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1. THE FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS — 1964-07-19

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• ¶59–¶65 Never did God use a group. Every time any group of people organized, God left it and never did return. Search the history and see if that’s right or not. We’ve already done it. Never does He deal with a system or a group, after they organize; it’s against God. Therefore, during the time of the reformations, there come in reformers, as the Seven Seals proved that it was. But in the last days now, it was supposed to be revealed again. Because, we find in the Scripture, in Malachi 4, that there is to be an anointing come down and to restore again that original Faith, “and to bring the faith of the people back to the original pentecost, the Faith of the fathers.” And we took the Elijah of the first run; we took the Elisha to follow him; we took John the Baptist after that, who was the Elisha of that day; and a promise for another in this day. Now, John the Baptist was not the Elisha of Malachi 4. He was the Elisha of Malachi 3. Jesus said so. “Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way.” We find him being that. Now, in doing so, in finding those positions, we know that all the rest the Scripture, inspired of God, reveals to us that we’re in the last day. Now, if I come with the message of Pentecost, I would be in the Laodicean Church Age, and it wouldn’t be right. That’s the reason that Wesley could not take Luther’s message. Luther was in one age, church age, and Wesley was in another church age. If Jesus would have come in the…with the message of Moses, it would not have worked. If Moses would have come with the message of Noah, it would not have worked.

• ¶244–¶247 There was three stages of it, as I said. The martyrs, age of the martyr, for it; and then the stage of the reformers; and now the calling- out time. When finished, at Laodicean Age, according to Revelation 10, the mystery of all the Bible would be knowed to the Bride. Is that right? Revelation 10. Listen close now. Uh-huh. Bride, called out by the Word; Christ Himself calling out the Bride, making plain Hebrews 13:8, that He’s “the same yesterday, today, and forever,” does the same, is the same. “He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also.” See? Luke 22…Or, Luke 17:30, and also Malachi 4, Hebrews 4:12, all these Scriptures that’s promised, this is to be between the Sixth and the Seventh Seal, and the Sixth and the Seventh Trumpet. Pentecost feast finishes at the period of the Seventh Trumpet, for the next is the Coming of…Seventh Seal, for the next is the mystery of the Coming of Christ, and, also, the Trumpet is sound for the Jews. Their Sixth Trumpet is sound, and, when it does, it makes known to them the revealed Son of God; one-half hour of space. Remember, all Trumpets sound on this Sixth Seal. The Sixth Seal finishes the mystery, under the Sixth Seal, just before the Seventh is opened. Notice, here is Leviticus 23:26. How in order is the Scripture! After the long period of pentecost, which Israel did reject back there; and He called the Gentile Church out, through this pentecostal feast. How many understand what the pentecostal feast is? It’s the fruit of… firstfruit of the harvest, the firstfruit of the resurrection, the pentecostal feast. Don’t miss this, people! And, you on tape, listen close!

• ¶287–¶291 I said, “They said, ‘If this be the Messiah, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet. We believe the prophets.’” Brother Lewi Pethrus and them sent me those Bibles; when they give a million of them out to them Jews coming from Iran and everywhere, coming back, assembling themselves together, become a nation. I thought, “This is my time.” I was already…Cairo, Egypt. He said, “Don’t do it now. The hour is not yet.” Then I returned home. Uh-huh. Oh, my! Moses and Elijah has got to call. The pentecostal jubilee is still going, or had up till this time. See? Now the feast of Trumpets has to be known. And this one over here of Malachi 4 is not connected with that one over there; not at all, not at all. Notice, watch here, the ministry will be Moses and Elijah, changing and calling Israel from the Jewish traditions, listen, from the Jewish traditions that they had been mixed up in. Being prophets, they’ll believe—they’ll believe him, calling them to the feast of the Atonement, Christ, letting them recognize Christ. They’ll say, “He is coming. He’ll be here.” The Jews will be gathering, things like that. And then when He comes, say, “Here I am.” See? “Where’d You get them scars?” “In the house of My friends.” Now, the same as those two prophets did! Remember, the Gentile Bride is to have a prophet, called Elias, Elijah, that’s to call them out of their traditions, the Bride; just the same as these prophets called Jews out of Judaism, to Christ, the Atonement. And the Gentiles already knows the Atonement, but it’s to call the Bride back to the original Atonement, where these (fifty) sabbaths they…All these seven sabbaths that they have got away from; call them back to the end time. The seven…Listen! The Seventh Church messenger, the Seven Trumpet messenger, is all prophets. Now, that’s right. Injected, is the hundred and forty-four thousand.

2. 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.”

3. TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT IT BEING GOD’S WILL — 1965-11-27

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• ¶207–¶211 Listen at Micaiah’s last words to that man: “If you return at all, then God never spoke to me.” Amen. See, God has His way of doing things. These men thought they were doing God a service. Be careful! Not emotion, not enthusiasm, not imaginations, but it must be “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” must be right. All right, no matter…We find these things so. Notice now when David had made this great proclamation, and it seemed like that it was good, a good thing to do. Then we find out that (Am I tiring you? Am I too late to have another?) they had made this great proclamation, he consulted not the prophet. Now, anyone knows that Amos 3:7 said that God promised that He would never do nothing until first He revealed it to His prophet. Through the church ages we’ve had reformers; but promised by Malachi 4 that there would be a prophet in the land in the last days (because it has to fit that pattern, see) before the end time come. Before Jesus come the first, Elijah come, Elijah of Malachi 3. Matthew 11 says so, “If you can understand it, this is who was spoken of, ‘Behold, I send My—My messenger before Me.’” Now, He’s prophesied, all theologians believe that: that in the last day, the Spirit of Elijah is to come, too. It has to come five times, God uses that Spirit: Elisha, Elijah, John the Baptist, and for the Gentile church, and then for the Jews in Revelation the 11th chapter. That’s, God’s g-r-a-c-e, f- a-i-t-h, J-e-s-u-s, Jesus, the—the letter five. Can’t stop at four, it has to go to five. See? Notice!

• ¶301–¶303 Notice Malachi 4, Revelation 10, Seven Seals. Didn’t the Bible say…Now watch! There was a Angel, a Messenger from Above, and a earthly messenger. And each messenger was for the age of the church. He said, “In the days…” speaking now, “there came an Angel, Messenger” (word angel, English word means “messenger”). “…came down from Heaven, and He put His foot on the land and sea, and swore by Him that lives forever that time shall be no more.” Is that right? A rainbow around His head, and all these things just taking Always it’s right at the end of the church age where they got the thing so…the ecclesiastic so messed up until God sends a messenger, and that’s the Message to that church age. Then they take his message, ’cause he just lived a little while, and God…then they take his message instead of carrying it on with the rest of It, they make a— a denomination. And then they come make another denomination; another messenger, take another one. You all seen in my book, it’ll all be drawed out in The Seven Church Ages, which He told me; which I stand by as a witness to God to be judged at the day of Judgment for It. It come from God, not from my thinking. Notice, here. I thought—I thought different from that, if I was going to have my own thought. Like Brother Jack told me about the Angel there, how that “That Christ was a glorified body.” But it wasn’t, it was showing that the Message being right, the Supreme Deity, He was God. See? Just the very thing I had been preaching from the Word. The Word always bears record of the Word.

4. THE FIRST SEAL — 1963-03-18

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• ¶67–¶69 And then another mystery comes forth. Then what happened? Another messenger arrives on earth, for a church age. See? Then, when he arrives, he the—the trumpet sounds. He declares war. See? And then what happens? Finally, then, he is caught away. And then when he is laid away, then plague falls, destroys them. Spiritual death hits the church, and she is gone, that group. Then He goes on to another one. Oh, it’s a great plan! Until, it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no certain mystery. But he gathers up all that’s been lost in them other ages, all the Truths that wasn’t truly revealed yet, see, as the revelation come, then he reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is. Revelation 10, 1 to…1 to about 4, you’ll get it. All right. See? “Takes the Book and, of Seals, and breaks them,” and shows the seventh angel; for this alone, the mysteries of God, is the ministry of the seventh angel. Now, we just come through the church ages, with even history, and prove that. See? It is the—the angel’s Message, of the seventh church, all right, reveals all the mysteries that’s been in the past, all the things in the past. Revelation 10:1-7, that’s to be. Now, remember, “In the days of the seventh angel, his sounding forth, blasting forth the Gospel trumpet, he is to finish all the mysteries of God.” Just like, here come forth in the early church ages, we’ll get it after a while, a doctrine, then it become…a saying first, then a doctrine, and then become a statute, then become a church, through the dark ages.

• ¶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.

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

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• ¶240–¶243 Now, before I start this, are you tired? Would you like to stand, change position? [Congregation says, “No.”—Ed.] Now listen close. The seventh angel of Revelation 10:7 is the seventh church-age messenger. See? Now watch. “And in the days…” Now watch here: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,… Now, sounding forth, this messenger, the seventh angel here is sounding forth his Message to the Laodicean church. Notice his type of Message. Now, it wasn’t to the first angel, wasn’t given That; second angel, third, fourth, fifth, sixth. But it is the seventh angel that had this type of Message. What was it? Notice his type of Message, “Finishing all the mysteries of God, that are written in the Book.” The seventh angel is winding up all the mysteries that’s laying loose-ended, all out through these organizations and denominations. The seventh angel gathers them up, and finishes the entire mystery. That’s what the Bible said, “Finishes the mystery of the written Book.” Now let’s note a few of these mysteries, and if you want to write them down. First, I’ll take what Scofield says here, in Matthew 13. If you’d like to type some of them down, if you haven’t got a Scofield Bible, you might read what he thinks some of the mysteries are. Now, in the 11th verse: And he answered and said unto them, Because it’s given to you (His disciples), because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but not to them, but to them it is not given.

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

6. 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.

• ¶308–¶309 I’d do the same to him, if he was going to speak. I’d say, “Brother Neville, will you excuse me? God has give me a message. I got to say it to the people, right now.” And he, Brother Neville, would step right out of the way; either one of us, to one another. See? That’s the way we do. And then if we, if I don’t have any certain thing, then I… I just love to hear him preach. I heard him. How many heard him, last Sunday night? Such a wonderful message, I tell you. It tied right in, what was said in the morning. And, people, I’m telling you, you’ve got enough Word of God that you surely should live right and be right. God bless you now, Brother Neville.

