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1. THE TEN VIRGINS, AND THE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND JEWS — 1960-12-11

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• ¶150–¶153 Now watch, they…both of them were “virgins.” Now let me get this. Here, let’s takes these two right here. This is a virgin and this is a virgin, this was a foolish virgin and this was a wise virgin, but both of them are virgins. Now if you’ll take that name virgin and run it down, it means—it means “holy, clean, sanctified.” The word sanctified comes from the word “sainted,” which mean, “clean.” Like the Hebrew word…Now, that’s a Greek word, sanctify means “clean.” Now, the Hebrew word is make “holy.” See? And ours is “clean.” Now, they take the three words, like each word has the same meaning but it’s spoke different, like the— the word “clean, holy, sanctified,” all three the same word. Like we was going to speak the word like dog. I’d say, “dog,” that’s English. If I’d say dog in German, Fred, it’s “hund.” Is that right? Brother Norman, if I say dog in Spanish, it’s “ajo.” Ajo, Hund, and dog is all dog to us, see. See, it’s—it’s just so, an expression. So, the Greek word for clean is “sanctify,” the Hebrew word is “holy.” Holy, clean, and sanctify, is all the same word. So this was not a filthy, dirty church; it was a sanctified, clean church, “ten virgins went out to meet the Bridegroom.” What does it mean? All these churches. Not…now, not down here in the Roman; but down into the denominationals, the Nicolaitanes. Baptist preach on the Second Coming of Christ; Methodist preach the Second Coming of Christ; Presbyterian preach the Second Coming of Christ; Nazarenes preach the Second Coming of Christ; Pilgrim Holiness preach the Second Coming of Christ. That right? “All of them went out to meet the Bridegroom.” Now you—you remember that they every one was on their road to meet the—the Bridegroom. Now, if God only respects that, then He have, take them too.

• ¶164–¶166 We read the other night, where It said, “These people will not be an organization, they’ll be wanderers around in the land, dwelling in tents, poor, humble.” But said, “Don’t you try to curse them, ’cause I’m with them.” Now watch! These people believe in the same ritual that they believed in, and worshipped the same God. See? But they didn’t have signs and wonders following them! Israel had a Brass Serpent, a smitten Rock, the joy of the King, Divine healing, prophets, everything right down here. And they did not, they had the ritual without—without the blessing, the Oil. The same thing with the sleeping virgin and the wise virgin, they were both sanctified people. But this one had Oil. And this one did not have Oil, so they said, “We’re as good as you are.” That’s…There’s none of us good, as far as that concern. “Why, you’re a bunch of holy- rollers!” Well, that’s okay, uh-huh, that’s all right. There’s none of us good, we all sinned and come short of the glory of God. But the only way you’ll ever know It, not by joining church, not by trying to live good, but while receiving Christ. It ain’t what I live; it’s what He was. It ain’t what I am; it’s what He is. He become me that I might, through His grace, become Him, the son of God. You see it? Now, a sleeping virgin, and a wise virgin with Oil in her lamp. Now, all of a sudden, there came a sound, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him!” And they wakened. But when they did, this one could go in ’cause they had Oil in the lamp. That was the difference.

• ¶170–¶176 All right, to some of you legalist-believing brethren on this tape, would like to burn it: When did they become fish? When the net went over them? They were fish in the beginning! That’s right. Elected from the foundation of the world! They just never come into the Master’s use. That’s your frog. You take an old frog and throw him up on the bank, just “whop, whop” right back to the water. And the ol’ crawfish sitting there, say, “Aha, that’s a bunch of holy- rollers.” There he goes back, “Ah—ah—ah—ah—ah. Oh, no!” Right back to the mud as hard as he can go. That’s right. The ol’ snake hissing along a little bit, “I believe the days of miracles is past, Doctor So-and-so and So-and-so told me.” Said, “Ah—ah—ah— ah—ah—ah—ah, you can’t fool me!” There she goes, right over there again, you see. Snake, to begin with! Frog, to begin with! Paul said in the Bible, them kind, he said, “They went out from us because they wasn’t of us to start with.” See? Uhm! All right, the foolish virgin. The wise virgin with Oil in her lamp, she made ready. Now, “while she was gone to get some Oil,” that’s what they’re trying to do right now. These great evangelical churches, trying to find these great things, you know, and do…go back to the Bible, back, “we need the Pentecostal Blessing.” Why, you can imagine what kind of a service they’re going to have, see. They ain’t going to get down there and spoil all that manicure on them, and all of that. Oh, no. They ain’t going to give up them sororities and societies and things like that. Holding on to the world like Esau, in one hand, try to catch God with the other one. You can’t do it. You can’t be a cross-eyed Christian, you know, looking at God and the world too. You got to center yourself in Calvary, stay right there with That.

2. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN — 1962-05-31

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• ¶207–¶212 So, we have two classes today that’s professing. Now listen close, in closing. We have two classes that’s professing to be the Bride of Christ. That’s right. And the Bible speaks there will be two classes. That’s right. The wise virgin and the foolish one. Is that right? There’s two classes. The church says, “We are the Church.” They go out and have these great evangelistic campaigns, bring the people into the church. The women continue on with their way of doing. The men continue on with their way of doing. They never change their doctrine. They got it all wrote out, and documented, and set down, and those Apostles’ Creed, and certain prayers, and all these catechisms, and everything that the Methodists, and Baptists, and Presbyterians, and Catholic, and all, read. And they accept that catechism because some great man back behind said that was right. He might have been a great man, he might have been right, but he hasn’t got the authority to say that. Cause, the Bible is God’s authority. It’s the written Word of God. “And any man that adds one thing to It, or takes anything from It, the same will be taken (his part) out of the Book of Life.” That can’t be done so, now. But we have two professing it. One said, “Well, we’re the Church.” The other one said, “We’re the Church.” All right. The wise and foolish, both are invited. But did you notice? They both had vessels. That’s right. They both was virgins, believers. They both had vessels.

• ¶219–¶224 Let them out there. They’ll laugh at the system. They say, “They’re crazy.” But Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, which is Himself, to get it to those that’s behind the Word, like Abraham’s group, to confirm the Word before them, to show that He’s still the Word. See that you’ve taken the right place! All right. Fire is the confirmation of the Light coming from the Word. They will fill…The smart virgin, the wise virgin, had Oil in Her lamp, and She trimmed Her lamp and lit it. Now, what is it? Now, the…God is the Word. The Oil is the Spirit. And the Fire is the Gospel Light on that Oil. God said so. See? That’s the vessel. All right. The Oil is in the vessel. And the Fire, burning It, shows that It’s reflecting the Light of what the Word said. See? That’s the reflection. Now, that wise virgin could do that. But that other, foolish virgin, was on the outside, had no Oil, and they couldn’t reflect nothing but just their church and their denomination. See? Now, you say, “The Word, you said ‘the Word was—was Spirit’?” Yes, sir. God said, “My Word is Spirit.” That’s right. The true Bride must be unified by the Word. Now, remember, if She is a part of Christ, She has to be the Word of Christ. In order to be the Word of Christ, you have to be baptized into Christ. And when you’re in Christ, you believe Christ, and Christ is the Word. Amen! Amen! Amen! Do you believe It? Amen! Do you love Him? Amen! Will you serve Him? Amen! Amen! Amen! He’s the Light of the world. (That’s right.) Amen! He’s the joy of our heart. Amen! He’s the Power of our life. Amen! Amen! Amen!

3. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1959-06-28

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• ¶103–¶105 Now, the parable of the five virgins—or the ten virgins it is, please excuse me. The ten virgins is found in Matthew 25:1. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom (now notice!), and five of them were wise and had oil in their lamps, five were unwise and did not have oil in their lamps. While they slumbered, the cry—cry come, “Go meet the bridegroom.” And the ones that had oil in their lamps, trimmed their lamps, the fire was burning, and they went out to meet the bridegroom. The others come to buy oil, and they told them to go and get from— oil from those who sold it. While they were going, the bride come and the—and the—the wise virgin went in, and the sleeping virgin was cast out. This is going to hurt, really hurt, but I’ve just got to say it. I never asked the question; I’m just responsible for answering it. Now, this comes so close to home, brother, so close, till I hope that it helps instead of hurts. Usually you have to hurt…As mama used to say when she give me a whipping, she said, “It has to hurt before it does you good.” Well, that—that is right. See? I couldn’t see it then, but I—I see it now. Look, the…All ten of them that went out were virgins. Now, there were ten virgins went to meet the Lord. Now, the word virgin means “sanctified (does anybody know that?), holy, pure, sanctified.” There were ten of them that went out to meet the Lord.

• ¶126–¶128 The mark of the beast is on today, and the—the Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. To reject it is the mark of the beast. Ever who sees the Holy Ghost, that you’re supposed to receive It, and don’t do it, automatically you take the mark of the beast, because there’s only two classes to exist: all that didn’t have the Seal of God had the mark of the beast. So to receive the Seal of God is to receive the Holy Ghost. To reject It is to have the mark of the beast. There’s the whole thing. That’s exactly right. Now, the Bride went up, the remnant left here. And she is the one who come in the second resurrection. “Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection, on which the second death has no power.” That’s right. The second resurrection will be the White Throne Judgment, then the church…“Don’t you know,” said Paul, “go amongst the unbelievers and the lawyers and so forth when the saints shall judge the earth.” These matters should be judged before the Church, not before the unjust magistrates and so forth, but before the Church our matters should. Dare you take one another to the law. And God pity a man that’ll take a Christian to law. That’s right. Paul even dared them to do it. Now, that’s the Bride, and there goes the sleeping virgin, left on earth. The wise virgin goes into Heaven with oil in her lamp. I know we could spend a lot of time on that, but I got—I’m going to hurry to get through this.

4. BEING LED OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — 1956-02-19

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• ¶70–¶71 And all of them begin to say, “Yes, that’s right.” And I let her up. And when I let her up, she…Them little opossums was gathered, and away she went as hard as she could dragging that leg, and went right up to my steps, and fell down and exhausted there, passed out. I went up. We pushed her. That right? We pushed her and tried to get her to move, and she just wouldn’t. She just laid there. Well, Mrs. Wood come up. She said, “Brother Branham…” And her pocket…’Course when she lay down, let out; the little babies was there a nursing. And said, “Brother Branham,” Mrs. Wood said, being a veterinary, she said, “now look, go kill that opossum. See? Them little opossums, just pick them up and throw them against the ground and kill them,” said, “ ’cause the poor little things,” said, “that old curdled milk and stuff, her dead,” said, “they’ll—they’ll—it’ll…She’ll die, or the little fellows will die, and die an awful death.” Said, “They’re too little to put on a bottle. They got a round mouth anyhow. Said, “You can’t do it.” Said, “You just might as well kill them.” I said, “I—I just can’t do it, Sister Wood.” She said, “You’re a hunter, aren’t you?” I said, “Yeah, but I’m not a killer.” And—and she said—she said, “Well—well, look, Brother Branham, why don’t you go in and get one of your guns and shoot them?” I said, “I just can’t do it.” She said, “Well, let Banks.” That’s her husband. “Let—let him kill them.” And I said, “No, I don’t want him to.” Said, “You mean you’re going to let that poor thing lay there in that sun, them poor little things nurse on that dead mother?” I said, “She’s not all the way dead.” I’d kick her, and every once in a while you’d see a little, kind of a little move in her jaw there. Why, said, “Look at the poor thing. She’s dying. She’s passed out. She’ll never come to.” Well, I said, “I just can’t help it. I just can’t kill her.”

5. THE THIRD SEAL — 1963-03-20

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• ¶302b–¶308 Oh, sure he is. Yes, sir. Still riding! Notice. Here is the good part now. Notice. …see that thou hurt not this wine and oil. “Just a little bit of It left there, but don’t you touch That!” Now, oil is…symbolizes the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. I’ll give you a few verses if you want to. There’s two Scriptures. In Leviticus, 8:12, where Aaron, before he went in, had to be anointed with oil, you know. And in Zechariah 4:12, of oil coming, pouring through the pipes, and said, “This is My Spirit, Oil.” Another thing, if you want to see Matthew, 14…25, there was a foolish virgin, or 25:3, the foolish virgin had no Oil, no Spirit. And Matthew 25:4, the wise virgin had Oil in her lamp, Spirit-filled. Spirit! Oil typifies the Spirit. Oh, glory! All right. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right. Now, oil typifies Spirit. And wine symbolizes stimulation of revelation. Oh, I—I like to a run all over the place. Wonder I didn’t wake up the neighborhood, when the Lord showed me that, see, “stimulation of revelation.” See? Oil and wine, in the Bible, is associated together, always. I got the concordance and looked. There’s a string of them, that like—like that, where wine and oil goes together, all the time. See? When the Truth of a promised Word of God has been truly revealed to His saints that’s filled with Oil, they all get stimulated. Wine is a stimulation. Glory! I feel It right now. Stimulated with joy, shouts! See? And, when It does, It has the same effect upon them that—that wine does upon a natural man. Because, when the revelation has been given, of a Truth of God, and the true believer filled with Oil, and the revelation is revealed, the stimulation becomes so great that He makes him behave hisself un-normally. Right. Glory! See, that’s what’s the matter with them now. That’s right, makes them behave theirself unseemly.

6. 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.”

7. 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.

