The Family Altar Audio Devotionals
Take time to get in the Word of God today…
Day 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1-2)
26 Someone was discussing it with me sometime ago, on one of my meetings. I was speaking on the evolution of man, and said he was only six thousand years old. And this man said, “Well, Brother Branham, we can prove that the world is millions of years old. So the thing that you’re talking about, you’re all wrong.”
I said, “Don’t you believe the Bible?”
He said, “I believe that man wrote the Bible.”
27 And I said, “Truly the hand of man formed the letters, but the Holy Spirit was behind the hand. See, formed the letter, ’cause the Bible said so.”
28 And he said, “Well, there—there, you’ve got to admit that they’re wrong on the world.”
I said, “The Bible’s never wrong, never wrong.”
29 He said, “Well, if the world,” said, “was, you can see the mountains how they was pushed up from volcanic.”
I said, “But you just…”
He said, “And God made that world in six days.”
30 I said, “Now, the Bible didn’t say that. You just thought it said it.” I said, “Let’s just go back now to settle your argument. The 1st chapter of Genesis, said, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.’ Period! How long He was doing it, I don’t know. He didn’t tell us. But, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.’ Period! Then, ‘And the world was …-out form.’” That’s when God started to use it. See? So they just beat their brains out for nothing. See? See?
31 God made the world. He might have been a hundred trillion years making it; I don’t know how long He was, but He made it. And He didn’t say how long He was, and it’s none of our business how long it was. He just said, “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.” Period! That settles it. That’s all of it.
62-0909m – “Countdown”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 2
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18)
Red we always think, looks of… The red is danger. Red does signify danger, or a life, or so forth. But red in the Scripture signifies redemption through the Blood. Harlot Rahab, when she put the scarlet streak down; and all through the Bible is a scarlet streak. Redemption comes through red, through the shedding of the Blood. And without the shedding of blood, there’s no remission of sin.
And how that God said go get this heifer that’s red all over, not one spot of anything else, but perfectly red. For God looked through red. And you know what color red is, looking through red? Red through red makes white. Try it one time. Red through red produces white. So when God looks through the Blood of Jesus Christ to we who are scarlet red with sin and covered by the Blood, He sees us white as snow. “Though your sins be red like crimson, they shall be white like snow.”
14 God looking through the Blood, He doesn’t see you no more as a sinner, He sees you redeemed. Amen. You’re redeemed because He’s always sees you through Christ. That’s the reason we can be perfect. Not perfect in the sense of sinless, we’re perfect in the eyes of God when we’re in Christ. That’s the reason He said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.”
Paul in the 10th chapter of Hebrews trying to explain the law having a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things could never make the comer unto perfect, because God was looking through animal blood. But now He looks through the Blood of His Son. Perfection come by Jesus Christ.
Now, I’m not perfect in your sight. You may not be perfect in my sight. But what about in God’s sight? There’s where it lays. And if you’re borned again into the body of Christ, then God looks upon you as a perfect as Christ was Himself. Amen.
Nothing you can do; it’s not by any works you can do at all. It’s by grace God has give you this offer, and if you’ve accepted it, in the sight of God you are perfect, redeemed, washed in the Blood of the Lamb, Without fault, without blemish, without spot. Isn’t that marvelous?
55-0121 – “The Water Of Separation”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 3
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:13-17)
135 Now, a lot—lot of Trinitarian people try to say… I was debating it not long ago. I find out it don’t do no good, because no man can come to God unless God foreknew him and called him before the foundation of the world. “All the Father has given Me will come to Me,” said Jesus. See?
136 And this man tried to say… He was a—a Trinitarian, extremely, and he stood up before the class and he said, “My precious friends,” said, “Brother Branham is a one of the finest fellows.” See, you see right then, I knowed there was something.
137 Jesus said, “You hypocrites, how can you say good things? for out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth.” See?
138 And so, just trying to find favor with the people, he said… This was a Church of Christ man, and a so-called Church of Christ. Of course they’re against all the true teachings of the Bible, almost, and you couldn’t call them… I don’t mean to say anything against them people in there, but them ministers are, if—if you’ll excuse the expression, “Is like the Irishman’s owl: all fuss and feathers, and no owl.” So that’s just about the way it is, you see, just a… they—they haven’t got nothing to stand on, so, the modern Pharisee.
139 Now, he said, “But Brother Branham has been like a, in this discussion,” said, “wiggle out of everything, like the worm in the lemon.” But said, “I would like for him to wiggle out of this one.” And of course all debaters holds the keynote to the last part of it. So then he said, “At the baptism in Matthew 3, the display of three persons, absolutely three distinct persons: the Son standing on the bank; the Holy Ghost, like a dove, in between them; God the Father, speaking out of Heaven.”
I said, “Sir, is that your keynote?”
He said, “I want to hear you wiggle out of that one.”
140 I said, “Sir, you just wiggle back and read the Scripture, way It reads.” I said, “That’s the only thing; you’re just misreading the Scripture to the people.” I said, “That is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that starved to death.” I said, “Why, you’re just… you’re—you’re—you’re making it wrong, brother. You’re misreading it to the people.” And I said, “Now, look here what the brother says.”
141 Now, I’ll take it like this, like these I got: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Now, this here would be the Holy Ghost, that is wrote, “Son,” this is wrote, “Father.” Now, watch how they read that: “When Jesus was baptized… went straightway out of the water: lo, the heavens was opened unto Him, he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending, and a Voice from Heaven, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son, in Whom I’m pleased to dwell.’” I said, “See, three beautiful illustrations: the Son on the ground, the Holy Ghost like a dove in between, and the Father out of Heaven speaking.” See how the devil can stand there and deceive a person, if you don’t have the revelation of God, if God isn’t merciful to us? We ought to be thankful.
142 He made that say something it didn’t say, just like Matthew 28:19, make them say something it don’t say. He never said, “Baptize them…” He never said, “Baptize in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, the name of Holy Ghost.” Said, “Baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” which is Jesus Christ. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]
143 Now, let us take this illustration. Now, let’s see. You’re getting the Scriptures wrote down, Matthew 3 there, last three or four verses. Now… [One of the ladies speaks—Ed.] All right, that’s all right, she’ll get it and you can study it when you get… I’m giving you Scriptures so you can study it alone. Now, look, notice.
144 Now, they say that was the Son standing on the bank; this is God the Holy Ghost, like a dove, in between them; and God the Father was speaking out of the Heaven. Now, look like that would make that exactly three different voices from three different places. Now, notice. Now, when Jesus was baptized…
145 Now, we realize that heavens was… means “above, atmospheres,” whatever it is, in the heavens. Now, “When Jesus was baptized, He went straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens was open unto Him, and he saw the Spirit of God…” I thought they said God was up in Heaven speaking. “The Spirit of God like a dove…” The Dove was God. See? We just got through it here. Holy Ghost and God is the same Person. See? It’s just a title to it. See? And he saw the Spirit of God. Not another God up in Heaven speaking, but the Spirit of God was in a form of a dove. That was—that was the Holy Ghost and it was God, the same thing, see?
146 The Spirit of God, like a dove, descended, and a Voice from Heaven, which was above Him, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell.” Really, the right translation (They got the verb before the adverb, like all the foreign do.) is, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.” Or, “Whom I am pleased to dwell.” “In Whom I am pleased to dwell.” That was God coming into Jesus, and in Him was the Fulness of the Godhead bodily. And there is your Father, Son and Holy Ghost: in the Name of Jesus Christ.
147 Sure. Do you get it? There is no—there is no place in the Bible, speaks of three, it being three gods. There’s no such a thing. It’s absolutely pagan. It come from pagan. [A sister says, “Well that’s—that’s the way with that trinity.”—Ed.] Yes. Well, surely, it… there… they… it’s just as—it’s just as bottomless as hell is. See? There’s no such a thing. [A sister says, “Billy Graham needs that.”]
61-0120 – “The Water Baptism”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 4
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (Genesis 4:1-2)
140 God never did organize a denomination. He’s always been against it. His Word is against it.
141 But they hold right onto it, so you see what they’re bringing forth. That shows who their papa and mama is. Exactly. Exactly. Just as illegitimate as Cain was. That’s kind of a child he brought forth from Eve. They got away from the Word, then see what she brought. That’s just exactly what the church has brought, the same thing.