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

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• ¶354–¶358 Notice, compare them together now when you get home. Notice Matthew 24:24, Jesus speaking; Paul, Second Timothy 3:8; many others. And now compare that. And then put another Scripture, Luke 17:30, Malachi 4. “As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,” the anointed Word of the hour, “so will these men,” not man, “men,” anointed ones, “resist the Truth.” “In the very day that the Son of man is revealed.” Revelation 10:1 to 7, read it when you get home, “the seventh angel’s Message, opening up the Seals.” What is it? Not the angel is the Son of man; but the messenger is revealing the Son of man. Can you get it separated now? That’s where it seems to be so hard for you, you see. Not the Son of man, Himself; but the seventh angel, the seventh messenger, is revealing to the public the Son of man, because It’s left the shuck. He can’t organize It. It’s the Grain, Itself, again. “And in that day, Jannes and Jambres will withstand,” anointed ones (make-believers and unbelievers, the church formal and the Pentecostals) stand up against the true Grain, “but let them alone; their folly will be made manifest, as theirs was.” See? You understand now? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Revelation 10, said, “In the days of the sounding of the seventh angel.” Now remember, seventh, Laodicea Church Age. “The sounding of that angel,” when that church age is done denominated and become a church age, when it’s done in its Pentecostal organization; when the messenger to that… What was each messenger? What was Martin Luther? A rebuke to the Catholic. What was Wesley? A rebuke to them Lutherans. What was the Pentecost? A rebuke to them others. Where has the Life gone now? Away from an organization. No more shuck; it’s Grain. What is it? A rebuke to the Pentecost, see, to fulfill the Scripture of this hour. See?

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. THE FIFTH SEAL — 1963-03-22

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• ¶319–¶322 Five, if you know your—your numerals of the Bible, five is the number of laboring grace. And that’s what He has done. Now, watch, you want to know where it is. Was Jesus a labor of grace? J-e-s-u-s, five, l-a-b-o-r. Is that right? Labor, for—for love for you. And if you get to Him, how do you come, by what? F-a-i-t-h in l-a-b-o-r. Is that right? Labor is the number of grace, all right, to the believers. Notice, the first Elijah, that was him. The second was Elisha. The third was John. The fourth was the seventh angel, or the last messenger to the Church, according to Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7. Now, the fifth time, he is a messenger to the Jews, to the hundred and forty-four thousand, to the Jews, after the Church is gone. I—I—I just feel a little funny, see. See? Look, if some thinks…I want you to get this now, see. If some still thinks that Malachi 4, “to restore” the people, is the same thing he’s going to do down there to the Jews, and think it’s all the same, let me just straighten that out for you, just a minute. See, it would be a little bit confusing. Cause, you remember, in Malachi 4, says, “Return the Faith of the fathers…or the children back to the father.” See, back to the father! Now let me show you the difference of the ministry. If he comes to return the Faith of the children back to the fathers, he would deny Christ. He would go back to the law. That right? The fathers kept the law. You get it?

11. THINGS THAT ARE TO BE — 1965-12-05

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• ¶73–¶74 Someone got after me; a great, noted minister, not long ago. Said, “Brother Branham, come. I want to lay hands on you.” Said, “You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “What?” Said, “Bawling them people out like that.” I said, “I’m telling the…” Said, “I believe that.” Said, “I’m a Pentecostal, too. I believe that women shouldn’t wear short hair, shouldn’t wear paints, and these things like that the way they do, paint their faces up.” Said, “They shouldn’t do that. But,” said, “God called you to pray for the sick.” I said, “He called me to preach the Gospel.” Yeah. And he said, “I believe in that. But,” said, “you think that?” I said, “Yeah. Look what you got, all these big programs, televisions, and everything else. I ain’t got nothing but God to answer to.” That’s right. I said, “I don’t have nothing but God to answer to.” He said, “I—I—I…You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined.” That’s right. Certainly. That’s exactly. He said, “Well, you’re going to ruin it.” I said, “Who is going to tell It then? See? Somebody has got to say It. Somebody has got to stand for that what’s Truth, no matter what It hurts.” And friends, as Christian, as people that believe we’re going to Heaven, the Holy Spirit Itself will type us in the Word of God. He said, “You know what you ought to do?” Said, “People believe you to be a prophet.” Said, “You ought to be teaching these women how to get gifts of prophecy and things like that, and great, higher things instead of little thing.”

12. THE RAPTURE — 1965-12-04

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• ¶106–¶108 Now, it’s the seventh church age that takes the Rapture. All of the other six died. But Enoch was translated, because, “He was not found. God took him.” But Enoch, raptured, was a type of all of the rest of them dying. But the—the end-time Bride will be called out of the… The rapturing, without death, will be called out of the seventh church age, which we are now bearing record of that age. Oh, my! Let’s dig in now, real deep. See? Now, here, also, a type of the seven church ages, which, in Revelation 10:7, that the great mystery of the Book was to be unfolded by the seventh angel’s Message. Now, there’s a Messenger above, always, and a messenger on earth. The English word angel means “a messenger.” And in the seventh angel’s Message, while he was making his proclaiming, his ministry, “then when he begin to sound forth his ministry,” not when he started out. Jesus, when He started out, He started healing the sick and afflicted. “Oh, that great Rabbi! He’s a Prophet.” Everybody wanted Him in his church. But when He set down one day, and said, “I and My Father are One,” that was different. That was different. “And except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you.” “Why, He’s a vampire!” See? See? That was different. He didn’t explain it. They had already seen the manifestation, the vindication of the Word of God for His age, made real and proved to them that He was that Messenger of that age. And He didn’t have to explain nothing.

