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Day 91
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isaiah 64:4-8)
299 And I know, that day when I walked into that hospital, when I had my great challenge. I seen my wife die; me calling for her life. “And what have I done but stand on the street corner and preach, and pray for the sick?”
And then Satan said, “Well, He won’t answer your prayer.”
300 I seen her die, but I know that in her was that resurrection power. Them bones shall rise again.
301 I seen my little baby lay there. And I lay my hand on, say, “God, don’t take it.”
302 Look like He pulled the curtain down, said, “I won’t even hear you no more.”
303 Satan said, “There it is. Just one word…” He knowed better than tell me there was no God, ’cause I knowed that. But he said He don’t love me, He don’t care for me. See? Every reason thing, said, “You’re just a young man, yet twenty years old. There lays your wife laying down here in a morgue. And here is your baby going there. And—and just…You said He was a great Healer, and He’s all this. And, look, what does He do? One word, He wouldn’t even have to speak it, just look down there and say. Just nod His head, that’s all would take place, and it’d be healed. But, you see, He don’t love you. He don’t care for you. Letting your baby die right there now, and even refuse to hear your prayer in this dark hour.”
304 Everything he said was absolutely the truth. “So what have you done? Work all day long, till you couldn’t hardly stand up. And then sit up all night, till twelve and one o’clock. Standing on the street corners, preaching. Making calls to hospital. Just come in and sit down, a chair, sit there and sleep an hour or two, and go back to work again. Next night, the same thing. And here you are, about twenty-one, twenty-two years old. Every friend, every young lady, every young man that you ever associated with, called you a crazy crank. What have you done? You made a fool out of yourself. Don’t you see it?” I was just about ready to agree with him.
305 And Something down in me, that was that quickening power. I said “The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.”
When all my hopes give way,
Then He’s all my hope and stay.
For on Christ, the…
[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…sinking sand.
Oh, He shall come with triumph sound,
Then may I then be in—in Him be found,
Wrapped in the robes of His righteousness.
306 Not in my own; I don’t have any. Mine is filthy, dirty rags. I’d hate to try to go to Heaven on my preaching. Hate to try to go to Heaven on my visions. I’m going to Heaven because I hold His grace in my heart. His grace, that’s why I’m going. That’s how we go.
65-0410 – “The Easter Seal”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 92
And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts. But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. (Luke 7:24-28)
77 Now a lot of people has the wrong impression of Christ. Some people thinks that Christ was a sissy. Christ was the greatest of all men. He was the example man. Not only was He man, but He was God-Man. He was “God with us; Emmanuel.” He was the humblest of men. But, you can be too humble, you can get so humble until the devil would make a puppet out of you. He was humble enough to wash the disciples’ feet. He was forgiving enough to pray for those who drove spikes into His hands. But He was Man enough to plait ropes and to run the money changers out of the house.
78 Yes, John was man enough to be meek and humble. He was man enough to stand on the banks of Jordan. He didn’t need a great synagogue or a place to preach. He was humble. He took the bright blue skies. He was humble enough that he didn’t call upon the people to have to have so much money, to pastor their church.
79 He lived off of grasshoppers and wild honey, locusts. In that country, they can them. They’re great big, long grasshoppers; pickle them, smoke them, every other way, to eat them. That’s what he lived on. And his raiment was a piece of sheep skin wrapped around him.
80 Jesus said, “What did you go to see? What did you go to see? A person that would give in with the Pharisees; a reed shaken by every wind? Go in with the Sadducees when they come in? One day he’s this, and the other day he’s that”? Said, “You didn’t go to see nothing like that.” Said, “Did you go to see somebody dressed fine? No. An intellectual? No. What went you to see?”
81 He said, “Go show John what’s happening here. The lame walk. The blind see. The deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor has the Gospel preached to them. Blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” Oh, my! That was the sign of the Messiah. That was the sign to show him.
82 That’s the sign that the true holiness church today, as much as they’re falling, still it’s the mark of the calling of Jesus Christ. The men and women who stand for the unadulterated Gospel, of salvation to the soul, to the poor, to the needy. Not aristocratic bunch that’s dressed so in their churches that a poor man feels out of place, but a humble bunch of people. There’s where the Gospel is preached. The sick get well. They pray for the sick. God confirms their ministry with signs and wonders. There’s the Gospel being preached to the poor.
“Go show John these things.” Oh, my!
59-1001 – “What Went Ye Out To See?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 93
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 65:25)
241 That great City setting there (now, see?), it will not…You think, “Fifteen hundred miles high?” That’s what the Bible said. Now, it will not be fifteen hundred miles right straight up like that. See? We have another geographic measure that all sides are equal; that’s a pyramid. See?
242 And the City will start probably about a sixty degree. And if it starts, fifteen hundred miles of that, just think how high that will be, but how long it’ll take to be there. You’ll hardly know you’re walking up the hill. For fifteen hundred miles high at a sixty degree, you’re just about like this. See? And the City’s all on this hill. And it’s just as high as it is long; it’s just as long as it is wide. The height, by the depth, by the breadth, it—it’s equal; all the walls are equal. A pyramid has four walls, and these four walls will be…
243 Now, the walls around the City will be—be two hundred and sixteen feet tall, hundred and forty-four cubits, and each one of them is a stone. Just think of that City, friends. Oh, my! What—what do we set here in this hot place? What do we do these things? Why do we drive like that? Why do we—why do we toil? It’s worth every inch of the way.
Oh, the toils of the road will seem nothing,
When I get to the end of the way.
That’s right. And, oh, what a time that’ll be.
244 And there Jesus will set on the Throne. And out from under the Throne will flow the river of Life, trinkling down these four walls into little chasms, and into little branches, and come form up a river, and down through by the City. It’ll go right down through the streets like that, and on each side stands the trees of life that’ll bear—or change their fruit every—every thirty days. Oh, what a City.
245 And remember, God, the Creator, that created the heavens and earth, is in Glory right now preparing that City. Abraham looked for It. He left his home; he separated everything that was dear to him and looking for…Why? He was a prophet. And being a prophet, he was connected with the Spirit and part of the Spirit. And Something told him within him, “There is a City,” and he started looking for It. Said, “I’m a pilgrim, a stranger. I’m looking for a City whose Builder and Maker is God.” He knowed that City was somewhere. Oh, my! And I believe that right on the grounds where he looked for It, right there in Palestine, there’s where It’ll raise up, for It’s on Mount Zion. There’s where She’ll be.
246 Look where She’ll stretch out into the—into the sea, from sea to sea. Think of that fifteen hundred mile City setting out there on the mountains of the Lord. Oh, that’d be wonderful!
247 And the lion and the lamb shall lay down together. The lion will eat straw like the bullock. And the bear will be gentle, and the wolf will be tame. What a time it will be! Nothing shall hurt or destroy; everything will be in peace and love. There’ll be no more old age; there’ll be no more sickness, no more dying.
248 Folks, this is not some Santa Claus story, some mythical something, it’s written in the Word. And never has the Word failed. And to think of the very promise of…Not back in the Bible day, but in this day, the day that God—today. Not one iota has ever failed of His Word. Oh, I’m bound for that City. I love It, don’t you?
64-0823e – “Questions And Answers #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 94
Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; (Neh. 9:6-7)
45 Now, and many times, names are in the Bible. We don’t notice it no more, today. We…You’ve often heard me scorn this name, of children calling…or people calling their children “Ricky.” Now, Ricky is a horrible name! See? And it’s a…you mustn’t call them that. If you got a child named Ricky, for goodness sakes, change it to something else. Ricky, or—or Elvis, or something like that…Ricky means “a rat.” See? And so you—you go…And—and what you call a person, that impresses that. A little lady, the other day, had a little boy out there called “Ricky” and his name’s Ricky, James Ricky. And because it was so popular (Ricky), they called him “Ricky.” I said, “Change that name!”
46 I notice some people setting right here now that’s got a little grandson, and his name is…the one—one little boy’s a sweetest, pleasant little fellow; and the other one is Ricky, and that’s what he is. You just watch him, his nature’s just like that. And he…I said to some of his grandparents, or someone, I said, “Tell the mother change the name of that boy, just change that name over and watch what happens to the kid.” See, you people don’t want to believe that. We think we’ve lived too long for that.
47 If there isn’t something in a name, then why as long as Jacob was called Jacob, which means “supplanter, deceiver,” that’s what he was? But when he wrestled with the Lord all night, and the Lord changed his name, and about…when he was about sixty years old. He changed his name from—from—from Jacob to Israel, “a prince before God,” and that’s what he was.
