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1. SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW — 1963-11-10

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• ¶166–¶171 They call, said I was a “woman-hater,” I just don’t hate…I just “hate women.” See? That’s wrong. I love women, I mean, as my sisters. I ain’t going to pat you on the back, seeing you’re wrong. I can tell you that. I love you too much for that. Some men that’d do that, it’s a different kind of love. See? I love you because I love what you are; you’re a helpmate to a son of God, and you’re a part of him. See? And I—I love you because that—that you were made in the image of man, and man was made in the image of God, so therefore, together, you’re one in Christ. That’s why I love you. Any, other thing, is nothing to it. God knows that, all my life. See? That’s right. I love you. Why would I stand up and constantly… When they say, “Tell all the women, when, if they’re going to come hear Brother Branham preach, comb their hair different. Put on a hat or something or another, ’cause he’ll start blasting away about short hair, and your…Don’t wear any make-up,” and so forth like that. That’s what they did. “All he talked about!” Somebody said, “Why don’t you…” Said, “People believe you to be a prophet. Why don’t you teach the women how to receive great spiritual gifts, and things like that, instead of trying to teach them such stuff as that?” I said, “If they won’t learn their ABC’s, how will they know algebra?” See? Get right, first. And more I preach, the worse it gets. Then you say, “Why don’t you quit?” No, sir. There’s got to be a voice, a witness against it.

• ¶172–¶177 One of the greatest man in the ministry today, laid his hands on me not long ago, said, “I’m going to pray for you, Brother Branham, if you’ll let me do it, that God will take that out of your heart.” Said, “Leave them women alone, in those things.” I said, I said, “Do you believe in that, sir? You’re a holiness preacher.” He said, “Certainly. I don’t believe it, but,” said, “that’s—that’s up to…” I said, “No.” He said, “That’s up to the pastors.” I said, “They’re not doing it.” Somebody has got to do it. The river has got to be crossed. The skin’s got to be shucked off. I don’t want to do it. God knows I don’t want to do it. Many of them women feed my children, and they would lay their life down for me, almost. You think, and the grace of God shed abroad by the Holy Ghost, you think I could stand still and see that poor person go plunge out yonder into Eternity without hope, if I don’t scream out against it? Not to be a smart-aleck; but the spirit of this nation, the spirit of the church, not the Spirit of Christ, now; the spirit of the church, denomination, has swung these women out into that mess out yonder. And I’m only a voice, crying, “Get out of it. Flee from that filth.” Don’t let the devil do a thing like that to you. It’s wrong! And you Assemblies of God, let them women, let them women bob their hair, but forbid them to wear make-up. There is really not a Scripture against make-up, but there is against bobbing your hair. She ain’t even fit to pray before God, the Bible says. Her husband has a right to give her a divorce and leave her. Right. She represents herself to the world as an impure woman. The Bible said so. She dishonors her own husband when she does it. That’s exactly what the Bible said. See?

2. INFLUENCES — 1964-02-15

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• ¶95–¶99 And then ninety-five percent of those people go to church, have their name on the book, claim to be Christians. Man claim to be Christians, that smoke, and drink, and gamble, and tell dirty jokes. Many deacons on the board, with one, two, and three, and four wives. That’s true. What a disgrace! Women sing in the choir, with bobbed hair. The Bible said, “She’s an unhonorable person.” Paint on their face! There was only one woman ever painted her face, in the Bible, that was Jezebel. God fed her to the dogs, so you see what He thinks about it. And then you come tell them about it; next year, come back, they’re worse than they was in the first place. Irreverent, they have no respects, no—no thoughts of decency. Let me tell you something, women, young women, and old, too; go out here with these dresses on, these little old tight clothes, and shorts. You say, “You oughtn’t to be talking like that, Brother Branham.” I should. That’s my duty. This is a—this is a pulpit. I had a man call me in, not long ago, one of the greatest Pentecostal evangelists in the land. He said, “You leave them people alone.” I said, “Who are you to tell me to leave them alone?” He said, “I love you.” And he said, “Your ministry is praying for the sick.” I said, “It’s preaching the Gospel, brother.” And he said, “Look, Brother Branham,” said, “why, them people believe you to be a prophet.” I said, “I never said I was, did I?”

• ¶100–¶107 He said, “But they believe you to be. Why don’t you teach them women how to receive the Holy Ghost, and how to receive gifts and do something, instead of always bawling them out about the way they’re dressing and what they’re doing? Why don’t you teach them them kind of things, to help it?” I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they won’t even learn their ABC’s?” You know what ABC is? Always believe Christ. That’s right. Now, now how can you do it, how can you do it? It looks like there is a pressure on them, something won’t let them do it. It makes it a modern Sodom. That’s the hour that we’re standing in, that awful things that’s going on in the land today. And he said, “Well, look…” I said, “No, I don’t have no programs to sponsor. I don’t have no church to put me out. No, sir.” And I said… He said, “That’s the pastor’s duty, to do that.” I said, “But they’re not doing it.” Then, it’s up to somebody, some voice has got to cry out against it, because it’s wrong. Certainly it’s wrong. Reverence, respect It. A young lady said to me one time, she said, “Mr. Branham, they don’t make no other clothes but this.” I said, “They still sell goods, and they have sewing machines.” That’s right. Let me tell you something, lady. You might be just as clean and virtue as you can be. You might be as honorable to your husband, your boyfriend, as you can be. But one of these days, at the Judgment Bar, you’re going to answer for committing adultery. “If I’m not guilty?”

3. CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED — 1962-01-18

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• ¶326–¶333 Someone said, as I made a remark last night. Someone said to me, “Brother Branham, why don’t you leave off them women? Leave off them men. Quit doing that.” Said, “You’re…People thinks you’re a prophet.” I said, “I’m no prophet.” He said, “People claim you to be, though. Why don’t you teach them how to receive spiritual gifts?” I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they don’t even know their ABCs? They don’t have common decency enough to clean themselves up and act like Christians. How you going to tell them spiritual things about Heavenly things?” That’s right. Let the Pentecostal church straighten itself up, get right with God, and I’ll prove to you that the Holy Ghost will come right in. Why, this, the church, will be so full of the power of the Holy Ghost, there can’t be one member do one sin. The Holy Ghost will call it right out, like Ananias and Sapphira. Right. But you can’t do it, when you won’t even take your kindergarten training. Certainly not. Come on up, the altar, like these women have. Say, you mean there’s only two women in this bunch? Remember, it’s on your lap, and it’s on your hands, and you’ll never wash it off. Let us bow our heads. Come forward now, as we believe now on Him, as we pray. You standing for salvation, too, sonny? Bless your heart, son. Stand right there. Now, as we bow our head, they’re bringing some other lady that maybe can’t walk, or something, coming up to accept salvation for herself. Now we’re going to let…That’s all right, just let her stand right there. That’s all right, sis. You don’t have to walk, to do it. He’ll come right to the seat where you are. Let us…She just wants to make…

