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1. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶20b–¶23 “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!” That just shows how perfect it comes to pass when it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. [A sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Yes, that’s—that’s right, Sister. Yes, sir! The women…I said the women would become so immoral in the la-…Now, you know thirty years ago how they dress. Said they become so immoral, till they walk down the street with just like underneath clothes on. And I said, “Then will come to pass, that they’ll even be so disgraceful, till they’ll wear something looks like a fig leaf.” I saw it, and they’ve got it; and they’re wearing it. Just the—the immorality of women would get so low and degraded! We can’t go no lower now; you can’t go no worse. She’s at the end! See, they’ll never be completely nude. No, they… I’ve preached to people, women by the tens of thousands that don’t have one speck of clothes on them (see?), young men, and young women, and all, but they don’t know they’re naked. See? They don’t know it. And the way women acts today… I was talking the other night to some friends of mine where we was way back up in the mountains, and a—a young woman…I’d just prayed for her baby; it had epilepsy; and the baby’s well. And a little, poor family, way back up a hollow, a little old tobacco patch around the house, and about two rooms in it, and seven or eight children…That woman works (oh, my!), just a broad axe out there, chopping wood and things, and—and hoeing gardens, and canning stuff. And I looked at the poor woman, same dress she’s been wearing for a year or two, and all split up and everything…And I was trying to find some of Meda’s dresses to take down to her next week.

• ¶132–¶134 Meda said, “No, I never said nothing about it.” Said, “You know, Mother don’t want you to do that; and you know that it liked to killed your daddy when he heard you up there playing that boogie-woogie music, ever what it was, with that girl.” Said, “Now, he didn’t want you to do that, and we don’t want you to do that, Becky, but we just committed it to the Lord. I want you to know we love you. Whatever you do, we still love you.” She hollared, said, “I’m going anyhow!” Said, “All right, Dear.” So went ahead. Said, “All right, I’ll have supper ready when you get back.” She never did go! No, she’s never went since. See? Not long after that she met George; George is a Christian. That— that settled it then. She was trying to tell Mrs. Wood about it the other day. She said, “Oh, I got awful wild.” Said, “Daddy and Mother committed me to the Lord.” Said, “Awful wild.” But that—that was wild to us; we don’t want to get any wilder than that. See? Just let it go like that. All right. 244. Brother Branham, what do you think about our…(Oh, oh! I remember reading this one. I wasn’t…I was going to keep it back late, but I guess I might as well read it. Some woman’s handwrite. She must be from Kentucky, ’cause she’s got a—a Kosmos Portland Cement ticket here.) Brother Branham, what do you think about our sisters in the church wearing such short dresses? Doesn’t it mar our testimony and set the wrong example for our young people in this our church? It seems so i- n-…to see a young…to see a grown woman wearing a dress so short that it shows her knees when she walks.

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

• ¶165–¶167 And then there was another thing; that was the conversion of Omar Price down there that time when he was so critical against me. And you know, he come to the tabernacle and was baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Oh, he fought me so hard on that; and I stayed with him at nighttime. I just kept loving him, staying right there just the same; but he finally come, ’cause the Lord told me he was going to come, and so I—I just stayed right with it. See? Same thing with the little preacher setting behind me here. I went down to Clarksville to speak with him one time, speak for him in that Methodist church, and he was Methodist through and through, what I mean. I come back up here; I said, “Someday I’ll baptize him in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” And I did; that’s Brother Neville! 250. If it is wrong for me to—is it wrong for me to run a—a beauty shop? I’m a beautician and don’t believe in Christians cutting her hair, but I cut others’ and (I guess it’s t-i-n-t, tint, that means the color, I guess, isn’t it?) color also. Sister dear, I would—I wouldn’t know what to tell you. Listen, I can’t say for women about that, putting color in their hair. I have no Scripture against that; I can only stay with the Scripture. See? The Scripture don’t say for them not to do that. The Scripture says she must have long hair, and after that, I don’t know where to go. See? I—I don’t know nothing about that.

• ¶171–¶172 You know, in every life there is, the male is the prettiest, but the human race. Take any bird, cow. Take a bunch of cattle. Which is the prettiest, the old crumpled-horn cow or the big bull? Take a deer; which is, the little doe or the buck? Take a bunch of elk; which is the prettiest, the male or female? Moose, whatever you want to do. Take it—take it in the bird; take it in the chicken, the rooster or the hen? Take it in the bird, the little…big pretty cardinal or the little speckled hen, set on her nest and raise her eggs? See? Everything in the whole race, always the—the male is the prettiest, but the female to the human. Why? She caused the fall. Satan chose her right there, and beauty is of the devil. See? Satan was the most beautiful angel. He was the cherubim that overshadowed. Look how difference the woman is getting now to what they used to be. How many remembers Pearl, or, reading of Pearl Bryan? Let’s see your hands, some of you older people. Sure. See? Supposed to be the most beautiful woman in America. Any little teenage snicklefritz on the street would be as twice as pretty as she now. Why? That’s just exactly what the Bible said: “When the sons of God saw the daughters of man were fair…” That was a bunch of renegades that sent the flood upon the earth, that God destroyed the whole human race. See? It’s exactly. And today everything is based upon Hollywood and—and beauty and things like that, when beauty is the secret thing of the heart (see?) and not the outward appearance. Let them adorn themselves, not with outward appearance, but inward, of meek, gentle spirit. That’s—that’s the Christian. So now, on your question, Sister, I don’t know just what to tell you. Now, I can stop right now or take another thirty minutes then, and then…Would thirty minutes…? How many will just stay another thirty minutes, and then that’ll give us a little more time tonight? Well, I’ll hurry right quick then. 251. Brother Branham, does this First Timothy 2:9 mean a woman cannot braid her hair? Does broid hair mean “braided” hair?

• ¶173–¶176a Now look, Sister, now this…I’m—I’m glad that followed this. I never fixed it there, but it just—it followed that good. Notice, a braided hair in that day was the sign of a street woman; that’s what she done, braided her hair. And Paul said to the Christians, “Now, that adorning, not let it be of a braided…” (or “broided” and “braid” is the same thing), to braid their hair, because it looked like the rest of the world. Now, you’re supposed not to look like the world or act like the world! See? The women are supposed to be different there. See? No, now, braiding hair…Now, today braided hair is pretty, and it’s a long ways from the fashion of the world. Now, you see the women, the way they do their hair today…Just keep your hair in any way; just don’t look like the world! See? Don’t look or dress like it! If they wear shorts, you wear a dress. If they—if they do their hair all…cut it all off and bob it, and do them ever…You—you—you just let yours alone. See? And the braid—but braided…The question was: Does “braided” mean…broided mean “braided”? Yes, that’s right. And now, on the street… Now, I looked that up to find out years ago what the “braided” hair meant. See? The woman, actually, the women of old, they just pulled their hair back and tied it, more like in the ponytail today. And they went around…They had robes on like that, but the women of the street took their hair and braided it all across their heads, and wrapped it around like that, and put flowers in it and things like that, and that was kind of the—the flapper on the street; just like we would see the flapper today, the way she dresses. I’m saying flapper, ’cause you know I’m an old man; so that’s what they’s called them in my days. What is it they call them today? I…My, I don’t know. Chicks or something or another. So…Ever what it is. Give them any kind of a name, they like it. 252. Brother Branham, you said on one of the tapes that Noah saved his household. Does this mean a mother can have the same faith for her household?

2. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶107–¶109 I’m going to answer that question for you; it was just revealed to me. I’m going to tell you the truth. Yes, sir! There’s a place for all the Bride to gather. You want to know where it’s at? In Christ. Correct. Just gather in there; we’re all together. 408. Why is it that we make so much of a big issue of women’s dress (Oh, oh, I’m getting it on this one, ain’t I?)—big issue of women’s dressing and cutting of hair, and do…nothing said about the hair of the man or the way he dresses? Well, sister, I’m going to agree with you one thing. First place, the Bible said that a man should not have long hair. And if he had long hair, I’d tell him, just the same as I tell you. He’s wrong. But most men, lot of them’s like me, don’t have any at all. But most men cut their hair, look like men. And now, if they didn’t do it, they’d be told not to do so, to leave their hair grow out like a woman’s hair. You’ll get all of this in the marriage and divorce vows and things when we preach on it. The big issue such of man’s…or woman’s dressing… Now, a man, the first place, a man’s body is not a temptation like a woman. Now, man, he’s big, old, hairy legs, knockkneed, pot-tummied, and everything, he’s a horrible-looking mess; and there’s nothing about him for temptation. And I think he looks the “gaumiest” looking sight to see these man come down the road, young or old, with a pair of these bikinies on, ever what it is, you know, walking down the road. I think that’s the dirtiest-looking sight I ever looked at. That’s right. I think he—he don’t know what side of the race he belongs on (see? That’s right!), a man that’d do a thing like that.

• ¶110–¶115 And you know what? I just heard a few months ago, the American Army’s going to dress that way. Yep! The Army’s coming out next year, or year after next, all in shorts. How big a bunch of sissies can we get? God made a man to look like a man, and act like a man, and dress like a man. He made a woman to do the same, dress like a woman, act like a woman, and be like a woman. About this morning, about…The question come up about man…[Side one of tape ends incompletely and second side begins incompletely—Ed.]…If he wants to… If a woman has got real thin hair, and she wants to wear one of those “rats” or ever what you call it, I think that’s…My wife wears it. It’s a…She says her hair’s thin, and she’s got some kind of a thing A minister said his wife was—was condemned, because she had a— a tint in her hair. And I found out from a question, that means a paint or a coloring in her hair. I can’t say that’s wrong; I have nothing about it. If she got long hair, that’s all that I can say about it. And now, a man…This person said this morning taking off their hair, putting it back on. Now, this kind of got here too, about a haircut. See? Now, if—if a man doesn’t have hair, and his wife…I’ve heard women say, “Well, if I could just get John…I think he’d look better if he—if he wore a hairpiece. What do you think about it, Brother Branham? Is it wrong for him to do it?” No, sir! No, indeedy, it is not wrong, not at all. If he wants to wear it, that’s fine, no more than wearing false teeth or whatever that come along.

• ¶116–¶119 By the way, I’ve got three false teeth myself. I wished I didn’t have them. They’re on a wire; it’s always shortening my voice, and cutting my tongue, and everything else, but I have to have them to eat. And if I…When I’m overseas on them outside meetings, I wear a hairpiece; not because the looks of it, ’cause you know I’d stand right here if I didn’t have a hair on top of my head or whatever it was. Wouldn’t make me no different; I’m here to represent Jesus Christ. But when I stand out there, about the first night in one of them tropical storms, the next night my throat’s so sore I can’t get out there. So then, if—if it was something I wanted to do it, and felt to do it, I’d do it. Yes, sir! There’s not a thing says not to do it. Not a thing says, sister, that you can’t wear a rat, or switch of hair, or something or another in your…That’s perfectly all right, but let your hair stay long. And man, you cut yours off. What you got, keep it cut. See? Then, that settles that. And woman, you dress like a woman. And man, you dress like a man, don’t try to be a sissy and wear women’s clothes. And women, don’t you try to be masculine and wear a man’s clothes, because God don’t want you to do it, the Bible condemns that. But now, about wearing a piece of hair or wearing a hair…Well, what is one of those “rats”? Did I make a mistake a while ago or is that a “mouse”? It—it’s something—it’s something that a—a woman puts in her hair to make it look more…Ever what it is (see?), there’s nothing wrong with that. Go ahead, it’s all right.

3. A TESTIMONY ON THE SEA — 1964-03-07

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• ¶77–¶82 Look what it’s done, we Pentecostal people that used to be pentecost. Our women has bobbed off their hair, wearing makeup. Our men is permitting it. Our ministers are permitting it. They’re afraid to say something about it. The church will turn them out if they do. Oh, if A TESTIMON Y ON THE SEA we don’t need a housecleaning, from the pulpit plumb to the basement. It’s a shame. It’s a disgrace. Some man come to me, not long ago, and said, “Brother Branham, the people love you.” But said, “You’re always bawling them out, bawling them women out, about having short hair and things like that.” I said, “The Bible said it was a disgrace for her to have it.” She dishonors her husband when she does it. And it is absolutely a sign that you’ve departed from God. Remember, in Samson’s case, long hair was a Nazarite sign that he had departed from the world, to the Word of God. And when you bob off your hair, women, you deny you’re the Nazarite sign. You’ve went to Hollywood instead of back to the Bible. The Bible said, “Let them be unshaved.” See, it’s a shame, and the ministers don’t say nothing about it. This man said to me, “Why don’t you leave them women alone?” Said, “They regard you as a prophet.” I said, “I never said I was a prophet.” Said, “They regard you as that. Teach them how to receive spiritual gifts and do something. You ought to teach them big things, great things.” I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they won’t even learn their ABC’s, how to live decent about it? How you going to do it? Yeah, go down to the first thing.”

