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1. A TRUE SIGN THAT’S OVERLOOKED — 1961-11-12

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• ¶179–¶182 His coming, told the Spirit, of Isaiah. His coming, John’s coming, was predicted in the Scripture. Isaiah 40:3 said, “I’ll send My messenger before Me, prepare the way,” or, that was Malachi 3. Said…Malachi 3 said He would send His messenger before Him. The prophet, the last prophet, spoke of him. The last thing spoke of him. Remember, the last Book of the Old Testament spoke that Elijah would come to the children of Israel before the showing of the Messiah. Are you ready? The last Book in the Bible, the Revelation, shows us that there will be a return of him in the last day, to the Gentile church, a sign. How they miss it! He’s prophesied to come again, just before the great and the second Coming of the Lord. In Mal-…In Malachi the 4th chapter, in Revelation also, the 3rd chapter, tells us that he will be here in the last days. That same one, that’ll stand in the breach for the people, with a little flock that God will give him, he’ll come in the last days. God said so. He’ll be a sign to this Gentile nation, that her time is no more. And, remember, when he appears on the scene, the time is at hand. Let’s pray for God to send him. Time is at hand. As soon as his ministry was finished, Messiah showed Himself. As soon as this great one will come in the last days, will finish his ministry, the Messiah will show Himself. It’ll be so. The time is at hand, so we better pray. You better start praying.

• ¶183–¶187 His God-given sign to this age will prove to what he is. Everybody will know it. God will vindicate it. He’ll show signs and wonders like never been done on the earth, by it. I don’t mean jerking, shaking, and speaking in tongues. He’ll be backed with the Word of God, like this man was. Why? He was prophesied in coming, in Malachi 4 and Revelation 3, so he will come. There is nothing going to stop him; he’s coming. Amen. He’ll be here. Amen. Let the people fall on their face today and start crying out to God, and watch what happens. You’ll see him show up in power. Yes, sir. According to the Scripture, his sign-Message will be “the turning.” What will his…What will we know him to be? How will we know it’s the right one? You know, Israel asked that one time, over in Deuteronomy, 20th chapter…20th verse, I believe it is. He said, “How will we know that this will be the right one?” How do we know? God tells us we’ll know him. What will he do? “He’ll be turning the hearts of the children back to the original pentecostal Message at the beginning.” Oh, my! A sign that’s overlooked, the real sign, and they miss it. They always do. Back to the true Church, the true Message! He will stand alone against denomination, bold and fearless, with THUS SAITH THE LORD. He’ll compromise with no denomination. He’ll have nothing to do with any; pull no strings for nothing. He’ll be straight out on the Word, THUS SAITH THE LORD. God will vindicate his ministry with signs and wonders, great revealing of the Word, and bringing forth to the people. What a day is at hand! Like…He’ll stand like Peter and John did, after, on the Day of Pentecost. After Pentecost, that they had been filled with the Holy Ghost, baptized there, they stood in that Sanhedrin Court. They stood there with all the boldness that could be stood. When, they said, “We forbid you to teach in the Name of Jesus, anymore.”

• ¶241–¶242 Watch. Now, Malachi 4, let me read this. He’s going to come again. …behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,… That’s today. I walk down the street and see these people. You can talk to them, and they laugh at you, make fun of you. I think, “What is it?” The other day, I was walking along, down, side of the square down here. I was talking to some people, and they just said, “Oh,” walked on. Something just said to me, “They’re atomic fodder, soon to be ashes scattered upon the ground. Let them alone. You’ve spoke your peace. Get ready and get out of here.” Hallelujah! I ought not have said that, I guess. “Get yourself ready. Gird up your loins. I’m calling you.” That’s the reason I’m waiting. For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; yea, all the proud,…and all that do wickedly, shall be as stubbles:… That’s exactly what will be. What happens when a great…some of you farmers; when a heavy fire hits a wheat field, when she’s just stubble? She just lays her flat, with ashes behind. That’s what will do, when that, when she strikes. …the day cometh that shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. There’ll be nothing left of them. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness rise with healing in his wings;…you shall go forth, and grow up as calves in the stall. (That’s the Millennium.) And you shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in that day that I will do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Coming out, in the Millennium. “The ashes of the wicked.” Remember…the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded…him in Horeb for all Israel, as the statute and judgment. Now, listen close now. Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of that great and dreadful day of the LORD:

• ¶243–¶245 Now, that could not have been John. It could not, because the world would have been destroyed then. But here He said, in Matthew 3, He sends a messenger before Him. And Jesus said, “That’s the Elijah that was to come, to prepare the way before Me.” “But before this great atomic bomb hits, I’ll send to you Elijah the prophet.” And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Prophesy, in this day. But now you say, “Oh, that Elijah, that was to be John.” The messenger of the covenant was John, truly. That’s exactly right. Jesus said so, and verified it right here, “That’s the one I spoke of.” But, you see, it couldn’t be the Elijah that was to come. See? It couldn’t be. Because, you see, if it would, then the prophecy was wrong; the earth wasn’t destroyed back there. See? “But before that great and terrible day of the Lord shall come, I’ll send to you Elijah. And he will restore,” watch his first coming, “the hearts of the fathers to the children.” That’s what he did, first, brought the message of the new dispensation, the coming of Christ now, pulling the old orthodox fathers away from that orthodox faith, into a new faith that had just been born. Then when he comes the second time, “And the hearts of the children back to the pentecostal fathers, the original Message.” Now get over here in Revelation 3, and you’ll see it right there again. So, it’s prophesied. We are at the end time, my brother. That’s right.

2. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶75–¶77 No, no, no, you’re…I wished that I could just have more time on that. See, see? The Bride, when She’s taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to Glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation sets in upon Israel; and then comes the battle of Armageddon which destroys all things. And then, the Bride returns back with the Groom for a thousand years, the Millennium reign; after that comes the White Throne Judgment; after that comes the New Heavens and New Earth and the New City coming down from God out of Heaven. Eternity and time blends together. 393. The Holy Spirit has told you that the Trumpets have nothing to do with the Bride. Do the Seven Vials have anything at all to do with us? I’ll wait and see if the Holy Spirit reveals it in that manner. I don’t know yet. 394. Will the prophet of Malachi 4 be the one to call out the Gentile remnant of Revelation 7:9, even though they go through the tribulation period? No, no! After the—the Revelation 7, is where he seen the hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, and after that he saw coming up, coming back was that great number which no man could number which was the Bride. It will have…The…Malachi 4 will be finished and the Bride taken up, and the…then the…this group of—of Elijah and Elisha return back to the earth for…The church to go through the tribulation period, but Elijah and Elisha will not have anything to do with the sleeping virgin (they’re Gentiles); they’ll be sent only to the Jews. 395. Have the Seven Thunders which equals seven mysteries already been revealed? Were they revealed in the Seven Seals, but are yet—but are yet not known to us as the Thunders yet?

• ¶152–¶156 I told you I’d answer that privately. You that’s got these questions, come to me privately. Dear Brother Branham, we have a teacher that you know that the Scripture say… Yeah, I got that. Just a minute now. Brother Branham, at one time we had our name put on the book of a certain… Yeah, I got that. It about how they had taken it off now, did they do wrong? 421. What…Would you endorse birth control? No, I can’t endorse it. No, sir. See? 422. It…Is the seventh angel, as spoken of, of Revelation 10, the same person as Elijah of Malachi 4? Did I answer that? That don’t sound like I answered that. Yes, it’s the same person. Revelation 10 is the seventh angel’s Message, which…seventh angel messenger of the Seventh Church Age, which is Malachi 4. Is birth control… I have a lot on that. I just throwed these back, and I—I didn’t want to answer; I’d rather see you privately. 423. Where do we find where Noah preached for a hundred and twenty years and built the ark in a hundred and twenty years? Did I answer that? A generation, or a lotted time, a man’s lotted time on earth was one hundred and twenty years, which took Noah, the period, to build the ark, which was considered a generation in that day. One hundred and twenty years was a man’s lotted time. And he preached, according… Genesis 6:3, he preached to that generation, which was one hundred and twenty years; Noah did. All right. Let’s see now. 424. In Malachi 4, this Elijah is to take the hearts of the father to the children, and then the hearts of the children to the fathers. Is this the same person?

