. And there it was, just exactly the way it was said.
The next day, I met the chief game warden of the state, another Jack Mormon. Took those boys together, leading them back home to Christ.
I tell you; He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. God proves His Word to be so.

21.  Numerology of the Bible.  [See Numbers..1957  #15]

SEED SHALL NOT BE HEIR.   LOS ANGELES, CA   65-0429B
28   Now, Paul is speaking of Abraham's two sons, which one of them was by Sarah and the other was by Hagar. Now, we find out here, and we understand that through the Scriptures, that God is represented never in twos. It's in three (See?); always in three God is perfected.
The mathematics of the Bible runs perfect. God is perfected in threes, worshipped in sevens, and so forth. See? So we--we find that the mathematics of the Bible never fails.
And we got here two sons of Abraham, and yet we can only be heirs as long as we are one of those sons, or some son of Abraham. "For we being dead in Christ, then we become Abraham's seeds, and are heirs with Him according to the promise," therefore, Abraham must have another Son.
Now, we know that his first son was by Hagar, and we find out his second son was by- was by Sarah. But he had a third Son, which was Jesus. Now, that may seem strange, but that's what we're going to try to break down. As I said, God represents Himself always in perfection in three. And I've made myself clear before all now, and especially to our theolo--theologians, that these things are just the way I see it, the way it comes to me.

22. Comments on Church Age Book.

BROKEN CISTERNS.   JEFF. IN   64-0726E
66   Today I was talking with my good friend Dr. Lee Vayle, who's present now. And he's a--quite a theologian. And so we usually have some--have some pretty good discussions on the Scripture. Very smart, and he asked me one time what I thought about the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, was it speaking in tongues? (It's been many years ago.) I said, "No, can't see that."
He said, "Neither do I." said, "though I've been taught that." He said, "What would you think would be a evidence?"
I said, "The most perfect evidence I can think of is love." And so we got to talking on that. And then I thought, "That sounded pretty good." So I just held that: If a man's got love. But one day the Lord in a vision straightened me out, and He said that the evidence of the Spirit was those who could receive the Word, neither love nor speaking in tongues, but it's receiving the Word.
And then Dr. Vayle was saying to me that that is Scriptural. He said, "Because in John 14 Jesus said, 'When He, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will reveal these things to you that I've taught you, and will show you things to come.'" So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost. He's never told me anything wrong yet. That it is; the evidence of the Holy Ghost is he who can believe the Word, who can receive It. 'Cause Jesus never said, "When the Holy Ghost is come, you'll speak with tongues." He never said, "The Holy Ghost come you'd do any of those things," but He said, "He will take these things of Mine and show them to you, and will show you things that is to come." So there is the genuine evidence of the Holy Ghost according to Jesus Himself.

PROVING HIS WORD.   JEFF. IN   64-0816
49   Is Dr. Lee Vayle in this morning? I wanted to ask if Dr. Lee Vayle... Are you here, Brother Vayle? Raise up your hand if you are. Is he in the back? All right, thank you, Brother Roy. And I want you to be sure to check those notes, Brother Vayle. You're somewhere in the crowds back there; I can't see, or in the hall. We have to watch, can't let too many stand, the fire marshal won't let us do that (You see?), and so we are... I want you to check my revelation on Serpent's Seed, to be injected into the first, Ephesian Church Age that he's writing, re-grammarizing it for me. Beautifully done! And I want you to check that and let somebody say something against the Serpent's Seed now, whether it was right, or not. So the Lord just gave it to me yesterday. See? Oh, it's beyond...

DOORS IN DOOR.   FLAGSTAFF, AZ   65-0206
32   Now, does anyone in here know Doctor Lee Vayle? I don't think... Maybe not. He was a Baptist preacher, Doctor of Divinity, and he's got his degrees. He was a high school teacher to begin with, and he's a very fine, scholarly man. And my tapes of "The Seven Church Ages," I sent them to him to grammarize them. Because my old Kentucky "hit, hain't, and tote, and carry, and fetch," that don't go good for people who reads the books, so he was going to grammarize it for me. And then, after he got through, sent it back a couple times for more statements. Which the book is going to press now after about three or four years.

MAN RUNNING FROM PRESENCE.   JEFF. IN   65-0217
24   I think we got some new books out. I see Sister Vayle; I don't know whether Doctor is here or not. Is he here, Sister Vayle? He's probably in the meeting; I don't see him, but... Oh yes, way in the back. And Brother Vayle has wrote a book, and it's a... I thought, I believe they said today, two. Brother Vayle, is that right? You have two here now? Two books. Now, I don't know, I--the way I understand, that each person gets a copy. So I... If you... That's the way I understand it. I may be wrong in that.
And then the "Seven Church Ages" has been finished (Is that right Brother Vayle?), and on print now. And I know you'll want to get them, 'cause they answer a lot of questions that's been in your heart. And then after that, well, we're going to try to get the Seven Seals opened, you know, in the book so that each one can read in form that they--that they want to--can understand and study it.
I think when it's wrote out, if it... First we took it right off of the tape the way it was written or spoke. And you know, you can preach a sermon is one thing. And then write a book is another. See, like I'd happen to touch on a subject, like I'd say to you, you'd understand. I'd say, "Now, the serpent's seed..." See? Well now, the reader of that book, if you took it off, would wonder, "What is the serpent's seed?" See? And they wouldn't know. If that happened to go into such a place like Princeton or somewhere, and they'd--they'd think we were unintelligent people. So I got Brother Vayle to kinda help me with this and keep the line of the same thought and give it grammar. And I'm sure my grammar, they--would--it would be a mystery to them, sure enough. So the--Brother Vayle's really good on that, so he's as a...
27   And then in that, I think our precious brother must've picked up a little extra inspiration somehow, and he said he was going to write a couple books of his own off of them like. And so he wrote one called, I believe, "The Twentieth Century Prophet" and another one, "Laodicean Church," I believe, or something like that.
And Billy told me tonight that I believe several thousand of them arrived today; somebody brought them from Texas. And so they--they'll be here. And they'll announce it I think whatever they are. I think they're sponsored; I'm not sure. And if they are, they'd be given away to you (You see?) to--free. And we hope you enjoy it. And if you do, shake Brother Vayle's hand back there and tell him how much you appreciate. I've never read them myself. If I'd read them I might change my mind about that, so I--I'll try to read them this week while I've got a chance if I can.

ASHAMED OF HIM.   JEFF. IN   65-0711
104   How many has read any of Brother Vayle on rewriting that, and fixing it up, and grammarizing it for me? Have you read any of it? You have, two or three of you. I think you done a real job, Brother Vayle, a real job. You... I think Sister Vayle did it; and you just wrote it down and she done it. She was a... See, I'm not always against the women, am I, Sister Vayle?

ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME.   JEFF. IN   65-0725M
196   Notice. Let me give you a little example. Look at those people who come out under Moses' prophecy, come out of that organization, and come out of everything under the prophecy, saw the great works, and wonders, and things like that, and come up to the borderline of going in. Now, Lee, there comes your name on the Book. See? You've got it fixed out. You got it. And you that's not here and out in the--on the hook-ups. Doctor Lee Vayle setting here, he--he's grammarizing this book of the Seven Church Ages, and the problem come up, the question about your name taken off the Lamb's Book of Life. See, it's puzzled a lot of ministers, but wait till you get the book; you'll understand it if you just got any Light in you.

EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY.   JEFF. IN   65-0801E
4   Now, we're going to say, while I'm thinking of it, not to interrupt. Brother Vayle is here, and I might not get to see him. I'll... Can I send that manuscript on to you when I get back to Tucson? I'm looking it over; I haven't got it all read yet, and I'll send it back to you as soon as I get to Tucson.

23.  Don’t add or take away from tapes.  [Deuteronomy 4.]

TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE.   JEFF. IN   65-0718M
186   Now, I want to read you a Scripture, and I want you to read It with me. I want you to turn to Deuteronomy 4 in closing. I think enough probably has been said that you'll understand. Deuteronomy 4, I'm going to read two places in here. And to this church, and to the tapes--people on tapes, and people on the hookups across other parts of the nation, I want you to listen to this real close and don't you fail. This is a thing that I... Deuteronomy the 4th chapter, I'm going to begin at the 1st verse. Going to read the 1st verse, then I'm going to read the 25th and the 26th verse. You can read it all when you get home, but just save time so we can get out on time, 'cause I've got to come back again tonight, the Lord willing. Listen to this prophet speak. He had been in the Presence of God. He knowed what he was talking about. Listen.

Now, therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. (That types our millennium.)
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought of it,... (Don't add one thing to It and don't take one thing away from It. Stay, just say what It says.)... that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did... to Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God has destroyed them from among you. (Now, you're a separated people out of them denominations. See, see?)
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God ye are alive every one of you this day. (You never died with your denominations; you're alive now and in the Presence of God. Close don't miss it.)
Twenty-fifth verse. Now, when they're going into the land, (now watch what happens.)
And when thou shall beget children, and children's children, and you... have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,... (That's what happened.)... and make... graven images,... (something else)... or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: (Listen.)
   I call heavens and earth to witness against you this day,... (See?)... that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land... (or the place)... where you go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but ye shall utterly be destroyed.

This was Moses speaking to Israel after he had been a-vindicated by God by a Pillar of Fire and knowed he was proven to be God's servant to lead them out. And before they went into the land, before they entered, Moses said, "Now, the words that I have spoken to you, I call heaven and earth to witness against you. If you add one thing to it or take one word from it, you'll not stay in the land where the Lord God gives you." So say I in the Name of Jesus Christ. Don't you add one thing. Don't take--put your own ideas in. You just say what is said on those tapes. You just do exactly what the Lord God has commanded to do. Don't add to It.
He has ever, keeps His promise to us. Every promise that He has made He's kept it. Has He told you what would happen, and did it happen? I bring heavens and earth before you today in a challenge, has God ever said anything that He has not fulfilled and done exactly what He said He would do for us? Hasn't He done it just the way He said He would do it? That's exactly. So will He continue to do it. Just don't add to It. Don't take from It. Just believe It and walk humble before the Lord your God, for we're nearing the going into the land. Then you won't return. You won't return to this type of a life again. You'll return as an immortal being. You'll turn when sin is done away with, when Satan is bound. And for a thousand years you'll live upon this earth that the Lord thy God has given thee. "For the meek shall inherit the earth. Blessed is he that doeth all of His commandments, that He might have the right to enter into the city; for without are sorcerers, liars, whoremongers, and dogs; they shall not enter therein." They're only for the redeemed and to those who walk in His commandments.
Don't take some new thing. They're flying everywhere, and there'll be more than that come. But don't take these new things. The Lord your God has declared to you what is Truth. The Lord your God has vindicated what is Truth by His Word and by His Spirit. "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit." And the Spirit... God seeks those who worship Him in the Spirit and Truth. "Thy Word is Truth." And He's thoroughly a-vindicated that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's showed the evening seeds to you. He's revealed it to you in the Word. He's proven it to you by His Spirit.
190   Don't never start or try an organization. Don't try to build upon anything else, but stay humble before the Lord your God, for it looks like the gates may open into the promised land soon. Then let us go in with the true singing and rejoicing, when the Bride and Groom takes its place at the throne.
Live humble; live loving. Love one another. Don't never get nothing among you. If you see something coming up in your heart against somebody, get it out of there right then. Don't let... And Satan will do his best to get among you. See? Don't you let that happen. Some slicked-tongued fellow might come along and try to take you away from it. You think they could talk Moses out of the Presence of God where he'd stood there and seen it? No, sir. No, we don't take from It or add to It. Just keep It the way the Lord said. We don't want no denomination; we don't want no organizations. We don't want no malice; we don't want no strife. We want God; and He is the Word. Now, let's bow our head.