142 Can prove it to you, by the Word, that that’s where education and civilization come, through Cain. That’s exactly right. For they claim…But they—they claim to be sons of God, but they’re denominational-bred, denominational school-scholared, everything else. That’s exactly right. Subtle, smart! My! So was the serpent, their father. Right. Just as subtle and scientific preachers as Cain was. See? It’s exactly the same thing.
You say, “Brother Branham, is that true?”
143 Turn to Genesis 4:16 and find out. Get back here in Genesis 4:16, just a minute, you’ll find out how it happened.
And Cain went…from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after…his son, Enoch.
144 On down to Tubal, on down, for they begin, come designers of instruments, music, and so forth. Civilization came by Cain, right, building cities, instruments. Scientific men come by Cain, the serpent’s seed. Now notice the 25th verse:
And Adam knew his wife again;
145 Now, he knew her once and she had two children. Search the Scripture. She had Cain and Abel. One act, and two children. You say…
146 They told me, not long ago, it couldn’t be, happen. We got a case in Hollywood. Hollywood? We got a case in Tucson right now, up in court. A woman gave birth to a colored child and a white child, at the same time. They say she can’t do it. She can have two fertile seeds, too. They got it right in court now. I know dogs will do it. Animals will do it. And she’s got there, the white man said, “I’ll support my own child, but not him.”
147 And the woman made the confession. She lived with her husband that morning, and the colored man that afternoon. “If it’s in,” the doctor says, “in the space of twenty-four hours, it’ll happen if there’s another fertile seed there.” And there she did it.
148 And that’s exactly what happened here. Cain that…Satan, that morning, in the serpent; and Adam, that afternoon. When she… And she had two children.
65-1125 – “The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 5
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. (Genesis 5:21-24)
119 I was talking to a dear brother who is sitting present with me now. Yesterday, he said, “One thing you said, Brother Branham, that always shook me.”
I said, “What is it, brother?”
120 And he said, “Here is what you said,” and it’s true, “‘The minority, how a little group is going to be saved in the days of Coming.’ And we talked of how Jesus said, ‘Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, and but few there will be that’ll find it.’ Now notice, the Bible said, ‘As it was in the days of Noah wherein eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the Coming.’”
I said, “Brother, you just got…”
He said, “Remember, there is only eight souls there.”
I said, “You just got half the picture.”
121 Yet, Noah was a type of the remnant that’s carried over, not the translated bunch. Enoch, one man, went in the Rapture before the flood came, showing that the Church does not go into the tribulation or anything around it. Enoch was translated, one man. Oh, the church may be a number; but the Bride is going to be a very small group that’ll make up the Bride. Now, the church may be a great number; but, the Bride, you see, compare eight with one. Eight times less, will be the Bride, than the church.
122 “And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where will the sinner and the ungodly appear,” those who know better, to do it, and go ahead and do it anyhow? Those who follow the rules of denomination instead of the Word, where will they appear at, yet called Christians, taking the Name of Christ?
123 Now, perfectly, Noah was a type of those carried over. Remember, when Noah come out, Ham was with him. Sin was still in there. Sin went right on over, through the ark. Unbelief, doubt, went over in the ark, carried above the judgment. But Enoch went higher than the ark, he went on into the Presence of God. But Noah went through and come out, and there was still sin; type of the Millennium, of the world’s condition.
64-0802 – “The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 6
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. (Genesis 6:1-2)
82 “The sons of God fell because of beautiful forms and faces, of the daughters of men.” And that’s just exactly what we got today, same thing again.
83 Now, compare that day. Multiplication of people; the women getting fairer; the sons of God falling; marriage and giving in marriage; divorce cases; living in adultery; and so forth.
84 “Why” you say, “Brother Branham, just a minute. I don’t know.”
Listen, brother, just before you say something, listen to this. Jesus Christ said, that, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” And when you see…When a man walks out of his office, walks out of the church, walks out of his house, strikes the street, what do you see but a display, on every side, of flesh and blood of females, form-fitting, pretty-faced, tempted. That’s what God said would take place. When that taken place, then the time was at the door.
“As it was in the days of Noah, when the sons of God saw the daughters of man, and begin to take unto them women.” See? There you are.
85 Now watch. We find that, the same thing today. We see in the history, that such sex appeal they had in them, until the sons of God made unto themselves shrines of women. That’s of Venus, and so forth. See? They, they made shrines, and bowed to these. Well, you say, “Brother Branham, we don’t have such things as that today. You couldn’t compare that with this day.” I beg your pardon. I believe it’s worse today than it was then.
86 What do we see? TV. You can’t even pick up a newspaper but everything that you see is spread with females. Pretty women on every whiskey package, in magazines, sexy, immoral dressed. On the TV, in everything, is some sexy-dressed woman, some pretty woman. And we find out on—on cigarette advertisements, everything that you can look at, you find that it’s some attractive woman. You can’t even see the advertisement of a pair of silk stockings less you see some kind of a thin, shaped legs going through it. And that’s right. But what is it? Why is it?
87 I remember a man I worked for, Chris Meisner, up here on the corner. Many of you remember Chris Meisner. His wife, Lillian, her name was Lily, I think, an Ellinger. And when she…A man come over. She was a beautiful girl. And a man wanted to get permission from her father, to put her face, her picture, her profile, on a box of candy. And this old German Luthern stood to his feet, and he said, “That’s an insult to me, to put my daughter’s picture on a box of candy, to be spread across the country.” What about today? When, the billboards, the television, everything you see, is immoral, vulgar, sexy, ungodly-looking things. That’s right. What is it? The train, the old—the old train is in her blocks now. The Bible said so, she would be coming pretty soon. We hear the sound.
63-0623e – “The Flashing Red Light Of The Sign Of His Coming”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 7
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14-15)
76 If there’s one thing in my life that’s helped me to understand that the Holy Spirit came into me down there that day, has been that. I was hotheaded, fiery, Irish on both sides. And I always could never eat hardly at all, my mouth was always mashed where somebody mashed it, jumping up where I shouldn’t jump up. I’ve got some of my teeth broke out now and filled where I—I spoke where I oughtn’t to have spoke (you see?) and said things…Always in trouble. And I said…Somebody said to me, my teacher at school, she said…I said, “Lady, I—I—I can’t help it.” See, I’d get in trouble all the time. And I said, “I can’t help it.” Poor old Mother Temple, she just went to Glory the other day.
And she said, “Well, look Honey.” She got me upon her lap, and she pulled me up in her arms and started crying. First time I had ever had love like that from somebody, an old woman. She just cried over the top of me. She said, “Billy, I am going to do something for you, Honey; I’m going to give you a little piece of string.” And said, “If any of the boys jumps on you…”
77 Called me “corn-cracker,” ’cause I was from Kentucky, you know, and—and…I was—I really was terribly dressed. And they’d make fun of my hair, hanging pretty near as long as it is now, and all down over my face. And I was just having an awful time, you know. And—and they would beat me around and slap me. Anytime anybody gets their temper up, they’d walk around, and just get ahold of me, and slap me down. And here I’d come. See? And a—so then—and a fight. And we got—we got even, I even had knife fights and everything else.
78 And took a Winchester rifle and tried to shoot it, pump it right into four or five boys, from beat me till I couldn’t hardly stand up. Would’ve killed every one of them if it hadn’t been for God. Picked up the shells off of the ground, put them back in the gun; they was just shooting as good as they ever did. See? I’d been a murderer of five man, probably, or five boys.
79 Was only about twelve years old, high tempered! And teacher said, “You take this little string, Billy, and whenever you get mad, you just stop and tie nine knots in that string.” Said, “When you do that, then you bring the string to me. I’ll bet your temper will be over.”
80 I said, “Mrs. Whalen, I sure think you’re so nice.” I said, “I—I’m going to try it.” See? (Or Mrs. Temple; I’m saying Mrs. Whalen. I said Mrs…Mr. Whalen was a teacher up here once.) So I—I put the string in my pocket. And I hadn’t been out in the yard five minutes till somebody popped me one. Well, I went—started on them, you know. I reached down and grabbed my string; and I started to tie one knot; I throwed the string down, and away I went. See? I just couldn’t do it. See?
