The End-Time Depression Judgment
In
this message we wish to examine a thought that brother Branham spoke and then
take it to the scriptures to see where he was coming from when he said these
words.
From PP. 100
of the Message JEZEBEL RELIGION
61-0319, brother Branham said, When God sends
forth a message and tells the people, and they don't receive it, then He
withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually
speaking, physically also. You watch for a
depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after
while. You haven't seen nothing.
You think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit.
You just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so.
"There'll be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and
not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But
that voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away. He ordained the ravens, His servants. Bless
them birds, His servants, that kept the voice of--of Elijah alive during the
time of his--his isolation from the church.
Now,
there are those people who think he meant a spiritual depression, which I can
understand why they would think that, but as you will see by scripture and other
things brother Branham tells us that there is coming an economic depression on
a scale that the world has never seen before.
From,
Daniel 8:23-25: we read, And in the latter time (in the last days) of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the
fullness (Completion), a king of
fierce countenance (mighty Presence), and
understanding dark sentences (double dealings), shall stand up (shall present himself or come on the scene). 24 And his power (wealth), shall be mighty (vast), but not by his own power (not by his own ability to produce wealth, which
means he gets it from others): and he shall destroy wonderfully (Bring to ruin, pervertion and
corruption), and shall prosper (make great profits) , and practise (bring about a press or squeeze),
and shall destroy (bring to ruin) the mighty (the many nations) and the holy people (the set apart nation of God, The Jews). 25 And through
his policy also
he shall cause craft (deceit and fraud) to prosper in his
hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace (quietness, ease and prosperity) shall destroy (corrupt, pervert and ruin) many: he shall also stand up (stand forth and present himself) against (on behalf or on account of) the Prince of
princes (Christ); but he shall be broken without hand (when the final act is played out).
2
Thess 2:3-13: ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day
shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things? 6 And now ye know
what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of
iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be
taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that
Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 ¶ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Daniel
11: 21-23: ¶ And in his estate (office) shall stand up(rise up) a vile person, to whom they shall not give
the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the
kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms of a flood (or overwhelming political force) shall they be overflown (swept
away) from before him, and shall be
broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. 23 And after the
league [made] with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and
shall become strong with a small people.
Daniel
12:1-10: ¶ And at that time shall Michael (Christ) stand up (Come on the scene and present
Himself), the great prince which standeth for (takes His stand with) the children of thy people: and there shall
be a time of trouble (distress), binding or press upon as to
squeeze), such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that
same time: and at that time thy people (Kinsman) shall be delivered (slip out unknown to safety), every one that shall be found written in the book (genealogical record).
Now, I want you to notice
this next verse because it provides a clue to the time of this great escape.
2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. In other words,
this will be at the time of the Resurrection. 3 And they that be wise (This speaks of the Wise Virgin) shall shine (send forth light by warning and
teaching and this teaching shall be) as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many
to righteousness (right-wise-ness) as the stars (brothers) for ever and
ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book,
[even] to the time of the end (In which time) many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased. 5 ¶ Then I Daniel
looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of
the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And [one] said to the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon
the waters of the river, How long [shall it be to] the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man
clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his
right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever
that [it shall be] for a time, times, and an half (time = one, times = 2, and 1/2 = total of 3-1/2 years); and when he shall have accomplished (or brought to a finish) to scatter (the shattering or breaking) of the power of the holy people (God's set apart nation, the Jews), all these [things] shall be finished. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord,
what [shall be] the end of these [things]? 9
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till
the time of the end.
And when is that? When the
Seven Seals are opened, at that time everything will be in place for the
fulfillment of this prophecy
10 Many shall be purified ("by the washing of
water by the Word", Eph 5:26-7
, Psalm 119:9) , and made white,
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
understand; but the wise shall understand.
Now
we see the same scene played out in the book of Luke.
Luke 21:25: And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
I have been reading much
about the year 2,000 and it is very interesting that in this year there is to
be an event that happens only once every 38 years. It has something to do with
a solar storm, a huge comet that has a long tail made up of thousands upon
thousands of meteorites into the earths path.)
and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
the sea and the waves roaring; 26
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. 27
And then shall they see the Son
of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And
when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your
heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. 29
¶ And he spake to them a
parable; Behold the fig tree, and
all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know
of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come
to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till
all be fulfilled. 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my
words shall not pass away. 34 And take
heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of
this life, and [so] that day come
upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them
that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of man.
Now, what is this distress
of nations and why is it so perplexing? This is what we must know if we are to
understand why everyone on earth is going to be affected. The word distress is a Greek word, sunoche
which means: a narrowing, a constraining or a press. To hold together with
constraint. To press on every side,
like the forcing a ship into a
narrow channel or the forcing of an animal into a position where it can not
move so the farmer can administer medication. To impel. From this we can see that the whole world is
being pushed or squeezed into a
universal condition from all sides in order to receive the medication called
the New World Order or one world government.
And then we see that the world will be perplexed by this Squeeze. And the word perplexed means that they are
confused and don’t understand what is really happening and thus begin to panic.
(Remember that Brother Branham said that the world must come into a neurotic
condition, and the first stage of this neurosis is anxiety which is to worry
about what might happen.)
Luke
21:26 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.
We find also
in Hebrews 12:25-29
25 See
that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we
[escape], if we turn away
from him that [speaketh] from heaven: 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.