• ¶339–¶341 Some of these little women with their hair bobbed, standing up here, like they did last night, knowing that that’s the truth. The Bible said so. It’s a dishonorable thing. “Isn’t it a common thing for a woman to pray with her hair as her covering, with her covering cut off? She dishonors her head.” How that that’s Christian teaching! And the great teacher that taught us that, Paul, said in Galatians 1:8, “If an Angel from Heaven comes, preaching any other thing else than that what I’ve already taught, let him be accursed.” We know that it’s the Truth. And, Father, these precious ministers calling that out, hour after hour, hour after hour, the congregation still staggering on. How their hearts long to see their church all filled with the Holy Spirit, and like godly men and women setting there. And the Spirit so powerful, in the place, till every sin in the church be called out, great wonders and signs take place like it did in the early days. And, Father, then we go from place to place, giving our witness with our brethren. And they see the Holy Spirit moving through different operations, and know that it is God, then they stand condemned. And said, Lord, “Some men’s sins goes before them; some follows.” They’re confessing theirs tonight, Lord, that it’ll go before them. I pray that You help them, each one of them, Lord. And now in consecrating their hearts to Thee, they give You their hearts, their lives, for service. What more can they do, Lord?

4. ONENESS — 1962-02-11

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• ¶128–¶129 When that vision come, that worried me. I thought, “Women…” I turned back over in the Bible to Isaiah, I believe the 5th chapter, and It said, “The branch that has escaped from…the daughters of Zion, in that day will be beautiful to the Lord.” A woman wrote me a question the other day, she said, “Brother Branham!” Or, no, it was a man, minister. He may be standing here this morning. He’s just from Ohio. And he said, “We want to say the same thing you do, but we found something on your tapes that’s not right.” So Billy brought the letter to me. Said, “Something on your tapes,” says, “is very contradictory, Brother Branham, to the Word of God. And we want to—we want to say the same thing.” Said, “One question I want to say to you, that’s First Corinthians, the 11th chapter, and it says that about the head covering for the women, and the men not to have covering.” Said, “We believe that. The women should wear hats in the church, and the men should take their hats off in the church.” Said, “We believe them head coverings, and so forth.” And said, “Then another question is that the people come to us and say the Angel of the Lord speaks everything to you. Every word that you speak is from the Angel of the Lord. And, Brother Branham, it’s so hard to fight against something like that,” said, “in my church.” Said, “We want to say the same thing. Now, Brother Branham, don’t you believe that you was a little in error there?”

5. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1961-10-15

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• ¶103–¶106 Now, if you don’t watch, the devil will throw you right over into a bunch of fanaticism and you’ll lose all your experience and everything else. (See?), when you do that. But if you can just hold to solid Truth, watch the Bible, and stay with It, and stay meek and humble, God will just keep taking you on towards Calvary, just on down the road like that, if you’ll just stay with that. And that’s something like yours was, Sister. God was just giving you a blessing. It might be a definite witness that you’re going to… But I wouldn’t rely just on that (you see?), say, “The Lord told me!” Cause I said that experience because that it might encourage you to continue to believe on. Whatever it was that God did there, brought the Spirit upon you like that, it was for some purpose. It might’ve been something else; but if it was for your husband, he’ll sure come right into the Kingdom of God. I believe that. 155. Brother Branham, is it not Scriptural that women should not speak in the church? He’s got two questions here. That is true. That—that is true. It’s not right for women to be ministers and—and speak in the church. That is right, First Corinthians the 14th chapter. Of course all of the church here, you all know this. And this may be a stranger in here this morning; I don’t know. But it’s not right for— for women to—to be a—to minister. That—that is true. I’ll just read it to you here, and you—you can find out. And then you’ll—you’ll know: First Corinthians the 14th chapter I believe. I’ll get it just in a minute, if I can find…Yeah, here it is. Let your women keep silent in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. (Now, the law didn’t permit women priest and so forth back in them days. See?) And if they will learn any thing, let their ask their husbands at home: for it’s a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

• ¶162–¶165 But the women, if they are gifted…Now, the correct way that I believe that when we come together pretty soon…When our church gets settled a little bit more…And—and by the way, there’s a new group, a new—another church is going to unite and…?…come with this church as soon as we get room here for them and things. Another church is going to come and unite with this church, not no organization, just come as a body, in a group, to the church. And—and they are a bunch of gifted people. And now, when it comes together, the things to do, is these gifted people must get together on certain times for themselves, and see what the Spirit says to them. And then it could be given out from the platform. And the people…It’s for the edification of the church. Now, if you speak with tongues, and you know, nobody interprets it…And then when you’re in the meetings, sometimes it’s so irreverent, you know. You find sometimes…I’ve been standing in my congregation making an altar call, and someone would raise up and break the altar call speaking in tongues. Now see, now the person might’ve been speaking in tongues correctly; that might been the Holy Spirit, but see, without being taught to know what to do, how to hold that… I’ve set right on the platform and hear a preacher preaching and see him get to a spot…My, I wanted to get up and help him so bad I didn’t know what to do. And you’ve done the same thing; all of us do that. But what is it? That’s irreverent. Sit down. Regard my brother.

6. JEHOVAH-JIREH 1 — 1962-07-05

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• ¶112–¶118 Why, you say, “They—they don’t make any other kind of clothes.” They make sewing machines, and still sell goods. It’s no excuse at all! It’s because you’ve got away from the Word! That’s not popular. That’s hard. Some famous preacher come the other day, and laid his hands on me, said, “I’m going to lay my hands on you and cast out the evil.” I said, “What?” “Talking about them women like that.” Said, “People regard you as a prophet.” And said, I said, “I’m no prophet.” He said, “They regard you as that, Brother Branham.” And said, “You ought to be teaching those people, them women, how to get great spiritual blessings. And keep telling them about their cutting their hair and things like that. They ain’t going to listen to that.” I said, “I know it.” Said, “Why don’t you teach them greater things?” I said, “How can I preach, teach to them algebra when they don’t even know their ABC’s, not even the common decency?” And you man that will let your women act like that, I got little respects for you being a Christian man, Seed of Abraham. Amen! I better leave that alone, I’ll make you all get up and go home. All right. One of these days you’re going to fail finding something up There. You say, “It don’t make any difference.” It did to Paul. It did to God, in the garden of Eden. The Bible said that the woman should have long hair! And without it, where you at? Well, you say, “It don’t make any difference.” The Bible said it does! Don’t let the devil reason with you, and tell you, “It’s modern, it’s all right.” It isn’t all right! You said, “I didn’t know it before.” You know it now. See? Search it and find if it’s right. I’ll leave that alone, see. All right.