• ¶157–¶160 Yes, the same person. All right. Oh, wait a minute. No! Pardon me, I’m sorry. Just…See the Holy Spirit catch that for me then? No! I thought it said the…See? What it was in Malachi 3, there, “I send My messenger before My face,” which was Elijah. In Malachi 4 it turns back around and said, “Behold I send Elijah.” Malachi 3, He was to take a messenger sent before the face of the Lord Jesus, which was John. How many understands that? Malachi 4, when this Elijah comes, immediately after his Message and things, and after, is the Coming of the Lord and the renewing of the earth. And you notice, to make it sure now that it’s not the…How the Holy Spirit wrote it by this prophet, He said, “He will turn the hearts of the fathers, first, to the children.” See? That was John’s first coming. He turned the hearts of the fathers, the old, patriarch fathers, to the Message of the children, which was the new generation then, Jesus, in that generation. Then and, conjunction, it tying together “the hearts of the children back to the fathers,” which mean, the Message of today will turn the hearts of the children in the church age back to the original Pentecostal faith of the beginning. So it will be two different…The one messenger, but it differentiates there the—the first coming and the second, of John… or the messenger, Elijah. My husband and my youngest son does not believe… Yeah, I got that. I know I did, because I know the person’s got their names signed there. I remember talking to them afterwards about it. 425. How can we find the will of the Lord? Our—our home to… Should we move our home to Jeffersonville, Indiana? Can a person be a Christian and dislike a colored people? Does God not want them to be treated like us, ’cause they are dark in color? Would you…? What do you suggest in this? Do you believe in integration or segregation?

3. BLASPHEMOUS NAMES — 1962-11-04

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• ¶40–¶42 And we hope to get the church up, so I can get these Church Ages in, before—before the winter sets in, if possible. If I don’t, or when I have to come back from over there, if the Lord Jesus tarries. I was listening yesterday when I was taking, believe it was day before yesterday, of a tape. I thought I heard it playing out here this morning. Some little Southern brother had…His mother had come into the meeting. She had a malignancy on her breast, and she was shadowed to death. And the Holy Spirit, in one of the recent meetings, at the Southern Pines, I believe it was, or somewhere, told her, said about her malignancy, and who she was, and where she come from. And said she had a boy that was a backslider, and he was going to have an accident, and be for manslaughter. And a whole lot of things like that. And this fellow… It all happened just the way. And her malignant cancer, or malignant growth, rather, left her. Which is, malignant growth is a cancer, you know. So then it—it left her. And the boy was up for manslaughter, and everything just the way the Holy Spirit said it. And he was led to Christ, back again. And he made a tape of it, and I—I heard it playing. Did you enjoy that little, old Southern talk? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Said, “Down here in North Carolin’er,” he said. Oh, I just love that, them old Southern people. And he had…The Lord just blessed him on. He said, “I know you say you don’t preach doctrine, Brother Branham; only to your congregation.” Said, “We’re part of your congregation.” So that was right cute in him, to say that.

• ¶298–¶302 Directly, I noticed the people begin to get like they was physically hungry. And so they had enough spiritual, so they started walking away. And some of them [Brother Branham yawns—Ed.] started walking away. I thought, “What’s the matter with everybody?” And—and I looked, and here some young couples going along, to my side. I thought…I said, “Just a minute, friend! Just a minute! You’ll be back again when the evening shadows fall.” See? I said, “You’ll be back again. But let me give you this first climax. Where does all these things come from, that I’ve showed you? Where are they from?” I said, “Here they are. They are in the Word of God. They are THUS SAITH THE LORD, His promise. Cause,” I said, “all of you bear me record, witness this, that my commission is, ‘Stay with the Word.’” I said, “What’s the matter with all of you? Can’t you understand the Word? You must understand It.” And some of them said, “Man, I’d like to have some biscuits,” and so like that. Well, I just thought, “Well, glory to God! If they want biscuits, let them go get them.” So I—I turned around. I thought, “Oh, but, you know what? The shadows is going to fall, after while, right away.” I said, “Then, tonight, when that congregation gathers in again, I’ll put the climax to them, and told them that the things that they have seen me do is found in the Word of God, not in some mythical book or some organization. It’s found in the Word. See? Every bit of it, in the Word, ’cause I’m commissioned to That.”

4. WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN? — 1965-07-25

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• ¶101–¶104 Now, this is not…That’s Malachi 3, was the first coming, now here is the next coming. Even the Doctor Scofield here, I certainly don’t agree with him in his footnotes, but he’s got it lined out here right. “The commission of John,” to Malachi 3; and, “The second Coming of Christ,” and Elijah beforehands. All right. …all the proud shall burn up, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Where’s the “Eternal” hell then?) But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness rise with healing campaigns, healing in his wings;…you shall go forth, and grow up; as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked;…they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in that day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember…the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded…him in Horeb for all Israel,…the statutes and judgment. Here is the coming of Elijah. Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet… The last closing Scripture of the Old Testament! …I’ll send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of that great and dreadful day of the LORD: Now, that couldn’t been John. No. See, the world wasn’t burnt up and the righteous walked out on the wicked. See? No, no. …before the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

• ¶105–¶110 Notice the accuracy of the Holy Spirit, that It would not confuse them two comings of Elijah. Malachi 3, said, “Behold, I send My messenger before My face.” Jesus was asked about John; He said, “If you can receive it, this is who the prophet said, ‘I’ll send My messenger before My face.’ This is the Elias that was to come.” Malachi 3. Notice the Scripture so accurately gives it. Watch what this… to show the…them who wants to believe, them who wants to see. Remember, Jesus stopping in the middle of a Scripture, ’cause part of it was fulfilled then, the rest for His second Coming? “To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, bind up the brokenhearted,” and stopped; not “bring judgment to the Gentile” until His second Coming. Notice this Scripture here parallels that. “And he, Elijah, shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.” (Now speaking of Malachi 4, not get it mixed, or Malachi 3.) John, Elijah, who came in the days before the first coming of Christ, turned the hearts of the old patriarch fathers to the message of the children, the new message. Now watch. “And the hearts of the children to the fathers.” In his second coming, in the last days, he turns back to the apostolic Faith again. See how perfect the Scriptures line up? That was the end of the Old Testament, the Old Testament. Now we see there’s Light in the evening time. What is It? It’s the top, Mount Treetop. As I said this morning, we’ve come up through denominations, through (not a orange tree) like I spoke of this morning, but we’ve had grapefruit, lemons, all kinds of other things that wasn’t like the beginning at all. But after…Don’t miss It. Here It comes. After all the denominations has played out, they didn’t have any Light to begin with, there’ll be a day that can’t be called day or night.

5. THE MESSIAH — 1961-01-17

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• ¶131–¶134 I was reading in the Scriptures the other day up in the mountain. I was reading there, and I…the Holy Spirit told me, go up to a certain tree and stand there, He wanted to speak to me. I stood there for a half hour, He never said nothing. I laid down under this oak tree, and laid myself out, I said, “Lord, You spoke to me about a mile up here, and said come up here on the mountain here in this Sportsman’s Hollow, as I called it, You’ll speak to me.” Then He showed me, when He opened up Malachi, the 4th chapter. And I said…“Behold the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven, burn up the proud,” if you want to put it down, Malachi 4, and He said, “it shall burn the proud. And the—and the righteous shall walk out upon the ashes of the wicked.” Well, then, and He said, “Behold, I send to you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come. It shall…And he’ll turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children of the—the fathers, or, the children’s hearts to the fathers.” Well, I said, “That was right, I believe that.” Jesus said when the disciples asked Him that, they said, “Well, why did the,” when He was claiming to be the Messiah, said, “Why does the scribes say that Elias must first come?” Jesus said, “He’s already come, and you didn’t know him.” And then they understood that He spoke of John the Baptist. How many ever heard that? Well, my, you all read the Bible. John the Baptist, but remember, that wasn’t the Elijah that He spoke of, of the last days, ’cause the world never burnt and the Millennium set in.