24.  Spiritual famine in land.  [Amos 8:11]

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
33   Now, that type there that I'm going to type Elijah with the church today, or the church of today... Just before judgment he received this message. Elijah, he represented, being cared for in the natural, his natural food, because it wasn't going to rain now, according to the Word of God, for three years and six months, or until Elijah called for it. "Whatever time you say, Elijah, that's what it'll be." Therefore he walked up to the king and said, "There'll not even be dew fall till I call for it." That's quite a--a load, isn't it? That's quite a message.
And now we're going to type that with the spiritual drought of today. Now, we all know, we're very aware that there is a great spiritual drought in the land today, spiritually speaking. And, you know, that was predicted by the prophets, just before the second coming of Christ would be, said, "There will come a famine in the land, and it won't be for bread alone, but for the hearing of the Word of God." And that day is now, "hearing the true Word of God." Now, this types the natural drought with the spiritual.
Sin and unbelief, by false teachers and modernists in the church had brought the place to this coming, oncoming judgment. Then they had turned from God's Word and His prophet to a modern theological terms of the Word.
If you notice here it's just at that time that God always raises up something? 'Cause He always... He does nothing until first He reveals it to the people, and He always reveals it by His servant.
Now, but Elijah, during this time, had a secret place that God had ordained for him to go to. That's the thing we want to see now just before we have the prayer line. Elijah had a secret place provided by God Himself. Now, the church never provided it for him; the king never provided it for him; he didn't provide hisself; but God provided a secret place for Elijah to be fed all the time during the drought, where his food was provided day by day. He didn't need to wonder what's going to happen tomorrow or wonder if the supply would run out. God said, "I have commanded the ravens and they'll feed you." What a wonderful thing, a type of our secret place in Christ.

25.  Message and messenger are one.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
61   Listen to that Elijah, the prophet, cry out against them and their theologians. Notice, notice, he spoke as if he was God Himself. Elijah spoke as if he was God Himself, "The dew will not fall from heaven until I call for it." Amen. Yes, sir. The prophet had been so long in the Presence of God...
The prophets of the Old Testament, or any time, when they lived in the Presence of God until they become the Word; their Message is the Word Itself. And remember, he said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." And when those man had those messages from God, and they become so wrapped up that their own thinking... It might have been against their thinking; they might not have been able to--to see it right. But they was speaking the Word of God, "THUS SAITH THE LORD."
"There will not be any rain till I call for it." Oh, what a statement. He had been in the Presence of God and been vindicated so perfect. And remember, that also follows Amos 3:7, "The Lord God will do nothing until first He reveals it to His servants the prophets."
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66   We find out that when a man comes, sent from God, ordained of God with the true THUS SAITH THE LORD, the message and the messenger are one and the same. Because he is sent to represent THUS SAITH THE LORD, Word by Word, so he and his message is the same.
A denominational man under denominational auspices, he and the church is the "one." A theologian under theology made by some denomination, he and his message are one: church of theology, a theologian. It's correctly.
Then when a man comes with THIS SAITH THE LORD, he and the Message is one. And when Elijah come with THUS SAITH THE LORD, he and his message became one. Just as Jesus, when He come, He was the Word, Saint John 1. So the Word of God and the messenger of the age was the selfsame thing all the time. That's right.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
91   Now, we find out that Elijah could say that because the message of the hour and the Word of God... Or the messenger, the Message--the Message and the Word was exactly the same thing. The prophet, the Word, the Message; messenger, Message, and man was the same. Jesus said, "If I do not the works that's written of Me, then don't believe Me." That's good. Any man and his message is one.

26.  Mysteries of Seven Seals hid in Book.  [“I always thought it was sealed on the back of the Book.”]

WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS.   TUCSON, AZ   64-1221
263   When those seven mysteries... Back through those seven church ages, there were seven hidden mysteries. I'm writing a book of it. And a great theologian said to me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham..." See how Satan will try jerk you off the road? He said, "Brother Branham, you know what? I believe the Lord will reveal to you what we're to do next. Is to... It'll be some great secret that's hid in there under these Seven Seals."
I said, "No, that isn't it, brother."
He said, "It'll be something that's not even written in the Word."
I said, "No. No. You forget, 'Whosoever shall add one word, or take one Word away.'" See, it's already in there, but the reformers has failed to see it; they didn't live long enough to see it.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
83   Then back out there at the beginning of the Seven Seals, when those seven Angels come down in that pyramid form, stood there, and told me to return back here and speak on those Seven Seals. He'd be with me. He showed me what they were, the lost things. I always thought it was sealed on the back of the Book and it'd be something wasn't wrote in the Book; but it turned out that it was made known that He cannot do that. It isn't something that's written in the Book... It's something that's been hid in the Book. "For whosoever shall take one Word from It or add one word to It..." So it is a mystery that's been in the Book in these seven church ages. Each one of them produced a--a mystery, all about water baptism, and these other things that they've fumbled about so long.
Then when that went up, the big observatories from way down in California, plumb down in Mexico, over Tucson, everywhere, taking the picture of It. It was a mysterious sight. Brother Fred Sothmann there, setting right back there, and I and Brother Gene Norman, standing right there present when it went up... They took the picture, still they don't know what about it. Here sometime ago, everybody saying, "Looky here at this, looks like this, and the--them angels' wings, how they're folded in there."
One day, turning it to the right, looking, there was Jesus Christ just as perfect as Hofmann ever drawed Him. It was standing there with a white wig on, looking back down towards the earth, showing that He's supreme Authority. The heavens declare it; the Bible declares it; the Message declares it. It's all the same: Supreme Authority, with the white wig on. You see His black beard under it. Many of you have seen the picture. We got it back there. Just turn it to the right, sideways; look at it. There He is, just as perfect as it was--if it would been photographed of Him. They're looking at it from the wrong angle. You got to look at it in the right angle. And only the Lord God can reveal which is the right angle. Turn it to your right and look at it. There He is just as perfect, and it'd been photographed up there.
The first time I ever seen Him, He looked like a Head of Hofmann. I had never seen that before; and in Billy Sunday's tabernacle years later, I saw it. My house has never been without one of the pictures since.
Then, here in the skies, saying that the very God that I saw up in this vision out here, just a little boy out here by where this schoolhouse stands, He looked like that. And here in the heavens, thirty-three years later, declare it, that it's the truth. That's the way He looks: not some mystic something of somebody's idea.

27.  Adam And Eve.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
89   That just puts me in mind of a Greek artist I seen one time in an ancient cathedral, showing what Adam and Eve looked like, "They looked like beasts or something." That's what the carnal mind can perceive of some spiritual thing. I think Adam was the most handsome man that ever lived, and Eve was a perfect woman in every way.
Now, carnal minds wraps up the thing in their own ideas, then God sends down and unfolds the thing by His power.

28.  Bride and judgment.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
95   Remember, he went into his secret place by the plan of God, by the call of God, and the Word of God. Elijah entered into his secret place by God's foreknowledge, plan, and the call upon his life, and according to the Word. If that ain't the way we entered I don't know how we get there.
And notice before the drought begin, Elijah went into this place of secret for his living. A very type of before the judgment starts to strike the earth, the church is already called out, the Bride's already chosen, and just waiting before the judgment strikes: already waiting, eating the Food of God, enjoying the blessings of God. Any man in his normal mind knows that we're headed straight; we're right in the hour of judgment.

29.  Ministries can’t mix.

SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON.   JEFF. IN   65-0718E
142   Now, in this, He... You can't mix two or three different ministries together, pastor and evangelize the same time. You can't be a--a prophet and maybe a pastor at the same time (See?), 'cause you have different works, different ministry.

30.  You’re not feeding on a man; but the Son of Man, Christ.

AUDIO LETTER TO LEE VAYLE.   TUCSON, AZ   64-0500
E-22   We find in Ezekiel the 2nd chapter and the 1st verse (I believe it is), that Jehovah Himself called Ezekiel, "son of man." And other prophets were referred to as "son of man." So to make the Scriptures perfect, He had to come a prophet: Son of man.
And now we find that through the church ages, He has been "Son of God." Like God the Spirit, He's in the Holy Spirit; Son of God to the churches. The Laodicea age, He's put out. Then, according to Luke, there He's to reveal Himself again as "Son of man." When the Son of man is revealed (See?), revealing Himself as Son of man again, not Son of God. Son of God was the Holy Spirit, and they grieved It from the Church, put It out, put the Holy Spirit out of their organizations, denominations. And there He is on the outside of the church in Revelations 3, the Laodicea age. Son of God has been put out, and now reveals Hisself back, "Son of man."

ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME.   JEFF. IN   65-0725M
261   Revelations 10 said, "In the days of the sounding of the seventh angel..." Now, remember, seventh, Laodicea Church Age, the sounding of that angel, when that church age is done denominated, and become a church age, when it's done in it's Pentecostal organization, when the messenger to that... What was each messenger? What was Martin Luther? A rebuke to the Catholic. What was Wesley? A rebuke to them Lutherans. What was the Pentecostal? Rebuke to them others. Where's the Life gone now? Away from an organization. No more shuck, it's Grain. What is it? A rebuke to the Pentecost (See?) to fulfill the Scripture of this hour. See?
Notice the very day when this messenger, not when he starts on the, but when he begins to declare his Message. See? The First Pull, healing; Second Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the opening of the Word, the mysteries revealed. No more... There's no more higher order to reveal the Word than prophets. But the only way the prophet can be a-vindicated is by the Word. And remember the Third Pull was the opening of them Seven Seals to reveal the hidden Truth that's been sealed in the Word. Do you see it? It is then, in that day when this thing is to take place that Jannes and Jambres, the impersonators, will appear again, just like they did when Moses appeared with the original Word to say it; they appear to impersonate it. Just exactly right. Now, you see what Matthew 24:24 is? See? Anointed ones.
Now, there's three things we're going to say before we close. This is it. I want you to listen real close now as we close. Three things, remember, three things have been fulfilled. Three things lays before you right now.
First: The world is in a Sodom condition. Jesus said it would happen. Look at the perversion: Our women trying to act like men, our men trying to act like women: sissified, rotten, filthy, lowdown, devil possessed and don't know it. The Bible said that would happen, and that's where it's at.
Secondly: It's in that hour according to the Scripture here that Jannes and Jambres appears. Secondly...
Thirdly: It's at that same hour that the Son of man is to be revealed.
267   There is your believer, your make-believer, and your unbeliever. There is a genuine Word standing out, vindicated; there is the make-believer impersonating It; and there is the unbeliever rejecting the whole thing.
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269   Now, I want you to know this is sure. And you that listen to this tape, you might have thought today that I was trying to say that about myself, being that I was packing this Message. I have no more to do with it than nothing, no more than just a voice. And my voice, even against my better judgment... I wanted to be a trapper. But it's the will of my Father that I declare to do, and determined to do. I wasn't the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I'm not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect as they are; I'm only one that's near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used to say it. It wasn't what I knew; it's what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn't me. It wasn't the seventh angel, oh, no; it was a manifestation of the Son of man. It wasn't the angel, his Message; it was the mystery that God unfolded. It's not a man; it's God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was a messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ. He's the One that you're feeding on. You're not feeding on a man. A man, his words will fail, but you're feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man.
If you haven't fed fully on every Word to give yourself strength to fly above all these denominations and things of the world, will you at this time do it, while we pray?