Why was Abram called…had to be called “Abraham” before the baby could be born? Why was Sarai called “Sarah” before the baby could be born?
Why was Paul…or call…his name was Saul, but when he met Jesus, He changed him from Saul to “Paul.”
When Simon was changed from Simon to Peter, which means “little stone.” And—and all their names were changed, is because what you are called is something about it. When you speak something, it identifies itself. I don’t want to get in there, ’cause that’s coming up next Sunday night, see, identification of a word. And, but now, we find these things so true.
63-1222 – “God’s Gifts Always Find Their Places”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 95
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. (Jeremiah 1:4-6)
5 A prophet is a seer who sees the people’s hearts and foretells the things that’s coming to pass. And—and now, there’s a gift of prophecy. That’s in the church with the local members. It falls upon any of them. They give a prophecy. Then it cannot be received to the church until it’s been judged by two or three witnesses. And then, they have to put their seal on that, to say it’s of God. Then they have to watch to see if it happens. Then it may never fall on that brother or sister again. It may be on another one the next… That’s a gift of prophecy.
But a prophet, p-r-o-p-h-e-t, is borned a prophet, always from bef—was ordained that before the world ever even begin. See? Now, you take like Jesus Christ, the King of prophets. He was, from the garden of Eden, the Seed of the woman, prophet. And Moses was borned a proper child, a prophet. John the Baptist, why, Isaiah saw him seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, and said he’s the “voice of one crying in the wilderness,” seven hundred and twelve years before he was born. Jeremiah—God said before he was even formed in his mother’s womb that He knew him, and sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. See?
6 Prophets have the Word of God, and are borned a prophet. A gift of prophecy is different. That’s a gift. Now, there’s nine… there’s five ordained gifts in the church: apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. Now, that is the five gifts that God places in the church by His foreknowledge.
Then there’s nine gifts that’s locally in the church: speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, and gifts of wisdom, and knowledge, and—and prophecy, and so forth. Them’s nine spiritual gifts that operates through the church. But then there’s nine—five office gifts that God puts in the church. And, oh, how we love to see them all operating in the…
One of them is the pastor, teacher, and those things. Then the others comes along in confirmation. Gifts are to magnify. And God’s just got it so even a fool will not be excused, will he? He will… It’s so simple the way God has made them. And I like that.
The more simpler you become, the greater you’ll become before God. That’s right. Don’t never try to lift yourself up. When you do, you’re bringing yourself down. See? He that exalts himself shall be abased.
62-0725 – “A Greater Than Solomon Is Here”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 96
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? (Luke 9:23-25)
84 You’ve got to repent first, get right, get down there and really cry out. I can remember the times when the old-fashion people would walk down through the aisles, and up and down the roads, crying, and talking to their neighbors. That was Christians of that day; telling them about the things of the Lord.
85 And, today, we put our name on the church book, and go out and stay home, and never say a word about It. Unconcerned. “Just as long as we belong to the church, it’s all right.” I’m sure we’re wrong there, people. Check up. For, that won’t stand in the judgments. No, sir. It won’t.
86 Nothing less, “He that will follow Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and die daily.” Stay dead, there on the cross. That’s right. Agony! “The way, I’ll take the way,” you sing, “with the Lord’s despised few.”
87 I think today, what a time that we’re living in! That, evangelism, they put it out in great big bright lights, and they try…When you see the evangelist coming to town, you wonder. I, my meetings has been guilty of the same. That’s right. I wonder who is coming to town, sometime, the evangelist or Jesus Christ? Why, they got…
88 I went into a place here, not long ago, where a certain evangelist was supposed to come. And Jesus’ Name…Why, they had the picture of the evangelist, “the man of the hour,” the man’s with this, and the man with that.
89 I, sometimes I think of my ministry, and see people come. And I’d get in a hotel room, say, “God, who—who is the people coming to see, me or You?” See? “If they’re coming to see me, they’re lost, yet; but, O God, tear me down, take me away. I want to represent You, the One Who we’ll stand before someday, with trembling hands and trembling, feeble body, looking at You. Knowing that my soul hangs by Your decision.” Let us exalt Christ.
90 Today, you say, “Well, I belong to the Baptist. I’m a Methodist. I’m belong to the tabernacle. I do this.” Oh, that has nothing to do with it; not a thing. I wonder sometime.
91 Here not long ago, I seen a—an advertisement up, where a certain campaign was coming to the city. And the word of the man, the man’s name run great big letters all the way around, like that. And on the bottom, in a little corner, said, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever,” way down in the corner. See?
92 They took all the sacredness from Christ, and put it onto some man, or some church, or some organization. Brother, I’m telling, you can get by with glamour, Hollywood clowning, like that, in a…by the church. But, in the Presence of Jesus Christ, He is the One to be glorified. That’s right. Now, that’s the truth, my dear brother and sister.
93 Don’t feel angry at me. You just remember that I’m preaching to you. I want to preach as if this was the last sermon I’d ever preach in my life. I want to preach, every sermon I preach, as if I was a dying man preaching to dying men. And, I am; my light is burning down, every day; yours is, too. And we’re dying mortals. And we got to face the living God, some of these days, and we better be in deep sincerity about this.
54-0509 – “The Invasion Of The United States”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 97
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:12-13)
123 Any other thing, outside of Jesus Christ and His Word of Life, is a broken cistern. Anything that tries to substitute It; anything that you try to do to bring you peace, anything that you try to do to bring you comfort, any kind of a joy that you receive from anything else, as a substitute for This, it’s a broken cistern full of filth. He gives perfect satisfaction.
124 I remember here, couple summers ago, I stepped out the back door. There was a young snicklefritz out there that said to me, said, “You know, the reason you’re always talking about women like that, wearing those shorts and things,” he said, “because you’re an old man.” Said, “That’s the reason it is.”
I said, “Look here. How old are you?”
Said, “Twenty-seven.”
125 I said, “When I was many years younger than you, I preached the same thing.”
I found a Fountain of satisfaction. He is my portion. Amen! As long as He supplies that, that’s the beauty. That’s—that’s my… That’s my art, is looking at Him, watching His hand work and see what He is doing. There is no other fount I know!
Oh, precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
Where sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stain.
126 I’m telling you, no other fount I know but that Fountain. It cleansed me when I was dirty. It keeps me cleansed, because I want to live right at It, drink this fresh Water that’s fills my soul with joy.
I can be so ever so down, and feel that I can’t hardly go no… another round, can’t go nowhere else; then I can kneel down and put my finger on a promise, and say, “Lord God, Thou art my strength. Thou art my satisfaction. Thou art my all-in-all.” I can begin to feel Something bubbling up from inside of me there. I come out of it.
64-0726e – “Broken Cisterns”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 98
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. (Luke 10:21-22)
6 The Scriptures does not contradict Themselves. And there’s no Scripture in the Bible that contradicts Itself. I’ve asked for that for years and years. No Scripture, no statement that can contradict Itself, ’less it can be straightened with the rest of the Word of God to rightly put it together. Which Jesus thanked God for, that it was hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent and would be revealed to babes such as would learn. See? Now, we got to be humble in this. We’ve got to throw away our ideas about it; we’ve got to accept God’s plan of it. That’s the only way you’ll ever be able to get anywhere with God for salvation for soul or body. It’ll have to come through God’s provided plan.
Now, if you’ve got a artesian well on this side of the mountain, spurting water by the millions of gallons a hour, and a crop on the other side burning up for water, now, you could stand and scream until you’re took your tonsils out, and would… and screaming, “Oh, great water, come over here and water my crop.” It won’t do it. No, sir. It’ll stay right there. But if you’ll work according to the laws of gravitation, and get this water to come around the mountain and water your crop, it’ll do it, if you’ll work according to the laws.
7 Now, there’s enough electricity in this room to light the room, if it was correctly, and like would be out in a big field where it’s dark. And we know that Franklin and so forth has proved that science, that electric’s in the air. Now, take a copper wire, and hold it up, drop it down, and you… The static, the electricity pick up, till it will almost light the earth, if it was a mile high in the air, would set the earth a fire.
Now, you could stand out in that field and scream as loud as you wish to, “I’m lost. I’m lost. Great electric, come now and light the way up, that I can see how to get in out of this darkness.” It’ll never do it. But if you’ll work according to the laws of electricity, why, it’ll light the way up, so you could get out. But you have to work according to those laws.
