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

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

• ¶534–¶540 Christ’s Pentecostal bride did the same. She can’t bring forth spiritual, Word Children, for she is a hybrid herself. How can she do it, when she’s hybrid herself with the denominations? Done joined up with them, and everything, just the same as they are. In with the Council of Churches, and everything else, just as hybrid as the rest of them are. How can she do it? She can’t. Now, I just got so much to say, and I just got to hurry over these. I…Each one of them I want to preach on. See? Now watch. The true Bride, hallelujah, there’s going to be One. Why? She’s predestinated. She won’t be denominated, because She’s predestinated. See? She don’t have to worry about some denomination. She’s already predestinated to take the place. Look. Like Mary… I want you to get this now, and don’t fail. Are you ready? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] When Christ comes to His Bride, She will be a virgin like Mary was. For God will not bring Christ through a womb of a whore, and neither will He bring the Bride. He can’t bring His Word through a whore of His Word. Them is horrible words, but that’s what the Bible says. I’m saying what It says. Cause, It’s…This has got to be understood. The true Bride, like Mary, will have a virgin womb for the Bride of the Word, which is Christ. When Christ, the Word, comes to the Bride, She’ll be the same as He is, a virgin by the Word. O God! I hope—I hope it’s going over, Brother Neville. I…

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

• ¶750–¶757 They couldn’t see it, ’cause they’re of their father, the devil. Their denominations wouldn’t let them see it. That didn’t stop the Word from going on, just the same. It fell on some, right, and from that come a Bride, that generation. All right. How different, painted fire! Jesus could—could say, “The Father that sent Me,” is with Him. “And the works that I do, testify, because I do the same things the Scriptures said I would do.” Jews knew their historical God. Same now. Yes. Why did they know the historical God? Is because they had the historical seed. Why did they not receive Him? Because it was hybrid with denomination. Jesus knew Who sent Him, for He that sent Him was in Him. And there was no denomination tied to Him. Amen. Tell me which one. “What school did he come from?” They say, “Where did he get this wisdom? Where was this learning come from?” They couldn’t find a school that He ever went to. And, yet, at twelve years old, He confounded the scribes and the Pharisees. Oh, my! That spoke of it. Why didn’t they say something to Him, as a kid? It was God’s Word. They couldn’t withstand That. No wonder the people were astonished at His Doctrine! Did you ever read that? Mark 1:22, if you want to put it down. “The people was astonished at His Doctrine, because He taught like somebody that had authority.” He knowed what He was talking about. See? The Church now should have a double portion of the Spirit. For it is true, like Elijah’s garment that fell upon Elisha, a double portion, the same thing come from Jesus Christ. Now, you say, “Oh, Brother

• ¶832–¶836 Adam’s bride rejected to bring Life. She brought death. We’re her product, our bodies. We all die. Look at us, you can see. Jehovah’s bride died, He divorced her, and took a people out of the Gentiles, for His Name. Is that right? His Name; like a woman takes a man’s name, the bride. Now what’s she done? The same thing they did the other time, denominated herself, polluted. But in every generation, every revival brings forth some prophet of God. A prophet is a “preacher, true preacher on the Word, that stays with the Word,” and they bring forth a revival that gathers that Elect out of that generation. Then she goes into seed, then God will never use it again. I ask any theologian, any historian, to tell me one time that a denomination ever rose up. She never. She died when she denominated, and there’s where she laid. I think of Dwight Moody, the Moody Bible, dead as midnight. I think of the Methodists, the Pentecostals, the Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the Nazarenes, the Pilgrim Holiness, godly men raised up, Buddy Robinson, and—and George Whitefield, and all those great, godly men that preached the Gospel. And that generation received the Seed that was sown for their part. Like the corn, whether it was the stalk, whether it was the leaf, whether it was the tassel, whether it was the grain; whatever it is, that minister brought the Word of that day. It called from the four winds of the earth and took the Elect of that generation. Through them Elected ones, has built the House of the living God.

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

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• ¶41–¶47 Like, the virgin was to bring forth the body of God, on the earth. She was an elected woman. God chose Mary. And, also, God has chose an elected Lady, which is His Bride. She’s elected. I hope we’re members of that, tonight, across the world, across the nation, rather. The illustration here, showing the relationship of Bride to Christ, the elect Lady: and how She was to be brought to Him; where She would come from; and how that She would be brought to Him. The Church here, in illustration that we got in view, is illustrated by a woman. Which, a woman is always a type of the Church, because the Church is considered a Bride. A Bride, She is the Bride of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God. Always, if you’ll watch, watch the conditions and the conduct of women, and you’ll see where the church is. Now, this, some of these remarks may seem strange to some of you, but it’s complementary to the Message that I have from the Lord, that I’m trying to get to the peoples. See? You watch everything in the natural, how it’s happening, nature, and watch it. It runs sure with the spiritual, also. Now, if you’ll see the conduct of women in the world today, watch the conduct of the worldly church today. Just watch. Of course, now, there is also the conduct of the spiritual Bride, the Church. See? Watch That, also. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Because, the natural so call, claim to be Bride. Now, please let me say again to the local assembly. Don’t feel bad now. I’m—I’m speaking to all out across the country, to the, what I think, the elect Lady. So if there happen to be ministers in here, that doesn’t agree, well, just hold your peace for a little while. See? Notice. Just listen.

