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The True E as ter Seal
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The R a ptur e
` The chapter here at_at Yuma, it’s a grand privilege to
have this invitation to come back again
...
And then when I understood I was to be
back again, it made me feel real good, to hear the testimonies and
these fine words from the people, and kind of boosts you up a little
...
We have a time, he says, that we can slip in, right over
in January, before the Phoenix meeting, see, to come to Las Vegas
...
I believe Brother Art Wilson used to be there, a long time ago,
or he may still be there
...
I didn’t get the opportunity, so maybe this will be the time I
could come
...
I think he’s here
somewhere
...
Brother Pearry,
Lee, or any of them, they’ll be able to tell you
...
4
Now, I seen many ministers here, a while ago, to which I’m very
happy to meet my brethren
...
That’s
fine
...
He got
two marks against him now
...
When, you’re_you’re held guilty of that, Brother
Pearry
...
But you^Somebody
was fixing to speak
...
6
And so then, again, he went out there and was talking
...
Said, “The supper
was good
...
That was the hottest pepper I
ever taste
...
He said, “I’m the chef
...
We’ll get him straightened out, over here
in Arizona, after while, (won’t we?), if he stay around us
...
Which, the Lord Hisself had a sense of humor,
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you know
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’” So, He had a
sense of humor
...
9
And now it’s a little late
...
So this, knowing the courtesy of the brother and sister here,
the chapter, we’ll cut that way down, tonight
...
I said^
He said, “What’s^Put on a two-hour tape?”
10 I said, “No, Terry
...
” I said, “Just about
thirty or forty minutes, speak to the people of something
...
11 When I was a little boy, people used to come out to listen
because I was a boy preacher, just a young fellow, a chap
...
” And they’d come out to hear my
broken words, my Kentucky English, and_and so they^my “hits,
and hain’ts, and totes, and carry
...
”
12 I got up and said, “For my old Kentucky home far away
...
13 So now, after you got older, though, well, we, he come in, you
got to have something more than that
...
You
act as a child
...
Then you, after while, you get so you can walk a straight line
...
Now is time to
walk a straight line, right down that highway to Glory
...
I truly believe that the Coming of the Lord is closer,
perhaps, than we think
...
Setting at home, the other day, I was thinking on this thought
...
I’ll just take part of It, and just for those little short services like we
would have tonight
...
The_the first^The 27th Psalm, I want first five
verses, to read
...
My Brother Pearry was speaking about the books, and so forth,
and the new books that they got
...
16 There’s too much supernatural vindication of God’s written
Word, of this hour, for something not to be approaching us now
...
The things that you^It would be
astounding, to you, just to let you know that what is really taking
place
...
What they are getting at, is God’s promise of this hour,
that He promised what He would do
...
Foretold, hits just exactly perfectly, each time, because it’s
God saying it
...
If a man told you
a certain thing would happen, it would_it would happen at a certain
time; one out of ten million
...
And then the time it would happen, goes on and on, and the way
it will happen, and what it will be happening, and so forth, it’s just
beyond a guess
...
And then we turn right back in the Scriptures
...
But we turn right back in the Scriptures, without even
knowing where to look, and the Holy Spirit brings out and just puts
the whole Word together, makes the picture there to show us just the
hour that we’re living in
...
18 We’re_we’re at a corner
...
Starts, everybody laying the
bricks right down the same row, like a certain denomination starts,
and starts rolling down the row, it’s all right
...
He’s building a house, see, and
there’s many cuts and turns that He’s predicted here in the Bible
...
If it isn’t, it’s got to be torn down again
...
I’ve always contended that I_I didn’t
believe in^I believe in the people in denominations
...
20 And_and just like, I believe, it was Brother David’s little saying,
about he was raising some ducks, and said the river come up
...
But when the
water got so high, it just floated the ducks out of the pen
...
Is just the water is coming
up, see, and we can get out of the pen and_and fellowship with one
another, you know, have the real love of Christ in our hearts
...
Because, many times^I have brothers, fine brothers in, I guess,
every denomination I’ve ever met: Presbyterians, Lutheran, Baptists,
Pentecostals, all different types of the Pentecostals, church of God,
and Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness
...
But,
many times, they cannot have me in their community, because, see,
not that they don’t believe it, but, see, it would cut them off from their
denomination
...
22 Here not long ago, there was a Methodist brother came to me, I
won’t call his name
...
We set down and
talked a little while
...
”
I said, “Then, let the Methodist church sponsor it
...
”
That was different
...
I just belong with them
...
See? They’re the ones, the Pentecostals, is the
ones that open their doors
...
And as
many as them that will open, why, we’re ready to come in
...
If any man will open the door, I’ll come in and
sup
...
All of us knows that was Christ, and He is
the Word
...
He is the Word
...
No churches is sponsoring it
...
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And I’ve helped establish many, many, many chapters
throughout the entire world, of the Full Gospel Business Men
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In there, the
businessmen will sponsor it
...
But, then, and I don’t want to never try to pull somebody from
their church
...
See? Be a real Christian
...
A real,
loyal, genuine saint, any man that believes in God will appreciate a
person like that
...
26 Now, I thank the brother here, and his wife, and this chapter,
for this opportunity
...
May the blessings
of God rest upon it, and be an instrument in God’s hands, to save
hundreds and hundreds of people before the Coming of the Lord;
and all the rest of you chapters or representatives here from the
chapters
...
I got some Scriptures written
down here
...
But, see the time get away, why, I didn’t
want to stay that long, so I just turned over here and got some more
Scripture
...
See?
28 Now, we believe that there will be a Rapture
...
29 And now to read for some background, we read the 25th Psalm
...
The 27th Psalm, 1 to 5 verses
...
Though the host should encamp about me, my heart shall
not fear: though war should rise against me, in this I will be
confident
...
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in the pavilion:
and in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set
me up on a rock
...
