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1. THE FALLING APART OF THE WORLD — 1962-12-16

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• ¶187b–¶190 They wouldn’t then, they won’t now. Now, what do you know? Again, so again his plans and the plans of the world of denomination and creed, is falling apart. Man’s plans is falling apart. God never offered us a creed. He never offered us a denomination. I want somebody to show me in the Bible where He did. I can show you where He told you not to do it. You show me where He said do it. You say, “Then, Brother Branham, what did Jesus offer man?” A Kingdom. Hallelujah! And He is the King, King of saints, Lord of lords. He offered us a Kingdom. Not a politician, denominational system; but a Kingdom. He said to…Pilate, Pilate said, “Are You the King of the Jews?” He said, “You said it.” He said, “If My Kingdom was of this world, My men would fight for Me, but My Kingdom is of Above.” And why are we to hold to these things of the world when we are children of the Kingdom which is Above? See? There’s something wrong somewhere. But we wasn’t offered a system. We wasn’t offered an organization, we wasn’t offered a—a political rulership of the world, but we were given a Kingdom of meekness, as the Life of the Lamb is in us. Not of the world, you’re no more of the world. “Little children, you’re not of the world. I pray, Father, that as I am not of the world, that they may not be of the world.” See? That’s what Jesus prayed for us. And yet we turn right back around and put ourself in worldly hookups in there where all kinds of people are taken in. Now, you know there’s not a church in the world but what’s full of hypocrites. And Jesus said, “Don’t yoke yourself up among unbelievers.”

• ¶196b–¶199a Not a politicianal system, not a political system, not a church system, not a denominational system; it all becomes Pharisees and doctors of the devil. But we receive a Kingdom, an Eternal King Who is the Eternal Word, Who has Eternal Life; by His Eternal Word to His Eternal people who has Eternal Life, and we’re partakers of this. Oh, my! That’s the thing. Now, anything that pulls you away from That is wrong, that’s a false messiah, a false anointing. Oh, he said, “The brother had such anointing!” What kind of anointing? That’s it. Hitler had an anointing, too. Khrushchev’s got one, also. Pope Pius has one, also. What kind of anointing you got? If it’s not anointed with this Word and vindicate every Word to be Truth, leave it alone. Wrong. If it don’t produce itself, then it isn’t germitized. It’ll show its color. Oh, say, “But That was for another age. We…” Leave that thing alone. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yes, sir. So when this world falls apart, we are born into a Kingdom that cannot fall apart. You believe the world is falling apart? Its systems are falling apart. Do you believe that? Do you believe the—the economical system’s falling apart? The political system’s falling apart. The national, UN system is falling apart. The church is falling apart. The denominations are falling apart. Everything is falling apart. But we got a Kingdom that cannot be moved, it’s the Eternal Kingdom of God, it cannot be moved. We are told that the new system of this denomination, of bringing this here World Council of Churches, will bring peace to the earth. What a—what a disregard, what a—a nasty slam in the face of Christ! What a irreverent, sacrilegious thing that is! It’s of the devil. A man can organize something better than God can send them? The tower of Babel! It’s another Babylon that must fall. Peace on earth? A false messiah! An anti-christ in its teaching. How you going to throw these denominations together when they won’t even…They can’t even agree with one another now when they broke up in little systems like that, how about all joining together and getting over there? Yes. See, it’s a false setup.

2. SHOW US THE FATHER AND IT WILL SATISFY US — 1960-07-31

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• ¶153–¶155 So I was setting there, and he said, “Mr. Branham, I see that you, tracing your life back, you’re a Baptist.” I said, “I was.” And he said, “What happened? Why—why did you leave the Baptist church?” I said, “I never left it, it left me.” See? I said, “It left me, when it denied the Message that I was preaching of the Bible.” And he said, “Well, Mr. Branham, there’s one thing I’d like to ask you,” he said, “is this,” he said, “now, if you did that, I would like to say one thing: What made you take up with the Pentecostals?” I said, “They believe the Word.” He said, “What have they got?” Said, “I’ve been around and see them kick over the tables and knock over the chairs.” And I said, “Oh, sure. That’s right.” “Knock out a window, or something like that.” I said, “Sure.” Said, “What is it?” I said, “Holy Ghost.” And he said, “The Holy Ghost?” I said, “Sure, if they won’t make the wheel roll right, they got to blow it out the whistle somewhere, they got a lot of steam,” I said. And that’s the truth. If this Pentecostal church would take lot of its praises and put it to work, it would do something for the Kingdom of God. God give you the Holy Ghost, you like to shout by It, and praise by It, but just put that into gifts and wonders, and go out on the street and get sinners to come in, and things like that, your church will grow, and everything will go along all right. Don’t blow it out the whistle, put it into action and let, make the wheel roll, the Gospel train.

• ¶180–¶181 He was up in the balcony, and he said, “You know, when I heard you preach, I was sure you was a Nazarene,” and he said, “because you preach holiness,” and he said, “then I hear somebody tell me you was a Baptist, nearly all these people are Pentecostals,” Said, “I don’t understand that.” I said, “Oh, dad, that’s easy,” I said, “I’m a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist.” That—that’s it. We are representatives of Jesus Christ, that’s the thing, not your denomination, your God. Now, this woman belonged to a Christian Science church, very fine lady, and she said, course, they do not believe in the, Jesus being Divine, she said, “Mr. Branham, I enjoy your teaching, but,” said, “the only thing that makes my blood shiver is you trying to make Jesus Divine.” Said, “You brag too much on him.” I said, “I can’t brag enough on Him.” She said, “Well, you’re always bragging about him, bragging about him.” I said, “He…I, if I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn’t brag about Him enough,” I said, “what He’s done for me.” She said, “But you make him Divine.” I said, “He was Divine. If He wasn’t Divine, the whole world is lost.” That’s exactly right. She said, “If I…You said, you was a fundamentalist, you just stayed with the Bible.” I said, “That’s right.” She said, “If I’ll prove to you by the Bible he wasn’t Divine, will you accept it?” I said, “If the Bible said He wasn’t, I would.” I said, “But the Bible doesn’t say it.” She said, “Oh, yes it does, too!” I said, “Where’s it at?”

3. WHY ARE WE NOT A DENOMINATION? — 1958-09-27

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• ¶15–¶17 So I’m thinking, tonight, to begin with, to start with, it seems to be the Lord lays upon my heart just for this subject, the…Why Are We Not A Denomination? The reason that…Now, we have nothing against other peoples who are denomination. We have nothing against them, but I want to explain why that we never went in with any denomination. I was ordained in a little Baptist church, as you know. And the Baptist is not a denomination, wasn’t, till just recently, and now it’s becoming just as much denomination as the rest of them. But, the reason that we never become a denomination… Now, we are an organization. We are an organization, recorded here in the—in the courts, as an organization, a group of people that’s organized together to worship Christ, but we’re not in a denomination. No one is going to dominate over us, you see. It’s not a denomination. It’s—it’s just an organization, a fellowship amongst Christian believers. People come here to the church. And this becomes their home church if they wish to come, as long as they live. And they can come here and disagree with everything that we preach. That’s perfectly all right. You still, as long as you are a Christian, you’ve got fellowship, and a hand out just the same as the rest of them. See? If I said I believe in baptizing by immersing by water, and you believed in sprinkling, and stayed right on it, we’d still be just the same as we was if we both agreed. We might not be able to see eye- to-eye, alike. But as long as you are a Christian brother or sister, you’re perfectly welcome, see, everybody.

• ¶290–¶292 How many remembers our old dismissing song, then? Take the Name of Jesus with you, Child of sorrow and of woe; It will joy and comfort give you, Take It everywhere you go. Wish you could stay with us, Brother Jeffreys, you and Sister Jeffreys, and the boys there, and all of them. And then at the Name of Jesus bowing, Falling prostrate at His feet, (Oh, my!) King of kings in Heaven we’ll crown Him, When our journey is complete. Take the Name of Jesus with you, Take It as a Shield today; Oh, when temptation draws near, Breathe that Holy Name in prayer. Oh, I love that. Don’t you? That wonderful Name of Jesus! Now, let’s stand up right now, while we sing now. All right. Take the Name of Jesus with you, Child of sorrow and of woe; It will…(…?…) …O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven; Precious Name, (Oh, precious Name!) O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven. This is a little different now. Let’s just bow our heads now, and, real quietly, let’s raise up one hand, say: At the Name of Jesus bowing, Falling prostrate at His feet, King of kings in Heaven we’ll crown Him, When our journey is complete. Precious Name, O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven; Yes, precious Name, O how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven. With our heads continually bowed, we say…[Brother Branham hums Take The Name Of Jesus With You—Ed.]

