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1. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE — 1965-02-21

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• ¶35–¶39 Something is just about to happen. God never sends these things without being a purpose behind it. I was just thinking here. I placed it here, one of my notes. That I’m wearing this morning, a set of cuff links…And many of you have heard of this movie star, Jane Russell, and her mother is a Pentecostal; and Danny Henry is her cousin, her first cousin, her mother’s sister’s child. He was Baptist. He was standing at the meeting, a Business Men’s meeting in Los Angeles, California, two years ago. And I had just got through speaking of a great, powerful, forceful statements, that even the overseer, one of the general overseers of the Assemblies of God, stepped down to the platform from up in the balcony where he was sitting, and he said, “I don’t believe that Brother Branham meant that.” I said, “I have to mean it, sir. It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.” And, then, it was about the church in this age. And about that time, this young man who is a businessman… His brother is over…he was there taking pictures for television that morning, his other brother is—is a state road supervisor of California. And Danny Henry walked forward after the meeting was closed, on the platform, like this, where the men were all seated, walked down to put his arms around me. And he said these words, “Brother Branham, I hope this don’t sound sacrilegious, but,” said, “that could be made the 23rd chapter of Revelation.” Which, there is only twenty-two chapters in Revelation. He said, “I hope this don’t sound sacrilegious.” He had no more than said it…Now, the boy was a Baptist, and knowed nothing about the supernatural. With his arms around me, he started talking in an unknown language.

• ¶224–¶228 Now, sister, I want to put you to the place where God’s Word promised you, and you see then you stay in that place, too. Matthew 5:32. I want you to notice here, to support this same idea of “one” and “many.” Matthew, thirty-…I think it’s Matthew 5:32, 31 to begin with. It has been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: That’s Jesus speaking, the One said, “from the beginning.” Now watch. But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving…the cause of fornications, causes her to commit adultery;…(see) whosoever shall put away his wife, saving… the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: (Why? She’ll marry again.) and whosoever marrieth her that is divorced committed adultery. See, she has got a living husband, so no man can marry her. Care what she does and who she is, she’s got a living husband, there is no grounds for her at all. But, it’s not, for him. “Causes her,” not him. Get it? You have to make the Word run in continuity. See, nothing saying he couldn’t, but she can’t. See, “causes her,” not him. That’s exactly what the Bible says, “causes her.” It is not stated against him to remarry, but “her.” Why? Christ in the type. Notice, it is stated that he cannot remarry, only a virgin. He can remarry. He can ma-…he can remarry again if it’s a virgin, but he can’t marry somebody else’s wife. No indeedy. And if he does marry a divorced woman, he is living in adultery, I don’t care who he is. The Bible said, “Whosoever marrieth her that is put away, liveth in adultery.” There you are, not no divorcees.

• ¶229–¶233 See that original back there, “from the beginning,” now? Remarrying, now notice, he can, but she can’t. Like David, like Solomon, like the continuity of the whole Bible, now, same as David and the rest of them. Now you notice in First Corinthians 7:10, notice, Paul commands the wife that is, that divorces her husband, to remain single or be reconciled, not to remarry. She must remain single, or to be reconciled back to her husband. She cannot remarry. She must remain single, but, notice, he never said about the man. See, you can’t make the Word lie. “From the beginning,” the sex law by polygamy. Now, the Word of God runs true with nature of God, runs in to continuity. See how there is one school went east, and the other one went west, on it? You got to come back to the Truth, to find out what it is. It’s always been that way, that’s the regular covenant with God from the beginning. First, before the beginning, from the beginning there was just one and one. After the sin came in, then there was one man and a bunch of women; run that way in nature, every animal, and human beings and natural flesh is animal. We are mammal, we know that, all of us, see, and it’s all God’s nature in continuity. But now that the Seals are opened, the Spirit of Truth directs us to the Word. That explains why all the mistakes has been down through the ages, because the Seals was not opened, This was not revealed. It’s true.

• ¶298–¶303 I’ll stop there ’cause we’re in a mixed crowd. I’ll get some men, I’ll…we’ll talk more about it. Got all the papers and things laying right here, right at my hand right now, and I was going to bring it to you this morning. I was going to take the full day in this, but I’ll close now in saying this. This is to my church only. Not my church…The little flock that believes me and follows me, this is to them. The other day, knowing that when I tell you anything, it must come THUS SAITH THE LORD, then I had the Scriptures as He revealed it to me. But, “Lord God, what can I say to that congregation? I’ll have separations. Man will be sitting on the porch and out in the yard, and everywhere else, ‘Shall I leave her?’ Women, ‘Shall I leave my husband?’ ‘What shall I do?’” I said, “Lord, what can I do?” Something said to me, “Go up yonder in the mountain, and I’ll talk to you.” And while I was up in the mountain, not knowing that down in Tucson they were seeing It. But even the teachers called the children from…my little girl and them, from the schoolroom, and said, “Look yonder in that mountain! There is a fiery-looking amber Cloud going up in the air and coming back down, going up in the air and coming back down.” Mrs. Evans, are you here? Ronnie, you here? I come on back down by the station, this young boy by the filling station, the Evans’ filling station there. And before I knowed what the boy was going to say, he took me on my feet, he said, “Brother Branham, you was up in that mountain over yonder, wasn’t you?”

2. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶79–¶80 But Paul said that as long as they…unbelieving husband has a unbelieving…or believing wife or so forth, let the believing wife remain with the believing husband, as long as is not contrary now to God. If he’s pleased to dwell with her…“Go ahead, Honey, if you want to go to church, that’s all right; but I ain’t going. I don’t believe in it; don’t have nothing to do with it. But you go ahead; that’s all right.” But when he says, “You can’t do it,” now there’s a different thing. You’re not bound to that then; you separate everything for God. 286. Brother Branham, is it (Let’s see.)…for a person who has a— who has a living, divorced mate who remarry before coming unto the Message to minister? Well, in First Timothy 3:2, if you want to put that down, and Titus 1 to 6 (I wrote that one down), I want you to read that for this question. See? If a man—if a man desires the office of a bishop or a preacher (something another in church), he’s got to have just one wife. That’s right! A minister. Now, that’s First Timothy 3:2, and Titus 1 to 6. Now, Titus 1 to 6, yeah! All right. Now, notice that the Bible said that that man that’s a minister in the house of God will have one wife. Now. 287. Dear Brother Branham, approximately ten years ago God met me now and healed what the gift of love, or, revealed what the gift of love was, and same then my prayer is for…that I will return. Will I receive it before I die? Will my husband hear the Word, and what am I to do?

• ¶189–¶192 Suit yourself, either one. I sure love you, I don’t care where you go, what you do. But now, as advice, I believe I’d come to Jeffersonville. If you’re going to move anyhow, I’d come to Jeff. I believe I’m here more than I am in Arizona. That’s fine. 310. Brother Branham, is—is it too late to preach to sinners anymore? No! No! Don’t get that in your mind, brother. Keep on building on the house. Keep doing everything you can. Just keep on going till you’re called away. See? 311. Question number two. Should the saved separate themselves from sinners in worship? Should the saved separate from sinners to worship? I don’t know exactly what you mean by that. If you mean sinners like out in the…You worship God everywhere. But I think if we did, how we going to have church, ’cause the sinners come right into the church and set down by the side of the Christian. Don’t never separate yourself from anything but sin, not the sinner. Get the sinner if you can, but don’t be takers of his sin. 312. Should a saved wife refuse herself to her husband if he is a sinner? No, sir! No, sir! That’s your husband. You’ll drive him farther away from God than ever by doing that. See? That’s right, Brother, Sister. You married him; he’s yours, and you’re his. 313. Brother Branham, what is the meaning of a annulment? Are people free to marry or is this just another word for divorce? I would like some information on this.

3. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶135–¶137 Ever who you are, Sister or Brother, whoever it is, I agree with you one hundred percent. It’s a disgrace, but tell me what to do about it! I preach it just as hard as I know how to preach it; they do it the same. So it’s their judgment, ’cause the Word’s went forth. Yes, I’m certainly against them little old skintight dresses that look like…I constantly fuss at my kids, Becky and Sarah. I don’t care how little they are, I… that…I just fuss at them all the time. I think they even wear their dresses…Meda takes Becky apart every day about it. See? Dresses plumb up…Cause kids, you can expect that in kids, and you have to correct them; but when it comes to a woman, there’s something wrong there. See? Don’t hurt feelings now, I’m just answering questions. You ask me from your heart; I’m telling you from my heart. If you find the solution, I—please come tell me, I’ll sure do it, if I can do anything about it. Like somebody said the other day, he said, “Well, I tell you, Brother Branham,” said, “I tell you what Adam and Eve…” Said, “It was just exactly; they had a apple!” And I noticed they changed that now; they said they had a what? I believe it was called a something? [A brother says, “Apricot.”—Ed.] Apricot, yeah, it was a apricot they eat. Well, it’s time to pass the apricots again if it makes them realize they were naked. See? 245. Brother Branham, I have accepted God’s Message of today, and also our son. And we both have been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. My husband—my husband hasn’t accepted the Message and is fighting this Message. And he has influenced our son and is taking him to a Methodist church. He wants me to go with him to church when we are not in service here at the tabernacle. Would it be right for me to go with him or would it be better to stay out of that denomination?

