The Family Altar Audio Devotionals
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Day 60
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke 19:41-44)
13 I’m praying, fasting, waiting on God. I want to do my part while I’m here in California. You do your part. Get out and get the people in. God is doing greater things today than has ever been known since Jesus Christ was on earth. That’s right. And it’s going right over the top of the people’s head, and they’re missing seeing it. That’s the bad part.
If they would’ve only knew it, like Jesus said—said about the—the… said, “If you’d have only knowed your day, if you’d have only knew it… Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, as a hen does her brood. But you would not. If you’d have only knowed your day, your visitation…”
That’s the way it is today. It’s always been; that’s what it is now. If we’d have only knowed the day of visitation… But the visitation goes right through, and the people are looking way over here for something else. And first thing you know, the visitation’s over, and there it is. But as He said, “No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him first. All the Father has given Me will come to Me.” Amen. Oh, that’s what makes us…
14 Now, we like to talk to people where we can make them feel real good. But the best thing to do, if there’s—there’s something wrong, let’s get that out of the way first. Let’s get the thing down to the foundation. See?
A fellow said to me not long ago, a well-known minister, one of the best in the world; he said, “Brother Branham, you’re making too much of a mistake.”
I said, “Pardon me, my brother. Tell me where it’s at.”
He said, “You cut at people too hard.” Said, “You’re… For instance, you—you’re always bawling the—the women out from the way they dress. And you’re always slamming this and that.” He said, “You better quit that. You’ll ruin your ministry.”
I said, “Any time that the Word of God ruins my ministry, God, ruin it right quick, because I—I want it ruined.” That—that’s right. I want to give something that’s right. The Word of God teaches that. And I say, “God give us boldness, and men that’ll stand for the truth, regardless of what comes or goes.” That’s what we need.
The Gospel’s not something for a sissy; Gospel is for men, God-called men.
15 You never judge a man by how big his hands is, and how wide his shoulders is. I’ve heard them say, “Oh, isn’t he a man.” I’ve seen men that weighed two hundred pounds, didn’t have an ounce of man in him. That’s right. You don’t measure a man by his size. That’s brute. You measure him by his character. There never was a greater character Man than Jesus Christ.
A big body… A mule’s stouter than any man, so he, or elephant. So that’d be brute. But a man’s not how big a muscle he’s got. I don’t measure him by that, but how the bags is in the knees of his trousers, where he’s been praying. That’s the man that’s to be measured: character.
Jesus was a small Man, little Fellow, probably stooped shouldered. At thirty years old; He looked fifty, the Bible said. But there never was a man on earth like Him and never will be. He—He… The Bible said, “There was no beauty for Him that—that we should desire Him. When we seen Him we hid as it was our face from Him,” and all like that.
But yet, it pleased God to—to smite Him. And He was smitten, stricken, and afflicted. He bore our transgressions, was bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes we were healed. Oh, it should be attractive to people. It really should. It should stir the heart.
61-0208 – “Sirs, We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 61
And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. (Mark 7:24-30)
18 When the little girl died, Jairus’ daughter, the priest, said, “Come lay hands on her, and she’ll live.” But when the Roman centurion, the Gentile, said. “I’m not worthy You come under my roof, speak the word.” That’s it. See?
19 The Syrophoenician woman, Greek actually what she was, when she—when Jesus said to her, said, “It’s not meet for Me to take the children’s bread and give it to the dogs.”
She said, “That’s true, Lord; but the dogs under the table eats the children’s crumbs.”
He said, “For this saying, the devil’s left your daughter.” Say good things then. Say something good about somebody. Talk about Jesus. Say something loyal, something real. That’s the way to get rid of devils. He never said—He never prayed for the girl. He never said one thing about her being healed; He just said, “For this saying, for this saying…”
20 Hattie Wright, the other day, she didn’t ask for nothing. She was just setting there, but she said the right thing, which pleased the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit spoke back and said, “Hattie, ask anything that you will, whatever you got and you want. Find out whether this is real or not. Ask anything (the healing of her little crippled sister setting there all drawed up; ten thousand dollars to keep her from digging on them hills over there; the youth restored to her well run-down body); whatever you want to ask, you ask it right now. If It don’t come and give it to you right now, then I’m a false prophet.” That’s—that’s that’s something, isn’t it?