81 And I said, “I could never be a Christian.” But let me tell you, that night down yonder on Ohio Avenue when the Holy Spirit came into me, that settled the temper. That was over. I said, “I could never do it. I could never be a Christian, ’cause I’d never get over that,” I said, “something that’s borned in me.” I said, “Boy, my daddy was hotheaded; and—and my mother, half Indian, enough temper to fight a buzz saw.” I said, “Me? Oh, I…Boy, anybody that jumps on me is going to get it; that’s all.” I said, “If I have to climb up on a step ladder to hit them,” I said, “I’ll sure do it.” See?
82 But now, you could drag me out there and wallop me and…See? Why? Not me! What am I trying to make a point here? Something happened. That old power, that old William Branham died, and Someone else come in. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] And It makes me feel sorry for my enemy. When anyone does anything wrong to me, I never pray against them, I pray for them. And that’s where the Holy Spirit give that test the other night in New England, before this happened down here. When that—when He gave power, said, “Just speak what you will to them people.” The way they had done…And I looked down there, and I said, “I forgive you.” That’s exactly what He wanted. See? Forgive your enemies. See? These are the spirits that make you evil. Watch them spirits.
59-1223 – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 8
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. (Matthew 6:22)
64 Now, that has to be singleness of motive, singleness of heart, singleness of eye, keeping your eye on the promise. Hum! If you’re sick this morning, if you’re afflicted, there is one great promise; not by Elijah, but by God Himself. “If thou canst believe, when you pray, believe that you get what you ask for, and you shall receive it.” No matter what the doctor says, how much this goes or that goes; keep single on the promise.
65 Elijah give him a commission, “If you see me when I go, it’ll come on you.”
66 There’s a promise, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe.”
67 Sometimes I look at myself, and think, “I’ve been such a jellyfish in my life. I have waited, and missed many thousands of souls, into the Kingdom, because I’ve waited and said, ‘God…’ Depended too much on a spiritual gift. And said, ‘Lord, if You will just show me, if You’ll give me a vision what to do.’” And God gives a vision, then I’ll turn around and let somebody talk me into something else.
68 And, oh, I have never come to the spot, yet, until I…like I have at this time, that I feel it’s a faith, that we must step out there, because it’s a promise. And the things that He has done, and the healings that He has performed, and the miracles; insomuch, has come down and had His picture taken by the side of us, and so forth, which has never been known since the world begin. And then stand around like a jellyfish? It even makes me discouraged with myself. It’s time to keep your eye on the promise.
69 And that’s what, by God’s grace, I aim to do. And I realize that every devil of hell will shoot at it. But, by God’s grace, I aim to keep my eye on the promise.
70 Elijah said, “If you…” Elijah said, “If you see me when I go, you’ll have what you ask for.” That’s right. You got to keep your eye on it; watch the promise. Like, what if some of the school, if he turn back, and say, “Hey, boys, how am I doing now, following right along behind the prophet?” He would have failed, maybe. But he didn’t care what the school thought, or what all the teachers thought. He didn’t care what the neighbors thought, or the houses, or who looked at him. He kept his faith in the promise.
71 What we need today is faith in the promise of God, and don’t pay no attention to what this one says or that one says.
72 As a brother said, a minister had two girls that were mute, and that the criticism on Divine healing, that, “The children could not be healed.”
73 Don’t pay no attention to the critics. Keep your faith on the promise. God said so! “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up.” If He can make one deaf mute to hear, He can make another deaf mute to hear. We know, by infallible proofs, that He does that. Keep our faith on the promise. Our eyes single; our ears single; our hearts single; and, one thing, on Jesus Christ, and He is able to perform that which He has promised. Oh, when we think of that, it changes the whole scene when we get that. God made the promise. God was the One that said it.
56-1125m – “A Secondhanded Robe”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 9
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)
47 Some years ago I was talking to a—a Indian guide that had got lost on the desert. His name was Tim Coy, very well-known guide. And he got lost out on the desert in the Arizona’s, and he couldn’t find his way back. And his horse…
If you was ever lost… I’ve been lost. The nose becomes raw and bleeds where the sand boiling up. Your tongue becomes so thick you can’t speak, your lips turn upside, inside out and crack all over. Then the devil shows you a mirage.
That’s something… You go down the road and you look like you see water. When you get there it’s not water. That’s the way the devil does to church members and sinners. He tries to show you something pleasant.
48 And many times the tourists that wander off the road and—and get into the desert to pick some flowers, then all of it looks alike and they can’t find their way back. And before they die, they see those mirages. And they run to it, jump into it, and thinking they’re throwing water on them, but they find they’re only throwing hot sand on their head. And a long time before death, the great vultures come from the skies and pick their eyeballs out while they’re laying on the desert.
How oft does people, sinners, and church members, and pretenders, when the devil shows you a mirage where you can be popular, you dress so and so, and go with the crowd and so forth, the buzzards of hell pick your eyes out to the Gospel a long time before physical death ever strikes you. You go to a meeting, say, “I don’t believe in that stuff.” Why the buzzards of hell’s picked your eyes out. That’s your spiritual sight.
49 Tim said that he come down. He was a Christian man, a very renowned Christian man. He said, “I got off my horse; I prayed and I prayed for water.” Said, “I’d lost my way and I couldn’t find nowhere.” Said, “After while I come up on a path where it looked like either buffalo or something had run.”
And said, “My old horse, her name was Bess.” And said, “She begin to nicker, and I got up on her, tried to ride again, and she was too weak to pack me.” And said, “I’d walk a little piece following this…” Said, “I was told that sometimes them paths led to a water hole.”
50 And said, “I started to ride her; she was too weak.” And said, “Then I was all excited and trying to get down the path,” and said, “The first thing you know, I—I found myself stumbling and falling. I was too weak. I was gone.” Said, “I climbed back into the saddle again, started.”
And said, “Over to my right, there was a little dim trail that led off to the right.” Said, “My old horse Bess tried to take that trail.” Said, “I said, ‘Come out of there, Bess. You can’t take that trail. This is the trail. It’s wider. It’s better. More of them went this a way. This goes to the water.’” And said, “She started nickering and trying to go the other way.”
51 Said, “I had a pair of wheel spurs on. Before I knew it, I was just cutting her to pieces with these wheel spurs, trying to make her go down that broad path.” And said, “Then she started; she stumbled and got to her knees.” And said, “I jumped off of her, and I looked at her. She was standing there about ready to perish, looking down that little trail, and was nickering, and the blood running out of her sides where I’d cut her with those spurs…”
Said, “I stood there a little bit, and I thought, ‘Oh, what will we do. We’re no better off.’” Said, “I rubbed her on the face, and I said, ‘Bess, I have often heard that animals had instinct and maybe the big wide path don’t lead to the spring.’”
52 Brother, I’ll tell you now, “Broad is the way that leads to destruction; many there be that go in thereat: for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and dim is the trail that leads to life, but few that’ll find it.” Don’t go with the crowd. Go with Christ.
He said, “Bess, you carried me through this desert, and we’ve been buddies together. And you’ve carried me safely this far; I’ll trust you the rest of the way.”
Not comparing the Holy Spirit with a horse, but, brother, the blessed Holy Spirit has kept me all these years; I’ll trust Him in the valley of the shadows of death. I’ll just take this great experience I’ve got to take me on.
53 She started down the trail. Said he hadn’t went five hundred yards until he plunged into a great stream of water, set there enjoying the blessings of water. Said he jumped into the water, him and the horse both, throwing water over their head and screaming to the top of his voice. His life was spared. Said he took the old horse and washed its nose out and everything; just it was such a blessing. She had brought him safely to the water.
This trail might seem a little dim, but there’s a fountain at the end of it filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins, where sinners plunge beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains.
57-0811a – “The Greatest Gift In The Bible”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 10
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. (Matthew 8:5-13)
10 The nights grow on. Of course, I tire, and tire more. It is a truth that I believe, as a physical man tears down, the spiritual man has a chance. That’s what fasting and things are for. He can have a chance to work upon these five senses of ours, to bring us to believe and have faith in Him.
I like the attitude of this centurion tonight, that we’ve just read of. He—he was a man that felt unworthy. As long as you’re feeling unworthy of the blessing you’re asking, you’re pretty apt to get it. But when you get to a place where you think that God just owes it to you, that’s when you’re—you’re mistaken. We’re in debt to God, not God in debt to us. We’re indebted to God.