Now, today, speaking on this subject, and now some of you
may different, the_the avenues that I take
...
”_Ed
...
That’s right, exactly, a
catching away of the Church
...
31 And I think that, in speaking, I_I just don’t try to get up here to
say something that I think would please the people
...
I want to get up here and say something as I feel led
to say it, that I think would be a help to you, something that would
further your experience with God, if you are a Christian; and if
you’re not a Christian, make you so ashamed of yourself, that you
will become a Christian
...
32 Now, we are warned, as in the Doctrine of This in the last days
will be scorned at
...
It’s in Second Peter, the 3rd chapter
...
The 3rd chapter, and the 3rd and 4th verses
...
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?^since
the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation
...
See? It’s predicted, the
reason the people are acting today the way they’re acting
...
“In the last
days they’d be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God; trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers
of those that are good; having a form of godliness, and denying
the power thereof: from such turn away
...
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When Moses went down into Egypt, to deliver the children
of Israel, with only a stick in his hand for vindication, with the
God of Heaven behind him, he performed a miracle
...
See?
Now, they come second, after he did it first
...
We find that
...
”
But the same Scripture says that they’ll come again in the last
days
...
” See? Impersonations, all kinds of
things to upset people
...
It’s_it’s_it’s Satan’s purpose to do that
...
”
I know that Satan is the god of this world
...
Exactly
...
He offered it to Him one day
...
37 “Scoffers
...
Scoffers!
I was reading a paper, about two weeks ago, in Tucson, that
where some Englishman from England had made a statement
...
And there’s no way that
we could disprove that to them, because all the things of God is to be
received by faith
...
Now, he went ahead to give a
description how that that could be done
...
They turned
down that message of their day, and look what they are in this day
...
It’s one
of the lowest degraded countries in the world
...
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It’s^Billy Graham said the same thing
...
When I was there, I
never seen anything would break a person’s heart any more than
what was going on in England; which had the opportunity, and, one
time, led the world in a reformation
...
39 But, you see, what does that, the message that went forth then,
the Englishmen try to hold that same message for today
...
It won’t work
...
And neither would Jesus’ Message have ever worked of
Moses
...
And today, we, our last great reformation was Pentecost
...
And the Pentecostal message won’t
mix with This, because it’s another day
...
Like the feet, arms, coming up, it’s forming a Bride for
the Rapture
...
All them will come out, that was in the Bride
...
It leaves the wheat,
the hull, but the wheat forms itself like the grain of wheat that fell in
the ground
...
He said, “Of all of the_of the fanatics in the world,
William Branham tops them all
...
He does these things
...
42 And, then, the man was a critic
...
He said, “A God that could set up in the dark ages, hold His
hands across His tummy, and laugh at a bunch of Christians; being
mothers, and His Own disciples, was supposed to be; mothers with
little children and things, and let lions eat them up; and never even
turn a hand
...
”_Ed
...
Just like Jesus had
to fall, to rise again, so did the church of pentecost had to fall
...
Any wheat that^Any grain
that goes into the ground, it has to lay in that dark time, to bring forth
...
Come on through
Wesley
...
Now in, to go out to the grain
...
It’s to be burnt, the denomination system
...
It all altogether will make the Bride
...
Such scum!
45 Now you say, “That’s in London, England
...
Some great doctor of divinity, from a fine school, said that the_the
crucifixion was a fake
...
”
And we find it in Genesis, where it’s spoke of
...
It’s found in the Orients there
...
Maybe^And you’re like you’re dead,
slump, everything, for two or three days at a time
...
And when they did, they give Him
that, and He went slump like He was dead
...
After two or three days, sure, going
back, then He was awake again, was all right
...
”
The first place, that critic, what’s the matter with people? See,
it’s just this day we’re living in, scoffers, see, the day to fulfill the
prophecy
...
And He also foreordained men for that age, to
fulfill that Word
...
When He lotted Moses’ time, He lotted Moses to It
...
Every age, He’s lotted His man, foreordained, as the Bible said
...
So, He
knowed
...
It’s just us that thinks it is
...
Look back in His Word and see what He’s doing,
then we’ll have an understanding
...
The first place, if that minister would have
thought, when they put that vinegar and gall in His mouth, He spit
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it out
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See? Just scoffers rising!
Another thing, how did this Jesus of Nazareth, how did His life
fit every prophecy of the Old Testament? How could it been? It
couldn’t have been without it been ordained of God
...
Another thing, if those disciples had
faked Him like that, why did each one of them die in martyrdom?
And even apostle Peter said, “Turn my head upside down
...
” How they took Andrew and turned him
sideways on the cross
...
They believed Him and loved Him, and gave their
lives for Him
...
Here was a great man here, not long ago, some great rabbi that
wrote that, “Moses, while passing through the Red Sea,” said, “it
wasn’t actually water
...
” Said, “What
it was, up at the other end of the Dead Sea, there was a bunch of
reeds
...
No water in there
...
” And many clergymen believe it, they, and accept it
...
That even turned ministers
around
...
51
Why, my, how education and wisdom of this world has turned
the church into a bunch of ragweeds! The^Its education and the
educational system, science and civilization, is of the Devil
...
The Bible said so
...
It’s nothing of it, at all
...
More science, scientific we get, further we go into death
things, traps to kill, and everything
...
See? There won’t be
none in There
...
We find out, that in Genesis 4, that Cain’s people started
civilization, building towns and cities, and so forth, and instruments
of music, and become in science
...
But when Seth’s people come on, they begin
to come on, call on the Name of the Lord
...
And if you’re here, and belong to this church, I’m not saying
this to hurt your feeling; ’cause just as many good people in there, as
there is in other churches
...
And we see where they’re all coming together now at the great
ecumenical council, and so forth, just exactly fulfilling what the
Bible said they’d do
...