Now, God has a law too. And there’s healing and salvation in God’s ‘termination for you, if you’ll work according to His plans and His laws on such. So that’s the way we must plan the meeting, that’s the way; seven times around the world, I have been of all different races, kinds of people by the tens of thousands. I have seen great things that our Lord has did. But I always notice that it takes people that will humble themselves and lay aside their own thoughts of it, and just take God’s thought of it, and work according to His plan, which is faith in what He said.
61-0409 – “Sirs, We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 99
And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. (Luke 11:14-18)
43 A few nights ago, I got a little letter of criticism, which was fine. A man told me, said, “Brother Branham, you are just a boy, yet.” Said, “I was preaching the Gospel before you was born.” And he said, “I…All my forty-six years, but yet…” He—he was a teacher of some Bible school. He said, “But a man, that of your kind, that teaches people, and yet would make a remark that you made the other night.” Said, “I think it’s ridiculous.” Said, “You said that the devil didn’t have no power to heal.” He said, “Perhaps, what if I’d tell you that the devil has got power to heal.” Said, “Now you would ask me, if you were standing present, why I know.” Said, “I’ll tell you.” Said, “In our town, there’s a woman lives there which has a—a bad spirit. And she…People comes to her for healing.” Says, “She’ll pull hair out of their head, and she’ll pump blood from their veins, and wrap it up in this hair. Walk down to the river, and cast this thing over her shoulder, and not look back. If she looks back,” said, “then the disease remains with the person. But she has to throw it in the river, like it was forgetfulness, and walk away.” And said, “Sixty percent of the people, we kept count, are healed.” Said, “Now, if the devil can’t heal, what about that?”
44 So, I answered him back. I said, “My kind, beloved brother, with all due regards to your years,” see, “all due regards to your years of teaching, but I’ll tell you now that Jesus Christ said that the devil has no power to heal. And if Jesus said it, that settles it, with me. He said, ‘If Satan cast out Satan, then his kingdom is divided and it has an end. And he cannot cast out Satan.’ Then you would ask me, ‘Why was these people healed?’ Why, it’s not the person. The witch had nothing to do with it, no more than I’d have to do with it, or any other man. It’s the people that’s approaching, thinking that they’re coming God’s provided way for their healing. It’s their individual faith in God, that does the healing. See? That’s the approach that they think. It isn’t the witch, for no more than it would be the man.” Yeah.
45 So, therefore, the Gospel can only maneuver, or it can only reach out as the Word of God is taught. And men base their hopes upon God’s Eternal Word. “Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word.”
46 Dr. Adair, here in the city, my beloved friend, said to me one day, he said, “Billy, don’t you think if people had faith to touch the tree out there, they’d get the same results?”
47 I said, “How could you have faith in that? If you could have the equal amount of faith, believe…believing that it was God’s provided way, for you to touch the tree, and it would do it, then they could do it. But who has got faith in the tree?”
48 I got faith in what God said, and I just take that. So faith isn’t built upon the shifting sands of—of emotional conceptions. But faith is built upon the standard, God’s Eternal Word, the Rock of ages. There is where faith takes its solemn resting place and never moves, when it’s built right there.
56-0304 – “Making A Way”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 100
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; (Luke 11:47-50)
148 And when we—when we—when we see this world in this condition, seem to be falling apart in every age, when the world gets in that condition, the people prays. Oh, even the President calls for (what was it?) ten minutes or an hour or something, of prayer. That won’t do any good. What we need is not a pray, but a repentance, turning back, getting away from, forsaking. Come back to God! I’d rather have my consolation built upon the Word of God and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Presence of Christ, than all the security that politics or churches could ever give you. Certainly, ’cause I know That will stand.
149 We didn’t even have a nation we’d been better off, if we’d just have the nation of God, God’s Kingdom. God always answers and sends them relief, but they don’t want to receive it. That, God answers when the nation gets in these kind of conditions, everytime. When the world, rather, gets in this condition, falling apart, then God always answers their prayer, sends them a prophet or something, some mighty prophet to blast it. But they won’t listen to him. What do they do? Put him in the tomb. Jesus said, “Which one of you, your fathers didn’t put the prophets out there in the tomb, and then white, make them white now, and build up their sepulchres? And you’re the one that put them in there.” That’s right. “Which one of you?” They cried for help. God sent it to them, and they rejected It. Then what, is God to blame or is the people to blame? The people’s to blame. Certainly.
150 When Jesus was born, that world, as I said, is falling apart. It was controlled by politics, and politics was corrupted in them days. The national church was corrupted. The Romans and Greeks were looking for a anointed messiah. The Greeks and Romans which probably had the best part of the world, and they were fighting one, among one another, so they—they was looking for some anointed messiah to come. And the Jews, they wanted a messiah to come. And the Romans were looking for some great politician who could stand up in Rome, take over Greece and tell them how to do it, and Rome would rule the world. Greece wanted a great politician to stand up, anointed politician, a messiah, would say, “We’ll—we’ll take them Romans and Jews, and the rest of them.” See, that’s what they were looking for.
If that ain’t the picture today, I don’t know what it is. Right!
62-1216 – “The Falling Apart Of The World”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 101
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. (Luke 12:15)
53 And so we got married. And I—I never will forget when she told me then I had to ask her parents for her, said that was just… Oh, my, here it all… I thought I got by good there, but here that was before me. And I said, “Look, Hope,” I—I said, “You know I believe we’re supposed to be fifty-fifty.” See? I said, “I’m supposed to be… We’re going fifty-fifty on these things,” I said, “let’s just start it right now, what do you say?”
She said, “What do you mean?”
I said, “You being the girl, I believe it’d be best for you to ask your mother, and me being the boy, I’d ask your dad.”
She said, “Very well.”
I said, “Yeah. Well, you let me ask your dad first, will you?” If I get his promise, you know, first…
She said, “Well, you ask him tonight.”
54 Well, I just couldn’t do it that night after going through all that. So then I waited, next time I went up we were, went back. I set back there on the porch with her awhile, and we come in, her daddy was setting typing. And we walked in the house, and she said, “You’d better ask dad tonight ’cause we got to make ready.”
And I said, “Yes, that’s—that’s right.”
So, I went in, and he was setting there typing, and I talked to her mother a little bit, you know, and looked around. I started out, and she looked at me; and I said… I motioned to her; I hadn’t forgot it. So I said, “Mr. Brumbach?”
Said, “Yes, Bill.”
I said, “Could—could I talk to you a little bit?”
He said, “Yes, go ahead.” And he turned around.
I said, “I—I mean out on the porch. I seen him look around to Mrs. Brumbach. I thought, “Oh, oh, here it is.” So I walked out to the porch, and he walked out there. I said… I just couldn’t say it; I just couldn’t get them wor—I’d just get real weak every time I go try to say something, you know. I said, “Sure is a pretty night, isn’t it Charlie?”
He said, “Yes, it is, Bill.” Set there a little while.
I said, “Been awful warm.”
He said, “Yes,” said, “you can have her, Bill.” Ha-ha-ha. Why, I love him today.
I said, “You mean it?”
He said, “Yeah, I do.”
Oh, my, I wanted to hug him right then. Said, “You can have her.”
55 I said, “Look, Charlie,” I said, “I know you give her a good home.” I said, “You can get her anything she wants; I can’t.” I said, “I’m only making a small wage.” But I said, “Charlie, she couldn’t find anybody that thinks any more of her.” And I said, “I’ll work as long as there’s breath in my body to work, and make her a living. And I’ll do everything that I can to make her a living.”
I never will forget; he’s gone on too now. But he laid his hand over on my shoulder, and he said, “Bill, I’d rather you’d have her, and I know you love her, and I know she loves you. I rather you’d have her, than somebody maybe had plenty and wouldn’t be good to her.” Said, “After all, life doesn’t consist of how much the world’s goods you own, but how contented you are with the portion that’s lotted to you.” That’s right, too.
And I—I said, “Thank you, Charlie. I’ll do all that I can.”
51-0722a – “Life Story”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 102
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. (Esther 2:15-17)
176 You go at the restaurant and find…get a bowl of soup and there’d be a spider in it, you’d sue the restaurant.
177 But you’ll let the devil poke old dirty televisions and card things down your neck, and swallow it; make you put on old unclean clothes, these women, these little old tight dresses like a skinned-down wienie, and walk out here on the street like that. And do you know, my sister, I ain’t saying that joking. You get me wrong.
178 Listen. I’m saying this. You act like that, and at the Day of Judgment you’ll be counted as an adulterer. Right. Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart.” And when that sinner has to answer for committing adultery, who is it? You. Who caused it? You. That’s right. If you put yourself out there, to look before men, to be like the world and dress like the world.