27 And
this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken
may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have
grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
87-4 HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 57-0901M And so
I believe that--that Rosella will finally turn into the mission field somewhere;
because America doesn't want the Gospel (You know that.); we just might as well
admit that. This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all. There's no more
Gospel that America will receive. Oh, you get a few stragglings now and then;
but just as the Gospel, it's over. And you can't even preach to them, can't
talk to them. They won't believe nothing. See? They just got their own
hardheaded ideas, and they're set, and
the next thing's for this nation is judgment. She's going to have it too. It
may be through depression; it may be through an atomic bomb; it may be through
a great plague, a disease or something; but she's ready. It's a-coming;
thousands times thousands will fall.
18-7 THIS DAY THIS SCRIPTURE 65-0219 We had a great
nation; but she is now rottening and crumbling and shaking and giving away, and
trying to tax people to get money to send over yonder to buy friendship with
our enemies. They're throwing it back in our face. One world war, two world
wars, and still moving on to a third one.
Certainly. Politics is rotten, corrupted, rotten to the bottom.
Testimony
63-1128M 20 011 I
was trying to say last night, the
world’s coming to a place it's falling apart, politically, socially,
economically.You say, "Economics? More money." Yes, but where's it coming from? We're
borrowed on taxes that'll be paid forty years from today. She's broke. She's
bankrupt, the nation: not this nation, but all of them. And there's no way ever
getting it back. And it's a trap set
exactly to swing this nation into something. And all of you are wise on
that. Well, who's got the wealth of the world? Who holds it? [Someone says,
"Rome."--Ed.] Sure, it does. Rome holds it. And whenever we do, when
we get broke, instead of these big merchants tobacco, whiskey, and so forth,
like have to get the money; what we'll have to do, either change the currency
or borrow the money. And when they do, it's the birthright sold right back,
exactly, just as perfect, and just what
the Scripture says about it. I'd like
to get a place sometime, the Lord willing, when a tent comes on the scene. And
I believe that's soon now, soon I'm going worldwide. I got a worldwide meetings
coming now. And I--I'd like to get a place where I could set down for about six
weeks, and just take those things and go through them (You see?), back and forth, through the
Scripture. And it's astounding to see
the hour that we're living in. It frightens me. It frightens me, not because...
In my heart, the joy bells are ringing, knowing that the coming of the Lord is
so close at hand. But what frightens me,
is to know that so many is unprepared for the hour that we are facing.
That's the bad part. How many ever heard the story about the squirrels up there
that time? Many, all, of course, I guess, everywhere. A little something like
that happened the other day. And I was... You've heard the story about the
mountains, coming down, when the Lord wrote those things on the mountains the
other day. My, my life... I'm not a
preacher. Anybody knows that. I'm not a preacher. But it's made up in a--a spiritual form of--of watching things and seeing
things move, and forewarning people of things that's coming to pass. And it's
just that's my makeup. I can't help that, no more than you can help your
makeup. But He--God has put us each one in the Body to do certain things. And I watch every little move, every
objective, every motive, 'cause everything is governed by spirit. This church was put here for a purpose.
There's a spirit behind this church. Certainly. Spirit behind your home, behind
every building, behind everything there
is a spirit, motive, and objective. This church comes here to greatly exalt
some human system or something, then its motives is not right; but if it's put
here to try to achieve something for the Kingdom of God, then the motive and
objective both is right, if the motives is directed that way. (
Expound on this way of watching and looking at what is happening) .
*** Read article from esquire by
Walter Russel Mead called, Rule 1:
Don’t Panic. Rule 2: Panic First.
Oneness
62-0211 48 031 The whole world's
based on that. The whole economy of this
nation is based upon false conception.
The
Supernatural 56-0129 E-37 037 Brother and sister,
our great America and our great economy
that we have is rottening under the foundations, and someday, I see it in the
making right now, she'll lay in the ruins.
167-4
{341} The First Seal 63-0318 Now, watch. In the
end time, not in the early days when Christ was preaching, but in the end time,
the last part of the week, where we just took the seventy weeks of Daniel; and
Christ has prophesied for the three and a half years, and three and a half
years are yet determined. Is that right? And this prince in that time is to make
a covenant with Daniel's people, which is the Jews. That's when the Bride's
taken out now. She won't see it.
{342} Notice. In the last
one-half of Daniel's week, the people makes a covenant--this prince makes a
covenant with Rome; makes a covenant with them no doubt for the wealth, for
Catholic and Jew holds the wealth of the world. I was in the Vatican. I've seen the triple crown.. {346} I got to
go all through the Vatican. Why, you couldn't buy it with a hundred billion
billion dollars.
Note: [that was at the rate of $30 per oz. In
the 60Ćs. Today gold is 12 times greater in value at $360 per oz. Therefore, a
billion billions would be 1 quadrillion. Multiply it times the difference
between 30 and 360 plus the inflation factor and you have something in the 108
quadrillion range.]
Why,
you... And just think, "The wealth
of the world," the Bible said, "was found in her." All... Just think of the great places, the
billions times... Why did Communism raise up over here in Russia? It just makes
me sick at my stomach to hear so many preachers hollering about Communism, and
they don't even know what they're crowing about.
That's
right. Communism ain't nothing. It's a tool in the hand of God to bring revenge
upon the earth for the blood of the saints that... That's right.
{349} And after the church is taken away, Rome 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.