31.  Man’s wisdom destroys himself.
32.  Science, music and beautifying women.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION?   JEFF. IN   65-0725E
7   But the nations and the people will grow weaker and wiser. Just think, the average American now is in middle age about twenty years old, weaker but wiser. They didn't have jet planes in them days, and--and atomic warheads, but they lived a lot longer. We're getting weaker and wiser, and our own wisdom is what's going to destroy us. We will destroy ourselves. God will not destroy us, our wisdom will destroy us. It's always been that way, and so will it be again.

GOD OF THIS EVIL AGE.   JEFF. IN   65-0801M
94   Notice, it's noteworthy to notice, at the beginning Seth and his children never went the scientific way. Now, we're going to talk about science for a few minutes. If I say this, not excusing my ignorance, but a bunch of ignoramuses, anything will deny the Word of God. See? Sure. It's noteworthy. Watch it. Seth's children never went the scientific route. They were humble herdsmen, farmers, and so forth. But Cain's children did. Why? Inspired by their daddy, the devil. Cain, inspired by his daddy, the devil, and these inspired by that seed coming down...
Watch the seed of God coming down through every age, and watch where it's heading up today. Christians, genuine Christians are not all about scientific research and stuff. No, just a minute we'll get into that. But Cain's did after the nature of their father, the devil, full of worldly knowledge, beauty, and science, so forth. Cain's children was scientific; they were educated. They was the players of music instruments (a modern Elvis Presley and some of this stuff like that the school board lets happen up here in the lane every Saturday night), builders of cities, beautifying women for personal lust, as the devil giving women paint, and bobbing their hair, and put them into shorts and things like that. They... It's for his own dirty lusts. That's pretty flat, but I don't know any other way to say it.

33.  Prostitute spirit on women.  [Matthew 5:27-28]

GOD OF THIS EVIL AGE.   JEFF. IN   65-0801M
48   Women, I'm going to say this, and I want you to listen. And men and women, you might disagree with this, but I feel led to say it. Did you know, any woman that undresses herself like that is not in her right mind? Do you know she is, whether she believes it or not or thinks it or not, she is a prostitute? Though the woman might stand with her hand before God and swear that she's never been touched by any other man but her husband, and that might be the honest truth, but still she is a prostitute. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already." And the woman may be...
See, she's naked, the Bible said, and don't know it. The Spirit that's anointing her to do such things is a evil, prostitute spirit. Her outward being, her physical body, her flesh, she might be clean. She might not commit any adultery and could swear to God--and be the truth--that she never, but her spirit is a prostitute spirit. She has been so blinded by the god of this world of fashion; she dressed herself sexy and got out there.
The other day Brother Wood and I were putting our boat in the river. I was to get away from the house for a few minutes to go up on the river. And wherever you went, women with these little bunches of, called "kinis" or something around them... That is a disgrace. A woman can't be in her right mind and put on anything like that. She is possessed with a prostitute spirit. Now, you settle that with God, lady, 'cause you'll find out someday that that is the truth.
How could you, a lady, knowing how sacred your body is and expose it out there to these lustful, sinful, devils that walk the streets of this day? If sons of God was all still sons of God, your husband was a son of God, he'd either make you put on clothes or leave you. That's right. If a boy was a son of God, he'd never marry such a thing. See? You say, "You're making..." No, I'm telling you the truth. And someday you'll meet it. Naked, adulteress, don't know it.
"Oh, I swear that I never trespassed the vows of my husband." Your husband will judge you for it if you did. But God will judge you by what kind of a spirit you got in you, not judge you by your body, but by your spirit, that inner man.
53   The outside man is a physical being which is controlled by six senses, or five senses, rather. The inside man is a spirit man which is controlled by five senses: Conscience, and love, and so forth. The outside man: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. But the inside of that spirit is a soul, and it's controlled by one thing: your free will. You can accept what the devil says or accept what God says. And that'll determine what spirit's in there. If it's a spirit of God, it'll feed on the things of God, and it won't feed on anything of the world. Jesus said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's because the love of God's not even entered this inner part." Satan's deceived you.

34.  Spirit of error and strong delusion.  [John 4:5-6,  2 Thessalonians 2:11]

GOD OF THIS EVIL AGE.   JEFF. IN   65-0801M
57   Now, back through there you--other ages you belonged to denominations; you belonged to this, that, or the other. What happened to the denominational stalk? It dries up. The Spirit keeps leaving it, going on. And it heads up in a seed.
You see in the temptation of both heads back the same way it was at the beginning. Notice, don't--don't--don't--don't forget it now. As John, I John 4:5 and 6 (if you want to put that down), he puts it "the spirit of error." Eve never just simply walked out willfully say, "I don't believe in God." No, it was a error she believed.
Satan never come out and said, "Oh well, that's not even the Word of God." He admitted It was the Word of God, but he put his own interpretation to It, which God plainly told them not to do it. What does this do? It makes a strong delusion for the people to believe a lie and be damned by it. Now, if you want to read that, II Thessalonians 2:11.

35.  Short, quick Message that’ll shake the whole nation.

KNOWETH IT NOT.   JEFF. IN   65-0815
13-4   I'm only building. The hour's close at hand when you're going to see something happen, when something's going to take place and all this background here, has only been laying a foundation for a short, quick message that'll shake the whole nation.

36.  Red blooded male before sexy female.

KNOWETH IT NOT.   JEFF. IN   65-0815
23-3   Looky here, here's a little lady twist herself down the street. Here's a young fellow; his eyes catches it; he's a member of the church; he's a Pentecostal; he's whatever he is; but the first thing you know there's no hold post in there.
She'll say, "Hello." He's got curly hair and kind of nice-looking, straight shouldered young man, maybe tried to live right. She starts walking up to him. Even a preacher... The first thing you know... What is it? This out here, the flesh desire, and the spirit down here, yet anointed, saying, "Don't do it, don't do it." But what will it do? It'll move right around, there the hold; there he goes. First thing you know he's trying to make a date with her. He's guilty of committing adultery whether he touches her or not. But a genuine borned again son of God... Amen.
23-5   You can't do it yourself. It's totally impossible for a--a red-blooded male to walk before a female like that without something taking place. But when there is something on the inside, that little borned again something there... Though that man might've shouted, spoke in tongues, jumped, danced, everything else, anointed with the Spirit, done all the signs and wonders that God said in there, by His Spirit...
Jesus said, "Many will come to Me in that day and say, 'Lord have not I prophesied Your Name? Haven't I cast out devils in Your Name? Have not I...'" He said, "Depart from Me, you that work iniquity." What is iniquity? Something that you know to do, and don't do it. "Depart from Me, you that work iniquity, I didn't even know you."
But down on the inside of that man, if that little tie-post had been there, that Seed of God that was predestinated before the foundation of the world, I don't care what takes place; it holds him; it's there to stay.