4. THE CHURCH CHOOSING LAW FOR GRACE — 1961-03-16

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• ¶173–¶176 One great man of a great organization, said, “Brother Branham, if you’ll just compromise on a few things, we’ll fly you to the main— main nerve centers of the world in our planes, and let you preach, if you’ll just come and join up with us.” I said, “Shame on you! A man of dignity and honor with a doctor’s degree, would ask a servant of God to compromise on His Word!” I said, “If I’m wrong, then you take the Scriptures, show me where I’m wrong.” I said, “God…How could you do a thing like that, Brother?” He bowed his head, he said, “I believe you’re a man of God.” Said, “My wife would have died years ago.” She was worst cancer case I ever seen. Said, “You spoke her, and called her out in the audience like that by the Holy Ghost.” Said, “I believe.” And I said, “Then you ask me to compromise? That don’t beat in my veins. No, sir. I’ll stay with the Word if I die in the pulpit.” That’s the way our fathers did that, stay on the Word of God, no matter if it skins you, and shucks the hide off of you, stay there anyhow. I am bound for the Promised Land, I am bound for the Promised Land; O who will come and go with me? I am bound for the Promised Land. I am bound for the Promised Land, I am bound for the Promised Land; O who will come and go with me? I am bound for the Promised Land.

5. THE WAY OF A TRUE PROPHET OF GOD — 1962-05-13

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• ¶303–¶309 That’s what they had done there. That’s what Amos was telling them. “The God that you claim to know, He is the One is going to destroy you.” Now, we have taught them, off of (what?) the Foundation of “the Faith that was once delivered to the pentecostal fathers,” yeah, the Bible. Taught a false purgatory! Taught a false baptism! Everything, false, false, false, separating from the Original. You don’t believe it? Come back to the Bible, and take your “purgatory,” and take your “Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” and “sprinkling,” and all that stuff, and come back and see if it’s Scriptural. That’s the way. Find out if it’s on the Foundation. See? They’re off of the Foundation. Which, Paul said that…the Bible—the Bible speaks that the— the…that, “The Church of God is founded upon the Doctrine of the apostles and the prophets.” The prophets and apostles has to be the same. Sure. What? We went off of that Foundation of the Word, to denominational foundations. Listen now. I’m closing. Put on your spiritual hearing aid. Listen. We’ve got off of the Foundation of the Word, and on the foundation of a denomination. How long could I stay on that? Another three hours. Off of the Foundation of the Word, onto the foundation of worldly pleasures, worldliness, immoral creeping into the church. Off of the Word, onto creeds. That would take me three weeks to preach that through, half way, them four comments right there. Off of the Word, onto a denomination, denominational word. As soon as the— the church denominates, it’s off the Word right then.

6. SHOW US THE FATHER AND IT WILL SUFFICETH US — 1962-06-09

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• ¶26–¶29 “And now, my people before me, back, was Catholic,” and I said, “from Ireland, all come from Dublin.” And I said, “Then they, that… I heard about, when I was a little boy, the things that happened, and there was a call in my life. “And then the Catholic said, ‘We are the Church,’ and shuts the rest of them out; I go at the Lutheran, they say, ‘We are the Church,’ and shuts all the rest of them out.” I said, “About six, seven hundred, or maybe nine hundred different denominations, how are we going to know what’s right? So I just got to the Bible, I just stay with the way I read It, and just keep it like that.” And he said, “Well, here’s one thing,” said, “you’re always hammering at them women.” Hmm? He said… I said, “I am jealous of them.” He said, “You tell them how they must dress, and all about they’re too sexy, and—and they shouldn’t wear those clothes, and those shorts, and quit cutting their hair and all these other things you said.” Said, “You hammer at that.” He said… “Well,” I said, “that’s in the Scripture.” So he said, he said, “Well, I know it too.” I said, “Don’t you believe that, being a Pentecostal minister?” He said, “Yes, but,” said, “Brother Branham,” he said, “the people believe you to be a prophet.” I said, “No, I’m not.” He said, “But they believe you that way,” he said, “and you should be teaching those women how to receive great spiritual gifts and things like that,” and said, “then—then the—the Church would be better off.” I said, “Brother…” He said, “If you’re deeper with God, teach the people deeper with God.”

7. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶38–¶39 Now, that might sound like a mixed-up question, but that’s a good one, very good. See? Now, here gives me a little chance, that I find that’s working with my—my family here now (see?), I mean you, my family, and the family out in the world where we…where our tapes go. Now, a great part of my congregation is made up of Pentecostal people, and because Pentecost is the latest message that we have in the denominational ranks. And to me, I certainly agree with them more than any other denominational church. I hang towards the Pentecostal, because it is a…the later message. And all my converts that I bring to Christ, I try to direct them to some Pentecostal church. But I have condemned them in every way that I knowed how, that they were wrong in the Scripture by being a denomination and not willing to walk in Light when Light’s presented to them. But yet, if I had to take my choice today to take any church in the world, I’d take Pentecostal when it come to denomination. But when it comes to individuals, as men and women, there’s genuine Christians in all them denominations: Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutherans, and so forth. But I’m talking about the systems that these people are in, not never the individual, but the system that these people has been caught into in their denomination. They clearly understand that now (see?), that I— I think the people…If they’re Roman Catholic, Jehovah Witness, Orthodox Jew, whatever they are, that doesn’t matter to me; but they are individuals to which Christ died to save.

8. JUST ONCE MORE, LORD — 1963-12-01

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• ¶84–¶91 Now the frame is there, but we don’t have the power we had when we were a handful. All of Samson’s big bulk stood there, but where was the Power of the Lord? Yes, the denominational system don’t vindicate the Word of the Lord. That’s right. Now notice. I was talking to a priest that lives out the lane from me, the Sacred Heart church. About a month ago, since this new issue has come on, the Lutheran preacher had the priest of the Catholic church, Sacred Heart church, up to preach in his pulpit for him. And the—the Catholic priest had the Lutheran minister down to say mass for him. “Swapping pulpit,” big piece in the paper. Yeah. Sure. Oh, my, if anybody could see that and not…If you can’t understand that, well, you’re—you’re—you’re certainly Scripturally blind. See? Yes. I talked to this priest. And he said to me, he said, “I want to talk to you, Mister Branham.” I said, “All right.” And he said, “Did you baptize this Frazier girl, by the name of Mary Elisabeth Frazier?” I said, “Yes, sir, I did.” He said, “The bishop wants your signed statement about it.” I said, “I understand that—that she turned Catholic.” And he said, “Yes,” said, “she come back to the mother church.” And I said, “Yes, sir,” I said, “her mother was telling me about it.” Said, “Yes, her mother didn’t take it too well.” I said, “Yeah, her mother told me she ‘would rather walk with her to the grave.’” And I said, “Frankly, that’s what she was doing.”

9. JEZEBEL RELIGION — 1961-03-19

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• ¶9–¶11 And to you, the other ministers that’s here, to you and your congregation, Full Gospel preachers, upon little technical things of the Scripture we might disagree with one another. I disagree with my wife on some things. And you know what that’s on? She likes apple pie and I like cherry, so we disagree. And I tell you what I do with mine: I like a good hot piece of cherry pie (I could stand it right now) and pour butter on top of it, and then pour molasses on top of that; and, brother, you got something worth eating! My wife’s afraid of it. I think she’s afraid of the calories. She might like it, but you know how the women are, they’re afraid…They get so thin you could stick them with a pin and cut them to the bone, and yet they want to—they want to reduce. That’s the nature of them, I guess, so there’s…And, but I like that. Now, we disagree upon that, other things we’re all right. But, you see, we’re not perfectly in agreement. So we would see the same thing, brethren, but the main thing, we’re eating pie, that’s the main thing. Principally, upon the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the coming of Christ, and the great evangelical, fundamental doctrines of the Bible, we certainly stand arm-in-arm with that. As one big united brethren, without a denominational barrier, without anything to hinder us, we march towards Calvary as one great army, together. If I can ever be of any help to you, I’ll be glad to do it. And I’m sure you’d say the same thing to me. And you can be a help to me. And that’s one thing you can do, that I know, is pray for me, that God will never let me go wrong. I—I—I…It’s not in my heart to go wrong, I—I want to go right, I want to do what’s right. Because I realize, as Brother Jack Moore told me one time, he said, “Brother Branham, I wouldn’t stand in your boots for all your experience, at the Day of the Judgment, because God is going to require of you a great answer,” said, “because He’s give you millions of people in your hands.”

