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1. THE SEED IS NOT HEIR WITH THE SHUCK — 1965-02-18

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• ¶52–¶55 Now, we see that there are three in the perfection. God is perfected in three’s, now. And that was, in the perfection of the seed of Abraham, was Ishmael, Isaac, Jesus. Ishmael coming from the bondwoman, Isaac coming from the freewoman, and both of them with sex; but Christ Jesus coming from the virgin, no sex. Here, the “Seed,” one, one Seed; not seeds, but one Seed. These others were not seed of Abraham, because Abraham “Seed” was his faith Seed that God was speaking of, not his natural seed. Because, after Sarah died, Abraham married another woman and had seven sons, besides daughters. So it wouldn’t be Abraham’s seeds, it was Abraham “Seed,” one. And that was Abraham’s faith Seed, pointing to the Royal Seed that was to come through Abraham’s faith; not Abraham’s natural life, but Abraham’s spiritual life; who took everything contrary to God’s Word and called it as though it was not, and believed God; against hope, believed in hope. That’s the real Seed that we’re speaking of. Here we are presented with a picture. Oh! The seed started, the seed of promise, started in a slightly doubted, doubt of the original promise. See how it starts low, in doubt in the original promise. God promised Abraham, through Sarah, to have this child. But now watch, the first seed of Abraham by the bondswoman come by Sarah doubting that this could happen, because she was old and passed the age of bearing. Now that’s how the church starts. That’s how it always starts. You start from the bottom. You don’t start from the top. A man trying to climb a ladder, tries to get on top first, he’ll break his neck. You’ve got to start and build up to that. And here we find the beginning of the promise of God being made manifest, through a slightly doubted, interrupted program of God.

• ¶64–¶65 Therefore, there, they will not be heirs together. They’ll not be in the Rapture together. There is absolutely a church natural, and Church spiritual; a church carnal, a Church spiritual. Then, see, here is no… There is no Judgment to the royal, spiritual, predestinated Seed of Abraham, for they are predestinated to Eternal Life. They have accepted God’s provided Sacrifice; and that Sacrifice, which was Christ, the Word. “And there is therefore now no condemnation.” Saint John 5:24, if you want the Scripture. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus,” Romans 8:1, “walk not after the flesh, but the Spirit,” in Romans. 5:24, “He that heareth My Word,” the word there is, “understandeth.” Any drunkard, anything else, can hear It and walk away. “But he that heareth My Word, understandeth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting Life, and shall not come into the Judgment; but is passed from death unto Life.” Yes, sir. He that this great mystery of the God made known, understands, how that God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world, how that He and the Father were One, how that the great mysteries of the fulfilling of God taking and bringing Hisself, manifested in the age of human beings, and in the strain of human beings, and in the company of human beings; to make His Word manifested in the day, in the eastern rising of the sun, and to do the same thing as the sun sets in the west, to make Hisself manifested in a Bride Church, the Word made manifest. See? It will, too. “He that understandeth,” that is, “to know, that’s been revealed to him, of Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and will not come into the Judgment; but is passed from death unto Life.”

• ¶85–¶88 That’s the way with people who profess Christ. Many of them look like Christians, try to act like Christians; but you’ve got to have Christ on the inside of you, which is the Word made manifest, or it’ll never mature into a real Bible-believing Christian. It’ll always be a denominational something. It cannot live, because there’s no Life in it, to live. An egg cannot hatch, it rots right in the nest, if it hasn’t been with the—with the male bird. Just like members of a church. You can baby them and call them, make them deacons and everything else, but they’ll…you have a nest full of rotten eggs unless they’ve mated with the Mate. That’s right. Carrier, the shuck, it nurtured It. That’s right. Then It, that is, the Seed Itself, has to leave the shuck, or the shuck has to leave the Seed, to get the Seed in the Presence of the Son, so It can be ripening. All in a type, we see. See here now how close she, the church of this last days, gets to look like the Seed Itself. Look how this denomination of Pentecost that’s raised up in the last days, and we’ll explain it a little later on, see, how they come so close to looking just exactly like the Seed. When a shuck comes forth out of a grain of wheat…or a blade of wheat, after the pollen has fallen in there in the second stage, and produced the third stage which is the—the—the shuck. And how that that…If you are not a real close observer, you’ll never be able to tell but what that’s the real grain of wheat in there. When that first little grain comes forth, looks like a grain, but you set down and open it up and you’ll find out there’s no grain there at all. It’s only a shuck, a carrier of the grain. Now, the grain comes forth from that. But remember, there is no more after that shuck. Remember, there was no more Seed promised through a woman, anywhere, after Mary. And there is no more denominations promised after Pentecost. It’s the Rapture and Bride coming forth from there, the Seed, the Word made manifest again.

• ¶89–¶92 Notice, see how close it looks. Matthew said, Saint Matthew 24:24, said, that, “The two spirits in the last days,” the church spirit of the church people, and the Bride Spirit of the Bride people, “would be so close together till it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible.” That’s how close. Look how it’s come through the stalk. Now notice, we’re going to type something here. Luther, in the church age, of bringing forth the Bride Seed, was the same in Spirit. Just one little grain of Seed, Luther stood out on, that was justification by faith. He was the very type of Hagar, the stalk. Notice, Wesley was type of Sarah, the Philadelphian, the age of love that brought forth the tassel. That in Wesley’s age, there was more missionaries than any other age we’ve had, the great missionary age of John Wesley’s time. But Pentecost represented Mary. Mary, the last stage of It, now, she was not the Seed. Yet, the Life of the Seed was in her, but It hadn’t matured yet. I feel very religious. Got…Mary got the seed, It hadn’t matured yet. It was there, but It wasn’t matured. So is it with our Pentecostal age that we’re living in! There has got to come forth a—a Word of God that’s inner, undenominational, outside of the realms of that denomination. Luther went to husk with his first word, “The just shall live by faith.” Wesley had two words, “sanctification,” second definite work of grace. Pentecost had the third word, “the restoration of the gifts.” But the entire Seed has to come forth! See how they denominated on one word, and another word, and another word? But there’s got to be Something that cannot be denominated; it’s the entirety of the Life that’s in there, has to produce Itself again on a Bride. There cannot be any more church ages after this. We’re at the end, brothers and sisters. We’re here. We’ve arrived. Thanks be to God! Amen. Now, we see these things are just as true as they can be.

• ¶97–¶98 Just like Paul said here, “Did not the—the seed of the—of the freewoman…or the bondswoman persecute the Seed of the freewoman?” And so does the seed of the denomination persecute the genuine Grain. It’s always got to be that way. They’ll not be heirs together. They’re not associated together. They’re absolutely two different promises, two different times, two different peoples, altogether. One is the Bride, and the other one is a church. No comparison, at all, with them. But still they are not the Seed that’s promised to come. Neither was Sarah, neither was…And neither was Hagar, neither Sarah was, or— or neither Mary, was the Seed. Mary was not the Seed. She was a carrier of the Seed, but she had nurtured, brought forth out of her womb. Just like the shuck, brought from its womb the real Seed, but the shuck is not the Seed. It only… It’s closer to the Seed. It’s hugged up around the Seed. Way back in the stalk, the life is scattered all through the stalk. And when it comes to the pollen, it’s gathered down closer. But when it comes to the shuck, it’s right down there like the seed, and forms it almost like the seed. Jesus told us what would be in the last day, “Be so close it would deceive the very Elected if possible,” but then the Seed comes forth from there. And the shuck, the Life leaves the shuck. And the shuck is a carrier, and that’s just exactly what our denominations has been, a carrier; Luther, Wesley, Pentecostals. And now it’s time for the Seed to come forth. Notice, notice, just…