{350} We can't call it in. And if we could do
it, do you think these whiskey guys and--and all these tobacco people with
billions times billions of dollars a year and write off all their income tax
for old vulgar pictures and things like that--go out in Arizona there and buy
millions of acres of land--or thousands--and dig them big wells at fifty
thousand dollars and pay it off with income tax? And they'd put you in jail if
you don't pay yours. But they write it off and throw up wells and send
bulldozers in. And what do they do?
They put housing projects in there, and the next turn around with their money
they made (they have got to make an investment) and put houses, projects in
there and sell them for millions of dollars. Do you think them guys is going to
compromise to change the currency?
{352}
Like this fellow down here, Castro did. He done the only smart thing he
ever did do then, when he destroyed the bonds: paid them off and destroyed
them. Notice, but we can't do that. These guys won't let us. The rich merchants
of the earth hold it, and then there's only one thing to do: The Catholic
church can pay it off. She's the only one that's got the money; she can do it,
and she will do it. And in doing this
to get it, she'll compromise with the Jews and make a covenant, and when she
makes this covenant with the Jews... Now, remember, I'm taking this from the
Scriptures. And now, when she does this and makes this covenant, we notice in
Daniel 8:23 and 25 he will cause craft to prosper (And craft is
manufacturing.), in his hand.
{354}
And he makes this covenant with the Jews, and in the midst of this three and a
half years, he breaks his covenant as soon as he gets the thing wrapped up and
gets the money of the Jews tied up. And when he does that, oh, my, oh, my, he's
called the antichrist until the end of the church age, for he and his children
are against Christ and the Word. This man's called the antichrist. Now, he's
going to hold the money. And that's where I think he'll come in. Just a minute,
while I say this, then I want to go back to it in a minute. He's called the antichrist and will be
called the antichrist in the sight of God until the end time. Now, but then
he'll be called something else. {359}
Now, when he gets the money all under control, then he'll break this
covenant with the Jews, as Daniel here said he would do it, in the midst of the
last half of the seventy weeks of Daniel.
And
then, brother, what will he do? He will have all of the world trade and the
commerce, a pact with the world, 'cause he'll hold the wealth of the world
completely. And during that time, them
two prophets will rise on the scene and call that hundred and forty-four
thousand. Then what'll take place? Then
the mark of the beast of Revelations 13 will set in, 'cause he holds all the
commerce, trade and everything of the world. And what will take place then? The
mark of the beast will come in that no man can buy or sell except him that has
the mark of the beast. Thank God, the Church will be enjoying a great three and
a half years in glory. Don't have to go through that.
E-26 026 You see, if Satan has a kingdom, he's got to
have a false economy. He's got to
have something that he can present to them to make them think they are living.
But it's absolutely on the vice versa side. It's death in the form of life.
6-1 Look Away To Jesus 63-1229E 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 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? 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. 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
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, 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 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--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 ... Well, it's practically
that way now. You can't go to a church and preach, 'less you have a fellowship
card or some identification. 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 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 paralleled it in every way, and I
know it will. The message will go on.
57-1 STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN 62-1014M this present
government now is spending money for what? For tax money that they'll be
collecting forty years from now. She's done. That's "Life Line" right
out of Washington D.C., across the nation. Taxes, they're spending and trying
to buy foreign... Why, they're just giving it out any way. Don't you see,
that's exactly what they're going to do? See, what is it? Now, if this nation
goes busted, the only thing it can do is go busted. The only thing that it can do is go bankrupt. That's the only sensible
thing to do: change the currency. But they won't do it. Under this present
ministration, Roman Catholic church owns the gold of the world, and what
they'll do is sell out. These rich men and so forth of the earth, as the Bible
said, what will they do before they lose the Brown and Williamson tobacco
company (Most all of them's Catholic
anyhow.), and all these other things, what will they do? They'll accept that
and they'll take the money from Rome, and then she's sold her very birthright.
Rome backs her up. Yes, sir. She'll
back it up. And they're getting enough policy now, getting
enough around them, bring it in his cabinet. Look what Mr. Kennedy's asking for. And when you
seen this the other day... There's no need of voting any more. What's the use
of voting? When they put it in the paper and proved it before the public, and
they refused to do anything about it; when they proved that the machines across
the nation was set up, that they elected Mr. Kennedy by a false vote. Don't the
Bible say that he would come in by deceit? A falsehood. Now, I'm not against the Democrat party no
more than a Republican party, but I'm just stating facts from the Bible. What's
the use of voting? They know who's going in there.
313-2
Philadelphian Church Age CA Book "I
will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the
world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." This verse is not a declaration
that the true church will go into and through the tribulation. If it meant that
it would have said that. But it said, "I will keep thee from the hour of
temptation." This temptation is exactly like the temptation in Eden. It
will be a very inviting proposition held up in direct opposition to God's
commanded Word, and yet from the standpoint of human reasoning it will be so
very right, so enlightening and life-giving as to fool the world. Only the very
elect will not be fooled. The temptation will come as follows. The ecumenical
move that has started on what seems such a beautiful and blessed principle
(fulfilling Christ's prayer that we all might be one) becomes so strong
politically that she bears pressure upon the government to cause all to join
with her either directly or through adherence to principles enacted into law so
that no people will be recognized as actual churches unless under direct or
indirect domination of this council. Little groups will lose charters,
privileges, etc., until they lose all property and spiritual rights with the
people.