179 I said that one time, and a woman, Louisville, Kentucky, she said, “Well, listen here, Mr. Branham. I’ll give you to understand right now!”
I said, “Yes, ma’am?”
She said, “That’s the only kind of dresses they make.”
I said, “They make sewing machines and sell goods.”
180 It’s because you want to. There is something wrong in you. That’s exactly right. You do it not because it’s a fashion. You do it not because you have to. You do it because you want to.
181 You smoke because you want to. You don’t have to. I think the silliest thing I ever seen was a woman going in the street, like you see every one, automobile, with them cigarettes up between their fingers. Why, it’s a disgrace. That’s the biggest fifth-columnist move we got in the nation, when the doctors and medical science says it’s full of cancer and everything else. And they suck right down on them, all the time.
182 See a woman, supposed to be a Christian, stretched out there on a bank, with mixed bathing, with a bathing suit on, stretched out there. I got two girls. I don’t say they wouldn’t do it. They say they’re getting a suntan. They’ll get a son-tan if I’m living. It’ll be a son of this. See? It’ll be the son of Mr. Branham, with a board about that long. I believe it’s wrong.
183 Then we call ourself, “Oh, we’re a member of the Pentecostal church.” Oh, shame on you! Right. The Pentecostal church needs a cleansing, all the way from the front to the back, and through the cellar and basement, and upstairs. That’s right. And yet, in all of it, it’s the best we got. But it can…
184 Just like in the revolutionary and during time of Joan of Arc, France needed a revolutionary, then they need a counter-revolutionary to straighten up some of the things they was revolting about.
185 And the Pentecostal church needs a revolutionary. Right. Certainly does. A revolt against the things that’s wrong, and accept the things that’s right, amen, a fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost: “A Church to make Herself ready!”
186 Remember, it will never be…You can’t say, “Well, now, I belong to this, the Assemblies. I belong to the Foursquare, or the Church of God, or the Jesus Name,” or—or any of the rest of them. Naw! You can’t get in on any of them.
187 God calls you as an individual. And it’s you that’s got to clean up, because, “He’s taking a people from the Gentiles, for His Name’s sake, His Bride, the Gentile.”
188 Esther cleaned herself. She cleaned her heart. That’s what she cleaned. That’s what the church needs: a heart-cleaning.
“How do you clean your heart, Brother Branham?”
189 “‘Washed by the water of the Word,’ through the Blood of Jesus Christ.”
62-0121e – “The Marriage Of The Lamb”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 103
There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:1-5)
61 Sister, brother, do you know the Bible said just for the Holy Ghost to mark those who sigh and cry for the abominations did in the city? Now, I want to ask you a question. We make so much emotion over our religious ideas, but who is it in the city, tonight, in Jeffersonville, that’s so concerned about the lost world, in this last day, that even spend thirty minutes, a night, praying for the sins of the city? But according to the Scripture, the Angel of God was only to seal those who sighed and cried for the abomination.
62 We’re not interested no more. We just want to know that we can have a good time. We want to know that we can have a little society in our church. We want to know that we’ve got a—a vote coming, when it comes time to elect the next pastor. We want our church to look a little better than the next fellow’s church. That’s the idea of this world today. No one begging, “O Lord God, come to me quickly, or I’ll perish. Oh, pass me not, O Saviour. You was omnipotent. You Who are omnipresent, come and dwell in my heart, O Lord.” It’s even hard to get a man or woman to raise their hand, to accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour. The old-fashion mourners’ bench has been taken out. There is no more weeping. There is no more crying at the altar.
63 Just think, when Charles G. Finney, just a Gospel preacher, a little converted lawyer, little bitty dried-up-looking fellow, was testing the acoustics in a building. And he said, “Repent, or perish.” And a man setting in the cupola fainted and fell out. He stood on the balcony of a building in New England and preached hell to the lost. And when he screamed out, “You’ll perish if you don’t repent,” men fainted, and women, and fell in the streets.
64 But, today, you can preach repentance and hell fire and brimstone, and people will laugh at it. What’s the matter? Our hearts are cold. We’re indifferent. We got too much. We need less of the world and more of God. Our hearts are too cold. We become interested in some emotion. We become interested, “If—if we can dance; if we can shout.” I believe in it. “If we can speak with tongues.” I believe in it. I believe in every bit of that. But if we have that, and don’t have that agonizing, weeping, broke up spirit, God can never use it. Them things are good, but we got to have the other to go with it. We’ve left off the main thing, and gone for secondarily; and you can never major on a minor. We know that.
58-0406e – “The Evidence Of The Resurrection”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 104
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. (Luke 13:29-30)
325 Church, you who I’m speaking to, tonight, across the nation, if—if you’ve separated yourself from denomination and all the filth and things of this world, and all those things that keeps you in man-made creeds and orders and things like that, you separated yourself: Look up. Get ready. The Fire is going to fall, one of these days. God is going to let Him come, and a sight to behold. Would you be ready when He comes? Would you be ready to go up with Him when He comes? The secret Rapture of the supernatural Bride, “She’ll be made mor-…from mortal to immortality; be changed, in a moment, in a twinkling of eye. We which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are asleep.”
326 The other day, on Armistice Day, I was standing down there in Tucson. My little boy wanted to see the parade. I was studying, and I didn’t have time to do it. And I had a lot of sick calls and things. So he said, “Daddy, they won’t take me.” He said, “Take me.”
327 I said, “All right.” Brother Simpson, I think he’s here; and his little boy wanted to go. So I jerked them in the car and run down.
328 I stood there on the corner and watched. And after while, I heard, way back in the distance, a muffle coming, “womp, womp,” drums, beating. I stood there. I thought, “Well, these little fellows, they really read all these books about army. They’ll really like that.” I noticed, coming up first was the old World War I tank. There they come up, little bitty fellows like that. There was next come, after that; was the next come after that was the big new tank of the Second World War, the big Sherman tank with a muzzle break on it. Then come the next, and the next, and after while come the Gold Star Mothers.
329 And then, after while, come twelve veterans that’s left, in the whole state of Arizona, from the First World War; twelve veterans. After that, come a float, the unknown soldier, the little white cross. There stood a sailor, marine, and a soldier, standing guard; a little partition on the float. On the other side was an old gray-headed mother, setting with a gold star pinned on her, a little lovely wife crying, her husband was dead; a little ragged boy, his head turned sideways. His daddy was killed. And then behind that come more and more and more, and then to the new army. I stood there. What a sight to behold, but how sad!
330 I thought, “O God, one of these days I’m going to behold another sight.”
331 There’ll come forth a resurrection day, which, “The first will be last; they which are last will be first.” The old prophets will come breaking forth, first, and they see that procession going, marching up in the air. “And we which are alive and remain shall not hinder them which are asleep. For the trumpet of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise first.” We’ll fall right in line with them going in, hallelujah, all down through the age of Luther, Wesley, Methodist, Presbyterian, on down to the last age, who received the Word in their age.
God bless you. Get all things ready, and the Fire will fall.
65-1125 – “The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 105
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke 14:7-11)
142 We have become so—so profound in our intellects. We have educated our children till we got a bunch of rickys. And we got what we got, even our churches and things. And our boys going to seminaries, getting out here, and go down there and learn some Ph.D. and L.L.D. Let me tell you something. Every time he gets one, he goes farther and farther from God.
143 God is so simple. The reason that man can’t find God, he don’t get simple enough.
Someone said, “Brother Branham, how do you see visions?”
144 It’s not me. See? You—you got to get yourself out of the picture. God made a promise. God has got to stay with that promise. But you’ve got to be simple enough to get out of your own way.
145 Someone said, “This would be a great man if he had a L.L.D. out of our college.” If he does, he just goes another gap from God.
146 “Men today can send a message,” I said, “to the moon, but he walks over a blade of grass where he could not explain if he has to.” God is hid in simplicity. See? You can’t get simple enough. A man get an education, the first thing he knows, he’s so great, he can’t humble himself.
147 And God is so great, that He humbles Himself and hides Himself from the sinner. Jesus thanked God for it. He said, “I thank Thee, Father, Creator of heavens and earth, thou hast hid This from the wise and prudent, and will reveal It to babes such as will learn.” The way to know God is get simple. The way up is down.
148 Which way is the north or south pole? You stand in space. See?
149 The way up is down. “He that humbles himself shall be exalted. He that exalts himself shall be abased.” See? We must humble ourselves, not try to know too much.
150 Just know one thing. Focus everything else out of the way, and look unto Christ. If you don’t know how to write your name, that don’t have one thing to do with it. Just focus your heart to Christ and His will, and watch what happens. Yes. Certainly.
