You're
revealing Yourself, Lord, the Mighty God unveiled to the believer; still veiled
to the unbeliever, but unveiled to the believer. May they break through today,
Lord, see His great splendor and Glory. May their hearts be changed before we
even get back to this church tonight. May they all be filled with Your Spirit,
Your Presence. (Unveiling of God -
64-0614.1M.)
See,
signs and wonders are not for healing or salvation, but it's to let the people
realize and understand that the Presence of God is here. (Elijah and the Meal Offering - 60-0310.2E.)
The
greatest and highest form that there is for God to get His message to His
people is for the people to believe His Word. (Visions and Prophecy - 56-0408.1A.)
And
don't take just something ordinarily. Don't do that. Don't you rest day or
night until you've talked to God. Keep yourself from fanaticism. Don't get
worked up in emotion.
Don't do
that. That's what brings so much radical stuff and makes people afraid of it
(see?), is because of the radical fanaticism. Don't you accept that; not at
all. You stay right there till you talk to God. After all it's your soul, and
you're the one's going to spend eternity out yonder. And you be sure that you
just don't shake hands and say a creed or accept something by faith. Don't you
do that! You talk to God; let God talk to you; and watch what happens to you.
Watch your desires and what happens; then you'll know whether you talked to God
or not. (True Sign That's Overlooked -
61-1112.)
See the
two opposing spirits at work in this evil age? Can you see it? Each very
religious, Cain and Abel, spirits again coming to their heads, still same as
they started: one worshipping by beauty, and by knowledge, and by education,
and by science, and by ethics; and the other One by faith of the revelation of
the Word of God. Both of them is standing right in this building this morning.
That's right.
Revelation
or faith in His Word makes no claims of knowledge. The real true Christian ...
They say, "Have you got your doctor's degree?" ... Makes no claims.
"I believe His Word." See? Doesn't make any claims, doesn't claim to
be educated. Doesn't belong to any denomination, any party, any sect, It belongs
to Christ. It's His Wife, not a church wife; she's a prostitute. The Bible said
she was a whore and the mother of harlots, and they all come together and make
the same whore. And that kind of a woman is a woman that's untrue to her
husband, and claiming Christ as her husband and belonging to a denomination.
Such nonsense! You belong to Christ! (God of
This evil Age - 65-0801.1M.)
There's
something about man and women that they long to be like one another. And
there's only been one Man ever lived on earth that was our example, and that
was the One that died for us all, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He was
the perfect example of what we should be - always about the Father's business
and doing that which is right. (The Rejected
King - 60-0515.1M.)
That's
the way it is today. How can a man bless these things that's taking people
further from God all the time? There's only one thing to do. If you have to
stand by yourself, curse the thing in the Name of the Lord and stay with it,
when you're absolute...
And you
say, "Well, Brother Branham, you make people hate you."
God will
love me. That's my Absolute. Can't rest on an arm of flesh, you got to rest on
the Word, what God said do.
And if
your absolute is in some organization, or some sensation, or something else
besides the Person of Jesus Christ, you'll come to the same portion of shame,
only worse, see. If your absolute is not Christ, that's the only Center-post of
the human life; and Christ is the Word, not your church, your word - the Word.
See? "Upon this Absolute I'll build My Church" - upon Christ, the
Word. (The Absolute - 62-1230.1M.)
Oh,
church, oh, people, sinner friend, don't trust in nothing else but Jesus
Christ. Don't trust in any preacher. Don't trust in anybody else to save you.
Trust not in any church, any creed, any denomination; trust only in Jesus
Christ, for He is the Light of the hour. (God's
Chosen Place of Worship - 65-0220.)
And he's
a good man. Oh, I'm not a scholar or teacher at all. This man is both teacher
and scholar, but I disagree with him because I don't see it. But it doesn't
pertain to salvation, it's pertaining to the coming of the Lord. He sees that
the church has to go through the tribulation period. I say the Blood of Jesus
Christ purifies the Church. I believe that the church goes through the
tribulation period, the church organization, but the Bride does not. Would you
choose a woman who you had to purify before you married her, ha, ha. Christ's
Bride is chosen, and She is elected and She's God's Bride, the Bride of Jesus
Christ. (Calling Jesus on the Scene -
63-0804E.)