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

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

9. 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…?…

10. THE SUDDEN, SECRET GOING AWAY OF THE CHURCH — 1958-10-12

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• ¶111b–¶115 But She is ready, and dressed, and waiting for it. We see His sign posts in the world, that she’s ready for judgment. We see signs and wonders in the Church, great things taking place. What kind of people should we be? Ready at the moment, for we don’t know when He’s Coming. “Be ye also ready, for you know not what minute or hour your Lord does come.” Be ready! For, you can’t get ready then, for He said you could not. How many of you, all perhaps, have read of the virgins? Some were wise and some were foolish. Virgin means “purity.” They were all good people. Every one of them, virgin, sanctified vessels of God. But those who had Oil in their lamps, went in, and the others was left out. They were all virgins, every one. People that you couldn’t put your finger on, for anything wrong. They, every one, believed in the Coming of the Lord. They were ready to go meet Him, but some of them let their Oil go out. Don’t let that be your case. Keep Oil in your lamp. Oil is a Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Never let It drain from you. When you feel your love dying away, your sincerity to Christ and to the—the Cause, quickly go to Him Who has the fountain of Oil, and buy for yourself a filling of the Holy Spirit. Our nation gone, morally corrupted and ruined. Our politics, corrupted and gone. Our leaders, O God, what could we do about it? You can put a good man in, and he comes out a crook.

11. 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.

12. THE END-TIME SIGN SEED — 1962-03-19

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• ¶140–¶144 He married his sister about seventeen years old, his half-sister, they had no children, and when she was sixty-five and he was seventy-five God appeared to him and said, “You’re going to have a baby by her.” Why, she took…he took His Word, he made ready for it. Twenty-five years after that nothing had happened, now he’s a hundred years old, and she’s ninety, that didn’t stop him a bit, “He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.” That’s the faith, that is the Royal Seed of Abraham, that is the kind of Seed that takes God’s Word, that is the thing that’ll bring the Bride, that is the thing that’ll meet Christ. He is the Word. And if the Church is sowed with something else besides the Word, It can’t go to meet Him. He hasn’t got a freak body with fungus on it, He has got a perfect Body, and He is the perfect Word. And the Church will be sowed and believed in the perfect Word. And the perfect Word and perfect Word will unite together as one flesh and one Body, as a husband and wife is. Amen. I’m not amening myself, but amen means “So be it.” I believe it, anyhow. Yes, sir. The former rain has went forth. The rain is fixing to fall. What’s it going to bring forth? You just watch. One more sign: the unwise virgin. Jesus said, just before the coming of the Bridegroom there would be a wise virgin with Oil in her lamp, and one unwise. And the unwise virgin would wake up one day and find out that she didn’t have any Oil in her lamp, when it become to the place, “Behold the Bridegroom cometh.” That’s what the shout is now, “Christ is coming.” And she woke up and found out she didn’t have any Oil.

13. PUTTING ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD — 1962-06-07

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• ¶207–¶211 I said, “Good morning.” I said, “Auntie, how did you know I was a parson?” Now, down in the south that’s what a minister is called. I said, “How’d you know I was a parson?” She said, “Aw, I knew you was.” Said, “There’s one thing I just missed,” said, “you,” said, “you was supposed to have on a little gray suit, and a little hat put on the side of your head,” said, “but where is that briefcase you had?” I just set it down. I said, “I left it in the hotel.” She said, “I knowed you was coming.” I said, “My name is Branham. Did you know…?” Said, “No, Sir.” Said, “Parson Branham, I don’t know you.” She said, “But did you ever hear in the Bible about that Shunammite woman?” I said, “Yes.” Said, “You know, she—she had a baby, she was too old to have a baby, and yet she had one.” And said, “That Elijah, that prophet, went and told her about that baby ’cause she was kind to this prophet.” I said, “Yes, I know the story very well, Auntie.” She said, “Well, I’s is that kind of woman.” And she said, “I prayed to the Lord, me and my husband, to give us a child. I said I’d raise him like she did.” And said, “He gave us a fine boy.” And said, “But my boy took the wrong road.” Said, “He got out amongst sinners and so forth, and went the way of the sin.” And said, “He’s laying in there dying, he caught a venereal disease.” And said, “He’s in there dying.” And said, “We didn’t know it, we Christians here,” and said, “it went so long till it turned into syphilitic.” And said, “He’s—he’s dying.”

14. ONLY BELIEVE — 1961-04-27

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• ¶117–¶120 You’ve read the piece where they put out, “We got to go back to having healing services.” Billy Graham talking, “We got to go back to Pentecost.” Do you realize, brother, that the very hour that they went to wake the sleeping virgin up, when she come to buy Oil, that was when Jesus came? I said, “I wonder if Brother David realizes that.” You think the Pentecostal church, they had their picture in the paper the other day with some Catholic priests, standing, blessing the Pentecostal businessman’s breakfast, or something, and things like that, which that’s all right, but I wonder if the church really realizes what it is. It’s a sign. When that sleeping virgin come and knocked at the gate, that’s when she could not get in, for the Bride was gone, don’t you see? That’s what I said about Brother David. See, not nothing concerning his work, or his ma-…, or, about his reputation. And David’s my brother, and one of the finest, godly men that I know of, but I just wondered how that he—he didn’t pick that up, to realize the very minute that that outside, denominational world begins to receive this Message, that’s exactly the hour He’s coming. When they—when they went, the sleeping virgin realized she didn’t have any Oil in her lamp, and when she come to knock on the door to get It, that was exactly when the Bride went out, when the wise virgin left. That’s right. They didn’t get in, no. And them organizations won’t come in. They won’t have the opportunity to, time the Message gets around, the Church will be gone. So if they’re trying to get in right now, how close are we? When we see as it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. The very last Message, Abraham and his Seed after him, we see every, everything lays just at time. We’ve got need, it’s time for action. It’s not, “Wait till I go away in school and get me a Ph.D., or LL.D,” it’s, “Get into the Gospel right now, preach.” Yes. Get out there now, now is the hour.

15. ELIJAH AND THE MEAL-OFFERING — 1960-03-10

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• ¶96–¶100 He said, “But, you make me a little one, first.” Isn’t that strange that a man would ask a widow woman, dying, for the last bit of meal she had in the house, with a dying child? God does things so strange! Said, “Make me a little one, first!” She studied, “You know, the Bible says that we have entertained strangers. We’ve entertained strangers, they were angels, not knowing what we were doing.” “Well,” she said, “I’ll do it.” And as she turned, he said, “For…” Oh, my. There it was, the greatest consolation that any believer ever listened to, “For, THUS SAITH THE LORD!” That’s the Word she was waiting for. “THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘The barrel will not go empty, neither will the cruse go dry, until the day that God sends rain on the earth.’” What do we get there? Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, all other things will be added. “How do I know, Brother Branham? How do I know?” The only thing I know, put God first and move on. Sacrifice! Mix the oil, mix the—the Word and the Spirit together, lay yourself upon the Cross, and say, “Here I am, Lord.” Put God first in everything! “For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ‘The cruse will not run dry, neither will the barrel go empty, until the day that the Lord God sends rain upon the earth.’” She knowed, then, that was the prophet of God speaking to her. Oh, how her heart must have jumped! She ran in and made that little cake and brought it to him, with the water, trembling hands over that old sunk-in cheeks, she knew that God had come to the rescue, over a little piece of bread.

16. THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS — 1953-11-29

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• ¶95–¶99 Now, you’re going to get angry with me, you just might as well get started. But, you men that’ll let your wives go out and act like that, and smoke cigarettes, and walk around, that shows how much man’s in you. That’s right. A real true-blooded man won’t permit such stuff as that. That’s right. Brother, that may be hard to digest, but if it is, take it, ’cause it’s good for you. Amen. That’s exactly right. I tell you, a real red-blooded man… My wife may do it sometime. When she does, that’s the day she leaves the Branham home. That’s exactly right. I wouldn’t permit it. By the grace of God, I couldn’t permit it. That’s right. And when men will stand up… Excuse me. That thing’s got more voice than I have. But look. I’m not excited. I know where I am. I know what I’m talking about too. Now, look. That’s right. This little ol’ girl started across the floor hollering, “Tootle-dee, doodle-dee,” and when this…she said…They was going to have some kind of old barn swing dance, or something or other, and she got down there to—to the radio, and she throwed a kiss to that guy through the radio. So excited she didn’t even know I was at the door. She said, “Tootle-loo, honey. I’ll see you out there tonight.” And I thought, “Yeah, it’s true, you’ll be there. No doubt at all. You’ll be there.” And she walked over, she kept going around the floor hollering, you know, like she was dancing. She said, “Oh, excuse me.” She said, “I just love to donce so well.” I said, “I noticed it.” And—and she said—she said, “Oh, I just love it.” I said, “I—I believe that.” I said, “Here’s your change.” And—and I went on back, and I was coming down a pole.

17. HE THAT IS IN YOU — 1963-11-10

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• ¶7–¶9 But what it was, where I think that our precious brother made the error; just like I’m subject, or anyone else; he started dealing with the up-and-ups. He kept talking about the Princeton University and the places that was inviting him, thinking that he was doing what was right, and was feeding fodder right into the machine; see, and such rejoicing! As not only that, but the Full Gospel Business Men, which sponsors my meeting, worldwide—wide. See? I—I love those men, see, but I certainly don’t agree with them upon the principles that they—they are—they’re…They have—they have left from where, their principles, they started, and now becoming just like any other organization or anything. See? And what it is, they’re not trying to remain pentecostal, but they’re trying to mix pentecost and the rest of it together. And looks to me like that Brother duPlessis, a wonderful, fine man like that, would know enough about the Scripture that when he sees the sleeping virgin trying to buy Oil, the time is passed. See? Remember, when she came to buy Oil, there was no Oil left. That’s the Scripture. And she said, “Give us of your Oil,” to the Church, but she did not receive It. She might jump up-and-down, speak in tongues, and whatevermore, but, according to God’s Own Word, she did not receive It. And she was out into outer darkness; and there was weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, when the elected Bride had done gone in. The—the wise virgin had Oil in her lamp. Now, I—I know another man, something that happened just the other day. What it is, is these fine people, see, getting a little, you know what I mean, a little hold among the people. And the first thing you know, they feel that that’s God doing that. And many times, that’s the devil doing that. See?

18. 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…

19. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶176–¶179 Now, this is a striking thing. Please don’t take it as a doctrine, but do you understand what the Scriptures said would take place when that did? Time was over. For look, there was seven virgins, or, ten virgins went out to meet the Bridegroom, and half of them had oil in their lamp, half of them didn’t. That’s the part of the Body that’s dead and the part that’s alive. The five’s wise, when they—the cry come, “Behold the Bridegroom…” they all trimmed, or, woke and trimmed their lamps to go into the wedding supper. But when the foolish virgin said, “Give us some of your oil, our lamps is gone out. (See?) Give us of your oil.” They said, “Not so, we just got enough for ourself. Go buy it.” And while they went to buy it, the Bridegroom came. When the proclamation went out, the decree, “The Bridegroom’s coming,” everybody wanted to get right, right quick. Ain’t that the hour when the handwriting’s on the wall? “Oh, we want the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” “We want this, that, or the other!” But while they went to buy It, the Bridegroom came. The wise went in, and they were left outside where there’ll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. I got just beautiful questions in here to go with that: “Who was the man with the robe on that come in, that didn’t have the wedding garment on?” And all those questions that tie right into that. 307. Should a person pay tithes to an individual, or should a Christian work?

20. 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.

21. THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE — 1956-06-03

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• ¶77–¶82 From the resurrection, “was caught up to God, and sets on the right hand of God.” Now, that would just cut loose all the “man child” doctrine, wouldn’t it? See? But now, “The law,” Hebrews 10 again, “having a shadow of things to come,” and not the very image, but the shadow. Now, the other night, I was discussing with a very fine person, on the doctrine of the Millennium. I said, “I believe in the Millennium, because there’s too many shadows of the Old Testament that speaks that there will be a Millennium. There’s got to be. Too many shadows!” They said, “Will the Church go through the Tribulation?” I said, “No. The Church can’t go through the Tribulation, It has got to go before the Tribulation. Too many shadows!” Look, that, Noah, in the beginning, Noah…“All the Old Testament, all the law, now, was a shadow of good things to come.” Now, before the tribulation period struck, first, Enoch, the… Noah, Noah was the type that was carried over, like the sleeping virgin, but Enoch was translated just before the tribulation struck. “And Enoch was took up, and was found not, because God took him,” the type of the going forth of the Church. And Noah watched him. When he seen Enoch go, he knew it was time to enter the ark, for to be carried through the tribulation. The Bible said, “There was ten virgins went out to meet the Bridegroom; and five were wise, five were foolish. And they were all virgins, every one of them. But five was wise, and they had Oil in their lamp. And they went out to meet the Bridegroom. And the Bridegroom came, and the ones that had Oil went in.” See, the translation, going with the Bridegroom.

22. 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.

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

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• ¶48–¶49a [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] “…by the gallon. They can anoint you by the day. All the people can stand around, and scream, and stomp, and yell, and holler,” I said, “That devil will lay right there because he has a legal right to lay there.” I said, “Now there’s your trouble, if…” She…I said… Said, “What shall I do?” I said, “Go tell your husband. Make it right.” She said, “Oh, I…Brother Branham, I got two children,” said, “It’ll break our home up.” I said, “Now, that’s all I know, sister.” I said, “Now, all the psychiatrists in the world couldn’t pull that out of you. There’s nobody knows that but you and that man and I. And the Lord knew it. So He has revealed it.” And she said, “Well, I—I just can’t do it. I can’t do it.” I said, “Well, now…” ’Course, that…See? I started out. And she said, “No, no. Wait a minute, Brother Branham.” She said, “Don’t go. Don’t go. Just a minute.” And she was crying. Poor little fellow, I felt sorry for her. But there is only one…This thing of feeling sorry for somebody and then the thing, you’ve got to be honest with people. That’s what’s the trouble today. We use too much petty sympathy. That’s right, you’ve got to tell the truth and God will honor truth. So she started out…I started out, rather, and she come to me, and—and I turned around to look at her, and there stood in the room, standing right by her side, was a tall black-headed man with wavy hair, combed over sideways. I said, “Is your husband a tall black-headed man with wavy hair?” She said, “Yes, sir.” And just then, he turned his back to me. And when he did, he had Chevrolet wrote on the back. I said, “Does he work for a Chevrolet company?” Said, “Yes.” Said, “You know him?” I said, “No, ma’am.” But I said, “He—He’s got the same thing to confess to you.