• ¶135–¶138 Watch the Scripture, watch the reading of it, turn to Malachi 4 just a minute, watch there. I never knew that before. I never try to speak anything until the Holy Spirit comes, first, to reveal it. Watch, Malachi 4:5: Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great…day of the LORD: (That great, terrible day that He’ll burn the earth.) And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers,… Watch, the first time Elijah come, he turned the hearts of the fathers, the old, patriarch fathers, see, back there, the old Jews, to the faith of the children that had just received Him, and believed of the coming Messiah. “Turned the hearts of the fathers to the children, and,” a conjunction, tying the sentence together, “when He comes the second time, the hearts of the children back to the Pentecostal fathers.” Hallelujah! There you are. So how can the evening Light be anything but back to Acts again? Right. When He said before that day comes, that will burn the earth like an oven and the righteous will walk out upon their ashes. Oh, brother, we are looking for a Light to come, It’s here. And remember, when this Elijah comes, I’ll give you some of his description, when Elijah comes, that’s the messenger to the Laodicean Church Age. We find Elijah coming before…Remember, Elijah was the one that went up on a chariot, never tasted death, And the Message of this great messenger that’ll come in this closing day in the Laodicean Church Age, the Pentecostal age, will be the One that will take the Church to the Rapture. Exactly. He was raptured himself, and he’ll come with the Church to the Rapture.

6. THE LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE — 1960-12-11

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• ¶65b–¶67 Here, You’re already here, and the scribes said that—that Elias would come first. Now, watch: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall come, shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and you knew him not, (See, He didn’t say who he was, see.) but have done unto him whatsoever ye listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. And the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. (Now—now, John the Baptist was the Elias that was to come.) Now watch, I get back to Malachi the 4th chapter, again. Now remember, He said here that “Before the great and noble, terrible Day of the Lord shall come, I will send to you Elijah the prophet.” The 5th verse: But I will send unto you…the prophet…I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the…[Congregation says, “LORD.”—Ed.] What do we find “in the Lord’s Day”? At the end of the age! That’s when the world is going to be burned. You remember how we took Him with a white wig on, you know, and—and His breast, and girded about the paps. You remember that? And we proved by the Bible, it wasn’t a sabbath day neither a Sunday, it was the Lord’s Day. Is that right? And that’s the day that He comes as a Judge, “And will smite the earth with a curse.” Is that right? And I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

• ¶74–¶76 Now, we also find that has…in His first coming wasn’t at the Day of the Lord. Is that right? Now, back to Malachi, let’s straighten this out first, “Coming at the Day of the Lord.” Now, watch His compound coming, His one coming and His second. Have you got your spiritual thinking ready? 6th verse now, “He shall…” …He will send…Elijah…before…the great and dreadful day of the LORD: (Is that right?) Now, we realize that that wasn’t John, ’cause it wasn’t the dreadful Day of the Lord (was it?), and He…neither did He burn the earth. So it must’ve meant a preview, or—or another future coming of John… or of—of Elijah. Is that right? ’Cause He said, “I’ll send Elijah, and I’m going to burn the whole earth, and I’m going to just clean it off, and you’ll walk out upon their ashes.” That’s the Millennium, we know that. After the atomic bomb shall blow it from pieces, then there’ll be…the earth will straighten up. And there’ll be a great Day here on the earth, and the Church will reign with Jesus on the earth for a thousand years. Is that right? “But before that great and dreadful Day of the Lord, when it’s going to be blowed up, I’ll send to you Elijah the prophet.” Is that right? So it did not mean John the Baptist in that state, because the dreadful Day of the Lord wasn’t then, two thousand years off. Is that right? Now, watch the next verse. And if you’ll be real spiritual now; now, this is a love letter, and you have to read between the lines and then it’s made right. You know what I mean. Remember how I said, the Scripture, “Jesus thanked God because He had hid It from the wise (of the eyes) and prudent, revealed It to babes.” Now, I’ve often illustrated about my wife when she writes me a letter; I can see what’s she’s saying on the letter, but I read between the lines to know what she means, see, because I love her and I—I know her nature. And you have to know God’s nature and love Him, then the Scriptures stand right out to you. He reveals It.

7. EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY — 1965-08-01

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• ¶94–¶98 Cause, prophets don’t come out of such things as that. They come from the rugged lands, the wilderness. No man knows where they come from, or how they arise on the scene, or any of their history. They just come right out and preach the Word, and God takes them off, and away they go; condemns that generation, and moves on into His Word, waiting for the great day. The church did not believe him, because he was not known of them. They had no record of his ordination on their books, so therefore they refused him. See, they didn’t believe God’s vindicated Word, plainly, letter by letter. See? Malachi 3, two Scriptures to vindicate him, Malachi 3 and Isaiah 40:3. See, both those Scriptures spoke of a man coming, preparing the way of the Lord. He met every specification of it. He was to be a prophet. “I’ll send to you Elisha.” And there he was, in every rugged way. Watch how his nature blended in with Elijah. Elijah was a man of the wilderness, so was John; the outdoors. He wasn’t a smooth man, he was a rugged man. Notice again, Elijah was a woman hater, he told Jezebel about all of her paint, and where to get on and off at. So was John. Jezebel tried to kill Elijah, swore by her gods that she’d take his head off of him. So did Herodia. See? Always watch their message, watch what they did. Now we find out that if they would a looked back and seen what the Bible said, and watched the nature of the man and how perfect he was in time with the Scriptures and everything, they ought to have knowed that was him. About a half a dozen knew it. That’s right. Not over a half a dozen realized it. They went to hear him, but they didn’t believe It. See? Why? They did not believe the identification of prophecy in their hour.

• ¶129–¶130 Friends, this is the fulfillment of Malachi 4, Saint Luke 17, Saint John 15, oh, so many, Revelation 10, so many prophecies that can be pinned exactly to this day. And also in the Book of Mark and in Matthew, where He said these great signs and wonders would appear in the sky, and people call them saucers, flying saucers, can—can vanish with the power and quickness of a thought, intelligence that can move in. He can write, He can speak, He can do whatever He wants to. The great Pillar of Fire, “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” And sights coming upon the earth, pyramids of smoke rising into the air, way above where there cannot be no humidity nor nothing, thirty miles high. Predicted a year and a half before it happened, that it would be that way. Then turn the picture and see Who it is looking down. Not one Word has ever failed that’s been told, and here is God’s written Word, confirming it’s the Truth. And it’s evening time again. I wonder if He would return, by grace, tonight and do something now like He done back there. Let’s pray and ask Him. Events made clear by vindicated prophecy. God Almighty, help us. Help us, dear God, to understand, to understand the things that we should know, understand Thy Word. And now, Lord, we have heard sermons now for nearly two thousand years, writings of books. And in this last days here it’s slipped right back again, and now it’s towards evening time. The Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and many of them down through the age has talked with You, and maybe just along the way of this great day that hasn’t been either night or day, as the prophet said, but in the evening time it’ll be Light. Jesus rose from the tomb and appeared to Simon and to the women, and showed them that He was alive. That was the morning. And then in evening He come back again. But He did walk to them through the day, rebuking them for their blindness, but then He made Hisself known to them in the evening time.