• ¶200–¶202 Now, here—here is one of the most treacherous questions that we have in these bunches, and it’s the most questioned in the—in the—in the world today. Now, hear me, and I have a reason for this. If I really brought to this church and on this tape this morning, the correct thing about marriage and divorce, it’d break up every church in the country, if they listened to it. See? That’s right. Now, so help me, here lays the Bible before me, I have on that question, THUS SAITH THE LORD! And both sides that are arguing are wrong. Both those who remarry the married and so forth, they’re both wrong on what they’re doing, but in between it is the Truth, the middle of the road. I don’t want to…I’m going to make a tape whether if something happens to me, then the brethren can play it after I’m gone (see?) to the churches. But I—I want to make a tape on it and just show you where it’s at; but until I feel led of the Lord, I will not say anything about it. But I feel that on these things that I must be led of the Lord; if I don’t, I’ll do more damage than I do good. See? Now, I want you to notice this. Question: “Can a man marry a woman and be divorced by her and then marry another; and if both of them marry another, are they both committing adultery?” Now, my friend, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but that’s the Truth. Jesus said, “Whosoever marries her that is put away commits adultery.” See? I—I just don’t want to say it, but it’s the Truth.

• ¶206–¶208 Now, on this here, let—let—let’s just kind of…You…Here’s what I say. Let me say this, not the Lord, let me say it. If you are married at this time, and you both are saved, and you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, and you love one another, and you’ve got little children (now, remember this is me, not the Lord. See?), go ahead and live together; be happy; ’cause you couldn’t live with your first wife or you wouldn’t have married her. Then if you leave this and go back to your first one, you’re doing worse than you did in the first place. See? So you see, you’re all messed up; there’s no way of getting out of it. There’d only be one way truly that I can say from the Bible: both of you live single. See? Now, but…That’s the only way I could say right now, but there is another thing in there, that I—I can’t tell you now, and the reason I say, “Not I, but the Lord, continue on.” If you’ll ever bring that to a tape, and someday, if I ever bring it, you remember the way I said that. If you were wise, you could’ve picked it up (see?), on how I said that then, and then you would know. 256. Brother Branham, should we go to the other churches even when they disagree with you? Sure, yep! Jesus did when they disagreed with Him. Go ahead. We notice here, says, “Should we go to another church that disagrees with you?” Sure, I don’t…I’m not the only pebble on the beach, you know. There’s—there’s just other godly men everywhere; I hope I’m one of them. See? But don’t never get down here…

4. WISDOM VERSUS FAITH — 1962-04-01

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• ¶63–¶66 And she said, “I was anticipating suicide, planning it, to leave my lovely husband and my little girl.” She said, “We live in Kansas. I love it, because I see the grain ripening, and think of the harvest.” I think she was a Methodist. And said where…And then, over at the Methodist college in Bloomington, Illinois, they picked up a paper, that I was to be there, eleven months ago. Many of you remember the Bloomington meeting. You were there. And she said, “My husband got me, and some friends, and took off.” And said, “The Lord knew I couldn’t stand it one more day.” She was so far gone. And said, “I was the first person. Your son, Billy Paul, give me a card. And that night, when your—when your husband called the numbers, I was the first one in the line, to be prayed for.” And said, “As soon as I come to the platform,” said, “he told me my life and told me what I done, and ever what all about it, and said, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD, it’s over.’” Said, “That very split minute, I’ve never had another pain.” Said, “I weighed seventy-something pounds. I weigh a hundred-and-sixty-something now.” And said, “Sister Branham, when you’re lonesome,” said, “I know how you feel, sharing your husband with the world, and things like that. But,” said, “just remember, a little Kansas housewife is free today, because he was willing to mind the Lord.” I showed Billy. I said, “Billy, I want you to send this over to that Methodist college.” He reached over and got a pile, said, “Read some of these.”

• ¶450–¶454 Moses and Joshua had faith in the Word. The others wanted to dance and strip the women; Korah, (why?) by his Egyptian wisdom. Moses didn’t want that. Look at them Korah’s today, making an easy way, dancing, all-night parties; women: bobbed hair, short dresses, anything. “Don’t make any difference. That’s all right.” It isn’t all right. The Word says it’s not right. That’s right. Same thing. See? Though every one of them was baptized, every one, Korah and all was baptized, shows that there’s that ecclesiastical type again. You say, “Were they baptized?” First Corinthians 10:1 to 2. Let’s just read it. We…I know it’s getting late, but dinner won’t scorch. This dinner might last a little longer, if the Lord will just keep feeding us. See? First Corinthians 10. Now looky here. First Corinthians 10:1 to 2, I got. Now, I got Second Corinthians. First Corinthians 10:1 to 2. Moreover, brethren, I would not—I would not that you should be ignorant, how that our…all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; Korah had the same baptism that the rest of them did. But what’d he want to do? Let the women just dance, and they drank a little wine and have a little time, strip them off and have adultery, and have that. You know the Bible said they did that. They took those women and stripped their clothes, and made them dance, and things like that. And Moses became angry with them. You remember the time? Why? They had Dr. Korah along, that had wisdom. He said, “I’ll take you back to Egypt.” That’s where they’d have went, too.

5. DOYOU NOW BELIEVE? — 1953-12-06

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• ¶45–¶46 And then I went ahead talking to her, here it come again; the vision broke. And I seen her with a blond-headed man. And she was riding fast in the car, and a automobile was going, and a train just barely missed them. And she started screaming. I can hear her, but I was still in the vision, and she fainted and fell in the floor. And here was the vision. She was gotten married just before the war. And young girl, and her husband went overseas. And when he went overseas, she started getting lonesome and she started having company with a blond-headed boy. And one night being out, she broke her marriage vow and lived untrue to her husband. On the road in, the train almost struck them and killed them. And then when my wife heard her scream, and so she come into the room, we got her up, she begin to scream, said, “Oh, Brother Branham, don’t you tell that to nobody; don’t you tell that to nobody.” I said, “There you are, sister,” I said, “unconfessed sin.” DO YOU NOW BELIEVE? She said, “But I had…” She’d all different people come, anoint her in oil and pray for her, stomp devils, and kick devils, and everything else, but he stayed right there. I said, “And he will stay right there as long as you got that unconfessed sin.” She said, “Brother Branham, I confessed that to God.” I said, “It wasn’t God you sinned against; it was your husband. You got to make that right.” She said, “Oh, it’d break up my home.” I said, “That’s all I can say, lady. There is the cause. And until you make that right, you’ll never get any better. That’s way back in…” She said, “I don’t even think of that.”

• ¶51–¶52 So it hadn’t been but a little while; my wife said, “Look, coming up the steps.” Here they come with their arms around one another, just a crying, the tears running down their cheeks. I opened the door. I said, “What about it?” He said, “Brother Branham,” said, “my wife called me, and I got in the car,” said, “she come confessing to me that a wrong that she had DO YOU NOW BELIEVE? did. And then,” said, “she come accuse me of the same thing. And I said, ‘Where you been?’” And then—and then,” said, “I—it’s the truth, Brother Branham.” Said, “I don’t know you. I’ve heard of you by Brother Johnson.” But said, “I never seen you, but I want to shake your hand and say, ‘It’s the absolutely truth, and I’m guilty, and no good to be called a father of my children, or a deacon in that church. And as soon as I can get Brother Johnson, I’ll resign from my job.’” I said, “Don’t do that; just get right with God and continue with your job.” See? I said, “No need of doing that.” He said, “Oh, if God would forgive me.” I said, “Sure He’d forgive you. Now, you confess to your wife and ask her to forgive you. You all forgive one another?” “Yes.” I said, “Now, set down. Now, is the time.” Then when I went down and said, “Heavenly Father, this demon has tormented this girl for all these years, has no legal right to hold her now. Because it’s done been found and made right, now come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ.” And she’s perfectly normal and well from that time on. See, see? What is it? It goes slow, but we get the cause. See what I mean? Visions, that’s the reason some of you send me letters and say, “Brother Roberts will pray for five hundred while I’m praying for two.” God…

6. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1962-05-27

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• ¶25b–¶29 Allen wrote this book of Biting Of Devils.” Now, A. A. Allen never wrote that book. I knowed the writer of that book. And I said, “Now, if the man who wrote it wasn’t sincere enough to go out and check up to see who wrote it before he criticized Brother Allen, I kind of believe some of his other criticism is not due these brethren.” See? And the man sitting right there taking up for me. But it was just let him know that his statement was wrong, you see, that Brother Allen never wrote that book, the writing of Biting Of Devils. Now, in answering these questions, they are the best of my knowledge. And if…I’ll try to answer them by the Scriptures. Now, the first one is found, I believe, in First Corinthians, the 7th chapter and the 15th verse. So now we will try to go over to that Scripture and see what it looks like, and see if we can help this precious person who’s asking the question. Now. First Corinthians, 7th chapter, 15th verse. And I suppose the person’s present now. Now here’s the way It reads: But if the unmarried depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such a case: but God has called us unto peace. 169. Now. First Corinthians, 7th chapter, 15th verse. Now the question they asked: Brother Branham, does this mean a sister or a brother is free to remarry? No. See, you don’t get his question there and what he’s saying. They’re not free. See, that would make a contradiction in the Scripture, and the Scriptures doesn’t contradict themselves at all. See? Now, let’s… You see, like you can make the Scripture (just by reading one verse) say anything you want it to say, to fit your thought. But you’ve got to take the thought that they’re talking on.