55 Now we find out they said, “Why, the Bible^” Some of the
Protestants want to hold to that Bible
...
It’s always been the
church
...
” What a subtle lie that is! Why,
we’ve had the Bible for three thousand years
...
Just a subtle thing of the Devil!
56 And we find out in this day, when this great scoffing and making
fun of the Bible, and trying to push It out, God has got to judge the
church by something
...
It has to be
there
...
We know that
...
So if
He’s going to judge it by the Catholic church, which Catholic church?
If He’s going to judge it by the Methodist, the Baptist is lost
...
See? What’s He going to judge
it by? He said He would judge it by Christ, and Christ is the Word
...
“In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
...
The same yesterday,
today, and forever
...
57 And now we find out that in this day, when they’re trying to
push the Bible out, “Accept the church
...
The church,” so they can just make any kind of a creed or anything
else, and walk by it
...
In the_the
communion, when they kill that sacrificial lamb, there was to be
“no leaven among them, through the entire seven days,” no leaven,
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no leaven bread
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That represented
the seven church ages that we get in the book here, and there’s no
leaven
...
And we mix creed and
denomination, everything else, with the Word, and still try to call it
the Word
...
”
59 And even what is eat today, don’t try to keep it for tomorrow
...
See, try to hold it over, but that’s
been the attitude of the church
...
A denomination starts, organization
...
And there never will be
...
The wheat has come back to the wheat again
...
The shuck has pulled away from It
...
60 Isn’t it a strange thing, that, not long ago, on the East Coast, the
big blackout? They couldn’t understand it
...
They can’t understand it
...
And these signs are indicating that we are at the end
...
“But there shall be Light about the evening time,” that there
will be a Light come forth in the evening time, when the blackouts
and things are going the way they are now
...
The pope just come over here
...
I
guess, all of you take them
...
And if
that Holy Spirit didn’t come down in a big Pillar of Fire, and went
right back there on that wall and drawed Them out, Hisself, while
three or four hundred people setting, looking at It!
And just as the pope started over here, the moon somehow
blacked out
...
Now he’s made his trip over here
on the thirteenth, walked thirteen steps, served communion to
thirteen, to a nation that’s number thirteen, and blackouts coming
everywhere
...
62 “Scoffers shall rise in the last day, saying, ‘There’s no difference
in the time than what it was, than when our fathers fell asleep
...
Something could happen at any time, Christ come
for His Church
...
The people really don’t realize that, doing
these things and saying these things, they’re fulfilling the Scriptures
...
” Singing that in the temple, and Him dying out there on the
cross
...
Even Jesus prayed,
“Father, forgive them
...
”
Because, they were actually predicted, by the Scriptures, to be blind
...
There you are, back to the blindness again, trampling
over the things of God, as if (they) It didn’t mean nothing to them,
scoffing and making fun of It
...
65 But, to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to Her
...
That, the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will
be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture
...
You cannot
have a revelation without it being faith
...
Faith is a revelation
...
Now, faith, that’s what faith is, is the revelation
of God
...
67 Here a few weeks ago, I was talking to a fine Baptist minister
...
He said, “I like you as a man, but,” said,
“you’re all mixed up
...
”
He said, “We’ll never be able, Brother Branham, to get the things
together till we get every Word upon Word, upon Word, exactly
with the Greek, and so forth
...
” I said, “Even in the
Nicaea Council, way back as far as that, three hundred years from
the death of Christ, they were still debating which Greek scholar was
right
...
It’s a revelation, the whole thing
...
”
I said, “Then how can you accept Christ?”
He said, “Why, the Bible said, ‘He that believeth is^on Jesus
Christ, has everlasting Life
...
It also says that no man can call Jesus the
Christ only by the revelation of the Holy Ghost that’s revealed it to
him
...
It’s got to be revealed, in the Bible
...
Abel offered unto God a more
excellent sacrifice than that of Cain
...
When Jesus was asked here, Matthew 16:17 and 18
...
He said, “Who does
man say I the Son of man am?”
“One of them said You’re ‘Moses, Elias, or so forth
...
”
72 He said, “Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and
blood has not revealed this to you
...
Upon this rock,” the spiritual revelation of
Who God is, Who Jesus is
...
“He was in the world
...
”
“Thou art the Christ, the anointed One, the Son of God
...
Upon this rock
I’ll build My Church, the revelation of the Word in Its season
...
”
74 The Book of the Revelations is the last Book of the Bible
...
In there, the Bible says, in 22nd chapter,
“Whosoever shall take one Word from It, or add one word to It,
I’ll take his part from the Book of Life
...
And It opens the Book of
Revelations and reveals Who the Author of this entire Book is
...
And reveals His
complete mystery of Himself, and His plans for His church ages
that’s to come, and was sealed in there by Seven Seals
...
And these Seven Seals was not to be opened
(Revelations 10) until the sounding of the last earthly angel on earth,
Revelations 10:7
...
” That, and that’s the age that we’re living in
...
There will never
be another age to it
...
So, we’re living in the Laodicea Age
...
That’s what He promised
...
It’s got to remain always the Word
...
And then God vindicates that to be
the Truth
...
He is His Own interpreter
...
Like, in the beginning, He said, “Let there be
light,” and there was light
...
It
was vindicated
...
Why, there it was
...
He promised to send Him
...
If I do
not the works of My Father, then believe Me not
...
”
79 Well, then, in Wesley’s age, the works that he did testified who
he was
...
80 In the days of the Pentecostals, the restoring back of the gifts, the
restoration of the gifts, speaking in tongues and casting out devils, and
the gifts, why, it testified
...
People said,
when it first raised up^I read the books on the history of Pentecost
...
It’ll burn down
...
Why?
Is because you’ll never put it out
...
It’s that
portion of the Word, and no more could you put that out
...