37.  I’ll ride this trail once more!  [Orland Walker’s dream.]

KNOWETH IT NOT.   JEFF. IN   65-0815
31-3   Then Billy run in and said, "Daddy, that man's gone. I can't...
I said, "Who's that out there in that car?"
"Oh," he said, "some guy come down from Oregon"; Said, "got some kind of dream, and I told him I wouldn't give him no false hope. There's three hundred here waiting now." And said... And I told him just to write the dream out. Said, "I got a pile of them here that high anyhow and they're just add it to it."
I said, "Bring him in. Give him five minutes."
Well, as soon as the man walked in... Five minutes. He said, "I'm Reverend Walker (I think his name was,) from Oregon." I think he was some other denomination. I don't know: Presbyterian, Episcopalian, something.
He said, "I met you about twenty years ago. I come down to Grant's Pass where (not Grant's Pass, but I forget the name of the place.) there," and said, "Whole country... headlines in the paper every morning," said, "everybody knew about it." Said, "I couldn't even get to the building where you were at, but I seen you go up one day on the street. I walked up." He said, "four or five men around you and I shook your hand, you... I told you I was Brother Walker, and you told me who you was, and we passed a couple words, and then three or four big men with you just pushed you on." He said, "I wasn't your critic, and I wasn't for you." He said, "I just didn't understand."
He said, "It went on that way for a few years, and after while," said, "I... A man told me to come listen to some tapes about three years ago." And said, "The man played the tapes, and when he did," he said, "I heard him talk." He said, "This man believes that you was a--a prophet." Oh, he said, "I told the man, 'I don't know about those things: might be, for all I know.'"
So said, "Then another man moved into our town, had a meeting, and I met him, and he said, 'I'm God's prophet for this day.'" He said, "How many of you guys are there anyhow?" Said, "I--I hear where that a man down here is listening to tapes said William Branham, back in the east was a prophet of the day, and things like that."
He said, "This man..." (I ain't going to call his name, 'cause it doesn't sound right here. You see?) And he said, "I know William Branham." Said, "But he's all false in his doctrine." Said, "He isn't Pentecostal; he doesn't believe in initial evidence." And said, "Another thing," he said, "these major and minor prophets, there is no such a thing." He said, "'You're a prophet or not a prophet, and that's all.'"
He said, "Well, mister, I--didn't argue with you about it; I just said I heard this man say that this man William Branham is... This man claimed that he was a prophet." Said, "I just wondered how many there was."
He said, "But I want you to know this. I'm the prophet of this age."
He said, "You are? The Lord bless you and be with you."
He went on, never paid any attention to it. And said he started on amongst his brethren a series of three or four meetings. And he went down to the Post Office and said, "Don't--don't change my mail. Leave it here." Said, "I'll come back about four or five days later."
"All right," they said. They put a ticket up there not to change it. He went down, seen his daughter. And on the road out, he--he stopped at a church, and he had that night's meeting. The next morning he said he just happened to think, "Go get General Delivery," and when he did, one letter had creeped through the Post Office and got to his daughter. His daughter sent that General Delivery.
32-4   He opened it up, and it said it was a man, Mr. Hildebrandt, which is a friend of mine; that'd been playing the tapes. Said, "Mr. Hildebrandt had a word from Roy Borders (And that's one of the managers, you know.) that I was going to hold a meeting, back here, for--from the twenty-eighth to the first. Come back and see for himself."
He said, "Now, looky here, them guys trying to pull me in something like that." See? He just flipped the letter over in the wastebasket and went on (See?), like that. Went on and held that meeting that night, and the next morning then he started holding his heart to crying right there in the room.
He said, "Mr. Branham, I realize I got to stand before God." He said, "I don't know whether I was asleep or what happened. He said I dreamed; I'm going to say I was asleep and I dreamed." Said, "I thought my son in the market stuck his hand in a sack." And said, "When he did, it was a sack of apples, and they all turned over." Said, "When I went to pick them up, they was all green apples with one bite taken out of them." Said, "I was picking them up, putting them back in the sack." Said, "Some of them rolled out and rolled down." Said, "I went to try to get them and under--on the grass." And said, "They rolled under one of these chain-lock fences, and there was a big super highway running there. I looked back east." And he said, "The--the--the chain was hooked against a big rock back in the east. I went back there, and thought I'd let this chain down, then go over and get the apples for the man." Said, "I started to let the chain down." Said, "A voice shook the whole earth." Said, "The earth shook from under my feet."
And said, "After it quit shaking, I heard a voice." And said, "Brother Branham, it was your voice." Said, "I knowed, just something said to me." Said, "It said, 'I'll ride this trail once more.'" And said, "I started looking up the rock like this, and looked on in a-past the clouds, and way up there standing on a rock that reached from the east to the west in a pointed shape like that, like a pyramid. Run back there to the east," and said, "there you was standing there on a horse, that I never seen anything like it in my life: great white horse, white mane hanging down." And said, "You was dressed like an Indian Chief, with all the things the Indians use." Said, "It had a breastplate, them bangles on the arms, and all down around like that." And said, "You had your hands up like that. And said, "That horse, standing there like a military horse, with a prance like this, walking, me standing still. And said, "You pulled on the reins, went riding off towards the west."
Said, "I looked down there and there was a whole lot of scientists." The next morning (That was Saturday.)--on the next morning I preached on scientists, you know, being of the devil.
And he said, "Scientists there were pouring things in tubes and mixing them." Said, "You stopped the horse, raised up your hands and begin to scream: 'I'll ride this trail once more.'" Said, "The whole earth shook. Them people shook," said, "looked up at one another, like that, looked up to you, and just shrugged their shoulders, and went on with their scientific research."
And said, "You started going on towards the west and when it did, said I seen this man that called himself a prophet (you know.) Said, "He come up on a horse that was mixed with white and black together." And said, "He got up behind this great big horse." Said, "It was way up above the clouds, and the road wasn't over about that wide." And said, "That horse just...?... with the wind blowing the feathers and everything on--on your garb," and said, "then the horse's mane and tail blowing: great master, big white horse walking right in line..." And said--and said, "This guy run up behind you, came from towards Canada." (And the man lives in Canada.) And he said, "Come back and said he took his little horse, trying to knock your big horse off, turning him around: make his hips hit against the..." Said, "Never moved the big horse; he just kept walking." Said, "Then, all of a sudden," said, "you turned around." Said, That'd be the third time you spoke, but the second time you said, 'I'll ride.'" And said, "You didn't speak like you did; you commanded." Said, "You turned around and called the man by name and said, 'Get off of here.' You know that no man can ride this road here, without God be ordained him to do it. Get off of here."
34-1   And said, "The man turned around; and said the man has wrote me letters." And said, "Across his horse's hips (that black and gray and mixed up together)..." Said, "Across his horse's hips was wrote his name, signature, just exactly like is on this letter. And he rode off towards the north."
Said, "Then you went on down; that big horse turned around way, as far west as you could." Said, "You stood, raised your hands up like that." Then he started crying. He said, "Brother Branham, to see that horse standing over there, war bonnet and everything like that..." And said, "That breastplate and everything shined." Said, "You held your hands up a little while. And said, "You looked down again, picked up the reins, and said, 'I'll ride this trail just once more.'" Said, "The whole earth shook back and forth like that." And said, "There was no more life left in me. I just fell down by the side of the rock, and I woke up."
He said, "What does it mean, sir?"
I said, "I don't know."
[Junior Jackson’s dream.]
34-3   Next morning Junior Jackson, who dreamed about the pyramid, you know, when I went out west, you remember that? He called me a month or two before that. He had a dream that was burning; he had to tell me. But I said, "Billy... There's about twenty standing out there."
He said, "Junior Jackson down there said that he had to tell you that dream."
I said, "Send him in just about five minutes.
He brought his wife in, and he said for a witness. He said, "I dreamed, Brother Branham, me and my wife was out riding." And said, "I looked back in the east, and I saw look like a spot, like one of those flying saucers."
See, the world don't know what that is. You know... You know, it's all in... We know what it is. See? We know it's investigating judgment Angels (You see?), and they... How that the Pentagon, all about how it comes right down to the intelligence; how they go like a flash and be gone; pull away from anything they got. See, and they don't realize what it is. See? Let them think whatever they want to. They call them flying saucers or whatever; they don't know. See?
Said, "I seen it coming, and I watched it. And what it was, it was a man on a horse, and said he was coming with lightning speed." Said, "I seen he was going to come down in front of me, and I stopped my car, jumped out. When I did," said, "the car-- horse was standing in the road, a great white military horse walking in a prance." That's the Word, of course, you know it, walking in a prance.
Said, "There was a man setting on there." He said, "He was dressed in western garb: wasn't a cowboy," but said, "looked like a chief over rangers or something." (See, all of his chief authority from the west. The Indians over the Indians, rangers over the... ) See? And said, "The man had his hat pulled down and had--was looking sideways." And said, "When he turned sideways," said, "It was you, Brother Branham." Said, "You never talked like you did. You said, 'Junior' (called him three times.)" He said, "I'll tell you what to do." And said, "Then you pulled upon the reins of this horse; he made about three lopes and took to the skies, and you were gone towards the west."
35-4   He said, "Just a minute. I looked around and here come a horse smaller than that one of the same breed, but smaller, and stood." Said, "I walked around." He said, "He must have sent this back for me. So I got in." Junior's done a little riding too; and he said, "You know how your saddle fits you, Brother Branham, the stirrups and everything." Said, "I thought, 'Well, this fits me just right.' So I pulled upon the reins, off to the sky." Said, "I pulled on the reins and stopped him, turned him around and went back." See? "When I went back," said, "I stopped the horse, got off, and talked to my wife, and the horse was gone." And he was worked up.
[Leo Mercier’s dream.]
35-5   Then day before yesterday, three days ago come Leo Mercier, coming down with exactly the same dream, not knowing nothing about it, about trying to breed a big white stallion to a black mare, and they couldn't do it: nervous. Said, "I walked up there; and said, 'Leo'" and told him what I did. I don't want to say it here. See? I told him what I did. He said, "Don't you see not to know this. 'I didn't know Ed Daulton had a son-in-law, and the son-in-law had a dog with this name. You'll know, Leo, that your dream, but when you wake up, remember it.'" And said, "I never heard such a command."
[Roy Roberson’s dream.]
36-2   About that time Roy Roberson come in, said, "Brother Branham, you remember back there before you left the church the first time? We... I seen you setting like, in Palestine. We was all the board and everything, and setting like the Lord's supper table, and then you talked, and you--you wasn't sure what you were talking about." Said, "A white cloud come down and got you, packed you away."
How many remembers the--the dream of Brother Roy? And said, "The white cloud packed you away." And said, "Then you was gone, and I walked through the streets screaming and crying." When I came out here and that little old arm crippled up like...?... He dropped the rake and started crying when he seen me come up out there. I hadn't seen him, so he was telling me the dream. And he said... And he was raking... and said, "And you went away, so I walked the streets everywhere trying to find you; I couldn't find you nowhere. I was screaming, 'Oh, Brother Branham, don't leave." Said, "A white cloud come in and got you and packed you away from us towards the west."
That was before the pyramid or anything. He said, "It packed you towards the west. And I cried and walked the streets, and after while I went and set at the table. I happened to look up there at the head of the table." Said, "I could just see that much of you was snow white." Said, "You were standing there and said you spoke with authority. There wasn't no guessing to it." Said, "Every man understood exactly what you was saying."
Oh, my brother, sister; now, everyone of you conscious I know what that means. See? Just watch. Stay close to Christ. Let me warn you now, as a minister of the Gospel that--that this... Don't take any foolishness. Don't imagine anything. Stay right there until this inside of the inside is anchored to the Word, that you're right in Christ; 'cause that's the only thing that's going to... 'Cause we're in the most deceiving age that we ever lived in. It would deceive the very elected if it was possible, because they have anointing. They can do anything like the rest of them.
36-6   Clean your lives up; pay your debts; owe no man. Jesus said, "Now... Now, I don't mean things like your house rent and stuff. You got to do it. Get all your things off your hands. Get everything right. Make ready. Get ready. Remember in the Name of the Lord, something's fixing to happen.

GOD’S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE Of WORSHIP.   SHREVEPORT, LA  65-1128
4   And I understood that in France this morning, there's better than two thousand Frenchmen on a several day fast that we'll come bring the message to France in French. The whole Protestant nation, Protestant part of the nation of France... And so we are...
It's just begin blooming now, just begin... The shuck's pulling away so the wheat can lay out there now. See? So just keep reverent; keep praying. See? Remember, they that wait upon the Lord, renew their strength.
Now, there's... I was getting pretty old, and I thought, "Will I... Will there be another revival, I'll see another time?" And just remember, from the west will come a white horse rider. We'll ride this trail again. That's right. Soon as we get ready. It's a promise.

ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1128E
225   Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again; I got to bring a Message. And I say to my Father tonight (as Junior seen in a--a dream the other night of the wings of this Dove moving in these windows here), Lord, Your servant's reporting for service. Amen, I'm ready.

38.  Flying saucers.  [It's investigating judgment Angels.]

END TIME SIGN SEED.   TIFTON, GA   62-0319
E-75   Look what's just been over the... You've seen it in the radio, you saw it on television; it's been in the newspaper: flying saucers everywhere. And the Pentagon let it out the other day (about six weeks ago) it wasn't fictitious. They even showed it on television how they caught these saucers, with intelligence--lights that come down, hanging over the Pentagon like that, all over Washington, D. C. And they caught it on radar, and had pilots up there. They'd come right in around them, surround around them, then move away with lightning speed. An intelligence, what is it?
Jesus said there'd be fearful signs, sights in the heavens, man's hearts failing, fear, perplexity of times, distress between nations. Don't you see that seed time is here now, the harvest time, the things the Bible said would come to pass?

CHRIST REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD.   JEFF. IN   65-0822
68   You see these little pockets going through the air they call "saucers," so forth. People so that... Well, we better leave that alone. "Hear how these people come up missing?" you say. Don't hear from them; they're standing there, and they're not there. That's the way the rapture's going to be. One of them would drop right down, and this terrestrial body will take on a celestial body. And they'll be hide, hair, or bones left. It'll be transformed in a moment of time, dropping right out of space and taking home that... We see all this going on now, and the--and the Pentagon wondering about these lights, and mystic lights, and everything they're seeing in the--in the sky. You seen they had one here in the paper at Jeffersonville this week and so forth, a mystic light saw. Oh, they don't know what that is. But listen, little children, it's going to pick you up one of these days (See, see?); don't worry.