4. REMEMBERING THE LORD — 1963-01-22

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• ¶237–¶243 I’m just waiting, see if the Holy Spirit would reveal something else. God bless you sir. God bless you. Sure. I just want Him to search your heart. That’s what He’s here for. All right. God bless you, little lady. That’s very fine. Just as you think of it, take it seriously now. “Oh, Brother Branham, I—I got to hurry home.” Listen. You’re going to hurry out of this life, one day, too. See? Think of it now. This is the hour. This is the time. Say, “Well, I tell you. Our pastor, he’s a—he’s a brilliant man, very educated. I’d rather hear it from…” It don’t make any difference who brings the Message. It’s—it’s not the messenger. It’s the Message you hear. See? No matter what type of a man would walk in the door there and—and give you a message that— that you—you inherited a million dollars, you’d accept the—the money. Accept your pardon. With your heads bowed now, and your eyes closed, I’m going to ask you something real sincerely. And I want you to tell me the truth. Women, you wearing short hair, how many really feel that you should have long hair? Raise your hand and say…God bless you. That’s good. I know you did. I—I…There’s hopes for you. But when you’re so seared, that you can’t do it, you don’t even feel condemned, see, then there is something happened to you. Because, the Word said you should. How many, you women, wear shorts and them clothes, or smoke cigarettes; and—and you men, too, that know that you’re doing wrong? And say, “I don’t want to do that, Brother Branham. I really love God, but that—that thing just holds onto me. And I know it’s an evil thing. I’m going to raise my hand. In—in raising my hand, I’m asking God to move it from me.” Raise your hand. Be honest. God bless you. That’s right. Yeah. That’s right.

5. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶182b–¶185 He said, “Just a moment!” He said, “I’m kind of curious; I’m a stranger.” Said, “You all gettin’ married?” Said, “Yes!” “Without a preacher?” He said, “No!” Said, “We been married forty years.” He said, “We got married right here at this altar forty years ago, and every year we come back and renew our vows.” That’s a good idea. See? But as far as married, when you promise her, she takes your word; you take her word; and God takes both your word. See? But just don’t promise less…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.] 343. When they cut it in…Is long—is long hair when they cut it in front? (Now, wait a minute, let me get this here.) Is long hair when they… Well, I—I…Maybe they mean this: “Is it long hair any longer when they cut it in front?” Not any longer, they’ve cut it off. See? But like the man that had the trousers cut them off three times and still too short. What say? What say? [Someone speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Oh, that’s what they’re talking about. As I tease my little girl, she said…The “booms” I call them, you know, bangs, or whatever it is, you know, across the front here. Well, I imagine those kids that’s cutting their hair in front…You, maybe your mother could tell you about that, see, if she wants you to do that way. I think it’d look kind of—kind of a little bit like a woman was looking through the rear-view mirror if she passed about twenty- five years old and wanted to cut them off in front like that, look like some little kid. Look on out here where you’re going, sis, not where you’ve been. See?

• ¶207–¶211 Now, by the way, I think this person was on interview this morning. Course, we had a healing service; we have had a healing service too. 351. Brother Branham, please explain First Corinthians—First Corinthians 11—11, and verse 4 through 6. Does not this mean a (s-e-…) separate—separate (c-o-…) covering from the hair, or is the long hair the only covering we need? Get me First Corinthians 11. Let’s see, First Corinthians 11:4. It says, “When praying…” Oh, yeah, he…They got it here. They say, “In praying or prophesying, can we take our hair—can we…” Let’s see, they got a line drawed through something here. When prophesying—when prophesying, can we take our hair when we…? Hmm. You—you said: Can we take our hair on or off when we’re prophesying? If you—if you got a hairpiece, you might, but I—I’d…or wearing one of these Beatle wigs, or something, but…If I could look right in one, I’d probably wear one myself, but it…not a Beatle wig, but a—a hairpiece. But that’s all right. If you ain’t got no hair and you want one. If you can do it, that’s perfectly all right. Yes, sir! If a woman, her hair isn’t long enough, she wants a switch of hair in it, I’d say, put it on, Sister. If a man takes bad colds and things, and wants a…some way… even to his appearance to his wife, if he wanted to wear a hairpiece, do it. Yes indeedy. Nothing wrong with that (no, sir!) no more than you would be your teeth, or artificial arm, or anything else. If nature has some—taken something from you and it’s so handy you go ahead, that’s perfectly all right. But it says here, “Can we take our hair on or off when praying or prophesying? What does this actually mean?”

6. 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.

• ¶173–¶178 A woman said, “Well, Mister Branham, I don’t wear shorts. I wear s-…” What is them, pedal pu-…[A brother says, “Pedal pushers.”—Ed.] Yeah. Said, “I wear them.” I said, “That’s worse.” I said, “The Bible says, ‘It’s an abomination for a woman to put on a garment pertains to a man.’” And what kind of a filthy-looking sight is this United States now! See? That’s right. Let me tell you something, sister. You might be as pure as a lily, to your husband or your boyfriend, but in the Day of the Judgment you’re going to answer for committing adultery. Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already.” If that sinner looked upon you, and she has to answer at the Day of Judgment. You presented yourself to him. Suit yourself. Uh- huh. Why would a godly woman want to dress like that for? Then you claim to have the Holy Ghost because you spoke in tongues and run up and down the floor. That, though, I seen heathens do that, Hottentots. The Holy Ghost is purity, holy, undefiled. Certainly. This man said, “If you’re…They believe you to be a prophet. Why don’t you teach them how to receive great spiritual gifts, and how to do things for God? Why don’t you teach them that if you’re a prophet?” I said, “How can I teach them algebra when they won’t even learn their ABC’s?” You know what ABC means? “Always Believe Christ.” Uh-huh. How you going to do that? See, you want to get way up there, instead starting down here.

7. MODERN EVENTS ARE MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY — 1965-12-06

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• ¶1–¶2 Let’s bow our heads. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight because that You answer prayer for us. This poor dear woman laying there, where surgery has failed. But, O God, we remember the first surgery was ever performed in the earth, You did it Yourself. You taken from the side of Adam, a rib, closed up the incision, and made a wife. O Father, I pray tonight that Your hand will come down now and will perform this great thing that we’re asking for. And these others, Lord, this woman that’s suffering with mental oppression, all others who’s got requests, we just commit them to Thee, Father, with our whole hearts. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Indeed a privilege to be here tonight and have this fine audience to look at. And fine singing, the wonderful little choir. I was just thinking the difference, seeing them boys standing there with…clean-looking fellows, clean haircuts. I was thinking, last night, of—of the place where I’m staying; a bunch of hoodlums came in down there and trying to drown a boy in the swimming pool; they had to call out something and get them out of there. What a difference, see kids standing, singing the Gospel songs; what a difference. Thinking, as Brother Henry said there, “those man with them hair like the women should have,” you see. That—that—that’s right. Look like the…I see these boys trying it, have that hair, they even put these roller-curlers in it, around their face. And I don’t know, sometimes I become discouraged. It looks like it—it’s a true time of perversion. Men are trying to wear women’s clothes, and women wearing men’s clothes. And men leaving their hair like women, and women having hair like men. What’s the matter with this people, anyhow? Has the, really, the very threads of decency and honor left this nation and these people, this world?