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

• ¶57–¶59 So is the church, when she tries to mix creed and denomination with the Word of God. She can’t be married to a denomination, and be the Bride of Christ, at the same time. She’s got to be dead to one or the other. The law says so, here. There’s plenty of laws in God’s Word. And that’s His law, Paul speaking the same thing here. She cannot be married to a church of worldly creed, and be the Bride of Christ, because she…one is contrary to the other. Now, remember. Say, “Well, we believe this, but we don’t believe That.” If you’re married to Christ, Christ is the Word of God. In Saint John, the 1st chapter, said, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the same was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Christ was the living Word. He always was the Word. He is still the Word. He always will be the Word. He was only the manifestation of the attributes of God, for He was the Son of God. And any son is the attributes of his father, and just as you were in the genes of your father, in the body of your father when he was a young boy, you were in him. Yet, he could not have fellowship with you, because he didn’t know you. But then, through the bedding grounds of a mother, you were brought forth into the earth and become in the image of your father, then he could fellowship with you.

• ¶179–¶182 Now take a good look for a moment, with your own spiritual insight, at your soul. Just look around. I’m speaking across the nation now. Look just a few minutes, you out there in the Branham Tabernacle, you in the tabernacles on the West Coast, and Arizona, and everywhere you’re at. Look at yourself for a few minutes. You say, “That Message you’re preaching, Brother Branham, is wrong.” Look at yourself a little bit. Let the Holy Spirit search your minds with the Word, you’ll agree with the Message. Let Christ, the anointed Word, search out your own conscience. Let Him get into you, see if That’s right or not. And that’s just one or two things I mention, when there hundreds of them. Does the Bible agree with a woman bobbing her hair? [The congregation says, “No.”—Ed.] Does the Bible believe, agree with three, baptisms in the name of “Father, Son, Holy Ghost”? [“No.”] No such a thing. Does the Bible agree with woman wearing man’s clothing? [“No.”] Well, just take them three there, when there’s hundreds of more. Search it out in the Light of God’s Word. You say, “I’m a church member.” So was Cain. So was Eve. The Bible predicts, in the last days, that the Laodicea will be the same. Let the Holy Spirit search your conscience, and you’ll agree with Daniel 5:12, when the queen come in before Belteshazzar, and said she found out that there was a prophet, Daniel, was among them, and he was a dissolver of doubts. You let the Holy Spirit, He is the Prophet of the day, let Him come into your heart right now and examine with the Word of God, and the doubts about the Message will be all dissolved. He dissolves all the doubts. You find out, it’s exactly on the Word for this day.

• ¶386–¶391 If you believe that with all your heart, I want you to raise up to your feet, turn around to this church, the audience, and raise your hands up, and we’ll sing it together with them, “I surrender everything that’s in me, God. As best of my knowledge, everything that I am, I surrender.” Step up on this platform here, you that’s at the altar. Step right up here on the platform, brethren, right up here, all of you, and brothers and sisters. Looky here, church. [A sister says, “Brother Branham, I belong to church, but lately I’m not—not even in it no more.”—Ed.] Surrender? [“The Lord knows where I want to be led by Him. I want…?…to church. And I want the Holy Spirit, be filled with the Spirit. And I’d sooner die, if that’s what it takes.”] Yes. That’s right. Do you surrender every bit to Him and His Word? A sister here, out of a denomination. She said, “I belong to a denomination.” We don’t have to call it. She’s a worker in there. But she said, “Brother Branham, I want to get out to the Truth. I want something deeper than that.” See? Let me quote His Word. “Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Now, you here on the platform, that just come, if you are ready to surrender everything that you are, everything, to obey the Word of God…Nobody told you, this week, what to do. Now, if you’re ready to surrender right now to Him, just raise up your hands, like this, to the audience. Now, you here on the platform, let’s sing it together now, I Surrender All. Everybody, together. All right. I surrender all, Now, really mean that!…?…her one day, and how thankful I am. Make her surrender…?… …Saviour,

3. THE CHOOSING OF A BRIDE — 1965-04-29

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• ¶78–¶82a I said, “Well, my, my!” See? I thought they ought to have her in a pesthouse somewhere, you know, keep it from breaking out all over other women. But, you know, you have to plan, look, pray, when you’re choosing. For, we see, by this, the Word of promise. She, the bride that a man would choose, is going to reflect his character. It reflects what’s in him. Now, could you imagine a man, filled with the Holy Ghost, take something like that to be a wife? I—I—I just don’t see it, brother. Now, maybe I’m just an old crank. But, you know, I—I just can’t understand that, see, notice, for it’s going to reflect what’s in him. She is going to help him make his future home. Now, then, when we change back now for a moment, to the spiritual side. And when you see a church that’s in the world, acts like the world, anticipating in the world, partaking of the world, counting God’s Commandments as if He never had wrote Them, then you—you can just imagine Christ ain’t going to take a Bride like that. Could you imagine taking the modern church today for a Bride? Not my Lord. I don’t…I could hardly see that. No. Remember, now, a man and his wife are one. Would you join yourself to a person like that? If you would, it would certainly kind of disappoint my faith in you. And, then, how about God joining Himself to something like that, a regular denominational prostitute? You think He would do it, “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof”? He would never do it. She must have His character in her. The real, true, borned- again Church must have the—the character that was in Christ, because the husband and wife are one. And if Jesus did only that which pleased God, kept His Word and manifested His Word, His Bride will have to be of the same kind of character. She could not, by no means, be a denomination.

