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1. THE SECOND SEAL — 1963-03-19

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• ¶184–¶187 Notice Satan’s trinity. Same person coming; just incarnate, from one to the other. That’s the way them bugs did, them worms, one to the other, exactly. Nicolaitane, “spiritual antichrist.” Pope, “false prophet.” “Beast,” the devil himself, incarnate. He can’t do it… Now, you keep that on your mind now, when you follow this. You’re going to see these riders come right straight up to that. See, I’m laying you a picture here. If I had it on a blackboard, you could understand it better. See, I’m watching. First, now. You remember this. The first thing he is, he is an “antichrist spirit.” John said so. “Little children, the spirit of antichrist already working in the children of disobedience.” See, that thing had begin to start. And then it become kind of “a saying,” in the next church age. And the next church age, it was “a doctrine.” And the next church age, she was “crowned.” Now isn’t that just as plain as reading anywhere you could read it? See? See, there he come. Now, first, he was called (what?) “antichrist spirit,” because he was against the Word. That’s what started it. That’s exactly what done the whole thing, was turning from God’s Word. Not because Eve might have give Cain a spanking one day. See? That wasn’t what done it. The first thing that done the whole thing, was that she turned from the Word. She turned from the Word. And the first thing, started the prostitution in the church of the living God, Christ’s Bride, she turned from the Word and accepted Roman dogma in a stead of God’s Word. What’s happened to every organization? It did the very same thing.

• ¶188–¶191 Now, but promised that in the last days He would make a way to restore again. The Word of the Lord would drop upon the earth, as He did it in the beginning, and, oh, and will restore back (what?) what started it. “Against the Word.” And what does this fellow supposed to do when he comes, anointed with God’s Spirit? He just “brings the Faith of the children back to the fathers.” That’s how He restores. And you get this same Word, in the same place that It is Here, It’s going to do the same thing. Jesus said, “If any man be of Mine! And he that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also.” And when they asked Him to do certain things, He said, “I do just what the Father shows Me. I don’t do nothing till I see it, first. What I see the Father doing, that I do also. The Father worketh, and then I worketh hitherto.” See? Don’t you see it? Why, it’s just like reading the newspaper. See? Now, now, first, then, he become an “antichrist.” Now, he couldn’t be antichrist only in spirit. Then, he become an antichrist, and that spirit took a man that taught the same things that that antichrist spirit was doing, and then he become a “false prophet,” to the antichrist spirit. Now what about a man in an organization? Suit yourself. I don’t know what you think about it. All right. Now, finally, he becomes “a beast.” Now wait, and we’ll get in that after a while, see. All right.

• ¶192–¶197 Now, as Satan’s trinity lays like that; Satan, all the time. Satan, “antichrist spirit.” Antichrist spirit, incarnate, “false prophet.” Then, becomes “the beast.” See? When…Not a demon, that was in that antichrist; but when Satan himself is kicked out, he comes down and takes over the place where the demon was. The devil, then, then the devil is incarnate in a man. It’s just repeating itself. That’s what Judas Iscariot was. And what did he do? Was he one of the fellows that was against Christ? Why, he was the treasurer, walked with Him. Certainly. Walked right along with them. Went out there and cast out devils, and done just exactly what they did. And Christ was the incarnate God; God, incarnate in flesh, Emmanuel. And Judas was the son of perdition. And Jesus was Son of God. Incarnate God; incarnate devil. Some people only sees three crosses at that time. There was four of them. There was three on Golgotha, that we see. That was Jesus in the middle, a thief on His left, and a thief on His right. And watch. One thief said to the other one, or said to Jesus, “If…” Now, you know He’s the Word. But, “If thou be the Word, why don’t you save yourself? Why don’t you do something about it?” That’s the same thing today. Haven’t you heard these old devils come, say, “If you believe in Divine healing, here is somebody’s eyes, won’t you open their eyes?” “Smite me blind! Smite me blind!” That same old devil. See? “Come down off the cross, we would believe you.” “If you be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread.” Same devil.

• ¶198–¶202 You just walk away, see. No. That’s the way Jesus did it. He never clowned for any of them. Put a rag over His—over His precious eyes, like that. And they took a stick, and hit Him on top the head. Said, “Tell us! If you’re a prophet, now tell us who hit you.” They changed the stick, one to another. “Now tell us who hit you, and we’ll believe you’re a prophet.” He never opened His mouth. He just sat there. See? He don’t clown. He just does as the Father says, you see. See? Let’s them go ahead. Their time is coming. Don’t worry. Yes, sir. Now, they touched His garment, they felt no virtue. But a poor little woman, had a need, just touched His garment. He turned around and said, “Who touched Me?” Uh-huh. Is what? A different touch. It depends upon how you touch Him, you see, see, what you believe. Now, you see? Now, as Satan is going to…has incarnated himself, from antichrist to false prophet now. And in the days of the Jew, is “antichrist,” amongst the early church. In the dark ages, he become a “false prophet,” to the world. See her there with “her cup of iniquity”? Now, that’s to the church age now. But in the age after the Church goes Home, he becomes a beast, he becomes the devil incarnate, the red dragon himself. Oh, my! Can’t you see what I mean? He is incarnate in his people then. He’s got his people bound by his power. The false prophet has prophesied them right into it. “Give them over to strong delusions, to believe a lie and be damned by it.” “Denying the Word; with a form of godliness.”

• ¶272–¶276 Now—now when—when he, as is head demon, incarnate in this super, religious man, as the Bible predicts, then he unites his church and state. Both of his own powers unite together. See? When the antichrist spirit went forth, it was a spirit. Then it become what? It become then…Now watch this Seal. When the spirit went forth, it was antichrist, against the teaching of Christ. All right. The next thing did…What Christ set out for His Church to do, It was against sin. “Oh, It don’t mean that. It don’t mean it. That was for somebody else. That, that’s back in the hundred years ago, back yonder. That, that ain’t for us.” See? That, see, anti, “against.” Then it become… Now, the rider went out, he—he didn’t have no crown, but he was given one. That white horse; he had a bow, no arrows. See? So then when he went forth… Then, after a while, he was given a crown, because you can’t put a crown on a spirit’s head. But, when, this spirit become incarnate in the second work of his—of his dispensation of his mystic, the second work, he become a crowned, false prophet, to the working of the antichrist spirit. Now, we see him there, now. Now he becomes that, when he takes that. Then, he is, already, Satan controls the political powers of the world. Now he gets into a place till he’s going to make a universal church power, taking religious power. And do you not understand, my brothers, that in…When, this nation appears in the 13th chapter of Revelation, this little animal raised up like a lamb. And it’s got two horns, civil and ecclesiastical power, but he done the same thing the beast did before him.