For
example, right now unless the local ministerial association approves in many,
if not most cities, one cannot rent a building for religious services. To
become chaplains in the armed services, hospitals, etc., it is now almost
mandatory to be recognized as acceptable to the trinitarian ecumenical groups.
As this pressure increases, and it will, it will be harder to resist, for to
resist is to lose privilege. And so many will be tempted to go along, for they
will feel it is better to serve God publicly in the framework of this
organization than not to serve God at all publicly. But they err. To believe
the devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him
Jehovah. But the elect will not be deceived.
Furthermore, the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes
the "Inage erected to the beast," the saints will be gone in the
rapture. And this little delightful, winsome movement that started out in
fellowship at Ephesus will become the monster of Satan that defiles and
deceives the whole world. For the church system of the Roman Catholic and the
Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system
and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by
refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a
living. This will be accomplished
simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the
meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the
bonds and all the paper. At the right
time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all
the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be
trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the
whole world.
Christ
is the Mystery 63-0728 60-3
192. You can have all the ecumenical moves you want to and all
the affiliations. And they're going to bring a persecution on pretty soon and shut up all the churches. You see
that. And churches like this who's not
in denominations, they'll use them for storehouses then. And if any man
goes and offer a prayer for anybody else that don't belong to the economical
movement will be shot on the spot. It's already. That Lutheran minister, the
head of it, said so. It's right here. You can read it right here in your
magazines.
Divine
Healing 54-1219M 210 073 Acts
3:19-21 And he shall send Jesus... which
was before preached unto you: Whom the
heavens must receive, until the time of
restoration of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world begin. 21st verse of the 3rd chapter, "All
the restorations of all things," when there'll be a new heavens, a new
earth, a new government, a new economy (oh, my), a new king, a new life, a new
beginning with no ending (oh, my), a new age, a new time, a new people.
Christ
is the Mystery 63-0728 79-2 259 Now, listen close. Fallen angels, what kind
of angels? Luther, Wesley, Catholic, Pentecostal who kept not their first
estate like the angels did and has fell into organizations like Lucifer's main
hold at Nicaea... And what have they done? Organized a great ecumenical
association of ministers to make an image unto the beast, as the Bible said,
and building a Christian economy that'll close the doors of this church and
others like it. See Lucifer at his work? I'm trying to bring you the
threefold revelation or mystery of God. What did they do? sold out to
reasonings of wisdom and education like Eve did, fallen angels did.
Q
& A 54-0103E 145-199 100 I think of St.
Paul out there on the isle after the shipwrecked..... that serpent injected
poison of that--in his hand that would've killed him within a minute. The
natives said, "Watch that fellow fall dead, for he'll die just in a
minute. He's in chains for preaching the Gospel."Religious people put him
in chains. The very finest of churches that day was what put him in chains. If it just wasn't the Constitution of the
United States, they'd do the same thing today. That's right. Just wait till
she's--till she's broke a little more.
Invasion
of the USA 54-0509 203 101 But
let me tell you, when Mr. Roosevelt (The man's dead. Let him rest; I trust he
is.) come in, and run in three or four terms, and taken over, just a preliminary dictatorship... I
can prove to you, that in the Scripture, where That said it'd take place.
That's right. We haven't got no more
constitution. She's broke to pieces. Everything's all smattered. The
Republicans is just as bad. It's six of one, and half a dozen of the other one.
For every kingdom is going to be
smashed, but the Kingdom of Jesus Christ shall stand and reign forever.
That's right. Upon... Daniel saw the Rock hewed out of the mountains, and hit
the political world back there and mashed it into a grinding powder like that,
like the wheat on a thrashing floor in the summertime. But that Rock grew into
a great mountain that spread over the--filled the whole heavens and earth.
That's it.
Hear
Ye Him 58-0328 E-18 018
They've never had a juvenile
delinquency among the Mennonite people. They've never had any rock-and-roll
teen-age stuff among the Mennonite people. And if they can produce a crop like
that without our modern education, God be with them is my prayer. I'd rather
have my boy in something like that and not even know his ABC's. I'd rather he'd
know Christ, and be borned again, and not know the difference between split
beans and coffee. Right. We need the old fashion Gospel preached again in the
power and the demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. When our nation gets to a place that it robs us of our constitution, it
shows that communist has rottened it to the core. Exactly right.
Q&
A 59-0628E 387-124 073 And
now, that church was taken up, and the remnant of the woman's seed who keep the
commandments of God and have faith in Jesus Christ (See?), not the bride, the
remnant of the woman's seed... Then the dragon spurted water out of his mouth
to make war with the remnant of the seed. That's when the Protestant church
under the Federation of Churches, which is the image to the beast, which is now
being formed... And there'll be a boycott upon all churches like this. Like
we're in a great tax gathering right here now, a dispute, trying to say that
we're not a church, and we got Constitutional rights to say that we are a
church. As long as the Constitution stands there, no amendment to that, then we
absolutely have the rights, just as much right as anybody. Our forefathers
stood for that. But what have we done? We've broke every Constitutional law
that they can break, and soon the Federation of Churches, which all the
churches and denominations are invited into, and the Devil's got in and making
worldliness and everything in local church members and so forth like that, and
great congregations, and class, and society, when the little old church is
still down yonder being borned again in a mess like any birth is, still paying
the price, still getting down and dying out, acting the same way they did when
they first got born at the day of Pentecost, same kind of a church down
there... They'll be closed and shut out under the Federation of Churches. It'll
be a boycott like a union or something. You'll either come in or you'll go
out.