• ¶82b–¶86 Because, then, no matter how much you want to say, “no,” she is controlled by a board somewhere, that tells her what to do and what she can’t do, and, many times, a million miles off of the true Word. It’s too bad that we ever got away from the real Leader that God left us to lead the Church. He never sent state presbyters. He never sent bishops, cardinals, priests, popes. He sent the Holy Ghost for the Church, to lead the Church. “When He the Holy Ghost is come, He will lead you into all Truth, reveal these things to you, that I have told you, bring them to your remembrance, and will show you things that is to come.” The Holy Spirit was to do that. Now, the modern church hates That. They don’t like It, so how could she be the Bride of Christ? The people of today is choosing a modern denomination. What it does, it only reflects their poor understanding of the Word. I don’t mean to hurt, but I mean to let it go deep enough till you’ll look at it. I’ve married many couples, but it always reminds me of Christ and His Bride. One of the weddings that I performed here, some time ago, it—it was quite an outstanding thing in my life. It’s been several years ago, when I was just a young minister. My brother was working on the—the PWA. I don’t know whether anybody ever remembers that, yet, or not, anybody as old as me. And that was a—a project that the government had. And my brother worked up, about thirty miles. They were digging out some lakes, a project for the conservation.

• ¶168–¶171a And we find today, that, the modern church, a modern world church, the modern world church and also that the spiritual Church are both pregnated, to give birth to sons. One of them, a denominational birth, is going to be give, one of… day, to…these days, at the World Council of Churches, which will produce to the world the antichrist, through a denomination. That’s exactly the Truth. I may not live to see it. I believe I will. But, you young people, remember that you heard a minister say that. That’ll finally wind up. And that is the mark of the beast, when she forms that World Council of Churches. And she’ll give birth to her son, the antichrist. The other is pregnated by the Word of God and will bring forth the Body, the finished Body of Jesus Christ, which is the Bride. The Body of Christ isn’t finished yet. How many knows that? A man and woman is one. And Christ is one Body, the Word. The Bride will have to be the rest of that Body. And the two, together, makes the one Body again. Like Adam was at the beginning: man, his wife, are one. Now, She, the true Bride, so sold out to Him, that She use no mind of Her own. His mind, of course, is His will, and His will is His Word. Now look at the so-called bride chosen by man, and compare the spiritual to the natural of today, a modern Jezebel bewitched by her Ahab, Max Factor beauties, everything. Look at the church, the same way, but a prostitute to the Word of the living God; big denominations, big buildings, big money, big salary, all sold out. Men standing in the pulpit endorsing that that’s all right, and let them get by with it. Just deceit, that’s all. Truly a blind Laodicea Church Age, just exactly what the Bible said would be. “Said, ‘I am rich. I set as a queen. I have need of nothing.’ And knowest thou not that you’re poor, miserable, blind, wretched, naked: and don’t know it.” If that isn’t THUS SAITH THE LORD, Revelation 3, I’ve never read It. That’s what she is, and don’t know it!

• ¶206–¶211 And as I stood there, looking, she passed on by. And you can imagine the back part of her, with nothing on, holding this in front of her as she went shimmying by, like that, to this twist, throwing her limbs out like that. And, her, oh, it was vulgar, how she was carrying on, her body shaking around like that. Now I… You say, “What does it mean, Brother Branham?” I don’t know. I’m just telling you what I seen. And when she passed by like that, I looked at her. Oh, I just got real faint. I just turned around. I thought, “God, I’m condemned. There— there’s no need of me trying any now. Just might as well quit.” Mrs. Carl Williams, if you’re setting here, and that dream that you told me about, a while ago, that you had the other night, that’s been bothering you, there it is. The steering wheel is taken from my hand. Then, I just thought, “I—I just might as well forget it.” I was gone. Then, all at once, I heard It coming again. And coming up on this side come the same Bride that went around this a way. Here come them little ladies again, and each one of them was dressed in their national garb from where they come from, like Switzerland, Germany, and so forth, each one wearing that kind of garb, all long hair, just exactly like the one at the first. And here they was coming, walking. “Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war.” And when they all passed by the preview stand where we were standing, just all at once, every eye went that way. And then they turned back, and on they went, marching.

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

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• ¶154–¶157 Now, seven days there shall be no leaven mixed in the Bride, the Church, seven days. Now notice. Now as no… And there shall be no leavened bread seen in thee in all thy coast seven days;…(The sacrifice here is a type: the Bride coming forth from the Sacrifice which is Christ.)…neither shall there be any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificed the first day at evening,… And remember—remember how we just went through the Church Ages? The messenger to the church always comes just at the dying of the other church age, always. The dying of the Pentecost brings forth the rapturing of the Bride. See? The dying of Luther brought forth Wesley. See? The dying of Wesley brought forth Pentecost. The dying of Pentecost brings forth the Message now. Here, it’s right here, patterned all through the Scripture. There’s not a Scripture in the Bible but what hooks right one with the other. See? All these types. I have no education, but I have the Holy Spirit that shows me through another channel to teach it from, from nature; and that’s by the Word. Has to be the Word, things is promised. …flesh,…the sacrifice the first day…even, remain all night until the morning. Now, even Luther, who had the Truth and taught the church “the just shall live by faith.” You don’t want to hang on to that being the full doctrine, in the Methodist age. What shall you do? Burn it with fire. What was the type of? The denomination that comes out of that Word is a shuck, the stalk, the husks, must be burnt with fire. That denominational part that it come through must not remain, got to die. Don’t leave it till the breaking of another—another age, burn it up! He’s talking now to the Bride here, just the Bride, coming up through every age.