• ¶99–¶100 She was not the Seed. Mary was not. Just a shuck, tassel, and stalk, carriers of part of the Word, not all the Word! Luther had justification; Wesley had sanctification; Pentecostals had the restoration of the gifts. But when the Word come… Now, they could produce that, that, justification will save a man. You believe that? Sure, it was a carrier of the Word, just the same as I believe the stalk is part of the wheat. Sure, it is, but it’s the carrier. It ain’t the Life. Then along come sanctification. How many believes in sanctification? You believe the Bible, you have to. Sure. So still that’s not; it’s a little more like; that’s two more words. But then come the Pentecost, the restoration of the gifts. Speaking in tongues, they call it the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost. Speaking in tongues, there, they call that the initial evidence, which brought forth (the what?) the shuck, but they denominated. But when you come to say, “I and My Father are One,” and these other things, then the shuck pulls away from It. But the real, genuine Bride Church will bring forth the entire Word of God, in Its fullness and in Its strength, for He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Notice, in the womb of Mary was the Seed. But when the Seed was delivered, It said, “I come to do the will of Him that sent Me. I and My Father are One. If I do not His works, believe Me not.” There was the Seed. “Which one of you can condemn Me of unbelief? What the Bible has promised I would do, I done it. God has verified that through Me,” He said. “Who can tell Me now?” See? But, the—the Seed in Mary, the shuck, it was close to being That, but it wasn’t. It was still in the womb.

• ¶101–¶104 Notice, and in the Pentecostal age. Through the Lutheran age, through the Wesleyan age, it’s been the same thing through this Pentecostal age. Now notice. But at the opening of the Seven Seals, Revelation 10, the full Word is to be born into manifestation again, and vindicated by the Spirit of God, in the full strength as It was when He was here on earth; manifested in the same way, doing the same things that It did when It was here on earth. Amen! Hebrews 13:8, said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” In Saint Luke 17:30, Jesus said, “In the last days, as it was in the days of Sodom, when the Son of man will be revealing Himself again, it’ll be the same thing.” The world is in a Sodom condition. And the church has went into Sodom, with it, like Lot and his wife. And I say that there is a Elected Church somewhere in this world, that’s pulling out and set aside from those things, and the manifestation of God has attracted Its attention. We’re at the last days. The shuck has give forth its Strength into the Seed. It’s went on out; it was a good shuck, but it served its time. See, it is the Word Bride of the Word Groom! The natural seed of Abraham, of Isaac, and Jacob, and…Or, natural seed, rather, of Ishmael, natural seed of Isaac, and so forth, had to go into the ground, in order to—to bring out this other, bring out Jesus. And so has all these others, the seeds has to dry…I mean, the shucks has to dry, and the pollen has to dry, and everything dies, so the Seed can produce Itself. That’s the way it’s been in every age.

• ¶109–¶111 Now we see here the true revelation of the true type. There is three women carriers of the natural seed, until the matured into Jesus. How Ishmael could not be, because he was born, really, in what we would think today, out of wedlock, because he was a bondswoman’s son. Then come a little more like Him, like Jesus, which come out Isaac; but it still wasn’t, because it was born of the sex between Sarah and Abraham. But then along came Mary, by the virgin birth, produced Jesus Christ. That’s right. God, the Word, made flesh. Now look. There was three women. There is three women typed here, churches. The women always types churches. Means, three denominational ages, carriers, which also must die and dry up, just like the shuck and so forth does, to give room for the Seed. The Seed cannot get right, cannot get ripe, rather, until the shuck, stalk, and leaves, are all dry. That’s right. It saps every bit of the Life, in them, out; amen; all it was, is that, plus. Cannot do it! Now it’s Seed time, or Bride time. The shucks are dead. The shucks are dried up. The virgin Word time, not touched. It’s a virgin, remember, a virgin Word time. If you’d put It in the hands of a denomination, It sure won’t be virgin; It’ll be man-handled, time you get to It. But God’s Church is not touched by denomination. Hallelujah! It’s a virgin-born Word of God made manifest, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah! How, how wonderful! I love It. I believe It. I know that It’s the Truth. It’ll not be touched. There’ll be no denominational man-handling in the virgin Birth of the Bride. No, sir! She is—she is commanded by God to come out of such. “Touch not their unclean things, become vultures.”

• ¶152b–¶155 Yes, sir. What must it do? Vindicate Malachi 4, vindicate Luke 17:30, vindicate Hebrews 13:8, vindicate Saint John 14:12, vindicate all of His Word. Vindicate Hebrews, I mean…Revelation, the 10th chapter, of the opening of the Seven Seals, and the mysteries of God; even to serpent’s seed, and all, would be manifested; marriage and divorce and all these other mysteries that’s been hid under the pillars for all these years, from the theologians and so forth, but it’s now the hour. That’s the Father’s business. Think they would receive It? They want to be dignified, and say, “Our denomination don’t teach us That.” But the Bible does. That’s right. God vindicates It to be true. Sure, It is fulfilling this age, when the Seven Seals…Or, just proving the denominations has just been carriers, that’s another one of the Father’s business, to prove. And the Father’s business now is to show you that them denominations is not His. They’re a man-made systems that deny the Word. Right. Notice. You say, “Well, Mary, the vir-…great virgin!” At the cross, He never called her, “mother.” He called her, “woman,” carrier, not mother. See? True, she was a carrier of the Word, but she was not the Word. He was the Word. Oh, yes. Notice, also, she was not identified in the resurrection with Him. He died and rose again, ’cause He was the Word. She was just a carrier. She died, and still in the grave. That’s right. So, she was just a carrier, not His mother, not God. She was just a carrier like the churches are. That’s right. Shows she was just a carrier, not the Word.

2. THE MASTERPIECE — 1964-07-05

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• ¶124–¶129 Now, the stalk doesn’t look like the seed, neither does the tassel. Now, Pentecostal brethren throughout the nations, I want you to listen, my brother. If this is the last Message I’ll ever preach, This is my masterpiece. Do you notice when the wheat’s…the corn of wheat that falls into the ground, when it begins to form back to its—its grain again? Watch nature. Nature, exactly, is God. God working in nature, it’s all He can. But from the Pentecostal revival, as they think, was the Seed; it wasn’t. Now watch. But something come forth just like the Seed. Now watch what Jesus said, in Saint Matthew 24:24, that, “The two spirits at the last days would be so close together it would deceive the Elected if possible.” Now, that stalk don’t look nothing like a seed; neither does the tassel look like a seed. But notice now, not in Luther’s day, but in the last day. The first thing. There is wheat farmers setting here. The first thing that comes forth on a wheat seed, you would almost think it was a seed, but (what is it?) it’s the husk. It forms a little outside thing, like, to hold the seed. It forms a husk. But the husk is not the seed, no more than the tassel or the stalk was. It’s only a carrier of the life, the corn of wheat, then. Saint John 12, you see, Jesus speaking. The wheat, after the tassel (after Wesley), puts forth the husk, which is the foremost like the grain of anything else. The husk is more like the grain. It’s coming more like the grain all the time, the one that went in the ground. And when it comes forth, the stalk, it’s got Life in it, but it sure isn’t the grain. Comes forth the tassel, the pollen, it still isn’t the grain. And then it comes forth the husk, and it’s just in the shape of the wheat, just exactly like the grain of wheat, but yet it isn’t the wheat. Just exactly in the same shape, perfectly.

