Questions And Answers #4 (64-0830E)
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… Brothers, I have… I guess there was some standbys I didn't get
to; I just couldn't go any further. My, I am so tore up with visions.
See? And they've been many, about fifteen or twenty this afternoon, and
that just tears me to pieces. Just spotting a little bit here and
there. I come out; I said, "Brother Neville, if–if you can go ahead,
go ahead; I want to slip out and go home." I said, "I'm just about to
fall, even my heart fluttering, jumping." And I said, "I–I'm–just
can't hardly stand any more."
He said, "Brother Branham, the people has been asking me if you could
finish answering those questions." And I–I–I don't want to never
shirk a line of duty. I appreciate Brother Neville. And maybe for a few
minutes I'll do the best I can. And I–I know there's… Billy come in
there; I said, "Did you get them all?"
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He said, "Daddy, there's twenty or more still standing–standing by."
So I couldn't get… That's thirty some odd people today, and about
twenty-five of them visions; so you can imagine where I'm standing. So
I–I'm really tired, just really mentally tired. But we'll pray, start
right off with these questions where we left off. And then, when I–if
I go to Arizona and these on my mind, I'm going to be bothered all the
time. And I'll be back pretty soon, the Lord willing, and speak on the
subject one day as soon as possible, on the correctness of marriage and
divorce. Let us pray.
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Dear God, Thou knowest my heart, and You know my feeling; You know all
about me. And I pray, God; there's many a people… I just let them go
too long, Lord; there's too many of them. But I'm so grateful that I
don't believe there was a one that come in today but what was helped. I
believe every one of them went out happy and satisfied. The things that
I could not answer myself, You come down in visions and revealed back
in their lives (They're setting here, many of them, right now listening
to it and know it's the truth.), and revealed to them the things that
was back in life that had caused the things to happen. They know, Lord.
No way in the world for me to know that outside of Your help.
And I pray, heavenly Father, that though I be tired, but I'm happy to
be Your servant. And I pray that You'll bless those who are–were
standing by, many of them who wanted to come in. And I–I–I trust,
God, that they'll be–they'll be taken care of, Your great Holy Spirit
will give to them whatever they have need of.
Help me to finish these questions, dear God, or do as best I can with
them, so that Your people will have their questions answered. I asked
them to write them. They did write them, and I feel obligated to try to
answer them for them. So I pray that You'll give me strength that I
might be able to do my duty to You and to the people. In Jesus' Name I
pray. Amen.
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Now, we'll start right in where we left off this morning. Some of these
I might not be able to read, because that–I'm a little hoarse, because
I been talking very much. How many was on the discernment today that
really appreciate God giving you what… See? That's the best of all of
them, is them kind of services. The things that you want to know and
things that's been hid in life is revealed and told.
And–and remember, many of these things… Now, many of you know
there's certainly embarrassing things that was said and brought out,
but nobody never knows that but me and God. And what was told you, that
must be between you and God; just let it alone. And… How many of you
know that the Lord revealed things that was that–done to give you your
help? Raise your hands it did it. See? Not even knowing the people,
nothing about them, but He–He did it.
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Now, let's get to the questions just quick as possible now and see if
we can get the… There's another one too that's here somewhere. It
says, "Number three." I believe it's a letter; that's right, just a
letter. I'm sorry. I'll lay them over here as I come to them, and I
think… Yes, sir, this is a letter also. And it says, "Question," but
I believe it's a letter, a question in a letter. No, it isn't, it's a
question about a dream. All right, I'll read the dream, and then I'll
see if the Lord gives me the interpretation of it, and pass it on to
you just as I can. I guess you got your address. Let's see if it is; if
it isn't, I'll have you to state your address, the person with this
question and–and dream. No, you don't have it.
Ever who wrote the letter (It's got a–it's just wrote to me.), give
Billy your address, so as I go on my road out to Arizona, I'll get into
the desert and pray. And if He gives me the interpretation, I'll know
where to write it to (You see? Without that on there to give the
interp…) if He gives it. But I won't say it 'less it does, 'cause I
can only do it; then I'll know it'll be right. Now.
1145-Q-376 376. Will the Bride, those that believe this Message, go out west, eventually gather there, I mean?
1145-Q-377
377. And is (Now, just a minute, this is… bring… Just a second. Oh,
no, it ain't, it's got "R-e-v." I thought… It's Revelation chapter,
and looked like "Rev. Capps," and I–I–I was just a little–a little
confused about it. It's… If you can see, it sure does look like it.
See? It was "Rev. Capps" and then it went ahead here… No, it's all
right.) Revelations chapter 12, speaking of the Bride?
No. "Now, will the Bride eventually go out west, eventually?" Not as I
know of; the Bride is universal, all over the world. Now, everybody
understands that say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen."–Ed.]
No matter where you are, where you die, whatever it is, if you die in
Christ, God will bring you with Him. No matter if you're burned up, eat
up, destroyed, however it is, God will bring you with Christ when He
comes. You don't have to gather west or anywhere. Wherever the Lord
leads you…
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However, if you feel like you want to go west, let me make that just
real plain now, before I go. Now, so… (Are they taping this message?
They are? All right.) Don't let me tell you where to go. If you feel
like you want to come out west, come out west. If you feel like you
want to go east, north, west, south, you go where the Lord leads you.
Everybody understand that say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen!"–Ed.]
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I'm not trying to tell anyone where not to go. If you come out to
Tucson, Arizona, where I'm living temporarily at this time… As I told
you this morning, I'm homesick without a home to go to. I wished I had
someone, someplace that I could call home and go. Of… Tonight, if I
had ten thousand dollars and could give the place for–and give it
freely for somewhere that I could say, "This is the place I want to
call home," I'd give it freely. I have no place.
Brother Freeman, I just–you've known me since I was a boy; I–I–I'm a
rambler. Don't never become a rambler; find some place you love and
settle down; wait for the Lord Jesus.
But if you want to come out west to Tucson, Arizona, where I'm living,
welcome; I'd be glad to have you. You're my brother, sister. I'd do
anything in the world to help. And–and all of you that has come out
there, I've tried the best I could to make you welcome, and show you
everything that I knowed, and take you around, do everything I can. And
you're always welcome.
But if you're coming out under these conditions, thinking that the
Bride or something is going to go up from Tucson, Arizona, and there
only, you're mistaken. Don't come out for that; don't come for that,
because that's an error. That isn't right.
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Now, Revelations 12th chapter… But just one thing the Lord reveals to
me or speaks to me like… I'm just from them visions (You see?), and
it's kind of hard to keep it away. See? But He seems to speak to me
again to say again more about this going out west.
Now, as I have said before, I'm not out there just to be out there; I'm
out there because I am led to be out there. But to stay out there, make
it my home, I think that's wrong. No, I think it won't be but just a
little short time until the purpose that God has sent me there for will
be achieved. I cannot tell you here why I'm going, but I wouldn't be
going just to be going.
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It was asked in a question the other day: "We know why you first went
to Arizona, was them Angels appeared. Why did you return the second
time?" You remember that question read?
How many remembers when I come back after that and was setting there
before Dr. Lee Vayle (I believe he's in the building somewhere.) and my
wife? And I was talking about Arizona and about us staying here, and
there come a hand on the wall and light and wrote with letters, "Return
back to Arizona." How many remembers that? That's why I'm back there.
Not knowing why I went back, and when I got there, then He revealed
what I should go back for. And if I tell it, then Satan will block it.
But he don't know my heart. He's not the Word, so he doesn't know my
heart. But if I speak it, then he hears it. See? So now, remember that.
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Now, when I said the other day, I kinda made it… Kinda maybe you
might get the wrong impression; I said, "Don't come to Arizona." See? I
didn't mean it, "Don't come." What I meant was: If you're led to come,
you go ahead and do it, if you're led to California, Arizona, wherever
you are. But if you're going there, say, "Brother Branham, I'm going
there, because I believe you're going to stay there and preach the
Word," I believe you're wrong there. See? Where my preaching is, is
right here at this Tabernacle; here's the place.
I don't have one service in Arizona. And I'm not in Arizona but just a
few hours at a time. I haven't got… I've got a Business Men's meeting
after Christmas, the first of the year, at Phoenix. That's all I got; I
promised that, nothing else.
My next meeting, as far as I know, is right here at 8th and Penn Street
at the Branham Tabernacle. I've got thirty or forty subjects that I
know would take a week or two at a time to run them through, that I
have on my heart to preach here at the Branham Tabernacle, right here
at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
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And now, if you're really wanting to go somewhere to stay with the
Word, where our Message… And our Message is no different; it's the
same Message you've heard all your life, only something more been
revealed to it. This Message is the same Message that Luther preached,
same Message that Wesley preached, the same Message that Pentecostals
preached, only something added to It. What it is, is the revealing of
the Seals, what them reformers left off (See?), that's been made known
in this day could not be known then. The Pentecostal message could not
be known in the days of Luther or Wesley; it had to wait till the
Pentecostal age. But the Pentecostal age is, nothing but just a farther
advanced Lutheran age. Just like corn maturing or anything else, so has
the church.
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I… If I would've preached tonight, I was going to preach on the
subject–marked out here in the Bible: The Vine that had been
transferred from Egypt into Palestine. How many of you ever knowed that
God had said Israel was His vine? Then I refer back from that to Jesus
being the Vine. And the church now has been transferred to the world,
is not set down into dirt, but set down into Christ, which has got to
bear forth fruit. You see? And that was supposed to be my message for
tonight if I was to preach. But I thought I'd better get these
questions, so I just omitted that. I'll get that maybe when I come
back.
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Revelations chapter 12 does not pertain to the Bride. Revelations
chapter 12 (I haven't looked it up but I know it), it's the woman
standing in the sun with the moon under her feet. The moon represented
the law; the woman represented Israel, the church; and the twelve stars
in her forehead was those twelve apostles, twelve church ages, and so
forth, which just passed. See? And the sun was at her head. Which you
see, the moon is a shadow of the sun, which the law was a shadow of
good things to come. And that woman is Israel, not the Bride.