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1962-05-27

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• ¶171–¶174 Now watch Malachi 3: Behold, I…send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:…(Malachi 3, not Malachi 4.) Now watch Malachi 4: For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubbles:…the day cometh that shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,… it shall not leave them neither root nor branch (that’s of the Tribulation and destruction, see, that’s coming). But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness rise with healing in his wings (the coming of the Lord); and ye shall go forth as…you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (That’s like going out upon the pasture, walk out.) …ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in that day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. In otherwise, the righteous, in returning with Christ to the earth, shall tread upon the ashes. When you see these people, haughty, arrogant, despisable, snoopy, and yet claiming to be Christians, they’re nothing but ashes. That’s all. That’s what the Scripture says. See? Now watch. Remember…the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded…him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send unto you Elijah the prophet before the coming of that great and dreadful day of the LORD: Just before that Day, the return of the Lord, Elijah will come first. All right, remember, yet future. Now, it could not have been the coming of John. He was the Elijah, but he comes five times, now. J-e-s- u-s, f-a-i-t-h, g-r-a-c-e. See, five is the number of “grace.” Elijah makes five appearings: one time is Elijah; as Elisha; as John; at the end of the Gentiles; and over with Moses to the Jews. Perfect number, the perfect prophet, perfect messenger, stern, bold. See? Notice: …I will send to you Elijah…before the coming of the Day, great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

9. ESCAPE HITHER, COME QUICKLY — 1958-02-02

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• ¶8–¶10a And that was the first time that I ever heard that come. And then the other night, standing right on this platform, when I heard it, when I was praying. And now, I got one more Message, that’s tonight, before I leave the city. And I want to say this—this. I do believe that shortly, that next step in my ministry is coming up right now, which will be far beyond this now. How…Is there anybody here that remembers the first beginning of my ministry when I put my hand on somebody? You remember that? All right. How many remembers that the Lord promised right then if I’d be sincere I would know the secrets of their heart? How many knows it was said back there? See it happen? Now, there’s something else coming right now. It’s coming right away now. And it’s going to be still greater, and I think will be the last. It may not this…All of it works together just the same. But now, this afternoon I would like to call your attention to some Scripture, just for a few moments that we would speak, God willing, upon a—a subject here that we hope that the Lord will bless. And that will be found in Saint Luke, for a Scripture reading, Saint Luke and the 17th chapter and the 20th verse. I wish to read this as to get a context. [Brother Branham reads St. Luke 17:26-29—Ed.] And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat,…drink, and married wives, and they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the floods came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot, they did…(Now, watch what they did.) …they did eat,…drink, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, And the…day—the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone—fire and brimstone…, and destroyed them all. Now, over in Genesis, the—in the Book of Genesis and in the, I believe it’s the 19th chapter and the 22nd verse, I wish to get a text.

10. SUPER SIGN — 1962-06-24

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• ¶127–¶130 The nature of that prophet, he loved the woods, and stayed in the woods, come forth fearless, he was against organizations, he said, “You generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Don’t you think, ‘We have this to our…’ for God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” He pulled no punches. Jesus said, “What did you go out to see? A reed shaken with any wind? Not John, no.” Now, when these disciples left, He said, “What went you out to see?” He said, “If you can receive it, this is he who was spoken of, ‘I send My messenger before My face.’” That’s Malachi 3, not Malachi 4. For if that, John at that time, then the Scriptures are not fulfilled and was misleading, because before that great Day of the Lord should come, He was to send Elijah, and that great Day of the Lord is going to burn up the whole earth, and the righteous will walk out, in the Millennium, upon the ashes of the wicked, that could not have been to John, that could not have been the Elijah. Now, notice, so that the Scripture is strictly interpreted by Itself. Notice, “And he shall turn,” His first Coming, “the hearts of the fathers to the children,” taking the old patriarch fathers, and turning their faith to this new children’s faith of Jesus being…coming before Him, “I’m coming before Jesus. The Messiah is coming,” turning their hearts to this, away from the law to this.

11. 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…

12. ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED AFTER HIM — 1961-04-16

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• ¶139–¶144 That’s what He done to the Pentecostals after Wesley age. He let the Pentecostals nurse His Own strength, His Own Holy Spirit as a baptism, back into their weak bodies to give them faith for the Rapture, to give them faith for miracles. “I’m El-Shaddai.” What He did to Abraham and to his seed after him, watch: believing, confirmation, blood covenant, now injecting Himself, His strength, into His people. What does the word sanctify mean, you good Methodists? “Sanctification, do you believe it, Brother Branham?” I certainly do. It’s God’s Word. “Do you believe John Wesley?” Absolutely, he was the angel of the covenant of his age, the Philadelphian Age. Luther was one of the Sardis back there. That’s exactly right. And we got one coming which is going to be a prophet. He will be the Elijah. Exactly. “Oh,” you say, “he spoke of John there.” No, no. That’s Malachi 3, “My…I send My messenger before Me.” But remember, the—the Elijah was to come, the world was going to be burnt with fervent heat before the Coming of that great Day of the Lord; and it didn’t burn before, when John came. Read the Bible, brother. See? Watch what He will do, the…watch Him how, that last part of Malachi 4: “And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,” Is that right? “and,” conjunction, “the hearts of the children to the father.” See that dual coming of Elijah? Now, I know these guys stand up today and say, “I’m Elijah; I’m Elijah; and I…” Oh, that’s nonsense. Watch. Notice what happened. The hearts of the what? The children, the hearts of the fathers to the children, John’s first coming, he turned the hearts of the old orthodox fathers to this young message, the children. But in the second coming he’s to take the hearts of the children now, and turn them back to the faith of the Pentecostal fathers at the beginning, trying to restore it back.

13. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1956-07-15

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• ¶209–¶211 And now, upon the sovereign grace of God, upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, and upon the vindication of a worldwide ministry that You have granted to Your unprofitable servant, as an unworthy person, and one who is unable, but a believer, I now challenge this mute spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And with a sincere heart, I say, come out of the man. For I adjure thee, by the living God, that you depart from him that he’ll be well. In Christ’s Name, I challenge thee to come out of the man, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Every eye closed, every head bowed. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] Hear me? Hear me? You hear me? He’s hearing. Now just keep your head bowed. Say, “Praise God.” [The brother says, “Praise God.”—Ed.] Say, “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Praise God.” [“Praise God.”] Now, you can raise your head. [The brother says, “Raise head.”—Ed.] Raise your head now. “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Hallelujah!” [“Hallelujah!”] Let us say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Let’s give God praise. Let’s stand up to our feet just a minute. Almighty God, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this children. I pray that You’ll anoint them. Give them the desire of their hearts by filling them with the Holy Ghost. Great signs and wonders might be done for the glory of God, through Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now, you be seated. He—he says, through the microphone, he can hear me a little through the microphone.

14. QUEEN OF SHEBA — 1961-01-19

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• ¶84–¶86 The great prophet Elijah to appear on the scene, a woman hater, wilderness man with a Message to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. Remember, He had a compound coming. Remember in Malachi 4 (Malachi 3 spoke of John the Baptist coming, as Jesus referred to, “Why did the prophet say, ‘My messenger?’”) but remember, the Malachi, that’s coming Malachi 4, watch the last verse of it, we know that wasn’t John, because He said He would burn the earth with a heat, and the righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the wicked. So it never happened when John came, but that Elijah is prophesied again today. Notice, the first Elijah was to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, the old Orthodox to the new Message was going on that he was giving, and that and is a conjunction to tie the verse together, “the hearts of the children back to the fathers.” And then the Message of John in the last days, or, the Message of Elijah, the spirit will be in the Church, will be, take the hearts of the people that’s fallen away from the Pentecostal fathers, and turn their hearts back to the original Message of Pentecost again, as It started, the messenger of the covenant, the seventh star of the day, we’re living in that day. Notice this generation, wicked and adulterous generation, will seek after a sign, and they will get it. What kind of a sign? The sign of the resurrection, He is not dead, but He’s alive. Our religion is not a history, it’s a living fact, it’s a living God, it’s a living experience. “As it was in the days of Jonas.”

15. MODERN EVENTS ARE MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY — 1965-12-06

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• ¶210–¶215 But, look, Jesus knowing that, He turned and give him a tribute, said, “What did you go to see, a reed shaken with the wind?” Said, “There’s never been a man born of a woman as great as John, till this day.” That’s right! What a compliment to pay the man! But, you see, there it was, the prophecy had been fulfilled right before their face, with a forerunner coming, exactly what Malachi said. Now, that’s Malachi 3, not Malachi 4. John the Baptist was Malachi 3, Jesus said so. When they asked Him, said, “Why does the scribes say…” Said, “He’s already come. They did what they said.” But, remember, Malachi 4, immediately after the Malachi 4 prophet, the fourth coming of John the Baptist in, or, the…of Elijah, the fifth coming will be the Revelation’s two, the witnesses, when he comes for the remnant of the Jews. But God has used that same Spirit five times: grace, J-e-s-u-s, it’s all been Jesus all the time; f-a-i-t-h, g-r-a- c-e, and so forth. You see? The number five is a grace number and He used it. Won’t use just three, won’t use just two, three, four. It’s five times He uses it. Now, notice quickly now, as we finish up. He said, “This is he who was spoken, ‘I send My messenger before My face.’” But in Malachi 4, immediately after that prophet prophesies, the whole earth is to be burnt over, and the righteous walk out upon the ashes of the wicked. See? Exactly! See, that’s the Malachi 4 prophecy.