5. THINGS THAT ARE TO BE — 1965-12-05

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• ¶32b–¶35 Therefore, you walked with Him, when you were in Him, when He was on earth. You suffered with Him, and you died with Him. You was buried with Him. And now you are risen with Him, and manifested attributes of God, setting in Heavenly places; already raised, resurrected to new Life, and setting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, that means so much, nowadays, Church! That means so much to us, to see ourself positionally placed in Jesus Christ! Now, if we are those attributes of God, we cannot live by creeds. We cannot live by denominationalism. We must live by the Word, because the Bride is a part of the Bridegroom, like any wife is a part of her husband. Therefore, we must be that Word Bride. And what is that Word Bride? The manifestation of this hour, the Bride, not a creed or a denomination; but a living oracle of God, a living attribute of God, displaying to the world the attributes of God, in the formation of the Bride that’s to be expressed in this hour that we’re now living. Martin Luther could not express the attributes that we express, because that that was in the beginning, the resurrection, like the corn of wheat that went into the earth. Now, we quote this again. You probably read the book, that German making fun of me, and said I was a fanatic of all the fanatics. He was—he was absolutely against everything that’s called God, and even made fun of God. Said, “A God that could open the Red Sea and,” said, “take His people out; and set with His hands across His tummy, and let (through the dark ages) all those people die and suffer, those little children be eat by lions.”

• ¶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.”

• ¶158–¶161 One time they was trying to get her. She didn’t—she didn’t do like the Pentecostal Elvis Presley, sell her birthrights for a mess of Cadillacs. She…Come to her and wanted her to write—write worldly songs. She said, “I would not do it, for nothing.” Said, “Why, you’re blind. When you get to Heaven, how will you know Him?” She turned around, inspiration, so she said: I shall know Him, I shall know Him, And redeemed by His side I shall stand; I shall know Him, I shall know (How?) By the prints of the nails in His…(Otherwise, “If I don’t see Him, I’ll feel His hand.”) I shall know Him, I shall know Him, And redeemed by His side I shall stand; I shall know Him, I shall know Him By the print of the nails in His hand. Don’t it make you love Him? Gone to prepare a place for us! “And if I go and prepare a place, I will return again, to receive you unto Myself.” Little children in travail now, re-obey the commandments of God. And pastor, here, if none of you has been baptized, the water will be ready. And—and membership for the church, or whatever you want to do, or whatever, you do it. You haven’t got the baptism, the Holy Ghost, this is the night to receive It. Don’t you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] “Oh,” you say, “Brother Branham, it’s late. You done preached too long.” Paul preached all night, one night, this same kind of Message. And a little…A young man fell off of the wall and killed himself. And Paul, so anointed with that same kind of Message, laid his body upon him, and the life come back into him again. He is still “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.” Don’t you love Him? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Let’s just, once more, with our hands up, “I love Him. I love Him.” Where’s the pianist? There, if you will, sister, ever who it is. Give us the little chord, if you will. How many love Him? Just raise your hand. Say, “I really love Him. I just love Him, with—with all my heart. I love Him.”

6. THE FOURTH SEAL — 1963-03-21

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• ¶271–¶276 Then what do they do? They finally form up in the image unto the beast, another power; notice, and act, to the Lamb’s Bride, like she did in Revelation 13:14. That’s what they do, just persecute, just the same thing. The churches make just as fun of the true Bride of Christ, as Rome ever did. Just exactly. Yes, sir. Acts to the—the real Lamb’s Bride just exactly like she did in Revelation 13:14. Now notice. We see, by God’s Word of promise, He will—He will kill her children, the denominations, her daughters, with spiritual death. Now, that’s Revelation 2:22. Don’t forget it. To kill, is to put to death. And death is “Eternal separation from the Presence of God.” Think of that, friends. Think of that. Don’t you trust in any man-made creeds. Anything that’s contrary to the Word, you keep away from it. Now watch, watch in the Bible here. It said his name was Hell, and…I mean: …his name was Death, and hell followed after him. Now, hell always follows death, in the natural. When the natural man dies, hell follows him; that’s the grave, hades, see, that in the natural. But in the spiritual, it’s the Lake of Fire, see, all right, into Eternal separation, where they’re burnt up. And—and Malachi 4 said, “Don’t even leave them stubble, or branch, or nothing else.” It’s the way the world has of purifying itself again, for the Millennium. See? Have you noticed, the rider is a “he”? And “he” had in “his” hand; “man,” false prophet. But his bride is called the church, “she,” Jezebel. Ahab; Jezebel. Why, it’s just as perfect as anything. See? See?

• ¶282–¶287 Now, the way He was going to do it, was reach down and get (like He did Adam) a little bunch of calcium, potash, and cosmic light, and, “Whew!” Say, “There is My other son.” See? Then He’d bring up some more, and, “Whew!” “There’s another one.” But what did Eve do? She corrupted that way. And she brought it through a sexual act, then death struck it. Now what is God doing? He’s got so many of those seeds down through there, that’s predestinated; so much, the predestinated. And then, at the end time, He won’t say, “Eve, come bear another child.” He’ll (“Whew!”) call, and I’ll answer. That’s all. That’s it. That’s the idea. When that last one is brought in, that settles it. Now, the battle started in Heaven. It’ll be finished on earth, in the form of Armageddon. Now let’s watch and see it unfold. And maybe we can unfold it. The Lord help us right now to do this now. Watch it unfold. The mysterious rider, watch what he does now; “opposed,” refused to repent and to go back to the original Blood Word. The Word became Blood and flesh. See? He refused to go back to It. Is antichrist! The true Word Bride, is opp-…he is opposed to the true Word Bride. Takes his own bride! He opposes this true Bride, too. And he takes his own bride, and brings her to him, in a form of religion called creeds and dogmas. See? And now, seeing the holy Bride, he is against Her. But he forms his own bride, called antichrist, by an antichrist teaching, which is contrary to Christ. See how shrewd he is? And now, instead of having a unity of love, controlling, worship under Blood, he has got a denomination. Instead of having the Word, he took creeds, dogmas, and so forth.