Now,
we're in another age, why won't they receive it? Why won't they see that the
grain is matured? Here's the promised Word for this day. Why don't they see it?
Because they're living in Lutheran glare, Wesleyan glare, Baptist glare,
Pentecostal glare. They're living in the glare of another light. That's the
reason they can't receive the Light of the total Word being a-vindicated as God
promised of those Seven seals, where the whole mystery was revealed, would come
back and tell these mysteries was done like that...And yet when that comes in,
they walk farther away from it than ever. They're without excuse. (Man that Can Turn on the Light - 63-1229.1M.)
When
these Seven Seals was opened, that opened up the entire Bible. The Seven Seals,
it was sealed with Seven Mysteries. And in these Seven Seals, held the entire
mystery of it, and it was the Book of Redemption - New Testament. Not the Old,
it only proclaimed for the New Testament. "They cannot be made perfect
without us." (Hebrews 11). See? (Souls
In Prison Now - 63-1110.1M.)
If those
priests ... They had it fixed up just exactly the way the Messiah was going to
come, they knowed what was going to take place. The Pharisees had their idea,
the Sadducees, Herodians, and, oh, they had their ideas. But He come not ... He
come contrary to every one of them, but exactly with the Word. (Modern Events Made Clear - 65-1206.)
But,
see, when God was confirming exactly what He promised, they had it in some kind
of a dignified way that Jesus was supposed to come, and the ... I mean the
Messiah. The Messiah had to come right to their group or he wasn't Messiah.
Well, it's that way, almost, today, "If you don't see through my glasses,
you're not looking at all." See, and so that's just the way it is. That's
the truth. We hate to think that, but it's absolutely the Truth. (Modern Events Made Clear - 65-1206.)
Don't
put your own ... Any man or woman that puts anything to what I say, don't
believe what I say. They don't ... They ... Also about these families that have
sold out and moved to Sierra Vista, Arizona, where they have interpreted from
one of your tapes titled "Little Bethlehem," the rapture will take
place in Arizona. Did you advise them to go there?
I
certainly did not. When they wrote a letter about that, somebody up here in
Connecticut or something, I answered the letter back and said, "You're
making the worst move you ever made in your life. Don't you do a thing like
that." See, you can't ... Well, you just remember, you people ... Now, you
all know that I'm not telling them people to do that; I'm telling them not to
do it. But you see, that's got to follow the meeting. Why do people call me
Messiah? Why does people ...? They got carry ... Well, one fellow out there
showed me the other day, he had a little thing and he was go - carrying on,
wanted all the people to be baptized in my name. That'd make me an Antichrist!
But I'm not for those things, and all you people know that. But you see, this
has got... That only identifies the Message true. Did not they come and try to
tell John, that forerun the first coming of Christ, "Aren't you the
Messiah?" He said, "I am not! I'm not even worthy to loose His shoes.
I'm not even worthy to look at Him." See? But he said, "He that cometh
after me ..." Now, Brother Branham, are we missing out on something? These
people claim to believe every word that you say to be true. But they don't!
They don't believe it. Their own actions prove that they don't. And it makes me
misunderstood among the people - see when they're interpreting their own way
and saying what I'm saying, see? (Questions
& Answers - 64-0823.1M.)
So
listen to every word. Catch it. And if you're talking it on tapes or anything,
then you stay right with that tape teaching! Don't say nothing but what that
tape says! Just say just exactly what the tape says, see, because some of those
things ... We're going to understand a whole lot about this now - why it's
misunderstood! See. And you be sure to say just what the tape says! Don't say
nothing else, see, because ... I don't say that of my own! It's Him that says
it! So many times confusion - people will raise up and say, "Well,
so-and-so said it meant so-and- so!" Just leave it the way it is! (God In Simplicity - 63-0317.1M.)