074 The
mark of the beast is on today, and the--the Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. To
reject It is the mark of the beast.
Ever who sees the Holy Ghost, that you're supposed to receive It, and
don't do it, automatically you take the mark of the beast; because there's only
two classes to exist: all that didn't have the Seal of God had the mark of the
beast. So to receive the Seal of God is to receive the Holy Ghost. To reject It
is to have the mark of the beast. There's the whole thing. That's exactly
right.
The
Comforter 61-1001E 73 032 We are all American; I think so, in--in
the--the church tonight. We're all American citizens. We're thankful to be
American. But yet, what happened to our American heritage. What was it? We
begin to compromise. And as soon as we compromised, we lost the sacredness of
our heritage, because we compromised. We run Presidents four times; that breaks
down the the--the--the constitution. And we do things today. And we even... To
this little parking meter we have on the street, that's unconstitutional.
There's no such a thing in the constitution. It's against the constitution, yet
we do it. And we do all kinds of things that's against the principles that this
nation was founded upon. We do everything contrary, so we lose our heritage.
Because why? We compromise upon the principles that it was based upon.
Trumpet
Gives an Uncertain Sound 63-0114
E-21 021 We use to could put a lot of confidence in
our democracy, and which I do think it's the best form of government. But
still, our democracy is shaky, because we are... This nation, our people, we
have a constitution and this constitution is--is our ultimate. But yet in that,
our constitution is shaky because it's already been broken many times. The late
Mr. Roosevelt made havoc out of it. So, see, you see it can be broken. It's not
much confidence you can put into it. Politics, oh, my, how shaky... People just
argue, and argue, and argue about politics. And neighbors will fall out about
it, and people that were once good friends... Some president will raise up, or
somebody run for the sheriff, or something, and the other fellow on the other
side of the political fence, and they'll fuss with one another until they fall
out about it. Politics... And I don't... I hope I don't hurt anybody's
feelings, but I think the whole thing's rotten. Yes, sir. So why would you fuss
and fall out about something that ain't no good anyhow? That's right. It's just
awful bad.
Why?
63-0626 84 037 I
wonder tonight, if Christ would come on the scene, or over the nation today, in
drawing this nation to judgment, if that same question wouldn't been asked. Why
is it, is it? Why is it we're doing these things? Why are we fussing in the
government, whether we should read the Bible in public, and, why, if we're
reading all this nonsense? Did not our forefathers set this constitution in
order? Did not this nation be born upon the principles of the Bible? Aren't we
here for freedom of religion, to act in God the way we feel fit to act, the way
that we are convinced is truth? But, you see, we have done something like they
did then. We're just letting everything, politics swallow us up, in the stead
of respecting our faith in our God, and men who has stood for truth. And we are
letting our politics run over that, and voting in such stuff that's polluting
this nation, and why, we are coming to a judgment. God will rise on the scene
someday with a mighty prophet, speak in this generation, and--and tell people,
and they'll see that it's God speaking, but they won't repent. It'll be just
like it was then. He said, "Is there no God in Israel? Is it because there
is--is no God?" Same as Jeremiah said, "Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?" Then they--they could not answer that.
'Course there was. Well, He said, "Then, why, why did you do it? Why is
the daughter of My people not healed?"
Now,
we wonder that tonight. Why? Is there no Bible? Is there no God? Is there no
difference? If God is going to bring the people to judgment, He has got to have
something to judge them by. There's got to be some standard. If He's going to
judge them by the Catholic church; then if they judge them by the Roman church,
the Greek church is lost, the other Catholic churches are lost. If He judged it
by the Greek, the Roman's lost. If He judged it by the Lutheran, the Methodist
is lost. If He judged it by the Methodist, the Lutheran's lost. He can't judge
it by a church; there's too many different organizations of it. But God will
judge the world, He said, by Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is the Word, and the
Word is God. And He'll judge them by this Bible, for this is the Word. That is
God's Standard. We must measure up to what the Bible says. And we wonder why we
got so much confusion, so many organizations, so much differences, separating
brotherhood, and--and everything. It's because there is no Balm in Gilead? Is
it because there's no physician there? I wonder if God would ask us that
question?
Third
Exodus 63-0630M 23-1 068
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."
Recognizing
Your Day and it’s Message 64-0726M
94 044 And if the churches today would only
recognize, if the churches would only recognize the Word of God that's made
this promise for this hour to the people, they wouldn't perish. If America
could only recognize the Constitution that she drawed up, she wouldn't be
willing to take Bibles out of the schools, take the Name of God off of coins,
and pledge allegiance under God. But she doesn't recognize it. Why? She's blind
and naked. She can't recognize the blood of those precious boys that's died on
the fields for this privilege. They're forgotten; they're dust. Man and his six
senses has just come along with his horse and buggy, trusting God. In the last
seventy-five years he quit trusting God. When they signed the Constitution of
this United States, they put God in everything they did. Now, they don't even
have a meeting, and they never even name His Name. That's right. They depend on
their loftiness of their science, they--their cunningness of their science. A
lewd bunch... That's exactly right. The whole world is swallowed up in
ignorance of the Bible. The--the whole world has turned from God. But just
think, right out of the midst of all that, and the church denominations and all
their seminary lewdness and everything, God has took His prophet's Word and
chopped out a Bride...?... He said He would do it. He's hewed from that thing
what He promised He'd do. They depend on their human intelligence, their human science,
and so forth, left God out, whom he once trusted. The United States has left
God out. They even turned Him out of school, for our little children can't even
hear about Him. They've turned Him out of school. Now, they're trying to turn
Him off the dollars, "In God We Trust." They're going to turn it out
of the pledge allegiance to the flag. One Nation Under God; they're going to
turn that out. See, they've went to
their own feelings and their own senses. Because in the last seventy-five years
he hasn't changed a bit in his senses; he's still the same man God created him
in the beginning. But in this last days, can't you recognize where we are?