10. THE SUPERNATURAL — 1956-01-29

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

11. GETTING IN THE SPIRIT — 1961-04-28

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• ¶213b–¶216 Let’s bow our heads now. The dying…[Brother Branham hums—Ed.] O Father God, we’re dying now of all of our unbelief. Create in us an—a desire to dig now. We’re digging, Father. Search me and try me and see if there’s any unbelief in me, Lord, if there is, help me to get it out of the way right now. Help me to clean this, the channel out, so the power of God can flow through. Help this audience just now, Lord, I pray for them. I pray that You’ll let every channel be clean. Clean every church that’s represented here, Lord, all of them, from one organization to another, clean all the unbelief out, Lord. Clean all the systems of the world out of it, may the sweet fellowship of the Holy Ghost come in through the channels of God, flowing through here tonight, bringing fresh revelation, the Word of Life, may It go out tonight, into every soul here. And I know You’re here, Lord. And they look to me as Your seer, as Your believer, for someone to make an example. And Father God, I pray that You’ll help me tonight, that the Holy Spirit might have a free access into my soul, and my heart, my life, my eyes, my being, not only to me but to every person here, that the ones who does not believe, might see the Spirit working through believers and saying, “If it, that water can flow from that smitten Rock through them, it can through me, too.” Grant it, Father. I ask it, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

12. 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.”

13. THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE — 1960-12-05

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• ¶160–¶162 Somebody, not long ago, up there, said, “Brother Branham, come out to the Chautauqua.” How many was at the Chautauqua? Why, just looky here, a third of the church or more was at Chautauqua. Which…Now, that man got up there that afternoon, and you all heard him, not knowing that I’d know about it. God can reveal in the room up there what they’re saying down there, and, you know, He did do it. Come up there, said, “Now, Brother Branham, oh, he’s a servant of the Lord. When the Spirit is upon him, he’s anointed prophet, he sure knows, God tells him what is and what’s going to be; but his theology, don’t listen to that.” What a scrupled up idea! How a man can say that! Why, I haven’t…Well, if you didn’t know split beans from coffee, you’d— you’d know better than that. How can you ever think of such a thing as that? Why? Why, the very word prophet itself means “a Divine revelator of the Word.” How can you…? “The Word of the Lord came to the prophet.” I never said I was one, they said it. But there you are. See? How a man, to hold up a little church doctrine somewhere, because their organization wouldn’t agree with It, selling your birthrights for a mess of pottage, Esau, you miserable hypocrite! That’s right. The selling of your birthrights for a mess of pottage, for a mess of denomination, a mess of organization that God hates. Just remember, you say “organization,” God hates it! It’s the thing that separated brothers, and broke down…There’s a many a Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian, tonight, would like to have the fellowship around the table of God. But if they do, they’d get kicked right out the first time they start into it. That’s exactly right.

14. BROKEN CISTERNS — 1964-07-26

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• ¶58–¶61 And I spoke against that denominational system right then. And I still believe, tonight, that it’s a cesspool, that it’s a place where the filth run into it. I can’t believe that God would ever take such a thing in His Church, because it’s got to be born of the Spirit of God and then cleansed before it can be called His. The mystical Body of Christ, we are baptized into It by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Yes, this cistern system is certainly a perfect example of denomination. A wise man ought to look, and never to go into it, for God has proved through the ages that He’s against it and never did work with it. Any group…Any time a man raised up with a message, like Luther, Wesley, or so forth, and Smith, and Calvin, and them, when they started the organization, God laid the thing on the shelf and never did visit it again in a revival. Look through history. There has never been a time that God ever took a denomination, made a revival out of it, nowhere. Then, through history and by the Bible, proves that it’s a filthy thing in the sight of God, so I don’t want nothing to do with it. And that’s why I’m against. I’m trying to get the people out of it. We are invited, like in Israel, so is it now, to look to Israel for examples. They, as long as they stayed with that Fountain, they were all right. But when they got to hewing themselves cisterns, man-made systems, then God left them flat. He’ll do us the same. “They have forsook Him, the Fountain of living Water.” That was the complaints that God had against them. “To make something that they could say, ‘You see what we have done!’”

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

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• ¶144–¶148 We’ve had a great revival, no doubt, but it’s been a denominational revival. Why? Because we’ve sowed denominational seeds. Correct. When the Holy Spirit falls, just like the rain on the just and unjust, the rain falls, make a cocklebur grow and make the wheat grow too, both of them just as happy as the other one, but their fruits you know them. What do we try to do? “A million more,” and this organization outdoing that one, this denomination outdoing that one. We’ve had a Billy Graham, they just had a revival, in the Baptists, one of your boys up here, great man of God, too. Yeah. Pentecostals had a revival, Oral Roberts. Oh, my, many of them, great revival. Boy, they picked up in numbers to who wouldn’t have it. What’s it turned out to be, now it’s over? Did you know Joel said there will be a former and a latter rain? The former rain, f-o-r-m-e-r, means “moureh,” Hebrew word, which means “a sowing rain,” sowing a crop. That’s the reason…What did you reap? Oh, the organization is built up, but where is God at? You sowed denominational seed, when the Holy Ghost fell, it made a denominational revival. What we need is, “Get back to the Word!” Get back to the real Word of God, and bring forth a Bride to Christ and the Word. That’s true, back to the Word. Let the organization, that’s all right, nothing against it, but everybody has just got to pull a few punches, you know, because if they don’t, they get put out. God have mercy, pulling punches. Tell the truth, or shut up. Um-hum. That’s right. Just say It the way It’s wrote, see if God don’t confirm It. I challenge you to believe It, I know It’s the truth. See?

16. PRESENT STAGE OF MY MINISTRY — 1962-09-08

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• ¶116b–¶120 That’s the way God does things, isn’t it? He—He does things in His Own way. All right. Many of my brethren, they’re having great popularity today amongst their denominational brethren. You just speak one name, boy, and it’s just like fire, anywhere, that’s right, you say this certain name of this person. And, after all, when the Lord spoke to me down on the river that day, it spearheaded that revival around the world, from there come every one of those great evangelists. They went right back with their brethren, see, those denominations in which they come out of. They come out here and hold this meeting, mixed up with the denominations, they go right back into them again. They got a lot of favor, big names on radio, papers, and everything. Everybody speaks well of them. But all men has forsaken me because I’ve took a true Word, and stood by the Word. I’ve stayed right here to what He said to me, preached the Word, not a denominational philosophy. “Preach the Word,” that was my commission, “stay with the Word.” And, brethren, who is listening to this on tape, I was a great guy when I come among you, just healing the sick, speaking of visions and showing things. But when I went to tell you the Truth about the Word, what did you turn your back on me for? Do you realize it’s just fulfilling what the Scripture said? Yes, it does that way. Now I can hardly get in a place. Letter comes all the time. One come the other day, said, “Brother Branham, I had the greatest of confidence in you, but I heard you say that a certain denomination which I belong to was backsliding.” Said, “I have no more confidence in you at all now, from now on.” Said, “There was about twenty-five of the brethren of my denomination setting in one of your meetings,” said, “we just got—got right up and went off when you said that.”