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. THE MASTERPIECE — 1964-07-05

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• ¶167–¶170 Now what did He say, in Revelation 10, that would take place? Why was the trip to Tucson? To open to the Church. “In the days of the messenger, of the seventh angel, the seventh angel Message, the whole Word of God would be made manifest. The Seal, that what all the stalk has left off, of why and all about It, would be made manifest in this time.” Is that what the Word said? Then, we see it. Then where are we at, see, where are we at? There is only one thing, the harvest is here. She is dead ripe. She is ready now for the Coming. Notice. No, it’ll never be It. At the harvest time, the Seed is back to its original condition, and must have all of the Word, in order to be the Seed. Now, you can’t have a half a Seed; it won’t grow. See? It’s got to be the whole Seed. It’s got to not manifest…Say, “I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah! I believe in speaking in tongues.” That’s just part of the Seed, uh-huh, but now there is added to that. Hallelujah! See? The Life, not the gifts; the Life of the gifts. See, see what I mean? We’re at the end time, brethren. Stalk, tassel, husk, is dead and dry now. There is only one thing that has to happen to that, is to be gathered in the World Council of Churches for its burning. The Word has become flesh, exactly like He promised in Luke 17, Malachi 4, and all, see, that’s right, Revelation.

15. O LORD, JUST ONCE MORE — 1963-06-28

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• ¶103–¶109 Some man come to me, not long ago, and said, “Brother Branham,” a very…one of the best known Pentecostal ministers in the land. He took me up in his room, he said, “I want to pray for you.” I said, “I’m not sick.” He said, “I—I love you.” I said, “That’s mutually felt.” He said, told me, said, “Why don’t you leave off of telling them women about their bobbed hair and all this kind of stuff, and about the church?” Said, “That’s not your business.” I said, “Whose is it then?” He said, “It’ll come to pass that you won’t have nothing but a bunch of posts to preach to.” I said, “I’d rather do that and preach the Truth, than compromise with the devil.” See? See? He said—said—said—said, “Brother Branham, didn’t God call you to pray for the sick?” And I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “The people believe you to be a prophet.” And I said, “Well, that—that, I never said that.” He said, “But they believe you that way.” And said, “If you’re a prophet, why don’t you spend your time to teaching people how spiritual gifts, and how to heal the sick, and—and how to do these, get these spiritual gifts, and help the church instead of standing constantly, bawling the women out, and bawling the man out, and things like that?” Said, “Well, why don’t you leave them alone?” Said, “Why don’t you teach them something greater than bobbed hair and stuff, and let that alone?” I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they don’t even know their ABC’s? That’s right. Let them learn their ABC’s first.”

16. AFRICA TRIP REPORT — 1953-11-14

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• ¶33–¶34 How many ever read First Kings 13, where a little prophet went down and prophesied, and done works of God told him something to do. And another real prophet come to him and told him, said, “The Lord met me and said you come to my house and eat.” You know what happened, don’t you? Yes, sir. You listen to God, regardless of who says or what says. You listen to God. Well, the minister said, “We promised our brethren that we’d bring you to their town.” I said, “What size city is this we’re going to?” “About three thousand.” “Why, there was ten, fifteen, twenty thousand people out there to go to the meeting. Where are you going to put them?” “Don’t know. But we promised brother we’d be there.” There you are. I said, “I—I appreciate that. I love our brethren, but God has said…?…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?…miles away, and I knowed the whole crowd would be right over there.” So, we started down the road, and Brother and Sister Schoeman in the car, and Billy Paul, I believe…No, I was by myself, and I think Billy was back with Brother Bosworth and them. And what…Three or four carloads of ministers coming, kept going on down, the Holy Spirit said, “Are you going to listen to Me?” I said, “Brother Schoeman, stop the car.” He said, “What’s the matter, Brother Branham?” I said, “Just stop.” And he stopped and said, “Well, what?” We way ahead of the rest of them, ’cause he drove like Jehu. So he pulled the brake up and he— and he said, “Well, what’s the matter?” I said, “I’m just not going any farther.” “Well,” he said, “Brother Branham,” said, “I don’t care for you staying up there.” Said…He’s the chairman. Said, “That’s my city. That’s my district.” He said, “But the brethren want you to go down there.” He said, “They’re not going to listen to that, Brother Branham.” I said, “Well, I’m going to listen to God, anyhow.”

17. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶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?

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. THE MESSIAH — 1961-01-17

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• ¶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.

21. 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.