2. THE FIRST SEAL — 1963-03-18

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• ¶301–¶305 When Nicolaitane, see, antichrist, is finally he is incarnate in a man, then he is crowned. When he starts off, as a Nicolaitane spirit in the church, he is a spirit. You can’t crown a spirit. But three hundred years later, he become a pope, and then they crowned him. He had no crown, to start with. But he got a crown, later, see, when that spirit become incarnate. See? He become a man. Nicolaitane doctrine become a man, then they could crown him. They couldn’t do it, because, he was just a doctrine. Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings. That’s right. See? Now, remember, about time Christ come on the Throne, the antichrist come on the throne, Judas. About time Christ went off the earth, Judas went off the earth. Just about the time the Holy Spirit come back, the antichrist come back. You know, John said over here, “Little children, I would not have you ignorant, you know, about the antichrist, which he is already come and working in the children of disobedience.” The antichrist then, there he was, begin to form in there the Nicolaitane spirit, to make an organization. No wonder I hated that thing! See? See? There you are. It wasn’t me; it was Something in here. There is the thing. It’s come out. You see it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And I was all around the sides of it. I couldn’t see it till now. And I know it now. There it is. That Nicolaitane spirit, God hated.

• ¶363–¶369 The Church is taken up, and Satan is cast out. When the Church goes up, Satan comes down, then Satan incarnates himself in the antichrist and is called “the beast.” Then, Revelation 13, he sets the mark down. See? “When He that letteth,” only now, Christianity is left on the earth in its purity, is because, “Him that letteth.” Remember back here in Thessalonians, “Sitting upon the temple of God, calling himself God, forgiving sins on earth.” And that’ll go on, “and iniquity shall abound,” and on. Cause, it won’t be known, yet, until his time to be revealed is called. And then the Church will be caught away. And when It’s caught away, then he changes hisself from an antichrist now, oh, my, “the church, the great church and that,” now he becomes “the beast.” Uh- huh! I wish I could make people see that. Now remember, the antichrist and the beast is the same-self spirit. There is the trinity. Yes, sir. It’s three stages of the same devil power. Remember, Nicolaitane, see, it had to be incarnate before it could be crowned. See? Now watch this, three stages. First stage, he is called antichrist; second stage, he is called the false prophet; third stage, he is called the beast. Notice, Nicolaitane, the antichrist teaching that started in the days of Paul, against God’s Word, antichrist. Then he is called, again, the false prophet. Which, when the teaching become a man, he was a prophet to the teaching of the hierarchy, of the—the hierarchy of the Catholic church. The pope was the prophet to the false word, and that made him a false prophet.

• ¶370–¶373 The third stage is a beast, a man that’s crowned in the last days, with every power that pagan Rome ever had. Because, the seven-headed beast, dragon, was cast out of heaven, and come incarnate in the false prophet. There it is, he had seven crowns, and he was cast out and throwed into the earth and the sea. All right. What are we saying? Who is this rider, this horse rider? Do you know what it is? It’s Satan’s superman. I went the other night, two brothers sitting in this church now, Brother Norman, back there, and, I believe, and Brother Fred, we was over to hear a man teach on the antichrist. A well-known man, one of the best the Assemblies of God has got, and his interpretation of antichrist was, that, “They’re going to take a vitamin of some sort, out of a—of a man, and transfer this life out of a man into a great image that’s going to stick…step a city block at a time. And that’s…” Could you imagine a man filled with the Holy Ghost, under such illusion as that, or claim to be? When, here is the Bible, says who the antichrist is. It’s not a…It’s a man. Notice, this rider is nothing but Satan’s superman, the incarnate devil. He’s an educated genius. Now, I hope you got your ears open. They was trying one of his children out, not long ago, on a television cast, to see if he wasn’t smarter than the next man, to run for President. See? But, however, he’s got a lot of wisdom; so has Satan. He tries to sell it. He sold it to Eve. He sold it to us. We’ve been wanting a superman. We got it. All right. The whole world is wanting a superman. They’re going to get it. Just wait till the Church goes up, and Satan is cast out; he’ll incarnate. That’s right. They want somebody who can really do the job. He’ll do it.

• ¶399–¶401 Who is that white-horse rider? You’re not blind. You see who it is. It’s that antichrist, and that deceitful spirit that’s gone on now and crept in. Made…And, then, see, God just keeps repeating it. He shows it as a man going forth with a white horse, and with his bow and no arrow. He’s a bluff. He has no power. Say, “The power of the church!” Where’s it at? What do they do? They say, “We’re the original church.” The original church cast out devils, healed the sick, and raised the dead, saw visions, and everything else. Where is it now? See? Is a bluff, bow with no arrow. Huh! That’s right. But, you see, when Christ come, a Sword went forth from His mouth, like a lightning flash. It went forth and consumed His enemies, and cast away the devil. It cut away everything else. And He come, His vesture dipped in blood, and on His thigh was written, “The Word of God.” Amen. Here He come, with His army, coming from Heaven. That white-horse rider has been in the land all the time. He will change from antichrist. He does that, and becomes to a false prophet. See, he first started, an antichrist, the spirit; then he become a false prophet; then, later, when the devil is cast out, he is incarnate then with the devil. Three stages! The first, he’s a devil, to begin with, a spirit of the devil; then he becomes a false prophet, teacher of a false doctrine; next thing, he comes as the very devil himself, incarnate. See? There he is.

3. THE SERPENT’S SEED — 1958-09-28

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• ¶204–¶208 And in this last days, here is the spirit of the antichrist and the Spirit of the Christ. The spirit of the antichrist, saying, “The days of miracles is past.” The Spirit of Christ, saying, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The spirit of antichrist says, “It don’t makes any difference if you’re baptized in ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost,’ poured, sprinkled, whatever is it, it means the same thing.” The Bible said that God is infallible, and He can’t change. Who you going to serve? It’s up to you. Now you say, “Can they dwell together? You said, that, there in that ark, Brother Branham, you had in there both Ham and Seth.” That’s right, exactly right. Ham was evil. Seth was religious and righteous. All right. Let’s follow Ham. All right, now, there’s Ham and Seth in the same ark; one righteous, and the other unrighteous. There was a crow and a dove in the same ark. There was Judas and Jesus in the same church. There was the antichrist and the Holy Spirit in the same church. And, today, the same spirits work. “Having a form of godliness, very religious, but having a form of godliness and denying the Power thereof; from such turn away.” The Holy Spirit, claiming, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Which side will you choose? The antichrist says that This is just a book of creed. “We’ll repeat the Apostles’ Creed.” I challenge any preacher to tell me where the Apostles’ Creed is found in the Bible: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heavens and earth; Jesus Christ, His Son. I believe in the holy Roman Catholic Church, the communion of saints.” Where do you find that in the Bible? And yet you’ll repeat it in your big Methodist and Baptist churches. It’s a doctrine of the devil, and false prophets are teaching it.