17. HEAR YE HIM — 1959-04-24

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• ¶4–¶7 But Dr. Lee Vayle, one of my associates, wants Brother Booth to come and something another about to get together, I want him to get his address about some teaching in Greek. I think about a man teaching in Greek, and I can’t teach in English. So but, you know, “Let him that’s taught in all good things communicate with him that…” How is that? Goes something, a Scripture to that saying. And we’re very happy to have our fellowship here together, and the blessings of God upon all. And this has been one of the finest, cooperative bunch of men that I have ever had services with. And I believe that this is the beginning of something that’s much larger than what we have here now, when men will come together, no matter what their doctrine is, they’ll just let down the fence lines, and fellowship one with another. There’s only one God, and we worship that God, that’s all. And if we were all going to Indiana in the morning at four o’clock with me, some might go in the Chevrolet, and I’m going in a Ford, the next guy in a Buick, the next…As long as we head towards Indiana: keep going. That’s the idea. And one car will take you same as the other. And that’s the way it is now, I believe, is that the main thing is get started right, towards Glory, keep going, that’s good. Now, the one great thing, many people has misunderstood me when I talk of denominational barriers, it isn’t that the denomination is wrong, but to build a fence around, and nobody else can fellowship, that’s where the wrong part is. I think that God wants us…Well, what would it be if we didn’t have denominations? You see. We have to have them, and they’re God’s plan. But the thing, when we come to think, “We are the only group,” God goes right over here and blesses somebody else, and shows that we’re not the only group. See? So, God works that way. I’m so glad that He does, because we’re all human beings, His creatures.

18. INSPIRATION — 1956-01-28

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• ¶7b–¶8 He just laughed, said, “I think we ought to have one of them in here.” I said, “Now, you’re getting right.” So looks like you’ve already gotten right, Brother Rodgers. That’s very good. I tell you, the fellowship we have, the brother, a Main Street Methodist Church down in New Albany and so…He and I were raised up here in Kentucky just across the hollow from each other. And he…When I was pastoring the church, why, up at Jeffersonville, and I get someone come in, and a convert, I’d say…He’d say to me, “Now, Brother Branham, I want you to sprinkle me, because I tell you why,” he said, “all my people were Methodist,” and said, “I want to be sprinkled.” I said, “Now, Brother, you’ll never make me a good member.” See? I said, “But I got old Brother Lum down here, is one of the finest men you ever met.” And I said, “I’ll just take you down to him and—and he can sprinkle you.” And I said, “He’s a good man.” I said, “It’s awful dry down there, but a good church.” So when he’d get a convert, he said, “Well, now, Brother Lum, I want you to baptize me ’cause my people were Baptist.” He’d say, “You know,” said, “you’ll never make me a good member.” But said, “My Brother Billy up there at Jeffersonville,” said—said, “you better go up to him.” Said, “I’ll tell you,” said, “he’s a water dog.” Said, “He will drown you,” said, “he will hold you till the last bubble comes up.” So that’s—that’s the way we got along. And if the—if all churches could get along like that, wouldn’t it be…We’d begin the Millennium just about this time, wouldn’t we? When everybody can have fellowship one with another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Isn’t that wonderful? And that’s the way it will be.

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

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• ¶105–¶107 The God that brought you out of these home-made, man-made morgues, years ago! Fifty years ago, your fathers and mothers came out of these systems that had bound up and got the world into them. And God sent His mercy down and called you out, away from the sin and stuff that—that was in the church. And now you’ve turned right back around, like Samaria did. That, God brought them out from them countries, and they turned right back around and they made an alliance with that country, how we are today, and trying to compete with those big denominational churches. We’re building bigger schools. What? We don’t need big schools. It’s all right; I ain’t got nothing to say against it. But every time that you take a founder or a leader that goes forth in his day, well, he’ll do good in his day, but, as soon as he’s gone, then they’ll build an organization over the top of his work. Then they’ll get a bunch of little Rickys in there, and Elvises, and, the first thing you know, they twist the thing to make it suit themselves. And then this other one comes up and he injects something else, because he’s a great intellectual student out of Harvard somewhere, or something. And the first thing, they begin to inject this, and take This out, and say This didn’t mean that and that. You’re right back in the same old rut again. Yes. If Amos was here, he would blast the thing right straight to the ground. He never built his campaign upon how many churches he could get to cooperate with him. He would never build his church upon some certain organization or some sectarian parts of the church. The thing he would do, would build his campaign upon THUS SAITH THE LORD. God would back him up as He always did, prove that it’s right. He said, “There is trouble. There is turmoils in your church.”

20. THE RAPTURE — 1965-12-04

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

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

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• ¶86b–¶88 And there, Doctor So-and-so, and Teacher So-and-so, and Professor So-and- so has exalted their own knowledge, so-called (from Satan) truth, above the vindicated promise of God, made clear right before them. And man fall for it. See? His scientific achievements, trying to prove God’s Word wrong. Just think of that. He, his, that is, the man’s theology, explains God’s Word to the people, and makes It of no effect again, like he had it in the denominational age when Jesus appeared on the earth. Jesus said, “You hypocrites! You, by your tradition,” that’s their interpretation, “has took the Word of God and made It of no effect to the people.” And that’s the same thing they’ve done today. It doesn’t have the effect. Notice, “They,” the people, “exalt him above all that’s called God.” Don’t Second Thessalonians say they would do it? And the authority of a denominational church, the people believing that denomination more than they believe God. And God is the Word. They’ll believe their denominational creed above the Word, which “exalts him above all that’s called God.” And there’s only one God, and that’s the Word. “All that’s called God; so he as God sets in the church of the God, proving that he is God,” because he’s got the people worshipping him. God is the Word. And he exalts himself above all that’s called God. And there’s only one God, and that God is the Word. See? “And all that’s called God,” is, the god of this age has exalted himself above the true, vindicated Word of God. That’s Saint John 1. See? “Above all that’s called God, so that he as God sets in the temple of God,” with authority. Look, and he is praised for it! Oh, let the people, God, see that deception! He is praised for it, and solemnly believed by the people of this evil age. Now do you see the god and his servants of this evil age?

22. THINGS THAT WASN’T SO FROM THE BEGINNING — 1961-01-19

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• ¶46–¶48 Here in Arizona not long ago, I was looking at a tree in a man’s yard: a citrus tree. It had nine different kinds of fruit on one tree. It was. Every one of them was a different fruit. It was a orange tree to begin with, but it had pomegranates; it had—it had lemons; it had grapefruits; all different kind of citrus fruit. Why? They were grafted in there. They were living off of the life of that tree, but they could not bring nothing but what they was. They couldn’t bring oranges, because they’re a grafted vine. But every time that tree brought forth a true branch from itself, it was an orange tree, and oranges it bore. That’s the way today. We’ve grafted Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian vines into the true Vine, and living off of the strength of It. But it can’t bear nothing but creeds and denomination. But if that Vine ever puts forth another branch, it’ll be interdenominational, powered with the Holy Ghost, just exactly like it was on the Day of— of Pentecost; back to the beginning. Amen. I better quit. Amen. If that Vine ever puts forth another branch, it’ll be just like it was at the beginning. We graft all kinds of church creeds into it: Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist; and they every one bear Baptist fruit, Methodist fruit, Pentecostal fruit, and everything else. But when it comes back, if that Vine ever brings forth another true branch, it’ll bear Holy Ghost fruit. Amen. It’ll… They say, “Well, we are Methodists.” “It wasn’t so from the beginning.” “We are Baptists.” “It wasn’t so from the beginning.” “We are Presbyterian.” “It wasn’t so from the beginning.” “We don’t believe in speaking in tongues.” “It wasn’t so from the beginning.” “We don’t believe in Divine healing in our church.” “It wasn’t so from the beginning.” Hallelujah! What we need today is something back to the beginning again, back to the beginning. Hallelujah! My time’s up. Let’s pray.

23. THE WATERS OF SEPARATION — 1955-06-06

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• ¶10b–¶10b And so this man said to me, setting there, said, “Do you think that looks like a servant of Christ?” And I said, “Well, I’m not his judge.” I said, “To me, looks all right to me.” And he said, “Well, listen,” he said, “all this fanaticism about Divine healing…” He said, “You know what?” Said, “There come a bunch of people through here not long ago.” Said, “One time the Presbyterian church had the whole West Coast sewed up.” He said, “We had churches, big churches everywhere, great congregations, the leading church on the West Coast.” He said, “Then this Christian Science comes along,” and said, “then when they come along, they started like they were going to a mental condition to mind over matter.” And said, “You know it tore the Presbyterian church up.” He said, “Now, here comes along this here,” and says, “then it starts in.” I said, “Look, fellow, I don’t know who you are.” He said, “Well, I’m a Presbyterian minister.” “Well,” I said, “I’m a Baptist preacher.” So I said, “Let me tell you something. If you Presbyterian people would’ve stayed in the will of God, and taught the Word of God, there’d never had any excuse to have any fanaticism come.” I said, “The reason that they raised up these things is because you let down the bars, because you’ve failed to give hungry children the Bread of Life. The hour is here. And if they can’t eat from the true Word, they’ll eat from a garbage can or anything else they can eat from, ’cause they’re hungry.”

24. WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1958-06-12

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• ¶88–¶94 God fools them so many times. See? He’s always did it, and He always will. He doesn’t change, He has to remain the same. Tell me one time that He ever come to a denomination. Mention in the Scripture, anywhere in the—in the age, where God ever dealt with a denomination. There was a certain man that founded that denomination that He dealt with, but the denomination went to seeds, and when he did, He laid her up on the shelf and not one has ever raised since He laid it on the shelf. The Pillar of Fire moves on and God moves with It, and somebody sees it and goes on. Martin Luther found It, he said, “The just shall live by faith.” But what did he do? Built an organization under it. God isn’t in organizations, so He just moved out, and when He did, left Luther with his organization. And then John Wesley saw it, and away he went, sanctification, second definite work of grace. And the first thing, he organized hisself, made the Methodists, God just moved right on out. The Pentecostals saw it in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but now you’re organized so tight, God is just moving right on out and leaving you. That’s right. God is not bound to any denomination or any barrier, He’s only duty bound to His Word, that’s all. And He does it, and He keeps His Word, He must do it. Now, you say, “Brother Branham, you fight organization.” Who thinks that is not reading my—my thoughts. I do not, I think there’s grand and glorious men in every organization, but when you think that you’re the only pebble on the beach, you’re wrong. That’s right. You Methodists, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Church of God, whatever you are, you got great men in every one of them, you’ve got great people in them, but don’t you never get the idea that you’re not going to fellowship with the other one, and remain that way, you’ll never do it. God loves His whole Church, the whole Body of Christ, and that’s where He works.

25. THE REJECTED KING — 1960-05-15

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• ¶59–¶67 “Are you a Christian?” That’s how I fell upon this text, when I was at the hospital. And I would ask one, “Are you a Christian?” “I belong to such-and-such.” “Are you a Christian?” “I belong to such-and-such.” And a little nurse came into the bedside, where I was reading the Bible, and she was a—a new nurse on the floor. And she said, “How do you do.” She said, “I believe that you’re Rev. Branham, here for a physical check-up.” I said, “I am.” And she said, “May I rub your back, make you feel a little better with the alcohol?” And I said, “You may do it.” And while she was rubbing on my back, she said, “What denomination of church do you belong to?” And I said, “Oh, I belong to the oldest denomination that there is.” And she said, “What denomination is that?” I said, “It’s the one that was organized before the world was ever organized.” And, “Oh,” she said, “what? I don’t believe I know just that.” She said, “I belong to a certain church. Is it that organization?” I said, “No, ma’am. That was only about two hundred years ago, that organization. But this organization started when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy, when they seen the coming of a Saviour to redeem mankind.” And she just stopped rubbing my back. And I was stooped a little, over this way, so the lady could rub. And she was from near Corydon, down here. We got to talking. And she said, “Sir, I’ve always believed that if God ever was God, He’s still God, today, just like He was in the old days.” She said, “Though my church flatly denies that, but I believe that it is the Truth.”

26. THE FIFTH SEAL — 1963-03-22

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• ¶166–¶171 What they did, they organized. As soon as Luther got his church started on, they organized it. All right, the same thing Wesley did. Same thing Pentecost did, exactly, organize it. And what do they do? They take up the same system that they come out of. See? Now watch this, Revelation, speaking of this Sardis church. “To the angel of the church,” is the 1st verse, of course. See? All right. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, That is, “The Word that you’ve been taught,” see, “the things which remain.” …that are ready to die:… He is right then ready to start back in an organization just like the Catholic church he come out of. See? …for I have not found thy works perfect before God. There you go. There is the…There he goes, right back again. Don’t you see why organizational systems is wrong? Who started it? Did God? Did the apostles? The Roman Catholic church did it. Now just let any historian say different. It’s not there. They are, they say they’re the mother church, and they are. But they organize the thing, and put a system, with man’s head to it. And we didn’t take one man, like they did; we take a whole council of men, put them together, and then you really got a confusion. That’s right. How can a council, anyhow? It’s just like, we think democracy is right. I believe it is, too, but it’ll never work right. It can’t. With a bunch of Rickys around here to run it, how in the world you going to get it right? You can’t. Notice, the real thing was a godly king.

27. SIR, WE WOULD SEE JESUS — 1964-03-18

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• ¶160–¶163 And there was One to the called-out, elected Church, that was showing the sign that God was in flesh. Jesus was God in flesh. And if Jesus is in you, tonight, it’s still God manifest Himself in the last days, the Son of man revealing Himself in His Church, the human flesh, making Himself known. You get it? See? God, down here in His Church, making Himself again the Word, the Son of man being revealed in the last days, as it was in the days of Sodom. Now, remember, if God gave the Jews and the Samaritans that sign, that He was the Word, the Prophet that Moses spoke of, the Gentiles…After they had four thousand years to look for Him, we’ve had two thousand years to look for Him, He has to identify Himself the same way to us, as He did then, or He did wrong when He identified Himself that time. God has got to act the same time, same way every time, or He acted wrong the first time. If He saved a man upon the basis of his faith… Look, God never changes, friends. When man was lost, in the garden of Eden, and he was seeking for mercy, God made a decision how He would save man. And He saved him by the shed blood of an innocent one. Is that right? He has never changed it. We’ve built cities, towers; we’ve built denominational, educational systems, and it still remains the same; we got denominations and all kinds of things. But He only saves by the Blood. He can’t change it. God ever remains true to His system, His Word. Whatever He did the first time, He has to do it again, or He acted wrong the first time.

28. BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE — 1962-06-12

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• ¶22–¶24 I was in a—a Lutheran college, Bethany, where I’d been called on the carpet, oh, my, just digging me up, he’s the one, called me a polished-up soothsayer, and then the Lord kind of got after him about it a little bit, you know, and so he called me up to apologize. We went down into a basement where they set a nice big dinner, and he said to me, he said, “Brother Branham, I just want to ask you some questions. First, I’m sorry I said what I said in that letter.” I said, “That’s all right, I never even thought no more about it.” He said, “I want you to tell me, what in the world…? Are we Lutherans in the race?” I said, “Sure.” He said, “What—what—what have we got?” I said, “You got the Spirit of God.” And I said, “You know…” They, for the students who couldn’t pay their way through, so, they had about a thousand acres there of corn, so they just worked their way through. So they…He said…I said, “A man one time planted a corn crop, and he went out, and the next morning there was two little leaves sticking up, he said, ‘Praise the Lord for my crop of corn!’” I said, “Now, Brother Hegre, did he have a crop of corn?” He said, “Well, not yet.” I said, “Potentially he did, didn’t he?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “That was you Lutherans.” I said, “By and by, them two little blades growed up, and after while it made a tassel, that was the Methodist. They looked back down and said, ‘There’s no more use for you, you’re just a leaf, I’m a tassel.’

29. THE WORLD IS AGAIN FALLING APART — 1963-11-27

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• ¶100–¶104a And there is the hour we’re living. We never seen it before. Jesus said it would be so, then it’s so! What are we seeing? We’re seeing the Word, that God said would happen in this day, happen right under our faces. “Oh, then awake, ye saints of the Lord, why slumber when the end is nearing; let’s get ready for that final call,” for we don’t know when it will be. Yes. Our world system, our church system, our denominational system, all of our systems, are polluted and corrupted. What we lack today is what they had yesterday. That’s right. It seems like a drying out, of the churches, hardly can find a church anymore that’s alive with the Word and with the Spirit of God, and great things taking place like it was not long ago. Now, we find out that God knows what they had need of, so He— He always answers a promise. It’s just this great Word that we see, a promise, they ought to have knowed that it was just exactly what God promised, that would take place in that day. You say, “How, what was to take place?” Isaiah 9:6, the prophet said, “Unto us a Child is born, the Son, a Child; a Son is born, a Child is given: and His Name shall be called ‘Counsellor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, Everlasting Father’; and the government shall be upon His shoulders, and of His Kingdom there will be no end.” We know that we was to have a Child born in that day, a virgin should conceive and bring a Child. And It didn’t come through any of their systems, therefore they didn’t want nothing to do with It. They rejected It. But the anointed Word, God (Emmanuel) made flesh among them, stood there, He said, “Which one of you can accuse Me of sin, unbelief? Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of Me.” He was thoroughly identified that He was the Messiah, the Messiah to take place in that day.