And the church has turned from God to that,
to the seminary, and experience, and so forth, instead of the Word. Don't even
recognize Him in their meetings, in their schools, or nothing anymore. Israel
in the past twenty-five years has recognized something has brought them to the
homeland as was promised. They don't know how it was ever done. They suffered
like everything, martyrdom under them Trumpets; but they're in their homeland.
They don't know why.
What
Hearest Thou? 59-0609 E-16 016
And we wonder sometimes when we
preached, and prayed, and fasted, and cried, and then seen the results of a
revival. Then to see the wicked cities just turn their back and make fun of it.
Newspapers blast it as fanaticism. Don't think it's strange, because it's
happened all through the ages. Go away and say some great vulgar name about
them, or call them some kind of a name that they should not be called. Just
something to make light of the works of God. So the reason I say this, that men
and women who believe God, and has seen the working of God; and we wonder why
Chicago don't have a revival; that's the answer. Chicago will never have a
revival... Or America will never have a revival until God sends it. And He's
shook this nation with signs and wonders and miracles, and they constantly walk
away from it, and the same motive that Jezebel had. "I'd cut their heads
off, I'd close their churches," if they could do it. We still have
constitutional rights. Law keeps these doors open now with constitutional
rights.
Q
& A 59-0628E 387-124 073
And now, that church was taken up,
and the remnant of the woman's seed who keep the commandments of God and have
faith in Jesus Christ (See?), not the bride, the remnant of the woman's seed...
Then the dragon spurted water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of
the seed. That's when the Protestant church under the Federation of Churches,
which is the image to the beast, which is now being formed... And there'll be a
boycott upon all churches like this. Like we're in a great tax gathering right
here now, a dispute, trying to say that we're not a church, and we got
Constitutional rights to say that we are a church. As long as the Constitution
stands there, no amendment to that, then we absolutely have the rights, just as
much right as anybody. Our forefathers stood for that. But what have we done?
We've broke every Constitutional law that they can break, and soon the
Federation of Churches, which all the churches and denominations are invited
into, and the Devil's got in and making worldliness and everything in local
church members and so forth like that, and great congregations, and class, and
society, when the little old church is still down yonder being borned again in
a mess like any birth is, still paying the price, still getting down and dying
out, acting the same way they did when they first got born at the day of
Pentecost, same kind of a church down there... They'll be closed and shut out
under the Federation of Churches. It'll be a boycott like a union or something.
You'll either come in or you'll go out.
074 The
mark of the beast is on today, and the--the Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. To
reject It is the mark of the beast. Ever who sees the Holy Ghost, that you're
supposed to receive It, and don't do it, automatically you take the mark of the
beast; because there's only two classes to exist: all that didn't have the Seal
of God had the mark of the beast. So to receive the Seal of God is to receive
the Holy Ghost. To reject It is to have the mark of the beast. There's the
whole thing. That's exactly right.
ROMANS
7: 1 ¶
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the
law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound
by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
:3 So then if, while
[her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an
adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she
is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become
dead to the law by the body of Christ; that
ye should be married to another, [even]
to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto
God.
Paul is telling us the law
that governs the marriage contract is the same law which governs God and His
People. Paul said,
(2) For the woman which hath an husband
is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth. 3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she
be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress:
Therefore, if she be called
an adulterous, there is also a law that deals with the punishment of an
adulterous woman. And since America married itself to Christ through a covenant
called the Declaration of Independence, she is obligated to fulfill her
marriage vow. Since she has left her vow, the Declaration of Independence, she
must be called an adulterous nation, and be punished with the same punishment
that the adulterous woman is punished with.
To begin this study, we must
examine this covenant between God and this nation. This covenant that I am
talking about is not the Constitution of the United States. That is a covenant
between the government and the people. But the Declaration of Independence is
that document which places the people of America under the authority of God and
His Word. Paul said,
.:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become
dead to the law by the body of Christ; that
ye should be married to another, [even]
to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto
God. And so our forefathers expressed
their desire for this Nation to be divorced from the King of England and his
form of government and to come under the ruler-ship and governance and
authority of God’s law.
Declaration
of Independence July 4, 1776. “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature
and of Nature’s God entitles them, a
decent respect in the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness. -That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the covenant of the
governed, - that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying it’s foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Now, this tells us that we
the people of this United States had declared a separation and divorce from the
King of England and his form of rule and had subjected ourselves to God and His
authority. Then we find in doing so that a covenant would need to be written
for the governing of the people by the people. And we entered into a republic
form of government under a covenant we call the constitution of the United
States. in this covenant we established
that these unalienable rights which were God given would also be the major
focus and priority of our constitution
binding our people together.
AMENDMENT
I
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.