63-0428 – “Look”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 106
And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. (Luke 14:15-24)
36 Now, we see, when God gives a man an invitation, and to do something, or to receive the invitation that He’s given him, and he returns it down, then there’s nothing left, after mercy is spurned, but judgment. If you step over the boundaries of mercy, then there’s only one thing left, and that is judgment. And we find that man has done that in all ages. It’s happened, most every age, in the Bible.
37 When God sent Noah, His servant, and made a way of an escape for all the people who wanted to—to be saved. But the people only laughed and scorned at Noah. But God made the way, but they had an excuse. It wasn’t according to their—to their modern thinking. It didn’t…It wasn’t the way they wanted it, so they made excuses in the days of Noah.
38 They made excuses in the days of Moses. They made excuses in the days of Elijah. They made excuses in the days of Christ. And they make excuses today.
39 Now, Him speaking directly to Israel, the ones that was called to the feast, that I would also apply today to men, the church, who has been bidden to come to the feast, and won’t do it, the spiritual feast of the Lord. And they won’t do it. They don’t want to do it. They’ve got other things to do. They find excuses.
63-0630e – “Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 107
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. (Luke 15:4-7)
9 Now, I never took a offering in my life, never. And I—and I have had offered to me… If I had just took what’d been, I’d been many times past a millionaire. That’s right. And tonight I’d hate to write you a check on my bank for anything over about three hundred dollars, unless I was sure I could get it in there right away.
But here’s one thing; I—I want to be honest; I want to live in the condition that the people—just like the people that come to me, so I can feel their suffering, and fellowship with them, and I’m right on the level with them. That’s the way I feel. I don’t say that just from my mouth; I say that from my heart. And God knows it to be the truth.
And I’d rather be that way. My people’s poor, and we’re all poor, and—and our riches is in glory. Amen. That’s where we’re going to get it.
And I asked my wife here some weeks ago; I said, “Sweetheart, what is value? Where could you place value?”
“Well,” she said, “what do you mean, Billy?”
10 And I said, “Well, value!” I said, “Could you…” I remember years ago when I got my first little T-model Ford. I was a sinner. About 1926… And I would just shine that little thing all day Sunday to make it shine, stay home, didn’t go to church, and shined it. Now, what if today I tried to find one piece of that car? It’s gone. You couldn’t do it. It’s finished.
What if someone would come in tonight and say, “Mr. Branham, I appreciate you. I’m… Here, I’m going to give you a million dollars.”
I’d say, “You, know, thank you, sir. I’m going to take that, and I’m going out and going to feed all the poor people. That would be very fine, just go around from house to house, and send in groceries, and feed the—and bring the widows coal and wood, and clothe the little children, and go to the hospitals and take care of their bills that can’t be paid, and so forth, and do good things. But when I got to heaven, it’d all be gone.
11 But what if I get one soul saved? What if I had, laying here tonight, a hundred billion dollars laying here. And what could I do with a hundred billion dollars, the missionaries I could send to the world, and… with myself? And probably win millions of souls. I don’t know.
But if I had a hundred billion dollars laying on this side, and a little button on this side, and I could press that little button, and I’d lose the hundred million dollars, or don’t press the button, I could keep it. But if I pressed the button, my dear old dad that’s passed on beyond the veil, would walk down this aisle, and I could set here and talk to him ten minutes, I would give the hundred billion freely without a question to talk to my daddy one more time.
Where’s value at then? What is it? I think if I can get one soul saved, one little black boy, or whatever it might be, as long as there is an eternity, and that Light and that Star of God is shining in glory, my name will be associated with getting that soul saved.
56-0816 – “The Working Of The Holy Spirit”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 108
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. (Jeremiah 7:21-23)
26 God—God full of mercy and grace, when man had sinned, as I said took a substitute, an animal. Let’s imagine just a minute. Let’s imagine a real sincere Jew back in the Old Testament. He recognizes he’s out of fellowship as long as there’s no blood for him. Now, he takes a real good selected animal from his herd. It must be a real good animal. It cannot be an infected animal, because the priest must examine it first. And it must be… On the sin offering a lamb without a blemish must be kept up and tried, as a sin offering, as Jesus was tested in all things.
But this priest… Going walking down the road, a Jew bringing his sin offering up, bringing his offering for his sin, and he presents it to his priest with all sincerity. He recognizes he’s sinned. He knows he’s wrong. And he takes this animal, presents it to the priest. Then when he does that, he lays his hands up on the sacrifice. What’s he doing? He’s connecting himself with his sacrifice. You know what I mean? Then the blood is shed, and the man, Jew, can walk away feeling justified, because he’s met Jehovah’s requirements.
And the only way that the Christian today can ever correctly be forgiven of his sins is to walk to Calvary with his Sacrifice, connect hisself with Him, and then accept the shed Blood. There’s not a creed in the world can do that. There’s not a educational system in the world can do it. There’s not a scientific way can do it. It only comes through the accepting of the shed Blood, his Substitute.
27 Now, he goes away. This done, he’s done Jehovah’s bidding, so he goes away feeling justified, because he’s answered Jehovah’s request. He’s done what Jehovah said do. Then he feels that he’s… By faith, he took God at His Word. And now, listen close now. He took God at His Word. He was sincere in doing what he did. He did it sincerely by the Word. No matter who laughed at him, he did it anyhow, because it was God’s requirement. And now… That was wonderful. That he knowed he was justified. He could feel that way because he had met the requirements of Jehovah (That would be the Word.), met the requirements of what the Word of God required him to do for his justification.
28 Finally… Now, that was wonderful to begin with. But finally, it become a family tradition. I’m sure you know what I mean. He went… The Jew would go offer his sacrifice just because that… well, the family did it. And well, it was a tradition. And when he walked up and said, “Wait a minute. I believe I sinned. I see. That’s right. Well, I’ll get me a lamb, go up…”
See, there was no godly sorrow for his sin. It was only a ritual, just a ritualistic form of taking his animal for offering. He never got nothing out of it, because he never put nothing in it. Yet, he was obeying the commission of God by His Word. But he didn’t come in the real meaning of His Word. He was obeying it as far as… Being fundamentally, he obeyed it. But sincerely, he didn’t obey it. Therefore, it was just a ritual, following a tradition.
62-1124e – “All Things”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 109
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. (Luke 16:19-24)
232 Brother Cox, not long ago, was setting on my runway before we put the…after we had the rocks there, and he picked up a little, old fossil, and he said, “Brother Branham, how old is that?”
233 “Oh,” I said, “chronologically, you might say it’s ten thousand years old. Some kind of a little, old sea monster that lived at one time, a little sea animal, might have lived way back in the ages gone by.”
234 He said, “Just think how short human life is to that life.”
235 I said, “Oh, but, brother, that thing has an end, but the Life that we have in Christ has no end. That may live two or three forevers, but it’ll never have Eternal Life, ’cause Eternal Life comes from God alone.”
236 Eternal, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life and shall NEVER come to the judgment but passed from death unto Life.” There you are, you get Eternal Life by being a believer. An unbeliever has life forever. An Eternal…a believer has Eternal Life, and cannot perish because It’s Eternal.
237 But a believer, he will go…An unbeliever will go through the world, he’ll have miseries, woes; what he calls having a big time, “whoopee, having a big time.” Women, wine, and big time, he thinks he’s going on. He’ll die, he’ll go into a lake of fire and brimstone which burns, where burning is going on forever and forever, and maybe for a hundred million years his soul may be tormented in a lake of fire and brimstone.
238 I…You say, “Will it be just like regular brimstone?” I believe it’ll be a million times worse than that. I believe you couldn’t describe it by fire, by a literal fire. The only reason it’s put “by fire,” that fire is the most consuming thing that we had. It absolutely consumes and destroys everything, fire does. Well, then, it’ll be in there, but you’ll have a soul that’ll have to be punished through some kind…
239 Now, you have to watch the word fire, because the Holy Ghost is used “the Holy Ghost and fire”; ’cause Holy Ghost fire burns sin out, see, and makes clean.
240 But this fire, it comes from hell, it said a “lake of fire.” And ever what it is, it’s a punishment with torment. The rich man lifted up his eyes, being in hell, and said, “Send Lazarus with a little water on his fingers, to put on my lips, for this flames are tormenting me.” Don’t think there isn’t a burning hell, and a literal hell, there is. If there’s a literal devil, there’s a literal hell.