• ¶136–¶139 Notice, here, the Life that was in the husk. In the stalk, and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the Seed. And the Life that was in the stalk, went, one went to make the other. Justification, made a way for sanctification; sanctification, made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost; the baptism of the Holy Ghost, made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again, to manifest Itself. But, what denominated, dies. Like Life, in Luther, went to make Wesley; and—and, from Wesley, It went to Pentecost; and, from Pentecost, to make the original Seed. On to Pentecost, comes out of the Wesley, until that time. The reason that Pentecost come out of Wesley, because it was no denomination, Pentecost was. Then Pentecost went to denominate, and (what did it do?) it turned to the husk. It looked like the real Thing. And, anybody, how many ever seen a seed—a seed of wheat start to grow? What’s the first little thing? It’s just exactly like the seed, but it’s the husk. See the three stages? Stalk; tassel, or the pollen; then the husk; and then, out of the husk, comes the original Seed. See? Not a Seed; it was the Life of the Seed, growing through this, to come to the Seed. Amen, amen! Do you see it? What is it? A resurrection, coming back to a Masterpiece again, like the One that went in. Pentecost came out of the Wesley, because Wesley was an organization. Pentecost came out, as no organization, and then turned to one. It had to, to make the husk. The true Word of Life on it, was on its way then to the original Grain, through these stages. Through the stalk, then into the pollen; from the pollen, into the husk; and from the husk, It made Seed.

• ¶140–¶143 No, stalk, tassel, husk, living, they produced (in their early revival) a holder of a certain portion of the Seed Life; but, when they organized, the Life moved out of it. That’s proved by all history. Never an organization ever done a thing after it organized. It was dead. That’s right. Watch, the Life is traveling on now. It’s moving on. Notice, what they have done, all these have done, is proved by history just exactly the way the church has come, never to be useful to Him again. Organization is laid on the shelf. There never has been, in all the history, a church, after it organized, but what it died. And the organization died and never did raise again. Can’t you see it? Man who are blind, open your eyes! Nature and the Word co-ordinating together and proving it right here that This is the Truth, that it is the Truth. That Life leaves the stalk, to make the tassel; from the tassel, It makes the husk; and from the husk, It goes into the Original again. Notice, never again to be useful to Him. How noticeable this life is, in its travel in the corn of wheat, than it is in the tree. God called His people like a tree; see, the life goes down, in a tree, and comes back up again; goes down and comes back up; see, it goes down and comes back up. But, in the corn of wheat, it goes up from the original stalk…through the stalk, tassel, and husk; and the thing that it passed through, dies, so it can’t get back through it again. What is it? It’s no use any more. It goes on to its perfection. Amen! Don’t you see why He never used an organization? He can’t get back in it again. It’s dead. But the Life passes on, from one to the other. See, they put creeds, and inject. “Whosoever shall add one word, or take one Word out,” see, he is blocked off from It. It must be the Life Seed traveling on.

• ¶144–¶147 I’m using this in a parable now, of the Bride, the Masterpiece that’s coming forth. As the Masterpiece fell, there is a Masterpiece rising. The Masterpiece fell at Pente-…at Nicaea, Rome, at Nicaea. After Nicaea, Rome, She’s come through a process, but She is coming right back again to that Masterpiece, perfected, ’cause She’s a part of that Word that was spoken by Him. He’ll have “a Church without spot or a wrinkle.” It’ll not be connected any way with any kind of an organization or a denomination, the cursed thing. It’s passed through those things, but it will never be there. Notice, the seed is coming up, that Life is coming up, not going back. There’ll be no more resurrection after this. The Life is coming up, to go to its perfection, a resurrection. Notice, the husk put forth the—the…Notice, the husk puts the original Seed out of itself. In Revelation, the 3rd chapter, we find this. Now remember, no other church was He put out of, in the Bible, of the Seven Church Ages. How many remembers it? He passed through the Church Age, to go on to make something else. But, this is It. There is nothing else. But the—the Sculptor has got back to perfection again, the Word. See? Don’t go back. How different It is. Yes. Oh! And notice then, the husk, when it comes forth, looks just like the Grain. But when the Grain Life begins to leave the husk, to go in to make the Grain (the Bride), the husk opens up and excommunicates the Grain. Is that right? Nature, that’s exactly what she did.

• ¶152–¶155 And when Pentecost saw It, they sounded a—a trumpet, it’s time for the return of the gifts. See what they did? They sounded a trumpet, and out they come. Then they organized. But, remember, after the husk, that’s three stages we know of, there is nothing else left but the Grain. O God! And then the Grain is put out of all of it. Amen and amen! Seed Words begins to form Itself, Life is brought forth out of…Now notice, if the Bridegroom, the beginning, the first, Bridegroom…This is the Bride coming forth. Remember, the Church begin at Pentecost, and It fell at Nicaea. It sprouted, not like the real Grain, no; it was some of the Life in there, but it sprouted in order to make an organization. And He pulled through that organization. And then what did It do? Then It went, from that organization, It went into another organization, went into another stage of the Word; justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost. See? And as It went through this stalk and process, It kept coming on more. Remember, the little pollen is more, the tassel is more like the Seed than the stalk is. And the husk is more like the Seed than the tassel was. But the Seed Itself is beyond that. See? It just used that for transportation, to take Itself through. Notice, the Bride. If the Bride, in the beginning, was the Word, or the Bridegroom; and then if the Bride is taken from the Bridegroom, It must be the Word also. Notice, the Bride must be.

• ¶161–¶166 The Word, living and in action, the Bible Bride, not some man- made bride; the Bible Bride, smitten and afflicted of God. “No beauty we should desire Her, but yet we did esteem Her smitten and afflicted of God.” That’s right. She stands alone. She is smitten from all the denominations, according to Revelation 3. She is smitten out of the Laodicean Church Age that She was raised up in. See? This Church was raised up in the Laodicea Church Age; that’s the husk. But if them others went… Can’t you Pentecostal men see that, if that other was husk and died? If that other (stalk) had to die, if the tassel had to die, so must the husk die; the three stages of organizations. And remember, you said, “Well, now, there was a lot of tassels hanging on. There’s a lot of this.” Yeah. There had been Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, church of Christ, all these other little things that fell onto it, leaves and everything else had hung onto it, but the original was the reformations, now, see. Stands alone, like the Bridegroom, “rejected of men, despised and rejected of the churches.” The Bride stands that way. What is it? It’s His Masterpiece, see, it’s the Word that He can work through, make manifest. Rejecting! So, the stalk, the tassel, and husk, never become Seed, no, but are all the time becoming more like the Seed. Now at the harvest time, the Seed is back to its original Life, back to the Bible. Malachi 4 said it would be brought that way. Oh, oh, my! Must have all! To be this way, It must have all of the Word. Is that right?

• ¶171–¶174 All true Life that was in the stalk, tassel, and husk, is now gathering in the Seed, ready for the resurrection, ready for the harvest. The Alpha has become Omega. Amen. The first come last, and the last is the first. The Seed, that went in, has come through a process and become the Seed again. The seed, that fell in the garden of Eden, and died there, come back. From that imperfect seed that died there, come back to the perfect Seed, the Second Adam. The first Eve that fell, and was used in the second reformation… second coming, as bringing forth a child, now has become the true Bride again, the Seed, right back with original Word again. The Alpha and Omega is the same. “Al-…” He said, “I am Alpha and Omega,” He never said anything in between. Uh-huh. “I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last.” Yes, sir. The first ministry and the last ministry is the same. The first Message and the (second) last Message is the same thing. “I’m, I was in Alpha; I’m in Omega.” “There’ll be a day that won’t be called day nor night, but in the evening time it shall be Light.” See, Alpha and Omega, it’s become the first and the last. Oh, my, brethren, we could stay hours on that. The great masterpiece of a family, the Second Adam and the Second Eve, now ready for the garden, the Millennium, amen, back on the earth. Hallelujah! The great Sculptor didn’t leave them lay there. He took time, as He did through the millions of years, molding the first perfect couple; and they fell. Now it’s been through thousands of years, He’s molded again, and now here they are ready.