• ¶43–¶48 But now just to say, “I, Brother Branham, I got married and my wife’s an unbeliever, and here’s a sister over here I can marry. I’m going to leave this one and marry that one.” Oh, no! No, indeedy! Your vow is until death you separate, and there’s nothing else in the world will permit you to marry in the Bible, until your companion is dead. That’s right. The only grounds, there’s no remarrying nowhere at all, except a dead companion. That’s all. See? You can’t make It contradict Itself. So just read the verses before and after, and you’ll catch then what he’s talking about. Now, this means here, not…See: Does this mean a sister or a brother is free to remarry? No, sir. See, he explained that first. See: …unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:…(See?) There’s no such things as any believer ever being reconciled to remarriage again, with a living companion. Now, here is another one. The second is like this: 170. What manner of body will the wicked have in the last resurrection at the Great White Throne Judgment? That sinner will rise in the resurrection to be judged in the body that he has committed the sin in. See? He’ll have to stand the Judgment in resurrection. Resurrection is not replacement, it’s “bringing up that that went down.” When Jesus raised from the dead, He was the same body that went down, He raised in that same kind of a body. We rise in the same body that we go down in; it’s a resurrection, not replacement.

7. HEBREWS, CHAPTER SEVEN 1 — 1957-09-15

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• ¶81–¶83 Here not long ago, a good preacher friend of mine, he had a boy, and that boy had been going to church, his own church. He got to a place where he started running around with a little ol’ girl who smoked and drank and carried on. Preacher said, “Of course, that’s his business.” A very bosom friend of mine, and a nice boy. But he got all infatuated with some young woman; and she had been married, had some children, her husband was living. He was afraid they was going to have…that boy would marry her. So, the brother was all tore up. And he said to me, “Brother Branham, I want you to go to this certain-certain boy of mine. I want you to talk to him.” I said, “Brother…” I almost called his name. “You have a better way. Don’t send me. If the boy is not living up, and the church has saw him doing wrong, then it’s the thing for the church to do this business. That’s left with the church. And the church goes over and tells him.” So he took a brother, and went over and told him. And he got back at the brother, let him know he was attending to his own business, for him to do the same. He took another brother, two more, two deacons went over and told the boy. He wouldn’t listen to it. They told it to the church. And he never come for several nights, to be reconciled to the church after his sin was told before the church. Then, the church loosed him.

• ¶192–¶196 “Have you spoke in tongues, brother? You haven’t got It. Did you shout till the cold feeling went up your back? Did you see balls of fire?” Oh, nonsense! No such a thing. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your personal Saviour? And the Spirit of God bears record with your spirit, that you’re sons and daughters of God. And your life bears fruit of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness. Then you’re a Christian. If it doesn’t, I don’t care what you do. Paul said, “I could give my body to be burned as a sacrifice. I knowed all the mysteries of God. I can move mountains with my faith. I can speak in tongues like men and Angels. I’m nothing.” How about that? First Corinthians 13; find out if That’s right or not. Now find out if—if Corinthians, Second Corinthians 13, I believe it is. Or, well, it’s either First or Second Corinthians. First Corinthians there, First Corinthians 13, is right. “Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels,” both the kind that can be interpreted and that, cannot be interpreted, “I am nothing.” So what’s the use of fooling with it, then? “Though I understand all the mysteries of God.” Why do you go to seminaries and try to learn so much about? You better get right with God, first. Certainly. “Though I, ‘Oh, blessed hallelujah!’” You got so you can’t even have a congregation unless you have a healing campaign or some kind of miracles going on. “A weak and adulterous generation seeketh after such.” What do you want with that?

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE HOLY GHOST — 1959-12-19

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• ¶110b–¶111 That ain’t become Christians.) But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let your women learn in silence with all subjections. But I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority over… man, but to be…silent. ON THE HOLY GHOST 25 For Adam was first formed, and then Eve. …Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing if… (Now, he’s not talking to the woman of the world, having babies.)…if she continues in faith…(See? If she continues. She’s already…That’s the woman he’s talking about, the woman that’s already saved. See?)…and charity and holiness with all sobriety. Not by having a baby makes her saved, but because that she is raising children, doing her duty, not raising cats, dogs, and what-more to take the place of a child, as they do today, giving it a mother’s love so that she can go out and run around all night. Some people do that. Sorry, but they do it. That’s awful rude for me to say, but the truth is the truth. See? They don’t want a baby to be tied down with it. But in childbearing, if she continues in faith, holiness, and all sobriety, she’ll be saved. But the if is, you shall be saved too, if you’re borned again. You shall you can be healed if you believe. You can receive the Holy Ghost if you believe It, get ready for It, if you are ready for It. And she shall be saved if she keeps doing these things (see?), but not because she’s a woman. So that’s right, brother, sister. It isn’t a Catholic teaching at all. Now I want…Here’s another one which is a very sticky one. Then we’ve got one more. I think maybe we have time for it. I just took up our time. Now, this is just—this is just the aftereffects of the revival. This is the aftereffects of the meeting, these questions. 97. Now: Brother Branham (it’s typewritten), is it Scripture for a person to speak in tongues and to interpret his own message? If so, please explain. First Corinthians or Corinthians 14:19 and also Corinthians 14:27.

• ¶112–¶115 All right, let’s go over to that Scripture and see what it says. And then we’ll see whether we keep this Scriptural. We want to always be Scriptural. And Corinthians 14. Now, the person wants to know if it’s Scriptural for a man to interpret his own message that he spoke in tongues. “If so, explain Corinthians 14:19.” Let’s see, 14 and 19. All right, here we are. Yet in the churches I…rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand…in…unknown tongues. Now, the next one is the 27th verse, they want to know. If any man speaks in a unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at…most by three, and that by courses; and let one interpret. Now, I take what the person’s trying to get at (which I want— I’m going to read something to you just a moment). But I think what the brother or sister is trying to get at, “Is it right for a person that’s speaking in tongues to also interpret the message that he said?” Now, dear beloved friend, if you’ll just read the 13th verse in the same chapter, it’ll tell you: Wherefore let him that speaketh in a unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. Sure. He can interpret his own message. Now, if we just…Let’s just…Well, you…Read the all of it here, and you can see It’s… Just read that whole chapter. It’s very good, explains it. Now, speaking in tongues…Now, while we’re on that, and this being taped, I want to say that I believe just as much in speaking in tongues as I believe in Divine healing, and the—the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the second Coming of Christ, and the power of the world to come; I believe just as much in that as I believe, but I believe speaking in tongues has its place just like the coming of Christ has its place; Divine healing has its place; everything has its place.

9. THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS — 1953-11-29

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• ¶95–¶99 Now, you’re going to get angry with me, you just might as well get started. But, you men that’ll let your wives go out and act like that, and smoke cigarettes, and walk around, that shows how much man’s in you. That’s right. A real true-blooded man won’t permit such stuff as that. That’s right. Brother, that may be hard to digest, but if it is, take it, ’cause it’s good for you. Amen. That’s exactly right. I tell you, a real red-blooded man… My wife may do it sometime. When she does, that’s the day she leaves the Branham home. That’s exactly right. I wouldn’t permit it. By the grace of God, I couldn’t permit it. That’s right. And when men will stand up… Excuse me. That thing’s got more voice than I have. But look. I’m not excited. I know where I am. I know what I’m talking about too. Now, look. That’s right. This little ol’ girl started across the floor hollering, “Tootle-dee, doodle-dee,” and when this…she said…They was going to have some kind of old barn swing dance, or something or other, and she got down there to—to the radio, and she throwed a kiss to that guy through the radio. So excited she didn’t even know I was at the door. She said, “Tootle-loo, honey. I’ll see you out there tonight.” And I thought, “Yeah, it’s true, you’ll be there. No doubt at all. You’ll be there.” And she walked over, she kept going around the floor hollering, you know, like she was dancing. She said, “Oh, excuse me.” She said, “I just love to donce so well.” I said, “I noticed it.” And—and she said—she said, “Oh, I just love it.” I said, “I—I believe that.” I said, “Here’s your change.” And—and I went on back, and I was coming down a pole.

10. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-06-28

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• ¶182–¶184a It was not the seed of the devil; it was the seed of the serpent. And the serpent had a seed; the Bible said it had a seed. And it’s still exists today, the seed of the serpent. So much… Now, you can ask me another question on that. If we just had time, I got all the words for you, and… 90. Will you please explain what it means by, “Sinneth not” in First John 5:18? My, we’re right at it, I believe here. Maybe it…Got it; turned right straight to it. Maybe the Lord wanted me to read it. All right, First John, We know that whosoever is borned of God sinneth not;… Certainly not! I just went through that. He can’t sin; he’s born of God. “Sinneth not,” he can’t sin, the seed remains in him. Another Scripture you might refer to here would be Romans 4:8, 4 and 5-8 where God…David spoke, rather, years ago and said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin to.” See? And course, he does not sin. Now, we’ve got one more and then that’s all. 91. Matt-…(Let’s see.) Brother Bill, what is the difference between fornications and adultery, Matthew 19:9? Jesus said in Matthew 19:9, “Whosoever putteth away his wife and marries another, except it be for the cause of fornications, commits adultery.” The difference between fornications and adultery, the word could be applied either way. But to make it clear what he was talking of there, that—a woman that’s unmarried cannot commit adultery, because she has no husband to commit adultery against. It’s uncleanliness for her. She has to confess that to her husband before they are married if she’s did that. If not and her husband finds it out later, he has a right to put her away, because she took a false vow. For the Bible said, “Be it well…” or ritual says. “Be it well known to you (I have it in mine) if any couples are joined otherwise than God’s Word does allow, their marriage is not lawful.

11. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶134–¶138 I got that one even this morning. See? It’s one thousand years. All right. Brother Branham, the problem of what… Yeah, I got that. The wheat and the tares, you remember we got that. I believe we’re coming right down now. I may have throwed a bunch of these back. Let’s see. Same thing. Brother Branham, I am a mother of six wonderful children and my husband wants me to go to work for a while to help finance. Should I? Also want to pray to God to grant me faith that… to give me…Abraham and—and…like faith…like Abraham and Daniel and the Hebrew children. Should a Christian raise tobacco? I’ve just went through that. And… 416. Brother Branham, is it wrong for a woman to shave her legs? Am I seeing things? Does that say that? I can’t…I don’t know. I’m going to leave that with you. Is—is this day wrong to limit your family? Did it mean practice complete birth control? I answered that, of course, to the…each individual. Let’s see. If a woman while in sin gets a divorce and remarries and… I answered that. You remember I said, “Leave the divorce cases till…” 417. I have a friend who I love very much. She has had some tapes and letters that I believe that have…never talked to her. Really, I guess I am afraid of destroying her and losing her as a friendship. What should I do? Speak to her in love. I don’t…I believe I answered that, but I— I’d…Don’t—don’t try to push anything on anybody. Just be salty; they’ll long to be like you. Brother, sister, I believe I’ve answered these. Brother Branham, please explain about the five foolish virgins. I—I know I got that one. It’s wrote, and it’s red paper. I believe we’re…I got that one. I believe I have answered all of these. Praise the Lord. Let’s see. Excuse me just a minute. 418. Dear prophet of God, Saint Mark 16:18, I…part of laying hands on the sick…I’m around snake handlers. What about it?

12. GOD DOESN’T CALL MAN TO JUDGMENT WITHOUT FIRST WARNING HIM — 1963-07-24

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• ¶17–¶19 I’ve had people stand before me and ask me questions, I know exactly, but I wouldn’t tell them, because I just felt constrained not to do it. You remember, I believe, was it last Wednesday night, I preached on, A Prisoner? See? See, you want to tell that person, but Something says, “Don’t do it.” The Spirit says, “Don’t do it. Don’t do it.” Yet a gift is looking right at it, see. “Don’t do it. Don’t do it.” See, so you better not do it; then you’re in trouble with God. Now, we don’t come down here tonight just to stand here. We want to hear the Word of the Lord. You’ve been praying and we’ve had a wonderful time, and—and I…always when I come down I know I bring just a little book of text ’cause there’s…Sometimes Brother Neville is so gracious he just keeps asking me, “Will you do this,” or “do that,” or “speak?” And I look through here till I find me a text of some sort and then we’ll start it from there. And I’m sure…Now, be sure Sunday… Now, I don’t…We never know, we cannot tell. You see, I’ve come here at times with—with a text in my mind that I was going to speak on, and get here and change it completely around. And I’ve had Scriptures wrote down, I say, “I’m going to use this text, I’m going to use these Scriptures. As they come down, I’m going to say this, that or the other.” I’ll write down, just like, First Corinthians 5:15, and Second Corinthians 7:1, and Matthew 28:16, so forth, just put it in like that, down here like this, and write them Scriptures down. And look down there, I know what the Scripture says there; sometime not ever even touch that, goes all the way around a different way, altogether. And we just don’t know.

13. SOUTH AFRICA TESTIMONY — 1954-09-02

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• ¶29–¶30 I said, “Oh, no you haven’t. It’s way back there, and it’s just cut till you don’t feel it any more, but it’s there just the same.” I said, “Now, you know I don’t know you. And you know nobody in the world knows that but you, that man, and God.” And I said, “Here it is revealed to you now.” And she said, “I just can’t do it, Reverend Branham,” said, “I’m sorry, break my home up.” I said, “Well, it’s going to break your home up anyhow, ’cause you’re not going to go very much longer.” I said, “You’d better go get your husband and talk it over.” She said, “I just can’t do that.” And my wife said, “Well, there’s somebody else at the door.” So she went out. Said, “Well, that’s up to you, lady.” I said, “That—that’s all I can do now. I’ve told you what He said, and that’s…You know whether it’s the truth or not.” I said, “Well, that’s all; I just have to go, and so, there’s someone in the other room then, people coming in.” SOUTH AFRICA TESTIMON Y So she said, “Just a minute, don’t.” She said, “Oh, Reverend Branham, I—I can’t do that.” And I looked, standing by the side of her there stood a tall black- headed man in a vision again, had his hair kind of combed sideways like that, wavy hair, real tall man. He turned his back to me; he had wrote on the back with a white coat, Chevrolet. I said, “Don’t your husband work for a Chevrolet company?” She said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “He’s tall, dark head and got wavy hair?” She said, “Yes, sir, that’s right.” I seen a vision of him. I said, “He’s got the same thing to confess to you.” She said, “Not my husband, he’s a deacon.”

14. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶298b–¶300 Since then, it seems like the first three and one half years was fulfilled during the ministry (Well, here you’ve got it right here.) of—of Jesus, but the expression, “midst of the weeks” seems to be applied only to the antichrist breaking his covenant with the…(No, that antichrist breaks his covenant at the end of the last three and one half years. See?) As I understood Daniel tape, the first sixty-nine weeks ended when Jesus rode into Jerusalem A.D. 30, so that three and one half years of His ministry would be included in the sixty-nine weeks; and the full last weeks— and the full last week or seven years would still be fulfilled and would begin at the Rapture. Please clarify this for me. You know, brother, sister, ever who it is that’s asked this question. Very fine (see?), but I believe you got a little mixed up on what I said. See? Now, the…When Jesus came into Jerusalem (that is exactly right), that was the end of…See? He went right straight in from there and was crucified. See? And He—He did prophesy half of the seventy weeks which is three and a half. Now, He was cut off, and His soul was made a sacrifice. And now, there would come then…In this last days, there’s three and a half years still promised to the—the Jews. And the…in during this time was a gathering up of the saints for the Rapture, the Church. Now, I ain’t going to get all of these through, Brother—Brother, Sister. 372. Would you please explain First Corinthians, chapter 7, verse 1 and 9? (Get it, Brother Neville, First Corinthians, chapter 7, verse 1, now.) 373. And will every true believer do the works that Jesus said, as stated in Saint John 14:12 (Not exactly. No!): heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead (I don’t think that’s in Saint John 14, but it’s all right. It’s Mark 16.), or—or—or is this only to be Elijah? Must the believer do all that…of this…do really… that really believe? And if he really is a real believer, will he raise the dead and do great miracles?

15. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1961-10-15

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• ¶169–¶173 If you notice what Jesus said…Now here, I got a brother, my own blood brother, that’s fixing to marry a woman. And my brother has been married before and got a child by a good woman. And he come to me to marry him. I said, “Not at all!” Jesus said in Matthew 5, “Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, saving the cause of fornications (which she had to do before she was married and didn’t tell him about it), causes her to commit adultery: whosoever marries her that is put away liveth in adultery.” So don’t do that. No, you cannot go back to your—to your first wife if she’s been married again. But if you—she divorced you and put you away… Then you said, “Am I free?” Let me read it again. “I was married to a woman that had never been married before. We divorced, and she has been married twice (I suppose this person has remained single.) The Bible states that if we desire to marry to turn to…first again.” No, sir! Get over in the Levitical laws. You go back to that woman, she’s somebody else’s property. You’ve defiled and made yourself worse off than ever. No, you should not take a wife back who’s been married to somebody else. Now, “Could I turn to her who has been married before or should I—or should I be free?” You are free! Stay free! Yeah, you don’t go back again. No, sir! She’s married somebody else; stay away from her. That’s right! Don’t…That defiled…?…You understand. If we had a little more time, I won’t get into that, but just for your question, my brother, whoever you are: No, sir! Don’t you go back and take that woman when she’s been married two or three times since she married you. That’s wrong.

16. AN UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-03-15

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• ¶157–¶161 Just coming in from California the other day, hadn’t got my suitcase in, hadn’t been home for two months, right at two months, I got about the second suitcase in, the phone ring, it was a lady. Well, she used to be kind of a girlfriend of mine, years ago when I used to pastor the Milltown Baptist Church. She had two lovely daughters, and she married a fine man, a Brother Huff, and he was a millwright, he’d had it, one of his fingers and thumbs cut off, a very nice brother. They had—had two twins— twins, and another girl, making three children. And the twins were staunch Christians, they—they were UBC people, but they—they really believe God. And so they, one little girl, going to school, she got a complex, the girls tell her, “Well, why don’t you smoke like we do? You think you’re better than we are? Why don’t you go to dances?” Now, they didn’t go to dances, or neither did they smoke or drink, and they made fun of. The healthier girl, she said, “Hmm! Let them jump in the river. I’m the one serving Christ, they don’t want to, let them go ahead.” But the other one, she begin to think, “Oh, maybe I could do something.” And she built a complex, got nervous, she went insane, they had her in a institution two years. And so, they was trying to doctor her, by give her all kinds of stuff, and treatments, and—and everything. They…It didn’t work right. So then, when I got in home, they said, “Brother Branham, they got her over to that Catholic institution there, and Monday they’re going to send her to Madison.” That’s a padded cell, that does it.

17. THE INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST — 1965-11-25

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• ¶53–¶56 Luther was the messenger of one day, of justification, and the Church lined right with it, some of them. The rest of them continued on. Wesley come with sanctification, the Church lined right with it. Pentecost come with the restoration of the gifts, the Church lined right with it, the Elect of that day; and then faded away, went right back off in denominationalism and went right out with the rest of them, all of them right down along the line. Now, but you notice, when the people begin to try to line with the Word, there comes a fresh Message from the Word of God, right straight to the people. And they catch that Message and line up, every time. It’s just in God’s…We have that. We have families. Every family in here is custom to that. Sometimes everything will run fine for you, for years. Then, all at once, you’ll hit a spell where, we say it many times in the South here, “When it rains, it pours,” and everything goes wrong. You’re going through a nighttime. Then there’s a daybreak, then a nighttime. Everything runs in continuity. The prophet, Paul, here is saying that a woman cannot remarry until her first husband is dead. She cannot remarry as long as her first husband is living; she, by no circumstances, at all. She must remain single as long as her first husband is living. And if she should do such a sin, “she shall be called an adulteress.” I’m speaking of the natural now, to type it with the spiritual. If this woman would commit such a sin, then she is marked, “an adulteress,” if she has two living husbands at the same time. Therefore, she has forfeited, by doing this, her rights to God and Heaven, by doing so. She sure has. She is an outcast from the economy of God, according to the Scriptures that I’ve just read.

18. FROM THAT TIME — 1960-03-31

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• ¶38–¶40 Said, “Brother Branham, John and I were married, I was as virtuous as a woman could be.” And said, “We moved into a neighborhood, and we went to church, and did what was right. But one day a tall, dark, handsome salesman knocked at my door, and I invited him in, and from that time. Every new year,” she says, “I’ve tried to straighten up and start back again.” Here, some time ago, I went into the emergency room in a certain building, and there was supposed to be the insanity. When I walked in the door, there was a lovely, pretty, young woman about twenty-five years old setting there looking at me. I said, “How do you do?” And some of them in strait jackets, and beard over their faces, and cursing, and, oh, filled with demon power. And I looked to her, I said, “Well, it’s kind of hard to tell where to start praying first.” She said, “If you don’t mind, I wish you would start with me.” I said, “With you?” Said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “You’re not a patient!” She said, “I am, sir.” I said, “Well, what’s wrong with you?” She said, “I suppose I’m insane.” I said, “You sure don’t look it.” She said, “Could you listen to my story?” I said, “Certainly.” And she said, “When I was a young girl, Brother Branham, I was raised in a real Christian home. And I started going with a boy that smoked.” And said, “First thing you know I was smoking. And one night he spiked a Coke with whiskey, and that started me drinking.” She said, “I started from that to prostitution.” And she said, “I’ve lived in the very gutters of the blackest of hell.”

19. REVELATION, CHAPTER FOUR PART III — 1961-01-08

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• ¶328–¶333a Now, notice this! Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, what is it? Earthly number, of the Gospels, four. All right, notice. Now, Matthew 28:19, 28, now, that’s where you Trinitarian brothers going, there, 28:19. All right. Matthew, at the last part of the chapter, said, “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost”; but here comes around Pentecost, and Peter said “Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus.” Something’s wrong there. “Matthew, are you that eastern gate guard?” How is the gate? The gate is what? Jesus. Jesus said, “Strait is the gate.” Is that right? Is it spelt…How is it spelt, s-t-r-a-i-t or s-t-r-a-i- g-h-t? S-t-r-a-i-t means “water,” “water is the gate.” How do you come in? “Repent, every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ,” unlocks the gates. Aye! Whew! “Oh, but, Brother Branham, you got Matthew 28:19 down there.” That’s exactly right. “But, Matthew, are you a guard to it?” “Sure, I’m the full guard.” Now get Matthew 1:18 and see what it says, see if it guards—guards this. See if Matthew 1:18 is guarding Matthew 1…28 and Acts 2:38. See if it guards it! Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise:… “Here’s God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost,” they try to say. …birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When…his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, ’fore they came together, she was found with a child of the Holy Ghost. Which one? That put them both One! And this was…all…done, that…And behold,… Now Joseph her husband, being a just man,…not willingly to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away on this wise. …behold, the angel of the Lord, descending, come upon him (You know.) and said, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

20. WHERE I THINK PENTECOST FAILED — 1955-11-11

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• ¶91b–¶93 And after while, he proved out not to be…’Course, if he’d leave his one wife, he will leave another. So he left her, and she married again. And then she…That man left her. And she lived with a common- law husband. And then it caught up with her. She took cancer of the female organ. Now, the…I’ve got a Baptist tabernacle at Jeffersonville. But the pastor there is a Methodist from—a fine brother, who has the Holy Ghost, from Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky. And so, this woman being a Methodist, he was very much concerned about her. So he went over to see her. And she was there smoking one cigarette after the other one, and—and living with a common-law husband, him waiting on her there in bed, know…Doctor said, “She’s going to die.” So he…Brother Neville says, “If I go over and see her, and talk to her, maybe I can get her to repent.” And he said, “When Brother Branham comes in, I’ll take him over there, ’cause I know that’s what he’d tell her. And I’ll have her in condition maybe for healing.” So he tried, a fine brother. So he went over and he said, “Now, sister,” said, “I understand that you’re a Methodist.” And she said, “I am.” He said, “There’s just one thing I would like to question you.” Said, “Are you prepared for death?” She said, “Well, sure.” He said, “Lady, if…I’m not wanting to hurt your feelings, and I don’t want you to think that I’m butting in on your business.” But she said…“You mean to tell me that—that whiskey setting under there, and smoking cigarettes, and living with a common-law husband…” She said, “What’s that to you?” He said, “Well, as a minister,” said, “I—I thought I would come tell you, and really that’s not very becoming to a Christian.” She said, “I believe the Lord Jesus Christ, and that settles it.” See? She said, “I go to church. My father’s a deacon. I played the piano in church for years, and I feel just as justified as I ever did.”