Now I won't spend too much time, 'cause I've got to get them done.
1148-Q-378
378. Romans 7:14-18, "We know that the law is spiritual: but I am
carnal, sold under sin. For that which I would do–not: for what I
would, that I would not; but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that
which I would not, I (c-a-n-) un–unto the law, consent to the law,
that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that doeth it, but sin that
dwelleth in me." This I cannot understand.
Well, they wrote out the Scripture; that's Paul speaking to the Romans.
Now, he said… Let me just kinda polish it up so you can see. He said,
"In me is two persons: right, one wants me to do; wrong, the other
wants me to do. And every time I start to do right, then wrong hinders
me."
How many of you people on the interviews this afternoon has run that
same thing in this morning (See?), same thing? I spoke on it this
morning, temporarily.
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You are an outward man which is controlled by six senses; you are an
inward man controlled by one sense which is faith. And this faith
disagrees with all six senses if the six senses doesn't agree with
faith. But one is contrary to the other. Now, as long as the six senses
agree with the faith, wonderful; but when the six senses disagrees with
faith, then leave the six senses alone.
Now, for instance here, Jesus made a statement, a promise. The inside
man says that's true; the outside man reasons that it can't be true to
you; then ignore the outside man and accept the inside man. Now, that's
the same thing that Paul's speaking of. He was sold under the law to
carnal sin. Every one of us is the same. That's the reason we are–have
the troubles we do, of married four or five times, and this, and that,
and the–all kinds of sin, and adulteries, and everything else along in
our lives, is because of those things. We are carnal, and that part
must perish; but then, inside, we are a spirit man, soul inside, and
that's faith in God's Word; then we bring our outside body under
subjection to the Word by faith, by accepting what God said.
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How can I take a cocklebur and make a grain of wheat out of it? It's
impossible for me to do it. The only way it can be is because inside
that cocklebur has been transmitted from a cocklebur wheat–a cocklebur
to a germ called "wheat life." Then you bury that cocklebur, and it'll
produce a grain of wheat (That's right. See?), because there has been a
life of wheat put in the cocklebur. And the life of the cocklebur has
been taken out; but the nature of the cocklebur is still sticky (See?),
and it will be until this new life has fully been developed out of the
ground and raised up again. When it comes forth, then it's no more
cocklebur, but wheat–but wheat. But while it's here on earth and
the–in the–out of the earth… And a cocklebur, it's still sticky,
but it's got the nature on the inside of it of wheat.
And as long as you're in this life, you're going to be sticky and have
a carnal nature that's going to bother you as long as you live; but the
inside of you, you're borned again. And when you're raised up, you're
in the likeness of Christ and all the sin is gone from you. See?
That's–that's the thing.
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May I say this? It sounds like a joke. A Indian… They're very funny
people. And I… They're not funny; they're odd to us; but they seem
all right to themselves. And if you get to knowing them, they're all
right. A Indian was asked one time when he was saved…
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I remember one in Phoenix, Arizona. Billy was going down to give out
prayer cards. He just stand there and give out prayer cards. And them
people that's able to run up there and grab the prayer cards… While
the–the well people really had a headache, toothache, something wrong
with the toe, they got–they got the prayer cards, Brother Ruddell. And
when–when they did, then in a prayer line, the only thing I got,
somebody with a headache, somebody had something wrong with toe, and
something like that. And there was people setting there dying with
cancer and things that didn't get the prayer line. I said, "Billy, go
down there and ask those people what's wrong with them. And if they
haven't got cancer, or some horrible disease, or something that's going
to kill them, don't give them them prayer cards. Get them people up
there in that prayer line that's going–that's ready to die if not
helped from the Lord. Let them others just wait. Let them come in a
fast line or something. But let them people that's ready to die…" I
said, "Ask them."
He said, "Well, you said, 'Just shuffle up the cards and give it to them,' that's what I was doing."
I said, "But you're getting them people–run up there ahead of them,
and they get… Them poor cripples and things can't get them."
"All right, I'll do it."
He goes down; there was an old Indian–and they're very odd–he
wouldn't set down in a chair. They give him a chair, but he set down on
the floor in the tent. He had a hat on; he wouldn't take it off; had a
feather sticking in the back of it, just setting there.
Billy walked up to him, and he passed by, and he said, "You want a prayer card?"
"Hmm."
He said, "What's wrong with you, Chief."
He said, "Me sick."
He said, "But what's wrong with you?"
He said, "Me sick."
He said, "But I want to know what's wrong with you."
He said, "Me sick."
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That's all he could get out of him, said, "All right, I'll be back
after while." So Billy went along asking people. The old Indian kept
watching them prayer cards getting thinner and thinner. Every time he'd
draw them out of his pocket they were a little bit thinner. So after
while, the old Indian got up, and walked over, and tapped Billy on the
back to remind him he was in this too. He said–he said, "Chief, what's
wrong with you?"
He said, "Me sick."
He said, "Well, Chief, you have to tell me. Daddy said not to give
these cards to people that would–just had, like tummyache, and
headaches, and things. 'Give them to people that was real sick.'" Said,
"How sick are you, Chief?"
He said, "Me sick." He set him down again and before he–his cards was
really about gone. A couple minutes (he kept watching them cards) he
come back and tapped him again. He…?… then. Billy put the card on
his hand, said, "Chief, go write on there, 'Me sick.'" Ha ha ha.
1151-35 He got in the prayer line, and I was praying for him, and I said, "Do you believe, Chief?"
He said, "That right."
And I said, "Well, you believe that God will heal you?"
He said, "That right."
I said "You'd be a good boy?"
He said, "That right."
I
met him about a week later. Brother Fred Sothmann I believe was there.
It was when they–and when the tent meeting was going on. It was
Phoenix. And I met him a little later on in the week; I said, "Are you
doing all right, Chief?"
He said, "That right." Come to find out, I talked to… What was that
missionary's name up there, that old man with a white mustache, up
there to the Apaches? I can't think of his name. Well, he's a fine old
fellow. His wife was healed of cancer, you know. He said, "Brother
Branham, that's all he can say." Said, "I told him to say, 'Me sick.'
That's the only thing he could say, "That right.'" So that's–that's
about it. You see? "That right. Me sick."
1151-36 Somebody told me he had one, one time was converted, received the Holy Ghost, and he said to him, "How you getting along?"
He said, "Pretty good and pretty bad."
He said, "Well, how do you mean pretty bad and pretty good?"
He
said, "Well, since me receive the Holy Ghost," he said, "there's been
two dogs in me, and one of them a black dog and one of them a white
dog." And said, "They argue all the time." Said, "They growl and fight
at one another." And said, "The white dog wants me do good; the black
dog wants me do bad."
Said, "Well, Chief, which one of them wins the fight?"
Said, "That depends on which one Chief feeds the most." So I think
that's a good answer here. See? There just depends on the warring of
the body that's in you; it depends on which one you cater to, which
nature you cater to, the carnal nature after the things of the world,
or the spiritual nature after the things of God. That does it.
1152-Q-379
379. Can every son of God be so anointed till he can do miracles,
signs, wonders, or is this just–is this at the directions of the Holy
Ghost?
Yes, it is at the directions of the Holy Ghost. If you are a son of
God, or a daughter of God, whatever you are, when you have received the
Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit directs you to do things.
I don't have time. I just wish I could tell you little stories. Every
time I think of it, just have to pass it by. But I think this one will
hold just for a minute.
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It was down in Meridian, Mississippi. Many of you oneness people,
Brother Bigby was holding–was sponsoring my meetings; he's a oneness
brother. And one night in a meeting, Billy Paul had went over in the
arena and had give out prayer cards. Oh, it was pouring down rain. And
the people was standing outside with umbrellas and things. And Billy
give out prayer cards, and there was a… And then he come to get me.
And while there was–while he's come to get me, there was a little lady
that set down in front, and there was another lady walking with a
little baby, trying to keep it quiet. And this little lady setting
there with a little calico dress on, ever what it was, was a mother
too. And she seen the lady, and the Holy Spirit spoke to the woman,
something on her heart, "Go, pray for that baby."
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"Well," she said, "next time she passes, I'll go pray for her." And
when she passed again, the lady was holding a prayer card. "Oh," she
said, "I–I couldn't pray for that baby." Said, "Brother Branham will
pray for that baby tonight. And who am I to pray for the baby if
Brother Branham's going to pray for it?" Now, that was reverent, and
that was nice, but that can't always be the will of God. Sometimes it's
different.
The Holy Spirit kept telling her, "Go, pray for that baby."
Finally she thought, "That woman will turn me down cold. Knowing she's
got that prayer card, she wouldn't want me to pray for that baby. She
brought that baby here, not for me to pray for it, but for Brother
Branham to pray for it."
So the Holy Spirit kept saying, "Go, pray for that baby."
Finally she said, "Well, to relieve myself I'll just say… I'll give
her my seat." So she said, "Honey (one little mother talking to the
other one), would you–you want… you got that baby…" Said, "Would
you come, set down here, take my seat?"
She said, "Oh, honey, I don't want to take your seat." Said, "I'm trying to keep the baby quiet."
Said, "But you look so tired and worn out."
She said, "I am."
She said, "Well, set down here and take my seat." And she said, "I see
you got a prayer card. Perhaps you're–Brother Branham's going to pray
for your baby?"
She said, "We hope this number will be called."
And she said, "Well, I do too." She said, "Sister, you are a Christian?"
Said, "Oh, yes."
She said, "I'm a Christian too." And said, "Ever since I've been
setting here, the Spirit of the Lord has been telling me, 'Pray for
that baby.' Would you give me permission? I know Brother Branham will
pray for that baby if it's called. And you just keep holding your card,
he'll get it." Said, "But if I lay my hands upon the baby, and just
offer a little prayer to make myself feel better, and get out from
under that what's calling me, would it–would it offend you?"