4. HEARING, RECOGNIZING, ACTING ON THE WORD OF GOD — 1960-02-21

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• ¶216–¶222 You say, “Wait a minute, Brother Branham. You’re getting off the line.” If I am, God wrote His Bible off the line. You have to be Micaiah, on this case. Morris Cerullo said to me the other night, said, “Where is the antichrist, Brother Branham? The Jew is the antichrist.” I said, “Morris! And you, a Jew?” He said, “They’re the greatest God-haters there is.” I said, “Morris, don’t! Tell me in the Scripture where the antichrist come out of Jerusalem. The antichrist come out of Rome, not out of Palestine.” He said, “Well, look, I’m…They’re God-haters.” “Yes, didn’t God say He blinded their eyes so we could have a day of seeing? But our day will be over soon.” He said, “Oh, Brother Branham, I never thought of that.” See, there you are. See, we’re at the end. The carnal world, the carnal church is at it, end. Watch how it’s heading up in the federation of churches. United Brethren went into them. The Pentecostal is into them. All the rest of them organize themselves. See you down, them Canaanites, all the way down through those Esau spirits, very religious, and confederated themselves with the world; not spiritual understanding, not able to overcome, not elected of God, to be called out and separated. Oh, if I could only make it known, when if I could only push it down some way! They don’t see it. They got eyes and they can’t see, ears and can’t hear. Oh, why we so dull in the Spirit? Now, listen to this. Everything is at the end.

5. THE FOURTH SEAL — 1963-03-21

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• ¶152–¶157 Now, this fellow, we find out that he is riding on a pale horse. Pale! Oh, my! After, notice after… “Sixty-eight million Protestants,” as we took from—from Schmucker’s Glorious Reform, of the—of the martyrology of Rome, last night. We find that, up to the 1500 mark, I believe it was, or eighteen-…I don’t remember exactly now. But it was sixty-eight million put to death, to protest the first Roman church, Rome. No wonder, he could impersonate himself in the personified name of… and called Death. He sure was. Now, God only knows how many he caused to spiritually die, by his anti-Bible, -Word teaching! This is the one he put sixty-eight million to the sword, and killed them. And probably, literally, billions died spiritually, on his false teaching. No wonder he could take the name of Death! See the rider? The first place, as an antichrist, he was death, to begin with; but he was innocent then. Then he received a crown, a triple one; and when he did, then he be united, Satan united his church and state, because he was over both of them then. Antichrist was Satan, in a form of a man. And then, also, Saint Matthew, I believe it is, the 4th chapter, tells us that—that. Satan took Jesus, our Lord, up, and showed Him the kingdoms of the world, all of them, in a moment of time, and the glory of them, offered them to Him. And he said…They, they were his. So, you see, then, if he can unite his state and his church together, then the red-horse rider could ride, sure enough. See? Truly! Now, then, we find out his mystery here, in his church and state.

• ¶158–¶161 The fourth stage of his ministry, he is called the beast. First he is called the antichrist, see; then he is called the false prophet; and he is called the beast. Now we find him here being called as the beast. Now, I want you to notice, that’s after the fourth horse. And in this fourth horse, if you’ll notice, all…The first one was white; and then the next one was red; and the next one was black; and the fourth one, all of these other three was represented in it; because, pale is red and—and white, and so, mixed together. See? He…It—it was all mixed in this one horse. See? And there he become four, or, actually, the three in one. And it was all mixed up in that one thing. Now I want you to notice the four of them. Notice the off-mark, of four, of the spiritual mathematics. God is three’s. This is four. He is in four, here. First, antichrist, white; second, false prophet, red; third, vicar of heavens and earth and—and purgatory, black; fourth, the beast, pale horse, Satan being kicked out of Heaven. You want to read that? Revelation 12:13, Satan being kicked out of Heaven. Then in Revelation 13:1, 8, he is incarnate in the person of the beast. He is first the antichrist, just—just a teaching called Nicolaitane; then he becomes, from that, to a false prophet. If he’s an antichrist, antichrist is against. Anything that’s against God’s Word is against God, because the Word is God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was made flesh, Christ, and dwelt among us.” And now he is against the Word, so he be antichrist. But a spirit cannot be crowned; that’s the reason he didn’t receive a crown. Just a bow, with no arrows.

• ¶162–¶165 And then when he come, the crowning time, then he become the false prophet of his antichrist teaching. Get it? Then he gets a sword, because he unites his powers together, then he don’t have to ask nobody. He is governor of state; he is governor of Heaven. Receives a triple crown. Makes himself an idea called “purgatory.” Where, if—if some of them died back there, and they got some money, want to pay them out, he could pray them out of it. Cause, he’s got the power to do so; he’s a vicar. Certainly, he is. “He takes the place of God, on earth.” If that ain’t as plain as anything! We find it, pull it on down, through the Bible, and count his numeral numbers and everything else. Here he is…?…right back here in number four, not number three. Number four, see. Now let’s turn, Revelation 12. Let’s just read this just a little bit, ’cause we—we’ll have time to do it. And let’s read Revelation the—the 12th chapter and the 13th verse. “And the same hour there was a great earthquake…” No, I got the—I got the wrong place. The 13th: And when the dragon saw that he was cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. Now, you see, he was cast out, of the earth, and becomes incarnate, as the antichrist spirit become incarnate into a man. That man changes from one thing to another, from an antichrist spirit to a false prophet, and then the beast comes into him.

6. THE THIRD SEAL — 1963-03-20

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• ¶263–¶267 And just as that church is, that kind, the antichrist church, progresses, so has the Bride come along with different things: through justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and moving right on, see, just like that. Only, they taken their revival first, and the Church is taking it the last. Their first three years…first three stages of them that went through the dark age; then the third three stages comes the Church out: from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost in: Incarnate God made manifest among us. Here he comes in, as the antichrist, as the false prophet, then the beast, then in dark age. And the Church comes out of that dark age: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost: Incarnate Word Believer. And he goes down. Uh-huh. You see that? He goes down. The Church goes up. See? It’s just as perfect as it can be. Oh, it’s beautiful. I just love it. This rider is the same one, but another stage of his ministry. The first stage, a white horse, see, he was just a teacher, just an antichrist teacher. He was against the Word of God. And now how can you be an antichrist? Anybody that denies that every Word of this isn’t true, and to be taught just the same, is an antichrist, ’cause they deny the—the—the—the—the Word. And He is the Word. Now, first stage, white horse, he was just a teacher, but an antichrist spirit in its doctrine and its quality. It was innocent. It couldn’t hurt nothing, seemed like; just go on. That’s the way Satan comes in. Oh, he’s a slick bird.

• ¶273–¶276 Same rider, now. This first stage, he was innocent. And second, now, if you went a little bit higher, a little more than that; the second stage, the Bible said he’d be “given a crown.” And they crowned a man, a superman. See, crowned him! And, then, the Bible didn’t call him a pope. The Bible called him a “false prophet.” Why? Yeah. Of course, he must be a false prophet, by his antichrist spirit, that taught antichrist against the original Word. Cause, if he taught against the original Word, it was antichrist. It was. And the Word is God, see, Christ. All right. Now, after that, we find him then crowned. And when he got crowned, now, he’s very innocent and helpless. He’s just a little fellow. But then in the Nicaea Council, he was made it, and Constantine give him all the property. And then what did he do? Then he, see, Satan, give him his throne and authority. The Bible said so, as we’ve went through it. Now, the next thing we find out, that the devil controls all politics that ever has been or ever will be. We find that in Matthew 4:11. And now we find out, then, that Satan already had politics. But he’s trying to get the Church, so he goes down to deceive It. He gets his superman, works him into an organization, and crowns him “vicar,” see, a christ. Christ acted in stead of God. See, this guy is a vicar, in stead of God. See? Just the same, “in stead of God,” what he’s supposed to be, a vicar under Christ.