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

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• ¶273–¶280 You say, “Brother Branham, yours is deadest of all of them.” That, that’s true. That is right. Billy Graham is more heard of than I am, and Billy is more heard of than Oral. Oral is more heard of, in one day, than I am in six months. Tommy Osborn, Tommy Hicks, any of those godly men, they’re more heard of. So, as far as that turn, mine is farther away than all of them. What’s happened? “Brother Branham, you saying that, that you telling us here now that you actually believe the Word and everything, well, what’s happened to you then? What taken place?” That’s what we want to know. That’s what we want to know. Now, put her down in your mind now. Pull down the umbrella and shake the rain off, and open up your heart just a minute and listen. Remember, the Bible said in Genesis, the 1st chapter we read, to base our thought for the day, is, “Every seed after its kind.” It’ll have to bring forth after its kind. That’s right. Every seed will have to bring. Remember, the earth is full of seeds, and the rain makes it bring forth after its kind. I believe it is near the harvest time. Don’t you believe it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] You all agree with that. [“Amen.”] We are near the harvest time. Now, the seeds has been planted. That’s what’s the matter with it. The seeds has been planted. Oh! O God! I wish you could see what passed before me then. The seeds has been planted. Remember, there’s a planting time, then a harvest time. They know they said so. All right.

• ¶401–¶405a The enemy, as we expect to speak on this afternoon, is growing deeper, more bolder, all the time. Since they’ve took the throne. They’re moving right on in. Lord, we see it on every hand. Not communism, Lord. May the people be able to understand that it’s Romanism, “The old mother whore and her harlots.” And we see them, Lord, coming, an image unto the beast. And here we are. Father God, be merciful now. And let us all get into the safety, into the Ark, and be ready for the latter rain. We ask it in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now to you that’s here in the building, now, if you want to slip out and get something to eat, all right, and, if you want, and then come back, get in here just as quick as you can after the service. Now let’s stand just a moment. Let—let’s stand up, together. How many believes the Word of the Lord? Raise up your hand. Amen. Oh, thank the Lord! Oh, How I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus, Lord Jesus, bless these handkerchiefs. Give to them, Lord, the anointing of the Spirit…?…in Jesus’ Name. [Brother Kidd says, “Yes. I’m the fellow that got healed, two years ago. And I’m half made ready for the quitting drawer. Mom called Brother Branham, and he came over, him and—him and his son. And they left home here at two o’clock, and he came and prayed for me. How…I didn’t have no feeling from—from—from my waist, down, not a bit. And an hour after he prayed for me, he was gone, feeling all come back. God healed me of the cancer. They said, ‘He doesn’t have no kidneys.’ I got some new ones. Don’t know, but God’s got them started. But it’s me was happened. Eighty-one-year-old, been searching all around through the years, helped bring a reformation on Pentecost. That tickles me to death.

• ¶405b–¶411 Brother Branham tells it, ‘They all got to building little walls of partition between one another, and they can’t have a revival.’ That’s right. He’s right about that.”—Ed.] That’s just it. Brother Ed, that’s what it did. Oh, isn’t that wonderful? I like that little testimony, brother. Now the car radio is hooked up, is what they say in here, this part here. Everybody feeling good now? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Well, now, we’ll start right in now until midnight, then we’ll… [“Amen.”] We are so happy that the Lord has helped us and blessed us. Now, before we start again, let’s just have a little word of prayer to the One Who we’re talking to now. Gracious Heavenly Father, You hear the testimony of this godly, saintly, old man. Down through the age, him and his little wife, working together, and how that she had to hold onto You, and beg You to make a preacher out of her husband, and here he is. And then when he was laying there, dying, the best doctors in the country saying, that, “He’s gone. He can’t live but a few hours. It’s done. His body is eat up with cancer. He could never walk another step. The infection in his ankles, and so forth, has done took him away.” Here he is, years later, still Now we pray, Father, that You’ll let us lay out the Words this afternoon, from Thy Word. It is Thy Word, and we want to lay It out just the way It is. And then You water It, Lord, with the Spirit. We ask, as we commit ourselves, with the Message, to You, that You use us, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

• ¶635–¶638 Christ’s bride did the same, mixed her denominational seed, and put Christ, her espoused husband, away. You dry-washed bunch of Pentecostals! What’s the matter with you? Revelation, the 3rd chapter and the 20th verse, we find, in prophecy, Jesus Christ outside of His Own church, in this Laodicean Age, knocking on the door, trying to get back. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit—Ed.] The most pathetic picture in the Bible. What’d she do? She took on whoredom. When Jesus comes, what’s He knocking for? Jesus come back to receive His Bride, and when He come to knock at the door, He was fastened out. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit—Ed.] “Why, you can’t come in here. You can’t hold a revival. Get…Let me see your ordination papers.” A man filled with the Spirit of God, the real, true God Words, God’s Word made manifest among his ministry, not one thing you can say against him, immorally or anything. Who can accuse him of it? Come to a denomination, “Why, he ain’t Oneness. He ain’t Assembly. He’s Trinity. He ain’t Trinity. He’s Assembly.” You poor bunch of illegitimates. Shame on you. God, on the outside! But what did John say, that last messenger down there, before His Coming? “He’s able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. Don’t you come, saying, ‘We belong to this. We belong to that.’ God can, these stones, rise children to Abraham.” All right. As we go on now, oh, how I love this! Christ’s bride, as same as Adam’s bride and all the rest, mix the seed and put Christ out, for her denomination. She sure did it, she certainly did it, she refused God, her to-be husband, like Eve did, accepted Satan’s death-lie weeds, and it results a dead, formal church has been born from her. Now, you say, “That’s a lie.”

• ¶679–¶683 I said, “Of course, I believe that.” But, this, when it come to that place, ‘But thistles and thorns, which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned.’” I thought, “What does that mean? Can’t get it.” I set there a little bit. I thought, “God, if this is something You want me to know? I’m up here seeking a vision from You, Lord, to know just what to do about a ministry down there, and I—I want You to tell me, Father.” And I looked across the hollow, going on up towards…Was way in above Charlestown, going towards New Market, that way. I crossed over the hill. And I looked, and I seen there like a rainbow hanging over the valley. And through this rainbow, I seen something turning. I looked, and it was the world. And here went a Man dressed in white. Now, many of you people here are too young to know this. You remember when we used to broadcast seeds with our…put a great big bag on your side, take your hand and throw it? Mr. Wood, you remember of that, broadcasting seeds like that. Take them in your hands and spray them out like that, let the wind blow them into the— the dirt. And I seen a Man dressed in white, going across like that, sowing seeds. I watched Him go plumb around the curvature of the earth. I thought, “Wonder what that means?” Then I looked. Just as soon as He got His back turned, here come a real slicker, come around, looking like that. He had a sackful, and he was sowing weeds behind Him. He went around the earth, still looking, sneaking, you know, throwing them like this. And he went on around the earth.

• ¶852–¶852 I give you now the pastor, for the rest of the service. He’ll make ready now, while we make ready for baptism. Brother Neville. Now be seated just a moment. All right, Brother Neville, now, our pastor, will tell you about the order of the service right now, just in a minute. God bless you, till I see you.

4. THE SEED SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH THE SHUCK — 1965-04-29

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• ¶44–¶46 Now, Ishmael could not be heir with Isaac, because one was slightly doubted, just slightly doubted. It was a child, it was still the seed of Abraham, but not God’s perfect way for it: Ishmael. Now I could spend much time here, but I’m hoping the Holy Spirit will convey this to you in the real way that it should be. Now if they, if Ishmael and Isaac could not be heir together because the original plan of God was substituted into a—a permissive plan of God, a permissive way that God did bless, neither can the spiritual Church today be heir with the denominational. The denominationals, God blessed them, like He did Ishmael, but the Spiritual will not be heir with the others. That’s right. There will be, coming out of the church denomination (church so-called, church natural), will come a Bride of Christ, the Elected. Now there, what troubles me at this hour, is knowing that we see all these denominations pulling into this what we know to be the…what you call the latter rain, or, the pouring out of the Spirit. Do you realize that Jesus said, that, “When that come to pass, it would be the end”? When, the foolish virgin and the wise virgin was not heirs together. For when…The foolish virgin, she was a virgin, just lacking Oil. But when she come to buy Oil, it was at that time that the Bridegroom came. And she was left out, while she was trying to buy Oil. You understand? I want that to soak in, real good. Now, surely I won’t have to move that subject any further. Now, neither can the Spiritual and the natural be heirs together.