She said, "Why, certainly not, darling. Pray for the baby." And it was
a little blue baby, and so the–the little lady prayed for it. She give
the lady her seat, and she climbed up into the third balcony and was
standing up. Some Christian brother up there, gentleman enough to get
up and give this lady a seat, so she set down.
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About a half hour later, I come into the meeting, spoke for a few
minutes, called the prayer cards; and this woman was third or fourth in
the line with that baby. And she set there, and she said, "Oh, thank
you, Lord. Now, I felt so sorry for that little mother; I believe the
baby will get well now, 'cause Brother Branham… Just the third or
fourth, he'll get to that one." Said, "Thank you, Lord," the little
mother setting up there, feeling for that baby. All right.
Then when I come up, started praying for the baby, when the lady come
up, say, I looked at her and said, "Now, your baby is a blue baby; and
you brought it here to be prayed for. And now, your name is Miss
So-and-so, and you've come from Such-and-such a place; but the baby's
already healed. There was a woman who had a burden on her heart by the
name of Miss So-and-so, that's setting up here in the balcony (first
one on the end of the fourth row in the third balcony), prayed the
prayer of faith for the baby; and the baby's already healed." She just
almost dropped out of her seat. See?
Now, what if she had not have done that? See what I mean? Now, that
woman would've more sympathy for that baby, a mother to a baby than I
would for the baby. See? And the mother being… See?
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"Can we all do miracles?" Yes. When you're directed by the Holy Ghost
to do miracles, go do it, because it's Holy Spirit directed.
Now, if that woman wouldn't have carried out what God told her, perhaps
there'd have been a rebuke in the Spirit to her (You see?), and she'd
have disobeyed God. Always, if you are Christian and something is
persuading you to do something, go do it. Go do it; don't doubt it; go
do it.
"I'd like to ask question. Is…" Here's another one of them, or either
I got in the wrong… Yeah, I–that's one for this morning. "Woman
wearing a–pajamas, is it man's garments?" It must've got mixed up over
here in these others.
"Brother Branham, was God doing the thing–was God–was I doing the
thing that took place when the tape…" Oh, yes, we had that this
morning. I must've got some of those mixed up. I ought to tear them up,
but I just hate to do it.
1154-Q-380 380. Brother Branham, who will populate the earth outside the heavenly city?
1154-Q-381 381. Explain about each person's angel who abides with them from birth unto death. Very good question.
I
hate to pass these by; they're good questions. And I want my–my
children to know these things. See? "Now, who will populate the earth
outside of the city?"–outside. It will be the redeemed that will
populate the earth outside the city, but they will not be the elected
and called Bride. The Bride will live inside the Kingdom with the King.
On the outside will be the kings of the earth that labor and bring
their toils–bring their–not toil, but bring their fruits into the
city. And the doors will not be closed by night.
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Now, on… Now, this Light on top of the mountain will not lighten the
whole world; It'll only lighten the city. But It can be seen in the
distance of thousands of miles maybe; but It won't lighten the earth,
because the Bible said, in the new world, that from one Sabbath to
another and from one–from one new moon to the other (You see?) will
the people come up before the Lord unto Zion–up to the city to worship.
And now, they will be outside the city, not the Bride, but the people
that come up in the second resurrection that will be tillers of the
soil, just like Adam was, and so forth, and carers of the garden. But
the King and Queen will remain in the city.
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"Explain about each person's angel who abides with them from birth."
Now, if you notice… Now, this is pretty deep. Now, I never–I just
picked it up. Now, the… Part of it's wrote in type and the other one
is with a pencil–or pen.
Now, there is an Angel, but this Angel of the Lord that are encamped
about those that fear them–that fears Him. See? Now, it isn't promised
that sinners has Angels; it's only the redeemed has Angels. Did you
know that? The Angels of the Lord encamp about those that fear Him.
Now, Angels are messengers. I want you to notice It's so perfect, and it'll prove predestination to you. See?
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Now, when a little baby is being formed under the mother's heart… And
you little children that understand these things (See?), the Lord gave
you to mother. And she carried you under her heart, because you're
close to her heart. And then, one day the Lord came down and delivered
you from mother's heart, from away from her heart, but you'll always be
in her heart.
Now, while this little body is being formed, little natural body being
formed in the mother, there is a spiritual body of the earth ready to
receive this natural body as soon as it is born. Now, the baby is
borned with live muscles, a beating heart, but no breath of life in it.
It's muscles twitching. See? Then, see, if there was something
different from that, if there wasn't a spirit that had to come into it
later, then our breath could leave us, and we would breathe no more and
still be alive. But when this body doesn't receive oxygen from the–or
breath (intake and out-take of our lungs), then we're dead.
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Now, but when the mother… The little baby is dropped to the earth
from the mother's heart ("dropped," you understand what I'm saying,
what way I'm–the reason I'm saying it this way), when the little baby
is dropped, what happens? As soon as it comes forth, if it doesn't
start crying, the doctor, midwife, or whatever, will spank it [Brother Branham claps his hands–Ed.], stretch it. It's got to have a shock, and what happens?
Notice, a mother, she can be ever so mean and cruel, but just before
that baby's born, there's a certain kindness that sets in. Did you ever
notice a mother when she's to be mother? There's something sweet about
her; she always takes on that sweetness. It's because that–that little
angel, little spirit, a little messenger to this little tabernacle is
ready to come forth into the world. And then, when this little angel
comes into the body (That's a little angel of the earth, a spirit
that's ordained of God to take this body.), then that baby has to have
a choice. It makes its decision. Then when this takes place, then you
see the Angel of the Lord now comes in here which is a spiritual body,
that eternal.
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This is a dying spirit in a dying body; but now, you can't be in two
bodies at one time, but there can be two natures in you at one time.
Now, the nature of the Spirit of the Lord… When you're borned again,
you're not borned of physical, like the baby was; but what's happened,
the spiritual birth has come to you. And while this spiritual birth is
growing into your heart, of God, there is a physical or a celestial
body growing to receive that spirit. And when the life leaves this
body, it goes to that body. Just as when the body is presented to the
earth, the spirit comes in, and when the spirit goes out of the body,
there is a body waiting. "For we know that after this earthly
tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." See? That's it,
the spiritual body of the people.
Brother Branham…
1157-Q-382
Now, these must be a… There's a group of them here, looks to be at
least ten or fifteen. And it's all wrote out on paper, same kind of
paper, typewriting, and so forth. I'll try to get to them as quick as
possible. We can get out in–as quick as can.
382. Dear Brother, would Jesus not accept worship in Revelations by
John when he fell to… Why would not Jesus receive worship in
Revelations by John when He–when He allowed worship before him? Why
wouldn't Jesus receive worship when John wanted to worship Him?
My dear brother or sister, whoever it is, it was not Jesus that would
not receive worship. In Revelations 22:8, you'll read it was the
prophet, angel, who would not receive worship. When John fell down to
worship the angel that had showed him these things, he said, "See that
you do it not, for I am of thy fellow brethren. I am one of the
prophets." See, see? "I am thy fellow brother, thy fellow servant, one
of the prophets; give worship to God." It wasn't Jesus didn't accept
it; it was the prophet wouldn't accept it.
1157-Q-383
383. Dear Brother Branham, what is the difference when Jesus breathed
on the disciples and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost," and when
they–when they had to go to the upper room to tarry?
It was a promise He gave them, breathed upon them His promise, said,
"Receive ye the Holy Ghost." It was a promise. They went to the upper
room to wait for the promise to be fulfilled.
The same thing is when we lay hands upon you to be healed, then you go
on about your business waiting for the promise to be fulfilled.
1157-Q-384 384. Brother Branham, did Jesus change the physical mask several times when appearing to the disciples after His resurrection?
"Did
He change His physical mask?" I–I wouldn't know, because I think what
it was; He didn't change His mask there. The thing He did, He withheld
their seeing or knowing Him.
Like those who came from Emmaus, they walked with Him all day and it
was withholden from them. And they saw a Man on the bank one time
fishing where they had fished; He said, "Children, have you got
anything?"
And they said, "We've taken nothing, toiled all night."
He said, "Cast on the other side." And he took up a whole bunch of
fish, and they knew then it was the Lord. I think it wasn't His mask
that was changed; I think it was just the peoples eyes was withheld.
1158-Q-385 385. Brother Branham, what is the difference, if–if any, between the Angel of the Lord and the Lord, Himself.
The
angel of the Lord is a messenger from the Lord, and the Lord Himself is
that Person, not the person of the angel, the angel from the Lord. Let
me show you. Earthly speaking here's an angel from the Lord. Earthly
speaking here's an angel from the Lord. Earthly speaking here's the
angel from the Lord. How do we know then that they are angels from the
Lord? When they bring the Word of the Lord. But when they try to
pervert It, it's not from the Lord then (See, see?)–try to make It say
something It doesn't say. Just say whatever…
Then there is a supernatural Angel comes down from the Lord, a
Messenger like Gabriel, and–and Michael, Woodworm, and so forth, their
names.
1158-Q-386
386. Brother Branham, what seems to be wrong in the day when we are
living, of being a believer and following the Message and messenger of
today, when you cannot seem to pray like you would like to?
That's a good question. I believe brother, sister, ever who asked it,
it's a cause of the conditions of time. The revival is over. The
revival has lasted some fifteen years, never did last before over about
three years. I believe it's received its last revival. And I believe
that's why you can't pray and feel in the Spirit like you used to. It's
because the revival fires has gone out.
1158-Q-387
387. Brother Branham, please explain how a person knows if he is
thinking his own thoughts, or if the devil is placing thoughts in his
mind to make him think wrong, especially, if you know you do not want
to think them.
Then, if it's contrary to the Word, it's the devil's thinking. If it's
with the Word, it's God thinking. If it's the wrong thoughts, it's the
devil. If it's good thoughts of the Word and of God, it's God's
thinking.