And we’re living in that day; praise be to God; the revelation of
the mystery of Hisself
...
Remember, the Bible said, “And the rest
of the dead lived not for a thousand years
...
The Bible says there will be
...
82 The very word, church, means “called out of
...
It’s in the_in the tape,
The Bride Tree
...
The_the Bride, rather, is the One that’s going to be
in the Rapture; that, alone, nothing but the Bride, the elected ones
foreknown by God from the beginning, the Father’s spiritual genes
...
And I keep getting nervous,
thinking I’m going to hold you, going to hold you too long
...
Do you know,
years before you were born, you were in your father as a gene?
[Congregation says, “Amen
...
] That’s right
...
See?
Female furnishes the egg, a bedding ground
...
I didn’t know him, but he was there
...
I know him
...
And he come just at the
time when it’s the right time
...
You are a part, a son of God,
an attribute of God
...
He
predestinated you to that age, to take that place, and no one else can
take it; care how many impersonations and things
...
Now you are made
manifest
...
He’s longing for fellowship, to be worshipped
...
See? There’ll be millions and billions of them, they’ll
just be mimics of Christianity
...
I was watching Brother
Demos Shakarian over there, when they was having hybreeding
cattle, watch the test tubes, and so forth, being taken in by doctors,
and watching these things
...
And somewhat a
million eggs comes from the female at_at the same time
...
And then all the rest of them
die
...
That’s why, when you come into
this life here and profess Christianity, well, everything going wrong,
you’ve wondered why this is, and all this
...
But,
one day, Something struck you
...
And if it^
89 Like my little story about the eagle, finding it, its mother finding the
eagle
...
But she, her habits of trying to feed them_them chickens,
the little eagle couldn’t stomach it, because he wasn’t a chicken, to
begin with
...
But she would scratch in the barnyard and things, and the little
eagle couldn’t stand it
...
But one day^
90 His mother knew that she had laid two eggs, not one
...
She went to hunt it, flying around,
circling
...
It was a voice, that, he realized that that’s
the thing that fit
...
He was an eagle
...
I don’t care how many denominations you joined, how many names,
you put your name on the books and things
...
Because, all this clucking of the hen,
“You join this and join this, and go this way and that way,” it’s
nonsense
...
When a germ comes into the womb of_of the female, it don’t
take on^You, you didn’t become a human germ from your father,
and then the next thing you become a germ from a dog, and the next
thing from a cat, the next thing from a chicken
...
91
And the Body of Jesus Christ, the Bride, will be part of His Body
...
Luther’s justification,
Wesley’s sanctification, pentecostal’s baptism of the Holy Spirit,
restoration of the gifts, and all the rest of It, goes with It
...
Now, remember, you was an attribute
...
92
Many say, “Join our congregation
...
One wants to do this or that
...
” The other one said, “You
don’t have to speak with tongues
...
” This says, “You must shout
...
”
It’s all all right, and then, still, it’s all wrong
...
I promised It
...
Why, they’re bound to see It
...
Then how do we get into this Body? First Corinthians 12, “By
one Spirit we’re all baptized into this Body, by one Holy Spirit
baptism
...
“And by one Spirit we are all baptized
...
Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen
...
] The
Life of Christ! And the life of any seed^Which, He was the Word
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...
94 As I told you, here at Phoenix, not long ago
...
I was out there, and he showed me a tree, a
citrus
...
And he showed me one tree,
it had eight or nine different kinds of fruit on it
...
”
I said, “Why is the lemon, and the tangerine, and tangelo, and
grapefruit?”
He said, “It’s all citrus fruit
...
”
“Oh,” I said, “I see
...
Be^”
95 “Oh, no
...
Each limb will bear its own
fruit
...
It’ll bear its own
...
Yet, it won’t bear the
original fruit
...
We’ve grafted in, taken in with
creeds, and so forth, and grafted in each, Here
...
And then if God ever does anything in the Church, it’ll be
original, back with the Word again
...
It has to be, ’cause the
Life is in the Tree, and It bears Its own kind
...
And as the limbs quit, they
prune them off
...
He took the branches off, cut them out, because they wasn’t bearing
any fruit
...
His Wife must bring forth the
kind of a children that He is
...
Then, her first love,
for the world and denomination, she’s gone back to that
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Just like if you take a lemon branch and stick it in there, it’ll
bring a lemon, but it can’t bring a orange, because it wasn’t there at
the beginning
...
It
can’t bring nothing else
...
Everybody^You let God start to do something, everybody
has got the ball and gone
...
I was reading in history, of Martin Luther, here not long ago
...
But,” said, “the
strange thing, that he could hold his head above all the fanaticism
that followed his revival, and still stay straight on his justification
...
102 Look at Mrs
...
Every lady preacher had them wings,
and packed the Bible the same way, just_just carnal impersonations!
They can’t be original
...
You
let one church get something another in the city, the other church
can’t stand it
...
See? They’re not original any more
...
It’s the Word, and It has to bring forth
Its kind; Its kind in Its season, elected, predestinated by the Father,
God
...
“Baptized in there by the Holy Spirit
...
Now we
find out, if we turn back in Genesis, about the, oh, about the 5th
chapter, you can also turn to Luke and find out, that Enoch was the
seventh from Noah
...
There catches the serpent’s seed
...
See? But nowhere in the Bible it said that
Cain was Abel’s son^or Cain_or Cain was Adam’s son
...
” And Adam wasn’t the
evil one
...
”
105 Now we find here that Enoch was the seventh from Noah, which
was a type of the church ages
...
Enoch was raptured,
the seventh, showing that it’s the seventh church age that takes the
Rapture
...
We all know it
...
All of
the other six died
...
God took him
...
But the_the end-time Bride will be called out of
the^The rapturing, without death, will be called out of the seventh
church age, which we are now bearing record of that age
...
See?