11 And this Roman, Italian, whatever he was, he said, “Lord, I’m not worthy that You’d come under my roof, and neither thought I worthy to come face You.” In other words, “I sent Your church to meet You and to ask this question. But I have faith. I know that You’re a man under authority, for I’m under authority. And You don’t have to come down to my house to put Your hands on my—my servant. You don’t have to come here and say any prayer.”
Notice. Now, be sure to get this. He said, “I’m a man under authority also. And if I say to this man, ‘You go do it,’ he will do it. And if I say to this man, ‘You come here,’ he will come. I’m under authority. And them who are under me has to obey me.”
And he knew that that was the Son of God, and that every sickness and every demon was under Him. And all He had to do is just speak the Word, not pray, just speak the Word (That’s all.), and it would be done, because every demon would have to obey Him. Do you believe that tonight? Every demon will obey God. It has to. Everything obeys God. And it’ll obey you if you have faith.
50-0815 – “Who Is God?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 11
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Genesis 11:1-4)
38 God told Abraham, by election and by grace, that, “I am going to bring you to Me, in an old age.” In other words, “I’m going to save you. I’m going to take you through. You’re going to live a long life. You’re going to have a child. Not…Being childless, Sarah; you go, and you’re going to have a child. And, in that child, I am going to save the world.” Now, before Abraham done one thing to merit it, but He just simply…God called him. That was all.
39 He was just a Chaldean down there in the city of Ur, come down in the valleys of Shinar, from the tower of Babel, from idol-worship. I think his daddy was an idol-worshiper. And I think Laban, after he got down there, proved it, he had them idols. Where could he a-got them, if they didn’t come out of the tower of Babel? And out of Ham’s people come Nimrod. Nimrod set up the tower of Babel, which was idol-worship, the first idol-worship on the earth.
40 Now, and watch that Babel tower come right on down, Babel, and right on down through there and end up over here in Revelation; a Christian, religious idolatry, pretending to be Christianity. Oh! John seen her in Revelation 17, admired her, how she set, looked like, and wore the Name of Jesus and everything else, and yet persecuted and martyred the saints of the living God. The Angel said, “Come here, and I’ll show you who she is.” Said, “She’s a great church that sets over many, on seven hills, and rules over the earth, and so forth. How she drank the blood of the martyrs of Christ!” Oh, mercy!
41 People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that “mark of the beast”? When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, “If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.” And I said, “There’ll be three great isms, Communism, Facism, and Nazism.” And I said, “They’ll wind up in one ism, and that one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City.” You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way!
42 I said, “Just before that time comes, that automobiles…” Which was built that old straight back, twenty years ago or twenty-five years ago. You can remember twenty years anyhow. And I said, “They’ll look like an egg. They’ll be shaped. That’s a vision. Be something on the shape of something like that.” And that’s the way they’ll be just before the Rapture.
43 But God’s just now loosening up the church everywhere, getting in order now so He can get into the Rapture, got to give it rapturing faith before it can go in the Rapture.
53-0326 – “Israel And The Church #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 12
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. (Matthew 9:36-38)
12 Well, the people I have give the sign instead of praying for the sick. And I’ve noticed along that how the Holy Spirit… Do you know, that there’s some things that we have to do that God cannot do until we do it? Did you know that? The ministry… Look, we are the branches; He is the vine. But the vine can’t bear fruit; it’s the branches that bear fruit. Is that right? Now, He—He furnishes the energy, but we got to do the job. You get what I mean? The Holy Spirit’s here tonight, as you see Him each night. He knows you, but the only way He speaks is through us. Is that right? We—our hands are His hands, our eyes are His eyes.
And now, we notice that He gives us things. Now, there Jesus was standing one day, looking upon the harvest… Do you believe He was the Lord of the harvest? And He looked out upon the harvest and said, “You pray the Lord of the harvest, that He will send laborers into His harvest, because the harvest is ripe and laborers are few.” In other words, “You ask Me to do what I know that’s got—ought to be done.” They—He could not do it until they asked Him to do it.
55-1007 – “The Power Of Decision”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
279 Did you know, God knew that we’d be standing here, ten million years before the world was ever founded? You know, He knew we’d be standing here, this morning. The infinity of God knowed every fly, every gnat, every time they’d bat their eyes, and how much tallow they would produce. Before the world was ever formed, God knew it.
280 Now, you say, “Well, if He knows it, then why you preaching?”
281 That’s God, part of God’s program. Preaching is His program. When He looked upon the apostles…He looked upon the harvest. He said, “The harvest is ripe, and the laborers are few. Pray the Lord of the harvest, that he will send laborers into His harvest.” How many remembered that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Well, why would they have to pray to the Lord of harvest, to send laborers into His harvest, if the Lord of the harvest was standing there, knowing it would be done? Why? God has so arranged it, that His…Now listen to this. God has so arranged it, that His program cannot move without you and I. And as long as we’re not doing what God leads us to do, we’re paralyzing His program. But when the Church moves by the anointing of the Holy Ghost, then we are in God’s will, doing His program.
59-1115 – “My New Ministry”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 13
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
154 You’re crying for a messiah here at Christmas time. Uh-huh. What did they get? They—they wanted it. They want to take it over. The world today wants to take over. The church wants to take over, each denomination. But look what God gave them! They wanted a military genius. They wanted a—a scientific genius, but God give them a Lamb, a Baby. What a contrast! You think they’d accept that crying Child? But that’s what they needed. God gives you according to your needs. Certainly. They…He got…They got a Baby when they was wanting a general; but they got a Baby, meek, lowly. God knew their needs, though.
155 He never came to be a national or a church politician. And if Messiah would come today, He would not be a national or a church politician. And if we cry for such a person, God will send us deliverance, but we got to receive It in the way that He sends It. They didn’t do it, they didn’t want It that way. The church cries today, “O Heavenly Father, will You please send Jesus to us? Will You please?” And when the Holy Spirit begins to move in, “Oh, that’s…We don’t want that.” See? Well, you be, “Oh, oh, we won’t have this man rule over us. Oh, I don’t want to hear That. No. My…I couldn’t accept That, my denomination won’t believe That.” Then you don’t want a Messiah, you don’t want the anointing. If God sent a Messiah, He’d be exactly Word by Word of the Bible, exactly what He was at the first time. The cry of the world, when we see politicians and everything else pinching out the very Life of the church, and we cry, and God sent it to us, then we’d refuse It. “That’s right, we wouldn’t want it. No, if it didn’t cope with our—our denominational beliefs, we couldn’t receive It.” See? Oh, don’t you see what real Christmas…The people don’t want It. They don’t want God’s way of sending It. They’re looking for something, but they don’t want It.
156 Now, God sent them, in the day that they were crying, not a military genius, not a great general coming down with buckle and armor, and with a supernatural sword or spear that he could yield and run Rome and Greek and the rest of them into the sea and drown them again. He didn’t send them something like that, though He said He did do it one time in Moses, but they needed it then. But He sent them a Saviour and they didn’t want It. They thought there was…they were saved. See? That’s the way with the churches today. Finds at this Christmas time with all the tinsel of Christmas, the Santa Claus lights, the pagan traits and things dropped into both Catholic and Protestant churches, and just as corrupt as it can be. And God sends them a Saviour. What? Back to the Word. The Holy Spirit, God’s Messiah, His Anointed, to anoint His church and send it back to the Word. Do you think they want It? No, sir. They won’t have It. They’ll turning her down just like they always do.
157 He sends a Saviour, but what does He send a Saviour for then? Want to drop a little something here that’ll help you. There is a predestinated people that’s going to receive It. There was when He come the first time, there will be when He comes the second time. No matter what the church world’s got to think about it, some…He don’t send It in vain. Somebody will receive It. There’s somebody’s going to get It, that’s all; but not the political world or the political church, or whatever it is. But when you cry out and God sends It, somebody’s going to—going to receive It. That’s right.
62-1216 – “The Falling Apart Of The World”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 14
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. (Genesis 14:14-20)
114 We are kings and priests tonight. What difference does it make whether we have or whether we haven’t? As long as we got God, we are more than conquerors. We are more than conquerors. We set in the Presence of God, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, taking Spiritual communion from the hands of Him that testified, “I was He that was dead, and alive again, and I’m alive forevermore.” Setting together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O blessed be His holy Name. What difference does it make?
A tent or a cottage, why should I care?