22. CHRIST IS REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD — 1965-08-22

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• ¶157–¶158 Whatever it might be, let it come. What may, what will, doesn’t make any difference. We’re anchored right there in Jesus. If I live, I’ll live to the glory of God. If I die, then I could die to the glory of God. I—I—I just want to just…It’s to the glory of God, is what I want to do. When that’s all over, I don’t want to stay any longer. I want to go to where…to my reward that He bought for me; not what I earned, but what He bought for me, what He give to me by His grace. So we see the evening Light’s here. And what does it do to have Light, if you don’t have any eyes to see how to get around in It? What is the evening Light? The Light comes on, to reveal something. Is that right? If there’s something here, you feel and you can’t understand what it is, in the darkness, then turn a light on. It’s to reveal! What’s Malachi 4 to do? See? Do the same thing. What was the opening of the Seven Seals to do, where all these denominations staggering around in this…?…Is to reveal, bring out. If you haven’t got any eyes, then what’s the use to reveal? There has to be eyes, first, to see. Is that right? To reveal Malachi 4, reveal Saint Luke 17:30, Saint John 14:12, also John 15:24, 16:13. And to also reveal Revelation 10:1 to 7, the opening of the Seven Seals, and the seventh angel’s Message; to open up, to reveal, when the evening Light’s come. Now if a man…

23. 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…

24. THE TRIAL — 1964-06-21

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• ¶74–¶76 “Yet, again, He claims to be alive after His crucifixion. The Bible says, that, ‘He has raised up from the dead, and remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.’ And no one has seen this Man with nail scars in His hands, walking amongst the church, and so forth. And Hebrews 13:8 is not so. He isn’t the same yesterday, today, and forever, ’cause He never was no more than a man. He cannot keep His promise. He has proved, by these witnesses, He doesn’t keep His promise, therefore the Book should be throwed into the trash can and forgot about. There is no such a thing.” Now, remember, I’m using the voice of the prosecutor, nailing his case. “All right, He said at Luke 17:30, where He said, ‘In the last days, the Son of man would be revealed,’ God would reveal Himself to the Seed of Abraham,” as he heard a fanatic preacher preach one time and say that He would reveal Hisself again in human beings, called the Son of man. “Revelation 10, He says that He claimed the last angel’s messenger, according to the church age in the Laodicea, which was to be the lukewarm, that Jesus would be (which was the Word) put out of the church. He claimed that in these dispensations that there had been things that hadn’t been revealed to the reformers in the early days, but in the last days, that, the end, the seventh angel’s, seventh messenger’s Message, that all these Scriptures would be made real and made manifest. There is no such person on earth, never was and never will be,” he claims.

25. 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…

26. A PARADOX — 1965-01-17

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• ¶88–¶92 In every age there had been some of It left off. The reformer didn’t have time to take care of It. In the days of Luther, he only preached justification by faith. He was gone, they made a church. After that come Wesley, he preached sanctification. There it was. And along come the Pentecostals. But we’re promised, according to Revelation 10, and according to Malachi 4, and Saint Luke 22:17, and so forth, that there is got to come a—an Ephesians to this. There is promised it, friends. There must come an Ephesians, that these sevenfold mysteries of the Word of God must be unfolded. And it’s in the Laodicean age that this takes place. I believe that we’re—we’re there. I believe we’re right in the shadows of the Coming of the Son of God. And as Joshua, just before the Ephesians raised up, so did John the Baptist raise up just before the next Ephesian. And we’re promised another, another Ephesians. It’s predicted here in the Scripture, therefore I think that we are living in the Ephesians again. Back again to…We are promised that what was left off during those seven ages. Now you cannot add nothing to the Book, or take nothing from It. Revelation 22:18 says so, “Who will ever, will add one word, or take one Word, his part will be taken from the Book of Life.” Now we cannot add or take. So therefore we know that Luther could not get to It; Wesley, and so forth, the reformers, Knox, Finney, Calvin, on down, so forth, they didn’t get It all, but what they had was the Gospel Truth.

27. THE PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH AGE — 1960-12-10

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• ¶97–¶99 After the great denomination had been set up, Jesus set an “open door.” After the Wesleyan age had come in and the Methodist church had been established in the earth, taken roots, growing, making a great church which it is today, one of the greatest of the, among the Protestant churches, and that time, the thing that took place then, was, Jesus set an “open door” for the church before they entered into the Laodicean age. The reason I’m saying this this way, so you can see what I mean by the lapover. See? It’s from the missionary age of the door. But, you see, He had—He had told them He had the key of David and so forth. But here He said He had set before the church now; after that age of missionarying, and Whitefield, and—and all those others, and Finney, and Sankey, and Moody on down (Moody being one of the last.) come down to now He set a open door before the church. Oh, here’s where you have to watch now. It’s just in between the Philadelphian and the Laodicean age, lapover. Jesus is the Door! Now, if you’ll turn with me to John 10:17. Let’s back this up now, be sure that the…Many of you would believe. And then somebody would say, “Well, I—I never…He just said that.” I’d like just to read it. John, the 10th chapter, and the 17th verse. John 10:17. All right, we read these Words. I beg your pardon, John 10:7, not 17. Then said Jesus unto them…Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheepfold.

28. PROVING HIS WORD — 1964-08-16

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

29. 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.