7. HEAR YE HIM — 1957-07-25

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• ¶61–¶63 And in this view of this, I wonder tonight, on we, the Pentecostal church, that claims the new birth: how the Holy Spirit must blush, when It comes in the Presence of God, to bring our character record before the Father. We call ourselves believers, and we dilly-dally around in the world. The men have got away from God. The women has got away from God. It used to be, in the old fashioned church, it was wrong for women to cut their hair: they just as bobbed-haired as the rest of the world. It was wrong for women to wear this stu-…manicure, or ever what you call it, on their lips, it was wrong for them to do it: and today, they just do it like the rest of the world. And today, the Pentecostal women wear shorts, little old vulgar clothes, and stand out, and mow their yards. Oh, brother, something’s happened. That’s awful old fashion, but brother, it’ll scour you out. It’s what the church needs: is not so much of this Hollywood preaching we’re having today, but an old-fashion revival that’ll sweep the country, and to scour out the church of God. That’s the reason we don’t have miracles, all night prayer meetings, and things, that we used to have, is because something’s happened; and the Holy Spirit cannot bless. We’ve taken different teachers; we’ve not let the Holy Spirit do the teaching. And oh, how we get away with some little fancy, slick-tongue fellow, that’ll say, “Oh, that’s old-fashion. Don’t believe in that.” But that’s the teaching of God’s Bible. Right.

8. THINGS THAT ARE TO BE — 1965-12-05

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

9. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — 1958-09-28

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• ¶181–¶184 You say, “Do you condemn denomination?” No, sir. “Do you condemn women preacher?” No, sir. “Do you condemn speaking in tongue?” No, sir. “Do you condemn these people who is baptized in the name of ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost’?” No, sir. No, sir. But, I say, if they know better now, God will hold them responsible if they don’t follow in the Light. You might not knowed it till just now, but you know it from now. See? Now, if you don’t think It’s right, search the Scriptures. Then find your place, and come back and lay it on this desk tonight, and we’ll see whether it’s right or not. Then you go search It, with a open mind, open heart. Now, that, now, this teaching like this is for the Branham Tabernacle, see, just here, just right here. There’s not… I wish it wasn’t “Branham Tabernacle.” I wish it was just called “The tabernacle,” didn’t even have my name attached to it. I’m fixing to turn this church…You all know, when we bought it, I bought it when I worked for the Public Service Company. And put this thing up here, and just called it that because that Brother Seward and them attached my name to it when they put it on the deed down there. Just as soon as I can get clear of this thing that we’re in now, this church is going to be turned over to this, a community, and just given; my name taken off of it.

10. 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.

11. THE FLASHING RED LIGHT OF THE SIGN OF HIS COMING — 1963-06-23

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• ¶176–¶178 Women don’t want to stay home. They don’t want to take care of their families. They just hire a babysitter and go out to a party somewhere. Juvenile delinquent, all things is taking place; bobbing their hair, wearing shorts, make-up. The increase is getting prettier and prettier. Man, sons of God, are falling. It’s a trap for Satan to use, the sons of God to fall into that. Just as Jesus said, it has to happen. He said it would be there, and here it is. He said, “When these things come to pass, this generation will not pass away,” and that’s forty years, “until all these things be fulfilled.” Think of it. Are you still just a church member? Have you done wrong? Look and search your life over, tonight, men, women. Look at yourself, look at your own faults. What, in your present state now, if Christ was on earth preaching this? You say “If—if He would have, if I’d have heard Him preach that, I—I would have repented.” If you would, This is His Own Word tonight, you’ll do it now. If you’re without God, and you know… “Oh,” you say, “I belong to church. I’ve spoke in tongues. I—I don’t…” Now we’re laying that aside. Look at yourself, check your life now with God’s Word. Are you that person to walk away and say, “I don’t care what the Bible says. Brother Branham, I think you’re wrong”? It ain’t me that’s wrong. If there’s any wrong about It, It’s the Word. And you don’t know God yet, and you’re not sure that if Jesus should come at this hour that you’d be ready to go. Why would you trifle, when seeing death is so close, when see the end is so close?

12. THE COMFORTER — 1961-10-01

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• ¶190b–¶194 “And thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness.” The women take the feet-washing in the back, I believe, in the room over to the right. The men come into this room over here. And you are certainly and cordially invited to stay with us for this if you possibly can. If you can’t, why, we’re happy to have had you here tonight; pray that you’ll come back with us again, be with us at our next service. I want to say one thing, each night when I take communion, I’m always strictly tearing in, preaching hard. But it certainly thrills my soul to see a clean-looking bunch of women as ours is that comes around this tabernacle, come up to this altar here with clean-washed faces, no make-up, long hair, standing there like saints with correctly-dressed women. To see our brethren walk there with that stern, sainted look on their face to take the communion. I’m happy to be one of your pastors. “God ever bless you,” is my prayer. Now, Brother Neville will dismiss the audience those who have to go. And those men who wish to come and anticipate in the feet-washing will come to the room to the right, and the women will go to the room in the back. Until I see you again, God’s blessings be with you. Brother Neville.

13. 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.

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

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• ¶152–¶158a Now, as we sing softly, with your heads bowed. If anyone feels convicted about it, I want you to, if you wish to, walk up here and kneel down at the altar, that we might pray with you. By doing this… What did Jesus say? “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to Life.” How simple it is! Men, women, could you afford to miss Heaven? What is…? What’s all…? When ages are rolling by, thousands and hundreds of thousands of years from tonight, when…This old world is going to be blowed up. The Bible said so. Russia thinks so now. She has got the bomb hanging right there; your name wrote on it. “Don’t fear him that can destroy the body, but He that can destroy both body, cast a soul in hell.” See? Fear God. Love Him. Purpose in your heart tonight to serve Him. And, this, sometime when this world is blasted with these bombs, she’ll fly out yonder in the sun, and the fervent heat will scorch the earth. And the world will be destroyed with fire, the burning of atoms; millions, billions, times, Fahrenheits. Will you do a simple thing? While God is speaking to your heart, raise your hand to Him, say, “I’ll serve God from tonight on. I’ll serve God.” God bless you, sir. God bless you. That’s…And God bless you. That’s fine. Now, let us bow our heads now. Kind Heavenly Father! Rude, hard preaching of the Word; but, O Father God, I’m so tired of listening to little, Hollywood, babyfied, kid- glove sermons that don’t go down into the people’s heart, but kind of coats it over, “Come and join the church.” God, we want old-fashion repentance. We want men and women to rise and come to the Lord Jesus. God, we want to see this thing settled, for this will be the last time that we’ll ever be able to be mortal. This will be the last time, and maybe the last chance, that men and women here tonight will ever have, of ever coming to You. This may be the sealing time.