16. ELISHA THE PROPHET — 1956-10-02

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• ¶205–¶208 God bless you. Now, you feel better, do you? You do feel better. Well, that’s very fine. I believe you are better, right now. And I believe you’re going to be so much better in the next twenty-four hours, your mother is going to come here and tell about it. Don’t you? And you, too…All right, sir. The Lord bless you, now. All right. God bless you. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] God, I pray that in Christ’s Name, You’ll bless this handkerchief for the woman. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, let me hear. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham again.] Father, grant to this woman her desire. I pray, God, that her heart will be so elated over her daughter, till everything that You have for her will be granted to her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. God bless you. Now, sister, what you want to be prayed for? Oh, God bless you. Heavenly Father, bless this little woman as she stands here waiting for her turn. I lay hands on her and ask for Your blessings to rest on her, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. God bless you now, sister. You believe now? Amen. All right. Fine. Your trouble, sir? [The brother speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Stomach trouble. O Father God, I pray for this man’s stomach trouble and ask that he be healed, and maybe tomorrow he will come in and bring a letter, “My stomach never has bothered me since.” In Jesus’ Name, I ask this. Amen. Let’s hear from you, brother. You believe now? All right. That’s good. What’s your trouble, sister? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] What? Oppression. Come here. That’s the devil, of course.

17. THE ONCOMING STORM — 1960-02-29

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• ¶176–¶180 God bless you, Sister…?…[Brother Branham prays with the people at the altar, many of his words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?… Oh, nevermore… Won’t you just raise up, and come down with these others standing around the altar here? Come. It’s coming to judgment now. Won’t you come? Come now, your sins confess now, you won’t have to go to the judgment. God bless this couple that just come. God bless you, sir. That’s good. God bless you, young lady. Come right on down. Come, sir. I’ve wandered far… Come on, my Spanish brother. …away from God, Now I’m coming… Won’t you raise up now, and come down here? Let’s pray. Come to the Shelter. …of sin too long I’ve trod, O Lord, I’m coming home. May I say this, just while the organ is continually playing. The Message, tonight, is a Message of love, grace, and warning. Tomorrow night, this Message may be in your ears somewhere else, a Message of condemnation and judgment. While It has mercy in It, come and receive It. Won’t you, friends? I’ve got to meet you with This, what I’ve said tonight, someday. Won’t you come? Let It speak for mercy, for you. While we sing once more, “Now I’m Coming Home,” won’t you do it? Just stay right here, sister, dear. You all stay right here if you will, just a moment. We want to have prayer with these at the altar. Just let them stay right where they are. Once more now. I’ve wandered far… Rise up, come. Won’t you? I invite you. Now I’m coming home; The path of sin too long I’ve trod, Lord, I’m coming home. Christians, pray now. Coming home…

18. THE INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD — 1956-04-06

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• ¶53–¶53 Your little pastor here, who’s been so shook up, Brother Joseph… Today walking with our arms around each other down by the seaside, or the lakeside, he said, “Brother Branham, my burdened heart, oh, my people, Chicago, I want to see it shook.” I’ve never told him. I said, “Brother Mattsson, I want to tell you something. You—you might not believe this. (See?) You might not believe it. But the thing that you prayed and wrestled along your pillow at night, the tears that you shed, the prayers, the long fastings that you went forth with your hands up; there’s something burning in your heart, ‘O God, do something for Chicago, do something.’ It’s already done.” He said, “But Brother Branham, I—I want to see Chicago shook.” I said, “It’s been shook.” That’s right; it’s been shook. I said, “The Bible said, all the prophets speaking of the coming of the Lord, of John the Baptist, they said, ‘Every mountain will be brought down. Every low place will be brought up. All the rough places will be made clear.’ And what did them people think? Oh, angels will come down, and they’ll beat the drums and the bands, and what a time we’ll have out there. But what was it? A little old fuzzy faced prophet come out of the wilderness with his beard sticking out like one of these here fuzzy worms. He had a—a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him and a leather girdle, about half dressed, preaching, ‘Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,’ Not even with shoes on. Standing bare-footed and mud squishing up between his toes on the muddy banks of Jordan. And that’s what the Bible called great.” That’s right.

19. HEAR YE HIM — 1956-09-30

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• ¶46–¶47a I pray today, Lord, that You’ll inspire this group today to pick up that which You have given them, if it’s no more than a voice to testify, if it’s no more…Maybe You put some sickness, or caused Satan to do it, let him put a sickness upon them to be healed. May they rise with a testimony. O God, maybe they’re healthy and they need salvation for their souls. May they rise and take salvation and fight with it with everything that they had. May they help scatter the enemy as we see that great gallant display of the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s broke. I pray, Father, that You will grant this blessing today, in Christ’s Name, to everyone. And with our heads bowed, I wonder if someone in presence now would raise your hand, say, “Brother Branham…” We can’t make an altar call here. There’s no way to do it at this time. But would you raise your hand and say, “Brother Branham, by this I appreciate…When I hear that Arnold von Winkelried…No wonder the Swiss feel of him like they do. And when I hear that Jesus broke the bands of death. He broke the bonds of bondage for me. He signed the Emancipation of the Proclamation with His own Blood. He went to death at Calvary for me. I want to, today, crucify all flesh and live anew for Him, and take what He gives me, and fight as best as I can in this great rank army of God until Jesus comes.” Will you raise your hand, say, “By this, God, I give You my sign.” God bless you, young man. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, and you, and you, and you. Oh, that’s wonderful. God bless you, sir. God bless you. Up in the balcony, is there one up there? God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sister. Yes, that’s very fine. Now, the Lord knows. Oh, when He sees that gallant display, when He sees you…Is there another before we ask prayer? Would there another? God bless you. That’s fine. That’s good. God bless you, young lady. God bless you back there, lady. God bless you, sir. Someone else, say “I’m by this…” God bless you, sister.

20. VISION FROM THE LORD — 1962-10-30

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• ¶1a–¶1a It came to pass while I lay on my bed, this morning about five o’clock A.M., that this vision appeared to me, but I do not understand at this time. It seemed to me that I saw myself preaching, and that I was standing in the sun. I was preaching to a huge congregation which was seated in a wooded area where just portions of the sun was coming through. I was rejoicing deep in my heart, all thrilled, because of the text that I was preaching from. The subject would have two climaxes. I was laying a background for my first climax, when all of a sudden I noticed that it was getting late, near the noon hour, and my congregation began to get physically hungry. And they started getting up and walking out, with the intention of returning, but they must have physical food according to their thinking, and some were just getting tired of listening. I noticed to my right side some young married people were leaving, and I screamed out to them, “Don’t go! For all these wonderful things that I have showed you, you don’t know where they have come from or where you can find them!” Then that was to be my first climax. I grabbed my Bible and screamed, making the climax, “They are found in the Bible, for I am commissioned to preach only the Bible!” But the congregation walked on. I looked towards the forest church, and no one was there. Then I turned, and I said that was the first climax, but in my heart I knew that they would be back for the evening service, and all I would have to do would be lay a little background of my morning service, then I could reach that great climax for the evening service. And my heart was so thrilled, as I turned from my forest cathedral, to wait for the evening service to begin. Brother William Marrion Branham

21. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1960-12-18

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• ¶483–¶486 How many has ever seen the discernment, raise your hand. All right, all of you. That’s right, so you know what it is. Now do you believe, this morning, that you’ve heard the Voice of God? Now I’m going to ask for Brother Wood, Brother Fred Sothmann, and some of the trustees, to come here just a moment. Some of you trustee brothers, or deacons, or whatever, come here just a moment. Now it’s going to be rather congested here, and I want you to help. Now to you, you people on this, my right side, that’s going to be prayed for, I want you to come on this side here. And brother, Brother Collins, stand right down in there, if you will. And come right down here, so they can come by and be prayed for. I’m going to ask you little children on this side of the altar, if you’ll go over on this side just for a few minutes, for Brother Branham; not for me, but for the Lord Jesus. Now you brethren stand here so that the people can come right through, and then—then we’ll take all on this other side. Now from this first row right here…Brother Charlie, I wonder if you brethren, David and you, if you want to come up here, or move kind of back towards the back? All right. Now the first ones here in this row, just raise up like that; just start from that side, over and against the wall, as we pray, now, when we get ready to start. Now, not yet. Then when this side over here, we’ll have you all to go back to this side; and then, and then come on out to that side, and then come down. Now the trustees and them will get you in the right position.