• ¶50–¶52 That’s what the Church is doing today, for Jesus is the Word and He is the Bridegroom, and the Bride is a part of the Groom. Therefore the Word that is to be fulfilled this day is the same part of the Word that was fulfilled in His day, and it’s the same Word, same experience, same Life. For, when God separated Adam, he was both. We find out, Adam was spirit, to begin with. “He made man in His Own image, created He male and female.” And then, Genesis 2 and on, He created man in…out of the dust of the earth. Man was created in God’s image (God is a Spirit), so he’s a spirit man. Then when he become flesh man, animal flesh on the earth, He is—He is showing, portraying here the Bride. He never taken and made another being, but He took part of Adam, the original creation, took from him, a rib from his side; and took the feminish spirit out of Adam, left the masculine spirit in there, and placed it in the feminish part. Therefore, part of his spirit, part of his body; flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone; Word of His Word, Life of His Life, and that’s the way the Bride is to Christ! That’s why the Rapture of the Royal Seed has to come first. And the rest of the dead live not for a thousand years, then they were brought up at the White Throne Judgment. See, there is no Judgment to the Royal Seed, or the predestinated Seed of Abraham. Now if you’ll take Saint John 5:24, listen to this, “He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life.”

• ¶73–¶77 Let me say this: So is it today, that they don’t get It! It’s not in the swaddling of denominationalism or intellectual. It’s in the swaddling of the power and the resurrection, and the manifestation of the risen Christ, the way God promised It, and not in the swaddling of people’s thoughts of It. Now, Hagar, by one little slight difference, through woman, not through Abraham now. Abraham didn’t want to do it, but God let him do it because he…Same thing, He let Balaam go on. Now notice, by slightly differing with It, she brought forth Ishmael, which was a wild man, never conquered. He lived by his bow. He was a wild man. He is yet, today. Now Sarah, the tassel, or pollen, Sarah, the true wife of the promise, brings forth a gentle man, in return brought forth a promised nation. Now, but, Mary, no sex, but through a promise, just like Abraham got the promise from God, the Word of God, but believed the promise, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord,” see, brought forth not a stalk, but the original Seed, for He was the Word that Abraham believed and that Mary believed. Now, Mary was not the Seed, she was only the shuck to the Seed. The two others was carriers of life, only the natural seed. Mary was not the Seed, herself; but like faith in God’s Word, brought a more real image of the Word, because He was the Word. But like the shuck, the…of a wheat, a corn of wheat, the shuck holds the wheat inside of it and protects it until it is able or matured to go on its own. See? Then, it was the Seed Itself that left her. Just like, the Seed was in her womb, she wasn’t the Seed. She didn’t produce the Seed. God is the Seed.

• ¶78–¶81 Now, the blood then, many people think that it was Jewish blood that we were saved by. And some of them said, “Well, we got a right through the Gentiles, because Rahab the harlot and—and Ruth the Moabite, and so forth, they were Gentiles.” You have no claim of that at all, neither one. He was neither Jew nor Gentile. He was God, the Logos, the Word that went out of God. When, It begin to brood upon the earth, and It brought forth marine life. When the Spirit of God, the Logos, the Word, which God said, “Let there be,” and there went the Logos, which is the Word. And the Word begin to…’cause all this was in the Logos; the whole Word of God, the whole Bible, for every age. And as the Logos begin to breathe upon the earth, there come marine life; and building up, the bird life, on up to animal life. And finally there come something in the representation, or looked like the thing that was brewing it, brooding over it, God, a man in the very image of God. That man fell, like the seed has to fall. And then God begin to brood over that, after the fall. He brought up a—a Enoch, He brought up a Elijah, He brought up a Moses, He brought up prophet after prophet, trying to restore that image again. And, finally, upon the earth came the genuine image of God Himself again, which was God, the Logos made flesh and dwelt among us. Now that same Logos has a part, He has got a Bride, and the same Logos, this Word that cannot be tampered with, is brooding over the churches today, trying to bring back the Word to Its full manifestation. Which, the—the prophets was carriers to that Seed, and the church denominations has been carriers to the Seed now. Now notice, quickly, but like the shuck hugs, holds in the Seed now, then it leaves her.

• ¶92–¶95 Then, after a while, that dropped off and went into the stalk again, and brought forth an ear of corn. But before this ear started, there was a shook, shuck, covering, husk. And any wheat raiser, corn raiser, if you’ll dig in there and pick out that ear of corn or that ear of wheat, you will think that that little—that little first little thing is that grain of wheat. But, now, there is the Pentecostal age. Now you can’t, you, any theologian or… Any historian, rather, knows that that’s the ages, the way they come. Take the—the Book of Revelation, take the church ages, and see if that isn’t exactly the way they unfold. Now, from Wesley came forth Pilgrim Holiness, Nazarenes, and all them little holiness churches, a whole lot more closer to the Word than what the Lutheran reformation was. But, you see, when Luther organized, that just started those blades. And when this come up, all the Spirit left that Lutheran church, all but just the denominational, and the real true believers went into sanctification. And then when sanctification moved over, the Pilgrim Holiness, and so forth, and all the holiness organizations, Nazarenes, and so forth, It moved from there, right out into this Pentecostal age. And look at that little grain now, of wheat, it looks a million times more like the original wheat, that went into the ground, than what the stalk did or what the pollen did. But if you’ll sit down, put it under a glass, and open those little shucks up, they’re just carriers also. The grain hasn’t started yet. It’s a little bitty bud right at the back, with a big high-powered glass you can see that little tip, like a pin point, there comes the seed. And this here shuck that looks just exactly like the real thing, it isn’t the real thing. It’s only a womb.

• ¶129–¶134 [A brother speaks in another tongue. Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Amen. Now thank the Lord for that, the Word, the simplicity of the Word that was said. See, it’s just simple, just like in this, just like watching the corn grow. You don’t have to have some great theological interpretation of it. Just watch it. You’re…He’s right around you, all the time. See, the…it’s a… I got to stop. I felt the little pull, and I asked him to do that. We’ve got to close. Now, brother, just this one remark, then I’ll go. Look, now, the shuck, the stalk, and so forth, are only carriers of the Word. They had part of the Word, see, until they got down; justification, sanctification, restoration of gifts in—in Pentecostals. But now notice. Just as it was Ishmael, Isaac, see, and then to Jesus; see, one was a perverted, one was the original, and here comes the Seed Itself. See? Now, the church has come from that same thing, right back. Like a flower or anything else, it drinks, pulls in, and goes… That don’t mean the Lutheran is lost. The Lutheran that rejected sanctification, would be, that wants to hold onto the something…See, Israel eat new manna every night, see. Notice. But now at the end time, look at this shuck here, now notice, in the wheat. The complete mystery of—of the Life is sealed up inside that shuck. We see it in Luther, coming up. We see it in tassel, coming out. We see it in the stalk. We come over here, and now it’s in the shuck form, almost like at the Pentecostal age, but the real mystery is hid inside.