They’re building a palace for me over There!
Of rubies and diamonds, and silver and gold,
His coffers are full, He has riches untold.
115 I met Him one day when I come from the battle. I laid my trophies down. I ain’t fought a battle since then; He fights them for me. I just rest upon His promise, knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection. That’s all that matters. What else does matter?
116 What can we do? Why taking thought can add one cubit to your stature? What do you care whether your hair is curly, or whether you got any or not? What difference does it make? If you’re old, if you’re gray, if you’re stoop-shouldered, if you’re not, what difference does it make? Amen. This is just for a spell, a little space, but That’s forever and forever. And as aeons of time roll on, as the ages roll on, you’ll never change, and go through His ceaseless Eternal ages. What difference does it make?
117 I’m so glad I met Him. I’m so glad He give me communion, one day, that same Melchisedec that met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. Certainly. “The God of Heaven,” the El Elyon; the great “I AM,” not the I was; I AM, present tense. “And He blessed him.”
57-0915e – “Hebrews, Chapter Seven #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 15
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. (Matthew 10:16-20)
106 Now, just don’t go away from church, today, and say, “Well, I kind of enjoy going down there. I like the singing, and the people are friendly around that little old church.” Don’t do that.
107 Brother, let your heart become a flame, say, “Here, I got to do something about this. I got to get out and see if I can get somebody saved.”
108 And don’t go out, saying, “Bless God, if you don’t repent, you’re going to perish.” No.
Go at it gentle. “Be as wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove.” See, that’s the way to go. Approach the person, if he’s raising chickens, talk about chickens, to him, for a while. See? And then, first thing you know, you’ll be talking about the Lord. If he’s a farmer, talk about his farm.
109 If he sells automobiles, talk about his automobiles, for a while, “What nice cars you got,” and so forth. See?
110 Till you catch the Spirit, when Father says, “Now is the time to approach him about his soul.”
111 You can wind it off, see, “That’s a fine automobile. You know transportation, today, has become great. Oh, how the nations has been brought close together; and the cities of our nations, close together. Friends and mothers can visit each other. You know, it’s a wonderful thing to have automobiles like you’re selling.”
112 “Yes, sir. It sure is. Uh-huh.” You know, puffing on his cigar, or whatever it is. “Yeah, them, them is good cars.”
113 “Did you ever think of what the old-timers would have thought if they’d seen something like that?” Just keep going like that, you know.
After a while, say, “Yep, yeah, sure is.”
114 “You know, another thing it does, it brings like we having, like in revivals. People can come across the country, quickly, for a revival.” See, you’re opening the way, all time, you know.
115 If you feel Something chock up the way, stop right there, move over here. Like a doctor said, out at Phoenix, said, “Lord, fill my mouth with good words, and then nudge me when I’ve said enough.” You see? Yeah. “Nudge me when I’ve said enough.”
57-0901m – “Hebrews, Chapter Three”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 16
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:6-9)
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 17
And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. (Isaiah 12:1-4)
127 As I have passed fifty years old, I’d wake up of a morning, you know how it is, you can’t hardly get that one foot out of the bed. My, you can’t hardly do it; and somebody at the door, knocking, or Billy telling me there’s an emergency, somewhere I’ve got to go. And I think, “How can I do it?” Try to put one foot out.
I think, “Thou art the Fountain filled with my strength. Amen! My strength and my help cometh from the Lord. Thou are my artesian well! Thou art my youth! ‘They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with the wings like an eagle; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.’ Lord God, this is my duty, to go. I’m called to the post of duty.” And the first thing you know, Something begins to gurgle up inside of me.
128 The other day, over in a little place, I was having a meeting over here in Topeka, Kansas; there was a boy, a young preacher, one of my first sponsors. Brother Roy, setting here, remembers the place. In this, in this great place there, there was a—a…This minister had got under a roof or a place, the sidewall mashed him down beneath that. The little fellow was going to die. His liver was bursted. His spleen was knocked out of place. Tons fell on him.
129 I sat at the breakfast, talking to the wife. I said, “Wife, you know, if Jesus was here, you know what He’d do?” I said, “When he sponsored me, ‘I believe that Word,’ he was sponsoring Christ.” And I said, “That’s a trick of the devil.” I said, “If Jesus was here, He’d go lay His holy hands upon him. That boy would get well. I don’t care if his liver is bursted. He would get well, because Jesus would walk in there knowing exactly Who He was. He knowed His calling, the Scriptures was right, vindicating in Him that He knowed Who He was, and not a…not no shadow of doubt. He’d lay His hands upon him, and say, ‘Son, be well,’ walk out of there.” And I said, “There isn’t enough devils in hell to kill that boy, then.” I said, “He would get well.” But I said, “You see, honey, He was Jesus, the holy hands of God.”
I said, “I’m a sinner. I was born sexual birth. My father and mother were both sinners, and I’m just a no-good nothing.”
And I said, “But you know what? If the Lord would give me a vision and send me down there, then that would be different.” I said, “I’d go down and lay my hands on him, he’d come out of that bed if He give me a vision.”
130 Then I got to thinking, “After all, if it was the vision, what was it? It was the same dirty hands on him, uh-huh, same man praying for him, same dirty hands.”
Then I begin to think, “I am His representative. Then, God doesn’t see me. That Blood of that righteous One lays up there upon the altar; It makes intercessions for me. He is my sufficiency. He is my prayer. He is my Life.” I said, “The only thing that’d make me put my hands on him, with faith, because I had faith in the vision. And without the vision, the same faith would do the same thing; so I can reckon myself nothing, but reckon Him my all-in-all. He is my Life. He is my Commissioner. No denomination sent me; He sent me. Hallelujah! I go in His Name. I’ll lay hands upon him.” Walked down there and laid hands on that boy, and that night he was in the meeting, solid well. Amen!
64-0726e – “Broken Cisterns”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 18
Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? (Matthew 12:22-26)
18 Now, in this day, what if Moses would’ve lived in this age and would’ve seen that tree burning? Why, many of them—he’d said, “Wait a minute. I’ll see till that fire goes off of it, and I’ll go over and pick some of the leaves off, and take it down to the laboratory, and—and examine it and see what chemicals are on those leaves that they don’t burn.” If he thought that, It’d a never talked to him. What did he do? He just set down and begin to talk to It. He didn’t question It. He just begin to speak to It. And when that real feeling begins to move over you, that you’re a sinner, and you’re wrong, just go to talking to It; find out what takes place. They won’t have to take you and analyze your body to see what happened. Your spirit will let you know what happened when God comes in.
19 God, in all ages, has had gifts that He’s brought to the people. He’s always made Hisself known in all ages by His gifts. And Jesus, here, had just been called Beelzebub. And He—He had told them that He would forgive them for doing that, but when the Holy Spirit came, and if they spoke against that, it would never be forgiven. See?
Because many people have said, “What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? My old southern mama used to tell me, it was for a woman to have an abortion case, take life that she couldn’t restore. That was the best that she knowed. But that isn’t it.
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is to call the working of the Spirit an unclean thing or an evil thing. Jesus said, “Because they said, ‘He has an evil spirit, calling the Holy Spirit in Its work an evil thing’; that’s unforgivable.” There’s nothing in the world, any time or any place, could ever forgive you for that, for speaking one word against the operation of the Holy Spirit.
20 And remember, I want to show you how clear it is. Now, those Pharisees didn’t say right out, “Say, you’re Beelzebub.” But they thought it in their mind, and Jesus perceived their thoughts. Read right back in Saint Matthew 12 and see if that isn’t right? They thought in their minds that it wa—He was Beelzebub. And Jesus perceived their thoughts, and they thought He was a fortuneteller. And then He said, “I’m going to forgive you.” See? Your thoughts in heaven, is louder than your voice is on earth. Remember that. What you think… “If there be any praise, if there be any virtue, think on these things,” said the Scripture.
58-0613 – “The Queen Of The South”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 19
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:23-26)
76 And notice another, while we’re on it, Lot. Jesus said, Himself, “Remember Lot’s wife.” If the Word isn’t so important, if reasoning is all right; when that Angel said to Lot and his family, “Go to Zoar, but don’t look back!” And Lot’s wife, on a little insignificant thing as to turn and look back, but it was contrary to the Word, she turned to a pillar of salt.