21. POSSESSING ALL THINGS — 1962-05-06

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• ¶36–¶38a First, let us turn to Second Corinthians 6:7 to 10. First Corinthians, the 6th chapter, 7th verse and the 10th, inclusive. And then Genesis 14:18 to 19. And draw from there, the Lord willing, a con-…or a context from the text. And now I will read from First…or from Second Corinthians, the first, Second Corinthians 6:7 to 10. By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour…dishonour, and by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown,…yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; and having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Genesis 14:18 and 19. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high… And he blessed Abraham, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And if I would call it a text, I would like to speak on the subject, the…Possessing All Things. As in Corinthians here, we…It said that we are—are poor, yet possess all things. Possessing All Things. Now, I like that. Now in Genesis we read of Abraham meeting this great Man called Melchisedec, Who was the Possessor of both Heaven and earth. Then, He was the Possessor of all things, Possessor of Heaven and of earth, that’s, of all things. Now, we know the story of Abraham and what had happened. He had been called to a—a place of duty. He had been called out of his land, the land of the Chaldeans, and the city of Ur, where he had been there with his father and his people. And that’s down in the Shinar valleys, probably a rich fertile land. And Abraham, as we understand, wasn’t any special person in the sight of the world. And otherwise, he wasn’t a king, or a monarch, or a potentate. He was just a man. And he had married his half sister, which was Sarah, and probably married her when she was a young woman.

22. DESPERATIONS — 1963-09-01

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• ¶17–¶19 Then, the Life that was in Christ is the Holy Ghost, not the third Person; but the same Person, in the form of the Holy Spirit, coming upon you, as a Token that your life and your fare is paid, you have been accepted. Until that token comes, you’re not permitted on the highway, you’re not permitted on the…in the—the bus line; you’re not permitted to go in until you can present this token, and that token is your fare. And now It shows that the Blood has been shed and been applied to you, the price has been applied to you, and you have the Token that the Blood is applied to you and you’re accepted. Get it now? Oh, my! Oh! Now—now, just not no certain evidence. See? You say, “Brother Branham,” I feel it in your minds, you see, “why will I know?” Look, what were you, and what are you? There is how you know. See? What was you before this Token was applied? What are you after It’s applied? What was your desires before, and what is your desires after? Then you know whether the Token is applied or not. And these other things just automatically go with That. See? It—it isn’t like talking about it, and say, “Tongues is the evidence.” Now, I’ll bear, buy a pair of shoes, the tongue isn’t the shoe. It just comes with the shoe, you see. It just comes with the shoe. See? Now, the same thing is the Token. The Token is Christ. But speaking in tongues, and casting out devils, and doing those things, and preaching, and whatever, is the evidence It’s there, true, but it’s—it’s not It. See, it’s a gift of It. If I told you that…

23. LIFE — 1958-05-12

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• ¶55b–¶58 And I said, “O Lord God, I really don’t know what to say! I just love You for that.” He said, “Now, I forgive you your sins, but you want to blow her up.” And I seen the woman, I come from the vision, I walked over to her, and I said, “How do you do?” And she said, “Howdy do?” She was drinking, almost drunk. And I said, “May I set down?” She said, “Thank you, but I have company.” I said, “I didn’t mean it that way.” I said, “May I just speak to you a minute?” She said, “You may.” I said, “I was standing there at that door, wanting to know why God didn’t strike you dead.” And wanted to know if my little Sarah and Rebekah, when they get to be women, if they’ll be raised up under such stuff as that. And I told her about the vision. She said, “I perceive that you’re a minister.” I said, “I am.” I said, “My name is Branham.” She said, “Oh, you’re the Mr. Branham down there at the armory.” I said, “Yes ma’am.” I said, “I’m sorry that I said that, or, thought that in my heart.” And she started weeping, and then she caught me by the hand, she said, “Preacher, I’m going to tell you something, I was raised up in a Christian home, and my father was a Baptist preacher.” And she told me about her marriage to a boy that drank, and she had two daughters then that was married and had children, they were all Christians, but she took the road that’s wrong, and she said, “I guess I’m finished.”

24. IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR? — 1962-12-30

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• ¶244–¶256 The mysteries, here is “the mystery.” A mystery is Scripture, is a previously hidden Truth now Divinely revealed, but (which is) a supernatural element still remains despite the revelation. The greater mysteries and the great mysteries are: Number one, the mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven. That’s the one we’re talking on now. 13, Matthew 13:3 to 50. Now, second mystery is the mystery of Israel’s blindness during this age. Romans 11:25, with the context. Third, third mystery is the mystery of the translation of the living saints at the end time of this age. First Corinthians 15, and also Thessalonians 4:14 to 17. The fourth, mystery of the New Testament Church as one Body composed of both, Jews and Gentiles. Ephesians 3:1 to 11, Romans 16:25, and also Ephesians 6:19, Colossians 4:3. The fifth mystery is of the Church as the Bride of Christ. Ephesians 5:28 to 32. Sixth mystery is of the living Christ, same yesterday, today, and forever. Galatians 2:20, and Hebrews 13:8, and many places like that. The seventh mystery is of God, even Christ as the incarnate fulness of the Godhead embodied, in Whom all Divine wisdom… …and godliness is restored to man. Ninth mystery is the mystery of iniquity, found in Second Thessalonians, and so forth. The tenth mystery is of the seven stars of Revelation 1:20. We just been through that, “The seven stars of the seven churches, the seven messengers,” and so forth. And the eleventh mystery is mystery Babylon, the prostitute. Revelation 17:5 to 7. That’s some of the mysteries that this angel is supposed to wind up, all “the mystery,” all the mysteries of God. And the other, and may I say this with reverence, and not referring to myself, but referring to the Angel of God:

25. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD — 1953-09-05

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• ¶19–¶20 She was…When she was married, her husband went overseas, and she went out with a man which was blond-headed, and she had went out and lived untrue to her marriage vows, while her husband was overseas. She come back, and on the road coming back she was almost struck by a train, which would’ve took both of their lives. She just missed the train. And when I…The vision left, she was falling over in the floor like that, fainting, and she begin screaming. My wife come in. I picked her up. And she said…I said, “Lady, and you a Sunday school teacher.” She said, “Brother Branham,” said, “I—I’ve confessed that to God a long time ago.” I said, “Look. No one knows that but you, and the man that was with you, and God Almighty.” She said, “That’s right.” I said, “No psychiatrist could ever pull that out of you. No,” I said, “that had to come Divine.” I said, “Now, you go to your husband and make that right.” She said, “I can’t, Brother Branham. I got three children.” Said, “It’d break my home up.” I said, “Well, it’s going to break it anyhow.” I said, “Because you’re not going to live like that. You’re going completely insane.” I said, “You can’t keep that.” And I said, “That’s way back in the gable end of your soul.” She said, “Well, I’ve confessed that to God.” I said, “It wasn’t God you sinned against. It was your husband. If you’d have been a single woman, it’d been different, but you sinned against your marriage vow.” And I said, “They might…” She said, “Well, Brother So-and-so told me.” I said, “Sister, that don’t have nothing to do with it. That unconfessed sin, and they could pour oil on your head till they got a gallon on there. They could stomp, and kick, and snort, and run across the platform, and scream, and holler. That’ll…That devil will stay right there. He’s got a right to, and as long as he’s got a right to stay there, he will hold his grounds.” And I said, “You’ll never…” I said, “I’ve done all.” She said, “I just can’t do it.”

26. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON GENESIS — 1953-07-29

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• ¶77–¶80 He said, “Now, if they would cut it, if there’s something wrong they had to cut their hair,” said, “let her take a razor and shave it all off,” and make her hair real slick, until it comes out her head. That’s right. That’s what the Scripture said. It says, “If she cuts her hair, she dishonors her husband. And a woman that’s dishonorable has a legal right to be put away and divorced.” But, he can’t marry again, now. But he—but he can put her away in divorcement. That’s right. That’s Scripture. Oh brother, what we need is some question nights! That’s right. That’s First Corinthians, the 14th chapter, if you want to read It. All right. Now, that—that…Now, this woman… God—God created man, male and female. You see what He done? He made the man. He made…Now, that’s the first question, see, “Created He them,” and so forth, Genesis 1:26. Genesis 2:7, “He formed them out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils.” What is the difference, or—or where is this connection in the above Scripture? What connection does the first man have with the second man? The first man is the second man made manifest in five senses. See? Right now you can’t—you can’t touch God with your hands like that, you can’t see God with your eyes. He didn’t give it to you to do that. You’re… Did you ever hear an old saint dying, when they say, “There’s mother, I haven’t seen her for years”? Did you ever hear that when people…? See, what it is, these eyes are fading away and the supernatural eyes are setting in. See? And then sometimes if we, if God so makes, we see visions where that natural eye fades away. Right in front of us, we’re looking right straight, and there’s a vision before us showing the supernatural things of God. See what I mean?