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

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• ¶208–¶212 And I look down here in the Word, I think, “Lord, if I’m wrong, show it to me. Don’t let me do that just to be going like that. People won’t…I won’t…I love people, You know I do. Don’t let me hurt nobody, God, You know I wouldn’t do that.” But the Holy Spirit rise up and say, “Stand on that Word! Stay there! Stay right there on that Word!” And I say, “Yes, Lord. If it…You’re my best Friend. You’re the only one I…You’re my real Friend that’s going to…only One’s going to help me when this life is fading away, so I’ll stand right with You then, Lord.” Here I come. I don’t mean to hurt, do please don’t take me wrong when I’m cutting at them organizations and things. Way before I knowed anything about this, all my life, I’ve cut at it. Never did believe it, that’s the reason I wouldn’t hook up with it. And…All right. Thank God for keeping me away from it! Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Spirit-filled, and are not, but…lie; and I’ll make them to come…worship before your feet,… Don’t you remember the sleeping virgin when she raised up? Now, remember, what was she called? There’s ten of them went out to meet the Bridegroom. Is that right? Five was wise, had Oil in their lamp. How many knows what oil signifies in the Bible? Spirit. Now, one couldn’t say, “You’re not sanctified, and I’m not…” They was all sanctified, every one of them. All sanctified; but five was wise enough (to have the wisdom of revelation) to catch that Door, see, to be filled with the Spirit. They had Oil in their lamps, and the others had no Oil. And when they were awakened, why, here they come up to them, said, “Oh! Oh! Give me some of your Holy Spirit, Oil. Give me some!”

25. SOUTH AFRICA TESTIMONY — 1954-09-02

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• ¶29–¶30 I said, “Oh, no you haven’t. It’s way back there, and it’s just cut till you don’t feel it any more, but it’s there just the same.” I said, “Now, you know I don’t know you. And you know nobody in the world knows that but you, that man, and God.” And I said, “Here it is revealed to you now.” And she said, “I just can’t do it, Reverend Branham,” said, “I’m sorry, break my home up.” I said, “Well, it’s going to break your home up anyhow, ’cause you’re not going to go very much longer.” I said, “You’d better go get your husband and talk it over.” She said, “I just can’t do that.” And my wife said, “Well, there’s somebody else at the door.” So she went out. Said, “Well, that’s up to you, lady.” I said, “That—that’s all I can do now. I’ve told you what He said, and that’s…You know whether it’s the truth or not.” I said, “Well, that’s all; I just have to go, and so, there’s someone in the other room then, people coming in.” SOUTH AFRICA TESTIMON Y So she said, “Just a minute, don’t.” She said, “Oh, Reverend Branham, I—I can’t do that.” And I looked, standing by the side of her there stood a tall black- headed man in a vision again, had his hair kind of combed sideways like that, wavy hair, real tall man. He turned his back to me; he had wrote on the back with a white coat, Chevrolet. I said, “Don’t your husband work for a Chevrolet company?” She said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “He’s tall, dark head and got wavy hair?” She said, “Yes, sir, that’s right.” I seen a vision of him. I said, “He’s got the same thing to confess to you.” She said, “Not my husband, he’s a deacon.”

26. SPEAK TO THIS MOUNTAIN — 1959-11-23

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• ¶48–¶52 So he called me out there, Mr. Wood did. And I was dirty, and you know how you be, and hot and sweaty, and overalls just white with perspiration, and, where they had been the day before. He come in, he said, “And you’re the preacher that took Banks on this wild chase?” And I said, “No, sir, I’m not.” I said, “I’m his brother in Christ, preaches the Gospel.” And he looked me all up and down a few times, we set down to talk. Not an unreasonable person, nice, but he said, “Mr. Branham,” said, “we were raised strictly Jehovah Witness, our father is a reader in the Jehovah Witness.” I said, “That’s fine. I’m certainly glad to hear that, that…And you have a nice name, and I sure appreciate a daddy that would raise you, and a mother, to be honest and upright people as you are.” And so while I was there the Holy Spirit in the goodness of His mercy, a vision came over, and I said, “Mr. Wood, I see you’re a married man. You have a wife, she’s a blonde-headed woman, you have two little boys about six and eight years old.” And he looked around towards Banks real funny, looked back. I said, “You thought Banks had told me that. He has not.” I said, “Perhaps maybe you know this: You have left your wife, or you’re untrue to her. Last night you was with a woman that had auburn hair, she’s much younger than you are, you were in a place where she and you were in a room together, and there was a man knocking at the door. You slipped to the window, and it’s a good thing you didn’t go at the door, you would got your head shot off, ’cause he had a pistol in his hand.” And he fell to the floor, he knowed that Banks didn’t tell me that. He said, “Mr. Branham, I want to know more about this.” Right there in the room the Lord Jesus saved him.

27. THE PATMOS VISION — 1960-12-04

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• ¶5–¶8a Now, if you’ll notice, there were five foolish and five wise virgins; all of them was virgins, made out of the same material. But, by election, God chose His Bride by election before the foundation of the world, put their names on the Lamb’s Book of Life slain before the foundation of the world; before the world ever began, God in His mind, being infinite. And we use the word sometime, is “predestination,” but it’s a sure hanger in this church age that we live in. It was certainly a great thing used in the days of the martyrs, ’cause they certainly believed it. But it’s got away from It now, to the legalist ideas, the legalist teaching in the church which come…Which was a good thing, because all of it had gone Calvinistic in England till they didn’t even have revivals anymore, and John Wesley come along preaching the Arminian doctrine which balanced it up. God will always balance it up. So then the foolish virgin was the one who did not have oil in their lamps, that I believe that was cast out into outer darkness where there’ll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. And if you’ll compare that, or your footnotes, it’ll run it right back again to the great tribulation. And I think they’re the ones who stays back and goes through the great tribulation. And quite a lesson there, if we had time to go into it. If you… Now, remember, I have said at the first, where when you hear the tapes, “These things is just according to the way I believe them to be right.” See? Now, if they’re wrong, I don’t—I don’t know they are. I…And I can only say what I believe. And I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. We must just lay them aside when we come in, and then take the thing that’s been said, and search it, and see if it’s really the Scriptures or not. That’s the best way to do it.

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

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• ¶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.

29. THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND THE SEAL OF GOD 1 — 1961-02-16

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• ¶164–¶167 They’ve done took the mark of the beast. Look at it now, the Pentecostal church has done showed its colors, now it’s spued out. Jesus on the outside, knocking, trying to come in. [Brother Branham knocked on the pulpit—Ed.] What is He knocking? The very Messianic knock, and everything else, and they still turned Him out. Certainly, they do. But what has happened? What day are we living in? Oh, my brother, what day we living in? Don’t think I’m crazy, I hope I’m not. If I’m crazy, just let me alone, I feel better this way, than I did the other way. But listen, listen, I tell you, my brother and sister, what’s it the sign of? It’s the sign we’re at the end time. What did Jesus say about the sleeping virgin? “Oh, you call them churches virgin?” Just like Cain was, exactly the same thing. They worship, but the sleeping virgin had no Oil in her lamp. Is that right? So when she found out she was later than what she thought, communism slipping up on her, she said, “Oh, give us some of your Oil. How do you get this Holy Ghost?” “You go buy It from one that sells It.” And remember, the very time that the sleeping virgin went to buy the Oil, that’s when the Bridegroom came. Glory! Don’t you see it? If the Presbyterians, and the Episcopalians, and those others, are come seeking for the Holy Ghost, you’d better get your lamp trimmed. Trimmed, trimmed, yes, it needs trimming. Pentecost, better be trimming some lamps. Amen. Get a lot of this world cut away from you. You done got corroded over, the wick has got in bad shape.

30. THE SERPENT’S SEED — 1958-09-28

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

31. THE SEAL OF GOD — 1954-05-14

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• ¶158–¶162 But you see how that spirit moved right up here. And Jesus looked and foresaw that through that Catholic church, coming out. Said, “Don’t call no man father. Don’t use vain repetitions, all these things.” Come out and said, “Now be careful, the antichrist will be so close till it’ll deceive the very Elect if possible.” Look, brother, how many virgins went to meet the Lord? Ten. All of them were virgin. What does sanctify mean? “Pure, holy, virgin.” Ten of them were virgins. Five had no Oil in their lamp. Five had Oil in their lamp. These five were just as holy and virgin as these was. But what does Oil represent, in the Bible, where we taken it last night, night before? The Spirit, “the Holy Spirit.” They cleaned themselves up and sit there, but they was afraid and stood back from the Fountain that poured in the Oil. See, organized themselves and settled down, and there they are, lukewarm. That’s where the church age went. Now, now we’re coming to the mark of God. I got thirty minutes, the Lord willing. Now I want you to turn with me, first, and find out how essential, this mark of God. Remember what the mark of the beast is; not communism. The mark of the beast comes from Rome, throughout the world; Catholicism, with Protestantism joined into it, organized religion. And they’re going to unionize the churches till every church will have to bow to that thing, our interdenominations are kicked on the sideline. That’s right. Revelation the 9th chapter now. Let’s read real close here for a few moments, if God willing, and see what He said in His Word. Now…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…of—of Revelation, and the 4th verse. Listen to this. And it was commanded them (when they seen the plagues being poured) that they should not hurt the grass or the trees… neither any green thing, neither any tree; but…those men which have not the seal of God in their forehead.

32. EXPECTATION — 1954-12-06

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• ¶52–¶53 And he said, “Parson Branham, I—I never heard of you in my life,” but said, “my old mammy had the same kind of ‘ligion you got.” ‘Ligion, you know, said—said, “Same kind of ‘ligion you got.” Said, “Her never told me a lie, all her life, or no one else.” Said, “I’s been blind for many years, parson.” And said, “I live about two hundred miles from here. And last night in the night I woke up.” And said, “Just as clear as I ever seen in my life, there stood my old mammy, standing by the side of the bed. She said, ‘Honey child, you raise up in here, and put on your clothes. And you go down to Camden, Arkansas, and ask for a man named Branham. Tell him to pray for you. You’ll get your sight.’” Oh-h-h-h-h, what a feeling. I didn’t know nothing to do. I put my hand on the old fellow; I said, “God, I don’t understand this; Your Spirit led me over here; It’s led him here. We know not one another; but if Thou hast sent him, Lord, then You’ll surely You’ll confirm Your Word.” I took my hand off of him, like that, and they was pushing, you know, try—trying to break that line, them police holding them back like that, and to go through. I took my hands down like that, started back. And…?…said, “Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord.” And his wife said, “You see, honey?” He said, “Sure.” Said, “Oh, you really see, honey?” Said, “Sure.” Said, “See that red car setting there, they’re going to take Parson Branham to?” Everybody begin to scream. There it was. Oh, here about two or three years ago, I heard from him. He’s preaching the Gospel, that old man, holding meetings. And how? Led by the Spirit.

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

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• ¶326–¶328 Mrs. Wood knows that after I got this, and many more pages beside this, the Holy Spirit said, “Don’t do that.” Did I call you, Mrs. Wood, and said, “He told me not to do that”? So I went back and prayed. And that night He come to me in a vision, said, “Go do this. Take This and place It there, ’cause they won’t understand This. It isn’t time for This yet. Place This here.” And I did. That’s right. See? “Obedience is better than sacrifice.” See? All right. Obeying! Now, now look. We’re…Show you we’re at the end time, even the un-…The parable of the wise virgin and the unwise virgin—virgin is with us. Now, look. The unwise virgin—virgin…Excuse me. The unwise virgin is going to be the hybrid. See? She had the Seed, without the Oil, the moisture to make It grow. Now, and what’s she doing? The—the two groups, the Pentecostal group and the denominational of the world (the evangelical groups), has emerging together. See? What for? Going to Sodom, see, see, now notice, to reap this harvest. Notice the unwise virgin—virgin. Have you noticed that, even one of my great friends, a real scholar, a man that’s smart, intelligent, brilliant, Pentecostal man? And I notice my brethren in the Christian Business Men is shouting the praises of God, because, in there, they got Episcopalian preachers, Catholic priests. I wonder if those men are sound asleep. Do you realize? They say, “Oh, it’s the greatest thing you ever heard, Brother Branham. Why, this Episcopalian people come over here and they say they got the Holy Ghost. They spoke in tongues. They did these things. Glory to God! I’m telling you, they’re—they’re—they’re just…Why, their church has been revolutionized.” Oh, my!

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

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• ¶144–¶148 Now, the Food. The Bride isn’t perfect, but the Bridegroom is perfect. The Bride is not perfect yet, but the Food that was being given was not literal food, it’s the spiritual Food that you’ve been having, all along. Let me stop here on that fourth dream, just a moment. Do you not remember, Brother Fred Sothmann, Brother Banks Wood, when we was out in Arizona last year, when we were out hunting javelina hogs, and the Lord spoke? Don’t you know the things He done perfectly, showing what would come to pass, as we went along the road? If that’s right, you two brethren say, “Amen.” [The two brethren say, “Amen.”—Ed.] Never misses. And I saw in a vision while we were driving, one day, a—a vision of the Lord came to me, and I was getting ready to, at that time, when I come back home, to go overseas. And when I went overseas, well, I saw on the ship…or side of a sea, where the ships went out. And there was a little, short man there, and he said, “I have prepared a boat for you, Brother Branham.” And it was a little bitty canoe, about—about a foot long, but it was snow white. And he said to me, “This is for you to cross in.” “Oh,” I said, “it—it—it isn’t sufficient.” He said, “It will go forty miles an hour, up-and-down this way.” That’s, up-and-down the bank. “But,” I said, “it won’t take me across.” And then he looked down, and said, “Go like they go.” And I looked, and there was Brother Fred Sothmann and Brother Banks Wood, sitting in a canoe painted green, with some camping rigging in the back of it. Brother Banks with a turned-up hat like this; Brother Fred with his pinched on the bill. And he said, “Go like them.” I said, “No. I won’t.”