Don't
add to what I've said, don't take away what I've said. Because, I speak the
Truth as far as I know It, as the Father has given to me. See? Don't add to It,
just say what I said. (God's Provided Place
of Worship - 65-1128.1M.)
That's
the reason that all these great mysteries could not be given to Luther, could
not be given to Wesley, could not be given to the age that has just passed by
us, the Pentecostal age. Why? It wasn't time. They were begotten. Now, the
Person of Christ, Himself, the Son of man (you understand?) revealing Himself
in human flesh, it could not have come till now. (Questions & Answers - 64-0830.2E.)
Now
watch and see where the gates of hell is against. It ain't against the
denominations. The government recognizes that. It ain't. The world recognizes
our denominations, all of them. We have the right, each one of us as American
citizens, we have the rights of denomination, which is fine, we appreciate
that. But that's not what the gates of hell's against. It's against the
spiritual revelation of Christ being here now, the same yesterday, today, and
forever. That's what it's against. "The gates of hell shall be against It,
but it shall never prevail." (Discernment
of Spirit - 60-0308.)
The
Spirit of wisdom comes into the Church to make known to the Church by the
revelation of the Holy Ghost - bringing the Church in and revealing what day
that we're living in. Just the same as Gabriel come to Daniel, the Holy Spirit
comes to the Church in the last days to reveal these great, deep, secret things.
Do you understand now? (Seventy Weeks of
Daniel - 61-0806.)
Now,
what a great hope we have, in this great Faith that we serve tonight. The
living God, the Jehovah, the Pillar of Fire is with us! Shows Himself in power,
and action, and magnify ... let them take the Picture of Him, the same Jehovah!
The Son of God that came from God, went back to God, and dwells in His Church
forevermore! There He is! (Hebrews Ch 1 -
57-0821.)
Now in
this 13th verse. "Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide
you unto all Truth. What's going to do that? The Holy Spirit Who will come in
the Name of the Lord Jesus.
And when
the churches today reject That, how can we ever expect to go to Heaven? When
the Holy Spirit was sent to us for a Guide, we'll take some cardinal, some
bishop, some general overseer, or somebody like that to guide us, when the Holy
Spirit was give to us to guide us.
He said,
"How can I understand when there's no man to guide me?" Oh, my! But
Philip had the Guide. Amen. And he started from the same Scripture, and
preached to him Christ. Amen. Guide! Not tell him some creed, he told him about
the Guide, Christ! (A Guide - 62-1014.2E.)
Now, but
in this last days there's to come a Spirit of Elijah amongst the people, and
he's to do the same thing that they did back there. His nature would be the
same thing, the nature of the Church; the nature of the person would be exactly
the same thing. And that Message going out trying ... He'd be hated by the
people. He'd hate women - ornery ones anyhow, bad ones; love the wilderness;
moody, upset guy all the time like Elijah was and like John was. And we've seen
all this thing come to pass. (Seventy Weeks
of Daniel - 61-0806.)
For
other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (I Corinthians 3:11.)
Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. (Ephesians 2:13-20.)
I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and
which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:8.)
Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 12:2.)
Wherefore
it is also contained in the Scripture, behold I lay in Sion a chief
cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on Him shall not be
confounded. Unto you therefore which believe He is precious; but unto them which
be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the
head of the corner. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to
them which stumble at the Word, being disobedient: where unto also they were
appointed. (I Peter 2:6-8.)
Now but
in this last days, there's to come a Spirit of Elijah amongst the people and
he's to do the same thing that they did back there. His nature would be the
same thing, the nature of the church; the nature of the person would be the
same thing. And the Message going out trying ... he'd be hated by the people.
He'd hate women - ornery ones anyhow, bad ones; love the wilderness; moody,
upset guy all the time like Elijah was and like John was. And we've seen all
this thing come to pass. (Seventy Weeks of
Daniel - 61-0806.)