27. THE SIXTH SEAL — 1963-03-23

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• ¶44–¶52 I said, “You don’t teach that in your church at home, do you, for that?” So said, “No. But,” said, “you know, I had a vision of it, Brother Branham.” I said, “Well, that’s fine.” I said… He said, “Do you mind?” Said, “I believe I could straighten you out a little bit on your teaching about that.” And I said, “All right.” And he…I said, “I—I—I would be glad to know it, sir.” And he said, “Well,” said, “you know, in this vision,” he said, “I was asleep.” And I said, “Yeah.” I seen, then, it was a dream. See? And he said, “My—my wife,” said, “she had been living with another man,” and said, “and running around on me.” And said, “Then she come to me, and she said to me, ‘Oh, darling, forgive me, forgive me!’ Said, ‘I—I—I—I’m sorry I did it. I’ll be true from now on.’” Said, “Course, I loved her so much, I just forgive her, said, ‘All right.’” And said, “Then…” And said, “Do you know what? Then I got the interpretation of this vision.” Said, “That was the woman.” Said, “Sure, she has been married, and—and so forth, and all these times.” And said, that, “It’s all right for her to marry, because the Lord loved her so much. She can marry as many times as she wants to, far as…” I said, “Your vision was mighty sweet, but it was way off of the beaten Path here.” I said, “That’s—that’s wrong, see. You shouldn’t do that.” So that…See? But when you see Scripture dovetailing with Scripture, making it a constant continuity where they come together. The Scriptures, where This one leaves off here, This other one over here comes and dovetails in, and draws the whole picture out.

28. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1961-01-12

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• ¶298–¶302 You see, that’s all right. See, your—your gift is not to be used in the church, but it’s to edify you. “He that speaketh in an unknown (unknown) tongue edifies himself.” See? Now, if there’s no interpreter, then…See what I mean? See, that’s it. So he wouldn’t know himself. He just…But he’ll know when he’s along. Now, now you just have to let it go together, you see, that’s the only thing you can do till you get it separated. That’s the reason I think it… 116. Explain First Corinthians 14:5. Who has got it right quick? One of you got it? [Blank spot on tape. A brother reads First Corinthians 14:5—Ed.] […all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.] All right. “I would rather…I would that all of you spoke with tongues.” Paul was trying to say…Like the church, you—you be my church. Some of Paul’s churches wasn’t as big as many the members as what I got right here. That’s right, sometimes ten or twelve. See? See? Now, now he said, “I would that you all spoke with tongues.” That stunt you? See, when the—the—the church that the…in Acts 19, I believe it had about a dozen members in it. See? Just very little, missions, you see. So it’s always been in the minority, see. And I think it said and there was about so many, a dozen man and women, you see, in it. Now, if you…You see here, he said, “I would that you all spoke with tongues. I—I wish you all would speak, all spoke with tongues, just get so full of the Holy Ghost you’d just speak in tongues. But” said “I would rather you would prophesy; except it be for interpretation, there be an interpretation.”

29. REVELATION, CHAPTER FOUR PART II — 1961-01-01

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• ¶282–¶283 I’m not…you people, I ain’t going to have time to catch this. But you that’s writing down, if you want to know they were redeemed men, take Matthew 19:28, all right, 19:28, Matthew, Revelation 3:21, then get those, Revelation 20:4, Revelation 2:10, First Peter 5:2 and 4, Second Timothy 4:8. That’ll let you know that they are redeemed. I want to go through that this morning, you see. And you could just comb it for weeks, you see. They were not—they were not Angelic Beings, they were not Heavenly Beings, they were redeemed men. See? You can consider their dress, the way they were dressed; you can consider their position, what they had; you consider the songs, what they sang; and know that they were not Angelic Beings. Hmm. I hate to come to this, but let’s read one more Scripture. Will you? All right. Let’s go back to Daniel 7, just a moment, back here, Daniel 7, and just read a Scripture here. I want…so this is going to help you a whole lot in the rest of the message this morning. I’m sure that it’ll— it’ll make you feel a lots better after you read this and see this, see what Daniel, the 7th chapter of Daniel, and let’s begin now from the… Daniel 7, let’s take the 9th chap-…9th verse. Now, listen close now to these things: And…I beheld until the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garments was white as snow, and whose hair of his head were like…pure wool: and his throne was like the fiery flame, (You see again, come back to that emerald fire.) and his wheels as burning fire. And…A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands times thousands ministered unto him, and tens of thousands times ten thousands (There comes your Redeemed.) stood before him: and judgment was set, and the books (books, plural) was opened.

30. ALL THINGS — 1962-11-24

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• ¶122–¶126 He said, “Let me read it the way my mama used to read it to me.” Said, “I read to you the way it’s wrote in the Bible. But here’s the way that mama used to read it to me.” Said, “Go ahead, son. Read it the way your mother read it.” Said, “Mama used to set me up on her knee and read, ‘He was wounded for Willie Pruitt’s…He was bruised for Willie Pruitt’s iniquity: the chastisement of Willie Pruitt’s peace was upon Him; and with His stripes Willie Pruitt was healed.” Old captain said, “I wished I’d have had a mama like that.” Said, “Maybe my name could be read into it.” Little boy said, “Just a minute, captain.” He said, “Let me read your name in it.” Said, “He was wounded for John Quartz’s salvation (Amen.), He was bruised for John Quartz’s iniquity: the chastisement of John Quartz’s peace was upon Him; and with His stripes John Quartz was healed.” Light flashed over the old captain’s face. He said, “Close the Book, son. I see it.” When you can read your name in there, “He was wounded for William Branham’s transgressions, He was bruised for William Branham’s iniquity,” that’s when peace comes. Not just that it was just a wholesale affair; it was for me. It’s an individual. I was included in that. “With His stripes William Branham was healed.” Then it’s different. There is one more thing I’d like to speak of, here, in our pardon. And that is, after we receive our pardon, we receive purity with that pardon. Now, if you’re just making out like you got pardon, you haven’t got purity. Now, you say, “Can you prove that, Brother Branham?”

31. SPIRIT OF TRUTH — 1963-01-18

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• ¶65–¶67 “When He, the Holy Ghost is come, He will reveal these things that I’ve talked to you about.” Now, there’s no need of trying to figure it out, any other way. He is the Author. He surely ought to know what He wrote. See? The Bible said He wrote It. “Even men of old, moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Word.” And if the Holy Ghost is the Author of the Word, surely He knows how to interpret It better than we do. Let Him do the interpreting of It. And you know how, the way He interprets It? Now, don’t miss these things if you’re coming to a healing service. Look. Don’t miss this. How does He interpret It? By this, by vindicating It, see, making It so. That’s what Jesus said. “Search the Scriptures. In Them you think you have Eternal Life; and They are the Ones that says Who I am. They are the Ones that speak of Me. And who can condemn Me? Who can accuse Me of sin?” Sin is “unbelief.” “If I don’t do the works that was written of Me, then don’t believe Me. But if I do the works, and you can’t believe Me, then believe the works, because the—the Word spoke of it.” See? That’s just common, everyday sense. Now, God, “Gifts and callings are without repentance.” We know the Bible says that. They do it. It’s been about, almost two years now. I was…One morning I was walking in the—the house, and had set down in a chair. Now, this seems very strange, that God would include an animal. Like some precious brother, on that vision of Heaven, of that little carrying-up I had; I believe I told you about it, once, or some meeting. He wrote me a letter the other day, and said…Business Men’s Voice packed it. Said, “It was…your vision was all right, Brother Branham, your translation. But, listen, it was all right till you said your horse, that you once rode, come put his head on your shoulder.” He said, “There is no horses in Heaven, Brother Branham. Heaven was made for human beings, not horses.” Well, I thought…

32. GOD’S PROVIDED WAY — 1953-06-13

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• ¶1d–¶1d And when we went down the steps, there’s a typical old Arkansas brother standing there with his overalls on, them washed out. And he was standing on the steps, and I started down. He was listening to a P.A. system of what I’d been saying. So Mr. Brown said, “This is the woman’s husband.” I said, “I’m glad to meet you, sir.” We just…He said, “My wife,” said, “is right over there.” And I looked, laying on the floor…I want you to listen closely. There was a woman about the age of a thirty-one, thirty-two years old, I suppose. Very strong built; her hands right up like that, laying on her back, and her limbs sticking right up like that, her legs right like that, right up in the air. Well, I said, “What’s the matter with her?” And he said, “Well, Brother Branham, I just took her out of the insane institution up at a…” I believe Pineyville, or Pineville, or somewhere up there. That she come out of an institution. Said she’d been insane two years. Said, “Brother Branham, I love her.” Said, “I’ve got three or four little children at home.” And said, “She—she was—the doctor said she was having a premature menopause. And he give her a shot and that’s what happened.” I said, “My, that’s bad.” He said, “She just started right then, a few hours after that shot, and that’s what done it.” I said, “That’s awfully bad.” He said, “I’ve had her everywhere.” And there’d been a woman healed over in—from Louisiana out of the institution; the papers had wrote it up. So he said, “I seen that, and I thought the only thing that I could do, and my only hope was bring my wife over here.