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

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

16. WHO IS GOD? — 1950-08-15

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• ¶49b–¶50 And the following morning, she was setting up in her cell when the nurse went in. She ate her breakfast, and the third day she was dismissed from the institution, came home in her right mind, a normal woman.” Brother, hallelujah. I say this: That Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And every demon knows the authority of God. And it don’t really have to be anything else but to believe on the Jesus Christ with all your heart, and be healed. That’s right. Do you believe this? Oh, men, women, brothers and sisters, why, why can’t we now, with one accord, say, “Jesus, I believe You, and I’m accepting it.” Oh, how glorious it would be. How wonderful. Listen, the apostolic way of holding a healing meeting is to be preaching, seeing what God is doing, and then speaking it out where you find faith, men and women to believe, to have faith in God to believe on God, and God will grant it to them. Do you believe it? Be in prayer. Let’s ask God to help us, just a minute. O Jesus, surely, Lord, truth will take hold. Surely, truth will be. O God, You know all these people in here. You know their conditions. You know all about them. You know their faith. And Father, I pray that—that You’ll give them faith. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. Grant it tonight. Bless this audience with a great outpouring of Thy blessings. May men and women realize that it’s Thee; that what the Word is being taught, believe on the Lord.

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

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

18. LOOKING AT THE UNSEEN — 1958-10-03

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• ¶26–¶28 The greatest thing is, find your God, your Maker. Don’t mix marry. Marry a boy that believes just exactly like you do. For, after all, God is the main important thing that we are in the earth to do, is to serve Him. And if you do marry or anything contrary to That, you’ll pay for it in the days that lays ahead of you. You must always remember, “by faith,” and not by sight. “The just shall live by faith.” And we look at the Unseen. And we might go on for several hours, speaking of the modern day, of how men and women, today, just completely look. And they go down the street, and they’re going to choose a church that they must go to, and bring up their children in. And they’ll search around through the city, not trying to find the most spiritual church, but the biggest church that they can find, the one that’s got the—the—the greatest crowds, and the best dressed, and the celebrity of the city goes to this such church, where it’s called “the better class,” as far as men know. And then, in that church, they’ll try to find a minister that’s, what they call, “not narrow-minded,” that’ll just about let them live any way they wish to, and belong to that church. But the spiritual man, on the inside, if you’ll give him the right-a- way, he might lead you to a little mission somewhere, where there is not many people, but there is the Spirit of the living God. For, the outside man feeds on psychology and intellectual, but the inside man feeds on the Word of God.

19. LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN — 1961-09-03

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• ¶242–¶242 Let the women go to that room. And if you just want to stay for Baptismal service, just remain in your seat, the Baptismal service will be following this service right here. And the men will come back here, and the women will go back there. God bless you. That’s right, Teddy, just keep music going.

20. HEAR HIS VOICE — 1958-10-05

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• ¶182–¶188 Now, the men go here, the women over here. …My Saviour… Some of the women go in here with these women, please. I can hear my Saviour… What did you hear? His Voice. “Take My cross, and follow, follow Me.” Where He…(Now do you really mean it?)…I will follow, Where He leads me I will follow, Where He leads me I will follow, I’ll go with Him, with Him all the way. Now, as I say this, friend, I heard a Voice. And if the Voice didn’t speak according to the Voice of God, Here, it’s the wrong voice. But, “My sheep know My Voice.” How can you come? Here is the reason you come. Is because, “Your name was put on the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.” The Bible said so. Think of a person who is sitting and knows that that is the Gospel Truth, and yet something holding them, knowing that perhaps their name wasn’t put on. Then what? “In vain do they worship Me.” See, “In vain.” “Oh,” you say, “I’m a loyal man. I’m a loyal…” That don’t have one thing to do with it. “In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men.” I’ve told you, there is nobody sprinkled, poured, or baptized, in the name of “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” in the Bible. Search It. Find it. If it is, come show me, on the platform tonight. Then, if you’ve been done that way, you’re following man’s tradition. And if somebody tells you, “Well, you come up and make your confession, you receive the Holy Ghost then.” That’s wrong. That’s man-made doctrine.

21. THE REJECTED KING — 1960-05-15

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• ¶150–¶156 And they set me up there. And I said, “Oh, I shouldn’t sit up here.” And here come women and men, from both sides, just in their bloom of youth, screaming. And one woman was standing there, and she screamed, “Oh, my precious brother! Oh, we are so happy to see you Here.” I said, “I don’t understand this.” And then that Voice that was speaking, from above me, said, “You know, it is written in the Bible that the prophets were gathered with their people.” And I said, “Yes. I remember that in the Scriptures.” Said, “Well, this is when you will gather with your people.” I said, “Then they’ll be real, and I can feel them.” “Oh, yes.” I said, “But, there’s millions. There’s not that many Branhams.” And that Voice said, “They’re not Branhams. Them is your converts. That’s the ones that you’ve led to the Lord.” And said, “Some of them women there, that you think is so beautiful, were better than ninety years old when you led them to the Lord. No wonder they’re screaming, ‘Our precious brother!’” And they screamed, all at once, said, “If you hadn’t have went, we wouldn’t be Here.” I looked around. I thought, “Well, I don’t get it.” I said, “Oh, where is Jesus? I want to see Him, so bad.” They said, “Now, He is just a little higher, right up that way.” Said, “Someday He will come to you.” See? Said, “You were sent, for a leader. And God will come. And when He does, He’ll judge you according to what you taught them, first, whether they go in or not. We’ll go in according to your teaching.”

22. JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER — 1958-02-23

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• ¶10–¶11 I’m so glad to see this fine group of ministers on the platform here tonight, that if souls get saved, you know where to, what they can do. They can take you, and bring you to their church, and teach you the way of the Lord more plainer. And I am happy to be here with this fine bunch of men and women that’s behind me here to pray for me while I’m ministering. Now, as a preacher, I’m not very much of a preacher. But the Lord has given a gift, a Divine gift. Which in the Scriptures we’re taught that gifts and callings are without repentance. That’s church gifts, not the church, the gifts in the local church which we’re to pray for, like First Corinthians 12. But there’s five ministering gifts which are—are the foreknowledge of God. And the first of those are apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. Those are God-sent gifts to the church. Apostles or missionaries, we call them missionary today. In the early day they called them apostle. Now, anyone knows—knows that the word apostle means “one sent.” And the word missionary means “one sent.” So it’s both the same thing. Missionaries, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Then in every local church there’s nine spiritual gifts should be operating in that church, if they’re a good praying congregation. And then the pastor who should be the head of the church with the wisdom of God to have that church set in order so no fanaticism, no nothing takes place wrong, just everything proven purely the Spirit of the Holy Ghost working among the people, then you got a real church that’s an example church to all the regions around about. It’s like a—a hive where the bees come, a lovely church. And I pray that God will bless each one of these men here and give them, if they haven’t already got it, that type of church at the ending of the service. God bless you.

23. THE KEY TO THE DOOR — 1962-10-07

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• ¶26–¶27 Now, if the Lord willing, I had something here that I might announce that the services, if they come up for this next week, if I’ve placed them in here, or at least I thought I did, about what I was going to speak on for the—the—the coming, this coming service of the following week. If I—I think…I thought I put it in this book, I don’t know whether I did or not. Yes, here it is. The Lord willing, Saturday night I want to preach on the subject of Why One Man Influences Another’s Life. And Sunday morning I want to preach on The Capping Of The Pyramid. And Sunday night I want to preach on My Guide, the subject, My Guide, for this coming Sunday night. Now may the Lord bless those things and help me, as I’ve been out, and just a little context to pick them up. Now tonight, we want to hurry and have a few things. By the way, I have a letter here that—that just come in the mail, as Billy picked it up a while ago, that some brethren are in Michigan, and this comes from the ministerial association that’s got a lot of things. That’s what gets things scrupled up, you see. That, they claim in here that some brethren up there that said that I sent them up there, and they’re preaching that men should leave their wives and hunt for their spiritual mate, and that— that I am perfectly infallible. That there’s nothing…And, oh, some of the awfulest things you ever heard. And the ministerial association got a hold of it, and they’re writing me a letter about it, and that I sent them up there and it’s causing a lot of confusion. And some of them prophesying and saying that one man should leave this wife and go marry that one. Now, this church knows that we don’t stand for no such tommyrot as that.

24. INDIA TRIP REPORT — 1957-01-26

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• ¶84b–¶86a They’d pulled every clothes off of me, nearly stripping me, screaming and crying. And the next day with sorrow. I had to leave India with a promise that I’d be back again. But, brother, the commandments of Jesus Christ is just as true today, and just as vital. He’s just as much resurrected today as He ever was. And He is the same Lord Jesus, and He’s with us today. Don’t be afraid; trust the Lord. Amen. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, as men and women are setting here together, who are—we are associated in this same blessing. And as I’m so happy to stand as the—today to tell them what their great Saviour is doing in other lands to men who doesn’t—hasn’t had the privilege of the great visitation of the Holy Spirit…I pray that You’ll bless these men and these women. O eternal God, these ministering gifts that’s in this group this morning, they belong in Baptists, and Methodists, and Presbyterian, and Pentecostals, of different phases and things. Oh, God, may this fellowship that we have this morning in one thing common, may this never leave them. And may, whatever position You have placed them in, and ordained them into Eternal Life, and given them their positions, may they serve reverently. For some glorious day, Jesus shall come, and all the sorrows and troubles of this world will be taken away, and we shall see Him. We’ll have a body like His own glorious body. And when we sit together over yonder on the other side, oh, what a day it will be. Oh, may each minister in here, may his—may his pulpit, may his sermons, may his ministry be inspired greater. Grant it, Lord, if I have found grace in your sight. And as my brethren stand here this morning. Oh, I pray that each of these ministers in here, these ministering spirits, that, God, hear my prayer. And I pray that You’ll purge that gift that’s in them. If they’re preachers, make them better preachers. If they’re evangelists, make them better evangelists. If they’re teachers, make them better teachers. If they’re pastors, make them better pastors.

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. WHY CRY? SPEAK! — 1963-07-14

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• ¶112–¶114 And yet Moses, that faith in him, looked upon them, and he said, “They are God’s blessed people.” Amen. I like that. With such faith, his eyes didn’t fall on the glamour of Egypt, it fell on the promise of God. His eagle eye of faith seen beyond the glamour of Egypt. He, remember, he’s becoming an eagle now. He’s a prophet, and his eagle eye raises above those things. Oh, how I like that! Huh! My! How oft’ today, today, Christians rely on their senses, and of what they can see, or what they can understand, instead of their faith, to rely on what you see with your eye and the glamour. Like you women, I’m always calling to you, about you must let your hair grow out, you mustn’t wear make-up, you must act like ladies and Christians. You look out upon the street and see the women today dressed immorally, well, you think, “Well, she belongs to the church, why can’t I do that?” See? “And she cuts her hair, why—why can’t I do that? Well, she seems to be just as sweet and as much intellectual, and a personality that I haven’t even got. Well, why can’t I do that? I ought to do it.” When you do that, you paralyze your faith. See? You don’t give your faith a chance to grow. Start on that, as I have said. Someone said, “Brother Branham, the country, the people, regard you as a prophet. You oughtn’t to be bawling women out like that, and men out, for these things. You, you ought to be teaching them how to— to prophesy and receive gifts.”

27. 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.”

28. ADOPTION 4 — 1960-05-22

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• ¶135–¶137 And you women, hum, devil’s just made a…That’s what he did in the beginning, and he certainly has made a target out of you sisters. He just does that just to…’cause he knows what he can do. He can deceive a woman a thousand times quicker than a man. I know that hurts your feelings, but that’s the Truth. That’s exactly. That’s what he done in the garden of Eden. He can make…Now, she was honest, she was sincere, but she was deceived. “Adam was not deceived,” the Bible said. He wasn’t deceived, but she was deceived. So he can deceive her. And yet pastors will go right out and ordain women preachers, put them out over congregations like that, and this Bible condemns it from Genesis to Revelation. You say, “Well, it’s all right. It’s all right. They got…They can preach just the same as that.” I know that’s right. Like somebody started speaking in tongues one time, I just kept on preaching, and when I got outside… A woman said to my son, said, “I got a message to give tomorrow night,” said, “when your daddy comes on the platform.” Said, “Well, Mrs., what do you mean?” And that night when it got ready, when I was fixing to make the altar call, she fixed her hair all up and pulled up her stockings and everything, got ready, jumped up in the middle of the floor and begin to jump up and down, spoke in tongues and prophesied. I just kept on preaching, make my altar call. When I never respect it a bit, it wasn’t right. So then, well, the Bible said not to, said, “The—the Spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophet.” God’s on the…God’s speaking at the platform, let Him speak. Paul said, “If something be revealed to one, let him hold his peace till the next one finishes.” That’s right.