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

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• ¶250–¶254 What is “virgin”? Virgin means “pure, holy.” Is that right? What is a virgin girl? It’s a girl who’s never been touched, she’s a virgin. What is anything that’s pure, like virgin olive oil? It means it’s been distilled until it’s in it’s virginity, it’s pure. What is virgin gold? It’s when all the dross…it’s went through the heat and everything and boiled out all the dross. Is that right? All of the iron and the pyrite, and everything else, has been boiled out, it’s just in its virginity. Now, there were ten went to meet the Bridegroom. Jesus said so. That right? How many agree with that, say “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Ten went to meet Him. Now, watch, all of them were holy. Well, in order to be holy they had to be “sanctified,” ’cause ON GENESIS Now, watch. All ten of them were sanctified, but five didn’t have any Oil in their lamp, and five had Oil in their lamp. Is that right? What does the Oil represent? Now, not the purity, the virginity. Oil represents the “Holy Spirit.” Now, if I say this to…and hurt a little bit, I don’t mean it in the way I do. Now, you excuse me, and don’t stay away from church. I’m only in the pulpit here to try to help you. See? Now, look, let me show you. There’s not a church on earth could live any more pure than the Nazarene in their teachings, Pilgrim Holiness and them. Is that right? They absolutely believe in the purity of sanctification, not…even to their women wearing rings, and anything. Purity and sanctification, every way, they believe it. The Holiness organizations, all the legalists, that’s their teaching, they believe it. Holy! Women wear long hair and a long skirt. Man ain’t even supposed to roll his sleeves up, many of them. Everything, not even touch…smoke, drink, any…Nothing of it, see. Holy! You couldn’t live any cleaner.

36. 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.]…?…

37. AN UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-03-15

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• ¶167–¶170 I called all day Saturday, and all—all night, and up till twelve o’clock Saturday night, never did come in. I seen he was giving me the dodge, you see, keep me from coming over. And Brother Huff called, said, “Brother Branham, they’re going to take her Monday.” I said, “Tell you what, Brother Huff, he don’t know me, so you take me in as a visitor, just let me go in as a visitor.” And he said, “All right.” So the next day he come up to get me as a visitor. And the…his…the twin, one of the twins, and the other little girl got in the car to go over with me. We went over the river, and so the mother and father drove ahead. And I begin to question the girls. Said, “You know, the funniest thing, Brother Branham,” said, “this morning,” lovely little thing, she said, “you know, our pastor said, started to preach on a certain thing, and he changed his subject and begin to talk about healing by oil.” And said, “Papa, mama started crying because, and we did too, because we knew you were…coming to get you.” Said, “There’s some kind of healing that people does in the Bible, by oil.” I said, “Uh-huh, Sis,” I said, “I know what you’re talking about.” She said, “You think that could have been pertaining, that God was trying to tell us through our pastor of something that we had a chance that way?” I said, “We’ll see when we get over there, and see what the Holy Spirit says.”

38. GOD HIDING HIMSELF IN SIMPLICITY — 1963-04-12

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• ¶302–¶307 Something happened the other day. You read, or heard the tape, “the seven thunders,” What Time Is It, Sir? See? It happened the other day. You know these things. The time is at hand, church. The time is at hand. Don’t, don’t, don’t wait any longer. See? How do you know the Rapture is not going on all the time? First thing you know, it’ll be past, one disappearing here and there. It’ll be gone, the first thing you know. And you’ll…Judgment will strike the world. You say, “Well, I—I thought this.” “It’s too late now.” Remember, they didn’t know it until the day they entered into the ark, and then it was too late. The foolish virgin didn’t know until she come back and found the wise virgin gone, then she was left for the Tribulation period. No good teacher believes that the Church, the Bride…The church goes through the Tribulation, but not the Bride. The church goes through, for purification, sure, under the sixth seal. Right. Israel does the same thing, for the hundred and forty-four thousand, but not the Bride. There’s… The Bride is forgiven. She goes straight to Glory, in a Rapture. That’s right. She, my opinion, the last member will be caught up, one of these days. It might come, and you wouldn’t know nothing about it. Remember, it’s a secret, secret catching away. “He’ll come in an hour that you think not.” You won’t know nothing about it. She’ll be gone; be too late then. You say, “I wish I would have stood.” If you ever intended to make a stand, let this meeting, at Albuquerque, let this be the time that you made the stand.

39. 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…?

40. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST — 1960-12-04

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• ¶67–¶69 As I have said before, now, in this we’re going to try to give a little breakdown now of the Book, according to the histories and so forth. And each time when you see me referring to pages that I have written here, it’s stuff that I have taken from commentaries and so forth. Now, the writer of this Book is John, Saint John the divine, wrote to the future generation (A). (B) Directed to the seven angels of the seven distinct periods of the Christian age, a age from the days of the apostles to the Coming of the Lord. And the…now, the ages appear in succession, each one, from the ascension of our Lord to His Coming again. Each church age is described of its spiritual condition. (E) Each church age can behold itself by its Scriptural and spiritual speaking unto them. As the Spirit speaks, each age can behold itself. Each age bore the true Vine of Christ, the Wise virgin. And each age bore the grafted vine, the foolish virgin. Historians agree, this is John’s life. John lived the last of his years in the city of Ephesus and died there. He was on the isle of Patmos, at the time he wrote the Book, Revelation. It was not the story of his life, but the story of Christ in future ages. See? It was a prophecy. Not the life of John, not the life of Christ, but prophesying of an age to come. It was not his prophetic utterances; but, the Lord’s exaltations, solemnly. It was not the Revelation of Saint John the divine, but the Revelation of Christ the Lord.