30. THE PATH OF LIFE — 1962-06-21

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• ¶29–¶31 And I have—I have scolded the Church, I’ve scolded our people, I’ve scolded our sisters for cutting their hair, scold them for wearing make-up, I’ve scolded our brothers for permitting them to do it, and our ministers and things like that, not because that I have anything agin them, it’s because that I’m—I’m jealous of them, they are God’s heritage. And I—and I’ve scolded my minister brothers for not…for just drawing themselves into one little thing in a group. Now, I’d think if there was a denomination that would say, “We believe this, comma, plus all that God can add to it,” but when we make our denominational realm, we say, “We believe this, period,” and the Holy Spirit moves right in, and moves right out of it, that’s right, see. Now, if we can end it with a comma, then we just keep on growing. Recently, I had a—a meeting with the Lutheran brethren, I guess you all heard of it, at Minneapolis, Minnesota. And oh, my, did he ever rake me over the coals in a twenty-two-page letter! He said, “The very idea!” Said, “I drove fifteen miles last night, through a blinding snow storm, thought I would hear a servant of Christ, and what did I hear, but a polished-up soothsayer.” And oh, he…And said, “The very idea of you, a man with fifteen years in the mission fields, and— and say you been preaching the Gospel for twenty-five years,” and said, “then hear…to hear you use the grammar that you use, and—and the very Doctrine that you—you speak,” he said, “you even said so much last night that Satan could not heal.” Said, “Shame on you for such a remark.” And I thought, “A dean of a Lutheran college.”

31. 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.”

32. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-23

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• ¶213–¶214 Like the other day, this same person called up and wanted to know about that, and said, “You said…” (This minister out there, this fellow down there that wanted discuss that. Poor brother, he’s in such a delusion.) He said, “Well, Brother Branham,” see, he said, “he’s against you Assemblies of God.” And if a Assembly minister happens to pick up this tape, I want you to tell me when was I ever against the Assembly of God man or any other man! Why is it, when your own headquarters admit that I have sent to you three-quarters of a million of my children that I’ve begotten to Christ? How am I against the Assemblies of God? Why am I against the Oneness? I’m not against no Oneness, Assemblies of God, Church of God, or no man! I’m against every system that separates man. Look, I have sent to the Assemblies, by their own count, three- quarters of a million of my own children. If they’re so bad, why’d I do that? Why? I think it’s the best there is in the land to send them to, either the Oneness or the…some of the Pentecostal belief, ’cause they believe in Divine healing; they believe in the supernatural; they believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That’s the best…I—I can’t bring them all right here; they’re all over the world. I got friends all over the world, children that I’ve begotten to Christ. I’ll send them to the best…Did you ever hear me when I’m making an altar call? I say… When I get them up there and get them saved, I say, “Now, you go to some good Full Gospel church and get you a church home.” How many ever heard me say that? Sure, sure. Well, why would I send them there then? Would I be a hypocrite to send my own children to death? Far be it from me. No, sir!

33. AND THY SEED SHALL POSSESS THE GATE OF HIS ENEMY — 1962-01-21

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• ¶15–¶18 When I see my brethren, precious brethren, leaning that way, then I just pour it in with all I got. And sometimes brothers say, “Well, Brother Branham is against us. We’re…” That is wrong. My! That’s— that’s the farthest thing from my mind, is to be against anybody. I’m— I’m for you. I’m your brother, see, and trying my best. And that’s the reason I never joined any certain organization, so I could stand in the breach and say, “Brother, don’t. That’s not the way.” They say, “We belong to the Assemblies.” That’s wonderful. The Assemblies of God has been a terrific blessing to me. “We’re the Foursquare.” Well, look what a blessing they been to me. “We’re the Jesus Name.” Look what a blessing they been to me. “We’re the ones, the others.” Whatever, they’re all blessings. They’re—they’re God’s people. See? And God’s people is in all of it. And when we get to associating ourselves, saying, “We’re just a little better here than the Church of God,” you see, or, “We’re a little better than the Foursquare or the Jesus’ Name,” or something like that. When we’re just a…We might differ a little bit in ideas. We all went to eat dinner today, we’d all take different pie, but we’re eating pie just the same, you see. That’s the idea. So the idea of it, is, if—if we can just see our fellowship. So don’t go to leaning toward the organization. Lean towards Calvary. You become dead to these other things. See? And I do believe… Let me say this while it’s on my mind. I do believe that an organization has played a good part. For, there’s many times, brethren, as bad as we hate to think it, there’s been things crop up among us, and things like that, that’s been heresy. And people will just take those heresies and scatter the people any way. And a group of brothers get together that’s…that I…What I mean is going out like they did in the early days and all kinds of stuff. And—and we have it all yet today, see, just still a moving. And a people that can bring themselves together…

34. BUT FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO — 1958-10-02

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• ¶121–¶123 Now, friends, in the day that we’re living, when we see that men has corrupted the world with their traditions, when they’ve corrupted the church with their traditions, when they’ve corrupted the minds of people with their traditions! Did not we go through it the other night, and see where that old prostate church, or prostitute church had daughters, and they both give out, for Doctrine, the fornications of their filthiness? That comes through every organization. They’re polluted. And, now, I’m not saying get away from your organization. But get away from just holding to that organization. Get to Christ. Those things are wrong. Let’s go back to the beginning. Then, if we can do that, you’ll find Christ moving into that house that’s built upon the solid Rock. And there signs and wonders and every blessing that God promised will be manifested through that Church. Let us pray. Just before we go to prayer, while I leave this solemn warning in your heart: Is it with you like it was at the beginning? The church that you’re in, is it only a creed or a denomination, or is it an experience that brings to you that like it did at the beginning? If it isn’t, then it isn’t so. Won’t you come to the beginning then, and start from here? And get away from creeds and denominations, and serve the living God. If you are here, tonight, and would desire to be remembered in the closing prayer, would you raise your hands to God, and say, “Remember me, Brother Branham.” God bless you, through the building. That’s good. That’s fine.

35. LEADING OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD — 1955-08-07

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• ¶4b–¶5 He said, “Brother Branham,” said, “there’s one thing wrong with your ministry.” I said, “Well, kind sir, I would like to know if there’s anything wrong.” I said, “I don’t mean for it to be.” He said, “That is your grammar.” Said, “Oh, it’s poorly.” I said, “Yes, sir; that is right.” I said, “I…There was nine of us children, boys and one girl, ten children. My father died young.” I said, “I had to work and take care of ten children.” And I said, “I—I didn’t get much education, just the seventh grade.” He said, “But, Brother Branham, you’re a man now.” Said, “That don’t count now.” Said, “You could take a correspondence or something, I…And check up on your grammar.” Said, “It’s terrible.” I said, “Yes, sir. I know that.” I said, “I’m sorry. But,” I said, “after the Lord has ministered to me, and I must go minister to Him, the people crowd so much in the…Right today, four hundred major cities in the United States is calling for services. Sign papers and things where tens of thousands attend the meeting.” And I said, “How could I go, sir, like that?” “Oh,” he said, “one thing that you made such a mistake on,” said, “the night you said, ‘all the people coming pass this polepit—polepit,’” he said, “Brother Branham, the congregation would appreciate you more if you said, ‘pulpit,’ and not ‘polepit.’” Well, he kindly pulled my ear a little hard, I guess. I said, “My beloved brother, I differ with you. Them people don’t care whether I say, ‘polepit,’ or ‘pulpit,’ the thing they want me to do is preach the Word, and live what I’m talking about.” I said, “That’s the main thing.” So, Christ doesn’t come by education. Christ comes by a surrendered heart believing Him. Now, education’s fine, but it will never substitute salvation. It can’t.