• ¶311–¶314 Then let’s all stand up on our feet. Just as I am, without one plea, But that Thy Blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidd’st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, (God’s only Door)…come! I… Now get all of your work, everything else, your tiredness, everything! What if you were dying now? Just as I am, Thou wilt receive, Will welcome, pardon, cleanse, receive; Because I… Will you put your hand up, on this verse now? …Thy promise, I will believe, O Lamb of God, I come! I come! Now while the organist continues to play, let’s each one of us… Young teenagers, do you want to get like this out here on the street, this bunch of hoodlums? Sister, do you want to wear short hair, when it’s your Nazarite honor to God to have long hair? “It’s a shame for her to cut her hair.” Would you wear these little ol’ skirts and things that they wear today, of this immoral dress, with your body showing through it, out there on the street? Did you know every man that looks upon you commits adultery with you in his heart? And you present yourself like that. Do you know, women, you that wear makeup, there’s only one woman in the Bible that ever wore makeup? And God fed her to the dogs. A Jezebel, a name that’s been hated since her day, because of her acts of that. You know it was Elijah the prophet who cursed that and called her out in that manner? Do you know it was a Herodias that John the Baptist got after? Do you…You don’t want to be that Hollywood thing of the world. “If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not in you.”

8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶27–¶28 Now, as we’re starting in on these questions tonight, I’ll pick up one here and…Are you enjoying them? Say, “Amen.” [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] I think it’s profitable for us at this time. And oh, I believe shortly at…Looking this morning before coming down here at some—some texts and some places in the Bible, I thought, “Oh, what a wonderful thing it would be…While we’re waiting for the Coming of the Lord, what a wonderful thing it would be to take back through all those Old Testament characters, through Job and through there, and run series of meetings on them (wouldn’t that be wonderful?), just to show you how they type right into the day (the whole Word ties together), and all about the destructions of the—and the ancient times and how they type up with today; how everything in the Old Testament speaks of the coming of the Lord Jesus.” 279. Now, first question I pulled out of here: Brother Branham, is it wrong for a Christian to put—to put her hair in pin curls? Also, what length should her sleeves be? Thank you. A sister. Now, that’s…means a whole lot to that woman. Now, to some of us brothers we might think, “Oh, the silly woman.” But—but it’s not silly to her; she wants to know. Now, about putting hair in what was it, pig tails or something another? I’m sorry. I—I didn’t…It…I’m sorry. Pin curls. Excuse me. Pin sets, pigtails! That’s what the girls used to wear years ago. You remember, kind…Wasn’t that right? They called them pigtails, just kind of curls hanging down? No, pin curls, excuse me, friends.

• ¶29–¶32 “What length sleeves should she wear?” I—I don’t think that it is anything about that. I don’t know. See? What I can’t back up with the Bible, I—I don’t want to say much about it. Now, I’m just telling you this for me, ’cause I have no Scripture to back this up. The only thing I have for the ladies about their hair is not to cut it. How they want to wear it, that’s up to them. And about the pin curls, actually, I don’t know what they are, unless it’s these things look like clothespins that they stick in their hair, is about the—the only thing that I know… And the lengths of the sleeves, I think, being a Christian, God would tell you what to do about those things. You see? I believe as a Christian person you’d—you’d know about how to do that. I don’t think God cuts any certain lengths or whatever it is. As long as you’re decent and look honorable and clean, I—I think that’s all right. Don’t you? See? Now, that’s just my opinion. Now, this is me, see, ’cause I can’t back nothing else up with the Scripture. I believe this morning the question come up about painting the hair, you know, with a—with a color. Now, I—I…it…I—I can’t say nothing about that. I don’t know, but I—I—I—I have no Scripture to say not to—to color your hair. Now, that’s—that’s… You women, you like to look nice, and you should look nice. And Brother Branham’s not against you children. You’re my children; I— I—I love you, and I—I don’t want to be bawling you out. I—I wouldn’t do it for nothing; I’m only trying to help you.

9. 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?

10. 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.”

11. BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK — 1958-06-17

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• ¶54–¶59 It used to be wrong for the Methodists, and the Baptist women, especially, and in the Pentecostal, to wear these little ol’ clothes that they wear now, well, if it was wrong in mother’s day, it’s wrong today, you can’t make it anything else, God is infinite. And I look upon the streets, and, friends, it’s…You say, “Now, Brother Branham, about me wearing long hair…” The Bible said if a woman cuts her hair, her husband has got a right to divorce her. You say, “Where do you find that?” In Corinthians. If she cuts her hair, she dishonors her head, and her husband is her head. That’s correct. And a dishonorable woman should not be lived with. That’s right. Now, you might not love me after this, but you’re going to know what’s the truth as far as I know it, see, because I’m responsible, I believe Christ is coming soon, and we got to preach this Word, something has went wrong. An old Methodist preacher friend of mine used to say, sing a song: We let down the bars, we let down the bars, We compromised with sin. We let down the bars, the sheep got out, But how did the goats get in? Why, you let down the bars, that’s just exactly! That’s the truth. And to see Pentecostal women, and Methodists, and Baptists, and all of you out on the street with these little ol’ clothes on, little what you call shorts! You say, “Now, you’re getting off…” Right now I’m getting into your private life, I’m talking about doors. “Oh, you got other things to preach on.” Yes, but this ought to be preached on, too. See? It’s been neglected too long.

12. THE SERPENT’S SEED — 1958-09-28

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• ¶120–¶124 And when you see a—a—a man that’s little…you know, manicuring, or whatever you call it, his fingernails; and, you know, four on one side and five on the other, and—and a slicking his hair down; to hold his mouth open in front, and such stuff as that; one of these pretty boys. You just remember, sis, there is something wrong with that bird. There is something wrong. Better keep your eye on him. And when you see a woman with a cigarette in the side of her mouth, with a pair of overalls on, and saying, “I’ll tell you, feller, what it is!” Brother, you watch that old gal. There is something wrong with her. A woman, supposed to be a woman, and she is supposed to dress like a woman. When God made a man, He made him one thing, and He made a woman something else. And when God dresses a man, He dressed him one way, and the woman something else. And the Bible said, “It’s abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man.” And you women, putting on these little old pants and things, and wearing them out here, little old…What is it you call them, knickerbocker? What do they…? Oh, what is that stuff they…? No, no, it’s not shorts, it’s that other one, got the long legs in it. [Someone says, “Pedal pushers.”—Ed.] Pedal pushers, and overalls, dungarees. Go in, said, “This is for the ladies.” I said, “No, you’re mistaken. Ladies don’t wear them things. Women might, but ladies don’t.” That’s right.