21 Jesus said, “Say to this mountain…” And you’ve heard the—about what’s been taken place; that’s the ministry that we’re entering into. We’re way up the road now. Soon the Coming of the Lord Jesus. And we’ve got to have rapturing faith in a Church that can be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye to go out, or we’ll not go. But don’t worry, it’ll be there. It’ll be there. And when the power of this church rises, it’ll bring its brethren; the power of that church rises, will bring its brethren; the power of that church will bring the other brethren; then there’ll be a general resurrection. And we’re looking forward to it.
59-1219 – “Questions And Answers On The Holy Ghost”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 62
And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand? (Mark 8:15-21)
Sin is so—so enticing. Oh, it’s glamour. And it’s got a very appetizing appeal, sin has. It’s so innocent. Why, it looks so… it looks so innocent. Don’t you listen to it.
15 After while, when Joshua took the land, God told him, “Utterly destroy everything there is there. Don’t leave nothing.” Why, could you imagine some of them Israelite women picking up a little baby? “Oh, isn’t it cute? Look at its… it ain’t even got teeth yet.”
Joshua said, “Kill it.”
The mother said, “Oh, I’m a mother. I can’t kill that baby.”
“You must. Hand it here.”
Why? It might look cute now, but it’ll grow up and be just like its daddy. You can’t baby sin. It’s got to be handled with—not with gloves on, but barehanded. We want to be nice. Everybody does. We want… But what is nice? We want to be humble. What is humility? We want to be full of compassion. What is compassion?
Jesus, a man full of compassion, passed through two or three thousand people, water-head babies, crippled, blind, halt, withered. He had compassion. What did He do? Walked over where the Father showed Him, a man that had maybe prostate trouble, or something, and healed him and walked away, and left the rest of them: a Man full of compassion.
16 Now, people today… Our English words turn the people around. See? That’s human sympathy; that’s not compassion. There’s a lot of difference between sympathy and compassion. They’re two different words altogether. And we use them the same.
Now, the Word doesn’t use any compassion; it’s got to be obeyed. Stay with that Word, no matter how bad it cuts. How would you think it’d destroy babies, and innocent women, and things like that, so-called? One little leaven leavens the whole lump. That’s the same thing started back there with Eve. It looked awful cunning.
“Why, you’ll be wise. Surely you’ll not die. He’s too good. He wouldn’t kill you. But surely you’ll not die.” But God said you would die. That started the whole thing, right there. See? You’ve got to stay with that Word, regardless.
62-0408 – “Presuming”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 63
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36-37)
40 When the Angel of the Lord touched Jacob, he walked different from then on. He was a big fine running coward on one side, but a limping prince on the other side of the brook. You walk different; and you think different. He wasn’t afraid to meet Esau then, because he had wrestled with the Angel. Think on your ways.
It was Moses who was living peacefully, marrying the sheik of Midian’s daughter, Zipporah. And while he was out there herding the sheep, one day on the backside of the desert with a familiar old path he was walking down, herding the sheep, at peace. Israel was in bondage under slavery. He was thinking on his ways. “This is not my job as a sheepherder. God called me to be a preacher.”
How do I know that I’m not preaching to a Moses tonight that’s out yonder in a steel factory, or down here at the pulp factory, or out yonder driving a truck somewhere, that God hasn’t commissioned you to save souls. Instead of doing it, you’ve got you a job to make your daily bread, living at ease, and thousands of souls going into destruction.
41 How do I know that I’m not preaching to a man or a woman that’s called to the mission field, and yet you’re selling that birthright for a morsel of bread. Come to yourself. Think on your ways. See what it will gain you… What will you prosper by it? If you gain the whole world and lose your soul, what have you done? Think on your ways.