36. AN UNCERTAIN SOUND — 1961-03-15

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• ¶231–¶235 I’m riding on it, brother, I’m riding on it. I come into the Pentecostal people, they had different organizations, just like the Baptists did, I never joined up with any of them, I stood right in between the groups, and knowed they were brothers in both, all the groups around, I put my arms around every one of them like that, and they are my brothers. I’m riding on it. The other day in Beaumont, Texas, a certain group of people, a denominational church had had seventy-two churches sponsoring my meetings, and they had a great meeting going on. I had a brother setting on the pulpit, upon the platform, and—and the district presbyter called me that day, and he said, “I resent that, Brother Branham, you had a man on the platform that was baptized wrong.” Said, “How could you do that?” I said, “Why?” He said, “Well, he—he isn’t one of ours, he—he—he couldn’t be.” I said, “Well, he’s my brother.” He said, “You know what we done?” Said, “We’ve drawed a little line, and cut you out from among us.” I said, “Now, I’m going to draw a little line above you, and cut you back in again,” I said, “I bring you back. Why, you’re my brother!” I’m riding on it. I don’t care what they believe, I believe that Jesus Christ is not divided, “All one Body we; one in hope and Doctrine, one in charity.” “Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.” I’m riding on it. Would you like to ride on it, tonight? Are you sick? Are you needy? Is there a sinner here would say, put up your hand, say, “Pray for me, Brother Branham, I want to ride on God’s promise, ‘He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life,’ I want to ride on it, I want to take my stand right now”? Raise your hand, say, “Pray for me.” God bless you, sir. God bless you, sir. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. That’s fine. God bless you.

37. IDENTIFICATION — 1963-01-23

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• ¶174–¶177 Way, all modern, all Bible teachers was against Him and His true- cut Word from God. You believe He was absolutely fundamental, don’t you, in His teaching? But not according to their schools. Did that soak in? How did we know He was fundamental? He asked them, “Who can prove Me of sin? Search the Scriptures. They’re the One that testify of Me. They tell you exactly. Now, if I don’t do what the Scripture says, then the Father don’t vindicate that through Me, then throw Me out; I’m wrong.” Yes, sir. Now, we find out that they were against That, the true Word of God. Oh, would your present estate identify you with Him, or with that blinded bunch of Pharisees? Would your present state, would you hold onto your—your creeds of your church? Would you hold to it because that your pastor was, maybe, you’d say, “Well, he’s a good man”? He can be a good man and still be blind. Certainly. Did not Jesus say, “You blind leaders of the blind”? Now, in your state, just imagine now, what would you do? Where are you identified amongst the crowd there? What’s your present estate? Would you be with the Pharisee, “Well, I tell you, my mother belonged to this church, and that’s just as good as any of them. I’ll just stay right here”? See? And when you seen the Word of God vindicated, It’s the Truth, by the messenger, and you search the Scriptures and knowed It. But your— your denomination said, “The days of miracles is past. There’s no such a thing as that.” Now, what would you do in your present state? Many of you has expressed it.

38. SHALOM — 1964-01-12

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• ¶72–¶74a Now, I have nothing against any denomination, people. But I have all that I can think about against the systems, because they’re wrong. And the first system that ever rose up, was the—the Roman system of the Roman Catholic church. That was the first organization that ever was organized, was the Roman Catholic church, Nicaea, Rome. About three hundred and twenty-five years after the death of Christ, 325, came forth the Roman church organization that put the people together and blanded out anything else that was contrary to it. That’s where they got their strange doctrines and started off in a system away And this Roman church is “the—the mother of harlots,” the Bible said, in Revelation 17, “she was a whore, and the mother of harlots.” Now, that is immoral, unclean living of a woman. Both of them is the same thing, both the same. So if—if harlot, it would have to be a woman. So therefore, you notice it’s not, “harlot,” but, “harlots.” See? She is “her,” singular, “whore.” Then the churches is called “harlots,” daughters of the Roman whore. She is the mother of all of it, the mother of organization. And is it not a strange thing, that in this day that when we have come through all these things, and the Message has crossed the earth against organization, It’s blasted it from right to left, that, in this hour that’s been told since 1933, when the Holy Spirit gave me that visions and showed me the end time, seven things that I spoke of, and five of them has already happened, perfectly, right on; like Germany and— and Italy and all the wars, and the national things (seldom speaks to me on those things). But they happened just exactly the way He said they’d happen. How Mussolini would go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia would fall at his step, and then how that he’d come to a disgrace, and be spit on by his own people; and disgraced, hung upside down, with that prostitute that he lived with, on the street.

39. ONCE MORE — 1963-11-17

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• ¶75–¶77 I don’t know what I would have done in the case. I would have to wait to see what God said. But I believe I would have felt like the Hebrew children, “Our God is able to deliver us from this! But, nevertheless, we’ll never bow to your image, whether He does or does not.” But we’ve lost the courage; that’s what Samson had done, lost its power. The church has lost the influence of its testimony, that it is a—a living, moving, Body of Christ. It has accepted dogmas, mixed it in with their beliefs, until the Word has not the pre-eminence. As Jesus said to that helpless church that He come to, “You have taken the Commandments of God, and, with your traditions, you’ve made Them of no effect. Made the Commandments of God without an effect, by your traditions, to explain It away.” Some time ago, in a school. There was a fine New York man here that come to my house, and he said to me…He was a Baptist brother, and he said to me, “Brother Branham, I am a—a Baptist.” And I had him to come in and sit down, he and another brother. And we talked, for, at length. And after a while, he said, “When I was a little boy, I was called to the ministry.” He said, “My precious old mother washed over a washboard, to send me to school.” And said, “The day that I was going and received my degree of Bachelor of Art, my B.A. degree,” he said, “I thought then surely Christ would be in that, but,” said, “He wasn’t.” Said, “When I received my doctor’s degree, then I thought, ‘Christ will be in that,’ but He wasn’t.” He said, “And when I got my L.L.D., Doctor of Literature, and so forth.” And said, “I’ve got enough degrees and honorary degrees till I could plaster your wall with them, and where is Christ in all of it?” He said, “I’m still looking for Him.” Said, “I’m going to ask you a question.” Says, “Has the teachers been wrong?”

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

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• ¶185–¶188 The trouble of it is, the church today is not like Samson. They’re not willing to pay the price. Samson prayed right when he prayed, “Lord, let me die with the enemy.” He knowed it was going to cost him something. He knowed it was going to cost something. It’s going to cost you something, it’s going to cost me something; your social prestige, your place and position in the denomination. “Lord, let me die, then. I see Your purpose.” He knowed it was going to cost him something. You must be ready to die out, to your enemy, to get in the blessings of God. Samson was willing to pay the price, to get the power of God again upon him. He was willing to do it. Are you? Are you willing to sacrifice your television programs? And, you know, it used to be as wrong for us to go to the movies. But now the devil put one over on you, brought it right in the house with you. That’s right. See? I used to go down to an old Methodist preacher, used to 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? You let down the bars, that’s all. Oh, I hear someone say, “Now wait a minute, Brother Branham, we have revivals!” Yea, what is it? A denominational revival. That’s right. Look at your morals and your differences. Is it a revival? Is there a breaking-up time? Is there time that everybody can associate together and have fellowship? If your organization is in it, “it’s all right.” Getting farther away from the Word all the time, that’s right, making new bishops and everything. See?

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

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• ¶73–¶74 A good Baptist brother of mine said the other day; he said, “Preacher, what anything else can a man do but believe?” I said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? You taught me that I received the Holy Ghost when I believe. But Paul said to the Baptists back there, ‘Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?’” He said, “What more can a man do but believe?” He said, “Brother Branham, what’s went wrong with you?” I said, “I got my eyes opened.” He said, “Well, I want to ask you something.” Said, “God believed—or Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.” I said, “That’s right.” Said, “What did Abraham do?” I said—I said, “Believe. But God give him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation that he had received his faith.” And I said, “The Bible said today that we’re sealed in the Kingdom of God by the Holy Ghost. And if you say you believed and God hasn’t give you the Holy Ghost, He hasn’t confirmed that He has received your faith yet.” Amen. Ephesians 4:30 says, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed unto the day of your redemption.” So, if you haven’t received the Holy Ghost since you believed, brother, God has never recognized your faith yet. That’s right. So, we’re sealed into the Kingdom of God until Jesus returns again. The Blood’s been spread. It’s for whosoever will, let him come. The Holy Ghost stands tonight as a witness to bear record of the ministry of Jesus Christ. Signs and wonders take place. The Gospel’s being preached. Everything’s taking place according to His Word. The signs are heaping up everywhere, everywhere of His Coming. Don’t you want to go when He comes? The only thing you can do, if you’re baptized with the Holy Ghost, and sealed in the Kingdom of God, rest assured. If you remain in that Church of the living God, you will go in the resurrection. Got to. Got to. Yes, sir. Stay in the Church of God. I don’t mean the denomination, Church of God. I mean there is only one Church. And that’s those that are borned-again.

42. JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER — 1956-02-25

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• ¶21–¶22 Now, Jude said here, after about thirty-three years after Pentecost; he said, “I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation. It was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you, that you should earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints.” Now, I say, “Methodist brethren, does your church contend for that faith?” “Amen, Brother Branham.” Baptist brethren, do your church? “Yes, sir, Brother Branham.” Pentecost, does yours? “Yes, sir, Brother Branham.” Catholic, does yours? “Yes, sir, Mr. Branham.” See? Everyone say, “My church is contending for that faith today.” Well, I want to say, “That’s right.” But do you contend for the whole faith? You see, that’s what I’m wondering. Now there’s…Let’s just…Now remember, I’ve expressed to you about different denominations, but let’s just…There’s got to be somebody right and somebody wrong. There just can’t be too much mixed up. And I tell you where the wrong’s at, mainly, where God would be in every one of the churches, but the little bridge that we draw between one another, separates us. If we would all…If the Methodist could say to the Baptist, “Brother,” and all of them put their hands together and say, “We’re onward Christian soldiers,” then the little barriers would just fade away like that; we’d just move right on. And God would just do wonders in His Church. And He would reveal Hisself to everyone. But now, in the way we stand tonight, and the way—way it must have been standing in the day of Jude, he said, “Now, I want you to earnestly contend for the faith.” Now, long ago, someone said to me, said, “Brother Branham, that’s against my faith.” I said, “What kind of faith do you have? There’s only one faith.” One faith, one Lord, one baptism, that right? See, there’s only one faith, and that’s Christian faith. That’s right. There ain’t no Methodist faith and Baptist faith, and Pentecostal faith, and Catholic faith being different; it’s just one faith. And that’s faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, that should be simple enough the children could understand it.

43. THE REJECTED KING — 1960-06-10

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• ¶27–¶31 Now, I have been accused of being against denominational churches, but that is wrong, I am not against nothing but sin. See? I—I—I just…I’m not against any denomination, or any people, I’m just as much Methodist as I am Baptist, Pentecostal, anything else, I’m your brother. I—I—I—I just…Don’t make any difference. Now, sometimes I rake hard on denomination, it’s because of their selfish attitude, when they pull themselves up in a little shell, and say, “We got it, none of the rest of you can have it.” You cannot organize Pentecost. And when we try to make an organization out of Pentecost, we displease God. We call ourself the Pentecostal this organization, the Pentecostal that, but that’s wrong. Pentecost is an experience, and it’s no organization. And so, but sometimes different groups to make their groups big, and it’s just a worldly expression. But in every group that I’ve ever come into in my life, I’ve found genuine, Holy Ghost filled men and women. Yes, sir, of all of them. And may this convention ever hold its standard of independent. So that you…all the groups can come together, the free Pentecost, and the free Baptists, the free Methodists, and oh, the Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, and all the rest of them, and—and riding on a one-hump camel, a two-hump camel, or three-hump camel, whatever you want to ride on, come on. You know, Jacob dug one well and the Philistines drove him away from it, and he called it, I believe, “Malice,” we’ll say that, I don’t remember just what it was. He dug another well, and the Philistines drove it away from, uh, drove him away from it, and he called it, “Strife.” And Jacob dug another well, and he called it, “There is room for all.”

44. I WILL RESTORE — 1957-03-09

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• ¶16b–¶18 I’m so glad that the palmerworm hasn’t touched us yet, Brother Moore. Now, I’m just saying that for an example. And if we could do that between two men, why can’t every brother do it? I might have a right to say things against the church’s…?… I went to his church here not long ago. And I thought he never would invite me back. Oh, I come to find out, that godly bunch of little saintly women he had there, was bobbing off their hair and wearing lipstick. I tore the thing apart. Sure did. But I thought he wouldn’t ask me back. But you know what? There was such anointing of the Holy Spirit around the vine, till that old palmerworm couldn’t touch it at all. You know, there’s an electric fence like. That palmerworm can’t get over that fence. That shock of the Holy Spirit of love, it’ll kill him every time, brothers. And if we need fences to build, it oughtn’t to be denominational fences; it ought to be love fences to keep the insect out, to keep the palmerworm out, for he is the devil’s number one destroyer. I don’t care what a man believes. Whatever he believes…Now, he’s got a right to come right back and tell me he don’t believe little things that I believe. I got a right to say little things that he doesn’t believe and this church, the Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, even to the Pentecostal. See? Whatever…I’m with the Pentecostal people; I am Pentecost. I don’t belong to the Pentecostal denomination, because Pentecost is not a denomination; it’s an experience…?… hear that Lutheran say a while ago? Now, we shook hands with the Baptist setting over there coming down. I believe there’s another Baptist looking at me there with a checkered tie on, or was. See? It is an experience. And the trouble of it is, we let these insects get in and tear us to pieces. And there is the number one killer. That’s what’s eating in our Pentecostal experiences today.

45. WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR AND HAVE COME TO WORSHIP HIM — 1963-12-16

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• ¶20–¶25 And they said, “We have seen His Star in the East and have come to worship Him.” In other words, “We have seen His sign for this age,” that they were living in. It was prophesied so. See, I believe that the Word of God is Eternal, for, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” So the Word can never be changed, It’s Eternal. It’s God Himself in—in print form, is the Bible, God’s Word. He’s got to judge the church by some standard. And He can not judge it by the standard of any system that we have made, because every one of our systems are man-made. And it has to be judged. Then if—if you would want to disagree and say, “No, I believe you’re wrong there, Brother Branham. I believe ours.” Or the other fellow would say, “Well, ours is.” Then which one is right, when there’s nine hundred and something different systems of it? So God could not judge the church by nine hundred and something different differences in systems. But there will be One. He said He would “judge the world by Christ, Jesus Christ.” And Christ is the Word, therefore we will stand the judgment by the Word of God. Now, God never does anything without first showing a sign. He’s not guilty of ever doing anything but first—first declaring it by His sign. And these wise men said, “We have seen His Star in the East,” they were in the East when they saw It, which was in Babylon, which was east of Jerusalem; and they were in the West, two years later, saying, “and have come to worship Him.”

46. DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? — 1965-04-27

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• ¶61–¶67 Not long ago, a very famous school here in—in this city, a seminary. And they have one in Phoenix. And one of the men, or a couple of the students, was, came down to me and said, “We like you, Brother Branham. We don’t have nothing again’ you, at all, but we’d just like to straighten you out.” And I said, “Well, I sure want to be straightened out.” So, and so I said, “If I’m wrong, I certainly don’t want to be wrong; I talk to too many people.” And he said, “Well, here is your trouble.” Said, “You are trying to introduce, or to make live again, an apostolic religion. When, the apostolic religion ceased with the apostles.” And I said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, now if…” He said, “Now, I wouldn’t debate it with you.” I said, “I wouldn’t either. We don’t. We’re not supposed to do that. We’re brethren.” And he said, “Well,” he said, “I would just like to help you.” I said, “I’m certainly willing to get help.” And he said, “Now, you see,” he said, “now the…that’s true.” And I said, “Now, on talking, we mustn’t use textbooks.” I said, “I won’t use mine,” and I had none but This one. But so—so I said, “I won’t use textbook, just the Bible. And, you, we just use the Bible.” He said, “All right.” I said, “Now, we believe that the apostolic church begin at the Day of Pentecost. Do you agree with that?” He said, “Yes, I do.” I said, “Now we realize that God gave the church power there, for these apostolic movements.”