5. THE HARVEST TIME — 1964-12-12

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• ¶206–¶209 That was to represent that Light in His hand, in the new church age, reflecting His Light, the Manna; and only the man that perfectly overcome, the man that really sets down and throws aside everything else besides the Word. And the Word is that Manna. Oh, my, it’s Jesus! “Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” That’s the hidden Manna for the overcomer, oh, that was laid up each— each, for each priesthood a following it. The schools of theology, long ago, has swapped this blessed Thing for a mess of pottage. That’s exactly right. Yes, sir. Like Esau did. Now, Esau, morally, was a better man than Jacob, but he didn’t have respects to his birthrights which was the Word. How many knows that, the birthrights was the Word, the promise, the elder son? But he was a good man, moral man, like, oh, like the nominal Christian today, a good man. He didn’t lie. He didn’t steal. He was good to his daddy. He done all these things. But, you see, his birthrights, he said he didn’t care about that. “What difference does that make? I’m an Israelite, anyhow. See, I—I belong to it, anyhow.” But it was his birthrights that counted, see. His natural was all right, but his spiritual was all wrong. So is it today, the pottage, mix church and world together, some of each one; bingo parties, dances, all kinds of carrying on, in the church; short-haired women, wearing shorts. Well, you say, “Brother Branham, what’s that little thing?”

• ¶359–¶362 Now that shuck has to pull away from that wheat, that’s in God’s providence. How many says “amen”? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] The shuck has to pull away from the wheat, ’cause it’s maturing now. It’s up. Now, that shuck wasn’t there, it was a supporter, it was a carrier of the Life, then the Life out of there went right out into the wheat. Now, that’s the reason. Listen, friends, what day we living in? We’ve had a fifteen-year revival. How many can say “amen” to that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] What organization raised up? None. They tried to get me to make an organization, said, “Will you make an organization, Brother Branham, on your ministry? It’ll be…” Now, not me, I ain’t talking about me. I’m talking about the Message of the hour, of the day. And they went up there in Canada and got a few latter-rain brethren. It died right there. Remember the latter-rain, you brothers? Where did it go to? Where did anything else go to? But what did the organization get out of it? Millions of converts, and made slaves out of them, to their creeds, become rich, and building millions and billions of dollars in buildings and things like that, and saying “the Lord is coming,” sending preachers to seminaries and things, and educating them on man-made theology, like Luther, Wesley, and the rest of you. It become a shuck. But, thank God, the grain is going on. Then if that is true by the Word, to where we’re living, that is true by nature, it’s vindicated, the corn of wheat, every way, how much longer we got? You know what? I hear the coming of the combine, the World Council, she’ll separate it. What does she do? Shave her off of her stalk. But She’s got an elevator waiting for Her. She’ll go Home, one of these mornings. Oh, yes. You understand, say “amen”? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]

6. 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.”

7. BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE — 1962-06-12

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• ¶22–¶24 I was in a—a Lutheran college, Bethany, where I’d been called on the carpet, oh, my, just digging me up, he’s the one, called me a polished-up soothsayer, and then the Lord kind of got after him about it a little bit, you know, and so he called me up to apologize. We went down into a basement where they set a nice big dinner, and he said to me, he said, “Brother Branham, I just want to ask you some questions. First, I’m sorry I said what I said in that letter.” I said, “That’s all right, I never even thought no more about it.” He said, “I want you to tell me, what in the world…? Are we Lutherans in the race?” I said, “Sure.” He said, “What—what—what have we got?” I said, “You got the Spirit of God.” And I said, “You know…” They, for the students who couldn’t pay their way through, so, they had about a thousand acres there of corn, so they just worked their way through. So they…He said…I said, “A man one time planted a corn crop, and he went out, and the next morning there was two little leaves sticking up, he said, ‘Praise the Lord for my crop of corn!’” I said, “Now, Brother Hegre, did he have a crop of corn?” He said, “Well, not yet.” I said, “Potentially he did, didn’t he?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “That was you Lutherans.” I said, “By and by, them two little blades growed up, and after while it made a tassel, that was the Methodist. They looked back down and said, ‘There’s no more use for you, you’re just a leaf, I’m a tassel.’

8. THE SERPENT’S SEED — 1958-09-28

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• ¶251–¶255 And her husband looked at me, said, “Brother Branham, say a prayer, ’cause she wanted to see you.” I said, “A prayer for her now would do no good.” “The way the tree leans, that’s the way it falls.” See? “Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.” Do you see where it is? Now what’s happened? Look at a woman would do that. Look at women who lived back yonder, the chorus girl, what was her daughter? A flapper. What’s the flapper’s daughter? A rock-and-roll teenage. What’s her daughter going to be? Hum! What is it? See the seed of the righteous? Look at you Baptists. Go back a little while ago. Go back to John Smith, your founder, you Baptists. When, he prayed for the iniquity of the people, until, he cried and prayed for the people until his eyes swoll’ shut, and his wife would have to feed him at the table, his breakfast. And you Methodists, around here, with jewels in your nose and over your ears, and look like sidesaddles for the devil; and going out, wearing shorts, and things like that! When, old John Smith, one of the elders of the Methodist church, before he died at eighty-five years old, preached a short sermon four year, or, four hours. They had to pack him and set him in the pulpit. And here was his last words. He said, “I am so shocked at the action of the Methodist church.” Said, “Even the daughters of the Methodist church are wearing gold rings upon their fingers.” What would he say now, with shorts on, singing in the choir?

9. BIRTH PAINS — 1965-01-24

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• ¶190–¶193 Look. It’s going to produce a stillborn baby, an ecclesiastical system that’s going to bring all the denominations together, to produce an Esau that hates Jacob. Amen. I hope you see it, a stillborn, dead denomination, all of them going together. Oh, Word believers, give in to my Message. Hear me, not my Message, but His Message that He firmly declares to be the Truth. You’ve got to choose from somewhere. You can’t sit still after this. You’ve got to make your choice. Remember the other day, down at the Westward Ho there, on that morning, on that breakfast, how the Lord let me show you that wheat? How it’s come up through Luther, through Wesley, and the tassels, and so forth, and little springs off, every church represented in a stalk of corn. Then went right down into that wheat, as it was, and there was that little shuck, looked just exactly like the real grain of wheat. When you go out and look, if you don’t know your wheat, you’ll say you got wheat there, but it’s just the shuck. Then you open that shuck up, there’s no wheat there, at all. Way back, there’s a little bud of life coming forth. You take a glass and look at it. And when Pentecost first come out, it was so close, Jesus said in Matthew 24:24, “It would deceive the very Elected if it was possible.” What was it to do? A support to the grain. Is that right? Now, the tassel… Look here. The blade doesn’t look like the grain that went in, neither does the tassel, but it’s a little more like it. And the shuck is a whole lot like it, but still it ain’t the wheat. It’s the carrier of the wheat.

10. GOD BEING MISUNDERSTOOD — 1961-07-23

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• ¶84–¶88 “We which were once enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, seeing we fall away…to renew ourselves again unto repentance. The rain bringeth forth the…earth bringeth forth fruits and the rain is sent to water it, and thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejecting, whose end is to be burned.” Something on that order. Well, I read it and I thought, “Well, praise the Lord.” Turned it over to another one, I thought, “Well, I’ll just read somewhere over in here somewhere else.” Laid it down like that, wiped my eyes, the wind blowed it back to Hebrews 6 again. Well, that happened three or four times, as many as three, anyhow. I thought, “I don’t see nothing wrong with that. What’s in there?” Just let me, you can…You’ve read it many times, Hebrews 6, “Thorns and thistles. The rain cometh oft upon the earth to water it, to dress it, see, for its fruit. But thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned, be gathered and burned.” I couldn’t get nothing out of that. Thought, “Well, thorns and thistles to be burned, God takes His Wheat to the garner, that settles it. So I don’t see nothing about that.” I was sitting there, I was looking out like that, and a vision came before me. And I seen a world turning like this, and it was all disked up ready to be planted. And a man with a white robe on, head bent down into a feed sack, or a seed sack, rather, he was going along. And I don’t know whether any of you remember the old broadcast system, how you…I seen papa do it. Throw it with his hands like that, and they’d just fall on the grounds, the seeds like that. Well, this man was throwing seeds like that. And as soon as he went along, up behind him come wheat coming up.