41. THE PILLAR OF FIRE — 1953-05-09

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• ¶53–¶54 And I looked, and a little old gate down there, a little old place where a little old shanty like setting there. I seen an old typical Aunt Jemima leaning over the gate with a man’s shirt tied around her head, leaning over the gate, the tears was running down her cheeks. I was as far as the end of the building there from her. I just quit singing, you know, till…I wasn’t singing, I was humming. [Brother Branham hums “Only Believe.”—Ed.] I just started walking on. She said, “Good morning, parson.” I said, “How do you do, auntie?” I thought, “Parson?” I turned around. I said, “How did you know I was a parson?” She said, “I knowed who you was.” I said, “I don’t understand.” I said, “Do you know me?” She said, “No, sir.” She says, “But the…I was going to tell you my story.” I said, “All right.” And I stopped. And she said, “Did you ever read in the Bible about the Shunammite woman who received a child after she was old, and Elijah, the prophet, told her…” I—I said, “Yes, ma’am.” She said, “I’s was that kind of woman.” “Yes.” Said, “I promised the Lord if He’d give me a baby, and I would raise him to His glory.” And said, “The Lord give me a baby.” And said— said, “Parson,” said, “I—I—I—I raised the baby.” Said, “I’ve always been a Christian, and I’ve served the Lord all my…” [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] “God of heaven Who would bli… ground a plane for an ignorant wash woman down there, sovereign grace.” Went walking on… I said, “What?” She said, “Parson, would you come into my house?” And look, there was an old piece of iron hanging on the gate that pulled it back. I walked into that little old whitewashed fence, into a door with no rug on the floor. A little sign upon the door said “God bless our home.” I walked in there. I’ve walked into king’s palaces, three of them. I’ve been in the richest homes there is in America, but I never was more welcome in any place than I was in that colored hut that morning. You never felt any more at home.

42. INFLUENCE — 1963-11-14

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• ¶199–¶202 Well, the mark—well, the mark of the beast is on the other side, remember, see, the apostasy, it comes in as the church. Now wait, I, maybe I might have said something. That’s my way of seeing it, see. And watch. Word by word, it’s already fulfilled. It should put us in action. That’s exactly right. We should be getting every lost soul, to the Kingdom of God, that we can. Because, one of these days you’re going to bring them and it won’t do no good. The door will be closed, there will be no more. Oh, they may be mentally worked up, and excited, and shout, and jump up-and-down, and claim this, you know. But when the sleeping virgin come to buy Oil, she never got It. And did you ever see a time, in all the history of these last days, that there ever was a time that the Presbyterians, Lutherans, everything else, is trying to come to the pentecostal Message? What did Jesus said? “While they come to buy, it was a time that the Bride went in,” the wise virgin went in. They did not get the Oil. They didn’t get It. That’s all. That’s according to the Scripture. And you see these signs and these other things, everything sitting right in order for His Coming. The seventh watch, He come in. Some fell asleep in the first watch, second, third, fourth, fifth. And in the seventh watch there come a cry, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!” The seventh church age, that’s the watch, the age that watched it. And this is the Laodicea Church Age, at the end of it. Amen. Oh, it’s…Why won’t you awake, ye saints of the Lord, why slumber when the end is nearing?

43. HEAR YE HIM — 1958-03-24

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• ¶202–¶206 Whatever it was, lady, I don’t know now, but it was the truth. He’s always truth, He’s the very Fountain of truth. Yes, I see the lady again, it was turning dark around her, she’s nervous, worried about something, it’s a nervous condition that she’s suffering with. Then she has a growth that’s a lump, and that’s on your breast, that’s on your right breast. That’s correct. And then, you’re interested in some…I see a man up here before me, and he’s looking to you, he’s calling you mother, it’s your boy, and he has something wrong with his back. And it’s dark around the boy, he once was a Christian, but he’s backslid. You’re not from this city, you’re from another city called Waverly, Ohio. That’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. You be the judge. Was those things true, whatever He said? If that’s right wave your hand to the audience so…What is it? It’s something that was back somewhere else. She be the judge, she knows; and you know that has to come from some supernatural power. Are you like the…? Are you a modern Pharisee that says, “It’s of the devil”? If you do, you get a devil’s reward; if you believe it’s God, you get God’s reward. What do you think? It was God? Then you have His reward. Go, and God be with you, for you will receive what you’ve asked for. The Lord God bless you, lady. I do not know you. We’re strangers to each other. If that’s right, would you raise up your hand for the people? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Been in my—been in my meetings twice before, before I come to the city, although I don’t know you. Your first time in the prayer line, or anything? All right. Now, be real reverent.

44. IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST — 1959-12-20

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• ¶47b–¶48a I said, “What’s the matter with it, sister?” She said, “It’s got the jerks.” And I said, “The jerks?” “Yes, sir.” I said, “How long has it had these jerks?” And she said, “Well, ever since it’s been born, and it’s might nigh a year old.” And I said, “Are you willing to let me hold that baby?” Up there in the mountains you have to kind of watch about that. And she said, “Yes, sir.” She give the little fellow in my arm. In my heart, I just stood still, a minute. I said, “God, if You’re going to let me win these people, then do something for me now.” And while I was holding it in my hand, it stopped jerking. I looked at it. Set it up, arms, played with it, and it grinned and laughed at me. I looked down at her. And she raised…Had her little head down, hair parted and hanging down her back, and plaits on it. She raised her head up, and the tears running down her little cheeks. Rough men standing there, whiskers on their face, that long, and the tears running down their cheeks. Looked around. I said, “Here’s your baby, sister. Jesus Christ makes it well.” And them old women begin to faint and fall on the floor, and pour water in their face, and fan them. And—and, why, I said, “What did that?” He said, “Mr. Branham, I cannot accept anything until I thoroughly see it.” I said, “Well, good idea, I suppose. But,” I said, “I want to ask you, where you live?” He said, “Back over across the mountain here, a way. Go over home with me for supper tonight, and I’ll give you some buttermilk and cornbread.” I said, “I’d like to go, and I’m really hungry, but,” I said, “I can’t do it. Got to go home with my uncle.” And he…Said, “Well, I want to ask you—I want to ask you something.

45. JEHOVAH-JIREH 3 — 1964-04-04

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• ¶267–¶270 Now, you without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and you know that is the Oil. If you didn’t have Oil in the lamp, they did not go in. And did you ever hear of such a time, in the papers, where Presbyterians, Lutherans…Look at the Christian Business Men’s magazine. Lutherans, Presbyterian, even Catholic, are seeking to find the baptism of the Holy Ghost, by the hundreds. And I wonder if those Full Gospel Business Men understand that they will not get It? The Bible said, “When they come, said, ‘Give us some of your oil,’ they said.” The sleeping virgin, they realized they had had all that time to get Oil, but they didn’t do it. So when the Bridegroom was just about to come, they said, “Give us some of your Oil.” They said, “We just got enough for ourselves. You go buy from them that sell.” And while they were gone, the Bridegroom come, and the Bride went in. And they were cast into outer darkness, to wake up and find out the Rapture was gone. “And they were left where there’ll be weeping and wailing,” the Tribulation period, “and gnashing of teeth.” My brother, sister, tonight, my friend, if you haven’t got the Holy Spirit, will you…or convicted enough to know that you should have It, would you raise up your hand, say, “Pray for me, Brother Branham. I believe we’re in the Presence of God. Pray for me. I do not have the Holy Ghost.” God bless you. Just look at the hands, everywhere. Do you want It, then?

46. 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.]