1159-Q-388
388. If the case may be that the devil is placing thoughts in your mind
about a certain thing, how may it be overcome or got rid of?
Take the very vice versa from it. If the devil makes you think
that–that–that you are… If you know you're a Christian, and he
tries to make you think you're not a Christian, just take the versa,
say, "I am a Christian." As long as your experience matches in God's
Word say, "I'm a Christian." Anything else, the same way.
When you answer this, please pray for me to overcome this, as I am not by myself.
God grant your overcoming, ever who you are. May your thoughts just go
right back the other side and say, "I am a Christian; I am a believer.
Satan, you have no hold on me."
Frankly, I'm standing right here now saying the same thing, keep from
fainting right here at the pulpit. That's right. Four or five times
I've almost pitched over on the pulpit. That's the truth. God knows
that's right.
1159-Q-389
389. When a person realizes he has an inferior complex, or some sort of
complex, how may he overcome this? So–should it be if he was the only
child caused this in his early youth?
Take exactly the opposite. If you're always wanting your way, and that
one little brat that wants to always have everything your way, turn
right back around and give everything you got the other way. If you're
selfish and you want to hold everything, then start giving away what
you got. See? Do whatever–just go the vice versa. That's the way to
overcome anything is an antidote.
You've… My old, southern mother used to say, "Hair off the dog back is good for the bite." And that applies this a-way too.
1159-Q-390
390. Brother Branham, what achievement should we let our preteenage
children participate in? (I beg your pardon, it's)–what activities
should our preteen children anticipate– participate in. Also, how
should we go about helping them select their associates?
Keep them in Christian company as long as you possibly can. Keep them
with… If it's a girl, keep her with Christian girls; Christian boys,
vice versa. If she's old enough to go with a boy, see that she keeps
with the right kind of boy. Discourage her to any boy otherwise, or boy
to a girl. If she's going with an unbeliever, try to encourage her to
go with a believer, and vice versa. Make your home nice. Make your home
a place where your daughter or son will not be ashamed to bring their
company before their father and mother, and into their house; and make
home so happy that they'll be pleased in their home to stay there.
Oooh, my, here's seven in a row. I won't go but just a few minutes longer.
1160-Q-391 391. Brother Branham, have you made statements recently concerning that church age has ended, Laodicea?
No, I never said it's ended. If I did, you misunderstood, or I said it
wrong. It is–this is the last church age; it's the end of church ages,
the Laodicea. It hasn't ended; when it ends, the church is gone. So as
long as the church is here, it hasn't ended. See?
1160-Q-392 392. Ah… The church age ending and has blacked out, the Bride is called, we have already entered into the tribulation period?
No,
no, no, you're… I wished that I could just have more time on that.
See, see? The Bride, when she's taken from the church, then the church
age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to glory; and
the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a
half years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation sets
in upon Israel; and then comes the battle of Armageddon which destroys
all things. And then, the Bride returns back with the Groom for a
thousand years, the millennium reign; after that comes the white throne
judgment; after that comes the new heavens and new earth and the new
city coming down from God out of heaven. Eternity and time blends
together.
1160-Q-393
393. The Holy Spirit has told you that the Trumpets have nothing to do
with the Bride. Do the seven vials have anything at all to do with us?
I'll wait and see if the Holy Spirit reveals it in that manner. I don't know yet.
1161-Q-394
394. Will the prophet of Malachi 4 be the one to call out the Gentile
remnant of Revelation 7:9, even though they go through the tribulation
period?
No, no. After the–the Revelations 7, is where he seen the 144,000
sealed, and after that he saw coming up, coming back was that great
number which no man could number which was the Bride. It will have…
The… Malachi 4 will be finished and the Bride taken up, and the–then
the–this group of–of Elijah and Elisha return back to the earth
for… The church to go through the tribulation period, but Elijah and
Elisha will not have anything to do with the sleeping virgin (They're
Gentiles.); they'll be sent only to the Jews.
1161-Q-395
395. Have the seven thunders which equals seven mysteries already been
revealed? Were they revealed in the seven Seals, but are yet–but are
yet not known to us as the thunders yet?
No, they were revealed in the seven Seals; that's what the thunders was
about. They was to reveal… The seven thunders that had uttered their
voices and no one could make out what it was… John knew what it was,
but he was forbidden to write it. He said, "But the seventh angel, in
the days of his sounding, the seven mysteries of the seven thunders
would be revealed." And the seventh angel is a messenger of the seventh
church age. See?
1161-Q-396
396. Do you believe that sometimes the little living Bride will gather
somewhere together and have all things in common, as did the first
Bride, perhaps just before the coming of the Lord Jesus in the clouds?
Now, they asked me did I believe it. I can't prove it by the
Scriptures, but perhaps there will come a time, maybe, I don't know.
There may be just… You see? If it would, it would give identification
of His closeness at hand, being so… He said, "But He comes like a
thief in the night." See? He comes to… Like that book I read on
Juliet–Romeo and Juliet, He comes and–and takes away His Bride at
night. She's caught away in a moment in a twinkling of an eye. See?
And it's very doubtful whether it'll be that way, because the Bible
said, "There'll be two in a bed; I'll take one and leave one; and two
in the field, and I'll take one and leave one." See? So they
probably… Across the world, they won't be gathered in one place to
have things in common. But little groups of them will be scattered all
over the earth.
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I believe, maybe if the Lord permits, this is a little group of it.
Maybe another little group in Asia, one down in Germany, one down
somewhere else. When I seen a vision of the Bride the other night, they
was made up from the international. See? So the Bride won't be gathered
from one place; It'll be gathered from all over the world. And that
exactly vindicates with the Word, and never has the Word been wrong.
And to this time, neither has the vision ever been wrong, because it's
been according to the Word.
1162-Q-397
397. Will anyone who has a true and genuine baptism of the Holy Ghost
in this hour not be in the rapture of the Bride? Would you explain?
Tell us what we can do for you in any way to help lighten the load.
Now, isn't that sweet. See?
No, there's nothing you can do right now. Yes, genuine believers that's
baptized in the Holy Ghost will be in the Bride. Of course, they're
selected and called out. The sleeping virgin didn't have any oil. Those
that had oil went in, but the a…
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"What can we do to lighten the load?" Yes, brother, sister, ever who it
is writing this, pray for me; that's the best thing to do. Thank you. I
don't need money. I… Enough of that comes in to take care of me.
Thank the Lord for that. I don't need clothes. Most the time people
give me my clothes that I wear. And my friends and things give me
clothes. And they… I get enough money to feed my family; that's all
we need. It seems… And you can pray for me though, 'cause I certainly
need spiritual help.
1162-Q-398
398. It seems among the ministers of the Word, that we have little or
no burden to pray, to preach, to fast, or for lost souls that might
still be out there somewhere in the world. Would you please tell us
what to do about this condition? Thank you very much, Brother Branham,
for this.
That must be a minister. He didn't sign any name for these word.
Brother… I've had to answer them when I was tired, wore out, and
kinda, you know, don't feel too good, so I–I trust that it answer the
question. I–I thank you very much and I–I forgot what that I was
going to answer him.
Preachers, a minister, why we have these burdens–don't have burdens
for lost souls. I believe that it's–it's a lacking of the revival. I
believe we should still try to pray to God to give us passions for lost
souls until Jesus comes.
1163-Q-399
399. Brother Branham, do you believe that every one who has the Holy
Ghost speak in tongues? (No.) I know you say that speaking in
tongues–speaking in tongues is not for–the evidence of the Holy
Ghost. I would… I Corinthians 12:30, please explain. Would you get I
Corinthians 12:30? I think, "Do all speak with tongues," or so forth;
I'm not sure.
I'll try to get another one while they's answering it.
1163-Q-400 400. Brother Branham, would you explain Job 14:21?
Yes. Job 14 is, "If a man dies shall he live again." Oh, if a man
dies… Job speaking of the resurrection (I think I had that the other
morning, wasn't it? Or was that down at Charlie's house? Mrs. Cox was
there somewhere.)–Job, he seen the flowers how they die and live
again, but he went in the earth and couldn't come back. And then it was
explained to him that something had sinned. He wanted a Mediator
between him and God, and then he saw the coming of the Lord.
1163-88 What is it, Brother? [Brother Branham has conversation with a brother–Ed.] I think that was I Corinthians 12:30. Yeah.
"Do
all speak with tongues?" That's what I thought it was, but I wasn't
sure, being tired like this, but… No. All do not speak with tongues;
all do not interpret; all do not say that. And then the very next
chapter, "Though I speak with tongue and men and angels and have not
charity, I am nothing." See? Paul, in other words, tell them, "Do all
speak with tongues? Certainly, they don't. Do all prophesy? No. But
covet earnestly the best gifts; and yet show I you a more excellent
way." See? All don't speak with tongues.
Are you going to have another discernment service before you go away? If not, is it possible to get a personal interview?
I trust that you did. Now, I don't have too many more. Let me just try to get them if I possibly can.
1163-Q-401
401. Remember hearing you tell of seeing a pitiful sight of an
angel–of a eagle beating its wings in a cage, struggle to get free. I
have a precious mother in that position. She has not been allowed to
have her three married children come home for three years, because they
won't be subject to their dad's doctrine. He's a denominational
preacher. Mother wants to hear this end time Message, and I can't even
get a letter through to her. To what degree is she to be subject to? Is
there anything I can do besides pray?
That would be the only thing I would know. Her husband, being a
minister, won't let her hear the Word. She wants to hear It, but he
won't permit her to hear It, and just pray for her. I believe the woman
is–is saved, of course.
1164-Q-402
402. Brother Branham, if possible for a person to be lost and end up in
hell if he rejects the Light of the Word, even though he has a genuine
experience of justification and sanctification?
Yes, sir. That is exactly right.