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. A TESTIMONY ON THE SEA — 1962-07-20

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• ¶38–¶40 Now, simple, trying to make it simple, keep it that way. Here not long ago, a very fine religious man, with a great standing in this nation, and he called me into his room, and he said, “Reverend Branham, I want to say something to you.” And I said, “Yes, sir. Say on.” And he said, “I admire you as a servant of Christ, and that I believe you are.” A TESTIMON Y ON THE SEA I said, “Thank you, sir. I can pay the compliments to you.” We were two different ideas, but yet we recognize one another as servants of Christ. He said, “I brought you in here to pray for you.” “Thank you, sir.” I said, “I certainly need it.” And he said, “I want to ask you something.” Said, “Why don’t you quit picking on them people?” I said, “What do you mean, sir?” Said, “You’re going on to them women about bobbing off their hair, wearing immoral clothes, and their husbands, how little they are to let their wo-…wives do such things, and carrying on like that.” Said, “The people regard you as a prophet.” I said, “Did you ever hear me say I was?” He said, “No, but the people regard you as that.” Said, “You see, you ought to be teaching those people how to receive great spiritual gifts, and be lifted up, and have heavenly things like that, and great manifestations of the Spirit. You ought to be teaching that, instead about their bobbed hair, and wearing clothes the way they do.”

15. CONFIRMATION OF THE COMMISSION — 1962-01-22

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• ¶158–¶161 And living after the first lady’s example, like a lot of us Pentecostal people do! Yeah. That’s right. Our Pentecostal women, them great big water-head haircuts, and things like that, yes, yeah, wearing paint, makeup, wearing shorts. And the Bible said, “It’s abomination in sight of God.” How can you do that? That’s right. Why, you know, if you claim, sister, you, something has fallen, if you can wear bobbed hair, and the Bible says… Now, a lot of you Pentecostal women won’t wear makeup. There’s nothing in the Bible about that. But then you will cut your hair. And the Bible said, that, “A woman that cuts her hair is dishonorable.” That’s right. And you’ll wear shorts, or these little old…What a…See? Ever what it is, looks like a man’s clothes. And the Bible said, that, any woman will put on a clothes like that, “Is an abomination in the sight of God.” In other words, “It—it smells bad, to God. It looks bad.” And then if you’ve got the Holy Ghost in you, which is God, how can you put them on and still claim to have the Holy Ghost? Why, your own life confirms that there is something wrong with you. That’s right. I know that scorches, but I—I tell you what’s the matter tonight. We need some more scorching is what they need, some more whippings. That’s right. Is the trouble, we let down on those things. Brother, let me tell you, you got to learn your ABC’s before you get up any farther, you see, that’s exactly right, to always believe that God’s Word is right. No matter what it is, just compare with That. Yes, sir.

16. 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.

17. THE CHURCH AND ITS CONDITION — 1956-08-05

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• ¶44–¶46 A lamb, when it comes time…He owns his own wool, that’s his rights. He owns his wool, but they take the lamb and throw him up on the blocks, and tie his feet down. He never kicks, he never fusses. You just take his rights right away from him, because he’s a lamb. He can’t do nothing else, because that’s his nature. But one time cross a Christian’s path, you’ll find out whether he’s a lamb or a goat. You’ll find out what he is, cross him up one time. And that’s the reason today that our churches is in the condition they are. We’ve called ourselves the lamb of God. The women and the man, together, has begin to act everything but like lambs of God. You look at them going down the street, with short, bobbed hair, curlicues all in their hair. And a few years ago, you call…you, they…you couldn’t have hired them to do that. And then you wonder why is it the church is in the condition it is. Is because you’ve took the nature of a wolf or a goat, instead of keeping the meek gentleness. And you say, “That’s my privilege, Brother Branham.” I know it’s your privilege. “Barbers cut hair. And as long as the barber will cut hair, ain’t I got a right?” That’s right, that’s your American privilege. But are you willing to give it up, to be a lamb? Are you willing to submit yourself? And you women, not long ago, you’d go down the street…It’s ridiculous to look the way the women dress today. And I’m not talking about Presbyterian and Methodist, I’m talking about you holiness women. Go down the street, and it’s…

18. FORSAKING ALL — 1962-01-23

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• ¶243–¶250 The man has the blood cell. The woman has the egg. In this way, there’d have to be some kind of a desire and a conception, to make something happen. And in that case, there was nothing but the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, and God created in the woman. That’s my Saviour. Without Him, we’re all gone. Now, some of you people here, you women, you, maybe Pentecostal women, has been guilty of wearing immoral clothes, cutting your hair, doing things. I notice here in California, there’s not too many of them… Or, here in Arizona, rather, not too many of them are wearing makeup. That was fought against, too. Well, there’s nothing in the Bible to say for you not to wear makeup. We just know it’s wrong, ’cause it’s of the world. But there is a commandment in the Bible that a woman, cuts her hair, is a dishonorable person. And if it looks that way to God, and you say you got the Holy Ghost, and doing so, something is wrong. “To wear a garment that pertains to a man.” Oh, sister, dear, don’t pattern after the world. Forsake the world. Hold to Christ. You say, “What difference does it make?” “Blessed is he that does all of His commandments, that he might have a right to enter into the Tree of Life.” “Guilty of the least is guilty of the whole.” You know better. If you got the Holy Spirit, It’ll surely tell you better. It will tell you better, if it’s the Holy Spirit.

19. 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.

20. THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING — 1962-04-07

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• ¶226–¶232 How many knows that immorality is on the move greater than it ever was? How many knows that wickedness is unbelief? More unbelief and adultery than we ever had, homosexuals, everything else. Is that right? Perversion. I—I—I must, I—I got to say it, our Pentecostal women, skinning themselves in little ol’ dirty-looking dresses like a skinned-down weenie, walking out here on the street immorally. Did you know you’re going to answer for committing adultery? Them men looking upon you, and you putting your kids out like that. What’s the matter? Why, well someone said not long ago, said, “Brother Branham, people call you a prophet.” I said, “I’m no prophet.” Said, “Well, the people call you that. Why don’t you teach them great things, how to receive the gifts of God, instead of talking to women about wearing short hair, and—and wearing things the way they do, and makeup and stuff the way they do, and things like that?” I said, “How am I going to teach them algebra if they won’t learn their ABC’s?” Yes. They won’t come out of kindergarten, the common decency to line up with the Word of God, exactly right. How you going to do that? You can’t do it. Why? Just those God called is the ones will hear It, “My sheep hear My Voice.” That’s right. They know the Voice of God, It speaks from the Word. It’s the Word is what does it. Now, He said that generation, this is it, would receive a sign. What kind of a sign? “As Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, the Son of man shall be in the heart of the earth.”