39.  Fire's going to fall.  [Bride’s getting ready.]

INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1125
44-5   Now, before closing: One time I was up in Glacier National Park. We heard all day long that they had--they had a "glacier of fire" that was going to fall at night. So the people was busy all day long getting that thing ready, because they was going to pour that fire out that night. They put a liquid... fire falls like a great glacier of water, looked like a rainbow almost when it comes out of that fire, falling out of this glacier. All around through the park, wife and I, and children, walked around through the day; we wanted to stay to see that fire exhibition. So it--it--it was promised us that we would see it, we'd witness it again. They said they have it ever... through the summer seasons and so forth. I said, "Well, will we be able to see it?"
Said, "We promised it tonight. We're promised that." Said, "They're up there getting it ready now."
After all I had been made ready for the event... That's what's taking place right now. All's being made ready for the event: a church being pulled out for His Name's sake, taking His Bride out from amongst the world, these denominations, all the world, and the filth, and things of the world.
And everybody... The event was made ready. Everybody was standing out, and said. "Now, just keep watching, right on top the mountain there."
That's the way it's always come. That's the way it's to come this time. That's the way it always come, not through a denomination. Never did God use a denomination: never. The reformer goes forth. He gets the Word of the Lord, and then when he dies, they build a denomination out of it. That's what the Pentecostals and all did. When the new issues and everything... That's just the way everything come out. A new word added, then they build a church out of it, made a denomination, separated theirselves. It had to be that way. That... You can't--you can't beat nature. Nature falls in the same routine all the time: stalk, leaf, tassel, so forth, shuck, then the wheat.
Now, notice. All was ready. Everything had been kindled and made ready. And everybody was standing out. I had my head sticking up, my arm around my wife; we was looking. The children standing there, all were looking up like that. My, it was something, 'cause we was expecting it. It was promised to us. Amen.
The Word promises this. "It shall come to pass before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come, behold I will send unto you Elijah the prophet. He shall turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers."
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, I'll pour out my Spirit from on high. The former and latter rain shall come together in the last days."
All these promises, through the Scriptures, has been given. We're looking upward, watching at the true Bride across the nation this hour, looking up.
Church, He's coming one of these days. Just as sure as He come the first time, He's coming again. Get everything ready. Separate yourself from shuck; lay before the sun. Keep looking up. Be under expectation.
All at once we heard something from the top of the hill, a voice come down through the loud speaker said, "All things are ready."
Then this man, standing right there by the side of me, said, "Let the fire fall."
Here it comes pouring down across that mountain, a glacier of fire and blazes a licking, a sight to behold.
Brother, let's get all things ready, for one of these days, the fire's going to fall. We're going up. Now, let's get ready for the fire-falling time.
We're in the last days. We all know that. And we're ready for the coming of the Lord. The thing to do is separate yourself from all sin. Separate yourself from anything that pertains to the world. Don't love the world or the things of the world. Let no man, by his creed, deceive you. You stay right straight in the promise of God, the Word of God; and that Word, if It's the Word, for this day, God vindicates It so. If He doesn't, it's not the Word for this day. The Word that fell on the day of Pentecost will not work this day. No, sir, that was for Pentecost. This is for the Bride: going home of the Bride. We got something different. The Pentecostals represented that again. We're in the Bride age. No more than the Word of Noah would worked in the days of Moses. No more than Moses' law would've worked in the time of Paul, here. He tried to tell them, "You're dead to that. And you cannot have that."
46-3   Church, you, who I'm speaking to tonight across the nation, if you've separated yourself from denomination and all the filth and things of this world, and all those things that keeps you in manmade creeds, and orders, and things like that, you separated yourself, look up. Get ready. The fire's going to fall one of these days. God's going to let Him come, in a sight to behold. Would you be ready when He comes? Would you be ready to go up with Him when He comes? The secret rapture of the supernatural Bride... She'll be made from mortal to immortality; be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. We which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are asleep.

40.  First started, I began to learn.  [Visions]

WORKS IS FAITH EXPRESSED.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1126
93   Now, I'm like Brother Herholzer here, we're--we're old men, and we've been in the--this a long time, and we've seen the pros and cons, and--and everything. And praying for the sick, around the world, and seeing the--the disappointments of people, and seeing the--the "Hallelujahs" from every side. Then, all this we learn by. Now, when as boys, when we started preaching this, Brother Herholzer, like we started to swim. The first thing, you know, it used to be that I'd get out, and I would... As Brother Jack, I've had Brother Brown to walk me on the street, night after night, to try to get myself around to myself. I'd stand there like a little kid, splashing the water, seeing visions, you know. And I'd just stay there till Brother Brown...
I remember one night; I never will forget it, up in San Jose or somewhere. He come to wake me up; I hadn't slept for several days, and I didn't know I was talking to the man, but said that I told him, started crying, said, "I'm going home." See?
"Why," he said, "you can't go home." There's a meeting going on down there.
I said, "Well, I'll be ready in a few minutes to go home. See, just beyond, beside myself almost. See, I was a boy then.
Like you're learning to swim, you know, you splash the water and go across the pool, and "huhhh, huhhh, huhhh, I made 'er!" Now, after you learn to swim, more graceful is the stroke, and it don't wear you out so much. See, that's it; you learn how to do it; and cut every corner and make it better, and that's more of a ease. See?
A little boy that never walked, would try to walk down this aisle here, he'd fall down a dozen times and be wore out 'fore he got there. But anyone who knows how to walk, an athlete, would walk right down that aisle and never even notice doing it. Well, he had that to start with; that's what he is now.
99   Well, that's the same way with preaching Divine healing or anything else. As you go along, you begin to learn. If you don't learn, there's something wrong. See? You've got to learn, and you've got to learn how to accept God and what it really means.
We allow it, sometimes say, "Well, this guy didn't have enough faith; this guy didn't do this and this. There's a reason there for that; there's a reason. Sometime it's unconfessed sin. You could pour a gallon of oil on a person, and scream till you got hoarse; it would never move that devil. No, sir. You've got to confess that. That's what discernment does, say, "Go make that right; bring that out."
But it's so slow doing that. You see? 

41.  Dove symbol of peace.

ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1128E
119   The dove is used in the Bible as a symbol of peace, and also it's used by nations as a symbol of peace. We have nations... Our nation is represented by an eagle. And there's other birds of other nations. Rome has an eagle. Germany has an eagle; many of them, great birds of the sky. But in all of them, the dove symbolizes peace in all nations. It's a universal thing.
Just like Brother Green said one night, Brother Pearry Green said, "The symbol of surrender is raise your hands. Any nation, raise up your hands, it's surrender." He said, "When you sing, raise up your hands, you surrender it all."
And the dove is the symbol of peace in every nation. Why is it done? Because of its gentleness and because of its innocence. That's the reason it symbols peace.
Another thing about the dove, it is a home-loving bird. It loves to stay home. And another thing it is, it's always loyal to its mate. The dove, male or female, never leave one another. That female finds her mate in mating season. See? That's complimentary to God's great creation. That's the reason He made Eve a byproduct. See? If she'd have been made like other females, when the time come for her mating time, she'd have found her mate; but she could any time. See? And that's the way; that's what it is. I just... We don't want to go into that, because I've got it on "Marriage and Divorce" and so forth. And how it... But yet she's honorable and brought that virtue, and you know I preached on it the other night. All right, notice, she's got a great responsibility.
But the dove is always loyal to his mate: always, never leaves her.