33. SIRS, WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1954-03-28

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• ¶37–¶37 Now, let’s line the people up to the right over here. Let’s take… Where did it begin? Was this 1 to a 100? All right. Let’s start from 1 then, and start over there. Who has prayer card number 1? Hold up your hand. Prayer card number 1? Look over on your…It’s a little bitty card like this, got your name and address on it, and—and over here it’s got it a—a the picture and a number. Where is it number 1? [Someone asks “Y”?—Ed.] Y—Y, yes Y-1. Come right over here, lady. Y-2, who has 2? Prayer card 2? All right, lady. 3, who has 3? Raise up your hand so I’ll know. 3? All right, sir, over here. 4, who has number 4? Prayer card 4? 5, who has 5? Raise up your hand. Prayer card number 5? Somebody look on the back of your card. Maybe a deaf and dumb person can’t speak or hear. What? Number 5. Prayer card number 5? Pardon me. All right, number 6, who has number 6? Prayer card 6? 7. Raise up your hand as quickly as you can. 7? 7? Has somebody prayer card ? Look at somebody who’s setting next to you. It may be somebody who can’t get up or something. Someone will help them up if they can just get…Prayer card 7? All right. 8, who has prayer card number 8? All right, 8, 9? Prayer card 9? 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. All right, is…I…Just line up over there according to your numbers and—and let’s see how many we got in there then. And all right. And if…

34. IS THE ORIGINAL SEED 1 — 1962-03-18

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• ¶554–¶558 God confirmed His Word through His Body. That right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Then she went whoring, like Adam’s wife did in Eden, and Jehovah’s wife did in the days of Samuel, that took a king. Divorced God, her espoused Husband and His Word; and His prophet, His outlet to His Word; and went whoring, like the rest the nations. And God divorced her. Same has He done today. Same act. Sons of the bride commit adultery, see, with the…The bride, God’s Son…His bride from Pentecost, virgin with the Word, went whoring and committed adultery just like Adam’s wife did, just like Jehovah’s wife did. And here is the Son’s wife, she goes whoring, committing adultery with the Roman gods; plural, gods! And for her lovers’ sake, the Roman gods, tried to take her own Husband and split Him into three, to please her lovers. God have mercy on a…Sure, they got hundreds of gods; oh, sure, Astarte, the sun-god, and—and Baalim, the sun-god, and the queen of heaven, and all that stuff there. So, the bride, to please her ill-famed lovers. Didn’t God speak over there in the Songs of Solomon’s, and tell about how His wife was nothing but a prostitute, and set with herself open all the time, and took every lover come by? I’m talking plain, but that’s what the Bible said. Every man that wanted to run with her, could run with her. That’s the same thing the bride of Christ has done. Opened up herself to every old dirty, filthy habit of every organization they ever had, doing the same thing.

35. SPEAK TO THIS MOUNTAIN — 1959-11-23

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• ¶53–¶57 Away he went to tell his daddy, and his daddy said, “Now you’ve got all mixed up!” So here come his sister down, and she attended the first meeting and was converted, and I baptized her in the Christian faith. Then that blew the daddy up, here he come. And so, Banks was gone when wife and I had just arrived at the house, and there was a car setting down the road, and a elderly man standing in the yard, and so we spoke to him, and he said, “I’m Mr. Wood.” I said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “My name is Branham.” I said, “I’m glad to meet you.” And he said, “Well, I’m glad to meet you Mr. Branham.” Said, “You know where Banks is?” I said, “He’s probably gone at the grocery, this is usually our time to go, and he and his wife is gone. Won’t you come in?” And so, he said, “No, I’d better stay right out here.” I said, “Come in, have a glass of water, and refresh yourself. Banks will be in a few minutes.” In a few moments he come in. And he said, “I want to go fishing with you, have you got time to go fishing?” I said, “Oh, sure.” I wanted to work on him. So he said…Well, the next…That night it rained like everything. And then the next day we went down to…Said, “Well, I don’t guess there’s any need going, the streams will all be muddy.” And I said, “Well, we can go try.” We crossed the river. And I was praying for the Lord to help me. I wasn’t going to say one thing about religion, let him name it. And so, then if he’s hungering, he will mention it.

36. THE KINSMAN REDEEMER — 1960-10-02

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• ¶1–¶2 Thank you, Brother Neville. The Lord bless you. So good to be back again, this morning, back in the house of the Lord. I believe it was said, one time, “I was happy when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’” Charlie, come out behind that post, and come up here and get you a chair. Come on up here. Sister, is there a chair back in there, somewhere, we could squeeze in? Here’s a place right up here, lady. Come right up here. Here, Charlie, come here and sit down by Banks up here, so you won’t have to stand up. Every time that boy comes from way down in Kentucky, gets up here, he stands up every morning. And we’ll get him right up here. Here’s a place here, on the end of the seat here, for someone else. [Brother Neville says, “There’s a lady back here, too.”—Ed.] There’s a lady standing up in the back, back there. Come right up here. Here’s a seat right here, sister, right up close. Come right ahead. And I suppose somebody is in the wheel chair there. Are they? [A sister says, “Brother Branham?”] Yes. [“There’s a seat right here.”] There’s another seat right over here. If someone wants one, back there in the back, right here is a seat right here. [A brother says, “And here is one, Brother Branham.”] Here’s one right up here, also, just suit yourself. [“Another one, over here.”] Yes. You can have one right here. Now, come right on, take your seats. And just feel real…

37. GOD’S ONLY PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP — 1965-11-28

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• ¶220–¶225 As He was right then, so is He today. Don’t you miss that, people across this nation! “Another will come, a church, and you’ll believe that, because you can just do any way. I won’t vindicate it.” He’s never (at any time, ever) vindicated anything (in any church) outside of the Message that was given: Luther’s, justification; Wesley, sanctification; Pentecostal, restoration of the gifts. After…And as soon as they make a denomination out of it, there it died. Search the Scriptures. But He said, “I’ll choose the place to put My Name.” And the Name was Jesus. And Jesus is the Word, Saint John 1. Is that right? That’s the place of worship, in Christ the Word. “I come in My Father’s Name.” The prophet said, “His Name shall be called Emmanuel.” That’s Matthew 1:23, if you want to wrote that down. Jesus, Jehovah, the Saviour. Now, the 5th verse shows that He is the Door. By now, many other invisible proofs, this Gate, and Name, and place can be proved to be there’s only one place that God meets man to worship, and that’s when he’s in Christ. Now, now the question is, “How do we get in Him?” Now, this may pinch just a little bit; but, you know, like taking medicine, if it don’t make you sick, it don’t do you no good. See? Now, the Lutherans wanted to get in one way, by joining the Lutheran church. The Methodist wanted to get in by shouting. The Pentecostals wanted to get in by speaking in tongues. That still ain’t it! See? No, that’s gifts, so forth. But First Corinthians 12 says, “By one Spirit.” Spirit of God, which is the Life-giver to the Word (the Seed), to vindicate that Seed for that season. See?

38. FROM THAT TIME — 1962-07-13

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• ¶106–¶111 And she prayed. And she prayed there awhile, I prayed with her, and she looked back up, and she said, “Oh, Mr. Branham, I—I believe I’m going out of here, be a different girl.” I said, “No. You’re going to go out the same way you come in. See? You’re just simply taking it on a mental conception.” I said, “You’ve got to get down to business, Sister, with God.” And we got down there, and started praying, after while she struck Something. Then she turned, and the tears running down them cheeks out of them big brown eyes, she said, “Brother Branham, I’ll never do that again.” Oh, she had found Something then. She’s married now and got two or three children. She’s never drank from that day since, she’s never smoked, see, something happened. But you see, it started when she was just a girl, a wrong act. A little boy, maybe a little modern Elvis with a block haircut, and—and, out there, thinking he’s so cute, or something like that, and the first thing you know, get him a girl wound around him like that, and then do a trick like that, that’s a modern Judas. That’s right. Now, she didn’t aim to, but it started as a child. The drunk, I’ve met many of those that said, “Brother Branham…” down the skid rows and so forth. When I was in New York not long ago, I won’t have time to tell it, but how that I picked up a drunk. He was the president of a bank that I could look at from where he was, said, “I come home one night, I found a ‘Dear John’ letter, I thought I’d drink it away, here I am. Could you give me a quarter to get a drink?” And there you are, they didn’t aim to do it.