29. BALM IN GILEAD — 1961-02-18

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• ¶135–¶137 Hadn’t been but a little while, I went out and got some more orders and come up. And I had a place up there where somebody had went up and pushed the wires on a meter, and just running it without that, and somebody in there ironing. Why, if they had cut a wire across it, twenty-three hundred had come through there, it would kill a woman dead with a iron in her hand. So I had to go up and cut them nips off, so they couldn’t put it in straight like that. So, I just cutting it off like that, come down, and Doctor Brown was coming down the street. He said, “Hello, Billy!” And I said, “Hello there, Dr. Brown.” My, he’s a mighty fine man, Methodist preacher. And he said, “How you doing this morning?” I said, “Fine, fine.” He said, “You Baptists are really having a time up there, aren’t you?” I said, “Oh, yes, sir. We just having…” He said, “How you get that there crowd you have up there every Sunday night, Billy?” I said, “I give them pills.” And he said, “What kind of pills?” I said, “Gos-pills.” Uh-huh. And he said, and so, “Oh,” he said, “you haven’t lost any of your southern idea.” I said, “Nope, nope, that’s right.” He said, “You know what, Billy?” He said, “The other day…I’ve got five hundred members to that church down there,” and he said, “I’ve sent out five hundred cards to get those people to pledge that they would come six months out of the year to Sunday school. Within the year they would register six times in—in…they would register six months in the year, they would come.” And said, “You know how many answered?”

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

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• ¶94–¶100 “Well, I don’t have to go to the church.” Or, “You are so narrow- minded! Why, you’ll even fuss at women about preaching, and…or women about bobbing their hair, and men about these other things. Why, you’re so narrow-minded!” All right, you don’t have to take God’s way about it, you go on out where they do that at. See? And you’ll find out it’s in the Scripture, so, “In vain do they worship Me.” Jesus spoke of the same thing. See? That every little jot, everything, you must be faithful in. It’s always the little—the little vine, the little—the little fox that spoils the vine. Sometimes you leave…It’s not the big things you do, it’s the little things you leave undone. Remember, a chain is only its strongest at its weakest link. “Blessed are they that do all the commandments of God, that they might have a right to enter in.” Do all God said. If It said for women to have long hair, you say…a man told me not long ago, said, “I don’t preach a clothesline religion.” I said, “Then you’re not preaching the Gospel.” Yeah. God laid it out there, He said what to do. And you either do it… That’s your natural, reasonable thing. What little thing…what…the little insignificant. Jesus said, “Blessed are they that would take all the little things, do the little things.” And a woman to let her hair grow, that’s just a…why, it’s just something she can do, and she won’t even do that. She won’t even do that. “Oh, teach us the great things.”

31. I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE — 1952-08-10

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• ¶1g–¶1g I was out there just a preaching away (You know?), and I come back behind the curtains after the service was go to rest up; I was too weak to walk back. And there was a fine scholar walked up to me, said, “Brother Branham”, said, “your grammar’s terrible.” I said, “Yes, sir. I know that.” I said, “I just had a seventh grade education. My father had died and I had to take care of ten…” “Oh, that’s no excuse.” He said, “My,” said, “the mistakes that you made tonight.” Said, “You should—you should know better grammar than that. The crowd that you’re speaking for,” said, “why, it’s a disgrace.” I guess he was part of Mr. Webster you know, so I said, “Well, sir,” I said, “I know that’s right.” I said, “But…” He said, “Well, you could take a—a correspondence course.” I said, “Yes, sir. But you see other times,” I said, “I was…I had to take care of a big family and everything, and now to make ends meet,” and I said, “And now,” I said, “the Lord’s work is so—keeps me so busy,” I said, “I don’t have time to—to take it.” He said, “Oh, that’s no excuse.” He said, “I heard you tonight out there saying, ‘All to you people that come by this polepit tonight, believing will get healed.’” I said, “Yes, sir. What was wrong with that?” I don’t know the difference. And he said, “Why, you should not say, ‘polepit’”; said, “you should say ‘pulpit.’” He said, “Those people would appreciate you more if you said ‘pulpit.’” But he pinched me a little too hard. You know? So I put my hand over on his shoulder; I said, “Brother, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings (See?), but them people out there don’t care whether I say, ‘polepit’ or ‘pulpit.’ They want me to preach the Gospel and produce what I’m talking about. They see Jesus Christ; that’s all they care about.” That’s right…?…Well now, I…That’s the reason I don’t say I’m a minister or a preacher. When I was a little boy, my father was a—a rider, and he used to follow rodeos and so forth, and ride fancy riding.

32. THE WAY OF A TRUE PROPHET — 1963-01-19

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• ¶111–¶113 And our so-called Y.M.C.A.’s, I wonder what that C stands for. Walk into them, you can’t even hardly hear nothing but the Lord’s Name u-…Is that the Young Men’s Cursing Society? I stayed, not long ago, in a hotel, was across from the Y.W.C.A. And it was a disgrace to see them little girls out there on the floor, till about nine o’clock, trying to break their legs, doing the twist. That’s right. And all of them, members of a church, sing in choirs, and taught Sunday school. Nothing but the devil, teaching them little children out there on the floor, a system that’s been made up, called religion. Certainly. A true prophet would blast that thing right back into the smoke of hell where it originated at. Certainly is true. You think Amos could stand on the platform and preach the Gospel, and look out over a bunch of bobbed-haired women and not condemn it? You think he wouldn’t quote Isaiah 5, and First Corinthians 14? And, oh, wouldn’t he—wouldn’t he pour that on? Certainly. He would. Walk down the streets and see women with these little clothes on, look like men, so tight that the skin is on the outside, almost; going down, twisting, mincing, walking like that, clinking theirselves along, and you think a man of God wouldn’t stand in the pulpit and blast that thing? When, it’s very seldom ever spoke from, from the pulpit. And that’s in Pentecostal churches, too. That’s exactly right. Wouldn’t make no difference to Amos. Uh-huh. Some…He would be one that would say it. He wouldn’t be afraid, ’cause he was anointed of the Lord. And if he had THUS SAITH THE LORD, it would have to be the Word of the Lord.