22. BALM IN GILEAD — 1961-02-18

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• ¶253–¶257a Now let’s change it, saying, “Now I receive.” Put one hand on your heart, the other one up to God. Now…(There is a balm in Gilead, do you receive it?) now I receive, All things are possible, now I receive; Now I receive, now I receive, All things are possible, now I receive. Now, has He done all things well? Has He done all things that He promised to do? That’s right. Now, let’s bow our heads together, and all, He said, “After this manner, you must pray,” all together: Our Father Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. You say, “Why did you do that, Brother Branham?” In the prayer…He said, “After this manner,” everything has been done. What did you say in there? “Deliver us from evil, all unbelief, all sickness, all diseases, all afflictions, all superstitions, everything. Deliver us from evil.” Now, you know I couldn’t go down that line with discernment, I’d— I’d pass completely out before I got halfway down it. Now, tomorrow night we’re going to have discernment line down at the other place; tonight, we’re going to pray for these people. How many of you in that line there are now solemnly, you see that how…? I want to ask, you talk about a miracle, how would a man, a human being like me, know those things? I couldn’t do it. How many of you believe that that’s the very thing that our Lord Jesus did? You do? Well then, that anointing that I’ve told you about, and preached to you the truth, now Jesus has come down and proved that’s true. Is that right? Then, He said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Is that right? Now, that makes me a believer. Is that right? Now, what He said was to be a believer? “If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” Is that right?

23. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-07-28

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• ¶47–¶48a Someone else would say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. God, I’m a—I want to accept You just now, accept Your Son as my personal Saviour.” Would you put up your hand, someone else on the bottom floor? God bless you back there, my brother. Somebody… God bless you over here, my brother. God bless you down here, brother. God bless you back there, brother. That’s good. Back over to my right, the Lord bless you, back here. Somebody else now would raise your hand and say, “Brother Branham, remember me in prayer just now”? As we’re just about to close the service, say, “Remember me, I want to here accept Christ as my personal Saviour.” Would you raise your hand, saying, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? That’s right. God bless you, sister. God bless you, sister. I know there’s plenty of them in here. Would you just put up your hand? You can do that much. On the bottom floor now, will you do it before we go to the balconies? Been about fifteen. God bless you back there. I see your hand. God bless you. God bless you, my brother back there. That’s good. “Oh, Brother Branham, I know I go to church, but I—I…” God bless you, sister here. God bless you here, lady. “I go to church, but I—I know—I know I’m not right. And I want to be right. God knows I want to be right.” Will you put up your hand? The balconies to my right, someone up there say, “Brother Branham, remember me”? God bless you, young man. God bless you, lady. Someone else say…God—God bless you, lady. That’s good. “Remember me, Brother Branham, just now in prayer, as you go to prayer. I believe in you.” God bless you, brother. I now want to raise my hand and say, “I believe in Jesus Christ, and, Brother Branham, remember me in prayer. Just before you leave this building tonight, won’t you do it?” Put up your hand, and I’ll certainly do it, that God will see you. Won’t you do it? Up here’s the balcony to the right. Just one more time across. God bless you, sir, right here. I see your hand.

24. EXPECTATION — 1954-12-06

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• ¶50–¶51 Here some time ago, I was in—in Arkansas, and I was bring— coming out, just when I first started out in my meetings. And I was coming out of a place, where they was bringing me out of an auditorium at Camden, Arkansas, and the police was bringing me out. And there was the people crying, trying to run through and touch your clothes. You know how people are. And I got a heart the same as anybody else has. And I was going along there, and I heard somebody hollering, “Mercy. Mercy.” And I looked over to the side, and there stood an old colored man. They had segregation there, you know. He…Just a little white rim of hair around his head, holding his cap like this, saying, “Mercy. Mercy.” The Holy Spirit said to me, “Go over to him.” Well, I said the police, I said, “I shall go over.” Said, “Reverend Branham, you can’t do that. You’re in the South.” Said, “You go over to that colored man,” said, “you’ll start a race riot, as sure as the world.” Said, “These white people wouldn’t stand for it.” I said, “I don’t care what they think; God Almighty tells me to go to that man.” And I started towards him. They run over there, and took…pulled a line around. And I heard his wife say to him, said, “Honey, here comes the parson.” I—I went over there, and he—I said, “What do you want, Uncle?” And they formed a ring around like that to keep the people back, and people screaming and going on, you know. And so they said, “Here comes the parson.” And I walked up to him, still the anointing, they was bringing me out of the meeting. And so, then…I got… He said, come over, he said, “Is, is…” feeling like that, said, “Is— is—is—is this you, parson?” He felt around my face. I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “Parson, is—is your name Branham?” And I said, “Yes, sir.”

25. JEZEBEL RELIGION — 1961-03-19

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• ¶87–¶91 We are promised, in the last days, that he will return to this country too. I know, Jesus, when…Matthew 17, when they asked Him, “Why the scribes say, ‘Elias…’?” Watch what He said, “Elias truly must first come,” past, pre-… in the future tense. But then He give John as an example. John wasn’t Malachi 4. John was Malachi 3, “Behold, I send a messenger before Me, to prepare the way.” Malachi 4, He said, “Before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come, when all the earth will be burned like a stubble; before that day, I’ll send Elijah.” And it wasn’t John, because the Lord never burnt the earth when John came. And if you notice, and in the last chapter, in the last verse, He said, “And he…” (watch: he talking) “…shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers.” Now watch! The first John came, the first Elijah, what did he do? He came and brought a Message and turned the old orthodoxs’ hard hearts to the faith of the young church, the children. But when the next Elijah come, in the end time, he’s to go back and take the—the fathers’ hearts…the childrens’ hearts, rather, and turn them back to the Faith of the pentecostal fathers. See the difference? He’ll not be one of these here so-called we have today, he’ll go right back to Acts 2 and start right from there. He’ll preach the unadulterated Gospel, just say the same things that Peter did on the Day of Pentecost, ’cause what he said on Pentecost has vindicated the rest of the Scriptures through. He’ll not twist around with some organization, when Elijah comes. He’ll hate women like Elijah did, just like…or bad women, just like John did. He’ll be a wilderness-lover just like they were. He’ll not spare. We’re looking for him to come. He’ll come! God said he would, and he’ll be here!