• ¶288–¶292 Like, and the Protestant says, “The Apostles’ Creed.” I want you to find a word of it in the Bible. Apostle, there ain’t no Apostles’ Creed in the Bible. As I said here, now, not long ago, or somewhere. If the apostles had a creed, it’s Acts 2:38. Just exactly all I know he ever had. That’s what they called everybody to do. When he found one of them that looked like they were Christians, he said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” Said, “We know not whether there be…” Said, “Then how was you baptized?” Now, being baptized in the Jesus’ Name, or in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, rather, that, that’s all right, but that’s not all of it yet. No, sir. You could be baptized fifty times, like that, and don’t do a bit of good until that heart is changed by the Holy Spirit. It all has to go together. Notice, it’s—it’s Christ! The antichrist refuses the true Bride Doctrine, and therefore he takes his own bride now and builds her up, under a creed of his own. Takes his own bride and makes her a denomination! She gives birth to other denominations, as quoted in this Holy Scriptures; gives birth to daughters. And she don’t…She becomes just like her mother, natural, worldly, denominational; opposing the spiritual Bride, the Word. They don’t say they don’t belong to church. You talk to a denominational person. “Sure, I belong to church.” Are you a Christian? “I belong to church!” That don’t have one thing to do with It! They say…You don’t belong to Chur-…You, you might belong to what’s called a church, see, belong to a church. That’s not a Church. Them is not Churches. Them is lodges where people get together, and people like, “birds of a feather.”

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.

• ¶144–¶146 But if This, coming from Above, oh, brother, if It ever strikes this, there is a godly spiritual faith. Then what does that faith do? That faith recognizes only the Word. No matter what anything else says, it only recognizes the Word, because, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And the Word is still God. “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” And when the Word Itself is pouring into our faith, our mental faith becomes a spiritual revelation. “And upon this foundation I’ll build My Church.” See? Not upon a mental conception of church joining, a mental conception of That; but upon the revelation, when them streams of grace has poured into that mental faith that you’ve got. Then, upon this, a spiritual revelation, “I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against It.” See? That shows they would be against It, but it’ll never prevail. Oh, what a glorious thing! Now see the faith. These five streams… I had a piece of chalk here, but I guess he never brought it out. But the five streams you see coming down through here, tempers this together. It has been the Holy Spirit that made the Ephesus church. It was the Holy Spirit that birthed the Smyrnaean church. The Holy Spirit that give the Pergamos church, and the Thyatira church, in the Dark Ages. It’s the Holy Spirit that’s built that Bride, the Elect that’s pulled out of all the organization systems down through the ages, like that. There’s an Elected, a predestinated Bride of Jesus Christ, that the Holy Spirit has called out the Elect. And it’s been the Holy Ghost in this age, that age, that age, that, that, that, that, on up to the top, the Holy Spirit.

8. THE FIRST SEAL — 1963-03-18

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• ¶90–¶97 Him, “him,” a man whose working is after the working of Satan. …with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, deceiving people by unrighteousness, in them that perish (not this Bride), in them that’s looking for such a thing; because they received not the love of the truth,… And Christ is the Truth, and Christ is the Word; but they would rather have a creed. Huh! See? …that they might be saved. And for this cause God has sent them strong delusions, that they should believe a—a lie: It should be translated there, as I looked in the lexicon, “the lie,” not “a lie.” “The lie,” same one he told Eve. That they…might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. What a statement! My! After the Bride is taken away, then this man of sin will reveal himself. She, the true Bride of Christ, has been elected out of every church age. Now, the other day I made a statement, “The Bride could go Home and you’ll never know nothing about it.” That’s true. Somebody said, “Well, Brother Branham, that would be a mighty small group.” Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah,” now you talk to Him about it, see, “wherein eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the Coming of the Son of man.” If they was eight hundred went in the Rapture tonight, you would never hear a word about it tomorrow, or the next day, or no other time. They’d be gone and you’d know nothing about it. See, it’d just be the same thing.

• ¶98–¶104 What am I trying to say? I’m not trying to scare you, worry you. I— I want you to be on your toes. Be ready, watching, every minute. Quit your nonsense. Just get down to business with God, ’cause it’s later than you think. Now, you remember, the true Bride! Now, there is a false bride. We get that in Revelation 17. She said, “I am a widow, and have no need of nothing,” you see, sitting upon this scarlet-color beast, and so forth, the beast, rather. Now, but the true Bride will be made up of thousands times thousands of people, but it will be the Elect out of every church age, every time a Message went forth, and the people believed It and accepted It in all the Light It was, when they were sealed away until that Day of Redemption. Don’t Jesus teach the same thing, when He said, “The—the sound come in the—the seventh watch”? That’s the last church age. See? And said, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go out to meet Him.” And then the sleeping virgin come, rubbed her eyes, and said, “Suppose I ought to have some of that Oil, too, so maybe you’d better have some.” And the real, true Bride standing there, said, “We just got enough for ourself. Uh-huh. We just got enough to get in, ourself. We can’t give you nothing. If you want some, you go pray up.” And while she was gone, the Bridegroom come, and in went the Bride. And then them remnant there, the ones that were absolutely virtuous, the church, was left outside. And He said, “There will be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.”

9. 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.

10. 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…

11. THE ONCOMING STORM — 1960-02-29

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

12. SHOW US THE FATHER AND IT’LL SATISFY — 1956-04-22

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• ¶71–¶72 She said, “I belong to the church, and I have since a child. I was on the cradle roll. And I’m a Christian; I’ve been a Christian, and I, when I die I’ll go to heaven.” She actually believed that, reasoning. And she said, “I’m just as good as you are.” He said, “You know Brother Branham?” She said, “I’ve heard of him.” Said, “I want him to come over and see you.” And said, “I know as soon as he come, he was going to call this thing to your hand.” Said, “What thing?” Said, “Lady, this it’s this thing laying in this package of cigarettes. What about that?” She said, “Why, you fanatic, I guess you think that’s wrong.” He said, “I know it’s wrong.” She said, “I never sent for you to come.” He said, “Just a minute, lady.” Said, “What about that common- law husband?” She said, “The door that you come in at, is ready for you to go out at. If I wanted somebody that had some sense to talk to me, I’d send for somebody and not you.” So he said, “All right, lady, just remember.” He come back and told me when I come in. He said, “I wanted you to go there.” I said, “Just watch her at the end.” When she come to die, her backslidden pastor standing out there let her get by with such as that without telling her the truth, they was all in the room. And the first thing you know, her intellectuals begin to fail, begin to break up. She couldn’t think.