241 But, you see, everything that’s perverted has a end to it, because it finally must come back to that purity and holiness of God. And God is Eternal; and if we have Eternal Life, God is in us, and we can no more die than God can die. There you are.
57-0925 – “Questions And Answers On Hebrews #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 110
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. (Leviticus 14:1-7)
21 Now, first we want to get the background of it and find out… And I want you to—to pray with me now, and give me your undivided attention just for a few moments.
I believe in the resurrection. I believe in a bodily physical resurrection. I believe in the physical bodily return of Jesus Christ. I believe that His Church is His representative on the earth now. I believe that the Church is washed with the Blood of Jesus Christ. And the Church is a Holy Ghost filled Church, preaches holiness to the very extremes. Don’t you think so?
I think of in the Bible when there was a sin offering, they taken two turtledoves, or a cleansing for leprosy… Leprosy in the Bible was a type of sin. They used to take two doves, and one of them, they took and pulled its head off, and turned it up like this and bled the blood… let the blood come on the other live mate, take it to the window and turn the dove loose, the live one, and is—as it fluttered its little wings, why, the blood fell down to the ground off of its dead mate, and that blood hitting and splattering on the ground from the dead mate, cried to the Lord, “Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord.”
22 How perfect that is of the Church. How that Jesus Christ, when God came down and was manifested in flesh, took upon Himself the form of sinful flesh, was killed and crucified at Calvary, and the Blood of the dead mate is put upon the Church, the living Bride, and She goes across with her wings a flapping and the Blood of Jesus Christ crying, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,” a perfect cleansing for leprosy.
Leprosy, there was no cure for leprosy. They haven’t found it yet. Only God can cure leprosy. They haven’t found even nothing for it, to help it. But it’s a type of sin. It sets in so gradual; it’s painless. Just moves right in; you don’t know it until you’re dying. Big white warts come out all over you, limbs drop off and everything, eat you right into the… Just—just eats you up, leprosy. Jesus was the only One Who could heal this leprosy. He’s the only One today Who can heal this leprosy.
53-1122 – “The Resurrection Of Lazarus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 111
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:7-10)
28 I preached on Job one time for about six months when I pastored. There was a lady had the honesty enough… I got him up to that ash heap, setting out there, you know, all full of boils and a piece of crock combing off his boils. And a lady said, “Brother Branham, are you ever going to get Job off that ash heap?” About three Sundays, but I was building around to make it.
There he was. He was a prophet. He was God’s anointed. And the only thing the man knowed to do was stay with the Word. That’s all. They come and they said, “Job, you know you’ve done wrong. Look what’s happened to you. Everybody’s turned their back upon you. And here your friends are gone and all. The only thing you can do is set out here, and look at, you’re a miserable looking wretch with boils and everything broke out on you. And look at your condition.” But Job said he had not sinned, because he is coming God’s appointed way under the shed blood.
29 Then God’s obligated to a man who will stand like that. He let him go right down to the last person, even to his wife come out and said, “Job, why don’t you curse God and die?” Just think, his own wife turned against him. And because someone will turn against us and think that we’re funny and odd… All God’s people are funny and odd to the world. Sure, they are. “You are a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, offering sacrifices to God, the fruits of your lips giving praise to His Name.”
Now, we notice that even Job’s wife turned against him. Turned her back on him and said, “Why don’t you curse God and die?” In other words, “You look miserable. Why don’t you just curse God and die?”
He said, “Thou speakest like a foolish woman.”
Now, he never called her foolish; he said she talked like one. He never said she was foolish. After, let me… I correct this. Sometimes I’m calling down you sisters; I’m not saying you’re worldly; but sometimes you look like it. So I—I—I don’t say you do wrong. But sometimes you dress yourself like—like looks like it. You see? So Job told his wife… I won’t get on that.
Job told his wife, said, “Thou speakest like a foolish woman.”
30 And after while… Oh, God’s always faithful when we’re coming God’s provided way. Job said, “I’ve made my confession. I have burnt the offering.” That’s exactly what God required. He worshipped God under the shed blood. And all of a sudden then the Spirit come upon the prophet, and the thunders roared, and the lightnings flashed, and he said, “I know my Redeemer liveth. And in the last days… Though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself.” See, under the blood…
There set the rest of them as far away as anything. But Job stayed under the blood with the Word (That’s it.), under the blood with the Word. No matter how dark it gets, just keep going on. Hold to God’s unchanging Word. Go right down. If you hold the Word, you got His hand. Go on down.
62-0519 – “Fellowship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 112
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:1-8)
181 Now, God don’t expect us to come to Him with some intellectual speech. I remember I tried that when I tried to get saved. I was going to write Him a letter and put it in the woods, ’cause I knowed He’d come through the woods and tell me. Tell Him I’m ashamed of myself, and I—I didn’t want to do it. And I got down there to pray. I said, “Now, let’s see. I seen a picture one time, that they held their hands like this.” I said, “Mr. Jesus, I wish You would come here a minute. I want to talk to You just a minute. I’m listening.” Nobody. I said, “I did it wrong. All right. Mr. Jesus, maybe I’m supposed to do it like this.” I said, “Mr. Jesus, would You come help me? I’m a sinner. I want to talk to You a minute.” Nobody come. I folded my arms. I said, “Mr. Jesus, would You come here? I want…I hear people say, ‘God talked to me.’” I said, “Mr. Jesus, would You come here? I want to speak to You.”
182 Course, then the devil come on the scene. That’s the way he does. He might tell you, “Your knees are hurting. No need of asking, see. You wait, get it tomorrow night.” He’s always around when you’re not ready. And then he said to me…But always, what he says, take advantage of what he says. Take advantage of it.
183 He said to me, “You know what? You’re already nineteen years, or twenty years old.” Said, “You’re already twenty years old. You’ve waited too long.”
184 I said, “O God, I’ve waited too long. Lord, even You don’t hear me, I’m going to tell You, anyhow. I’ve always wanted to do this.” Oh, brother, that brought Him on the scene. See? What was it? Cried out, just simple. Cry out! “Lord Jesus, You promised it, Lord.” He come on the scene.
185 That’s the way to bring Him on the scene. You’re just a baby. Cry, cry out for it.
186 Don’t try to say, well, most something, another, and some great wrote-out prayer you practice on, for an hour or two. That don’t do any good.
187 Like they say, “Did you say a prayer?” No. It’s a sin to say one. You pray one. Don’t say one. Pray one. “Say a prayer for me.”
188 I said, “Don’t do that for me. You can pray for me, but don’t say no prayer.” No, sir. No. Just, pray for me when you pray. All right.
189 Cry for your needs. That’s God’s provided way. Didn’t Jesus explain it when He said the unjust judge, to the woman that cried day and night? How much more will the Heavenly Father give them the Spirit who cry out for It, day and night? Seek, keep seeking. Knock, keep knocking. Just keep on till He opens. Stay out with it. Cry until the promised Word is vindicated, then you got it. You don’t have to worry no more. You see the Bible promised it, then stay right there and cry until you get it.
63-0115 – “Accepting God’s Provided Way At The End Time”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 113
And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died; And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. (Leviticus 16:1-2)
109 Now, the Jews could not understand how that God could have mercy upon a sinful, foul people like we are. But they couldn’t see this One Who was giving mercy, because He was hid. He was behind the mercy seat, on the inside, with badger skins hanging down, covering Him. Before…
110 Before, if any man walked in behind that veil, it was sudden death. Amen. Oh, we’re going to get a lesson here in a minute, see, if you can—you can receive It. To walk behind them skins…Even one of the priest’s sons tried to do it one time, and died. “Don’t go behind that veil.” The man that walked behind…Why? There was no redemption yet, in that. It was potentially. It was just potential. And anything potential is not the real thing yet, see, just potentially. It was redemption…Sin was covered, not omitted…remitted, rather, not remitted. Remitted is “divorce and put away.” And so the blood of sheep and goats could not do that, so Jehovah was hid behind a veil. Now, back behind this veil where He was hid, to enter into that, a man dropped dead, to try to enter into It.
111 But since Pentecost, since the Crucifixion, when that veil was rent from the top to the bottom, for that generation…Jesus was that God, veiled. And when He died at Calvary, God sent fire and lightning, and ripped that veil from top to the bottom, that the whole mercy seat was in plain view. But they were too blind to see It. As Moses said here, though, or…Paul said, reading of Moses, “When Moses is read, yet, that veil is still on their heart.” Oh, brother, sister, that’s what the Jews did when the veil was rent and brought God into plain view, hanging on the cross. He was in plain view, but they couldn’t see It.