26. TESTIMONY — 1951-05-09

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• ¶54b–¶56 It prophesied, their prophet, and said, that, “In the last days that Germany would have a—a ism called Nazis.” And it went ahead and said, “In that day, let W- i double l-i-a-m, William Branham be called and set aside in humility for the service that I have called him to.” That’s right. Wrote years… Friends, I can stand here for hours saying things that He has done. And please, do not think that I’m trying to say… This…Here’s what I’m…That Jesus Christ is in our midst now. He’s here to heal everybody. And please, these are Pentecostal people, your own people here’s testifying and saying these things, what you have received the Holy Ghost by. Have faith in God. Have faith. This is the hour of your healing. Believe now with all your heart. Z. Is it 51 where you give out? Z-51 to 5, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. All right…?…All right. Now. Now, and then after that, we’re going to call another number somewhere else. And then we’ll just keep on till we…Will you stay with me just a little while, will you, and pray? And you people around the walls… Now, I’m going to ask you this: If something happens in the line, and it—it starts…If—if an insane, or an epileptic gets on the platform…And sometimes when they come, they carry on awful. And if it seems to get away from me and you hear me say, “Bow your head,” do it right away, because it’ll go from one to another. That’s right. I seen as many as twenty fall with it at one time. That’s… It—it’ll do it. Do you remember in the Bible, where some man went down. He thought he had a gift of healing, ’cause he seen Paul casting out devils. Acts 19. And he called over a man who had epileptic fits. He said, “I adjure thee by Jesus who Paul preaches, come out.” The devil said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” See? And there he came out, and he went, and the man jumped on, stripped their clothes off of these boys, and they run through the streets naked. Isn’t that right? So you have to watch. Now, it goes from…

27. INFLUENCE — 1963-11-30

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• ¶190–¶193 Let us bow our heads just a moment. [A brother speaks in tongues, a sister interprets—Ed.] When the coal of Fire had touched the prophet, Making him as pure as pure can be, When the Voice of God said, “Who will go for us?” Then he answered, “Master, here, send me.” Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord, Speak, and I’ll be quick to answer Thee; Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord, Speak, and I will answer, “Lord, send me.” [Brother Branham hums Speak, My Lord—Ed.] Think of it now, teenager, while they’re humming that song. Think of it, minister, businessman, housewife. We’re down at the house of the Lord now. Look above you and see your example, the Cherubims. Just think, you’re at the end of time now. Time will fade into Eternity, maybe today. We don’t know just when. Think of it. There is millions now in sin and shame, are dying, (Look on the streets.) Listen to their sad and bitter cry; Hasten, brother, hasten to their rescue; Quickly answer, “Master, here am I.” Oh, speak, my Lord, oh, speak… Mean it from your heart now. Isaiah, where are you? …and I’ll be quick to answer Thee; Speak, my Lord… Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, where you at? …Lord, Speak, and I will answer, “Lord, send me.” Do you really mean it? When He speaks to your heart, will you mean it? Speak, my Lord, oh, speak, my Lord, If He is speaking to you while they’re singing it… …will quickly answer… Will you raise up your hand, say, “Me, Lord. Me, Lord”? God bless. …my Lord, speak, my Lord, Speak, and I will answer…

28. THE EVENING MESSENGER — 1963-01-16

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• ¶226–¶230 Now, I know, I feel that coming back. And, remember, with a little gift I can catch discernment of spirit, see. Now, you’re resenting that, when I said Malachi 4. But let me tell you something. You said, “Jesus said, ‘If you can receive it, this is the Elijah that was spoke of.’” But if you see what He said in—in—in Saint Matthew, the 11th chapter and the 6th verse, “If you can receive it, this is he who was spoke, and said, ‘I send My messenger before My face.’” That was Malachi 3, not Malachi 4. For, in Malachi 4, He said, “Before this day come, the earth would be burned and the people would walk out upon it; be burnt like a stubble.” That’s right. He was talking then of the messenger before His face, which was an Elijah, that says… I—I don’t believe in all this here stuff going around today about Elijah’s robe and all that stuff. I…All them phonies has to come, of course, to upset the real thing when it does come. But, let me tell you, there will rise a messenger at the end of this Pentecostal age and wind up the thing. It will be a man. Not a group, not a denomination; but a man. It’s always been, and God cannot change His program, He’s the Eternal God. Remember, if that messenger (John) was the messenger of Malachi 4, then the Scriptures failed, for It said, “It would…the earth would be burnt as a stubble, and the righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the wicked.” So read It, and see if that isn’t right. See? But Jesus never said that, He referred to Malachi 3, “I’ll send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way for Me.” That’s exactly right.

29. COMMUNION — 1962-02-04

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• ¶39–¶40 Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who raised Him up from the dead and set Him at the right hand of the Majesty, ever living to make intercessions upon the things that we believe that He did for us, and confess it to be so. We pray, Lord God, that tonight, that You’ll forgive our sins. Oh, we want to keep under the Blood at all times, for we don’t know just what might happen. All things are about wound up, we feel, Lord, that the coming of the Lord is at hand. And we’re fixing to take a journey. And as we think of a journey, we might think of suitcases, and—and extra clothing and extra shoes. But how different from this journey! It’s not packing up; it’s unpacking, laying aside. As Your great servant, Paul, said in the Book of the Hebrews, the 12th chapter, “We lay aside every weight and the unbelief that does so easily beset us, that we might run with patience the race that’s set before us.” And we cannot prophesy now of good things to this modern world. The only thing that we can prophesy through the Spirit is disaster, troubles, earthquakes, great tidal waves, sun and moon failing, the church in the Laodicean age, Christ outside the door, knocking to get in. O God! Just as Micaiah of old, how could he bless Ahab when prophecy was against him? When that great mighty prophet, Elijah, walked up to him, and because he had took the life of that innocent man, Naboth, so he said, “The dogs will lick your blood.” Then how could Micaiah prophesy good things?

30. THE FIFTH SEAL — 1963-03-22

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• ¶323–¶327 Notice, when Elisha, when he come to fulfill his ministry in Malachi 4, see, as Malachi 4, Elijah was by himself. But when he come to minister to the Jews, of Revelation 11, he has Moses with him. So, there’s no confusion, not a bit. See? Get it? When Elisha comes, of Malachi 4, he is by himself. Elijah will run; not Elijah and Moses. “Elijah” will arise. But the same inspiration, that, said Elijah will come for the last part of the church age, “to restore the Faith of the children back to the original Faith of the fathers,” the apostolic Faith, which you’re supposed to go back. And the antichrist has got them all pulled out. “To restore back,” as all the rest of the Scriptures has blended together. See, he comes by himself. See? But when he comes to the Church, the Bible…or comes to the hundred and forty-four thousand, the Bible plainly states that both he…There is two of them, not one of them. Two of them! And his first ministry couldn’t take the Jews and put them back to the law, becomes he…’cause he comes, preaching Christ to the hundred and forty-four thousand, amen, “There He is, that Messiah that was cut off.” Amen! That’s it, so don’t have it confused. It’s not confusion. The Scripture don’t lie, not a bit. Glory! Oh, when I seen that, I was jumping up! I said, “Thank You, Lord,” when I was watching it take place out there. Seen that Elijah walk out there for that first age, by himself, and he was by himself. Then when I seen him come again, way on over to somewhere else, there was two of them there when that took place. Said, “There it is. That, that does it, Lord. Amen! I see it now! Hallelujah!” That’s exactly.

31. GABRIEL’S INSTRUCTIONS TO DANIEL — 1961-07-30

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• ¶19–¶23a Now, other, minor cases and so forth like that, is given over to Brother Neville, and Brother Higginbotham, and Sister Arganbright, and the others who speaks with tongues and interpret, which is here in the church. Therefore, we’re like the journey. I believe it was Jethro, said to Moses one day, see, “Let’s take some elders.” “And the Spirit of God was taken off of Moses and put on seventy of the elders, and they prophesied. But just the major and hard things come to Moses alone.” Now, we’re not Moses, neither are these the elders, but we’re still serving the Jehovah God, with the same Pillar of Fire leading us to the promised Land. So, then, yes, there will be other, be meetings and will be the interpreta-…The discernments will come. That will be giving me a chance then to be in prayer and study, the days that I know that these interviews will come, and be ready for them. Now remember, Billy Paul Branham, our field secretary, will… It’s on…Bulletin is on the board back there, by the trustees. I’ve got Now, now, this morning we have a great lesson, and tonight we’ll try to continue it on. And, if the Lord willing, next Sunday, another, into it. I didn’t know how deep it was getting until I got to studying it. And still it’s a mystery to me, yet, and so I’m just depending on the Lord. Now, you with your Bibles, let’s turn to Psalms 99, 99. And I will read the 1st verse, the congregation read the 2nd verse, then all together we’ll read the last verse. We continue on; me, the 1st; congregation, 2nd; me, the 3rd; congregation, 4th; on to the last verse, and then we’ll all read it together. Shall we stand as we read the Word of God. The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved. The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy. The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