13. 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.

14. THE REJECTED KING — 1960-05-15

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• ¶238–¶241 Lord Jesus,…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…five little stones, f-a-i- t-h, and the slingshot of prayer. And I’m bringing back my sister from the clutches of that nervousness…?…yonder. I’m bringing her back to peace and shady green pastures and still water. I do this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. [A sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] Father God, this little girl, we’re so glad that it wasn’t muscular dystrophy. But regardless of what it is, it’s still in Your reach, Lord. And I come with the little sling of faith, and this stone. And I press this stone with all the strength that I can throw it. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it hit the mark. May our sister be well. I do this in the Name of Jesus Christ. [A sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] As this young mother, and her little offspring, a little one that she wants to meet over yonder, on the other side, in that glorious Land that I just spoke of, and they…The mother won’t live to the…raise the little fellow, and neither can the little fellow live long without Your help. But I’m coming with the sling, with all that the strength and the aim that I can take at the enemy. And in the Name of Jesus Christ, I sling this at him. They shall be well, for the glory of God. In the Name of Jesus. Amen. [A sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] Oh, that’s so nice. I’m glad. Well, that ministry, then, was the greatest ministry of pointing people out. It pointed to works…?…

15. JEHOVAH-JIREH 2 — 1964-04-03

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• ¶233–¶235 Now if you will see that it was to be the same thing when the Son of man was to be revealed to the royal Seed of Abraham, through Christ (Christ is the Royal Seed), when He is being revealed in the last days. Now, positionally, the world is setting exactly, because the Son that rose in the East sets in the West. “And it was a dismal day,” made organizations, denominations, “but it shall be Light in the evening time,” said the prophet Jeremiah. Now, and in the days when that Son, It comes out from behind the clouds of denomination, to reveal Himself, He said the world would be setting just like it was in the days of Sodom, and the Son of man would reveal Himself again to His people. Look how He revealed it to Isaac’s seed; look how He going to reveal it to the royal Seed, the Bride Royal, the Queen. The Queen is the royal Seed. As God brought a nation out of a nation, in Egypt, He is bringing a Church out of a church, or a Bride out of a church; Church out of church. And the remnant of the woman’s Seed, that’s what was left over, “there is weeping and howling and gnashing of teeth, ’cause they didn’t have Oil in their lamps, Holy Spirit,” always represented. There they are. The position is setting right. And now look up on the hill. Now, the Church, Abraham; Lot; Sodomites. The world; the church; the Elect. The Church, the Bride, out of the church. We’re sitting positionally right. The world is just in the right swing to it.

16. ELISHA THE PROPHET — 1956-10-02

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

17. 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…

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

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• ¶269–¶271 And that’s where many Bible scholars today get mixed up, thinking that the Bride’s over yonder in the Tribulation. A fellow said to me, said, “I couldn’t tell you, Brother Branham.” Said, “I seen the Bride up in Heaven. And the dragon spurting water out of his mouth to make war with the Bride. And the hundred and forty-four thousand, which is the Bride, standing on Mount Sinai.” I said, “Oh, no. No. No. No. You got it all mixed up. The Bride was in Heaven.” And the remnant of the woman’s Seed, not her…not the pattern, the remnant was there, and the persecution (the Roman Empire) when Catholicism will consolidate and they’ll unite their powers together with the Great church. Why, they got it right…It was on television the other night. The Methodist church is trying to unite Methodist and Baptist and all the full churches of Christ are trying to unite with Catholicism and stand before one plain altar. What did the bishop say when he was put on trial the other night, over there to be a Communist? I was standing, looking at it on television myself. All the bunches of them! And when that time comes, there’ll be a persecution rise. Then the Holy Ghost will fall, and Methodists, and Baptists, and all, will speak with tongues, praise God, and heal the sick and prophesy, and all the signs and wonders will be coming. The Elect will go up, and the remnant will be left here to go through the Tribulation Period. And at the end of the time, when they see what has happened, they’ll have to go down in martyrdom.

19. 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.

20. 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.”

21. THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL — 1956-09-02

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• ¶247–¶249 Now we’re just ready to break the bread and to take the communion. And we pray, Lord God, that You’ll be with us and bless us, and manifest Your love to us, as we do this. For we ask it in Christ’s Name. Now, to you who must go, we’re going to dismiss you. Brother Neville, I’ll ask you to get the Scriptures ready for the reading of the Word, for the communion, and you who can stay, stay with us for the communion. You who can’t, you’re dismissed with God’s blessings on you, and come back and be with us again at another time. It’s now eight minutes after ten o’clock. And now if you have to go, God bless you for coming, and we hope to see you again this side of Glory; if not, on the other side. And you that can stay, you’re welcome to stay for the next thirty minutes, where we take the communion, and have—and have footwashing. Now, to the strangers in our gates, shake…Everybody shake one another’s hands and bless the Lord, while we sing Take The Name Of Jesus With You. All right. Take the Name of Jesus with you, Child (…?…God bless you, Brother…?…)

22. THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH — 1957-06-14

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• ¶35–¶36 “I now want to make my pledge of loyalty to Christ. I now do promise, as I raise up my hands, be Thou my everlasting Portion.” And the gift of God’s Eternal Life, which is the greatest gift in the world, will speak back into your heart. “Yes, child of Mine, I now receive you.” God bless you sister, here in the reserves. God bless you over there, sister, certainly He sees you. God bless you, my brother. God bless you, brother. God bless you over here. “Thou, my everlasting Portion…” Will you raise your hand again just before prayer? God bless you, sister. You back there, yeah. Some others who hasn’t as yet raised your hand and wants to accept Christ, would you do it just now? God bless you, little boy. All right. Just a moment longer. I know our time’s getting away. How many in here that maybe has never been in a meeting before, say, “Brother Branham, I have come tonight on this one basis. I’ve come like the queen of Sheba. I’ve come, I’ve heard about this Christ being raised from the dead doing the same thing in here the Cadle Tabernacle that He did before His crucifixion.”? “And if Christ will do that tonight, as I’ve come like the queen of Sheba to watch, I too will surrender my heart. Oh, I’ve been a church member, Brother Branham, but I’ve never been borned again. I still love the things of the world.” Oh, you say, “Do you…Is there something make you quit loving it?” Jesus said, or the Bible says, “He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in him.”

23. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA — 1960-07-10

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• ¶238–¶243 Say, “Does that mean anything Brother Branham?” Certainly, you pass from death to Life when you do that. “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst.” God bless you, my brother, setting right here. Would there be someone else just before we go? We won’t call the altar call right now, no, we just ask you to raise your hands, to pray. We’re going to pray for the sick. God bless this young, colored lady setting here. Just a, look like a girl just at the crossroads of life. God bless you, young lady. When this teenage reckless age of rock-and-roll, and stuff, going on, you taken the choice of the right road for Christ. May God ever bless you, my sister. Someone else would just say, “Remember me, brother, in prayer. While you’re praying, may God have mercy on me”? God bless you, my brother, here, and the one just across the aisle. Yeah, God bless you. There, that young girl back there, God bless you, honey. The little girl, God be with you. That’s wonderful. All right. Is there another that knows that you haven’t got that kind of love? You couldn’t display that loyalty to Christ, you would like to, but you haven’t got it. Maybe you belong to church, wouldn’t hurt you to raise your hand, say, “I would love to have it, Brother Branham, I would love to feel in my heart towards Christ…” God bless this little girl setting here. “I’d like to feel in my heart like that, towards Christ like that mother deer did to her baby.” Would you…?

24. ABRAHAM — 1961-02-11

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• ¶122–¶125 Jesus comes three times: He came first to redeem His Bride, He comes the second time to catch Her away, He comes the third time with Her; to redeem His Bride, to receive His Bride, and to bring Him and His Bride back as King and Queen over the earth, set on His father, David’s, throne. And now, we know there is three classes of people all the time. We notice it today, there has been Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostals. There is the sinner, the ungodly, the sleeping virgin, and the true virgin, always. Now, we find out there was the Sodomites; there was Lot, the lukewarm church; and here was Abraham, had separated hisself from them, and was living apart. Now, the very word church means “separation.” Israel was the people of God until they came into the wilderness, and being called out, it was then the Church of God. Church means “called out, set aside.” And Abraham was the elected Church; Lot was the sleeping virgin, or the formal church; and then there was the sinner, the Sodomites. Now watch, the Sodomites, and the formals down there, Lot in his formal condition, now, he was a good man, no doubt, It said, “The sins of the city vexed his righteous soul.” But there was a elected Church, called, predestinated by God, Abraham, called when he was seventy- five years old, given a promise, to let the trial say it would be for sure. Wait till we get over in a little farther here, where He made it positive sure.

25. JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER — 1958-03-23

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• ¶161–¶166 You believe now? Now, watch, the more you talk to the woman… Now, you say, “Brother Branham could have guessed that.” Just a moment, because there’s something else in the woman. The Holy Spirit has moved. Now, if He does something different…It’s no guess, check it, it’s perfect. Now, I don’t know what I told the woman, the only way I know is my boys here getting the tape. 23 Now, the woman is aware that something is going on. How many has ever seen the picture of the Angel of the Lord here we got? Let’s see your hands up. Sure. We, I think they got some of them here; it’s right here in Washington, DC. Yes, I see the woman fumbling with something, it’s a dish or something, she’s real nervous, that’s what she is. She’s been praying too, and she’s praying for somebody else, and that’s somebody that’s very bad, that’s got a swelling, it’s an older person, it’s her mother, and she has dropsy of the heart. That is correct. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe, lady? You believe, audience? All right, the handkerchief you’re bathing with tears, take it with you, God will grant to you the things that you’ve asked. Amen. We’re strangers to each other, sir. This is our first time meeting, is it, personally? [The brother says, “I’ve been in your services, sir.”—Ed.] You—you’ve been in my services. Where was that at, sir? [“In Indiana.”] In Indiana. But I don’t know you. No. First time we’ve ever been like this together.

26. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THIS JESUS CALLED CHRIST? — 1964-01-26

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• ¶76–¶81 Someone said, the other day when I was talking, said, “Brother Branham, you don’t believe then the church will go through the tribulation?” I said, “I believe the church will, but not the Bride.” The church will go through the tribulation, yes, sir, but the Bride is free from it. She’ll go in the Rapture, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. She’ll be caught up to meet her Lord in the air, for the Wedding Supper. She has nothing to go through any tribulation about; her Lord has paid her price. We’re so thankful for that. Yes, sir. After the rejection, of both church and nation, there was only one cry come, the next move, was, “Get rid of It!” That’s the next cry we have. The church has firmly turned down the Holy Spirit. We know it has. Oh, members has come out of everything, that’s the great call, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran; but the church, itself, the denomination, it cannot move. No, sir. It’s already denominated. What’s the thing of it is now? “Crucify It! Crucify It!” What? Crucifying, afresh, (what?) the a vindicated Word, to be the Truth. God’s Word, crucified, afresh. Just as Eve corrupted the whole physical world, by rejecting one little bit of God’s Word, so has the church did the same thing. You may say to me, “Brother Branham, you’ve got the wrong interpretation of It.” Well, that’s to your opinion. God don’t need any interpreter. God is His Own interpreter. That’s what the trouble of it is, today, we got too many man-made interpreters. God can interpret, Himself. His Own vindication of His Word is the interpretation.

27. 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…”

28. TRYING TO DO GOD A SERVICE WITHOUT BEING THE WILL OF GOD — 1965-07-18

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• ¶169–¶171a I’ve been pretty rough this morning, see. They wait on the Lord, waiting; and when they do, and they see that promise of today, being vindicated, it renews their faith in His Word. Cause, He promised to do it, and here He is doing it. Then there’s no doubt. God speaks. His Word, first, speaks. And then the Spirit that’s bringing It does the thing that the Word said It would do. Oh, we have lots of impersonations. We’ll still have a lot of them, men of sincere heart trying to do things this way and that way, but watch what happened. People will put their hands, and then—then die. See, notice. No man’s scheme of denomination will ever work, making members for their own self-made denominational arks. God never did have a denomination. He never will have a denomination. And it’s a man-made thing. And I wonder, today, if all of our drawing in and great crusades and revivals, we haven’t been filling up the Methodist ark, the Baptist ark, the Presbyterian ark! But what about the Ark of Christ, the Word? And if the Bride is to be the Word, then She’s got to be of Christ, part of the Bridegroom. She’s got to be the Word; the Word not for His day; the Word of this day, that He promised would be this day, that He sent His Word forth to mold His Bride and make Her. Hope we see it! Don’t get some idea of your own now, and don’t take somebody else’s idea. Take the vindicated Word here, the Bible. It says. God has promised in His Word how He would choose His Bride in this last day. Did you know that? He promised it, how He would do it, and that by His original plan of choosing Christ, of choosing the times, choosing the seasons, how He…He can’t miss it, on His Bride, because She is part of that Word. He can’t choose It by a denomination, when He didn’t choose Christ by a denomination. Did Christ come to a denomination? Did He come by a denomination? No. They rejected Him. Well, that’s what the denomination done then. Then when He chooses a Bride, can He come any other way?

29. THE JUNCTION OF TIME — 1956-01-15

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• ¶215–¶227 Father God, we lay hands upon our brother, and ask it in Jesus’ Name, that You will heal this body. And as he passes down this line of ministers, I pray, God, that the Shekinah Glory will…?… I can lay hands upon our dear, beloved brother, and ask, as he passes through here, that he’ll go through that refining Oil, that he’s in prayer for. Father, I lay hands upon sister, and asking, through Jesus Christ’s Name, that You’ll heal her and make her whole. Father God, we lay hands upon our sister…?…as we lay hands upon her, in Jesus’ Name, Thy Son. Amen. Father God, we lay hands upon our brother…?…diseases, Lord. Have faith now, as they passing by. They’re anointed with oil, as the Word taught. In Jesus’ Name…?… Father God, we lay hands on our sister, Lord, as she goes down this line. At…?…her heart desire…?… Father God, we lay hands on our brother, and ask for his healing. [Prayer line continues for three minutes and fifteen seconds, many of Brother Branham’s words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?… Did you happen to notice, strange? I preached this morning, on “the roads of junction.” Look at the junction here…?…this row of men. [Prayer line continues for six minutes many of Brother Branham’s words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?… O God, the Omnipotent! Grant it, Lord, that the Spirit and power will come upon our sister, making her completely well. We pray, in Jesus’ Name, as she passes down these ministers, may she be completely whole tonight. Amen. [Prayer line continues for forty-five seconds, many of Brother Branham’s words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?…

30. THE ARK — 1955-05-22

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

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

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• ¶160–¶162 Now notice her long hair, Nazarite vow to the Word. I’ll picture the Bride of Christ now. We picture the antichrist, where she is, religious and everything, science. Now the humble little Bride of Christ just simply believes the Word, whoever She is. It’s individuals. I hope and trust that there’s many setting present, many listening in. And I hope that myself, and every one of you all, are part of that Bride. I hope many. And, it will, all that’s been ordained to that will be that, ’cause it’s their nature. They see. The Word can only recognize the Word. It can’t recognize a denomination or a perversion. It knows better; It’s the Word. See? It can’t recognize nothing… A wheat can’t be nothing but a wheat. It started, a wheat; it’ll head up, a wheat. And a weed can never be a wheat, yet it’s watered by the same anointing. See? But it ain’t a wheat. As I said the other day, about the tree with the different branches in it. Her long hair, Nazarite vow, shows that She is vowed to God. Her beautiful gown of His promised Word for the age that She is living in, wrapped around Her, vindicating Her with Himself, of Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.” As, She is a part of the Word Groom, true to Him in every point. Now look. If a woman goes out here and is married to a man, and she goes out and makes love with another man and has an affairs with him, and come back to her husband, he should kick her out. Is that right? She must be true to him, ’cause she is vowed to him. And the Bride of Christ is vowed to Christ; and He is the Word. Not even wink at the other side, a woman should not even wink at another man. She should make no signs, no emotions at all towards him, for she is absolutely a bride to one bridegroom.

32. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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