1164-Q-403
403. When you use the expression that if we do not believe the Word, we
will be eternally separated from Christ, do you mean the foolish virgin
will live eternally, but they will be separated from the new Jerusalem
where Christ will dwell with the Bride? Here are those who do not have
the Holy Spirit, born again as the Scripture speaks of being born
again. If the natural birth requires water, blood, and spirit, does not
the spiritual birth require all three stages of grace before the person
is truly born again?
Absolutely, I just explained that this morning–the same, on the same
thing. You've got to have all stages. You're begotten of the Spirit,
just like a baby's begotten into the womb of a mother, but not born
until they receive the Holy Ghost. That's right. You're born then;
you're not converted. You're in the procession of being converted until
that time.
That's the reason that all these great mysteries could not be given to
Luther, could not be given to Wesley, could not be given to the age
that has just passed by us, the Pentecostal age. Why? It wasn't time.
They were begotten. Now, the Person of Christ, Himself, the Son of man
(You understand?) revealing Himself in human flesh, it could not have
come till now.
1165-Q-404 404. When the millennium starts, how will the unbelievers be taken off of the earth?
The
unbelievers will go down in the tribulation period with the sleeping
virgin, and all those others (unbelievers, and sleeping virgin), and
the remnant of Israel that's to be taken out.
1165-Q-405
405. Brother Branham, when some of–someone gets on me or "steps on my
toes (This might be a good one.)–steps on my toes," as the old saying
is, my temper rises; how can I overcome this thing? I know the Lord
will have to do it, but what can I do in my heart? I don't want this
thing.
Sweeten your temper with prayer; then make up your mind. There… I
don't guess there is too many people in this building ever had any more
temper than I did to begin with. Oh, I–I had a mouth mashed all the
time. And I–I–I'd taken a lot of my meals out of a straw.
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My mother, as you know, was a half Indian, and my father was an
Irishman, a Kentucky Irish at that. And every one of–both of them had
enough temper to fight a buzz saw. And all the time my mouth was
mashed; I was little to begin with. And they'd just pick me up and
knock me down. And I'd get up again; and they'd knock me down again
till I just got too able–unable to get up anymore. That's always. And
then when I got able to get up, I got up again; they knocked me down
again. So that's just the way I had it.
I thought, "I can never be a Christian." But when the Holy Spirit came into my life, that done it. No more…
I had a woman one time; I went to have to cut the lights off. And that
day I had hair on top of my head. She said, "You little, kinky-headed
idiotic."
I told her, I said, "Woman, you oughtn't to curse like that. Oh, don't you fear God?"
She said, "You little, kinky-headed idiotic, if I wanted somebody to
talk to me about things like that, I wouldn't get a half-wit like you."
"Whoo." Then she called me a blankety, blankety name. Oh, my, if that'd
been a year farther. I always said, "A man that'd strike a woman wasn't
man enough to strike a man," but I–I might've broke that at that time
calling my mother a bad name like that. But you know what? It never
even fazed me. I said, "I will pray for you." Never bothered… I
knowed right then something had happened to me. Yes, sir. Oh, my.
You know the evils that I done when I was a kid fighting? Almost killed
five men at one time. Took a rifle loaded with sixteen shots, and when
them boys beat me because I was a Kentuckian, no other reason… I
couldn't even hold my head up. One would hold me by hands like this,
and the other one'd stand there with a rock in his hand and pound me in
the face, till I just lifeless. Nothing in the world…
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They called me a "Kentucky squab," because my mother, when she was
young, she sure looked like an Indian (looking at her picture awhile
ago), and they knowed she was a half Indian. And because I was Kentucky
and her being a squaw, they called me a "squab, a Kentucky squab." And
I had nothing in the world to do into it; I couldn't help because I was
born in Kentucky.
I went down there to school, and I didn't have no clothes to wear, and
my hair hanging down my neck. And pop–mom took pop's old coat that he
was married in, and cut it up and made me a pair of pants to wear to
school my first time. And I… And she dressed me with a pair of white
stockings on and a pair of tennis shoes. And they said, "If you don't
look like a windy Kentuckian." And–and all–and that–and then, that
went on all my–all my school days.
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And a couple of boys, because I walked down the road with some little
girl and packed her books… They didn't want me to do that, and they
met me down there and beat me till I was simply unconscious. I told
them, if they'd just let me go, I promise that I would go right
straight home. And so they took–let me loose, kicked me four or five
times, knocked me down, and scraped my face all over. And I went home,
like this, up through the broomsage field.
I had a little .22 Winchester rifle laying up over the door. Reached up
and got that rifle full of bullets, went right down through the locust
thicket, and hid by the side of the road till these five or six boys
come along there. Just waited till they come, and when they was coming
there, talking, said, "That Kentuckian will realize where he's at from
this on," going on like that.
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I stepped up with the hammer pulled back on the rifle. I said, "Now,
which one of you wants to die first, so you won't watch the others?"
They started squealing; I said, "Don't squeal, 'cause you're all going
to die one by one." And I meant it. And just then they started
squealing. And I pulled up and snap. The gun snapped. I throwed another
shell in. Snap, it snapped; another shell, snap, it snapped. And I
pumped sixteen shells on the ground. Every one of them snapped. And
them boys running, and screaming, and diving over the hill, and
everything.
And after they left, I stood there. When I'd get so angry, till I–I–I
wouldn't cry; I would laugh like a idiot and tears run out of my eyes.
Now, that's a temper. If it hadn't been for God, I'd been a murderer.
And I picked up them shells and put them back in the rifle, and, "Pow,
pow"; they'd shoot just as good as ever. Talk about grace.
1167-Q-406 406. Where are the foolish virgins during the millennium?
In the millennium they're in the grave. "The rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years."
1167-Q-407
407. Will there be, or is there now a place for the Bride to gather
together to live, like when Moses led the children of Israel?
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.
1167-Q-408
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 men 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…
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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, knock-kneed, 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 men come down the road, young or old, with a pair of these
bikinis 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.
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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 men… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]… If he wants to w…
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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 about
that big around, looks like a great big, oversized biscuit. And she
wraps her hair around that and pins the pins in it. And now, the–as
far as I'm concerned, that–that don't bother anything as long as your
hair's long.
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 I can say about it.
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And now, a man… This person said this morning taking off their hair,
putting it back on. Now, this kinda 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 hair piece. 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
wear false teeth or whatever that come along.
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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 hair piece;
not because the looks of it, 'cause you know I 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.
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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 men, you cut yours off. What you got, keep it
cut. See? Then that settles that.
And woman, you dress like a woman. And men, 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… What is one
of those rats? Did I make a mistake awhile ago or is that a mouse?
It–it's something to–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.
1169-Q-409
409. Brother Branham, a sister came to the Tabernacle some eight
hundred miles, and she said she believed you are Jesus Christ
incarnate. Please speak on this. She was very (i-m-p-a-) impatient in
trying to tell others what she thinks. (I-m-p-a-h-a-) impatience…
All right. Now, 'course the sister was wrong. I am not Jesus Christ; I
am His servant. We've went through that so many times. But…
Oh, I'm getting pretty close now; just pray for me, just a little bit longer.
1170-Q-410
410. Brother Branham… (Would you just like to hear the rest of them
as–as quick as I can?) Brother Branham, one time I failed God gave me
a–feel God gave me a promise such as Sarah. There was a question, but
the promise came after. Was the promise of God? I knew Sarah's was, but
I feel time is so short. We love your ministry and Him Who called you
(That's sweet, isn't it?)–love your ministry and Him Who called you to
it, and therefore, we love you. Oh, they signed their name. Thank you,
sister and brother. A question, yeah, that… All right.
Now, God… Think He give you the promise, and it happened like Sarah.
Sure, it's the same God; He answers the same way. Don't you believe
nothing else but it was of God.
Brother Branham, I would like to ask you some questions concerning the Bible. Please explain St. Mark…
I got that one; I've got that, St. Mark 16. We got that the other day; I remember. Let's see.
1170-Q-411
411. Dear Brother Branham, please explain St. Matthew chapter 22,
verse, when… (We got that one. See? Remember the other day?
I'll–I'll show it to you. I was… See it right here?) 22… How did
this guest get in at the wedding supper, who had on a garment, but
didn't have on one of the wedding garment?
Remember, I said… I kinda pulled a little joke; I said, "A
denominational brother who came by the–the–who came by the window and
not by the Door." The Door is the Word.
You said that Cain was of the serpent's seed. Why did Eve say, "I have gotten a man from the Lord"?
That's what I was trying to find this morning. I got the Scriptures
wrote down here for that. I may be backing up a little; I hope so.
Finding some here…
Brother Branham, my husband, which was brought up a Catholic in our worship, he wants to pray his way…
I got that. Remember?
Oh, I'm getting these right in here now. I got that one.
Brother Branham, I finally… to interest my sister from a de–I got that. A lady had a Catholic sister.
Brother Branham, in II Timothy 4, what is the gift that was given through…
And I got that one. How many remembers them? I've got some of them mixed up here. See?
1171-123 Is it lawful for us to use any type…
That's birth control. I–I… Let me talk to you on–on private on that (See?), as I said this morning.
First, are the five foolish virgins saved during the…
I got that. I'm backing here. Just a minute, just be patient with me.
After having known the way, at least the way of repentance and
sanctification (I got that one, you remember?), then to fall away from
that…
I got that one too. I've backed up somewhat. I'll just have to get them as…
Brother Branham, what is the meaning of St. Matthew 24:28: "For wheresoever the carcase is, there the eagles would gather"?
Remember me explaining that? See? I got that. Maybe I've done through with them. Praise the Lord.
It's time–is it time that the Bride will have to–to be with you for (Now, I got that one.) the rapture?
Maybe I… And I know I got that one, 'cause it was marked out at the
bottom; I remember that. Well, praise the Lord. We're getting right
down here now. Let's see.
1171-Q-412 412. Since Acts 2:38 is the only way to be baptized, what about the multitude… I got that.