21. PERSEVERANT — 1962-06-23

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• ¶10–¶13 And here come another woman up, the same way, I said, “It must be, maybe they got some kind of a show on, you know, or something they’re putting on,” clowns, you know, how they paint, you know, and look like that. And ordinarily I wouldn’t think a human being would want to disfigure themselves like that, I…a pretty woman would want to look like that. And then they had that great big water-head haircuts, you know, that kind of a…and it sure, it was the awfulest looking…But a pretty girl standing there, and mess her…Well, what it is, it’s that First Lady idea, you know. And you know, Jezebel was the first lady of—of Palestine one time, too, so be careful what you pattern yourself after, see? Don’t try…Try to look like God said. Let your hair grow out, that’s what God said do. The day after our meetings in Phoenix there was a little lady come up, said, “Brother Branham, since the meetings,” said, “I let my hair grow.” I said, “You’re not far from the Kingdom now.” She—she said, “My sister had a wheelbarrow full of these shorts and things, she was going to throw them in the garbage can, and the next sister come along, got them.” And said, “She said she was finished with those things.” So I said, “That’s all right, I believe the Church will come back on Its feet someday, if It keeps going like that, It will get all right.” I met a man not long ago, he said, “Why don’t you leave off of those women?” I said, “Well, I don’t know.” He said, “People regard you as a prophet.” I said, “I’m not.” He said, “But they regard you that. Why don’t you teach them deep things, how to receive deep spiritual gifts?”

22. 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?”

23. PRESUMING — 1962-01-17

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• ¶77–¶80 And you, we look down upon them, and we think they ought to be taught different. But we in America are just as bad, and, if anything, worse off. It’s true. We presume. We take it for granted. We venture anywhere without the actual authority of doing it. There’s no authority in the Bible for a Christian to drink, gamble, lie, carouse. People join these churches and go right on just the same. They join these churches. Women cut their hair, wear shorts, smoke cigarettes, sure, go right on. They think that’s all right. They presume it’s all right. But it’s not all right. It’s not all right. By a million miles, it’s not right. God’s Word don’t support it. It’s contrary to it, but they presume it’s all right. Somewhere out here at the West Coast. Now, this isn’t over on the Presbyterians now. This is the Pentecostals, and a great fine church, wonderful organization, but they’ve so got away from the Word. This lady wore long hair. She had it done in a little round thing on the back of her head. And, they, they’d go around to her, say, “Hey, your tire is flat, in the back.” They…And all of them made fun of her. Even the pastor told her she should have her hair cut because it was different. She asked me. She said, “Brother Branham, what about it?” I said, “He told you something wrong.” Our Pentecostal sisters does the same thing, like the world. Someone said, other day, said, “Brother Branham, people regard you as a prophet. Why in the world don’t you teach those people how to get spiritual gifts? Leave off of the way them women dress and those men act. Leave off of it. You got no business saying it. Teach them great, deep, spiritual things.”

24. GOD PERFECTING HIS CHURCH — 1954-12-04

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• ¶29–¶30 Here not long ago, I was in a meeting where there’s supposed to be holiness people, sanctified holiness people. And a minister come along, he said, “I want to introduce you to my wife.” I said, “Thank you.” And he give me that woman, and she…I shook her hand. She had great big long things hanging down like this, come plumb to her shoulders. A little old…About enough clothes on to wad a musket shotgun, and all kinds of paint all over her face. That’s right. He said, “This is my wife.” I said, “Is she a Christian?” “Oh,” he said, “Brother Branham, she’s a saint.” You know what I said? Not for a joke, I said, “She looks like a haint to me, instead of a saint.” I said, “But I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but what she need is a good old fashion Calvary’s washing.” Hallelujah. That’s what the Church needs today. Yes, sir. That might make you a little bit sick, but it won’t do you no good if it don’t. See? I was a little boy, lived out on a farm. We didn’t have much to eat. We’d bake our corn pone in a—up in the south there, and black-eyed peas and—and would use bacon grease, where you just rendered out the lard out of the bacon grease, and skins, where they’d give us at the grocery store. A big bunch of little children, ten of them, we had a hard time. And every Saturday night, we’d have to take a bath in the old washtub, and take a dose of castor oil. And my mother…I just—I can’t even stand the stuff yet. So, I’d have to hold my nose. And I’d say, “Mama, it just makes me so sick I can’t stand it.” She said, “Honey, if it doesn’t make you sick, it doesn’t do you any good.” So, maybe I’ll tie that to this tonight. If it doesn’t make you right good and sick, it won’t do you any good. It’ll help your spiritual digesting, give you an old fashioned cleaning up, so you can have a spiritual, gastronomical jubilee some of these times. Amen. And you know that’s the Gospel truth.

25. A THINKING MAN’S FILTER — 1965-08-22

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• ¶86–¶88 Not disregarding anybody; I never speak personally about any person, but it’s sin in the church. You bear me record of that. I didn’t say, “Miss So-and-so is so-and-so, or Mr. So-and-so, or Rev. So-and-so is so-and-so.” No, sir. I say sin is sin. If it’s in my family, it’s in me, it’s in whoever it is, it’s still sin. Not as an individual, I don’t speak against individuals. I speak against sin. I don’t care if it’s me or whoever it is, starts through God’s Filter, any sin will stop you right there. Notice. But the woman who wants to have short hair and wear shorts, or wear paint and anything, she can go right through a Pentecostal filter just as easy as pie, nothing about it, right into death. Cause, he the…She say, “Well, there’s no harm in that.” “If you love the world or the things of the world, it’s because the love of God is not even in you.” Down through this spirit, then, she can pull down into her soul, things that isn’t of God and against God’s Word, if that’s the taste in the soul. It can come through the taste; see, taste…It can come through the think, through the reasoning, “There’s no harm in it. I have taste. I have feelings. I have a feeling that this is all right.” She can come right on down through that, and right into her soul, if her soul is of that type. Shows that she isn’t drawing through God’s Filter. But if she’s got bobbed hair, wearing makeup, shorts, pants, looks like man’s, all these slacks and ever what they call them; saying those kind of things, and doing those things, and living for the world, she’ll stop; she can’t get through There. No, sir. It’ll stop her at the beginning.

26. LIFE — 1958-05-12

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• ¶90b–¶94 I’m going to lay him off in a few minutes, he knows that.” He said, “Well, don’t you never do that again,” said, “because our people are holiness people.” I said, “I’m sorry I did it, sir. If I would have had anyone else, I wouldn’t have done it.” We turned around and walked to the place where there was several thousand people assembled together, and he—he said, “Here is my wife, I want you to meet her, Brother Branham.” And I looked, he said, “She’ll be your pianist this afternoon.” And not for jokes, this is no place for a joke. That’s the trouble of today, we got too much Hollywood evangelism, and not enough of the old-fashioned conviction of the Gospel. And that woman stood there with a dress on so tight, looked like the skin was on the outside, and she had great big earrings on, and stuff all over her mouth, and blue places behind her eyes, and real short cut hair, and it all fuzzed up like a fuzzy worm. And she said…looked at…she said, “How do you do, Dr. Branham?” I said, “Howdy.” I said, “I want to ask you something, sir.” Said, “Yes, Brother Branham.” I said, “Is your wife a saint?” Said, “Certainly!” I said, “I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but she looks like a haint to me, from the way she’s standing there like that.” [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] …?…makeup, and manicure stuff on. Listen lady, let me tell you something as your brother: There was no woman in the Bible, that painted her face…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?…So you can see what God thinks of painted-faced women: dog meat. That’s God’s dog meat. What do they do it for? Not to meet God. That’s not a joke, get that out of your mind.