30. GOD’S CHOSEN PLACE OF WORSHIP — 1965-02-20

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• ¶108–¶110 Then, my brother, I want to ask you something, in closing. We might say this. In Malachi 4, aren’t we also promised another eagle, a Pillar of Light to be following, to show the erring church this day that He is Hebrews 13:8, “the same yesterday, today, and forever”? Aren’t we promised another one to come flying from the wilderness? Amen! That’s exactly the Truth. How fitting and matching it is to Luke 17:30, where the Son of man (Eagle) will be revealing Himself to bring to naught all other worship places, such as denominations and so forth! God chose His place. John said, “There It is!” And then we’re promised the same thing in this day, Malachi 4, “To turn the hearts of the children back,” to say that He is not dead, these things are not for another age; baptism in Jesus’ Name was not for back there, but He is now the same. Amen. To bring to naught all other places of worship, that’s what the last-day eagle is to do, to show that all the rest of it is foolishness, denomination is folly, but to point them again with the same sign that He did, that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah! Also, in Revelation 4:7, we had four Beasts that we’ve just been through with. The first one was, we found out…find out, was the lion. That was the first Beast that went forth to meet the challenge of that day, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. After Him come the next Beast. And we find out, the next Beast was an ox, which is a beast of burden, a sacrifice. In the days of the Roman cathedral, the Church died out; sacrifice. The next come, was a man, was a Beast with a face of a man. And that man was the reformers, man’s education, theology, and so forth. But the last Beast that was to fly, the last Beast that was to come, the Bible said it was a flying eagle. Hallelujah! And the prophet said, in this day, “It shall be Light.” Oh, my! “In that day there will be Light.”

31. 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.

32. NEW MINISTRY (WILLIAM BRANHAM) — 1959-04-06

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• ¶54–¶56 Said, “The Lord spoke to me just a few days ago, when…and said, ‘Get Brother Branham.’” And said, “I’m,” he’s a missionary in Mexico, but lives here at La Crescenta. And he said, “The Lord spoke to me to get you, but I heard that you died in Africa, South Africa, just recently.” And said, “I thought why would the Lord be telling me to get you? when you were gone and dead.” And said, “Then I heard that you were right here in La Crescenta.” He said, “It must be the Lord.” Well, just as he said that, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Go with him.” I said, “Just a moment, I’ll call Brother Arganbright and find out where this hospital is.” Los Angeles is so big, I—I had to have somebody bring me over here from where I’m staying, I—I just can’t get my way around here. And these freeways, where there’s nothing but the quick and the dead, and those that die, die quick, it’s so speedy like that. I—I’m just an old, slow southerner, and I—I can’t get out of the way quick enough. So— so then, I thought, if it was the going to be… [A brother gives a prophecy—Ed.] Amen. Thanks be to God. “Hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Be prepared. In this, to this quotation, I’m going to tell you the minister’s name, just a moment. We…I went, Brother Arganbright taken me down to the hospital, the children’s hospital here. I’ve seen many sad sights, but I don’t believe I ever seen anything like that, it struck me so.

33. A TRIAL — 1964-04-27

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• ¶235–¶240 Now, Jesus never said, “In the days when the Son of God will be revealed.” He was revealed in the church age. But the church has put Him out. Then, He would be revealed as Son of man, “When the Son of man is being revealed,” God manifested amongst the human beings, like it was then, Son of man, prophetic. Malachi 4 is promised, a—a seer to come forth with a voice. Not Malachi 3 now, “Send My messenger.” Malachi 4 now. Don’t get them confused. Cause, you do, you’ll miss it. Malachi 4 was not Malachi 3, “I send My messenger before My face.” But, Malachi 4, when this messenger comes, the world is to be burned, and the Millennium sets in. “The wicked is burned, is ashes, and the righteous walk out upon the ashes of them.” That never happened in the days of John. See? Malachi 4! And watch, there’s to be a sign, and that sign must be a Scriptural sign. Jesus said, “I come from God. I go to God.” He was the Pillar of Fire that was in the burning bush. They stood there one day and said, “You’re a Man not over fifty years old.” He might have looked a little older than He really was. His ministry was heavy. And the Bible says there’s no beauty we should desire, and probably a little bitty Fellow. He said, “You say…You’re not over fifty year. Well, You’ll not over fifty years old, and say You seen Abraham?” He said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” He said, “I come from God. I was that Pillar of Fire in the wilderness. I come from God.”

34. THE UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-04-15

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• ¶37–¶42 [A sister speaks in tongues, a brother interprets, “Yea, would I send My prophet weeping? Yea, would I send him seeking, lest it was for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, my people, it is I, God, that standeth before thee. Yea, would you not follow Me? Yea, was I not the—the One that loved thee? Yea, was I not He that bore thine iniquities? Yea, was I not He that suffered? Yea, wilt thou let Me cry? Yea, wilt thou let Me weep for thee? Yea, I say unto thee, tonight, fear not, for I am standing, yea, I am standing ready to receive. Wilt thou come? Saith the Lord.”—Ed.] Praise the Lord! Listen to that. Just a moment. “How long will you halt between two opinions?” You know what I did? Now, watch the story as it goes on. I walked out to the woman, standing out there. I said, “Father, forgive me.” I walked out to her, I said, “Could I set down?” She said, “Oh, hello.” She said, “I—I got company.” I said, “Lady, I didn’t mean it in that way.” I said, “I would just like to set here just a moment, until your friends return.” I seen she was drinking. And she said, “Very well.” And I told her the story that was told me by the vision. She said, “I know who you are,” she said, “You’re that Mr. Branham that’s down here in that armory building.” I said, “Yes, ma’am, I am.” She said, “I passed by your meeting the other night, I couldn’t get in.” She said, “Mr. Branham, I’m beyond hopes.” She said, “My father was a Methodist preacher, I got two daughters that’s Methodist Sunday school teachers.” I said, “What happened?” She told me the story. She said, “There’s not a hope for me.”