Malachi
4 has come! That's right. It shall be Light about the evening time. (Thinking Man's Filter - 65-0822E.)
Friends,
this is the fulfillment of Malachi 4, St. Luke 17, St. John 15, oh so many -
Revelation 10 - so many prophecies that can be pinned exactly to this day. (Events Made Clear By Prophecy - 65-0801E.)
Notice
the very day when this messenger, not when he starts on the ... but when he
begins to declare his Message. See? The First Pull, healing; Second Pull,
prophesying; Third Pull, the opening of the Word, the mysteries revealed. No
more - there's no more higher order to reveal the Word than prophets. But the
only way the prophet can be a-vindicated is by the Word. (Anointed Ones - 65-0725.1M.)
And many
people praying for a revival, I wonder if there sometimes (if those who are
praying,) if their own prayers don't stop up the wells of blessings. When
they're cowardly and afraid to trust God, afraid to take Him at His Word,
afraid to believe that He still lives today, when His Bible plainly says that
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (God Called Man - 58-1005E.)
But
foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. (II Timothy 2:23.)
See, he
knew to wait on the Lord. There is where so many people today bring a reproach
upon the Word. They go out with ambition. How many revivals have been left flat
because of a thing like that? (Paul A
Prisoner 63-0717.)
That's
the way we want the Bible - just the way the Bible says it, that's the way we
want it - just like that! Don't put your own interpretation to it! It's already
interpreted! (God in Simplicity 63-0317.)
Neither
give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions rather
than godly edifying which is in faith: so do (I Timothy 1:4.)
If any
man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is
proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof
cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of
corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself. (I Timothy
6:3-5.)
But
avoid foolish questions, and genealogies; and contentions, and strivings about
the law, for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is an heretic after the
first and second admonition, reject! (Titus
3:9.)
Lord,
most any person in here that can move their hands could turn the pages of this
Bible. But there's but One among us this morning that can open It; that's the
great Holy Ghost, Which is in our midst. Open to us the Word, Lord, as we read,
as You did to the disciples, as they went on the road to Emmaus, and begin to
explain to them the Scriptures. (Feast of
Trumpets - 64-0719.1M.)
In the
days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man. What'd the Angel
do? He had the Spirit of discernment, and He said as it was then, so will it be
when the Son of man is being revealed from heaven. Do you see it? Just think,
that in our midst now stands that same Angel of God, which is none other than
the Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the Holy Ghost. It's in our midst. In that
day and He was God and that was His message just before the destruction come.
Now we
notice, it was a message of deliverance. He went down and tried to deliver the
people. And they refused to hear Him. And today, it's the same thing in our
nation, among the people. I've had the privilege of seeing our Lord Jesus in
the meetings do signs and wonders, and great things; and people will actually
stand at the platform and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Great
immortal infinite God is present and performing the same kind of a miracle and
they'll stand there and chew gum and walk off the platform, unconcerned, they
don't care, it looks to me like if a man had any kind of a spirituality about
him, or the Spirit of God in him, and when he seen the Lord Jesus do just what
He said He would do, it would fill his heart in such a way that he couldn't
hold his peace any longer. He would set the nation afire with the message. As
it was in them days, He said, "So will it be. That Message went forth and
they merely laughed at it and mocked at it as someone who was telling some kind
of an idle tale. But it was grace and it was deliverance, oh my (Will the Church Go Through the Tribulation - 58-0309E.)
Here He
is tonight, proven by His Church, scientifically and all! Oh, friends, why are
we so dull. (Jehovah-Jireh #II - 62-0706.)
All
those hands up, you mean to tell me, to know that you're standing here in the
Presence of God, to know that you're in this condition, and still refuse to
come to an altar? What in the world's ahold of you?
The Holy
Spirit dropped right in the meeting there. And that Angel of God is standing at
the platform. You've been in the meetings, you know what this means. Don't you?
(Israel at Kadesh Barnea - 53-0328.)