7. 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.”

8. THE FIFTH SEAL — 1963-03-22

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• ¶113–¶121 Notice, as the antichrist went (four) on his beasts of ministry, there, God sent forth a Beast to combat it. See? Now watch. Then, every time (the beast rode) on his horse, the antichrist rode on his horse, on his beast, to announce his ministry; God sent His Beast, also, and He was on That, to announce His combat to it. Now, the Scripture says, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises a standard against it.” And so when the enemy went out as an antichrist, God sent a certain type of power out to meet him. And then when they… He went out again, as a red-horse rider, another color, another power, another ministry; God sent another one after him, to combat it, to hold His Church. Sent the third one; again, God sent His, third Beast come and announced it. He sent the fourth one; God sent His fourth one. And then the antichrist end, and the church ages ended, too, at that time. Watch. Now, oh, this is really good! Now, we see that the devil’s changing, four—four beasts, meant what power they was revealed to the…or what power he revealed to the world, and how they ended on this pale, “death” horse. Now let’s look at God’s powers, of these Beasts, to combat them. The first Beast of God, that He went out to meet the antichrist with, the antichrist spirit when it’s in just his teaching. Now remember, when the antichrist first rode, he was in a teaching ministry. The antichrist rode, first, in a teaching ministry. Now watch the one that went to meet him: the lion, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, which is the Word. When his false teaching went forth, the true Word went to meet him.

• ¶122–¶127 That’s the reason we had an Irenaeus, and a Polycarp, and—and— and—and those fellows, a Saint Martin. When that antichrist was riding with his false teaching, God sent His Teaching out, the Word, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, which is the Word made manifest in the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit, there, to manifest Himself, which is the Word! That’s the reason the early Church had healings, and miracles, and visions, and power, is because it was the living Word, in the form of the Lion of the tribe of Juda, riding out to combat that. Amen! Now you got it? He sends his power, antichrist; God sends His, the Word. Antichrist, false teaching; the true Teaching went with it, to combat it! Now, that was the first one. Now, this was the first Church, apostolic, that went to meet him. Now, the second beast that the antichrist sent out, was a red beast, which was to…that he rode on, was to take peace (and) from the earth, and—and war. Now, the second one that went to combat him, was the ox Beast. The ox means a labor, a Beast of burden. And now if we could just stop just a minute. Let me, yeah, let me, just so you be sure to see this now. Now, that’s the kind that might be a little puzzling to you. But let’s get Thyatira over here. Watch and see if it isn’t a—a—a laboring Church, you see. And to the angel of the church of Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who his eyes are like the flames of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works,…

9. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-12-23

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• ¶181–¶182 What will it be? A preacher, a minister, let’s just take…Cause I’m a preacher, let’s say it’s a preacher. He walks up here, he comes up, and confesses Christ, gets his life cleaned up, where he don’t live with adulteries and things anymore, living a good clean life, walks up here; the grace of God’s been good to him, then he walks right up into the knowledge of the Holy Ghost (see?), walks up, God leads him right up to the knowledge of the Holy Ghost, and there he sees It, but he says, “Now, wait a minute. My church wouldn’t stand for that. Uh-uh. I couldn’t do that. They’d turn me out. The—the council would—would turn me out. The next ministerial meeting, I’d be excommunicated.” There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, because he took the very Blood that sanctified him and brought him this far, to the knowledge of the Truth, and counted It as though It was an unworthy thing and trodded It under his feet, after God has led him step by step up here to the Holy Ghost. You say, “Oh, now wait a minute, Brother Branham.” Just a minute! The spirit of antichrist will do that. Did you notice the two heads of them? Who was Judas Iscariot? The devil! The Bible said he was the son of perdition. What is perdition? Hell. He’s the son of hell, come from hell and went to hell. And Jesus Christ was the Son of God, came from Heaven, returned to Heaven. When they both died at the—on the crosses…Je-…Did you know Judas died on a cross? How many knows that? He died on a tree. Jesus died on a tree too. It’s just cut, that’s all. “Cursed is he that dieth on a tree.” And he come from hell. And watch what…As far as he could sneak his way into the church…That’s as high as he can come now. See how deceiving he could be? Now, Judas come. What was he? A treasurer, a brother, working in the church, the treasurer in the church, walked right on up, believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and was justifi-…

10. 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.

11. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-06-30

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• ¶5–¶5 I said, “You might have had it and maybe you had a—a faith and was healed.” “Oh,” he said, “That’s what it is, is it,” turned around. And just then I looked and there was a vision. I said, “Why has the devil put in your heart to do that?” I said, “You are…” Now, if this is a person of that is in this building, I’m not speaking against your church. I said, “You’re a Church of Christ minister.” They love to fuss. I said, “You’re a Church of Christ preacher. Last night you set with a man with a gray suit and a red tie. And you set at a table had a little green cloth hanging over it; there was a blond-headed woman setting next to you, and you said it was telepathy. And you come to this meeting today and wrote that on there, thinking you could pass it through and make a telepathy out of it to up trip God’s Spirit.” I said, “You’re the one exposed.” And just then the man setting up there; he said, “Mr. Branham, I’m the guy that was with him.” Said, “That’s my wife setting right here, was with him.” And I said, “The things that you put on your card, you have. Both cancer and TB.” And he fell down on the platform. But the last time I heard him, I never heard no more, just a letter from some of the people, that he was in a serious condition. So we’re not playing church.

12. THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN — 1962-10-14

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• ¶205–¶211 I was down to Brother Wright…I think they’re back there somewhere. One night, there was a minister down there, I was speaking, four or five preachers together. This preacher raised up and said, “Now, I want to tell you dear people something. Oh, I think you’re a fine people.” I said, I told somebody, I said, “That’s—that’s one sitting right there. Watch.” So, Junior Jackson, back there, just got through speaking. And he said…was preaching on the grace of God. Oh, my! He was burning up, waiting. He got up there and he was trying to understand. “Now, I want to say that Mr. Branham here, I tell you, is an antichrist.” And he started off like that, all night. Some of the preachers started…I said, “Wait a minute. Now, don’t say nothing, brothers. There’s only one of him and a bunch of us.” I said, “Just let him alone now. He picked on me.” I wanted it, myself, so bad, I didn’t know what to do. See? So, he said, “Mr. Branham is an antichrist,” and he went ahead saying that everything, you know, about…He said, “He said there, ‘A baptism of the Holy Ghost.’” Said, “The Bible said there was only twelve got the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” Talking about Divine healing, “Only the twelve apostles had Divine healing.” He said, “We speak where the Bible speaks, and silent where the Bible is silent.” I waited till he rattled off there for about a half hour. I said, “Wait just a minute. I wrote down so many here,” I said, “give me a chance to answer some.” And when I got up, I said, “The sir, he said that he ‘spoke where the Bible spoke,’ his church did, ‘and silent where It was silent.’ You all are witnesses. ‘Yes.’” I said, “Now, he said ‘There was only twelve received the Holy Ghost.’ My Bible said there was a hundred and twenty, the first shot.” Amen! Throw that kind of knowledge out, you see, that he was trying.

13. EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO THE SAINTS — 1956-04-19

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• ¶43b–¶45a He went down in the bulkhead of the ship and prayed, come back up, 21 the shackles on him, still preaching the Gospel. Shaking the chains on his arms and say, “Be of a good courage, for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night, saying, ‘don’t fear Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar, and lo, God give all those that saileth with you, to you.’ And I saw in the vision the little ship is to be wrecked on a certain island. So, therefore brethren, I believe God that it’ll be just exactly the way He said it would be.” That was the faith that was once delivered to the saints, and unless that same kind of operation and works are in today, we are failing to obey what God sent us to do. Yes. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?…“lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good.” You say, “Brother Branham, them’s communists.” Them’s church members. What did He say? “Heady, high—minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness, but denying the Supernatural power thereof; from such turn away.” The Scripture for that, the Holy Ghost spoke it for this day, so no wonder communism has a—a hold, is because the church has let down on the message of the Lord Jesus Christ, to represent. Dr. Morris Reidhead, famous…?…who was the president of the great Sudan Missions, the biggest in the world, come to my house and said, “Brother Branham, I have enough degrees to line your wall.” He said, “I know that you was a Baptist, but you’ve been dealing with those Pentecostals.” Said, “I’ve seen them kick over chairs and tear up the furniture.” He said, “Is there anything to it?” I said, “There’s a lot of fanaticism, but there’s a real genuine Holy Ghost, also.

14. 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.

15. THE TRUE AND FALSE VINES — 1956-03-11

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• ¶34–¶35a Now, worship, yes. Here comes that weed coming up. Here comes this one on this side, this vine. Both of them growing up together. Wish we had time, but you got to get back. It’s getting late. Oh, my, I—I feel it coming; honest I do. I just feel way down in my heart, a blessing hanging above us. Look. I want you to be sure to see it. Here they are coming up, reaching up a past the clouds. Look along through the Bible. They’ve always had true and false. And Jesus said, “In the last days now…” Let me get this close to you. Communism is not the antichrist. Stalin, Molotov, they are not the antichrist that Jesus spoke of. Jesus said the antichrist would be so close to the real it would deceive the very elect if possible. The antichrist is religious. Let that soak just a minute. The antichrist is a Christian professing religion. Judas, the head of it, was a believer added to the number; treasurer in the church; a brother; the same church; went in and out among them and was the devil himself, professing to be a believer. Shake yourself now a minute. May the Holy Spirit do it. Shake your conscience. Notice. Here comes these vines up. Look in the ark. There was a crow setting on one side, a dove setting on the same floor. The fowls stayed on the second floor, the creeping things on the bottom floor of the ark. Second floor, the fowls. The top, Noah and his family. On the second floor, same ark, same room, perhaps the same roost, set a dove and a crow. The crow says, “I can fly.” The dove says, “I can too.” They turned the crow out, and the crow was satisfied to eat the dead carcasses. The dove could not stay out, for her nature was different. Amen. Any man that’s ever born of the Spirit of God and received Eternal Life cannot go back and eat the things of the world. Don’t be deceived. If you still love the world, you don’t love God.

16. IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL? — 1963-06-30

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• ¶233–¶235 I said, “Last night the Lord told me. You’re going down there today, and you find out you’re not going to get that building. You’re going to another building. Doctor Mead will be setting on this side. That colored man, his wife, that sings, will be setting right here, and so forth, where they’ll all be setting.” I said, “There’ll be a Buddha priest there.” And I said, “Now find out. They got it against me because I preach the water baptism in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. They got it against me ’cause I preach the serpent’s seed; and against the evidence, that, every man speaks with tongues has got the Holy Ghost, and things.” I said, “Come down and watch God.” Got in there…They went down there, and the very two hours from then, or better, some time that afternoon, they called up Brother Carlson. And he said, “The guy that let him have that, and paid a down payment on it, said, ‘We have to cancel, because the manager said he had already promised it to a band for that night, or that morning.’” And they couldn’t have it. So we went out to the Town and Country. And that morning when we got in there, and stood in there, and—and Brother Carlson said, “There’s one thing. You brethren might disagree with Brother Branham, but,” said, “he’s not scared to say what he believes.” He said, “He told me these things would happen just exactly the way they are.” He said, “Now here he is. Let him speak for hisself.”

17. 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.”

18. THE SUPERNATURAL — 1956-01-29

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• ¶14–¶15a I said, “I am not the judge.” I said…He said…“Well,” I said, “I think his message is wonderful.” He said, “Are you a Christian?” I said, “Yes, sir, I am.” And he said…“Well,” he said, “do you think a servant of Christ should just put on a whole lot like that, and dress like that, and act like that, and…” And I said, “Well, you see, to my opinion, God has people in different categories to catch people that live in different categories.” He was talking about, said, “Why, the man has two El Dorado’s every year.” I said, “I’m very thankful that God’s that good to him.” See? And…but he looked down at me kinda strange, and he said, “Are… you’re a Christian?” I said, “I’m a minister.” He said, “My name is so-and-so.” And I said, “My name is Branham.” He said, “You wouldn’t happen to be the Branham that prays for the sick?” I said, “Yes, sir.” “Oh,” he said, “I see.” And he could see why I was taking up for this other brother. And he said, “Mr. Branham,” he said, “aren’t you a Baptist?” I said, “I was. Yes, sir.” He said, “I want to ask you something.” He said, “I am a certain doctor of theology in a certain church, well, a—a Presbyterian.” And he said, “You know what? On this West Coast here,” he said, “we Presbyterian people had the entire coast sewed down.” Said, “We had the biggest churches and the finest congregations of any churches on the West Coast.” And said, “You know what broke us up?” I said, “No, sir.” He said, “That cult Christian Science come in and broke up our church.” And said, “Now this Pentecostal group’s coming in and breaking up Christian Science and everything.” I said, “Uh-huh.” I said, “Doctor, do you know hungry children will eat from a garbage can if they’re hungry?” He said, “Well, I guess that’s right.” I said, “If you Presbyterians, as you said you were, if you would’ve stayed with the Word of God and give the children the bread of Life, that cult would’ve never broke them up.” I said, “You just let down; that’s all.” And I said, “People are still people and they’re—every man is trying to