42.  Vision of a weasel looking squirrel.  [Dove and Eagle]  [Brother Branham’s stomach problems.]

ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1128E
137   I've been a neurotic all my life. As a little boy there was something struck me, that scare me, about every seven years it would happen to me. Brother Jack remembers when I first started, come off the field for a year; something just happened.
I remember the day that Juanita Hemphill... I think her name's Juanita Kelly now; she married Brother Kelly after the death of her husband. Anna Jeanne, I've got their pictures and things, they were such... And her... And them two girls and Sister Moore had a--a little trio. They sang that song that I never forget: "Looking Beyond the Sunset." Brother Jack, you remember, I guess, coming up from Florida. What fine little girls.
And I remember that morning a little Pentecostal group from up here in northern part of the country, in Michigan somewhere, those girls stood out there when Brother Hooper... I seen him here the other night, I... He may not be here now, Brother Ed Hooper. Are you here, Brother Ed? I don't think he... He set here the other night. None... Many of you know him. He and I, and Brother Hooley, we was leaving. And those girls standing there on the corner singing that, gave us, each one, a yellow rose that they took out of their hair. (That's where that maniac had been healed down there; great things had took place.)
Coming up the road just as happy as I could be, all of a sudden it struck me; a year later 'fore I entered the field again, just killed me.
Since a little boy, I always said I didn't know what a vision was. A little boy, I always said, "If I--if I'd only fall in one of those trance, and see that I'd get well." That time... I always wanted to go to Mayo's to find out what was wrong. The doctors there...
My stomach gets sour; and oh, my. Brother Jack's helped me around the house. I walk right around the house; and just a hot greasy water like, flying out of my mouth. And walk to the pulpit, and pray for people that was twice that bad, and be healed. I've had them lay my hands on a man with a cancer on his face, and the cancer left his face, standing there; and I was so sick I couldn't stand up.
And you don't know what I've suffered; just mental oppression. Every seven years it's come, all my life. That's where I'm at now, seven eights.
So I was--I was so distressed; I cried, I begged, I pleaded. And I remember when I finally thought I had enough money to go to Mayo's for an examination; they said, "They'll find what your trouble is." Wife and I, and Becky back there... Sarah was a little, bitty fellow. I had just entered my healing ministry. And we took off to Mayo's.
I went through the clinic. And the night before I'd find--had my finals the next morning, I just woke up and was setting there on the bed looking around. And I looked out in front of me, and there was a little boy, looked just like me, about seven years old; and looked at it, and it was me. And he was standing by an old snag tree. And on that tree...
147   Any of you squirrel hunters know you can rub a stick up and down on a tree like that, and it'll scare a squirrel and run him out if he's in the hollow.
And I was seeing there where that squirrel had been, and I thought, "What kind of squirrel is that?" and I rubbed it. And when I did, I looked over and it was me then about thirty-eight years old, the little boy was gone. So I rubbed that limb, and out of the hollow log, pole, come a little squirrel about that long, dark, almost black, and looked like little currents flying from him; little bitty beady eyes, the wickedest looking thing that I ever seen, looked like a weasel more than a squirrel.
And he looked right at me. And I opened my mouth to say, "Well..." And when I did, he... Before you could've batted your eye, he flew right into my mouth, went down into my stomach, and just tearing me to pieces. And as I come out of the vision, with my hands up, looking, I went a-screaming, "O God, have mercy. It's killing me."
I heard a Voice way down in the room, say, "Remember, it's only six inches long."
How many's heard that story? I've told you that many times, the people around the Tabernacle.
Well, on and on it went, suffering just the same.
Mayo Brothers, the next day, examined me. Said, "Your father was an Irishman; he drank. Your mother being a half Indian, that makes you almost a half-breed. So you'd be... You're--you're--you're just such a nervous wreck until you'll never be out of it." Said, "Otherwise, you're healthy. But that, that's something in the soul that man cannot control." Said, "You will..." Said, "When a man dies, can't hold a autopsy, 'cause his soul's gone." He said, "Well, you'll never get over it."
And that guy said, my old doctor, said, "My father had it; he died at about eighty-five, ninety years old," somewhere along there, he said. And said, "A month or two before he died, I examined him; had it all of his life, he'd get them" said, "spells."
"Some people," said, "they get it; they're high tempered"; said, "that's the kind that'll kill you." He said, "The other kind, like women in menopause, they cry. You got the kind that's kind of a weary feeling." Said, "The old-timers used to call it 'had the blues'; it wouldn't leave them." Said, "When that hits you, your stomach sours; you're just upset."
I said, "But, sir, I don't do nothing." I said, "I'm happy."
Said, "That's right. That's just out of the human grab bag." Said, "You'll always have it." Oh, what a discouraging thing.
But the words, to think it, "Remember, it's only six inches long," that's hung with me, as my dear wife back there can tell you. Year after year, I've thought of that.
And then, going overseas this last time, I was... Before... Well, I was back home, and I was on a squirrel-hunting trip. I jumped out of the car with Brother Banks Wood, who's listening in tonight, and I started to run up the hill, and looked like my heart would jump out of me.
And I asked Dr. Sam Adair; I said, "What does that?"
He said, "Next time you have it, get a cardiogram."
Said, "All right."
So it happened again in the next year, and went and took the cardiogram. He said, "Nothing wrong with your heart," said, "you're just nervous." Started coming on then...
164   Well, another doctor said to me, a good friend of mine, said, "That's your heart, boy," said, "you better be careful." That's the year I called Brother Moore and he got somebody to preach in my stead, when I went on that ram hunt with Brother Fred. I'd go up over mountains just like I did when I was sixteen years old, mile after mile, running; never bothered me a bit. See?
I come back and told Sam. He said, "Well, there's something wrong; you'd better be careful."
Then I saw a vision of an old doctor standing with those--old fashion doctor with stethoscopes over his arm. He said... He was standing in front of me one day; he said, "Don't let them tell you that's your heart; that's your stomach."
So I--I thought, "Well, I'll just take that word, 'cause it was a vision. Come on."
I started to Africa; to get some shots, and I had to take a bunch of shots before going to Africa; that's the law. So when I was getting these shots, he said, "Why, I can't find one thing wrong with you." Said, "Your hemoglobin, your blood's ninety-six, it's ninety-six." Said, "If you was sixteen years old, it wouldn't be any worse--wouldn't be any better." And said, "Heart enough to beat you a hundred years. Lungs, everything," said, "you're all right; no sugar, nothing."
I said, "Thank you." So I got a physical test, and--and to take my--my health certificate to the board.
So he said, "You know anything about it?"
I said, "Nothing but persistent souring in the stomach all the time."
He said, "Well, I'll tell you." He said...
I said, "Oh, I've been examined. I've been to Mayo Brothers, and everywhere."
He said, "But wait a minute." He said, "Sometimes a ulcer is so little till that barium meal won't show it; and sometimes it's too big to show it, because an X-ray is only a shadow. And a little bitty ulcer, you can't see it, it won't enough stick. Whole lot of little bitty ulcers could do that." He said, "I know an old doctor up here that's found an instrument; they got it now; they can put you to sleep with a little sodium pentothal, put a tube in your throat, and they just actually look down in your stomach and see what's wrong." Said, "He..." Said, "He's your type of people; he's a Christian." Said, "Why don't you go see him."
175   I took his name: Dr. Van Ravensworth. So when I come back, I went up to see the old doctor. Oh, he's a fine old man from Dutch East Indies, out of a big line of missionaries. And he had heard of me and read my book, and oh, he just shook my hand; he said, "Brother Branham, I'd be glad to do that for you." He said, "Tell you what to do; next week you run over at the hospital over here," and said, "and call me up before you go." And said, "I have to give you a little shot of pentothal." And said, "Then when I do," said, "it puts you to sleep for five minutes."
My little girl had just took it to have a tooth pulled, and Brother Norman's little girl. "A five minute sleep," I thought, "that won't bother me." So I thought I'd be satisfied then to look at it.
And then the next morning, I raised up in the bed and looked around; I looked over in the twin bed; my wife over there, she hadn't woke up yet. And I was looking out the window towards the great Catalina Mountains there where I live, and I looked up there where the Angel of the Lord put that Sword in my hand, where the seven Angels that you see in the picture appeared, great things taken place.
And I looked, and as I looked, there I was standing by that tree again, right where that squirrel was. I looked up there; I thought, "That's that squirrel's den." And I thought, "Wonder if he's still up there?" (in the vision). I raked the side of the tree, out he come. And before I could even bat my eye (He was the oddest looking squirrel I ever seen; now, you'll have to know my ministry to know these symbols and things.), he jumped at me but he missed me; He missed my mouth, hit on my chest and fell off.And as soon as he did, I heard Something said, "Go to the Catalina Mountains."
So I turned around; I said, "Meda, are you awake, honey?" And I woke her up.
She said, "What's the matter?" About five o'clock in the morning...
I said, "I was looking out here, and I saw that squirrel again, Honey."
"What squirrel?"
I said, "The one I seen up there at Mayo's." I said, "You know what? He missed my mouth this time; he never hit me; he went out on my chest." I said, "Praise be to God. I've looked, oh, since a little boy, I have longed to see that happen. If I could ever see that happen, not even... Before I knowed what a vision was, if I could ever see that happen, then I said, 'I'd be all right. Whatever that told me, that's what I'd be.' And for forty years I've looked for that, and there it happened."
Before, when I was at Mayo's, the same time I was up there when they give me that message, and I saw the vision...
186   My old mother that's gone on to glory now, very odd woman, she had about three or four dreams in her life, and they were always true. She'd tell me, and the... She'd start to tell me, I'd tell... I'd say, "Stop right... Mama, I'll tell you what the rest of it is." See?
'Cause always when you give me a dream to interpret, you don't always tell me just exactly what it is. Then when I see it over again, I see exactly what you dreamed about, then He tells me what it is. See? You don't have to tell me what the dream is, He shows me the dream Himself. See? And then I see, I say, "Well, you didn't tell me this and tell me that." See? And so the God that can interpret a dream, can show a dream; He can show one; He can interpret it. And so then...
Well, wasn't there something like that in the Bible, said, "If you can..." I--I... Just happened to come to me. Daniel, wasn't it? Or, no, Joseph--Joseph. Well, it's somewhere in the Bible. I just remembered that, said, "If you can show me... If you can tell me what a..." Oh, it's King Nebuchadnezzar; that's right. Said, "If you can... If you can't..."
The magicians said, "Tell me the dream."
He said, "It's gone from me." That's right. That, I remember that; just thought of it then.
Now, notice. And mama, she said, "Billy," when I come back, she said, "come here, son, and set down." She said, "I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I seen you laying sick, just about to die with your stomach as usual." How many diets has she cooked me. And she said, "You were building a house upon a hill." And said, "I seen six white doves come down from heaven, cooing, in a letter 'S' and they set upon your chest. And you was looking, and the one in front was trying to tell you something." Said, "They was real glossy, white doves. And they took their little heads and put against your cheek, and going, 'coo, coo, coo,'" And said, "I couldn't understand it." Said, "They just kept going, 'coo, coo, coo.'"
I said, "Oh, I see it, praise the Lord." And said, "They formed their letter 'S' again and went back up into the skies, going 'coo, coo, coo, coo,' going back home."
Well, the little animal that I saw was six inches long. The string of doves that Mom saw was six; six is incomplete. I knew that someday I'd see that seventh one. That was man, suffering; so on and on it went.
That morning, I got up after seeing this vision; obeyed the Lord. I took my little boy Joseph to school (He's listening to me now in Tucson). I took him to school, and told Meda I didn't know when I'd be back.
And I took off up into Catalina, up into the--the foothills, and--and went up into the place where the Angel of the Lord put the Sword in my hand. Real early; and started climbing up the mountain.
Well, instead of going up in the peaks this a-way (which there's a lot snakes, scorpions, you know how Arizona is), I turned to my right; Something said, "Turn to your right." I went way into the peaks; I went around, and I was going around those great huge rocks, many times bigger than this tabernacle, laying up in them tops there where seldom ever a person could get.
And along about eleven o'clock, I was going into a little cove, back where some--a little place turned in like this over a little deer trail. And I had my shirt off, my hat in my hand, because I was just lathering with sweat. And so I turned in there, and as I turned into that little cove, I felt the Presence of the Lord. I jerked off my hat and looked around. I thought, "He's here somewhere. I know He's here." I thought, "What is it?" I made a few more steps. I said, "Lord, You're here somewhere."
And I looked laying on the path, and there laid that little squirrel; had jumped at something and missed it, and it hit a bunch of cholla (That's jumping cactus). It rammed through his head, chest, stomach, and he was dead. That odd-looking little squirrel, he had missed my mouth and hit that cholla. And the Voice of the Lord said, "Your enemy is dead." I stood there, and I trembled. I took my foot and ma...
Usually crows would've eat it up. I killed a snake, couple days later than that, it laid on the road about a half hour. There's always eagles and crows flying through there, and they'll pick it up right now. I killed a coral snake; that's the most dangerous snake we got; laying right beside of me, a few days after that. I started to come back to pick it up to show it, the crows had done got it, ravens passing over.
And that had been laying there ever since I'd seen the vision, two days before; I believe it was on Saturday, and I went up there on Monday. So there he was, laying on there dead. I mashed through it with my foot.
201   I went back around, set down again; set there and cried awhile, and prayed; looking down over Tucson, miles below me. Turned back around and come back, it still laid there. When I entered that cove the Spirit of God come on me again. I went on around, went down the mountain, went in and told my wife; I said, "Honey, I don't know how, but I'm going to get over this."
Dr. Ravensworth, when he give me the examination, he said, "It's totally impossible for you to be well." He give me a shot of pentothal that was to last me for five minutes, and I slept ten hours. So that stuff, even an aspirin just knocks me out. So they... He give me a shot, put that tube down my throat. When I come to, and he told me the next morning; he said, "Reverend, I hate to tell you this"; but said, "your stomach walls are even so hard, they're dried up." (I never seen it; he used the name of gastritis, and I went and looked in the dictionary and it said, "something that's withered away"). And said, "You can't get over it." He said, "You'll always have it." And I would've been a discouraged boy if it hadn't been for the vision of the Lord.
And the next day Something said, "Go back to the mountain."
And that day instead of going one way, I was led to go another way. And I was standing there; and looking, setting in the front of me, and there set that seventh little, white dove, looking right at me. I rubbed my eyes; I said, "Surely, it's a vision; surely, it is." I looked, and I said, "Little dove, where do you come from?" Just as pretty and white, could've been a pigeon, whatever it was, a-way in that wilderness.
God Almighty, Who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, Whose servant I am, and His Word laying here open before me, know that I tell the truth and lie not.
There set the dove, setting there looking at me. I walked around; I thought, "Surely, it's a vision." I turned my head; I looked back, and there he set there, them little, white wings, just as snowy as he could be, his little, yellow feet; and little, yellow beak; setting there looking at me. He was watching right straight westward. I walked around him like that; I wouldn't touch him for nothing. I walked on up the trail; looked back, and there he still set watching me.
Brother, as a son of Abraham, I consider not what the doctor told me; I'm going to be well anyhow.
The third day I went back; I was climbing up high. And many of you know the vision about the Indian chief riding that little wall to the west. Something attracted me off to a big rock, about noon time, said, "Lay your hands against that and pray." God in heaven knows this is true.
I laid my hands against the rock and looked up towards heaven and started praying, and I heard a Voice coming out of the top of the rocks there, said, "What are you leaning against, over your heart?" And I raised back like this, my bare shoulders; naked from my waist up, hot. I looked back. And there was wrote in the quartz, in the stone, white, "Eagle" just exactly what the vision said that the next Message would come forth by.
I was so excited I run home, got a camera, and come back the next day, and took the picture of it. It was still there, wrote in the rock, white, "Eagle" (Dove leading eagle).
213   Somehow, I--I know. I'll tell you before it happens. The doctor's a good doc--good doctor, no doubt; I--I think he's a fine man. But I--I know I'm going to be over it. It's done. It's finished, and I'm going to be well.
And I was thinking as Ernie sang that song a few moments ago, "On the Wings of a Dove." How is the melody to that? Start it for me, Ernie.
(…)
    On the wings of a dove.
    Though I have suffered
    In many a way,
    I cried for healing
    Both night and day;
    But faith wasn't forgotten
    By the Father above,
    He gave me His sign
    On the wings of a dove.
    On the wings of a snow-white dove,
    God sends down His pure, sweet love,
    Oh, a sign from above,
    On the wings of a dove.
    On the wings of a snow-white dove,
    God sends down His pure, sweet love,
    A sign from above,
    On the wings of a dove.
216   Dear God, I thank You for these things, Father. You give Noah the sign; You gave the world the sign, and You gave me a sign. And the next day, seeing that eagle flying, O God, there's a Message coming forth now, and I pray, God, that You'll let the Dove lead. Grant it, Lord. It's led me to a faith I never had before. I know, God; I know it's going to be all right; so I thank You for it, Father.