11. EXPECTATIONS AND LEADINGS OF THE SPIRIT — 1957-08-11

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• ¶20–¶21 And now, as we open back the pages of Thy holy Writ, we pray that You will just come right into Your Word and make It live tonight. “The Word is a Seed,” said our Master. And if the seed falls in the right ground, it has to produce life of its kind. And we pray that the— the promises of God will anchor into fertile hearts of faith tonight and produce salvation and healing to this audience. We thank Thee for them, Father. This is the purchase of Your Blood, that I have the privilege of speaking to tonight. Let me speak that which is profitable and good to Thy people, for I’m sure You love them, and I love them. And I pray that You will anoint me to speak just the thing, and then send Your Holy Spirit upon me at the end of this meeting also. And may great signs and wonders of the risen Jesus, the seal of His Messiahship to this western people… The sun is setting, and the prophet said, “It’ll be light just before the sun goes down.” And it would be on the western people. Of course it could not be shining on the east at the time. So I pray that You will send forth the light. Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the Life.” And I pray that You’ll send It upon us tonight as we wait. We ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Child. Amen. And any time needing a handkerchief or anything now, if you didn’t get it in tonight, just write me: William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The post office box is 325. Don’t necessarily have to be that. You’ll not be dunned or asked for any pledges or any…Sometimes people send me a little money to help me out to buy stamps. It costs about, I guess three hundred a week for stamps, so to help…But you don’t have to do that.

12. THE RESTORATION OF THE BRIDE TREE — 1962-04-22

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• ¶204–¶208 Now let’s picture a big Tree, of God’s Tree. It’s bearing nine spiritual gifts. They’re healing the sick. They’re speaking in tongues. They’re casting out devils. They’re doing great works, and preaching the unadulterated Word of God. No denomination to tie them down; they’re free, doing a great work. So, in come this little old devil, setting up with his two horns setting out in front, like a grasshopper, you know, and his little old greedy teeth. That’s his first, the palmerworm, he come in to eat off brotherly love. He said, “You know, So-and-so did so-and-so, over at So-and-so’s church. I wouldn’t believe that bunch of people.” See? There he is, first thing. Next, he wanted to eat on the fruit of faith, faith in the Word. “Now look. How do you know that is the Word? It’s been translated so many times!” That little devil is still eating. Right. “That Word has been translated so many times! He’s this, that, or the other. Oh, he’s all this.” See? Now, that’s another fruit he eat off of: joy of salvation. “Shhh! You people make too much noise. Oh, my! My!” “Oh, how can you preach, Brother Branham?” a woman said to me, one time. No, it wasn’t. It was a man. I believe he’s…I hope he’s here. He belongs to another church. But he said to me, said, “I was up to hear you, the other day, and I couldn’t even hear you, for them people crying.” I said, “If they…” Said, “How in the world can you preach?”

13. THE TRUE VINE AND A FALSE VINE — 1955-06-07

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• ¶6b–¶8 Regardless, if you’re Methodist, Baptist, Roman Catholic, or whatever you are, we’re brothers and sisters in Christ, because we’ve all been make drink of the selfsame Spirit. Well, I don’t have any text. I’m just going to have to depend on what the Lord will give me. ’Cause I sure thought Brother Moore would be here tonight without doubt. And I, after all this time, why, waiting on him, that he promised to be here Monday. And this is Tuesday, and he isn’t here yet. So, I will forgive him this time. But if he isn’t here tomorrow, I’m going to call him up and see what’s happening to him. Let’s get over in some of the Scripture, somewhere here in the—get over in the Old Testament somewhere. I was just…Something come on my mind a few moments ago. And maybe, we can find it over in the book of—of—of Joel. And we will read there, if the Lord willing, for a few moments. And Billy liked to scared me. He said, “Come on, dad, right quick, they’re be waiting on you, want to start quarter after eight. Said, “They got…Brother Moore…” Here we are, in the book of Joel the 1st chapter, I wish to read just a portion of Scripture and talk just a little while, and see what the Holy Spirit will say for us to do. In the 4th verse we read this: That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten… that which the locust has left had the palmerworm eaten…that which palmerworm has left has the cankerworm eaten; and what the cankerworm left has the caterpillar eaten. Now, over in the, I believe, it’s next, or the following in the 20, the 25th verse we read this: But I will restore unto you the years that the locust has eaten, and that the palmerworm, and the cankerworm has eaten, my great army which I sent among you.

14. WHY? — 1962-06-22

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• ¶29–¶32 He said, “I am He that speaks with you.” Oh, my! That settled it. See? What? “All the Father has given Me…” We only sow seeds, God lodges them wherever He will. Some falls by the wayside; some comes up in thorns for a few days, and thistles choke them out and so forth, and others go into the right place. I don’t know where they are, we just sow them. Thank you. God bless you. Now let us read the Word. Now I want to take, if it be all right, the opportunity tonight, to kind of teach just a little, nothing out of the ordinary, just little teaching. And maybe Sunday afternoon, the Lord willing, I would like to teach a little message to the church, if the Lord permits. So nice of these brethren here that told me, “Brother Branham if the…” Nice letter and all of them signed it. “We turn you into the pulpit, preach what’s on your heart.” I…that’s…I couldn’t have no more liberty than that. And so, I—I’m very grateful for a group of men, ministers, shepherds. And I… Mostly ministers are suspicious because (They have a right to be.) they are shepherds and they want to know what their flock is eating, that’s right. They should know. And a man that’s got dignity and honor wouldn’t do nothing to hurt anyone or any flock, he would always try to give it some vitamins, if anything, put it into the—into the flock. So maybe the Lord will give us some vitamins on the same Words that we’ve heard many times.

15. GOD COMMISSIONING MOSES — 1953-05-08

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• ¶1c–¶1c Webster; at least he thought he did; he said, “Brother Branham,” said, “your grammar’s very poor.” I said, “Yes, sir, I know that.” He said, “Oh, at the—at the mistakes you made tonight.” And I said, “Yes, sir,” I said, “that’s—that’s right.” I said, “I’m sorry.” I said, “I was raised a big family and I didn’t get an education.” And I said, “I…My father died and I had to work—have to take care of ten children.” I said, “It…Didn’t get a chance to get any education.” He said, “Oh, but that’s no excuse now.” And I said, “Well, that’s right,” I said, “but since this ministry’s come on,” I said, “I can’t even get a chance to eat my dinner at home, let alone study grammar.” I said, “I’m just…people…praying for the sick.” He said, “Oh,” but said, “you could take a correspondence; you could do something.” Said, “I noticed one—one mistake that you certainly made that you ought to correct.” And I said, “What?” “You said, ‘The people coming by this ‘polepit.’” He said, “Your congregation would appreciate you more if you said, ‘Pulpit’ and not ‘polepit.’” He just kinda pull me a little hard. I said, “Look, brother, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but them people out there don’t care whether I say ‘polepit’ or ‘pulpit.’ The only thing they want me to do is to preach the Gospel good and clear in everyday language, and live what I preach. And then if God performs the signs and wonders and takes care of the rest of it…” So that’s right. Isn’t that right? That’s right. So the main thing is produce what you’re talking about. That’s right. If God will back up your word, if the word is “pulpit” or “polepit,” it will be just the same. Tonight, for a few moments, if you will spare the time, I like to read some Scripture out of two places in the Bible, and just talk to you a few moments, and then we will go right in and have prayer for the sick. And I want to read out of Acts, the 1st chapter of Acts, the 8th verse.