19. JEHOVAH-JIREH 3 — 1964-04-04

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• ¶288–¶295 “Why,” you say, “Brother Branham, you’re judging me.” No, I’m not. I’m judging this Feeling that’s in me, see. There is Something in here, says, “Oh, there is more. There is many more.” See? Now you say, “Well, I, I’ve joined church, Brother Branham. I’m Pentecostal. I—I—I don’t…” I’m not saying that, friend. I’m not asking that, at all. I am asking, “Have you got the Life of Christ?” And you say, “Brother Branham, I’ve spoke in tongues.” That’s good. But that ain’t still what I’m asking about. You say, “Brother Branham, I never harmed anybody.” That’s not still what I’m asking about. “Is the Life of Christ in you?” Don’t take no chance, friend. Don’t, don’t, don’t do that. It’s going to be when you…When death strikes you, it’s too late then. Don’t do it. Please don’t. Now we got so many here right now, I’ll have to give a little room for some more. I’m going to pray for these, and then so we can go in, get in a room there so we come lay hands on them, receive the Holy Ghost. And then we’re going to pray right now for these. You bow your heads just a moment. Our Heavenly Father, here are those bowed here, that are men and women, they are Eternity-bound people. They, they must go, we know that. And we see earthquakes, that, and the world in the position it’s in now. And see the Christ come to us and do the things that He is doing, and see the Message, the Word go right out, and then see Him come right behind It and vindicate It to be Truth, knowing every secret of the heart. And these people now have come forward to make a stand. They couldn’t have done this by themselves. They come because they were led to come.

20. THE SIXTH SEAL — 1963-03-23

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• ¶202–¶204 I want you to notice a little something. Just about the time that— that Cain come on earth, Abel came on earth. I want you to notice, just about the time that—that Christ came on earth, Judas came on earth. About the time that Christ went off of earth, Judas went off the earth. Just about the time that the—the Holy Spirit fell, the antichrist spirit fell. Just about the time the Holy Ghost is revealing Himself here in the last days, the antichrist is showing his colors, coming up through his politics and things. And just about the time the antichrist moves hisself fully on the—on the scene, God moves Hisself fully on to redeem it all. See, just run, just right together. And they’re, both, side by side. Cain and Abel! The crow and the dove, on the ark! Judas and Jesus! And just on down, you can take it. Just… Here was Moab and Israel, both of them. Moab was not a heathen nation. No, sir. They offered the same sacrifice that Israel was offering. They prayed to the same God. Exactly. Moab was call-…Was one of Lot’s daughters that slept with her father, and had a child. And that child was called Moab. And from him sprang the Moab race, the country of Moab. And when they seen Israel, their redeemed brother, come… They were fundamentalists. They were a big denomination. Israel had no denomination; she just dwelt in tents and wherever you go. But Moab had the dignitaries, kings, and so forth. And they had Balaam up there, a—a false prophet. And they had all this. Then they come down there to curse their little brother that was on the road to the promised land, going to his promise.

21. IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST — 1959-12-20

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• ¶46–¶47a What it is, if—if the Nazarene comes up to me. You’d say, “Brother Branham, now, there’s a Nazarene and the Methodist. They say they received the Holy Ghost when they shouted. They said they received the Holy Ghost.” I’m not saying they didn’t. But here’s one thing that I watch, “By their fruit.” When Truth is revealed, some of them turn against It, bitterly, “That’s the devil.” Then, the fruit shows where it come from. See? It shows they didn’t get It. But those who are willing to walk in Light, receive Word. Here some time ago, I was preaching down in Kentucky. And outside the meeting, there was a man who belonged to a church that believes the days of miracles is past. He was holding a lantern in his hand. And he said, “I just waited for you, preacher.” An old uncle and I, that’s gone on now. And I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “I’m so-and-so.” And I shook his hand. I said, “I’m sure glad to meet you, my brother.” And he said, “I just want to tell you that I believe that you’re absolutely wrong.” I said, “Well, you got a right to do that, because you’re an American.” And he said…Well, you see, and we got…I said, “Wrong on what? Would you mean on the healing?” I said, “What about that little barefooted girl that just walked up there yesterday, last night, had a little baby?” She wasn’t over about fourteen years old, herself, barefooted. Little old…What you call that? Gingham, calico, or some kind of a dress. I don’t know about goods. And—and she had a little baby in her hand, and she walked up to me. And people sticking in the win-…And this was the Methodist church, the White Hill Methodist church, just out of Burkesville, Kentucky, where I was born. And she had this little baby. And I said, “Sister…” I had asked, “Anybody sick?” And she walked up through there, little, bashful thing, her little head down. And she said, “Yes, sir, my baby.” And the little thing was going like that.

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

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• ¶141–¶147 If I don’t get started, we’ll never get into this. But these things, and the way for Him to do it, and who will do it, that’s His Own chosen way, He chooses. That’s the way He wants it done. As I heard Brother Pearry Green, our pastor at Tucson, preaching the other night about how that God made things some way (I forget what his text was.), but he said, “That’s the way God likes it, that’s the way God does it.” Well, that’s right. Now, who is it among us that’s going to tell Him He’s wrong? Who would dare to stand up in God’s face, and say, “You’re wrong, Lord, You should do it the way I want it done, the way Dr. So-and-so said it should be done”? Who is that far gone in their mental faculties, to say a thing like that? No, you wouldn’t come out and say it, but you think it! Like on my Message of the Antichrist, “There shall rise false christs.” Now, He didn’t say false Jesuses. See, nobody would stand still to be called “Jesus,” in the term of the Lord. But false christs means “the anointed.” Oh, they, each one thinks they got anointing, “Glory to God, he can do this and do that!” But put him on the Word test and find what he comes out at, see, the Message of the hour. They had anointing in the time of Jesus, but not on Him. They had anointing in time…Even Dathan had anointing in the time of Moses. He said, “Now, don’t you think you’re the only holy one among us, God’s got plenty. We’ll just start an organization here, a group of men.”

23. THE RAPTURE — 1965-12-04

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• ¶41–¶43 Here not long ago, I was reading a book some German wrote, in criticism. He said, “Of all of the—of the fanatics in the world, William Branham tops them all.” He said, “Why, he’s nothing but a…He’s a— he’s a magician. He does these things.” See, the man, not knowing. And, then, the man was a critic. He didn’t even believe in God. He said, “A God that could set up in the dark ages, hold His hands across His tummy, and laugh at a bunch of Christians; being mothers, and His Own disciples, was supposed to be; mothers with little children and things, and let lions eat them up; and never even turn a hand.” You see where the carnal mind, where education and things, can’t catch the vision? That corn of wheat had to fall into the ground. Just like Jesus had to fall, to rise again, so did the church of pentecost had to fall. It had to go into the ground, them dark ages. Any wheat that…Any grain that goes into the ground, it has to lay in that dark time, to bring forth. But it started sprouting in Martin Luther. Come on through Wesley. On out into Pentecost. Now in, to go out to the grain. And now the denominational systems that they left behind, they’re stalks, that’s all. It’s to be burnt, the denominational system. But the real grain of wheat that come out of each one of those reformations will be caught up in the Bride. It all altogether will make the Bride.