35. THE FOURTH SEAL — 1963-03-21

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• ¶377–¶381 We had to go, of different places of the Scripture, to Revelation 19, to show the Coming of Christ will slay the antichrist. That’s the reason I had to leave these, just take them two verses. I had to go to different parts of the Scriptures, to prove these things. So that’s the reason I went to Revelation 19, to show the end of antichrist, will be the slaying; of Christ, when He comes, He will slay the antichrist. To Revelation 10, to show that the seventh angel’s Message will be a person, in this last days, anointed of God for a ministry just like Elijah the prophet has, as is predicted in Malachi 4, to reveal the true Word of (original) God in this generation, the original Word of God in this generation. Like he did to the natural Jezebel, so will this man do it to spiritual Jezebel, the denominational churches. I had to go to the 7th chapter…the 10th chapter, 1 to 7 verses, to prove that it was right. And over to Malachi, and Amos, and so forth, to prove that. Elijah was a prophet that prophesied and condemned Jezebel, in that particular generation. And Elijah never died. He certainly didn’t. He appeared again, some eight hundred years later, by the side of Jesus Christ, on Mount Transfiguration. He isn’t dead. Now, we find out that his Spirit is to anoint a man, according to the promise of God, in the last days; promised to do the same in spirit Jezebel, as it did in natural Jezebel, in the last age.

36. TESTIMONY — 1951-05-09

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• ¶53–¶54a And up here at Santa Rosa not long ago, the minister may be standing present now; they was having a Saturday night of a playhouse. We had several people, about like here. And they was trying to put a man out of the prayer line. And he kept saying, “I’m not wanting in the prayer line; I’m wanting to see this minister.” And I said, “Let him alone,” down like this. “What do you want, sir?” And he said, “How do you spell your name?” And I said, “B-R-A-N-H-A-M.” He said, “Mother, that’s it. That’s it.” And a lady came forth. They had an old paper, turned yellow. They were evangelists, belonging to the Assemblies of God. And twenty-two years, that would be about…That’s four years ago, it’d be about twenty-six years now. Twenty-two years before that, one said they had a gift of speaking in tongues, the other one had the gift of interpretation. And when they were…Said they were down praying, twenty-two years before that, and the interpretation come. And this was one of their messages they TESTIMON Y had laying back, said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the last days before the coming of the Lord, I’ll send My servant, William Branham, up the West Coast with…” And there it was wrote on old paper. And then one night, I was coming out of Seattle, and there was a man standing over there. And he had a book under his arm. He kept telling me, “Brother Branham, you’re in the wrong church.” And I didn’t know what he was talking of. And he put the book under my arm. It was called the Mormon Word Of God. I don’t know what it was. It’s a—it’s one of their prophets of The Latter Day Saint, some bunch of them, that they claims they see the neophytes. And—and back there a hundred and…long long…how long ago it was, it… on a certain page there…I have the book in my library.

37. FAITH COMETH BY HEARING — 1954-03-20

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• ¶13–¶13 When a certain, well known, internationally known man, lovely brother from the West Coast, spoke to me one day at the beginning of my services on the West Coast. I was to be in the same auditorium where he was. He said, “Brother Branham, they won’t go for that fanaticism out here: Divine healing.” I said, “Oh?” He said, “Why don’t you to preach the Gospel while you’re on the West Coast?” I said, “That’s what I’m doing.” I said, “If I didn’t preach Divine healing, I wouldn’t be preaching the Gospel. ‘The Gospel come not in Word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost.’” See? And I said, “I’m not to argue with you, brother.” I said, “You know more about it than I do, but I…what I do know, I know real well.” See? I said, “I know that part real well.” He said, “Well, the people on the West Coast won’t receive you.” Said… I said, “Well, brother, dear,” I said, “that’ll be all right.” Said, “You’re renting that auditorium; going to cost four hundred dollars a day?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “There won’t be anybody there.” He said, “The first thing this Angelus Temple, McPherson bunch, they got their signs out, ‘Divine healer.’” Said, that, “All the Pentecostals, that radical bunch, they got their signs out, ‘Divine healer.’” I said, “Yes, sir. That may be all right, but I’m—I’m not responsible for nothing but what God told me to do, and that’s what I’m doing.” See? And so… He said, “Well, come on down, kick your hat in.” I said, “I’ll see you.”

38. 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?

39. WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC? — 1965-02-21

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• ¶29–¶30 Now let’s get right into the service now, quickly. Turning now with me, if you will, to the Book of Hebrews, and another revelation on the Message. We’ll speak for just a few moments tonight, the Lord willing. And then while reading the first three verses of Hebrews 7:1 to 3, and then commenting on this. And we don’t know what the Lord will do; we do not know. The only thing we do is just believe, watch, pray. That right? And believe that “He’ll make everything work together for good to them that loves Him,” because He promised to. For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Let’s read a little farther. Without father, without mother, without descent,…neither beginning of days, or end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. Think of this great Person, of how great this Man must be! And now, the question is, “Who is this Man?” Theologians has had different ideas. But since the opening of the Seven Seals, the mysterious Book that’s been mysterious to us…According to Revelation 10:1 to 7, all the mysteries that’s wrote in this Book, that’s been hid down through the age of the reformers, is supposed to be brought out into view by the angel of the last church age. How many knows that’s right? That’s right, supposed to be brought. All the mysteries of the mysterious Book is to be revealed to the Laodicea messenger of that age.

40. 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.

41. HEARING, RECEIVING, AND ACTING — 1960-06-07

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• ¶225–¶230 He said, “Beyond that setting of the sun, there’s a certain state, in the New England states,” and said, “in that certain state is a certain city, and in that certain city, is a certain house, and in that certain house, is a girl, and that girl, I vowed before I come here, to be true to her, that when we…I return, we’re going to be married. She made a vow to me, a promise. Therefore, sir, all of my attention is attracted, as far as it comes to women, towards that girl at that place.” And he said, “I live today, for tomorrow to come.” What a testimony! What a Christian can say: “Why don’t you smoke? Why don’t you have a little fun? Why don’t you do this like the rest of them doing?” Oh, you can say, “Beyond a certain star, there’s a certain City, and in that certain City is a certain Person. Hallelujah! Oh, I live for Him, for He died for me, and someday He’s coming. And I live for that Life that is to come.” Oh, brother, believe me, I tell you the truth, I tell you what is the truth. God knows that I’m telling you the truth. You just believe me with all your heart. Maybe you can’t understand this about the Coming of the Lord, and the carnal church, and so forth. And some of you, right from this state, wrote me a letter and said, “When the anointing is on you, you can discern spirits,” said, “then, course, we, then we believe you’re a prophet.” Now, I never said I was a prophet, you said so. See? But you say, but then you say, “But in your teaching, Brother Branham, about all that fanaticism about receiving the Holy Ghost, and all this stuff, and living, we can’t believe that. And all this other stuff about you were Eternally, before the world, elected, and…”

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

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• ¶202–¶205 Remember what, What Time Is It, Sir? How many ever heard it? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Was it exactly right? [“Amen.”] Then we’ve got the revelation in this last days, for the Message of the Lord God to gather His Bride together. No other age has it been promised. It’s promised in this age: Malachi 4, Luke 17:30, Saint John 14:12, Joel 2:38. Those promises is just exactly like John the Baptist identified himself in the Scripture. Jesus identified Himself. What’d they say? “Away with such a person!” “John is a wild man.” The church wasn’t able to receive it. That’s the pattern. Neither will the church receive it today. But, to the Elected, God is calling to the Elected. They know it: calling the virtuous Bride, the Word, the last-day Church, the elected Lady of our Lord Jesus Christ, Word. If…Jesus is the Word. How many believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. Then, the Bride is always part of the Bridegroom, so the Bride will not be a denomination. It’ll have to be the Word, manifested, to be the Bride of Christ. He promised to do it. He said how He did. Never uses…loses His pattern. He always did it by the pattern. He done it, every time, by the pattern. He does it again, calling out His virtuous Bride in the last day, the lovely Rebekah waiting for Her Isaac. What a beautiful time! Here it brings into view, the two books that’s going to be mysterious to you when you read the book of The Seven Church Ages. The two books: Book of Life, said, one says you can put your name on, you never comes off; other one says you take his name out of the Book of Life. This brings it perfectly in view, right here. I’m going to stop a few minutes, maybe, on a few notes here, and catch this before we close.

43. MY NEW MINISTRY — 1959-11-15

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• ¶87–¶90 “Oh,” I said, “there’s no need of hunting. Here is people out here, the farmers picking their corn, right around this little woods. The squirrels would not be here.” So I sit down between the two trees, and propped my feet up on one and leaned back against the other in the warm sunshine, I thought, “I’ll just take a little nap, then I’ll get Brother Banks, and Brother Sothmann, and the boys, as I go back, and, down the road.” And as I sit there…[Brother Branham coughs—Ed.] (Pardon me.) As I sit there, under the tree, just got snugged down, and the warm sun shining on me, Something said, “If you say to this mountain, ‘Be thou plucked up, and cast into the sea,’ and shall not doubt in your heart, but believe that those things that you’ve said will come to pass, you can have what you’ve said.” I said, “Well, now, there is that Scripture in my mind again.” I said, “I’ve got a while here, about an hour before I have to go get the rest of the boys, so I’ll just study that Scripture.” And I said, “Now, how could that apply?” Said, “Here’s the only way it could have been, that, those disciples lived the other side of the Atonement. The Atonement was later, about, oh, several weeks later, before the Atonement was made. Jesus gave them Power, the other side of the Atonement, like He did the prophets.” And when I said, “prophets,” Something struck me again. “What was the prophets?” Then I begin to think of it, about what He did with the prophets.