107 Now, here, also, a type of the seven church ages, which,
in Revelation 10:7, that the great mystery of the Book was to be
unfolded by the seventh angel’s Message
...
The English word angel means “a messenger
...
Jesus, when He started out, He started healing the sick and
afflicted
...
” Everybody wanted
Him in his church
...
That was different
...
”
“Why, He’s a vampire!” See? See? That was different
...
They had already seen the manifestation,
the vindication of the Word of God for His age, made real and
proved to them that He was that Messenger of that age
...
109 Those disciples might not have been able to explain It
...
They set right still
and believed It
...
But
they believed It, because they were ordained
...
” See? They believed it
...
110 Now watch, now, in the seventh church age, “When the seventh
angel begins to sound, the mysteries of God was to be made known
right there,” the Seals
...
Luther didn’t
live long enough, neither did Wesley
...
They had their message of that day, and
the people grasped it and denominated it
...
Nature always testifies
...
It has to
...
The sun rise in the morning, it’s a little baby born
...
Ten o’clock, it’s coming out of
high school
...
Three o’clock in
the afternoon, it’s getting old
...
Old and weak
again, going back to the grave
...
See?
Look at the trees, how they put forth their leaves, everything
that they do
...
What? The life goes down to the root of the tree
...
112
Now watch the churches, how it’s done the same thing in the
reformation
...
That corn of wheat fell in the ground and
died, under the dark-age persecution
...
It had
to die
...
That, lest that seed dies and
rot, it abides alone
...
It laid there, rotted
...
Out of the Lutheran church, brought off more
blades, Zwingli and so forth
...
It dropped back
...
That
corn of wheat, that^
113
Anybody ever, here, ever raise any wheat? You look at that
wheat when you look at it
...
” You look like you got a wheat there
...
You haven’t got no wheat at all
...
Didn’t
Jesus warn us that, in Matthew 24:22^-four? “In the last days,
that, the two spirits would be so close together, it would deceive
the elected wheat Itself if it was possible
...
It’s a
carrier
...
The Life that come out of Wesley is what made Pentecost
...
But they are
carriers
...
The Message goes
through, but It’s heading on up into the wheat
...
The Bride, Itself, comes out of each age
...
Have you noticed, this
last days, how it’s begin to pull away now? When that wheat begins
to grow, then the_the shuck begins to get away from It
...
Pull it open
like this, and look into it and see
...
You have to take a thirty-power scope to look into it, to see
the little bud of wheat back there
...
Now, that shuck
has to be there, to shelter That, to give It a chance to get out
...
And the Life goes right out of that
shuck, right into the wheat
...
It just_it just can’t beat nature
...
And now that’s the age that we’re living in right now, the
seventh church age
...
Now, if you take Luke the
17th chapter and the 30th verse, He said, “As it was in the days of
Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, when the
Son of man begins to reveal Himself
...
Reveal, out to the people, the
Word that’s made known for the day
...
And,
remember, He was represented there in a man
...
Now,
we notice in that Genesis chapter there, when Jesus was speaking
about it
...
He said, He asked a question
...
He said, “Now,
Abraham, I’m going to visit you according to the time of life
...
He said, “Why did Sarah
laugh, in the tent, saying, ‘How can these things be?’”
118
Jesus promised
...
Abraham called Him,
“Elohim,” the Almighty
...
Now, the Bible predicts
that it will return again in the last days
...
“And when
you see these things begin to come to pass,” just remember, when
this starts to taking place like that then, that, “you know that the
time is nigh at the door
...
Look at the world, Sodom, if there ever
was a Sodom
...
Their minds are perverted
...
Look at the outlaw^[Blank spot on tape_Ed
...
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And look at our women, what a rampage it’s made
...
And not only
our^
You say, “That’s Methodists
...
It’s the
whole thing
...
They hang, instead of the Word of God, in
some little tradition of denomination
...
The
reason, they’re blind
...
They never will see It
...
I think that lady wants us to leave
...
122 So now notice Enoch, the type of the Church
...
Can you think of that? The seventh
church age! Notice
...
If we don’t
believe the Bible, course, see, we don’t believe it
...
124 Now we’re living in the seventh church age
...
” Here we see it, the Son of man coming
among His people and doing just exactly, confirming His Message as
He said He would do
...
125 And the seven watches, like the seven watch, of one come
...
That was Enoch, the seventh, which was translated
...
Now, in the Bible times, talking about the watches
...
126 Now listen closely
...
No
...
It was
divided in watches
...
Now, the first watch
started at from nine until twelve
...
And the third watch of the night was counted from
three to six
...
Then we come back to the seven for the Rapture, which will
take place, I believe, between six and seven o’clock^or six and nine
o’clock, some morning
...
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On that bright and cloudless morning when the
dead in Christ shall rise,
And the glory of His resurrection share;
When His chosen ones shall gather to their homes
beyond the sky,
When the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there
...
We just
put that word there
...
”
We read here in Second Thessalonians^Or, First Thessalonians, it
is the order of this great Rapture that will take place in the last days
...
We’re going to begin here with 13th verse
...
For if we believe^Christ died and rose again, even so
them^which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him
...
”)^those
that are asleep
...
^the Lord himself shall descend from the heavens with a
shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and^the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:^
129 I want you to notice a great thing taking place here now
...
See? Now notice
...
Notice
...
Quickly now, so we can close
...
Let’s read It
now and see if that’s right
...
A voice^A shout, a voice, a trumpet,
has to happen before Jesus appears
...
A shout, what is the shout? It’s the Message going forth, first,
the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride
...
And He never changes His
policy
...
In
Amos 3:7, He said, “He would do nothing on the earth until first He
revealed it to His servants the prophets
...
132 Now, we’ve come through the church ages
...
That’s right
...
He’s alway^
God uses that spirit five times: once in Elijah; in Elisha; in John
the Baptist; call out the Church; and the remnant of the Jews
...