Do you
believe that in this day that we're living, and all this chaos and scientific
age like it was in the days of Noah, in the days of Moses, the days of Christ,
that God, the great Father of all of us who are born into Him, stands among us
today?
This
visible Pillar of Fire that's scientifically proven, many years ago as a little
boy spoke to me out there, and told me I'd live right here, what would take
place. Telling you about it, and then one day down on the river, before the
ministry started, first revival, He appeared in the skies, identified Himself
and give the commission. All these years I've hid it in my heart, veiling
Christ, same Pillar of Fire interpreting the Word, as promised. We're in the
last days, just the Coming of the Lord. And if you find yourself outside that
veil (which is death to stay out), will you by faith, this morning, say,
"By God's help I want to break through that veil. (Unveiling of God - 64-0614.1M.)
Here
lays handkerchiefs, laying here. Sick people are everywhere. I pray that the
great Holy Spirit that's present, that shows these things, that tells these
things, and never fails but what "It's right"; not one time can It
fail, because It's God. Let Him anoint these handkerchiefs with His Presence,
and heal every sick person that they're laid upon. (He That Is In You - 63-1110.2E.)
He's
here, the appearing of Christ. Did you ever try to divide ... There's a place
in the Bible, you know, I ain't got time to go into it, says "the
appearing of Christ," and then "the Coming of Christ." That's
two different things, altogether, the "appearing" and the
"Coming." He's appearing now, working with us in the form of the Holy
Spirit, making it just perfect, the Church, It has to. (Jehovah Jireh #II - 62-0706.)
Irreverence,
you know what it is? They are not conscious of the Presence of God. The world
has become so common, and religion has become such a low ebb, until there is no
respects, just as it's always been. (Influence
- 63-0803.2E.)
Look at
them soldiers. We could think, tonight, what a rash and a horrible thing it was
for those soldiers to put a rag over the face of our Lord Jesus, to make fun of
Him being a Prophet and could know the secrets of the heart. They put a rag
over His face, and set Him out there in a courtyard, and took a stick and
struck Him on the head with it, and then passed it one to another, and said,
"If You be a prophet, prophesy now, tell us the one of us that hit
You." See, no respects at all. They couldn't feel no virtue.
But that
little woman, with enough faith that could touch His garment, she got her
desires. You see, we've got to be, we've got to be conscious of God's Presence.
This
little five senses that we live in, that's just a little world of our own. See?
But God... That's, we was only given these so we could contact our earthly
home. But there is senses beyond that, another dimension.
And God
is always present. If we could only remember that. "The Angels of the Lord
are encamped about those who fear Him." In this building, tonight, stands
Jesus Christ. In this building tonight is hosts of Angels, thousands of them
gathered around. You don't see them, but you can feel the influence of them,
telling you that they are here. He cannot leave us. He promised not to.
That's
the very objective of these meetings, and that's the objective, my brethren, of
holding my ministry out from the denominations, is to try to let the people see
that Jesus Christ is still alive, that He's here. (Influence - 63-0803.2E.)
And it's
the same Holy Spirit, God's General, the Chief Captain that stood at the gates
of Jericho when Joshua come up. The same Chief Captain, or General, wants to
lead us into the promise land, and He's the only one can do it. Our
organizations will not do it. "Thus Saith the Lord." Mark that down.
Put that in your book and see if that was right or not. (Church Choosing Law for Grace - 61-0316.)
People
are looking forward to a great something to come, and you're at the end of what
has already come. The last signs has been given to the Gentile church. (Discerning the Body of the Lord - 59-0812.)
Show us
Your presence, for we believe that You have raised from the dead, and our
Spirit discerns that You are here the same Jesus, yesterday, today and forever.
You're here in the form of the Holy Ghost to work through Your Church; to heal
and to save. Hear us, Lord, as I commit to You these people and myself in the
Name of Jesus, God's Son. Amen.