33. THE VOICE OF THE SIGN — 1964-03-21

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• ¶166–¶172 A great, famous Pentecostal preacher took me in a room, about a year ago, fine, well-known, world-wide known man, he said, “I… Brother Branham, let me lay my hands upon you and pray for you.” I said, “I’m not sick.” He said, “But there is something wrong.” He said, “Brother Branham, you’ll ruin your ministry. Nobody is going to cooperate. No wonder the preachers won’t cooperate with you; it’s the way you condemn them women.” He said, “Them people call you a prophet.” I said, “I never said I was.” He said, “But they think you are.” He said, “I believe the same thing.” He said, “You were called to pray for the sick.” He said, “Pray for the sick, and leave them women alone. You hurt their feelings.” I said, “How?” He said, “Talking about them wearing bobbed-hair and things.” I said, “That’s wrong.” The Bible said, “A woman that—that cuts her hair, her husband has a right to put her away in divorce.” Exactly right. “She dishonors her head.” That’s what the Bible said. Now I don’t know whether you like that or not, but that’s what the Bible said, in First Corinthians. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…skin-tight till the skin is on the outside. And then they—they come around, say, “Why, Mister Branham, that’s the only kind of clothes they sell.” They still got goods and sewing machines. There is no excuse. The Amish and Dunkard women still wear them. Sure. [Congregation applauds—Ed.] And what happens? They get out there and carry on.

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

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• ¶380–¶382 What’s the matter? They left off this. That’s exactly. They left off that. I was talking right here in this room, the other day, to a—a—a official of one of the biggest Methodist churches there is in the Falls City, one of the most spiritual Methodist churches there is in the Falls City. Show, Methodist age which comes in next to our age there, the Pentecostal. And he said, “In St. Louis, Missouri, they took an analysis, about three or four months ago, and find out.” That man may be sitting here this morning. Well, he’s the contractor that’s building this, fix the building for us. Main Street Methodist, where he belongs to, where Brother Lum and them was pastor. So then we find out that, in that, that I believe it was seventy-some percent of the Methodist people in an analysis, that, a survey of St. Louis, showed that seventy- some odd percent of the Methodists smoked, and sixty-eight percent of them drinking alcohol beverages. A Methodist! And the strange thing was, when it was a analysis given, or estimate between men and women; women, it was seventy, seventy-something percent, to about fifty percent of the men. More women smoke and drink that there was men. Seventy percent, seventy-something percent, more women than there was to the men. Now what if we got down to Bible Doctrine of wearing shorts, and bobbing hair, and stuff like that, see, where to godliness, women professing godliness and holiness? Card parties and everything else, tattlers, blabbers, not having been able to hold their own tongue. Own tongue talking and tattling, and going around. How about the men? Card parties, golf games, out there half-dressed, little old dirty-looking clothes on, with them women hanging out there. No wonder!

35. 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.

36. DOES GOD EVER CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT HIS WORD? — 1965-04-18

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• ¶165–¶168a Just look at the Balaamites today. “Oh, I know, in the Bible they baptized in Jesus’ Name, but, look, all the people…” I don’t care what the people has done. “There is not another Name under Heaven given among men whereby you can be saved.” “No remission of sin, only through the Name of Jesus Christ.” What, how good you are, what you do, that don’t have one thing to do with it. It’s God’s original Word; you got to stay with That. Whew! All right. “Obedience to His Word is better than sacrifice.” You remember that time when Saul came back. Balaam had a gift of faith and could have used it to the perfect, original Word of God. Many men on the field today, with gifts of healing, could do the same thing. Many men out here, people speaking in tongues, people prophesying, a gift, could use it for the Kingdom of God, but they don’t do it. They take…And God blesses them, anyhow, gets the permissive will. But for popularity, and pleasures, personal gains, sold their birthrights, as Esau did, see, sold out to a organization. Sold out, like Balaam did. See? So many are doing today the same thing. We know that’s right. They sell out their birthright. Huh! Women professing the Holy Ghost, wearing shorts; man permitting them in the pulpits, bobbed-haired women in the pulpits; paint on their face, with religious gowns on. The biggest stumbling block the church has ever had. If you want to know, in political powers, what time it is in the kingdom age, see where the Jews are. Watch how the Jews are, because they are a nation. If you want to know where the nations are standing, watch the Jews. If you want to know where the church is standing, watch the women. Watch the morals among the women, ’cause she’s a representation of the church. When you see the pollution amongst the women, you find the pollution in the church. What she become, a painted-up Jezebel, just exactly what the church has become. See? Now, that’s the truth, and you know that. See? If you want to know where the church is, watch the morals among your women. Cause, she is, the church is a woman.

37. EXPECTATION — 1954-12-06

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• ¶19–¶19 Now, here not long ago, just give you a little case…(Am I taking up too much of the time on these testimonies?)…?…A little case, there was a little woman. A Methodist preacher, down in New Albany, Indiana, which is a very dear friend of mine. I had the Baptist tabernacle in Jeffersonville, and we were brothers, if there ever was. And he’d—he’d always…If—if I got a hold of somebody that didn’t believe in immersing and wanted to be sprinkled, I’d send him down. I said, “You go down to this church, Brother…?…’cause he…You’d make a better member down there, because,” I’d say, “he’s a real man. And he’s a man of God. But he believes in sprinkling, and I’m a Baptist.” And so he…I’d take him down. If he found somebody, I’d say, “Now, it’s awful dry down there. You see?” So if he’d find somebody that wanted to be immersed instead of being sprinkled, he’d say, “Go up and see Brother Billy,” said, “now he will drown you; he’s a Baptist, but…So we just had friendship like that with each other. Well, he was a good man. And he said—he said, after I come in here about, has been about two years ago, a little over. He said, “Billy, all the way around the world you go, and then leave your poor brother set down here.” Said, “Why, don’t you come down and hold a meeting for me?” And I said, “Well, brother, I…When I come home, I’m—I’m trying to rest my mind and things from the prayer of the sick. And he said, “Well, Brother Branham,” he said, “But I won’t ask you to pray for one person, if you just come down and preach for us one night.” Well, he had a radio program, and he announced it on the radio that morning, and that night, church about like this, and they were everywhere, and out on the streets and nearly…