AMENDMENT
II
A well regulated Militia, being
necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Let’s first begin now to
look into God’s Word to see what God thinks of adultery. When He gave the 10 commandments in Exodus
20, the sixth commandment He gave to man was “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Now, I do not think it is a strange thing that this is the sixth
commandment when the number 6 is the number of man for man was created on the
sixth day of Creation. And man is now
ending the first six thousand years of his existence here on earth, in which we
know that a thousand years to man is but a day to God. Therefore, he that was
created on the sixth day also had six days to live out his time here and it is
then fitting that the destruction of man will come at the end of the sixth day.
In Leviticus 20:10 God said, “And
the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that
committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Therefore we see by the Word
of God, that death is the punishment for adultery.
PROVERBS
6:32
[But] Whoso committeth adultery
with a woman lacketh understanding:
he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Therefore, there must first be a spiritual death take place first
where a person loses any understanding they might have had.
PROVERBS
30:20
Such [is] the way of an adulterous
woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
EZEKIEL
16:32
[But as] a wife that committeth
adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!
REVELATION
2:22 Behold,
I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they
repent of their deeds.
Therefore we see tribulation
and death are her punishment.
II
PETER 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from
sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
Therefore the curse is upon
them.
MARK
8:38 Whosoever
therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the
glory of his Father with the holy angels.
JAMES
4:4 Ye
adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy
of God.
E-62 CONFIRMATION AND EVIDENCE 62-0621E Now, let me tell you, friend. That God of
Moses Who could take them in the ark, could take them away from them walls. And
if God by instinct in a bird, could call it from danger, how much more ought it to call human beings, who are inspired by the
Holy Ghost? What an evil thing. What an adulterous generation. What an evil
place that we're living in. What a sinful, ungodly nation that we have: God
forsaken, God-hating, sign
seekers, bandwagon riders, impersonators, carnal comparisons. Led up with a
bunch of nothing, coming to the end of the road. I speak that in the Name of
the Lord. Once more I'll call. It's up to you to answer. All right.
135
PRESENCE OF GOD UNRECOGNIZED 64-0618 Like in the days of Jesus, same thing. Watch
Him standing here now. He said, "As it was in the days of Jonas, in Jonah;
for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so must the
Son of man." He said, "A
wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign." Now, you know
what I think He was doing? He was prophesying, "A wicked and adulterous
generation..." I wonder if any man in his right mind could
deny that we are not living in a weak and an adulterous generation, when homosexuals,
perversion. And the divorce rates in America is higher than any other nation in
the world. And the whole world's gone into a chaos of it. Three out of every
four, nearly, is divorced, around--taking the whole thing around in ten years
of marriage. See? Think of it. Divorce, marry again, and marry again, divorce
and marry again. "They were eating, drinking, marrying wives and given in
marriage." Look at the hour we're living in. When was it ever in such a
chaos?
E-31
BELIEVEST THOU THIS 53-0906A.
God always makes a preparation for things. Don't you believe that? I want you
to listen close. I believe today with all my heart... Now, this is just Brother
Branham speaking. You see? I believe
that the things that you see are taking place now, is a preparation. God is
preparing something just before a climax. God always warns the world, and
then if they won't--will not receive warning, then there's only one thing left;
that's judgment. Noah warned the
world, and they would not receive it. And all through the age, God's always
warned. He sends mercy, and if they spurn mercy, there's nothing else left but
judgment. But the merciful Father will send mercy first.
E-33
PREPARATION 53-1111 Now, God in His
preparation. Back when God was going to destroy the world. Before He destroyed
the world, He sent forth a preparation for the saving of the people that
desired to be saved. He always does it. He shows mercy before judgment. And if men spurn mercy, there's only one
thing left and that is judgment. And God don't judge you; you judge yourself.
That's true.
As
long as you're under this spray of blood that's around the world, you have a--a
right for mercy. God's... The Blood of Christ keeps God from killing you, or
He'd kill you just as soon as you sinned. But that's still holding God from
you, from your death. But when...
You're a free moral agent now. But when you die and your spirit goes beyond
that, then your already judged. You don't have to wait for judgment; you're
judged already. God done said, "The day you eat thereof, the day you
die." And that settles it
Notice,
He said, god doesn't judge you, you judge yourself. And how do we do that? By
reaping what we sow. And what does that have to do with an End-Time depression
Judgment? It has all to do with it.
If
we examine the Book of 2 Laws, Deuter-onomy we shall see the law of blessing
and cursing. In this book, especially
chapter 28 we see that if we pay attention to and obey the Word of God, His
Law, we shall be blessed so much that the blessings will come upon us and
overtake us. This is like in a race where you are not aware that the one coming
up behind you has a greater speed than you have and by the time you are aware
that he has come upon you, he is already surpassing you and has taken over the
lead in your race.
DEUTERONOMY 28:1 ¶ And
it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I
command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all
nations of the earth: 2 And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto
the voice of the LORD thy God.
But
what if you don't hearken to the Voice of the Lord your God, then what? Then
the opposite will take place as we see in verse , and this is the curse.
DEUTERONOMY 28:15 ¶
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee,
and overtake thee:
Now,
if you will observe closely to what God is telling them in the book of
Deuteronomy, He is saying that what is a blessing becomes a curse depending on
your response to God's Word, and the blessings and cursing come in two major
arena's of life. These deal with economic blessings and cursings, or else
health blessings or plagues as cursings.