77 Then you say, “Telling women about cutting their hair, wearing clothes…?” God said don’t do it! You follow the Word. Lot had, no doubt, a nice wife, but she didn’t follow the Commandment to the Word. Lot! Eve was a good woman, but she didn’t follow the Commandment to the Word; just reasoned a little with it.
78 “Isn’t it reasonable, Brother Branham, that we should do this? I’m an American citizen, I—I have a right to do whatever I want to. That’s my American privilege.” It’s your American privilege, but not your Christian privilege. For, by Christian, you are a sheep; and a sheep forfeits its rights. It lays still and lets you take away from it all the rights it has. But a goat will kick up a storm about it. That’s right. But a sheep forfeits its rights. And a Christian always forfeits their national rights if its contrary to your Christian rights.
79 Lot’s wife merely looked back, [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] that was it! Now what did that do? It tells us here in Abraham, and Lot, that the thing that they set forth there, an example. And we cannot get away from it.
80 Hebrews, the 11th chapter, said, “These things was for our example. Seeing that we’re compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses. We are to lay aside every sin.” What is sin? Unbelief! “Every sin, every unbelief of God’s Word, that does so easily beset us.”
81 We come up against something, say, “Well, they preach that, that that was…” Don’t you do that! You do just what God said do. Stay with It, to the letter!
Say, “It don’t make any difference.”
82 All right, the only thing I can say is what the Word says. And Jesus strictly said that, “Remember Lot’s wife.” She merely looked over her shoulder. Eve merely stopped for a moment. That’s all she done. Lot’s wife just looked back. And if…God turned that righteous man, Lot, his wife, to a pillar of salt, by just a little bitty thing, just disobeying His Commandments enough to just look back and see what all that fire was about, and she turned to a pillar of salt, and stands there yet today as an example that God means what He says.
62-0707 – “Jehovah-Jireh #3”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 20
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; (Isaiah 14:12-16)
69 See, Satan was the original archangel of God. He once dwelt in the Heaven. He once was the greatest person in the heavens outside of God. He was God’s right-hand man to fellowship, and he got puffed up in his heart.
70 And isn’t that just the way that people get today? Let God just bless a fellow and put a little confidence in him, and he gets to be a know-it-all. He gets to be…He’s got to start an organization, or he’s got to do something that’s different. “Why art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer!”
71 It’s…God has a hard time trying to get somebody that He can deal with, that’ll stay humble, and meek, and stay in the place until God calls him to do something (you believe that? See?), a man that God can bless and he’ll still keep hisself a man, not be an angel or a god. As soon as man gets blessed and has a little something given to him, he wants to become a god; he wants to become a—a angel. He wants to become some great person. “What I do, what…Me and me and mine…” all that. That’s the wrong attitude. God’s hunting for somebody who He could bless and pour out the blessings, and—and more He blessed, the littler the man will become.
72 And you’ll never get more of God until you become nothing. You’ve got to belittle yourself. He that will exalt himself, God will bring abase. He that will humble himself, God will exalt. You’ve got to get little before you can get big. And you’ll never be big in your own self; you’ll only be as big as God will be big in you. See?
73 So Lucifer is on earth today trying to work in the church to accomplish the same purpose that he started before the foundation of the world. Lucifer was kicked out of Heaven. All right.
59-0628e – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 21
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger. (Matthew 14:3-8)
Now, isn’t that just exactly like preachers today? The way the congregation wants to do, that’s the way the preacher preaches to them. I want to tell you: a God-sent, Holy Ghost borned preacher won’t compromise with any congregation. That’s right.
Could you imagine John the Baptist, when they brought out Herodias that night, and Herod. Why, John walked right to his face, and said, “It’s not lawful for you to have her.” That man had the Holy Ghost. He didn’t compromise; he told the truth. And what about it now? It’s all over. What will it be at the day of judgment, when the head of John the Baptist rolls up before Herodias? What will it be then?
26 Brother, if you’re ever going to make a stand for God, make it now. This is the time. Now’s the time when we need of it. Now’s the time when the church is weighed in the balance and found wanting. After all these great miracles, and signs, and wonders that God has sent men across the country doing, and yet the church is in the poorest, backslidden state I ever run up in years. That’s right. I’m preaching to Pentecostals. Amen.
When I first come among your groups ten years ago, it looked like a church; but today it looks like the world. It’s the truth. Something happened somewhere. You got to wearing better clothes, got to making a little more money, and it just made a sap out of you; that’s all. Now, you… That’s the truth. That’s right. You’re trying to—you’re trying to act like the rest of the world.
You just take… Today is a compromising time. That’s true. You paint your steps red and watch and see if your neighbor don’t paint his steps red. Sure. You wear a little round hat to church with a little feather up in it and watch all the women come to church with a little round hat and a feather up in it. That’s right. Yes, sir. All of them want to look like one another.
27 It’s a matching time. You know that’s true. It’s a matching time. Amen. That must’ve went home. That’s right. Listen. That is true. Now, I’m going to tell you, my brother: I don’t care whether my shoes match my trousers, or my trousers matches my coat. I want my experience to match God’s Bible. That’s the matching time.
If you want to match something, match your experience against Paul’s. Amen. That’s what we need today, is a matching time with Paul’s faith in the Bible. That’s our example. Right. Real matching time… Don’t try to match your neighbor; match—match some of the saints of the Bible. If you’re a saint, act like a saint, walk like a saint, dress like a saint, talk like a saint, pray like a saint, believe like a saint, shout like a saint, be like a saint, live like a saint, die like a saint and go to heaven like a saint. Amen.
56-0801 – “The Arrow Of God’s Deliverance Shot From A Bow”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 22
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. (Matthew 14:28-30)
Jesus said, “Why did you fear?” Peter come walking on the water, doing fine until he seen the waves were contrary, then he got scared and begin to sink. Jesus come, picked him up, said, “Why did you fear, oh ye of little faith?” Fear, you’re scared it won’t happen. Don’t have one bit of fear; move forward. God said so; that settles it.
46 And you can’t do that until you have love. Perfect love casts out all fear. If I want to contribute anything to my success in the ministry amongst people, is this: I’ll admit I’ve had to butcher up meetings because I just couldn’t set it and—and… routine, like ministers do.
And many times I’ve had to promise this, and take this back, and do this, and do that. Because God will make me do it. But if there’s one thing, is because that I have loved people. And people knows that.
You take a little baby three months old, he ne… he don’t know nothing. He’s got a mind, but it isn’t developed. He don’t know who, or nothing. The doctors say they can see a light, might see your hand, but they can only follow it. And he will just be kicking his little heels, and screaming to the top of his voice. Well, here comes some kind woman, comes along passing him, say, “Well, well, dear.” He just kicks right on. He don’t know who the woman is. He don’t know nobody.
47 But let that mother walk up, just put her hands on him. That settles it. Now, he don’t know his mother. But his little spirit knows there’s something about that spirit there, that nothing else can inject that mother love to him, no matter how much the other person loves. It ain’t the mother’s love. Is that right?
And she lays her hands on him, he will dry up. See, he’s ready. Because that mother, there is a love about her, that goes to the baby, that the baby’s little spirit recognizes that that’s a love that no other love is.
No wonder He ordained us to lay hands on the sick. Take a horse when he’s all bothered, jumping and jerking. You western people ought to know that. You just let the master walk into the stall and probably say, “Whoa, boy,” lay his hands on him, he quieten right down. See, it’s love.
48 And when we love God with all of our hearts, souls, and minds, and we love one another as ourselves, our neighbors as ourselves, the people can actually feel that. You can’t put it on. You can’t make a belief, ’cause they’ll know it.
I believe Lincoln said one time, “You can fool part of the people, part of the time, but not all of the people, all of the time.” And that’s right. And if you’ve got love in your heart for the people, they’ll know it. You might act indifferent or anything, but still they know it. They can feel it. It’s another dimension, as we call it, that injects to these people a love that they know it. And they’ll believe it. And that’s when you can help the person, when you believe it.
54-0228a – “Expectation”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
Day 23
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:7-9)
241 Now notice, “if it was possible,” in these days. Only one Word, one Word is needed. That’s all Satan had to have to Adam, just get Him on one Word. That’s all he has to have today, just get one thing turned around. That’s all, that’s all he needs. Now, you know that’s the Truth. To add one, or take one, it’s total failure. Every bit, “Every Word of God!” Think now of the interpretations of the seminaries, every one different from the other.