16. CONDEMNATION BY REPRESENTATION — 1960-11-13

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• ¶306–¶310 And the shouts and praises will raise up, from all over the city, around different places where these people will go. “You know, I once had stomach trouble, but it’s gone. I once had so-and-so, certain diseases, but it’s gone. I just heard that Message that morning, ‘Breeding back to the Word,’ and I come back to the Word. And I believe the Word, and now I’m well.” Grant it, Father. I commit them to You, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Now with our heads bowed. I want the elder to go forward. Let the… Teddy, if you will. Some of you sing Only Believe, just as you can now. And let the ones, has passed, right to their seat, as we anoint and pray for them!…?… In the Name of Jesus Christ, I now…?… Father in Heaven, as I lay my hands upon this woman, with anointing oil still on her…

17. GOD KEEPS HIS WORD — 1957-01-15

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• ¶24–¶27 So we…This was—this was dinnertime for us. And so we went out there, and they had a great, oh, a beautiful place, hundreds of acres where the students could work their way through and so forth, pay their tuition. And he had seventy-something students setting there. And we, after we had our dinner, he said, “I want to ask you a question, Mr. Branham.” I said, “Yes, sir?” And I thought, “Oh, my, here it comes now, Lutheran dean.” He said, “I’ve been down to the Pentecostals, and see them kick the furniture around, and everything like that.” Said, “I want to ask you, is anything to it?” I said, “Yes, sir, there is.” I said, “It’s like a little kid, when he gets a toy, he just falls.” And I said, “Like Ezekiel said, there’s a valley full of dry bones. He said, ‘Can these live?’ He said, ‘Thou knowest.’ So he said, ‘Prophesy to the dry bones.’ And when the bones come together, there was a rattling and a shaking, lot of noise. But then, when the skin come on them, the meat come on them, there wasn’t much noise. He said, ‘Prophesy to the spirit now.’ See? I think that’s what’s going on. See?” So I said, “They…I see them make a lot of noise.” I said, “I think the bones are coming together.” And so, he said, “We’re hungering and thirsting for God.” I said, “That’s fine.” Said, “And we want you to tell us how to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” He said, “Now,” said, “we believe that—that in, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe.” And I said, “Well, did you ever read Acts 19?” And he said, “Yes.”

18. CONVINCED AND THEN CONCERNED — 1962-11-25

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• ¶194–¶196 Jesus said, “But wait a minute. I got something to tell you: Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground…” All these sermons, He begin to preach, and bring them back to the Word. Say, “Awww, that—that’s too hard to understand. We don’t want no more of that.” They started, walk away. And some of His clergymen said, “Now, who could we ever get to believe such a thing as that? We’ll go too.” He just stood and looked at them. That twelve, little faithful group, like a chicken standing by its mama, He turned around, said, “You want to go, also?” Peter said, “Where would we go, Lord?” See? Didn’t He tell them, that, “I knew you before the foundation of the world”? That’s Light that shined upon that seed. There’s no way to take it away. It’s Eternal Life. “I’ll give him Eternal Life and will raise him up at the last day. All that He foreknew He has called; all that He’s called He has justified; all that He has justified He has already glorified. No man can come to Me except My Father calls him, and all the Father has given Me will come to Me.” “What are you preaching for then, Brother Branham?” I don’t know who they are; He does. My business is sow Seeds. I don’t know where They are falling, but I just sow It. God’s confirming. Wherever It hits, and strikes like that, quickly It comes to Life if It’s in good soil. If It’s on rock, I can’t help it. Some denominational foundation, I can’t help it. Only thing, I’ll just keep sowing Seeds. I know He’s coming. I believe it. I want to live for that. I’m convinced that He’s coming. I’m convinced that He’s coming soon. I am.

19. JESUS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD — 1954-02-17

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• ¶31–¶31 And then Mr. Hall had been converted. Which was a very, very foul man. And he was converted in that same meeting. And he’s the pastor down there now. And so… She said, “Mr. Hall has been pronounced with a cancer of the liver.” And said, “He is laying at his sister’s house, and his sister married the judge of the city’s brother, and is down at his house. They brought him up here. He’s dying. He’d been calling for you.” And I said, “Well, let’s go down and see him.” And I went down to see Brother Hall. And he was just as yellow as the color. Cancer in the liver, started off with a liver sclerosis, and it went into cancer. I said, “Who is your doctor, Brother Hall?” He said, “Dr. Dillman.” Dr. Dillman is a bosom friend of mine. I said, “What about it, Brother Hall?” He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I guess it’s just the end of the road for me.” Said, “I guess that’s just about all that can be done, ’less the Lord undertakes for me.” I said, “Well, I’ll pray, Brother Hall.” And we prayed. And the next day, I went back; he was worse. The second day he was still worse. Looked like he was dying. Mrs. Hall come out and said, “Brother Branham, do you know anything?” I said, “Sister Hall, I pleaded with God, just with all my heart.” The Word’s still the Word of God. But it just hadn’t fell right then. See? It hadn’t been given to me. It hadn’t been given to him. But it’s still the Word of God, just hadn’t anchored right.

20. THE GOD OF THIS EVIL AGE — 1965-08-01

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• ¶35–¶37 What would God call a people out of this evil age for, His Name? The reason it is, is to try Her, His Bride. It’s to…When She is made manifest, been tried, been proven, proved to Satan. Like it was at the beginning, so shall it be at the end. As a seed starts in the ground, it comes up through carriers, the life of it, but it ends up the same seed that it was when it went in the ground. And the same way the seed of deceit fell in the ground, in Eden, is the same way it ends up in the last days. Just as the Gospel was when it fell to a denomination at Nicaea, Rome, it ends up in a super organization. Just as the Seed of the Church fell back there, with the signs, wonders, and the living Christ among them, it ends up in the last days under the ministry of Malachi 4, and restores back again the original Faith that was once given. We find now, this evil age is to prove, to Satan, She is not like Eve, that She is not that type of a woman. And She will be tried by His Word, the Bride, as Adam’s bride was tried by the Word. And Adam’s bride believed every bit of the Word, all, but confused on one promise, that, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever,” today, see; but failed on one promise, under the temptation of the enemy, face to face. And now, the people that’s called for His Name, of course, is His Bride. She is to come in contact again by the same thing; not by just denominational truth or something, but every Word!

21. WHY LITTLE BETHLEHEM — 1963-12-14

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• ¶184–¶188 This is the time to do it, now, Christmas. It was the birth of Christ, let Christ be born in us. What is Christ? Christ is the Word. How many knows that? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Somebody said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, you, people know that you’re a woman-hater.” I am not. I’m not. I got genuine love for my sisters. Some men will turn around, think you look nice with red eyes and green eyes, and bobbed hair, that man has got a different opinion than what I’d have. Your…I love that soul that’s in you, that’s got to meet God. That’s what I’m…my sister for Eternity, not some little sex thing here on earth will… How many ever read the decline, of the fall of Rome? Sure. Look at there, just the same thing we’re doing, sex appeal. Youth in the condition it is, just exactly the way we got now, racial problems. And youth taking over, and man and sex. Just the way the Roman Empire fell, eighteen hundred years ago, and here it is right back here again amongst Gentiles. See? The confusion amongst the religions and things. Oh, what an hour that we’re living in! [A sister gives a message. Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Amen. The Lord God has spoke. I believe that. Now let us stand. When He speaks, it’s time for us to give reverence. [Someone speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] (What say?) By God’s grace, and by God’s help, I’m more determined than I ever was, stand by this Word and try my best, by the help of God, to cut a way down to Bethlehem again, where Bethlehem dwellers can drink from that Fountain. How many will join with me, with your hands up, say, “I promise to God I’ll do it”? God bless you.

22. 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…