They
never knew it in their days; it's just now revealed. After you know
what to do, "To he that knoweth to do right and doeth it not, to him
it's sin."
1171-Q-413 413. Brother Branham, is it wrong to grow–to grow and work in tobacco? I don't believe I got that.
Now,
I'm against tobacco. I'm against the use of tobacco; any borned again
Christian will be; that's all, because it's wrong. We know that even
the medical science say that's what starts most of throat and–and lung
cancer is–is tobacco. They say, "Smoke filtered cigarettes."
Now, to you men and women who smoke, that's just deceiving you, 'cause
you cannot… Well, the only thing that they do… When you buy
filtered cigarettes, you have to buy more of them, because it just lets
a certain percent of the smoke through. Because anybody will tell
you…
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I heard that lecture at the World's Fair up in Washington last year
(when I was out there at the World's Fair), and them doctors from all
over the world there explained it; said that you cannot have smoke
without tar, and you can't… And if you got smoke you got tar. And
said, "Don't let no man deceive you on filtered cigarettes, for where
you'd smoke one or the other that would satisfy the longing that you
have for cigarettes, you'll smoke two or three of the other." It's only
a–a public gag, a publicity gag on radio and television.
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But to work in tobacco or grow tobacco. Now, you Kentucky brethren that
grows this tobacco… Well, let me say one thing: If it condemns you to
do it, don't you do it, 'cause I wouldn't want to make anything that
would–that I know was supporting somebody else to their death. It's
wrong to give a neighbor a strong drink, then it'd be wrong to make a
strong drink. But let me say something else now. Now, as far as growing
it…
Tobacco, you know, nicotine is also used in medical terms. And did you
know you grow corn that makes whiskey, wheat and barley that makes
whiskey? That right? All right. See? You don't know what they're going
to use it for.
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But now, we grow corn, that we can think when we're growing corn, that
it might make corn flakes, and food for the people, cornbread, and so
forth; but they also make intoxication drinks out of it (See?), so you
wouldn't know what to do.
And you grow–you have a lily garden. You know what they do with the
lily? They make opium out of it. You know what they do with the
lettuce? They do the same thing. Opium also is in lettuce. Did you ever
eat a bunch of lettuce and see how quiet you feel for a little bit?
It's the opium in it. Do you know it's also in onions? Sure. So,
you–you see, it depends on what you're doing it for.
But let me say this, as a Christian brother to a Christian brother: If
you have a tobacco base, sell it to somebody else and take the chance
on the corn. I believe it would be better (See?), because no doubt what
they're growing that…
My husband was married to an alcoholic and an adulterer…
I got that. Come from… I told you where it was from. It's from away from here. And I got that question. And now, let's see.
The woman of Revelations 12…
I got that one. Yeah, I got this bunch of questions. Let's see. That's
got; I gotten them. It's on Revelations 12, what she was. Let's see.
1173-Q-414
414. Brother Branham, we have two children that go to church that is
controlled by a woman preacher. We know she's off the Word. Our
children are under this strong influence. How should we go about
telling them this is error?
I told you before. I answered that. And handle it gently. What would
you say if I… I know that person's setting here. What do you say if I
believe I know who the woman is and can tell you?
1173-Q-415 415. Will the millennium reign be one thousand years or just a count of time?
I got that one even this morning. See? It's one thousand years. All right.
Brother Branham, the problem of what…
Yeah, I got that. The wheat and the tares, you remember we got that.
I believe we're coming right down now. I may have throwed a bunch of these back. Let's see. Same thing.
Brother
Branham, I am a mother of six wonderful children and my husband wants
me to go to work for a while to help finance. Should I? Also want to
pray to God to grant me faith that–to give me… Abraham
and–and–like faith–like Abraham and Daniel and the Hebrew children.
Should a Christian raise tobacco? I've just went through that and a…
1173-Q-416 416. Brother Branham, is it wrong for a woman to shave her legs?
Am I seeing things? Does that say that? I can't… Uh, I don't know. I'm going to leave that with you.
Is–is this day wrong to limit your family? Did it mean practice complete birth control?
I answered that of course to the–each individual. Let's see.
If a woman while in sin gets a divorce and remarries and have…
I answered that. You remember I said, "Leave the divorce cases till…"
1174-Q-417
417. I have a friend who I love very much. She has had some tapes and
letters that I believe that have… never talked to her. Really, I
guess I am afraid of destroying her and losing her as a friendship.
What should I do?
Speak to her in love. I don't… I believe I answered that, but I–I
don't–don't try to push anything on anybody. Just be salty; they'll
long to be like you.
Brother, sister, I believe I've answered these.
Brother Branham, please explain about the five foolish virgins.
I–I know I got that one… wrote, and red paper. I believe we're… I
got that one. I believe I have answered all of these. Praise the Lord.
Let's see. Excuse me just a minute.
1174-Q-418 418. Dear prophet of God, St. Mark 16:18, I… part of laying hands on the sick… I'm around snake handlers. What about it?
Well,
that's a good question. If you're around snake handlers, and they say
Mark 16… Certainly. I believe that the Bible means just what It says.
I believe if we try to tempt the Lord into something, we're in for it.
But I don't think that God means for you to bring me a bottle of
arsenic and see if I could drink it and prove to you that I have faith;
no more than I believe it would be right for you to bring me a snake,
and let me pick it up, and show you I have faith that I can overcome
its poison. I don't believe that that's so.
I do believe that if I was in the water baptizing people, or doing on
the work of the Lord, or out in the jungle, and the snake bit me, I'd
walk right on in the Name of the Lord. See? I believe that that's what
it meant.
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Now, if you have to take… See, what you do with that, dear person
ever who you're–who you are… Remember this. See? Watch what the
Bible did about it. No more than I believe if you try to say, "Glory,
glory, glory"… Don't tempt God to speak in tongues, just let the
Spirit speak through you. See?
Now, I don't believe in tempting God or pushing anything. Just like I
said awhile ago, when the Spirit… We wait upon the Spirit; It does
it.
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Now watch, Paul was picking up sticks on the isle of Crete, I believe
it was. And he was in chains, and a snake, perhaps a mamba… That's a
death bite; he should've fallen down right quick, dead. I don't know of
no other snake would kill you that quick, unless it'd be a mamba.
And so he picked up this mamba, we'll say. It's a deadly bite; you just
got about, just a few breaths left. When the mamba hits you… Or
cobra, you got a fifty-fifty chance with the serum to live–with a
black cobra. With the yellow cobra you got about eighty percent to die
and about twenty percent to live; a mamba, you have no percent. You're
just dead; that's all, 'cause you don't breathe but just a few breaths.
It paralyzes the nerve system, the blood system, and everything else,
and you're gone. See?
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But when–when this mamba that bit Paul in the hand, they said, "Well,
that man is a–he's a wicked man, perhaps a murderer. Even though he
escaped the sea, yet the–he could not escape death. The gods is going
to revenge him like his–being a murderer."
Paul looked, and this snake hanging on his hand; he just shook it off,
not all excited, "Oh, Lord, help me to do it." No. He looked at it,
shook it off in the fire, went on picking up sticks as if nothing had
happened.
They said, "He'll die just in a minute, because when that snake bites
you, you're gone." After while the time passed, Paul didn't swell up,
die, or no affect. They said–they changed, said, "He's a god that's
come down in a form of a man." See?
He never said, "Bring me that snake," but the snake bit him. He never
tempted God, but had faith in God to overcome the snakebite. You see
what I mean?.
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So ever who you are among snake handlers, I… Now, if they want to
handle snakes, that–that's up to them. See? I just don't see it in
that manner.
Now, you say, "Well, them people's got faith." I don't say they haven't
got faith, burn themselves with a acetylene torch and things like that,
but (You see?) still that don't prove God.
I've seen Indians take a–a line of fire, three foot across and about
forty yards long, when it's fanned with leaves until it's white hot
(not special men, farmers), strip off their shoes, take little (the
priests bless them with goat blood)–and take little hooks of
fishhooks, and stick in their skin over their mouth, till they're one
big mess of–of water, filled up in little like Christmas tree balls
like that, ornaments, filled up, and big fish hooks that long sticking
in their flesh (You'd imagine what that is to take in and out), and
stand like that, and walk right out across that hot fire (and it
just–just white hot, beyond red, white hot)–walk right down through
that fire and turn right around and walk back, not even a scorch on
their feet. And they don't even believe in our God. They worship–demon
worship. See? So that don't mean anything. Just keep away… You just
be a real, sweet, humble Christian, live the life, and then God will
take care of the rest of it.
1176-Q-419
419. Brother Branham, what are the preachers going to preach on–going
to preach on that don't go in the Bride? Their message now, the Holy
Ghost, water baptism, and salvation, what will they preach on if they
don't go in the Bride?
Well, you know–you know what will probably happen? I say this, now. I
can't prove this, but I–they'll simply go right on preaching just like
they have now, and people going on thinking they're getting saved; and
the Bride will done be gone.
1176-Q-420 420. Is it right, according to the Word to practice birth control?
I told you I'd answer that privately. You that's got these questions, come to me privately.
Dear Brother Branham, we have a teacher that you know that the Scripture say…
Yeah, I got that. Just a minute now.
Brother Branham, at one time we had our name put on the book of a certain…
Yeah, I got that. It about how they had taken it off now, did they do wrong?
1177-Q-421 421. What… Would you endorse birth control?
No, I can't endorse it. No, sir. See?
1177-Q-422 422. It–is the seventh angel, as spoken of, of Revelations 10, the same person as Elijah of Malachi 4?
Did
I answer that? That don't sound like I answered that. Yes, it's the
same person. Revelations 10 is the seventh angel's Message,
which–seventh angel messenger of the seventh church age, which is
Malachi 4.
Is birth control…
I have a lot on that. I just throwed these back, and I–I didn't want to answer it; I'd rather see you privately.