112 Could it be possible that the Gentiles has did the same thing? O God! When they’ve had the church ages, of the Son of God; but when now the veil of this denominations and things, this veil of tradition that we’ve got since Pentecost, when the church traditions has been rent, the things that the people said, “Days of miracles is past, and these things,” and God has took the veil off of It, and brought It in plain view, and they’re ready to crucify It again, just exactly like.
64-0614m – “The Unveiling Of God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 114
And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:1-10)
6 When the late Mr. Roosevelt come to the little city; my city is too small for him; but when he come to New Albany, just below me… I think we got about twenty-one thousand; they got about twenty-seven thousand. But he stopped there in one of his elections and electioneering, and, oh, my, everybody just filled the whole country around there to see Mr. Roosevelt. Well, I was like Zacchaeus, I was too little, so I… to look over the crowd, so I got way up on top of the hill.
And the train stopped near the river. And he stood on the back po-… or the back part of the train to make a little speech. And so I—I backed my truck up to a shed and climbed up on top of the shed to look. I thought, “Well, you know, nobody knows I’m here now; probably Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t either.” Doesn’t make much difference.
But I want to live so that when Jesus comes, that He will say to me like He did to Zacchaeus, “Now, come down off of that shed.” I’m sure we all feel that way, don’t we?
7 Not long ago, a brother that used to be with me and managed in the campaigns, Brother Baxter, he’s preached right here in Chicago to you many times, he was speaking, that, when the late King George and the queen came by Vancouver… That was before he was healed, and he had ulcers in his stomach, and he had multiple sclerosis, and he just could hardly set up, but yet with his royal blood, he set like nothing was wrong with him as he passed down through the streets. And Mr. Baxter said he stood there and wept, because there passed by his king and queen. And I thought, “Oh, if that would make a Canadian feel that way about an earthly king and queen, what will it be when Jesus comes?” My.
When I see Him, when we crown Him King of king and Lord of lord, and I hear all the “Hosannas,” when all the redeemed of all ages stand on this earth, singing praises and songs of redemption: and around the earth will be a circle of Angels with their heads bowed, don’t even know what we’re talking about. They’ve never been redeemed. They don’t need to be redeemed; they never fallen. But we, who have been the fallen race of Adam, we needed redemption. So that’s the way we can sing what it means to be redeemed. He has redeemed us back to God by His Blood.
56-1002e – “Elisha The Prophet”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 115
I have erred. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? (Job 6:24-25)
66 I was going over to get Brother Boze. I turned on the radio. I like to hear Brother Neums; he’s a good preacher. And I went over to hear him. And on the road over, oh, my, he was raking Divine healing, as fanaticism, and devils and everything else. And he said, “For instance, the Bosworth brothers.” He said, “When I was…they…I was with them when they was in their best, when they were young men, just both kids.” And said, “They both died, nothing but boys.” Said, “If there would be anything of Divine healing, what about that?”
I thought, “Oh, Brother Neums! My!”
67 He said, “Aimee McPherson died, nothing but a girl, see, just a young kid.” And Aimee was an old woman when she died.
68 So I thought, “Oh, my.” Well, I went on out, and I thought, “I know that he has made such a error.” So I went out to—to the—to the airplane place over there, and I—I went in. I called him up. I said, “Brother Neums?”
He said, “Yes.”
I said, “This is Brother Branham.”
He said, “What do you want?”
69 And I said, “Brother Neums, you made a little mistake this morning, that’ll hurt you, if you don’t watch, brother. I believe you’d do the same thing for me. But you spoke and said, ‘The Bosworth brothers died when they were both young kids.’”
He said, “They did.”
70 I said, “Brother Neums, B. B. is in Detroit now, holding a—a meeting. And F. F., Fred Bosworth, is my manager.” And I said, “He is nearly eighty years old. He is in Miami, at the time.” And I said, “Brother Neums, two years ago, we held a revival right here in Louisville, together, where thousands of people come and listened to Brother Bosworth.” And I said, “His picture goes out through thousands of people, around over the land here, and everything, his articles and things.” I said, “He is living today, and in the very best of health.” I said, “A strong man here, at nearly eighty years old, still preaching the Gospel; just returned from Africa, with me.” I said, “That’s the truth.”
71 I said, “Brother Neums,” I said, “I believe you’d do the same thing for me.” I said, “Well, you—you’ve got a great revival message here on the radio, and so forth. You got…You—you got all the…and lots of people listening at you. And, Brother Neums, if they find out…And they know that, thousands of people is listening at you, knows Bosworth, right now.” I said, “You make such a statement as that, it’ll hurt your ministry, and we’re brothers. You shouldn’t do that.”
Said, “I’ll straighten it up.”
72 Now, see, there’s no need of fighting. God takes care of all things, you see. Don’t do it. Just love. Return good for evil, all the time. Is that right? When anybody speaks good about you; well, be thankful. If anybody speaks bad about you; bless them anyhow. Sure. That’s right. Let…God takes care of the rest. He’s the One. Isn’t that right? He is the One. So, after all, we all got to answer to Him.
54-1219m – “Divine Healing”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 116
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. (Leviticus 19:15)
13 Now, just believe Him tonight, and He will do you the same way. For He’s no respect of persons; He’s respecting faith. God only will honor faith. Even your salvation sometimes won’t—won’t atone for your healing. Not the merits of your salvation, you’re not healed by that; you’re healed by the merit of your faith. See?
I’ve seen Christians come to the platform, renowned Christians, and failed to be healed, and see a prostitute walk on the platform, be healed instantly. See? Because the Christian had been drug through a many places, and skeptic, kind of believing, “Wonder if the days of miracles is past?” And they’ll go off missing it. And a poor old prostitute come to the platform knowing that she’s guilty, condemned before God, and there give her heart to Christ, and be healed instantly with no—just walk away. So it’s on the merit of your faith.
Look in the times of Jesus, how the Pharisees and Sadducees, they walked by and doubted. And the street women and so forth, of that day and so forth, and the beggars, and things would be healed, where many of the others didn’t get healed. See? It was on the merits of your faith.
55-1001 – “Expectation”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
16 And I set this day aside for miracles. And may God, Who listens to me now, if He will just grant this to me today, that ever what is brought here before He and I this day, if He will let it get well, surely, you’ll believe from then on. You—you’ll pass through the prayer line and believe that God truly has sent this gift of healing. Won’t you believe that? You won’t have to have one more miracle performed in the rest of the meetings; you’ll believe if you’re prayed for.
And remember, with the Bible here before me, is it true that this power is given only for healing. I pray for the people; they go away. And if they believe, they get well. If that feel, that faith, that prayer is said for that person, and if they believe it, the Angels of God will watch over that person. They have to get well, maybe not that hour, maybe not that week, maybe not that month. It may be six weeks before they’re well. But they’ll get well. They’ve got to get well.
17 And friends, the lowest count that I ever had of any of my meetings, counting by prayer cards, was seventy percent of what was prayed for. The highest percent was at Winnipeg, Canada. Ninety-eight percent of what was prayed for was healed. Ninety-eight percent… That hasn’t been but about five months ago, four months ago. And they are healed now.
They’re… Some sent their—their testimony in that they are well. And at the Vancouver meeting, my secretary called me while I was at Portland, or at the Ashland, and he said, “Brother Branham, I believe it’s going to be one hundred percent from the way the testimonies are coming in, and the prayer cards that we put out.” One hundred percent, I hope it does.
18 Well, if God can heal those people on their faith in Canada, God loves Americans the same as He loves Canadians. Is that right? He’s no respecter of persons. And He will heal you, if you’ll just believe it. But He cannot heal you without your faith. You’ve got to believe that He will heal.
Now, I think now, it’s three minutes after two, or three minutes after three by this time here. Now, we’re—we want to get out by five o’clock. And I want to speak just a little bit upon our lesson, and then we’ll start the prayer line, or the keep faith line.
47-1123 – “The Children Of Israel”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 117
And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David’s son? And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? (Luke 20:41-44)
140 To be borned of the Spirit, is to believe and behave yourself in the Spirit, is to understand and believe with your heart that Jesus is Christ and This is His Word, that no other words can be added to It or taken away from It without your name taken out of the Book of Life. That was a strong one. If you add one thing to It, in your tradition, or take one thing from It, well, Christ said, Himself, “Your name shall be rubbed off the Book of Life.” Now, find organization, denomination in the Bible. You’ll run from it! All right. Regardless of the flesh, denomination teaching is contrary to the Bible. Yeah. Borned again means “a new Birth from Above; birthed from Above.” Then we are active in the things from Above. Oh, my! For It is Himself acting in His Word through you, His branch, to the Vine.