43.  Prophet is reflector of God’s Word, God’s thoughts.

GOD’S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE Of WORSHIP.   SHREVEPORT, LA  65-1128
268   A prophet is God's reflector. How many knows that? The--the reflector doesn't reflect itself; the--the reflector isn't the reflection. There has to be something strike the reflector--reflector to make it reflect. So a prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect nothing at all, but he's in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect the image of Christ the Word (See?); nothing else can do it. You are a reflector; that's the reason the prophet had to eat the book. That's the reason he had to eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?

MODERN EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY.   SAN BERNARDINO, CA   65-1206
74   The man who's seen the vision or heard His voice, never altogether understood it. In many cases he didn't know, because he's just a instrument of God. It's God's thoughts expressed through man's lips. A thought... 'course is a word expressed. God does His own choosing by His predestinated choosing. He done it in every age; He set forth the men for each age. Like with Moses, when he was to fulfill what He told to Abraham...

44.  Message is fulfillment of the “Shout” in 1 Thessalonians 4:16.  [Elijah’s spirit used five times.]

THE RAPTURE.   YUMA, AZ   65-1204
129   Now, I want you to notice a great thing taken place here now. Don't miss this. See? Now, notice, the Word says here in II Thessalonians that there's three things... Notice, from the 13th to the 16th verse there's three things that has to happen before the Lord Himself appears. (Quickly now so we can close. See?) The first thing happened, notice: a shout, a voice, a trumpet. Let's read it now and see if that's right. See?
    For the Lord himself... (16th verse)... shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with a voice of the archangel, and... the trump of God:...
Three things happen, a voice--a shout, a voice, a trumpet, has to happen before Jesus appears. Now, a shout. Jesus does all three of them when He's--He's--He's descending. A "shout," what is a "shout"? It's the Message going forth first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride.
Now, God has a way of doing things, and He never changes His policy. He never changes His... He's the unchanging God. In Amos 3:7 He said He would do nothing on the earth until first He revealed it to His servants the prophets. And just as certain as He promised it, He'll do it.
Now, we've come through the church ages, but we're promised in the last days according to Malachi 4 that there would be a return again, a prophet in the land. That's right. Notice his nature and what he would be like. He's... Oh, he... God uses that spirit five times: once in Elijah, in Elisha, and John the Baptist, call out the church, and the remnant of the Jews; five times, grace, J-e-s-u-s, f-a-i-t-h, and it's the number of grace. See? All right.
133   Now, remember, the Message is promised. And when all these mysteries has been all so bundled up by the bunch of ecclesiastics, it will take a--a direct prophet from God to reveal it. And that's exactly what He promised to do. See?
Now, remember, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet, not the theologian, the prophet. He is a reflector of God's Word. He can't say nothing; he can't say his own thoughts; he can only speak what God reveals. Even to the prophet Balaam when he was tried to be sold--sell his right; he said, "How can any prophet say anything but what God puts in his mouth?" It's a thing that God does that you can't say nothing else. And you're born that way.

THE RAPTURE.   YUMA, AZ   65-1204
141   He ordained these things to be, and He must send this. The first thing come when He starts descending from the heaven, there's a shout. What is it? It's a Message to get the people together. A Message comes forth first. Now, "Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps." What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh. "Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps." And they did. Some of them found they didn't even have any oil in their lamp. See? But it's lamp trimming time. It's Malachi 4 time when you come... It's Luke 17. It's--it's Isaiah... All those prophecies that it can--perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures, we see it living right there. There's no...?...

45.  Baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour and still be lost.
MATTHEW 24:24
   For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

LEADERSHIP.   COVINA, CA   65-1207
162   The choice of your conduct, you could... You can't mix it now. You're either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the inside. See? The cocklebur, many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; I'm going to heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. See? It's exactly right.

LEADERSHIP.   COVINA, CA   65-1207
257   Many times people start out, and they say, "Oh, I'll do it. Glory to God, I see It." And let somebody laugh at you and make fun of you, "Probably I was wrong."
He said, "They that cannot stand chastisement are bastard children and not the children of God." See, they're worked up on the emotion.
See, these seed that I talked about awhile ago, that soul wasn't there to start with. It was anointed with the Spirit, and he done all kinds. Oh, you--they... And when your spirit's anointed, you can... It's a real, genuine Holy Ghost, and you could still be a devil.
260   "Oh," you say, "Brother Branham..."
False prophets. The Bible said, "In the last days there'd be false prophets." Jesus said, "There shall rise false christs," Not "false Jesuses," now, nobody stands still for that; but "false christs." "Christ" means "the anointed ones." Falsely anointed; they are anointed, but they are false at the bottom of it, and do great signs and wonders, speak in tongues, dance in the Spirit, preach the Gospel.
Judas Iscariot did it. Simeon... Or no, I beg your... Caiaphas prophesied. Balaam, the hypocrite... Sure, done all the signs, everything, all the religious moves.
But, you see, you put a cocklebur seed and a wheat seed in the same bed and pour the water down upon them and anoint them, they'll both rejoice. They'll both grow by it, the same water. "The sun shines on the just and the unjust, and the rain falls on the just and the unjust, but by their fruits you shall know them." How can you keep from lining up with the Word? Amen. See what I mean? "The water falls on the just and the unjust," anoint it.
Jesus said, "They will come to Me in that day, say, 'Lord. Lord. Have not I cast out devils? Have not I done prophesied? Have not I done great things in Your Name?'" He'll say, "You workers of iniquity, depart from Me; I don't even know you. Go into eternal hell that's been prepared for the devil and his angels." You see? What a Word. Falsely, worship in vain, striving in vain. Why do you do that when you don't have to do it? Why take a substitute when the heavens are full of genuine? See? You don't have to do that.

46.  Logos is the Word.  [John 1:1-18,  Hebrews 1:1-3]

LEADERSHIP.   COVINA, CA   65-1207
166   And like a baby formed in its mother's womb, when the baby comes into the--to the mother's womb, by the little germ, it crawls into the egg. It doesn't form one cell a human, the next a dog, and the next a cat, and the next a horse. It's all human cells because it's building off of an original human cell.
And when a man has been borned again by the Word of God, predestinated to Eternal Life, called the Elected, it'll be Word of God on top of Word, Word on Word. Not a denominational creed and then a Word, and a creed; and it won't work. You can't have that leaven in It. Only one Eternal Life, Jesus Christ the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us."

REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.   THE SALUTATION   CHURCH AGE BOOK.  CHAPTER 1.
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In St. John's Gospel it says, 
"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."
He was the True and Faithful Witness to the Father's eternal Word. He was a Prophet and could say what the Father bade Him say. He said, "My Father is in Me". That is what Jesus the tabernacle said, "My Father is in Me".
Now we can see His association with the Word. HE IS THE WORD. That is Who He is. THE WORD IN HIS NAME.
In John 1:1 where it says "In the beginning was the Word," the root from which we get our translation for 'Word' is 'Logos' which means 'the thought or concept.' It has the double meaning of 'thought' and 'speech.' Now a 'thought expressed' is a 'word', 'or words.' Isn't that wonderful and beautiful? John says the concept of God was expressed in Jesus. 
And Paul says the very same thing in Hebrews 1:1-3,
 "God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, (Logos) Whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."
God became expressed in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus was the Express Image of God. 
Again in John 1:14,
"And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us."
The very substance of God was made flesh and dwelt amongst us. The great Spirit-God unto Which no man could approach, Which no man had seen or could behold was now tabernacled in flesh and dwelt among men, expressing the fullness of God to men.
John 1:18,
 "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him."
God, Who on occasions would manifest His presence by the cloud or pillar of fire that struck fear in the hearts of men; this God, Whose heart characteristics were made known only by revelation of words through the prophets, now became Emmanuel (God with us) declaring Himself. The word, 'declare,' is taken from the Greek root which we often interpret as exegesis, which means to thoroughly explain and make clear. That is what the Living WORD, Jesus, did. He brought God to us, for He was God.
He revealed God to us with such perfect clarity that John could say about Him in I John 1:1-3
 "That Which was from the beginning, Which we have heard, (Logos means speech) Which we have seen with our eyes, Which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the Word of Life; (For the Life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that Eternal Life, Which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That Which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ."
When God was truly revealed, He was manifested in the flesh. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father."

47.  Tribulation period.
48.  Heavens and earth on fire.  [Joel 2:1-11,  2 Peter 3:12-13]
2 PETER 3:6-7
    Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 
    But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and per -dition of ungodly men.

REVELATION 8:6-7
    And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 
    The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

49.  Millennium reign.
ISAIAH 65:17-24
   For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
   But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
   And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
   There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
   And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
   They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
   They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
   And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

SIXFOLD PURPOSE GABRIEL VISIT DAN.   Jeff. IN   61-0730
129   That's when that City will be anointed. That's when the New Jerusalem will be anointed. And all the nations of the City... Over in Revelations the 22nd chapter, it said the gates shall not be closed by night, 'cause there'll be no night there. And all the kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into this City. Its walls will be jasper and sardis stone, twelve manner of stones; and twelve gates shall be one solid pearl on each gate. There shall be no need of a candle in there. There won't be no more sunlight, for the Lamb that's in the midst of the City shall be the Light. And He shall lead His people into Everlasting Life. There will be two trees standing one on either side of the river, and they for the healing of the nation. That's that anointed One that'll come, the Holy City descending from God out of heaven coming to the earth.
Let's take now what will take place during that time. Oh, do you love it? Let's turn to Isaiah 65 just a minute. Just too good to skip by. It's just too good to leave. Might be a little hot, but let's just keep moving.
Isaiah 65, listen what'll take place during that time. And just ask yourself, sinner friend, if you're--if you could afford to miss this. Isaiah 65, let's begin with about the 17th verse. Listen, everybody, close now. This is during the time of the millennium when the most Holy is anointed.
For, behold, I will create new heavens and... new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
But be... glad and rejoice... even in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem--I create Jerusalem... (That's the New Jerusalem.)... a joying, and her people a joy... (What is the anointing? The joy of the Lord.)... create Jerusalem a joy, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,... (The King in the throne on the royal majesty of the throne, the eternal throne and the eternal people with an eternal joy in an eternal city. Oh, my.)
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
There shall be no more thence... infant of days, nor an old man that has not fulfilled his day: for the child shall die a hundred years old; but a sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;... they shall plant vineyards, and they shall eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit;... (That is, you die, and your son take your place,)... build and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat thereof: for as the days of a tree shall the days of my people, and my elect long shall they enjoy the works of their hands.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offsprings with them.
And it shall come to pass,... before they call, I will answer;... (That glorious anointing in behind the Cherubims)... I'll answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,... the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: the dust shalt be the serpent's meat. And they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. (Can you miss it? No.)
Jerk right back here again, and Isaiah speaking again at the 11th chapter, the 1st verse to the 9th. Listen what he says here again when he's--catches the vision after he sees the women, the way they'll be acting in the last days...?... Isaiah 11 to 1.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,... a Branch that shall grow out of his roots: (Who was that? Christ.)... out of his root:
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom of understanding, the spirit of counsel... might, the spirit of knowledge and... the fear of the LORD.
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither... after the hearing of his ears:
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove their iniquity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
The righteousness shall be the girded of the loin, and the faithful the gird of the reins.
And the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;... (That's a goat.)... and the calf and the young lion and the fatling or shall--or the... lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
... the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones and shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like an ox.
And the suckling child shall play upon the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the cockatrice' den.
They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountains: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge... as the water covers the sea.
That's in that New Jerusalem, that new... Branch here is referred to of the Branch of David. He's both Branch and Offspring.
Now, after this the Bride appears. After the seventy weeks, the Bride appears in Revelations the 19th chapter, the 1st and the 16th verse. She arrives with her Bridegroom, the mighty King. Oh, my. I don't know whether we're going to get it all or not. Just got it so...
Let's just read part of this anyhow. Here's where the Bride will come, after this. See? After the millennium sets in, then Christ comes back with the Bride. Right. One to sixteen in the 19th chapter...
And after these things... (After this tribulation, after the Woes, after the Seals, after the Plagues, after the casting out of Satan, after the setting up of the Millennium. Watch.)
... after these things I heard a... voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory,... honour,... power, unto the Lord our God:
For true and righteous are thy judgments: for he had judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
And again he--they--and again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever... (That's the old prostitute church.)... her smoke rose up...
And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that set upon the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God--Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
And I heard as it was the voice of a great multitude,... (Listen. Here you are, church. After She went up in the 3rd chapter, here She comes. See?)... And I... (The 6th verse.)... And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a mighty thundering, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. (Hallelujah. Watch. The marriage of the Lamb comes now. Here She comes.)
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. (Here She comes, both Bride and Bridegroom.)
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is... righteousness of saints.
And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the wedding supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me. These are... true sayings of God.
And I fell down at the feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou doeth it not: I am of thy fellowservant,... thy brethren and have the--thy brethren and have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Christ--of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And I saw heaven opened, and... a white horse;... (Oh, my.)... and he that set thereon... was called Faithful and True, and... righteousness does he judge and make war.
And his eyes was as flames of fire, and... his head was many crowns;... (He was crowned what? King of kings.)... and he had a name written, that no man knowed, but... himself.
And he was clothed with white vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God... ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God; and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Who was It? Jesus.)... and His Name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Glory. Here He comes.)
And out of his mouth will go a sharp sword, that--and that... it... should smite the nations: and... shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KING, AND LORD OF LORDS.
134   What was it? His people had just crowned Him King of king and Lord of Lord, coming back to His holy Temple, anointed with the Presence of God to live and to reign through the millennium with His Church. Amen. The appearing with the mighty King to take Her place at His side, the new royal anointed Temple... Now, the sixfold purpose of Revelations 6:1 to Revelations 19:21 is fulfilled.