1177-Q-423 423. Where do we find where Noah preached for a 120 years and built the ark in a 120 years?
Did I answer that? A generation, or a 'lotted time, a man's 'lotted
time on earth was 120 years, which took Noah, the period, to build the
ark, which was considered a generation in that day. One hundred and
twenty years was a man's 'lotted time. And he preached, according…
Genesis 6:3, he preached to that generation, which was 120 years; Noah
did. All right. Let's see now.
1177-Q-424
424. In Malachi 4, this Elijah is to take the hearts of the fathers to
the children, and then the hearts of the children to the fathers. Is
this the same person?
Yes, the same person. All right. Oh, wait a minute. No. Pardon me; I'm
sorry. Just… See the Holy Spirit catch that for me then? No. I
thought it said the… See?
What it was in Malachi 3, there, "I send My messenger before My face,"
which was Elijah. In Malachi 4 it turns back around and said, "Behold I
send Elijah." Malachi 3, He was to take a messenger sent before the
face of the Lord Jesus, which was John. How many understands that?
Malachi 4, when this Elijah comes, immediately after that–his Message
and things, and after the–is the coming of the Lord and the renewing
of the earth…
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And you notice, to make it sure now that it's not… But how the Holy
Spirit wrote it by this prophet, He said, "He will turn the hearts of
the fathers, first, to the children." See? That was John's first
coming. He turned the hearts of the fathers, the old patriarch fathers
to the Message of the children, which was the new generation then,
Jesus, in that generation. Then and, conjunction, it tying together the
hearts of the children back to the fathers, which mean the Message of
today will turn the hearts of the children in the church age back to
the original Pentecostal faith of the beginning.
So it will be two different–the one messenger, but it differentiates
there the–the first coming and the second of John–or the messenger,
Elijah.
My husband and my youngest son does not believe…
Yeah, I got that. I know I did, because I know the person's got their
name signed there. I remember talking to them afterwards about it.
1178-Q-425
425. How can we find the will of the Lord? Our–our home to… Should
we move our home to Jeffersonville, Indiana? Can a person be a
Christian and dislike a–colored people? Does God not want them to be
treated like us, 'cause they are dark in color? Would you–what do you
suggest in this? Do you believe in integration or segregation?
I believe in integration. I believe that a man… No matter what his
color is or who he is, he's a man just like I am. That's exactly. And I
believe, if they'd just leave those colored people alone, and them
communists didn't get out there and inspire them…
Now, they wanted… Now, the real genuine colored people, there's a
genuine bunch of borned again, godly saints in them people. Yes,
indeedy. Just because my skin is white and theirs dark, that don't mean
one thing to me. He's my brother if he's in Christ.
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That's why I different with the Afrikaans message; they didn't even
believe those people had a soul. That's what got me disliked there. I
said, "That man's a man as same as I am. He's got the rights to the
same privilege that I have. His skin don't mean no difference to me, or
no other man that's borned again of the Spirit of God."
But I said, "If they'd let those colored people alone, they never
would've been this inspired." And I've said from this pulpit… We have
lots of colored people that come here. (I don't think there's any here
tonight.) But we have lots of colored people that come here to this
church, brother, they're as welcome as anybody else is. They're my
brother and sister.
And some of the finest people I ever met in my life is some of them
colored people. Then there's some of them that's renegades, just
exactly like the white people, or the yellow people, or the brown
people. Yes, indeedy.
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Now, I don't believe in mixing marriages. I believe that a white man
should not marry a colored girl, or a colored girl marry a white man,
or a yellow marry a colored, or a white, or a… I believe the brown,
black, white, and races of people are like a flower garden of God, and
I do not believe they should be crossed up. I believe that's the way
God made them, and I believe that's the way they should remain.
What… It fools me that I seen some real pretty colored girl,
intelligent, nice looking kid, just as pretty as any woman you'd want
to see… What does she want to marry a white man and have mulatto
children? What would an intelligent colored girl want with such a thing
as that? Is because that something… that communist… And how would
a–a fine a-a-a colored man want to marry a white woman and have
mulatto children?
I don't believe I… I believe you should stay just what we are.
We–we're servants of Christ. And God made me… If He made me, my
color black, I'd be happy to be a black man for God. If He made me
yellow, I'd be a happy yellow man for Christ. If He made me white, I've
a–happy white man for Christ. If He made me brown, or red, an Indian,
whatever it is, I'd stay my same color. That would be me. I want to be
like my Maker made me.
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Down there that day in Shreveport when that uprise come, and them–and
there was all them young colored inspired out there, communistic…
I've told you here in this pulpit, Martin Luther King is the greatest
indebtment the colored people's ever had. Right. That man's going to
lead a–thousands of them to a slaughter (That's right.), inspired by
communism.
Let me prove my point. I said that about two years ago. Look what's
happening right now. They said they were fighting for integration, and
when the law give them integration… And to you people that don't
believe in integration, be ashamed of you. Our nation permits
integration, and we should do what the big boss says do. That's exactly
right.
And now, you say… Not to come in places, and so forth like that, or
shopping, or set in the back of the bus, and so forth, no, sir. The law
says they're just the same as we are, so we're the same as they are; so
let's act that way. Let's be that way. And that's exactly what all
really true borned again people believe. And now, I believe that's in
their heart.
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I never had such a feeling for people as I have them poor people in
Africa, the way they were treated. And I do not believe in that stuff.
I'm a southerner; I was borned across the river yonder, but I'm like
Abraham Lincoln; I come here, because I believe that men were born
equal. That's right. And I do not believe in separating people and
things like that, when them people… baptized with the Holy Ghost and
so forth.
But look, it isn't them real genuine borned again Christian colored
people that's causing all this trouble. You want to condemn them for
that, what about some of our renegade white kids? See? Now, what sauce
for the goose is for the gander. Why, our white kids cause twice as
much trouble as they have. That's exactly right. Where's it at? In our
colleges and things like that. Some of our higher educated people is
causing those things. See?
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Well, what is it? Now, to show you that it's communism and not them
colored people, that's how communism has always come in to take over.
They do that in every nation. That's how they do it, getting you
fighting amongst one another, revolution, then they take in without a
shot. They don't want to blow this country up; they want it. They can
wormweed it in. And now, they seen a case of doing that, and know what
the old revolution was, and thought they'd start another revolution.
To prove my point is clear, after they have integration (They have it
now, legally, lawfully.), they're causing more trouble now than they
did the first place. See? It shows that it is communism and not them
precious souls that's borned of the Spirit of God.
1181-Q-426 426. Would we still be on fire and preach the Gospel, or is the time over?
No, keep preaching just as hard as you can preach. Brother, stay with it; I'm right behind you.
1181-Q-427
427. Brother Branham, when you prophesy about: won't eat eggs, don't
live in the valley, was that prophecy just for you or for the
congregation? All right.
Years ago, about thirty years ago, I gave a prophecy that it would come
to pass that in the last days that there would be diseases amongst
animals, amongst cattle, and eggs, even to eggs. And it come to pass,
that there'd be eggs that wouldn't be fit to eat. Also, it would come
to pass that people living in valleys… Now remember, I prophesied
that way back thirty years ago, that it would come to pass, that people
living in valleys, that I'd ask the Christians to move from valleys,
and that they're not to eat… Different meats and things like that,
would be poison. It'd be dangerous (I believe the way I had it) for
people to live in valleys.
Now, that was before they had fall-out or knowed anything about
fall-out. But that was the Holy Spirit warning me. And right now, even
to our cattle (You see them off the markets,) being sprayed by DDT has
set up something in the cow.
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Notice again, all this hybreeding stuff and things that they're doing
is absolutely decaying the human race. "Thirty percent–twenty or
thirty percent," Reader's Digest said, "of the patients in the hospital
is put in there because of the doctors." They'll give you a medicine to
knock this out of you, and it sets up something else over here.
And did you notice eggs? Last year hundreds of cases in Louisville and
Jeffersonville fell sick and was hospitalized from vomiting from eating
eggs that the chicken in the valley here… The eggs out of the valley
picked up fall-out and poison in weeds, and so forth; everything is
contaminated.
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But here's where you get it, my brother. I believe with all my heart
that it's written in the Scripture that–that no food should be
received without it be received with thanksgiving, for it's sanctified
by the Word of God and prayer. See? If you eat it, say, "Lord Jesus,
You prepared the food for me. Now, with faith I sanctify this food to
the strength of our bodies." Then eat it, for in all we do is by faith.
Dear Brother Branham, grounds for divorce from a drunken husband?
I–I don't like to talk about that divorce. That–that… It–I–I–I'll talk about that a little later.
1182-Q-428 428. Brother Branham, Brother (Just a minute. This is pertaining to one of the ministers here. Let me read it first. [Brother Branham reads question to himself–Ed.]
Just a minute. Well, I tell you. I'm going to read it anyhow.)–Brother
Branham, Brother Neville told me through prophecy that THUS SAITH THE
LORD that I would receive the Holy Ghost. Telling me with this
assurance that I would receive the Holy Ghost, I have not as yet
received the Holy Ghost. Should I continue…
Yes, indeedy. Do that. Continue on believing. Notice, I call–was
standing at Brother Wood's yesterday when a phone call came in from a
man that's in a wheelchair, that come here burdened for a brother or
somebody that was–that was a alcoholic and been through the
's-Anonymous and taken shots, in the hospital, and so forth; and
Brother Neville, speaking in tongues or some way gave a–a prophecy
over this person, and gave a prophecy that something would happen to
that man for the good within the next few days, or something like that.
And the man called up and said that this man, sixty-eight days now, has
been from the hospital, hasn't drinking one drink, or taken one drug to
keep from drinking, or anything. And the thing that Brother Neville
said in prophecy came to pass. Praise the Lord. We believe our brother
be a man of God.
Dear Brother Branham, are those…
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Now wait, let me stop there just a minute. Now, that's what I'm trying
to tell the people. Brother Neville believes the same Message that I
believe. Brother Capps, Brother Beeler, Brother Ruddell, all these
brothers around here believe the same Message that I believe; they
preach it, same as I do.