See?
All right
...
And when all these
mysteries has been all so bundled up by a bunch of ecclesiasties,
it will take a_a direct prophet from God to reveal It
...
See?
134 Now, remember, “The Word of the Lord comes to the prophet,”
not the theologian
...
He
can’t say nothing; he can’t say his own thoughts
...
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
...
No more than
you could^
135 If you could say, “I_I_I can’t open my eyes,” when you’re
looking
...
You can’t reach your hand, when you can
...
See? You’re just
made thus
...
When the ecclesiastical group
would get everything all mixed up, He would send a prophet, raise
him up from nowhere
...
Called off a scene, and gone, just rugged men of the
Truth of God
...
He said,
“If there be one among you who is spiritual or a prophet^”
136 Now, prophets
...
See? Yes, sir
...
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But nobody set before a prophet, ’cause he was_he was
absolutely the Word of God
...
You seen
God reflect
...
138 It’ll never be done; the church can’t receive Christ
...
How we going to carry out the end time in the
condition they’re in today, when every one against the other, and
everything else, and ecclesiastically? Oh, mercy! It’s a mess
...
And any time^I ask any historian to_to_to
say different
...
And Pentecost done the
same thing that they all did, the Pentecost that come out
...
And you turn, “like a dog to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow,” and
done the same thing that they did
...
You have to have a fellowship
card before you can even associate with you, hardly
...
And where are you all at? The
same bucket
...
And God’s Spirit, moving on
...
I’ll water
It, day and night
...
141 The first thing comes, when He starts descending from the
Heaven, there’s a shout
...
A Message comes forth, first
...
” What watch was that? The seventh, not
the sixth
...
Rise and
trim your lamps
...
Some of them found they didn’t
even have any Oil in their lamp
...
It’s Malachi-4 time
...
It’s_it’s
Isa-^All those prophecy that It can perfectly set in order for this
day, in the Scripture, we see it living right there
...
When, God
in Heaven knows I could die on this platform right now
...
It’s just^It’s tremendous, when
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you see God come from the Heaven, stand before groups of men,
and stand there, declare Himself just as He ever did
...
See? Right
...
143 And the denominational system is dead
...
It’ll never rise
again
...
That’s what you do with the husk on the field
...
Get into Christ
...
I
belong to Baptist
...
” You get into Christ
...
I don’t care what anybody else said
...
Cause, you, when He pours the Spirit
upon the Word, what happens? Just like putting water on any other
seed
...
144 You say, “I got the baptism, the Holy Ghost
...
145 Looky here
...
You are
...
Now, you got five senses in this body, to contact your earthly home
...
You got five senses of the spirit,
here: love and conscience, and so forth, of that
...
That’s what you are
...
”_Ed
...
”] Sure
...
The cocklebur will raise his hands and shout
just the same as the wheat
...
”_Ed
...
“False Christs,” anointed ones, falsely anointed to the Word;
denominational anointed, but not to the Word
...
It don’t need nothing
else
...
“And there will come false anointed ones
...
And that anoi-^
Oh, if you’d call one of them, say, “Oh, you, are you a Jesus?”
“Oh, certainly not
...
148 But when it comes to an “Oh, glory! I got the anointing!” And
it’s the genuine anointing
...
So did Balaam have It, and prophesied
...
Unless that
was God’s seed, His gene from the beginning, predestinated, you’re
finished
...
That has nothing to do with it
...
I’ve seen heathens raise, and shout, and speak in tongues, and_and
drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the Devil
...
It’s your heart in that Word, and that’s Christ
...
149 Luther could bring nothing but sprig
...
We’re in the wheat age now
...
Genuine pentecost had to bring genuine pentecost
...
But
we’re past that age, and going on
...
That’s exactly
...
And God knows that
...
And
that may not be too long
...
151 When I went forth into the meetings with you, praying for the
sick, it was fine
...
Jesus went forth and healed the sick, in order to catch their eyes,
the people, then His Message
...
It has to have something that God is going to introduce
...
The main heart of It is the Message
...
He’s trying to get the favor of the people,
so they’ll set and listen to Him, see, for there’s some in there that’s
ordained to Life
...
And others fell amongst thorns
...
152 Now, it’s the first thing, is the sounding
...
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Shout: a messenger getting the people ready
...
Getting the Bride together; and then the resurrection of the dead,
see; to be caught up with It
...
The next is what? Was a trumpet
...
153 Now, the third thing, is a trumpet
...
And that’ll be the Bride’s
Supper, the Lamb’s Supper with the Bride, in the sky
...
The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride;
the_the ones died, back in the other ages, they’re caught together
...
Why, that’s
the thing that takes place, friends
...
The only thing, the Church coming
out, has got to lay before the Son, to ripen
...
The wheat will be
burned, the stalks, but the grain will be gathered into Its garner
...
You’re_you’re sensible people
...
And
I must say It, and my Message
...
And here It is
...
I didn’t know it
...
When, you all heard me preach that sermon: Sirs, What Time Is
It? That morning, exactly where It said It would be, there stood
seven Angels standing right there, from the Heaven
...
158 And there, when I was watching, one day, when I started
preach these Seven Church Ages
...
I said, “Jack, Who is this Person standing there? ‘There
is One like the Son of man standing there, hair as white as wool
...
” That
didn’t ring the bell
...
See?
I’ve always preached that He was Deity, not just a man
...
Jesus was God’s love, which built a body that Jehovah Himself lived
in
...
What God was, He
manifested through that body
...
160
And notice, not only is the Bride washed, forgiven, but She is
justified
...
Then he come, say, “I forgive you, Brother Branham
...
What you forgiving me
about?” See? But if I’m guilty, then I can be forgiven; but I’m still
not just, because I did it
...
”
Justified! And then the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us so from sin,
till it’s put in the Book of God’s forgetfulness
...