27. AN ENSIGN — 1962-01-19

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• ¶153–¶158 And to you people, there be one here, that hasn’t never accepted this ensign, that don’t know what makes these people cry, and shout, and dance; and how it makes these women let their hair grow out, and quit wearing them old dirty clothes, and—and looking sexy out before men, and things like that, that old evil spirit gone out of them. Don’t tell me. You might be as pure as a lily to your husband; but when you come to the Judgment Bar, you’re going to answer for committing adultery. That’s right. The Bible said. Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.” And if you dress yourself to present yourself before men, you are guilty, if a man never touches you. When that sinner answers for his adultery, you’re the one that committed it. You’ve presented yourself. Yes, sir. Brother, sister, you might think this is old fashion. I had a minister not long ago, said, “You’re going to hurt your ministry, Brother Branham.” I said, “It isn’t mine. It’s His. And that’s His Word, and that’s what He said.” I believe It. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Right. So when you see one of them women get straight with God, you’ll see her come out like a saint. You’ll see her act different. There’ll— there’ll be a difference in her life. Holiness will speak everywhere. She’ll be a lady. Watch that man, that drunkard out there on the street, staggering, a bar fly, and his mouth blowed with fly-blows, from vomiting, from whiskey and beer and stuff like that. Let him get down at the altar and catch a hold of that ensign one day, and I’m telling you he’ll be an ensign to God, and a memorial to the saving power of Jesus Christ. Yes, sir. He certainly will.

28. HAS THE LORD SPOKEN ONLY TO MOSES? — 1953-11-30

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• ¶22–¶24a I can prove by the Bible that any woman that’ll bob her hair has a legal right in the sight of God for her husband to divorce her. Hair… That’s the Scripture. Now, if you don’t believe it, lay the question up here tomorrow night, and I’ll show you. That’s right. That’s right, but what do we do? The Bible says it’s a common, sinful thing for a woman pray with her hair cut short. That’s right. And yet we…You put all this make-up on, but what does it do, friend? There’s only one woman done that, and you know what God did to her? He fed her to the dogs. So if you see a woman wearing that, say, “Howdy do, Miss Dog-meat.” That’s exactly what she was. God fed her to the dogs: Jezebel. You know you don’t want to be of her daughters, but I don’t blame it on you. It’s because it’s tradition. It’s handed right down, and it’s a disgrace. Now, them things was permitted from the pulpit. No wonder you can’t teach Divine healing and things like…Isn’t that right? No wonder you can’t. It’s a pity. It’s true. No wonder they get…God wanted love. God wanted holiness, love, cooperation, but today we sectarian ourself off. “My church don’t believe in this. Mine does this, and mine does that.” And she used to meet this little lady was up at the—come up there to church, and she said, “You know what’s the matter with you?” Said, “It’s that crazy preacher you got up there. That’s what it is.” Said, “He believes in all that stuff.” Said, “I wouldn’t pay no attention to that.” She said, “It’s not my preacher; It’s my Lord That’s in me that tells me not to do it.” See? And she said, “Why, you’re just,” said, “he is just narrow minded. That’s all there is to it.” Said there…And she said, “You mean my Lord is narrow minded.” She said, “No matter what my preacher would say,” she said, “my Lord in my heart tells me that women should dress in modest apparel.” See? And she said…And this girl made fun of her, and at school she’d always make fun of her.

29. SIRS, WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1961-12-24

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• ¶81–¶88 Then I walked up, and I said, “How much is that perfume? I would like some for my wife, but I want the lilac. I like lilacs.” And he said, or the woman said, rather, the…“This small bottle that that man bought for his wife, is forty cents, but it isn’t lilac. This other bottle, of lilac, is one dollar and ninety-eight cents.” And I said, “I will take that.” And I went to my purse, to get the money. And I thought I gave her two one-dollar bills. Handing back, she said, “Sir, I don’t know this money.” And she hand it back to me. And it was a Canadian five-dollar bill. And I said, “Pardon me. I thought it was a dollar.” I said then, “I am a…I’m a missionary. And I, in my missions, I get money from different parts of the world. And, in this, I have made a mistake.” So, she gave me the five-dollar bill back. And I gave her the American one-dollar bill. And she gave me the change, and she said, “Missionary?” And I said, “Yes, ma’am.” And while I was talking, or looking at her, she looked over to the next woman, and she kind of nodded her head. And she said, “Dear, do you believe that Brother Branham is right, that we women today will have to live like he told us, with the cutting of our hair, and the wearing of our apparel, and things like that?” Said, “Don’t you think that he is wrong in that?” She said, “Yes.” And she said, “Go ahead, honey. You, Ruth,” or whatever her name was; said, “you have the inspiration. Say it.”

30. BROKEN CISTERNS — 1964-07-26

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• ¶103–¶104 And when a man or a woman will take a denomination on their stand, that’ll permit bobbed hair, wearing shorts, makeup, all this other kind of stuff, and some little kind of a—a program, and all this carrying on, and can go to the bowling alleys, and—and all that nonsense out there, and can put up with that; and like that better than they do the old- fashion Word of God that cuts down and hews out, and makes ladies out of women, and takes and makes them dress right and act right, takes cigarettes and tobaccos, and swearing and cursing, and lying and stealing, away from you, and all the world away from you, and give you Something that is a perfect satisfaction. Why do a man or a woman go to such a thing as that for comfort? How can you get comfort out of that? How could you get a fresh drink out of a stagnated cistern? Why would a person…If a person goes to a stagnated cistern to get a drink, when there’s an artesian well open, you would say, “There is something wrong with that man’s mind.” And if a woman or a man goes to such a place to find comfort, there is something spiritually wrong with that person. They don’t want the Word. It shows that their nature is still a frog, or a tadpole, or something, that’s right, something of that nature that likes that stagnated pool, because them kind of things won’t live in a fresh-Water pool. They can’t do it; it’s fresh Water. They can’t do it.