242 There has to be a Truth somewhere, and this is It, the Bible. Now Jesus said…
243 You say, “Well, Brother Branham, they have the most beautiful worship.”
244 Jesus said, “In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the theology of man, not the Word,” man, his own conception of the Word being interpreted.
245 As I have said, God don’t need no interpreter. He interprets every Word Himself. See, you don’t need somebody to interpret It to you, God interprets it to you when you’re willing to accept It. See, that’s the Life, that’s Life Itself.
246 Jesus said, “In vain they worship Me.” They actually worship God. Cain actually worshiped God, in the beginning. “But in vain do they worship Me.” What’s vain? “It don’t do no good.”
247 They might say, “Well, I do this. I dance in the spirit. I, I speak in tongues. I, I prophesy. I preach the Gospel.” But fail to let your hair grow out, fail on one thing, and see what happens, the Spirit will leave you right there. That’s what’s happened to our churches, failed.
248 “In vain, worshiping Me. Oh, it’s a beautiful worship. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man.”
249 Those Pharisees were learned theologians. Don’t you dare to say we got anything today to compare with them. No, indeedy. They knowed one word, every word, just the way it was written, but in vain they were worshiping. Think of it, “in vain,” big fine schools, and seminaries, and teachers, and young man, and everything like that, but lost!
250 Same as the wilderness, He said, “They all eat manna from that spiritual Rock in the wilderness, they all drink from that Rock, I mean, and they all eat manna out of it.” And Jesus said, “And they’re, every one, dead.” Death means “Eternally separated.” Why? Because they failed to believe the promise of God.
64-1212 – “The Harvest Time”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 24
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. (Genesis 24:10-14)
39 Now, just in closing, I’d like to say this. On our little subject tonight, the decision… Eliezer… Did you notice, when he come… Now, Isaac was a type of Christ. Through Isaac come Christ. And then, Rebekah was a type of the Church. Did you notice the—the Bride… And Eliezer found Rebekah in the evening time. The sign was performed in the evening time. That’s the time we’re living in. I trust that you get this.
It was in the evening time when Rebekah came out led by the Spirit. Do you believe that? How otherwise would she have come? There might have been many before her. But she was led by the Spirit in the evening time. And Eliezer, the messenger, the minister, the true servant to his master, was led in the evening time. And the true servant had left his creeds and things behind him and made up his mind that he was going to trust God in the evening time.
40 Wonder why that Rebekah came before any of the other girls. Did you know that Rebekah and Isaac was blood relation? Cousins. And the Bride of Jesus Christ is blood relation to Him: a Blood bought Bride. No wonder she was led by the Spirit. There was a connection coming together. There was a union coming together.
That’s the reason I think today that the borned again, the—the Holy Ghost filled people is connected with God and are led by the Spirit of God. That’s why they act so peculiar to the people. They’ve made their decisions. They’re going to go on out; regardless if the rest of them don’t go out, they’re going anyhow. I like that.
Don’t care if this one walks or that one walks, I’m going to walk anyhow. I don’t care whether this one… of what they say, I don’t… They call me anything they want to, I’m going anyhow. Why? The Life is in the Blood. And the Life is in the Church, the Christian that’s borned again by the Spirit of God. That’s the Spirit of Life, Blood relation to Christ. The Spirit of Christ in the Blood of Christ leading a child of Christ, the seed of Abraham. That’s why they move peculiarly. That’s why the world thinks so strange of them.
41 And remember, Rebekah, hardly knowing what she was doing, yet she watered the same animal, the camel, that was to take her to her bridegroom, to her husband, her lover. And always a beast of burden in the Bible represents a power. Like the beast come up out of the sea in Revelations, it was a power that raised up among the people.
And this beast was being watered. Rebekah watering the same beast that she rode on, that taken her away from her place here to her new home, is a type of the Church today, watering and blessing the same Holy Spirit that’s going to lift It up and take It to Its new home. The Church that’s praising and blessing and watering with thanksgiving to the Holy Ghost Who has brought the Word to you…
59-0418 – “A Time Of Decision”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 25
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master. And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. (Genesis 24:54-58)
197 God’s looking for character, not membership. Character! Eliezer, when he went to get the Bride of—of—of Isaac, he sweated it out until he found character. Remember, Abraham put him responsible as God puts us responsible, that’s right, we ministers. “Hunt My Bride!” God bless your heart. I ain’t looking for members, I’m looking for the pure in heart, see, somebody that’ll believe the Word.
198 Eliezer looked, and he thought, “Oh, I can’t do this myself. There’s too much responsibility. I’m realize the responsibility of finding Isaac…” Which, is type of the Church, you know, Christ; Rebekah, the type of the Bride. And Eliezer got down on his knees and said, “God, You—You just have to help me.” And when he referred to God, God helped him. He got character.
199 Come back to the Word, brother. Come back to God. Don’t pay any attention to this church you belong to. You can stay there if you want to, if they’ll let you. But, the thing to do first, is, come to God. That’s right. This is the end-time evangelism. Yes, sir. Character!
200 And when he found out, and then when Eliezer found the character that was in the woman, Rebekah, the beautiful bride of Isaac, he told her about Isaac. And she never questioned one thing. She believed the word of the messenger, and she made ready to go. And they went, asked the father, he said, “Just ask her, the damsel’s of age. Ask her, let her decision be.”
201 She said, “I will go.” To what? A man she had never seen, knowed nothing about. But yet she was ready, because she was predestinated and foreordained to that. Exactly right.
62-0603 – “The End-Time Evangelism”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 26
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. (Genesis 25:29-34)
59 Look at Esau. Esau was a good man, moral, a good church member today. What did he do? He was a hunter. He went out…Course then, that’s how they made their living. He’d taken care of the herds for his father. His daddy was blind. A prophet, a prophet of the Lord was blind and deceived by his own son, a prophet, Isaac; through him come Christ. You can call him prophet, Bible said he was. And was blind? Why didn’t he heal himself? And why didn’t he know that that was Esau—that that was Jacob instead of Esau? See? God don’t tell His prophets everything. He just tells them what He wants them to know. See?
60 God was working out a plan then, and he had to work in it. God…If you’ll submit yourself to God, God will make you work right into His plan.
61 Now, notice what he did, what this fellow did. Esau went out and tried to take care of his poor, old, blind daddy; and Jacob, seemingly, he didn’t care what happened to him. But there’s one thing Jacob wanted, that was the birthright. Regardless of what come, how he had to get it, what level he had to come on, that birthright was all he cared for. And Esau, the Bible said, despised his birthright; the Bible said that. And the Bible said, “Except there come some vain fornicator among you, like that evil person Esau who despised his birthright and sold it for a mess of pottage…”
62 Now, what is a birthright? It’s the right. That’s what I’m trying to tell you now. This Holy Spirit is your Birthright; that’s your Birthright. That’s your God given right. Now, people say today, “I’ll go to church. I’m just as good as the next fellow. But me, act like one of them holy rollers? Not me.” Well, you Esau! See? It’s just the same thing, despising the birthright. Why, he swapped it for a mess of pottage. And you sell it ma-…I don’t say you, but the world sells it for a lot less than that.
63 Esau was hungry. But, you see, if goodness would be counted…If somebody…If we walked up there and stayed around the tent for a—a few days, we’d find out that Esau was…We’d have picked Esau. See? But in his heart he wanted that birthright. He didn’t care about anything else; he wanted that birthright. That’s all he wanted.
59-1223 – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 27
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:2-6)
49 I used to work on the railroad out here with Harry Waterberry, and we would go down to load a car. My brother, Doc, standing back there, helps loads cars. When a car is being loaded, they go through that car, the inspector, and if he finds anything loose, where it would fall and break, or anything that would destroy; he’ll not seal that car until that car is so completely packed, until it’s so packed down and so in order, that the shaking of the ride won’t bother the product that’s on the inside.
50 That’s what’s the matter we don’t get sealed so much; we’re too loose about things. When the Inspector goes through, to inspect your life, to see if you’re not just a little loose about things, little loose about your prayer life, little loose about that temper, little loose about that tongue, to talk about others, He’ll never seal the car. Some dirty habits, some vile things, some vulgarity mind, He can’t seal the car.