We can’t
...
I could forgive you, but
I always remember you done these evil things
...
163
But, in the sight of God, the Bride is justified
...
Amen
...
Why? She was foreordained
...
And now when She heard the Truth and
come forth, the Blood cleansed Her
...
See? She, no sin on Her, at all
...
And the trumpet^
The same One, He, with a loud voice, He screamed out with that
shout and a voice, and woke Lazarus
...
” See? And the voice wakes up_wakes up the
sleeping Bride, the sleeping dead
...
” And, when
it does, it calls
...
See? Which, was a pentecostal Feast, the great Feast in the
sky; and the feast of the trumpets
...
” And now that is the_the
Lamb’s Supper in the sky
...
The assembling together; and the Bride; the feast of
the trumpets, the Wedding Supper
...
Now
watch just a moment before we close
...
We seen it in types
...
Three is always a witness
...
”_Ed
...
Three
witnesses bear
...
”
167 Now notice
...
Three is a witness
...
Did you
know that? As a witness
...
Enoch was one; Elijah was the
other one; and Jesus was the other one
...
See? He was
the Keystone between the Old and New Testament, ’cause He
had to first die and then rapture
...
Because, He was
the Keystone that tied the two together
...
After He did that, and proved that, the Old
Testament there
...
We know
Elijah was taken up by a whirlwind, that right, in a chariot of Fire
...
There is three, to bear record
...
”_Ed
...
You know that?
That, let’s see if we can’t read it, right quick
...
And let’s get about the 45th verse of the Matthew, the
27th chapter
...
27:45, I believe, I got wrote down here
...
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
until the ninth^
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabach-^? which to say,^my God,
why has thou forsaken me?
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Some of them that stood by,^heard it, and said, This man
calls^Elias
...
The rest said,^let us see whether Elias will come and save
him
...
” Loud voice! Watch
...
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the
top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks did
rent;
And the graves were opened; and many of the bodies^ the
saints that slept arose,
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went
into the holy city, and appeared unto many
...
Three has happened in the Old Testament, of them prepared,
who the Word of the Lord came to
...
The Word of the Lord came to Elijah
...
See? The Word of the Lord was Jesus
...
Notice verse 50
...
See? The loud voice
awakened
...
Let’s just take a read, read it
...
See?
^I would not have you^ignorant, brethren, concerning
those^asleep, that you sorrow not, even^
That’s First Thessalonians 4:12 to 18
...
The second Rapture will be the catching away of
the Bride
...
And the Old Testament saints ascended up, at His loud
voice, when He screamed and give up the ghost; because (why?)
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the Sacrifice, the propitiation of their sins, that they had waited
on, believing that perfect Lamb was coming
...
And when He died and yielded up the ghost, He
screamed with a loud voice, and the Old Testament saints awoke
...
See?
“Yielded up the ghost
...
And the Old Testament saints
came to the earth again, walked around on earth, and entered in with
Him, at His rapture
...
” “He led captive captive, give gifts unto men,” and the Old
Testament saints went in with Him
...
” Mighty host, here they
come in, marching
...
And went in the new gates up There,
and said, “Lift up, ye everlasting gates, and be ye lifted up
...
”
174
The voice come from the inside, said, “Who is the King of
Glory?”
“The Lord mighty in battle
...
“And Jesus, a
Conqueror, led captive captive,” them that had believed on Him, and
the Word had come to them
...
There is one Rapture, already
passed
...
“We
which are alive and remain,” that’s the bodies left on earth, “will not
prevent or hinder them which are asleep
...
” See? “And we
which alive and remain shall caught up together with them
...
And I_I was
standing on^I was standing on the street corner and watching the
Armistice Day parade, and when it went up, going up the street
...
There come, the first, was
the old first war tanks come by, little old tanks
...
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After there, come the soldiers; the_the_the Gold Star mothers
...
” And there stood a_a soldier standing there, guard
at the grave
...
And there was a partition drawed
...
She had lost her boy
...
A little ragged boy
setting sideways; and the tears running out of his face
...
I thought, “What sadness! I stand here and look, see them, old,
just a few of the soldiers left; marching down there, crippled and old,
like that, with their uniforms, but proudly displaying them because
they were Americans
...
” Them Old Testament saints back yonder, who
are waiting, will blast forth and come out of there first, and go into
the resurrection
...
What a_what a parade that’ll be when it starts heavenward, some
of these days, in that rapturing time that lays ahead, oh, proudly
displaying the Blood of Jesus Christ upon their chests, the Message
of God in the hour that they lived in
...
178
Looky, just in closing now
...
The second one is at hand, right now, will come to hand
now
...
Which, these are the ones that turns back, with the Spirit of
Christ, to witness to the Jews, like Joseph did to his brethren
...
Then the spirit of life came into them, and they were raptured,
taken up into Heaven
...
Three raptures of the Old Testament; all of them past
...
It’s been spoken, and so shall it be
...
”
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When God said, back there in Genesis 1, He said, “Let there be
light
...
He said, “Let there be a palm tree
...
Let there be a desert
...
Let there be this
...
And as long as it went out of His mouth, in a
Word, it has to be manifested
...
When^
182
Then one day, He called His people out
...
And Moses wouldn’t^The people wouldn’t believe Moses, so He
said, “Bring them out to this mountain
...
And the people said, “Don’t let God speak
...
”
184
God said, “I’ll not speak to them no more like this, but I’ll raise
them up a prophet
...
Then, you hear It, because I am_I am with him
...
He said that it would come to pass
...
The king, which was a great man, tried to take a
preacher’s place, one time, and went in, got smitten with leprosy
...
Don’t never try to take
a preacher’s place
...
You stay right where you’re at
...
If you’re a finger, you
can never be an ear
...
See? You stay in your position
...
David, anointed king
...