31. LIFE — 1958-05-19

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• ¶109–¶112 It’s time the church took its position and come out of the things of the world, you know it. It used to be it was wrong for Christian women in the holiness groups to wear short hair. What happened? I can remember when you couldn’t be taken into the church with short hair; it was wrong in the first place, it’s wrong yet. The Bible said that if a woman cuts her hair, her husband has a right to divorce her and get away from her. That’s exactly right. What do you do it for? To follow fashions. Now, you’re not going to like me after this, but at the Judgment Bar, you’re going to find out something: The Bible said if a woman cuts her hair, she dishonors her head, which is her husband, if she’s a dishonorable person, she should be put away. It used to be wrong, but something happened. Holiness women wearing these little bitty ol’ clothes and getting out here in the yards, mowing their yards, walking up and down the streets with shorts on, letting your children do it! Then you say, “God, send us a revival.” How would God ever put a revival on a bunch of filth? Can’t do it. Now you’re going to find out why we haven’t got a revival. Why did you do it? You see, the world begin to seep in. Many people that call themselves Christians will stay home on Wednesday night from prayer meeting to hear this ol’ We Love Susie, or all kind of nonsense like that, instead of going to a church, shows what’s on the inside of you. What you’re thirsting, that’s your character, your conduct.

32. BELIEVEST THOU THIS? — 1951-10-03

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• ¶46b–¶47 And she turned around and she said, “Are you Brother Branham?” I said, “Brother, did you say that was a saint?” Said, “Yes, Brother Branham.” I said, “She looks like a haint to me instead of a saint.” ’Course she could’ve. I said…Oh, what we need today is a cleaning up in the church. Hallelujah. Old fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost back in the church, instead of so much of this creed and carrying on we have. Amen. Walked down on the beach there and there laid them women professed to have the Holy Ghost, laying out there, stretched out before men in bathing suits. Hmm. Brother, this might make you vomit, but let me tell you something. I’ve got a girl coming on myself. I said, “What are you doing, lady.” I said, “Isn’t that—your father a minister?” Said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well…” Said, “I’m getting a suntan.” I said, “If my girl ever stretches herself out like that, she’s going to get a sun tanning, but it is going to be Charlie Branham’s son, give her a tan with a barrel slat and bring her home.” That’s right. I’d tan her. She’d…Well, she’d remember it a long time too. Amen. Going down like that…Oh, it’s just how they got. You let down the bars. An old Methodist preacher was preaching not long ago, he sang this song. He said: We let down the bars; We let down the bars; We compromise with sin; We let down the bars; The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in? You let down the bars, that’s what was the matter. Amen.

33. AND KNOWETH IT NOT — 1965-08-15

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• ¶63–¶67 Before I get to that spot, I might brief what I said a few days ago, here in a Message on, I believe it was, The God Of This World; blinded the eyes of the people, that they absolutely worship the devil in religious services. Did you all get that? All of you understood it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] And then in that same Message, I brought the subject, that, a woman wearing immoral clothes, indecently, she is, be judged at the Judgment Bar as a street prostitute. That sounds awful strange. Let me draw you a little picture. Now, here is an attorney in the city, a young fellow, and he’s a nice man. As far as—as politically, I imagine he may be decent as any, his politics. And then he goes with a girl that’s very popular. They fall in love and marry. They attend to all the parties and the great things, and they all drink together. Finally, she…He has a nice home. He lives in a nice neighborhood. He is well thought of amongst the people. But he…Both of them drink. She wears shorts, cuts her hair, wears makeup, everything just as sexy-ish, beautiful woman displaying herself. Well, she never goes to church, at all, neither one of them. So, move in, next door to them, comes a woman from the Baptist church or the Methodist church, her and her husband. Now, this woman… Let’s make it Methodist, because the Methodist go a little more on holiness than the Baptist; all except the New Testament Baptist, they believe in holiness. But, usually, Baptists don’t go for holiness at all, see. They don’t believe in such a thing. So then, now, let’s make it Methodist ’cause they believe in holiness.

34. DOORS IN DOOR — 1965-02-06

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• ¶170–¶175 But when you’re ready to open that door, let Him come in, He’ll clean it out for you, shorts will go out here in the garbage can, and make-up will go back to the garbage can, and the barber will starve to death if he just cut women’s hair, to a real believer. Now say, “That don’t…” Oh, yes, it does, too. That’s what the Bible said. That’s right. See, there is a little word there, that you don’t want Him meddle. “Well, my pastor!” I don’t care what pastor said. That’s what the Bible said, “It’s a shame for a woman to do so.” “Well,” you say, “we ought to teach us things, Brother Branham, is how to get the Holy Ghost, and how to be this, that.” How you going to learn algebra if you don’t know your ABC’s? Don’t know even how to, to act like, look like one, dress like one. It’s a shame to see these women on the street today. I went into a place yesterday, when, oh, some of the perverted gang come in. They, the men had hair in their eyes, come down and hung down on their back, and like legotards, like little kids wear to school, with great big old shoes on, mouth half open. You can tell they were delinquents. And walked in there like that, say, “We’re French.” Who in the world would hire a man like that in his business? How they make a living? And I seen a couple of real boys sitting over there…They come from that university down there, this beatniks did, or I believe they call themself bugs or beatles, or something like that, some of that stuff coming from England. And then in there like that, who would hire a man like that to work for him? Would you put a man like that in your business, you businessmen? If you would, you’re, there is something, you ain’t got close enough to the Cross yet.

35. WHY LITTLE BETHLEHEM — 1963-12-14

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• ¶151–¶154 Rise, ye sons and warriors, let’s cut back to our original Bethlehem! Remember when David come to his throne. These men stood by him because he knowed, they knowed he was coming to the throne. They knowed that David was going to be on the throne, no matter how much he was rejected out. He was the worst fugitive in the land. And so is the true Word of God, this morning, It’s foreign to organizations. Look what they done. That shows it right before you. People try to say, “Brother Branham, you’re knocking the church.” I’m knocking them systems. The Church is Jesus Christ, not a system. And today, look what they’ve done, look what they’re doing. And you can see what they’re doing, they’re trying to keep the people from That. They’re garrisoning more and more around that Well, to be sure that nobody will drink from It. But, O warriors of God, I believe that Jesus Christ will come someday in glory, I believe He’ll come and sit on the Throne of His Father David. Though He be a fugitive, His Word this morning, rejected by His Own people like David was, the organizations turned out His Word, they turned out, when God comes and vindicates His pure Word. Don’t tell me! For years, across the country, and they get farther, away from It all the time. I said the other day, about Jacqueline Kennedy, how many times I’ve rebuked you women for cutting your hair, wearing makeup, you Pentecostal women cutting your hair, which God said it’s a…you— you—you make yourself a—a street harlot when you do it. And, according to God, your husband has no right to live with you any longer. A woman that cuts her hair, dishonors her head, which is her husband. That’s exactly. What do I say about it? And you call me out on it, I get the letters, “You old crank.” All right, they called Elijah the same thing. They called every Word of God, every time the Word is made, call It…