But when He’s found everything in its place, the Inspector, then He seals it. Dare be anybody open that seal until that car has reached its destination to where it’s sealed for! There it is. “Touch not My anointed; do My prophets no harm. For I say unto you, it’d be better for you that a millstone was hanged at your neck, and you were drowned in the depths of the sea, than even to try to offend or shake a little on the least of these that’s been sealed.” You see what it means?
51 That’s what the Holy Spirit is. It’s your assurance. It’s your protection. It’s your witness. It’s your seal. It’s your sign, that, “I’m Heaven bound. Don’t care what the devil says! I’m Heaven bound. Why? He sealed me. He gave It to me. He sealed me into His Kingdom, and I’m Glory-bound! Let the winds blow, let Satan do what he wants to. God has done sealed me till the day of my redemption.” Amen! That’s what the Holy Ghost is. Oh, you should want It. I couldn’t go on without It. So much could be said there, but I’m sure you know what I’m speaking of.
59-1216 – “What Is The Holy Ghost?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 28
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. (Matthew 18:32-35)
33 And those spirits that was in that dear man had drove him insane. And if anyone ever seen an insane person or had to deal with them, they’re many times their—their—their strength, because they are so possessed of the devil. If you was ever around where a—a person lost their mind, oh, it takes several good man to hold them. And they are twice or three times their power.
34 Now, when a person is crippled and the Holy Spirit gets ahold of them, if the devil’s got that much power to make a man three or four times his human strength, how much power can God put in a man? See? That’s what comes upon him to make him walk in the strength of God, where he’s been laying crippled for years. His bones come out straight; and his hands goes straight; he walks, and like a young new man, because the power of the Holy Spirit is on him.
35 Now, these was so evil until they wrapped the man in chains, and he could break them. And they said he plucked them asunder. And there was no—nothing could bind him. He was really a real bad case, because he had a legion of demons in him. And then, when he…Jesus crossed over and come into Gadara and started down by the tombs…And he was so evil, not the man (see?), the man was all right.
36 It’s not the man. When you see a person like that, don’t never think that it’s the man; it’s the devil that’s in the man.
Now, that maniac on the platform that night, was going to kill me, up in Oregon. That man, I—when he come to me, instead of…him spitting in my face and calling me a “snake in the grass” before nearly ten thousand people, well, it wasn’t that, it wasn’t the man. He’s a man that eats, drinks, sleeps, perhaps with a family, and loves, and—and just like I am or you are. But it was that devil in him that was doing that. See?
37 And you never cast a devil out by the wrong attitude. It takes love to do that. And love is the most powerful force that there is in the world. Now, if you notice, a devil is always hate. Hate is of the devil. And when people hate someone, remember, it is a terrible devil to despise or dislike. You mustn’t do that.
59-1223 – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 29
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:3-6)
19 And so, you know, little Jezebel had learned one thing in her home, and that was to use paint. That’s the heathen trait. Any paint, never in the world, but all painting of faces originated with heathens is always condemned by believers. I hope this goes real far down home, just to make you real good and sick for a few minutes. But now, don’t get angry with me; I love you. But I just want to tell you what’s truth.
Remember, I’ve just returned from the African jungle. Every one, the tribals of heathen, on every kind of an occasion they paint their face and wear great big earrings. The Indian savage heathen paints his face and puts on war paint when he goes in—in the… His war is worship around his idols. He paints.
You ashamed? See? It’s a heathen sign. Too bad it ever got in the Christian church, wasn’t it? Sure was. That was a weak pulpit what brought that in. The preacher ought to be ashamed of himself.
20 So she was used to painting; she made herself a little butterfly. And brother, that’s the kind that can jilt a many a good man. That’s right. See them on the street with a little lip look like a rosebud and a whole lot of Max Factor’s on that, but that’ll never burn out the sin wrinkles. Don’t you never think that. God looks right through it.
And so Jezebel knowed how to put it on to make it look nice. And so when Ahab, this young Jewish boy become king, she put the—the manicure on her eyes, or whatever you call it, you know, and she flapped them back and forth, and Ahab’s heart went tumbling, because he didn’t have God in there to teach him better. That’s right. So my, what a—what a thing that was.
21 Now, when she begin to flirt with Ahab, Ahab married her. He thought, “That’s just the one for me.”
And a many man’s made a mistake like that. A many man has done it. You ought to see her on wash day, or when she gets cleaned up. Really, might change your mind altogether. Women shouldn’t be married by looks anyhow, but by character.
Let me tell you, boy, if you marry her and she’s all painted up, one of these day she’ll fade. Even if she’s pretty, that’ll fail one of these days. Wait till her first baby’s born and the teeth will go to coming out. Little later on, wrinkles will come over her eyes, and the hair get gray. You’ll wake up one morning and wonder what you married. That’s right. I—I mean that, not for a joke. No, sir. That’s true. I’m just laying a background here for something I want to say. See? That’s right.
But if you love her because there’s something about her that you’ve prayed over, and God has joined you together, she can get old and wrinkled and be ugly; that won’t make a bit of difference, you’ll love her through eternity. “What God has joined together, no man could put asunder.” That’s right. So ask God first.
56-1003 – “Painted-Face Jezebel”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 30
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. (Matthew 20:1-16)
38 Now, the seventh angel’s Message is to open the mystery of the Seals, calling the eleventh-hour Gentile workers to receive the same pay that the first hour workers got. See?
Now, Jesus taught it. He said there was some peoples went into the harvest. They were hired. And when they did, of early morning, they received a—a—a time, a penny for the day. And then at noontime, someone else come in and went to work. And then at the eleventh hour, that’s the last hour of the day, that someone come in and received the same kind of pay that they did at the first hour of the day; last hour.
39 It’s so perfectly, how the first-hour messengers with the Word, with the Gospel, with the Truth, they came in at the Day of Pentecost. Then there was a dark age that blocked them out. Then at the middle of the day, Luther, and Wesley, and them, came in. And then there is to be an evening-time Message, and to receive the same thing that they did at the beginning. The evening-time Message is to restore back again, to bring back that same thing again.
64-0726m – “Recognizing Your Day And Its Message”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 31
But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:25-28)
62 And instead of that, we fuss at one another. We despise one another, because we don’t agree upon certain things. And we go out and—and accuse each other, see, where…and yet claim to be Christians. I know people who claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit, is guilty of such things, going out and—and really saying evil things about other Christians. When, they ought not do those things. Now, brother, sister, when we have that kind of a spirit, we might as well get in our mind that we’re not Christians yet. Matter how much we confess, it’s what we possess that counts. See? We cannot be Christians and not love all peoples. We might different with peoples.
63 But, Jesus didn’t put in and say, “Well, now, here, all you Pharisees, you’re all going to hell. And there’s no chance for you, because of this, that, or the other, because you are a Pharisee.” But He went to them, and He ministered to them, and He helped them. He done everything that He could, to help them.
64 But, today, the educations, and church membership, and ties of the world has brought the church together in such a way until the intellectual has taken the place of the spiritual.
65 You cannot get to God except by the Spirit. There is only one way that a man can come to God, and that’s through the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “No man can come to Me, except the Father draws him, first.” That’s just as true as it can be, Christian.
66 We want to take a little notebook, tonight, in our heart, and count up these things now. Let’s think this.
67 Oh, some of us claim to have all the knowledge. We have those who say, “Now wait!” They love to be “doctors” and “holy fathers,” and so forth. But knowing all of this, if you had all the knowledge, it wouldn’t do you any good except you (was) had a Spirit in you, of love. The Bible said, “Though I have all knowledge, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
68 And what good does our knowledge do, when someone say, “I wouldn’t go to a revival like that, because those are not an educated people. I—I wouldn’t associate with them”?
69 No matter whether they don’t know their ABC’s, or not, they can know Christ. Certainly never can get too low. May God always keep that Spirit in me. No matter how—how low, what he believes, what he doesn’t, what creed, color, or what, I want to reach a hand out and help him. Sure. I want that Spirit in me. I will not think I’m better than somebody else; I could stick my chest out, and say, “All the people stand when I come in,” or, “I have the greatest campaign of them all.” Who am I, anyhow, but the clay that God has made? Let me humble myself, that His life will be reflected. Let’s, all Christians, feel like that. Knowledge gets us nowhere.
59-0525 – “Images Of Christ”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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