38. 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…

39. THE EVENING MESSENGER — 1963-01-16

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• ¶216–¶221 I met a man here not long ago…I don’t say this to be sacrilegious, please forgive me if I’m thinking it’s…making it sacrilegious. I was at a tent meeting and, the minister, a Pentecostal minister brought his wife over to play the piano. And when he introduced me to his wife, honestly, I almost fainted. The woman had real short hair, curled up, and she had great, big earrings, and enough manicure on her lips, or whatever the stuff is, fingernails painted. Looked like she was a…It was horrible-looking; great, big long claws, and like that. And sexy- looking; little, bitty, short dress on, she couldn’t even put it over her knees when she set down. Well, I stood there a little bit, and I said, “Brother, will I hurt your feelings if I say something?” He said, “Why, certainly not.” Nice man, and she seemed to be a nice woman. I said, “Do you say your wife is a saint?” Said, “Yes.” I said, “Excuse the expression, but she looks like a ‘hain’t’ to me,” I said, you know, “or something like that.” I said… He said, “What do you mean, Brother Branham?” “Oh,” he said, “you’re of the old school.” I said, “I’m of the school of the Scripture. That’s right, the school of the Scripture.” I don’t believe that a saint acts like that, I just can’t do it, when the Bible so condemns it. See? All right, seems, every time, everything we hear of, “they had forty decisions,” “forty-four decisions,” “we had three hundred decisions.” Well, that’s confession. Confessions is “stones.” That’s right, ’cause Peter, upon his confession, was called “stone, little rock.” Peter, his confession. Now, stones is all right, but what good or what value is a stone to a building if there isn’t a true stone mason there with a sharp tool of the Word to cut them and make them sons of God? See? What good is a confession?

40. ONCE MORE — 1963-08-04

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• ¶12–¶15 Let’s pray again. Lord Jesus, take this little text, and water the Church with it, Lord. We pray and commit it to You, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. There must have been about three thousand Philistines, looking down from the top of the gallery of this great arena, when the couple entered the arena that afternoon. Must have been a hot day. All day long they had been out there. And in this great company, on top of this great arena that was built something on the order of an upside-down mushroom; and the center post in the middle, that went out something in this way, and held the two posts holding all the spectators around; highly-polished war lords and their fine-jeweled women. All leaned forward at this certain event, for they wanted to get a good look, that what was taking place. There had been preliminaries, all the entertainment. They probably had little monkeys that—that played little tricks. And they had different things that they entertained themselves with, fighting, wrestling, and— and—and maybe dueling to death, and many other things that—that they had been entertained with all day, for it was a great day, but now the main event come. You know how we all wait patiently while the preliminaries are going on. And they wait for the—the main event, and that’s when everybody sets up and takes notice. We watch it in our religious services, of when we have our—our singing, and our testimonials, and the preaching, and so forth; but the main event is see what the Lord is going to do, see what He has gathered us together for. We’re all under anticipations to see just what the end is going to be, the main event. It’s that way in anything. We always watch for the main event.

41. GOD MAKING HIS PROMISE — 1956-12-09

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• ¶54–¶55 Now, you say, “You’re hurting the women.” All right, you men, here you are. Any of you men that’ll stand and let your wife smoke cigarettes and act like that, it shows how much man you are. That’s all I can say. A man that would do that, let his wife do like that, ain’t fit to have a wife. It shows who’s the boss around your house. That’s right. Shame on you. You ought to go back to the altar and get right with God. Exactly what you ought to do. Yes, sir. I don’t say mine will never try it. She might try it, but she won’t get by with it. I’ve got two daughters. I don’t say they might come down and lay on a beach for a suntan. They’ll get a son-tan, all right. It won’t be from that sun up there. It’ll be from Mr. Branham’s son with a board just as hard as he can drive them home. They’ll have a son-tan when they get home, too. Yes, sir. God giving me my right mind and let me stand and preach that Gospel and believe that Gospel in the power of the resurrection of Christ. I’ll either stand for right or forfeit my way and go back. Yes, sir. Got to preach the Gospel, stand for what’s right. What we need today is some more of those old fashion, stirring preachers that used to travel the land with a little suitcase in their hand, preach the Gospel. Got too much little sissies today trying to do it. What we need is the baptism of the Holy Ghost back again.

42. THE INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES — 1954-05-09

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• ¶180–¶184 And you don’t realize it, you smoking cigarettes, you women, and doing the way you’re doing out there, and drinking and carrying on the way you’re doing, you don’t realize that you’re poisoning your system, and ruining the whole generations that’ll follow you, if there is such a thing. Eighty-five percent more chance to take cancer, by smoking cigarettes, and you deliberately move right into them. And the churches endorse it. In a great Baptist church, just here, recently…I’m hitting the Baptist. I got a right to that; they kind of lean on the side that I come from. But when they had to give intermission between the Sunday school service and the preaching service, so that the pastor and all could go out and have a smoke, and the street was lined with men and women smoking cigarettes. The devil has done that. That’s right. Then, here in our own city, one of our most outstanding ministers, right down here in New Albany, at this playground, that one of our outstanding ministers of the city is directing a square-dance program, to bring men and women on the platforms. Don’t care what the world says, I don’t care how you try to coax around it; brother, there is no red-blooded man pulling up to another man’s wife, and feel the same. You know that’s the truth. They’ve took our women, and stripped them; out yonder in the offices, and driving taxicabs, and up and down the street. Where, they ought to be at home, behind the stove, cooking, and fixing the dinners.

43. THE UNCHANGEABLE WORD OF GOD — 1960-07-24

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• ¶71–¶73 Now I want to ask you a favor before I start to preach to you just for a little while. I promised to pray for everybody with a—a card, and I think we’ve got several here. Billy give out a whole, full bunch of them a while ago, he said, so I want to run them through the line and pray for them. And now we want get a little something to build up some faith. How many of you will pray for me, somebody who really needs it? Thank you. As I go, I’m just in a change now between one ministry and the other, and it always starts a little something. And now I—I’m— I’m waiting on the Lord. And you be sure that you pray for me, I really need it. Brother Rose, did you give your testimony here about how God has healed you, and things? You should have done that. And it’s a great testimony. We love this brother. He’s…My wife is scared to death of him, the only man that ever got her on the platform. She was setting down there, a little backward, timid, she don’t even want me to say she’s in the meeting, you know. And then, very bashful, and Brother Rose said, “We’ve got Sister Branham here tonight. Walk right up on the platform.” She said, “I’m scared to death of that man.” If there’s any praise to go to the Branham family, let it go to her, she is the one that deserves it, my wife, one of the finest Christian women I know in the world. She’s among the Elect, I’m sure. God ever bless her gallant soul, her reward is great on the other Side.