DEUTERONOMY 28:3
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the
city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
DEUTERONOMY 28:16
Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the
city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
DEUTERONOMY 28:4
Blessed [shall be] the fruit of
thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy
cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
DEUTERONOMY 28:18
Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy
body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine,
and the flocks of thy sheep.
DEUTERONOMY 28:5
Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
DEUTERONOMY 28:17
Cursed [shall be] thy basket
and thy store.
DEUTERONOMY 28:6
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and
blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
DEUTERONOMY 28:19
Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and
cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
DEUTERONOMY 28:7
The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise
up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee
one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
DEUTERONOMY 28:8
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The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,
and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall
establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if
thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his
ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by
the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give
thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give
the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine
hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head,
and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt
not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy
God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:
Now,
compare the blessings of health and good economics to the cursing which deal
with poor health and poor economy. It is one thing for God to bless you with
good health. He can say your health will be good. But when he curses you with
poor health He gets very specific and names the different plagues and diseases
that will come upon those under the curse.
DEUTERONOMY 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing,
vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto
for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish
quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken
me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee,
until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to
possess it. 22 The LORD shall smite
thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an
inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword,
and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish. 23 And thy
heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee [shall be] iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and
dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten
before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee
seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of
the earth. 26 And thy carcase
shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth,
and no man shall fray [them] away. 27
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou
canst not be healed. 28 The LORD
shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment
of heart (Anxiety or neurosis) 29 And thou
shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou
shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled
evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife,
and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou
shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not
gather the grapes thereof. 31 Thine ox [shall be] slain before
thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently
taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy
sheep [shall be] given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to
rescue [them]. 32 Thy sons and
thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes shall
look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be]
no might in thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy
labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be
only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that thou shalt be
mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35
The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with
a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the
top of thy head. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy
king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor
thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations
whither the LORD shall lead thee. 38
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but]
little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them], but shalt neither drink
[of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worms shall eat them. 40
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt
not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive shall cast [his fruit]. 41
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
them; for they shall go into captivity.
42 All thy trees and fruit
of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that [is]
within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very
low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall
be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 ¶ Moreover
all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake
thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and
his statutes which he commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon
thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God
with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things]; 48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall
send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,
and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy
neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 The LORD shall bring a
nation against thee from far, from
the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50
A nation of
fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew
favour to the young. 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle,
and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not
leave thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or
flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege
thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou
trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine
own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine
enemies shall distress thee. 54 [So
that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall
be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward
the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not
give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he
hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine
enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and
delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot
upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil
toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of
all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall
distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt not
observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that
thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy
seed, [even] great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and
of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all
the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave
unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is]
not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until
thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be left few in number,
whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not
obey the voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as the
LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will
rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be
plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which
neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone. 65
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole
of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart,
and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt
fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou
shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith
thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68
And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way
whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall
be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy
[you].
A
pretty gruesome tale to be sure, but this is the word of the Lord, and we are
living in the days of it's fulfillment as we shall see more and more so as the
days grow closer to the end.
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RESPECTS 61-1015E Let's take Noah
for a moment. Now, Noah had a revelation from God, yet it was contrary to
anything that science would prove to be true. But yet he had spoke to God, and
God had spake to him. And he went about preparing an ark, where the scoffers
and mockers (as the Bible said that they would be in the last days like they
was in them days), that those scoffers scoffed at Noah. Why, they thought that
he was out of his head because he was building an ark. So but God brought
judgment upon them scoffers because they would not listen to the messenger of
God and come into that ark under his preaching, then God sent His Divine
judgments on the earth. First He made a preparation for all who
would receive it, to escape it, and then if they did not escape it, there's
only one thing left. If they won't take God's preparation of escape, then
there's only one thing left, that's Divine judgment.
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WHY 62-0622E When God makes a way of escape for the
people, and the people refuse that escape, then God asks the question,
"Why?" I think He has a right to. If God does all that He can for the
people, and the people refuse to receive His help, then He has a right to ask
why they didn't do it. I believe it'll be that way at the judgment. When God
has made every preparation that could be made for the church and for the people
and then they refuse it, God's going to ask us why we didn't receive it. I
believe that.
71 LOOKING
UNTO JESUS 64- We find out here, there was another man looked by the name
of Noah. He looked and saw the just judgment of God upon a wicked Word-denying
generation, was being poured out. In his vision, as Noah was a prophet, God had
give him a vision of how to build the ark, and instructed him how to make the
construction, how it must be built. In this, how could Noah, unless this vision
being the Word of God, when he seen this wrath and making a way of
preparation... Always, before coming judgment, there is a preparation made. It
always is the Word of God.
87-4 HEBREWS CHAPTER 3 HEB 57- America doesn't want the Gospel (You know that.); we just
might as well admit that. This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all.
There's no more Gospel that America will receive. Oh, you get a few stragglings
now and then; but just as the Gospel, it's over. And you can't even preach to
them, can't talk to them. They won't believe nothing. See? They just got their
own hardheaded ideas, and they're set, and
the next thing's for this nation is judgment. She's going to have it too. It
may be through depression; it may be through an atomic bomb; it may be
through a great plague, a disease or something; but she's ready. It's a-coming; thousands times thousands
will fall.