32. PRESUMING — 1962-04-08

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• ¶236–¶239 What am I telling you? That’s not me telling you, That’s God telling you now. A man can say anything. We have so much bogus going around called discernment, “Lord tells me somebody in here has got a kidney trouble. Who is it? Where are they from? What about them?” It’s impersonations, presuming. Don’t you realize what the Scripture says about this last day? Don’t you realize the last thing we’re supposed to receive? What did It say in Malachi 4, just before the evening shadows would fall? “Oh,” you say, “that was fulfilled in John.” It wasn’t, Malachi 3 was fulfilled when John came. Malachi 4, He said, “Just before the day that the Lord will judge the earth and burn it with Fire…” Then if God didn’t burn the earth with Fire when John came, then it isn’t that time, he was Malachi 3. Malachi 4 is to be for soon now. Now is when it’s supposed to be. Now, we’re not presuming anything, we see it, we know that God is here, the Holy Spirit, the Great, the God of Elijah, the Holy Ghost, the Witness of the last day, pulling His ministry right into the Church, the same thing that our Lord did. The High Priest is descending from the Throne to the Church. And the Church is heaping Itself up with the Word, ’cause He can only come to the Word, He is the Word. The Word can’t come to a—a almanac, It won’t fit, so the Word has to come to the Word. “Ye abide in Me, and My Word in you…Man shall live, all the Word of God.” Here It is, you believe It, accept It then. Now, let’s pray.

33. THE ANOINTED ONES AT THE END TIME — 1965-07-25

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• ¶15–¶15 In the Book of Saint Matthew, [Brother Branham clears his throat—Ed.] (Pardon me.) 24th verse, or, 24th chapter, rather, beginning with the 15th verse, I wish to read a portion of His Word. And when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which are in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop—housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there would be no flesh saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall rise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elected. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chamber; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered…

34. GOD’S POWER TO TRANSFORM — 1965-09-11

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• ¶22–¶25 And let us, Lord, as we are thinking of this, remember that we too must go someday. While we’re sitting together here in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, we would ask that You would bring this fresh to our memory. And let us check up, as it was, or take inventory of our own lives, that we be under the Blood and in the Faith. Grant it, Lord. Now as I try under these circumstances to bring a little message to the people, today, I pray that You will help me, Lord. Strengthen me, for I—I—I need it, Lord. And I pray that You will grant it. And may something be said that would just honor You. And if there be any under the sound of our voice this morning, who is not ready to meet the hour that lays before them, may this be the time that when they’ll surrender to Him Who said, “I am the Way, the Life, the Truth,” even our Lord Jesus Christ. For we ask it in His Name. Amen. (You may be seated.) [Someone on the platform speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] The brother here wants to know if everyone can hear all right. He’s got two mikes on. Is that all right? Can you hear? Raise up your hands if you can. Can you hear? Raise your hands. All right. I’m sorry that we do not have seating room for everyone this morning. And we trust that I won’t stay up here too long, just enough to maybe bring us maybe a reading of the Word; that the Lord God will honor His Word that’s being read, and will give us of His grace, that we might serve Him by it.

35. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA — 1960-01-10

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• ¶26–¶29 I believe Paul was a fundamentalist. You know where I think he got that in the Scripture? Where Elisha sent, or, Elijah, sent the staff with his servant, Gehazi, and said, “Lay it on the baby.” Elijah knew that everything he touched was blessed. And so he, the staff that he would—he would walk with, he said, “Go lay that on the baby.” But the woman’s faith wasn’t in the staff, it was in the prophet, so she wouldn’t leave him until the prophet laid his own body on the baby, and the baby come to life. It depends on where your faith lays. But in the handkerchiefs, I remember in South Africa at the last trip at Cape Town, and I was there, and I believe it was ten or fourteen sackfuls of handkerchiefs and letters; and they was great, what we call, grass sacks, burlap sacks. And the writer at the paper said, “Brother Branham is superstitious, he was praying over handkerchiefs.” Just not knowing the Scripture, of course. But we’re glad to pray over these, and if you don’t—do not have one up here, and you’re on outside of the building, or anything, if you wish me to pray over one, just write me. I’m not trying to get your address, we have nothing to sell, no radio broadcast, no nothing, nothing at all, it’s absolutely free. Just anything that we can do to help you make life a little better for you, make the way, the rough places, a little more plain, that’s what we’re here for. Just write us: Jeffersonville, Indiana, we’ll send it to you as quick as we possibly can.

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

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• ¶454–¶454 You follow, Brother Neville. I’m going back. Announce the time for the meeting.

37. THERE IS A MAN HERE THAT CAN TURN ON THE LIGHT — 1963-12-29

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• ¶298–¶299 Just keep singing this hymn to yourselves, in your home, among your people, and meet us back here about six-thirty, tonight, for the prayer cards and so forth. We’ll see you then. Until then, bow your heads. I’m going to ask Brother Neville if he’ll walk up here now, the pastor, and dismiss us in a word of prayer.

38. THE FIRST SEAL — 1963-03-18

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• ¶207–¶211 When, you remember the other day, when John was supposed to come, prophesied, a messenger before Christ come, “a voice of one crying in the wilderness.” Malachi saw him. Look, the 3rd chapter of Malachi is the coming of the Elijah that was to come and forerun the coming of Christ. You say, “Oh, no, no, Brother Branham. It’s the 4th chapter.” I beg your pardon. Jesus said it was the 3rd chapter. Now take Saint…You take Saint Matthew, the—the 11th chapter and the 6th verse, He’ll—He’ll say this. The 11—11th chapter, I believe it’s the 6th verse; 4th, 5th, or 6th, right along there. He said, “If you can receive it,” when He was talking about John, “this is he who was spoken of, ‘I’ll send My messenger before My face.’” Now read Malachi 3. Some of them try to apply it to Malachi 4. No, sir, that’s not it. Notice Malachi 4, as soon as that messenger goes forth, the world is completely burned, and the righteous walk out in the Millennium, on the ashes of them. So, you see, if you put that being him back there, then—then the Bible told something that wasn’t so. We’ve had two thousand years, and the world ain’t burned up yet, and the righteous living in it. So it’s got to be in the future. Oh, my! If you get over here in Revelation, and see what that messenger at the end of this age is supposed to do, then you’ll see what it is. He must be a prophet. He’s got to catch these ends that these reformers didn’t see, and place It in there.

39. THE ARK — 1955-05-22

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• ¶169–¶171 See this darling little girl, we’re so thankful You did so much for her, Father. You helped us, not long ago. I pray that You’ll make this child completely well, and a revelation to others, that they can believe on You. I bless this child, this morning, in the Name of Jesus Christ, and curse the disease of her body!…?… Bless my beloved brother, today, Lord. May his faith never fail, as he looks yonder at Calvary, knowing You there, faith, whatever faith is laid there, God will confirm it and bring it to pass! (You can go back now.) Bless my Brother Morgan. Give him the desire of his heart. Whatever he asks for, today, may You give it, in the Name of the Lord. Bless my sister…?…Lord, and give to her those things which she desires, through Jesus Christ. Father God, my brother, I pray unto Thee, for the desire of his heart, it may be fulfilled…?… Our brother here from Ohio camp meeting,…?…Heavenly Father, may the desire of his heart…?…May he find that desire in Jesus Christ. And thank You for the healing, Lord. Father God, I pray, with hands laid upon my brother, for the desire of his heart to be granted…?… Bless my little brother, Father!…?… Here’s a little girl, Father, I bless her. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, may she get what she asks for, in Jesus’ Name. Grant it. Bless my sister, Lord, in Jesus’ Name…?…[Brother Branham prays with the people at the altar for another two minutes, many of his words are indiscernible—Ed.]

40. PROVING HIS WORD — 1964-08-16

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• ¶296b–¶296b Hope of earth and joy of Heaven; Precious Name…