” But he never consulted God’s prophet
...
Don’t try to do
God a favor
...
Let it come in His way of
doing it
...
It’ll do this
...
187
Now, David knowed better than that
...
He wasn’t even consulted, at all
...
All the people shouted, and screamed,
and danced
...
188
Anything else, is not in the line and order of God’s Word, will
fail
...
“Heavens and earth will
pass away, but not My Word
...
All at
once, the Spirit hit him
...
He was a
prophet
...
” “Unto us a Son
is born; a Child is born, a Son is given
...
The
end of^His government shall be upon His shoulders
...
” How could that man
intelligently say that a virgin would conceive?
Everybody looked for it
...
It was THUS
SAITH THE LORD
...
The same as it was in Genesis, when He planted them seeds
down beneath the sea, where “it was without form, and void; and
water upon the deep
...
And one day,
eight hundred years later, the womb of a virgin conceived the Seed
of God, a created Seed
...
190 That same Son stood there, one day
...
” And a man that been dead four days, rotten, his nose fell in,
stunk, he came forth
...
It has to happen like that
...
Oh, my!
191 I remember, just my last Message in California, where I thought
I’d never go back again, when I predicted, “Los Angeles will go
beneath the ocean
...
” It will
...
She is washed
...
What hour? I don’t know when, but it
will be sunk
...
192 Remember, many of you men standing right there, that rock,
that day when that Angel came down there
...
Rocks flang out of the mountains, and falling across there
...
I said, “Judgment will strike the West
Coast
...
193 Remember, that same God that said that, said, “Los Angeles is
doomed
...
I don’t know when
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194 I didn’t know I said that
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One of the Mosely’s, I believe, had me out on a street
out there
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I looked back
in Scripture
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For if the mighty works that been done in you, had been done
in Sodom, it’d a stood today
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And that same Spirit of God that said all these things, and done
all these things, It said there, “Oh, city, Capernaum, who called
yourself by the name of the Angels, Los Angeles, how you’ve exalted
yourself into heaven! The very root and seat of Satan, see, you’ve
exalted yourself
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Good men go there and die
like rats
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But your hour has come
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If it ain’t, I’m a false prophet
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She’s laying there
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I stood there and seen a beautiful little lady, just correctly
dressed, and things, marching this way
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And I seen
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” I seen Her go by
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198
I heard it coming up, the_the churches coming up from this other
side
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Oh, you talk about filth! Here
come the European church
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She had papers, like newspapers, gray, hold in
front her, dancing by rock-and-roll; Miss America, the church
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I thought, “O God, as a minister,
if that’s the best we could do? Oh! Oh!” You know how you feels
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If I could just get away from here
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And as they
passed by like that, supposed to be virgins to Christ
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It was_it was disgraceful, the back of them
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And I turned my head, to weeping,
like that
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Him standing there, and
me know that me, a minister of the Church, and that’s what I had
produced for Him
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Let me die
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203 And as soon as it went out, every time one of them would come,
they’d go out to a certain place, then drop off
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Then I heard something like Onward Christian Soldiers
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Smooth, clean, marching like this, to the step of the Gospel
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They looked like one out of every nation
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Instead of
going down, they started going up
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I screamed
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” And the vision left me
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” Line, That
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That’s the only thing
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It’s ju-^See? There cannot be one thing added
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It’s got to be exactly the Word of the Lord, like He
is the Word
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The woman is a
part of her husband, ’cause she’s taken out of the husband
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And so is the Bride, not taken from a
denomination, but taken from the bosom of the Word of God for
this day
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When the roll is called up yonder, let’s all try to be There,
friends
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206 It’s been spoken
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It will come to pass
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]
People, no one wants to die
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Let
me tell you
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That’s fine; nothing
against that
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You do that
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But, whatever, just throw away your traditions, and
move right on up into Christ
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That’s
exactly right
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I’m sorry to have kept you
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I’ve
kept them too long here
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And the offering that you
taken for me^Which, I did not ask you to do that, brother
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Take that and pay this motel the_the overtime,
’cause I kept it
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I got about eight or ten
more pages on that Rapture there, but I_I just didn’t have time to
give it
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208 Do you love the Lord Jesus? [Congregation says, “Amen
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] Let’s just stand still just a minute now, quietly, reverently, and
remember what I’ve said
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These nations are breaking, Israel’s awakening,
The signs that the Bible foretold;
The Gentile days numbered, with harrows
encumbered;
“Return, O dispersed, to your own
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You know that?
False prophets are lying
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We know that all is true
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]
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree
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Raise your hand
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Say,
“God bless you, pilgrim
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Aren’t we? [Congregation
says, “Amen
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] Pilgrims and stranger
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I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree
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”_
Ed
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”
Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand, you know the song? You know
it, sister? Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand
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Covet not this world’s vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Seek to gain the Heavenly treasure,
They will never pass away!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand!
211 With your heads bowed, and this in mind, knowing that we’re
bowing our heads to the dust from which we were brought, some day
we’ll return, knowing that you got a soul in there that has to answer to
God
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We have no place to make an altar call
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Raise your hand
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The S poken Word
“Feel that I’m not ready, Brother Branham
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I’ve tried to be, but there’s always something
missing
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“Have mercy, God
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Be merciful to me
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More is going up
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I pray, dear God
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And, dear God, they want to be saved
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They_they don’t want this something that’s
just some emotion, some work up, some denominational system,
some creed, some dogma that’s been added
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Everything else will pass away, even heavens and earth, but It won’t
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213 I pray for each one, that You’ll grant to them, Father, is my
sincere prayer
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Somehow another, great Holy Spirit, splice them
together in Your Own Divine way, and deliver them to the hearts
of the people, from my heart, and the motive and the objective
that in my heart I have towards You
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Draw to You, Lord
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For I ask it in Jesus’ Name
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God bless you
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