24. THE IMPERSONATION OF CHRISTIANITY — 1957-01-20

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• ¶152–¶157 Said, “She is in a heart attack, real bad, and may die at any time,” the mother. So I thought, “What is happening to this great Branham generation?” I thought the same thing when I seen my daddy, as I held him on my arms, and his curly hair dropped over in my arm, and I there seen him as he looked at me and smiled, when I was praying for him, and he went out to meet God. I thought the same thing a few days before that, when Doc, my brother there, picked up his own brother, cut through the throat, where a fellow, drinking, hit a post, and broke the car and killed him. And he died in my brother’s arms. And seeing dad come down the street, from Mrs. Kelly’s…Mr. Kelly’s house over there, crying, with his old black hat in his hand. In a few days later, holding him in my arms, as he was dying. I stood there and watched the old rocking chair, without anyone in it, begin to rock back and forth, as Ruth my sister-in-law was going to meet God. And I said, “Honey, shall I hang the picture of Jesus over here?” She said, “Billy, no. He is before me, always.” Then when I stood by the side of my wife, Hope, the mother of my boy, Billy, and my little girl, Sharon. And seen her take a hold of my hands, while her dark eyes looked to me, and spoke of the Place that she had just returned from, and desired to go back, and told me, “Never fail to preach this Gospel, Billy. You don’t understand what a joy it is to go like this.”

25. 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…

26. THE SEAL OF THE ANTICHRIST — 1955-03-11

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• ¶13–¶14 Just like in the healing services, when the people come to the platform, maybe sometime prostitutes, drunkards, and so forth…It’s hard, when you see that woman’s life out yonder, in ill-fame and so forth, I have to speak that right out before her friends. But what’s truth is truth. We’ve…Truth either binds or sets free. That’s right. And so, we must know the truth, and it is the truth. We can bring…God can do something in America, and I—and the first thing you know, there’s so much false impersonation over it… They can start a move of God; and I tell you: it becomes after while, runs into a bunch of fanaticism. That’s the truth, friends, if I ever told it. Now, when I was here the other time, trying to tell you what that I…God’s confirming the Word, signs, wonders, and miracles, and so forth; I said, “Someday I want to come back and teach to you a little while.” And that’s what I come back for, is to do that. Now, look at the age that we’re living. Now, to my opinion, this is the age of the turning time. It’s a time when men are either will come into the Kingdom of God or be sealed out of the Kingdom of God. And I believe that the antichrist seals a person. We’re taught in the Scriptures in the Book of Revelations, “If any man receives his seal or his mark, or the letter of his name (and so forth) is doomed,” is sealed out the Kingdom of God. And the Spirit of Christ, when once sealed with That, is sealed in the Kingdom of God. And just as sure as you can be sealed out with one, you can be sealed in with the other. And tonight, we’re going to talk about the sealing out, and tomorrow night, about the sealing in. And you draw your opinion, as I try to keep it strictly on the Word, not opinions, but at the Word.

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

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• ¶333–¶337 And I said, “You know what it is, Tommy. You’re…The Greater Chicago Ministerial Association is going to challenge me on ‘the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ.’ The Greater Chicago Ministerial Association is going to challenge me on ‘the evidence of the Holy Ghost,’ speaking in tongues. They’re going to challenge me on ‘the serpent’s seed,’ and on the preaching of ‘grace.’” Tommy looked over, and, “Mercy! Goodness!” Said, “I don’t think I’ll even go.” I said, “Yeah, you come on.” And the next day, the man who had took the deposit, give him back the deposit, and said, “We got an orchestra. We had it booked up, and we forgot it and had lost that thing. And we had to give it to a orchestra, and you can’t have it.” And we went out to Town And Country. Walked in, that morning, and there they all stood. When I set down behind the desk back there, and waiting, after they had breakfast, I looked around at them like that. We had breakfast in a room. Come out, set down there, and there was the Greater Ministerial Association of Chicago. I looked around to them. Each one introduced themselves as Doctor Ph.D., L.L., Q.U.S.T., and all them kind of things like that. I just sit and listened at them, till they got through. And Brother— Brother Carlson stood up. He said, “Gentlemen…” And all of you know Hank Carlson. And, there, ask him. Well, you got it on tape right here. If you want to buy the tape, it’s here. The boys has got it.

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

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• ¶17b–¶19 God took Christ out of the earth, but the Holy Spirit come back. The devil takes his man, but the spirit remains just the same. Jesus said, “You’re of your father, the devil.” Said, “Which one of the—the— of the prophets that showed forth the coming of the Just One, did your fathers not stone, and so forth?” speaking of the Pharisees. And it… Remember, and right keep this in mind: The antichrist spirit is not communism. The antichrist spirit is religious. Jesus said, “It’d be so close it’d deceive the very elect if possible.” It’s not a—a something like a communistic anti-God affair; it’s a religious spirit. John saw it in Revelations, and he wondered with great admiration, how it set like the church of the living God, and so forth, and yet in it was found the blood of ever martyr that had ever been killed for the Lord Jesus. Now, in the garden of Eden there, we will just let Adam and Eve pass by and begin with the two boys, Cain and Abel. We was talking of them a few days ago. Each one of those boys were spirits. And to my opinion, right there were Judas and Jesus in a prefigure. Just as Cain killed Abel at the altar, so Judas killed Jesus at the altar by betraying Him and denying Him. Some people only see three crosses on Golgotha; there was four. The cross represents a tree. And there was Christ, a thief on each side, and Judas hung hisself on a sycamore tree. He was on just as much cross as Christ was, for cursed is he that hangeth on a tree.

29. A SUPER SIGN — 1962-07-08

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• ¶172–¶175 It’s Romanism is going to rule, according to the Bible. Let me say this, in closing. There’s three great curtains today. One of them is the iron curtain. The other one is a bamboo curtain. And the other one is a purple curtain; you watch that one, that’s the one that’s going to rule. Oh, can’t you see the whole thing facing right into it? The church getting…“Unless there come a falling away, the man of sin can’t reveal himself.” The communists, the lukewarmness of the church, the insignificance walk around. God, have mercy! Said, in that day He’d send a super sign among them, He’d call a people for His Names sake. He’ll do it! Thirty-one years ago I dedicated my life, and died, the old William Branham, and give myself (a service) to respect and to take the—the filth off of the Name of Jesus Christ, and put the Word of God back in the church. I’m thirty-one years in the service. God, help me to live to see the day when I can see the hearts of Christians beating as one, amen, and the filth of the women and the men, and—and the churches and their creeds and things, dropped away, and a true unadulterated church of the living God stands in the beauty of Christ to receive Him when He comes. Let us bow our heads. Heavenly Father, why do I have to say such? It’s off of my shoulders now, Lord. It’s, it—it’s into the ears of the people. I—I pray, God, that…I don’t think the people sits here, but let them take it to somebody else. Oh, have mercy, Father God.

30. JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER — 1952-08-10

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• ¶56–¶57a Now, lady, you come here near. Now, I just want to ask you some questions. Can you hear me out there all right? Where’s Brother Baxter? If you…You watch Brother Baxter, I don’t know, I believe it’s going to the anointing (You see?), and if it does why, you watch this microphone, if they don’t get it. I never know how far it is away (You see?), when it gets a few, after a few. The anointing gets so deep, till the whole crowd of people becomes a mass, and I don’t know what I’m saying. You see? And you before this happens, I love you. I am your brother in Christ Jesus. Pray for me wherever I go. I’ll always remember Chicago, be longing to come back. Now, sister. I know you’re a Christian, because your spirit feels welcome. See? You’re a believer. But now, in order that we want to talk just a few moments. See? And—and then, in this talking, like our 23 Master did at the woman at the well. He just talked to her, till…See, you are human. I am a human. And we both have human spirits. And now, there’s…If there’s anything wrong in you (See?), then that is something that Satan’s trying to do. That’s an outside being from you. You understand that? If it’s a cancer, if it’s a tumor, or whatever it is, it’s something outside of you. It’s a life growing, or whatever it might be. Now, in here, I’m just a man, just your brother. And then, there’s an anointing come in here, which you’re aware of It now. See? You know it’s something. I want you to watch, friends. Watch the patient’s face when they come near here. Watch, when It’s coming like It is now. Watch them change the expression on their face when they come. Just— just remember to watch. And now, if the Angel of the Lord will come near, then the angel of sickness, which would be on you, he will go to pulling. See? The Angel of the Lord’s near. Now, there’s both powers. And they’re fighting one against the other. Now, it depends on our faith.

31. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-07-28

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

32. WHY? — 1961-01-28

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• ¶61b–¶62 I just wondered what excited you.” He said, “Come here.” I looked over there, and I said, “I don’t see nothing; just a dress.” He said, “But do you see that stain on there?” He said, “That is the blood of Abraham Lincoln.” He said, “And right here on my side is the marks of a slave belt.” He said, “That blood took the mark… took that slave belt off of me.” And said, “If that…” I thought, “If a—a—a man that had a slave-belt on him, and the blood of Abraham Lincoln took the slave-belt off of him, what ought the Blood of Jesus Christ do to a borned again church?” Why, it took the slave-belts of sin off of us, and brought us into the Kingdom of God; and took all the evil stuff away from us, and inoculated us, and give us of His blessings, and of His Power—that we might live the Life of Jesus Christ, and not be associated any more with the things of the world. Oh, my! What a difference it ought to make with every one of us! But, the thing of it is, we don’t want it. We don’t want to—we don’t want to fool with it. We’re—we’re tired of it. Certainly. [Brother Branham is interrupted—Ed.] A little boy—epilepsy—I suppose they had him here to be prayed for. Is that right, sister? All right. You believe with me now. Satan, leave that child. Come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ. Would you interrupt my message, Satan? You evil thing, come out of that child. I adjure thee by the Living God, pass from him. Now there it is. All right? Now I will continue on.

33. THE JUNCTION TIME — 1956-01-22

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• ¶157–¶160 It was in them days, I’m showing you the shadows, and so forth, and showing you what shadow we’re in now, that you people here will serve God. I’m not telling you what church to join, that don’t make any difference, I’m saying, “Come to Christ!” There it is. Notice, Jambres and Jannes…What was the test? What was the final test? We’re predicted in the last days that the antichrist will have power. What kind of powers? He will do great miracles. Did the Bible say so? Sure he did. He said, “He will even make fire come down out of heaven.” Is that right? But not one place did the Bible predict that the antichrist would heal a sick person, ’cause he can’t. God is the only One that can heal. “I’m the Lord Who healeth all of thy diseases.” That was a showdown test between the false and the real when He come down there to Egypt. They throwed down their sticks and made snakes, they did the same thing, Jambres and Jannes, before Moses and Aaron; and they performed miracles, and so did they; but they could bring the plague of boils, but they broke out, too, and couldn’t get healed. And when Moses and Aaron had power to take it away, it proved, and they said, “This is the finger of God.” And today Divine healing is considered of the devil by a lot of modern thinkers, that Divine healing is of the devil, it’s the power of Almighty God, exactly, in an individual faith in a resurrected Lord Jesus. “The things that I do shall you also; even more than this, for I go to My Father. I’ll be with you always, to the end of the world.”

34. 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…

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

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• ¶93–¶95 Now, “the teaching of Balaam,” not the prophecy of Balaam. That was all right. That was God. How many believes that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] The prophecy of Balaam was exactly right, ’cause he couldn’t speak nothing else. The anointing of God wouldn’t speak nothing else, and God vindicated it by proving it was the Truth. But it was “the teaching of Balaam.” Now compare that with Matthew 24:24. Anointed ones, but their teaching is false. The trinities, and all things like that; wrong, antichrist! I hope your feelings don’t get hurt. And don’t turn that, them phones off. And don’t get up and go out. Just set still, and let’s see if the Holy Spirit won’t reveal it to us, and prove it to us. Say, “But that…” Just whatever you believe, just set still and listen. And ask God to open your heart, then you’ll find out whether you’re a brier, or a thistle, or wherever you’re standing. See? Now, even Judas, “foreordained to the condemnation he was,” set there before Jesus. And Jesus told him, “You are the one. Whatever you’re going to do, and whatever you’ve got to do, go do it quickly.” Him knowing what he was doing, but, for them thirty pieces of silver, and popularity, sold the Lord Jesus Christ. One of His disciples, the treasurer of the church, Jesus called him His “friend.” See? The Bible said, “He was borned the son of perdition,” just the same as Jesus was born the Son of God. “Deceive the very Elected if it were possible.”

36. REVELATION, CHAPTER FIVE PART I — 1961-06-11

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• ¶27–¶30 And I put my arms around the neck of both brethren, or, all of them, and I said, “Brethren, as much as I have tried to be a true servant of Christ, I would not that you would say such a thing as that. And if it would ever be said of me, then I will leave the field with a clear conscience, and you who do that will be responsible for every soul that I would have saved during that time; see, for taking me from the field.” And I thought that ended it. And I heard it a few more times. But it wasn’t so. And the other day in Canada a brother showed me a little ticket of a thing he’s packed in his pocket, said “William Branham is our Lord,” baptizing in the name of William Branham. And a little…a precious…If it had been an enemy, if it had been my enemy I would have knowed it was a joke. But a precious, darling brother come up to confess his sins and his wrongs and say his faith in me as being Jesus Christ. And I have got letters at home, and calls from Chicago and different places, asking me if I believe that dogma. And I got all kinds of letters that’s come in the last few days, and calls from different places, so, saying that I was Christ. Brethren, that is a horrible, disgraceful, ungodly lie of the devil! See? See, I am your brother. Now, that would run any person from the field. That would make anyone that loves Christ run from the very thing.