And if you want to, really want to, you're going to move out, you're
going to retire or something or another, want to come for the Word,
come here. Come to the Tabernacle;, that's where you hear it.
These are godly men. They're men that has the same Holy Spirit that I
have and–and you have, teach from the same Bible and the same Message.
Dear Brother Branham, are those who will speak in tongues the remnant…
Yeah, I got that. Uh-huh, I got that. A woman speaking in tongues.
Brother Branham, your sermon on the baptism of the Holy Ghost, is baptism in Jesus Name…
Yeah, I got that. Let's see.
1183-Q-429
429. Brother Branham, the Bible tells us that a–a wife should obey her
husband. I am a Christian and my husband is a sinner. He persecutes me
in every way that he can, and for me not to go to church, and read my
Bible, and–and denies the Word. What should I do?
What should you do? Now, listen, you're supposed to obey your husband;
that's the Word. Now, if he tells you and refuses you to read the
Bible, go to church, or something like that, you don't have to obey
that, because, "He that will–won't forsake his father, mother,
husband, wife, or whatever it is and follow Me, is not worthy of Mine."
That right?
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No, don't… The man are suppose–you're not… A man's not supposed to
use that authority over a woman just because he's her ruler. God is her
ruler above you, brother. See? And if your wife is doing something
wrong, then don't–then you got a right to tell her, and she's supposed
to listen to you. But you haven't got no right to beat her, or drag her
around, or–or do those things. No, sir.
You see, God made man a helpmate, not a doormat. Remember, she's–she was your sweetheart; she should always be that.
1183-Q-430 430. When and where will the people of God gather for the last Word?
In Christ. Yep. For the last day, they'll gather in Christ, Don't
forget that now. We got a gathering place; we got it just exactly.
1184-Q-431
431. We are called… (Now, here's that question the other day.) We are
called unclean birds, because we go to Junior Jackson's church.
Sometimes because we're with the–the… He don't comply with the new
church rules here at the church. Are we out of the perfect will of God
to attend there at times?
No, sir. I believe Junior Jackson to be a man of God. I've already explained it. I believe…
Now, we don't agree upon the order of the church. Now, I believe that
Junior's–Junior… Why he… How many knows Junior Jackson? Why, we
know that man's a godly man. He believes this Message just the same as
I do, and he believes these things. Frankly, Junior and I are just
buddies, just like the rest of these men here, J. T., and–and Brother
Ruddell, and Brother Jackson, and Brother Beeler, and all of these
brothers here; all of us, we're together. Now, we don't–might not see
just eye-to-eye alike (See?), but we believe this same Message (See?),
and we stick together. There's Brother Hume over there too, a
missionary, and oh, so many different ones, I… Sometimes I don't even
get to call their names, but you–you know I mean you anyhow, brother.
Sure.
1184-193 You'd like to get away from doing nursing…
I asked that. Remember? It's a dear sweet sister that wanted to know about doing nursing.
When
I was small I was–told everybody that I wanted to be a preacher. (I
got that. I got that too.) Then what should he do about it today?
Well, this is a letter from a–a minister worker for Christ, that's
not… It's just a personal letter to me. It's from Brother Pat Tyler,
one of our brothers here at the church.
That's all of them. Thank the Lord. I'm grateful to you people. I just get the… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]
… are one,
Our comforts and our care.
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Wonder if Sister Wilson's still in the building? I seen her here. You
know what I was doing awhile ago, Sister Wilson? I was looking at the
pictures when we laid the cornerstone. I looked upon the picture and
seen Hope and I before we were married. I didn't even know that… I
remember seeing a picture when I come out of one of my fights, when I
won a championship. Looked at my picture the other night when I was
state game warden here in Indiana. And I think of the church. You know,
I guess there's not but about one person setting here tonight out of
that group that's left. How many's here from the time we laid the
cornerstone back there at the beginning, raise your hand.
My Brother, Sister Wilson, I want you–to ask you two something.
Remember how we all started? Remember the old floor when it was all
full of mud? Had old windows that shook. We had eighty cents to start
it on. A big pile of weeds, all this was woods like behind us here when
we built it, the Tabernacle.
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Look all of us that took our vows and marched around the altar. We've
seen them come and go, one from the other. Have you noticed those who
stayed with the Message, how they went? Now, think of the ones who got
away from the Message, how they went. Think of it.
Here we are tonight, after all that group of three times what we have
here now at our fullest meetings. Think of it, when school buses would
be parked all right over the country here from all around everywhere,
up and down through this lot. Even the overflow in tents setting out in
there to take care of it, and still you couldn't even set the people
nowhere, gathering together. I was just a boy preacher. See? And out of
those thousands that we had, there's three of us left in here tonight.
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I remember Sister Wilson there when I was called to her bedside dying
with TB, hemorrhaging, till the sheets and pillow slips was laying
bloody in the corner. I remember the Holy Spirit stopping the blood. A
few days afterwards I baptized her in the Ohio River in icy water in
the Name of Jesus Christ, and set her in the back of my open car, a
little old roadster, and road her from Utica… Wasn't that right?
From… [Sister Wilson speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.]
Yeah. Sister Hope, my wife, Sister there, was in the front seat of a
little roadster, and my mother and Sister Snelling in the back. I got
their picture, Sister Snelling, mom, and all, Mrs. Weber, Mrs.–my
mother-in-law, all of them standing there, and Meda, just a little
bitty girl standing out there, and now, gray-headed woman. [A sister speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.]
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I remember when they had a little tag day to get our first money. And I
remember Hope standing on the corner. She was just a girl, about
sixteen; she was selling like this, holding this tag out… Give them a
tag… He'd put in…
A drunk come down the street; he said, "Pardon me, Miss." Said, "What are you selling?"
Said, "Nothing. So I give you this tag." Said, "It's a donation for the
church. If you want to put anything in here for a donation, we're
trying to get enough money to build a tabernacle for–in the city."
Said, "If you want to put in anything, you can, but if…
Said, "I ain't got nothing."
Said, "Take the tag anyhow." He took and looked at it. On one side
said–said–said, "Where will you spend eternity?" And on the next side
had a question mark. "Where will you spend eternity? A question."
He staggered back, looked at it; he said, "Miss, you're asking a serious question."
She said, "But it must be settled." And that's right. She's gone beyond
the curtain tonight. I remember the last words she said. I remember
what I told her; I remember it. Yes, sir.
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Lot of water's went down the river. We used to stand down–and 'fore we
even had a church, we used to stand and hold hands and sing this song
here. I can just hear it. Myrtle was just a little bitty kid then. I
got little Leroy's picture standing out there, just a little bitty tot
like.
When we sing that there's many of them waiting yonder for His coming.
1186-203
Brother Freeman, you're close to there, aren't you? I was just
thinking; I knew you when we went to Brother Roy's. You remember the
Adcocks? I got Kenneth. What was his sister's name? [Brother Freeman speaks to Brother Branham–Ed.]
I got their picture; we was all standing out there with our arms around
each other, around front of the place, Dr. Roy E. Davis, pastor. I
looking at them awhile ago. Doc brought the old pictures over. Kinda of
made me feel real funny down here. Now that–many of them's gone on
(See?)–gone on. Won't be long till it'll be us gone on. See? But…
1187-204
Do you remember Brother Bosworth? Just before his crossing, he raised
up in the room, walked across the floor, and shook hands with his
father, and mother, and converts of his to Christ. Forty years, they'd
been dead forty or fifty years. He seen them standing there in the
room, trying to get everybody to see them. What was it? The old man was
passing into that country where I was in a vision that morning. That's
right.
I seen them over there; they were young again. We're still joined in heart; we hope to meet again. That's right. God bless you.
1187-206
I happened to look back in the building, talking about my colored
friends, and I do see Brother and Sister Nash setting back there. I
didn't know you were there. Just happened to look back; they're way
back. And this other brother setting here… Is that the Brother that
gives me that great big shout back there once in a while, setting over
here? I can't think of his name. Brother Wood said he was talking to
him. He said, "You know? When the Spirit hits me, I have to holler
'Hey.'" Said, "I hope I don't disturb nothing." When you don't holler,
"Hey." it disturbs me. God bless you. I love you brother, sister.
That's right.
And Brother Nash, Sister Nash, you know I love you. Yes, sir. You're my brother and sister in Christ Jesus.
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Dear sweet friends, many other, if I've missed some of them, them doors
are open here for you. Heaven's doors will be opened too.
My… "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," now, as we sing. Let's one more time sing now. It's time to go home now.
Let's try that "Holy, Holy" again, will you? Give us a chord, sister.
Oh… You know it? You remember when Sister Gertie and them used to
sing it?
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Day is dying in the west, Heavens bless earth–earth is blessed.
How–like setting of the evening sun, going down, the birds making
their last call. That's got to come to every one of us then. I think
that evening time… Did you ever notice, the wind will quit blowing;
the birds will hush. See? It's the world dying, the day is dying to be
borned again tomorrow morning. All right. Let's try it now if we can.
Lee, come up here and lead it. I–I–I believe that I–I don't think I
know it in that tune. Let me try it without the music. See? Let's see
if we can get it. Now, I know–I might have it wrong. See? You help me
now, every one of you, now.
You like that? Doesn't that do something to you? Let's try it again.
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I like that, don't you? Oh, I just love those good old songs. There's
something about them songs that I like. You can have all of your little
chopped up songs you want to. Give me that; I like that. "Pass the
Riven Veil," all these other pretty songs like that; I like them songs.
I think singing is part of worship (Yes, sir.), singing the praises to
the Lord.
All right, for our dismissing now–song, is "Take the Name Of Jesus
With You." May the Lord bless you now as we stand. All right.
Now, here's the verse I like, it is a warning to all of you now. What do?
Let us bow our heads now.