50.  New Jerusalem.  [Revelations 21:1-8]  [See 1957  #20]

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
7-1   Now, in the--the Revelation of Christ, in the 21st chapter, I read these words:
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there were no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adored for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrowing, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.
And he that set upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new... he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. And... I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountains of the water of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
49-3   Earth--take up its abode on earth. Now, you can plainly see, as I said, the--this change. The earth must be changed; it cannot have it like this.
The church could not go--the world could not go right on after the millennium without being changed. See? To have such a place in it, it'll have to be changed. Just like we must be changed by it's holy Fire, to condition and make a place for Him to be contained within us; that is, the Holy Ghost.
Notice now. There'll be plenty of room in the new earth. Yeah (See?), plenty of room. It'll be renovated (That's true.) by fire, but there'll be no more sea.
Notice, the City is fifteen hundred miles square. Now, listen real close while we draw these dimensions (I want to erase the blackboard just a moment).
Here's a deep revelation from God. None of these other... I'll bring the rest of this up, the Lord willing.
Notice, now the earth is... Well, you turn over into the Book of Revelations, you can see how he measured it by the cubits and by the furlongs, twenty-three hundred. So now, we find out that the--the City is measured, fifteen hundred miles square. You know how far that would reach? (I measured it off this week.) It would reach from Maine to Florida, and from the Eastern Seaboard to six hundred miles a-past--west of the Mississippi. In other words, half of the United States, just for the City.
You say, "There ain't no room." When the sea's gone there will be, 'cause pretty near four-fifths of it's in water. That right? The explosion dries up the sea, erupts the earth. Oh, my, and remember fifteen hundred miles square. What a City. And... But remember the sea is gone. And the breadth and the height are the same. That would make it fifteen hundred miles this way, fifteen hundred miles that way, fifteen hundred miles the length by the breadth by the height. Fifteen hundred miles (Think of it.) transparent gold. And the City had a wall around it.
Now, now, that doesn't necessary mean by being equal. It said, "... and the walls and the foundation were equal." That doesn't necessarily mean that it's a cube or square. There is another geographical measure that the dimensions are the same. That is the pyramid. Foursquare--lieth foursquare, and the walls were the same. Let me draw it. [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] See? Length, breadth, height. We're going to get into something sure as the world.
50-7   Notice, the dimensions of this angle is exactly the same, all of them. Length by the breadth by the height. There's another measure, the pyramid that proves it. This being this a-way would answer exactly Enoch's sign in Egypt, the pyramid. Would it?
Enoch, before the antediluvian destruction, when justification was coming in, he brought forth a sign. And in this pyramid is seven steps going to the king's chamber. Watch, on the seventh step (if you ever studied the dimensions of the pyramid) what comes out to take the oncomer to introduce to the king. Watch, whose station that is standing there, and you'll see the day you're living (in the pyramid).

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
51-6   In the earth's time of purifying by its baptism of fire, there will be volcanics, such as this earth exploding, and will push up a pyramid-like mountain. See? Plenty of room to do it; this whole thing'll be changed; the whole surface will be changed. You got it? It'll push up a pyramid-like mountain. This would exactly be with the Word if it does it, which it will.
Now notice, for in Isaiah 65:25 (where we just read) it said, "They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord." Oh, "all My holy mountain." Remember, it's always a mountain.
If the walls were straight up and down, this City could only be seen from the outside--or from the inside. The throne can only be seen from the inside. But notice, it would be seen only from the inside, but now we see the promise of Isaiah 4:5. Let's just read it.
The new City and the new earth, the new creation, the City on the hill with the throne in the top of it: the throne up here in the top and the dwellers all up and down on this mountain, and the wall that's around this had twelve foundations, and each one of them had the breast--a stone was in Aaron, which represented the twelve tribes of Israel. And in the gate... They had four gates set just exactly like the temple in the wilderness, like the tent was in the wilderness.
Notice, each one had--had the apostles, three on each side, twelve apostles. Each... And it was one hundred and forty-four cubits high. One hundred and forty-four cubits is exactly two hundred and sixteen feet, making each one of those big stones almost twenty foot tall... The breast plate, in that gate, making up that wall that was around the City.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
54-1   Now, it... The City doesn't rest on top of the wall, 'cause a city fifteen hundred miles cannot do that. It's a wall here, that you enter in, like the gates of the old Jerusalem. You entered through the wall into that, and each one of these has the twelve foundations. And each one had the emerald, and the different stones which represented the twelve tribes of Israel. And there's apostles each... Over that big, one, solid pearl gate set a name of an apostle. And didn't Jesus said, "You'll set on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel"? Who set at the gate to judge when they come into the City? Oh, my, there you are. The kings of the earth, entering into the City, comes before the apostolic judge, as Jesus promised.
Oh, my. On this throne, on the top of it, fifteen hundred miles high, the whole world will see the Light of the world, Jesus, setting on the throne on top of the world, top of the Church, top of Mount Zion, which is fifteen hundred miles (half size of the United States) and it raises plumb up till you can see Him the world over, fifteen hundred miles high. And all up and down the earth will be the redeemed.
There will be the houses of pure gold. There will be avenues, and parks, and gardens, and the River of Life coming trickling out from the throne and running down through little chasms and, oh, over the terraces. And the Tree of Life will be blooming in every yard and bear Its fruits twelve times a year, change fruit every month. And the kings of the earth shall come into it and bring their honor... And the leaves are for the healing of the nation. When the kings are living in peace out there, when they go out, they'll pick a tree, a leaf off like that (like the dove come back, that the wrath of God had been settled, and brought the holly leaf into the ark), so when the king leaves by bring his glory into the Bride's chamber here into the City, he will hold a leaf to his neighbor king, and we're in peace forevermore. Amen. Healing of the nations. It's all settled.

FUTURE HOME.   JEFF. IN   64-0802
55-1   City with the throne in top, Revelations 21:23, "And they need no light for the Lamb and the Lord God is the Light thereof." See?
The Lord God is that Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel through the wilderness. And He is ascended upon the throne in that perfect Kingdom, when time--the Kingdom that Jesus is to surrender to the Father, that God might be all and in all. Jesus sets upon His throne here as our Joseph. Then the King is that Light that will be on top of Mount Zion, and His holy Light will flood the entire City. Hallelujah.
Fifteen hundred miles high and fifteen hundred miles square with the paradises of God built all through that City, streets, avenues... Read your Revelations 21; see if it isn't right. See? They need no light there for the Lamb is the Light. And on the throne can be seen setting fifteen hundred miles... It don't run right straight up like this, it slants off like the pyramid. If it'd be half of the distance then, that'd be about... run up like this (You see?) from one city to the other.

51.  Born again Christian’s of the Message.

INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE.   SHREVEPORT, LA   65-1125
39-5   We all know that the modern church in its present condition and its present state is in no condition to finish up the great commission that God gave the church for this day. How many Pentecostals can say, "Amen" to that? That's right.
It's in... We're oneness, twoness, threeness, this, that, the other, fuss, fight. One's this, and one's that and the other. And everyone of them, they're afraid to face the Word right down to the test. They know... You can tell them about it, and they say, "I can't help it, I can't believe that. I don't care what he does. I..." See, see?
Shows what mammy and pappy you have. You might be a state presbyter someday. You might be this, that, or the other. You better be a son of God.
40-2   Now, we know that the church could not... The Pentecostal church by no means, by no means could carry out the last day message in its present condition. Could it? Why, it can't even agree on one or two words in the Bible. How you going to do it? It can't do it. So you see, denomination's out. That's right. It is going to be a elected people, that's elected for it. See?
Now, note. And so everyone of us know that the whole rank of denominationals, Pentecostal, and all, are dead; that is to the born again Christians of the Message. See? Your first husband is dead. You know he's dead. God let it die. It's finished.

52.  God dwelling amongst His people.

PARADOX.   JEFF. IN   61-1210
255   I've often wanted to come into a church; I've longed to see it, I guess, where I could walk in the back door, front door, wherever it was, look across an audience and see a perfect church all in order. Sin couldn't stay there; no, the Spirit would call it out. You see? It just couldn't stay. Like Ananias and Sapphira, you--you just couldn't do it. There'd be no sin in that, that group. No, sir. See, the Spirit quickly speak it like that. [Brother Branham quickly snaps his fingers--Ed.] No matter what it was, how little, it would be done. See women, men setting there under the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God moving perfectly, moving this. Someone had done something wrong in the congregation, couldn't, they'd be... They couldn't... They'd--they'd come quickly, and confess it before the Spirit got ahold of it, to confess it before and come tell it, 'cause they know right then it's going to be called. That's right. That's the Church of the living God. How my old, poor old heart, now it's getting old, how I've longed to stand and see a church like that. I may yet. I hope to. Perfect works of God without sin now, that could understand.

COMMUNION.   TUCSON, AZ  65-1212
60   You know, the hour will soon arise when--when right among us will be--the Holy Spirit will speak out like It did in Ananias and Sapphira...?... See, that hour is arriving. See? And we are... Now, you just remember that (See?) that God is going to dwell among His people. That's what He wants to do now.