141 That’s the reason Jesus said, “If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not.” Oh, certainly! He said, “No man has ascended up to Heaven but He that come down from Heaven.” Watch Him fix Nicodemus here, when Nicodemus…You know, they thought, Him being a Man, He couldn’t be God. And He said, and there He said, “No man has ascended up to Heaven but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of man which is now in Heaven.” That was too much for him. How could He, the Son of man, come down from Heaven, come down from Heaven, was the same that ascended up to Heaven, and the same One that’s standing here on top of this house, talking to Nicodemus, was now in Heaven? Well, he ought to have seen that it was God. He’s omnipresent, everywhere! See? But he, in his traditions, didn’t know that. He wasn’t spiritual-minded. The carnal mind, and couldn’t catch it.
He says, “Who does man say I the Son of man am?”
“Some says, well, ‘He’s the Son of David.’”
142 He said, “Then why did David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ say, ‘The Lord said unto my Lord, “Sit Thou on My right hand, till I make Thy foes a footstool”’?” How that He is both Root and Offspring of David; He was before David, He was David, and after David. See? “He is the Root and Offspring of David,” the Bible said so, both Root and Offspring of David. How could He be His Son then? How could He be His Lord? The Bible said, “From henceforth they asked Him nothing.” I guess it was a good thing, too. Yes, sir. All right.
62-1111e – “Why I’m Against Organized Religion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 118
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. (Luke 21:1-4)
4 Now, if I buy one myself, and somebody come by and say, “Brother Branham, I like that, wished I had one.”
I’d say, “Go ahead and take it.” But if somebody give it to me, there couldn’t be nothing take it. You’d have to take it when I had my back turned, the only way to get it. ’Cause I appreciate anything, no matter what it is.
And little things that you would think didn’t mean nothing, maybe some people think they’d throw them out, just little old trinkets and things, little mussel shells from Africa, or something like that. I save every one of them. I remember them too, because they come from somebody.
Gypsy Smith, I believe it was, once said that the greatest offering that he ever had, outside of salvation… Said, “One night he was going to have a love offering taken up from it, for him.” I think, by the way, that’s the reason he was put out of the Salvation Army, was taking an—an offering, or something… No, it was something somebody give him, a watch or something. I believe you’re not supposed to do that in the Salvation Army.
5 But said, “That all the people would—had give him a love offering. And from the depths of their heart they’d done it.” Many of those people’s in glory tonight and their reward is with them for helping that wonderful man of God. And he said one striking thing. When he started to leave the audience that night, standing back behind the curtain was a little girl, ragged, and she had a little present wrapped up in her hand. And she said, “Give Mr. Smith,” said, “this is all I have, but this is my love offering to you.” And when he got outside and unwrapped it, it was a lollipop, been licked on a little bit. But she happened to think that she… It was all she had to give.
6 He used to tell how he—how it got him. That’s right, it’s all she had. You know, the One Who watched the widow put in the two pennies tithings that time, He seen that lollipop, don’t you believe so? Sure He did; He sees everything. No matter how insignificant it is, Jesus said, “Isn’t two sparrow—isn’t two sparrows sold for one farthing.” And a farthing is a fourth of a penny. Two sparrows, one farthing, one fourth of a penny will buy two sparrows, how insignificant. And said, “There’s none of it… neither of them… No sparrow could even fall without your Father knowing about it.” He knows everything, doesn’t He? So isn’t it wonderful then just to lay our hearts right out before Him?
And I want to thank each and every one of you for your cooperation, you pastors. And if your pastor’s not here, and he spoke about the meeting and whatever, give him my love and regards, sincerity. And my prayer is for him that your church will be—become a great spiritual lighthouse and great revival will be in your church, each one of you. I don’t care what church you belong to; that doesn’t matter a thing to me, and I’m sure it doesn’t to God either. Just… You’re the one He’s after, is you.
55-1009 – “The Way To Have Fellowship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 119
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. (Luke 22:19-20)
60 I would like to say this on communion. Now, that is the great stumble, between, the reason today that the Catholic church and the Protestant church can’t emerge together, is on this very subject. The Catholic takes it as a mass. And he’s hoping, by some merit, legalistic that he has done, and by keeping this order, that he will be forgiven of his sins. The Protestant takes it, with thanksgiving, that his sins is forgiven, because he has obeyed a commandment.
61 Now, the bread, the Catholic says that it is the literal body. And this is the Scripture that they use, from Corinthians here, First Corinthians 11.
Said, “Jesus said, ‘Take and eat: this is My body.’”
The Protestant says, “It represents the body.”
62 The Catholic says, “It is the body. And, that, the—the priest has been given power of God to turn the wafer into the literal body of Christ.”
63 Now, if you notice, Jesus’ body had not yet been offered, when He said, “This is My body.” He broke the bread and said, “Take and eat: this is My body.” His body had not yet been broken. So, their—their own Scripture, the own thing they’re using, bring condemnation upon their own doctrine. See? Jesus took the bread and broke it, and give it to them, said, “This is My body. Take and eat.” And here He was standing here, in His body. It hadn’t never been broken yet. Huh! Anyhow, the Scriptures won’t lie. They’ll keep Themselves clear at all times. So, we believe that.
64 And we believe that when we come together, He said, “Tarry one for another.” In other word, “Wait on one another.” The word tarry means “to wait.” “Wait on one another.”
65 Now, as has been a custom to us, we take that Scripture in this way. That, when we do this, that we just bow our heads, and the congregation prays for we pastors. We pastors pray for our congregation. That’s how we wait on each other, by serving each other, by praying.
66 You pray, “God, forgive my pastor. If there’s anything in his life that they—they have done, You forgive them for it. Forgive them. They didn’t mean to do it.”
67 And we come right back, the pastors, praying for our congregation, “God, this is the little flock that You give us to watch over. If there’s anything wrong in their life, take it away, Father. They…So we can all stand together around, fellowship around, knowing that we’re coming here, keeping the order of God, and taking the communion.” I think it’s a sweet time of fellowship.
62-1104e – “Ordination”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 120
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. (Job 10:18-19)
92 There was a man one time, named Job, one of the oldest prophets in the Bible. He was a great man. He had—he had loved the Lord, and he done all he knowed how to do. And Satan desired to sift him, so he said to God one day…Yeah, God said to him, rather, “Where have you been, Satan?”
93 He said, “Oh, walking to-and-fro and up-and-down on the earth.”
94 He said, “Have you considered My servant Job? There is none like him in the earth. He is a perfect man.”
95 “Oh,” he said, “sure, You give him everything, do everything for him. Certainly, he’s a great man. But let me have him one time, I’ll change the tune. I’ll make him curse You, to Your face.”
96 He said, “You can’t do it.” That’s His confidence in a believer. Why? He is Infinite. He is Eternal. He knows the end from the beginning. He knowed Satan couldn’t do it. For, He is the Word, He knowed what Job would do.
97 Now, remember, Job, he broke him out in boils, killed his children, took everything he’s had. His health was gone. Even his comforters came, and they couldn’t do nothing but just accuse him of being a secret sinner. And old Job got in such a place until he got so distressed.
98 You have to get in distress, first. You have to get to a time where you’re at the end of the road.
99 Job got into the end of the road, when he said, “Cursed be the day that I was born. May the sun not even shine, and may the moon not shine by the night, may the name never be called.” And in that distress, then Jesus came along. He looked down, and he said, “I see, as a man, a flower die, and it rises again in the spring. If a tree blows down, it comes up again through the scent of water.” He seen all botany life living again, but said, “A man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost, where is he?” He knowed he was an old man. He said, “His sons come to mourn over him, and he perceive it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave and keep me in the secret place, till Thy wrath be passed. Appoint me a time and set me a time. We went…” And going on like that, talking. He was at the end, of his distress, “What would happen? The leaves live, they come back in the trees, the flowers come back again, everything else come up, but a man layeth down and giveth up the ghost!” He was in distress. He didn’t know what could happen to him, and him at that age.
100 When he did, then Jesus came along. God pointed his head towards the sky, and he saw Jesus coming in the last days.
101 That darkest of hour when his wife said, “Curse God and die the death,” yet he said, “Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.” Even his wife turned him down. His church turned him down. Everybody turned him down.
102 In that dark hour, where he didn’t know where he was going from there, Jesus came along. Then he screamed out, “I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He’ll stand upon the earth. And though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself.” In his darkest hour, then Jesus come along. Yes, sir.
64-0213 – “Then Jesus Came And Called”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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