- that
controls all things will say, "William Branham, come forth," and I'll
come in His likeness! Hallelujah! That same God by the Holy Ghost is dwelling
among us tonight. In the Shekinah glory, proving Himself by the same natural
signs that He did!
I'm not
a healer. I'm a man. I'm your brother. Christ is your Healer if you can just
recognize Him to be here. The only thing that you have to recognize - that He
is not a myth; He is not some historical god; He is a God present - Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever - right now! Do you believe He is
here? Would you discern It?
That is
the same Jesus! It is the same Angel! Have you got discernment to discern the
Lord's Body? (Discerning the Body of the
Lord - 59-0812.)
Come now
to the Lord Jesus all who want to lose their guilty stains ... Christ is here!
Come forward now while He is here. (Eleventh
Commandment.)
Oh, if
they could forget the illiterate messengers, and remember: It's not the
messenger, It's the Message! He's come down again with us in a form of a Pillar
of Light. And He moves with His same miracles and signs: nothing out of the
Bible, staying right with the Bible...(Hebrews
Ch 2 #II - 57-0825.2E.)
Do you
believe now that you're in His presence? All right. Go believing, and you'll be
well. Amen. (Jehovah Jireh - 62-0706.)
That's
the way a genuine healing comes, when it's revealed to you that "He was
wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquity, and with His
stripes you were healed." When it's inspired to you to see His Presence
here, of St. Mark 11... or St. Luke 17:30, that He's going to reveal Hisself in
the last days (among His people, in human flesh) like He did before Sodom. When
you see that, and something strikes you! (I
Have Heard But Now I See - 65-1127.2E.)
Now why
did you come? Because you believe. You're convinced that God is in our midst.
He is here tonight. He's here working in great signs and wonders.
Our
heavenly father, we bring to You tonight thus audience, with the Holy Ghost in
our midst, present now, making His word live new again. (Jehovah Jireh #II - 62-0707.)
In the
Name of Jesus Christ, in His presence, if you can believe what you've seen to
be the truth and coming from God, I ask you in Jesus Christ's Name, stand up
and accept it then, say, "I will accept it." (The Super Sign - 63-1129.)
And to
think that you can come apart and gather like this, where as the Psalmist said,
"Behold how sweet and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in
unity." It's like the anointing oil that was on Aaron's beard, that ran to
the hems of his garments. Which, that anointing oil ... Which, you know what
the anointing oil done, it preserved him to go in the Presence of God. See, he
had to be anointed with that oil before he went in the Presence of God. And
when brethren can dwell together in unity, it's likened unto that oil. We then
enter into the Presence of the Lord, with that anointing of brethren together
in unity. Oil represents the "Holy Spirit." (Power of Transformation 65-1031.1M.)
In
Revelation 3, said, "I counsel of thee to buy from Me salve, that your
eyes might be opened, that you might see your nakedness." The salve is
God's Word, the healing of the eyes that brings you from natural things of the
world, and transforms you, by the power of God, into His Presence.
Father
God, in the Presence of You, as we assemble here this morning in this, taking a
lengthy, long, drawed-out Message, and, O Lord, I pray that You will place them
Seeds out in the hearts of these people. (Power
of Transformation - 65-1031.1M.)
If there
is anything that I can do to make myself perfect in the Presence of God, then
Christ did not have to die for me. If there is one thing that you can do, that would
merit anything in the Presence of God, then Christ died in vain. No
law-keeping, no legalistic ideas of yours, none of your own holiness, no things
that you could quit doing, quit lying, quit stealing, quit smoking tobacco,
quit going to the picture shows, still you are lost.
He
absolutely with His Own Blood purchased our sins, and perfected forever, His
believers. Therefore, in Christ we stand blameless, perfected in the Presence
of God Almighty. We are underprivileged people, with our own doctrines; we all
been taught that we have to get up to a certain place, we have to do a certain
thing. No, my brother, it's nothing you've done; it's what God did for you! We
are now, if we are justified by faith, we are perfected forever in the Presence
of God. (Perfection - 57-0419.)
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