And as Moses begin to think on his ways, “I’m a murderer; I’m a coward. God called me to be a preacher. He’s… I was borned a peculiar birth. I was hid in the bulrushes. I’ll never forget my mother’s story when she told me that God had called me. I had the message in my heart. But I got so much theology in me, why, I tried to do it my own way. But still there’s a God somewhere or He’d never spared my life.”
While he was thinking on his ways, he happened to look sideways and there was a burning bush to answer him. God have mercy.
42 There’s a burning bush here tonight to answer every brother away from a call of God. Think on your ways. The Holy Ghost is here to heal the sick, showing signs and wonders and miracles. Many of you people has wanted to be a Christian. Many of you has wanted to do something for God. And you’ve neglected it for the washtub, for a job out yonder in a factory somewhere.
Some of you women that ought to be home with your kids, reading the Bible to them. You got a job out yonder to make a extra dollar. Shame on you. God gave you a job; that’s raise them children. Teach them the things of God. It’s the truth. Think on your ways, woman. What will them dollars do? They’ll ring like Judas Iscariot’s did. Think on your ways and turn your foot to His testimonies, unto His Blood, unto His grace, unto His offer.
“As I thought on my ways,” said David, “I turned my feet to thy testimony.” Sure. Think on your ways as you go.
59-0814 – “As I Thought On My Ways”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 64
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. (Mark 9:23)
Now, when the Angel came to your servant here, he said, “If you’ll get the people to believe you.” Now, there’s the hard thing. “If you’ll get the people to believe you…” How many believes God? All of you, don’t you? You believe Christ, you believe the Holy Ghost.
24 Now, that’s not the question tonight. I’m glad you do that. That makes you a Christian. But that is not what I’m trying to get to you—you now. I get to that when make my altar call. You must believe Them first. If you’re not in connection with Them, you’ll never know this.
But as much as you believe in Them, you still got to believe that I’m telling you the truth, and what I say is the truth.
Jesus was the… He was… His hands was bound and tied to any miracle, or anything, any kind of a miracle, because the people did not believe Him.
And the very people that believed God killed Him. Is that right? No matter how much they believed in God… They were very religious, orthodox. Very religious. And they believed God. But to believe Him, oh, no. Uh-uh. See? That was too much. Ma… A Man? They couldn’t believe no Man. They could believe God.
25 And tonight, so many people can believe God. Sure. You believe Christ, you believe the Holy Ghost, and so forth. But when a man comes to you and tells something, that’s hard to believe. “I don’t know whether I can believe you or not, friend.” That’s where it’s at. See there?
That’s the reason God can’t… That’s the reason your pastor sometimes, when your pastor comes to you. The reason he can’t help you, you’ve got to have faith in your pastor. You’ve got to believe that he’s a man of God, sent of God to do these things for Him.
26 Now, Divine healing died out for a while here a few years ago; it just let down, as it happens through the age of the history. It’s let down so often. And during that time, cancer broke out, sickness in the church. Oh, my.
Eighty percent of the people are sick now. And the people… Medical science, I salute them. They do great things. They make medicine to sell. And… I said, “to sell.” All right. It’s all right for those who want to take it. It’s all right for them.
But look. But in the phase we got today, the best doctors we ever had. Do you believe that? We got the best hospitals we ever had. Have we? We got the best drugs we ever practiced with, haven’t we? And we got more sickness than we ever had, haven’t we? Because we got more unbelief than we ever had, haven’t we? That’s right. Exactly. Only God is the Healer. That’s right.
And did you ever notice? Right in the days when we got all these fine drugs, and operation, and surgeons, and so forth; constantly they are building infirmaries for the incurable. Is that right? And there never was nothing that ever come before our Master, Jesus, but what He was more than a match for it. And no incurables to Him. All things are possible. Is that right? And He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Then nothing too incurable for Him.
50-0110 – “Moses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 65
And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. (Exodus 11:4-6)
113 And I tell you, brother, if there ever was a time that the death angel is riding the land, it’s tonight. He comes to the church door where the priest stands. And a church that’s denying the Blood and the power of Jesus Christ, there’s going on there, “the glory of God has departed,” the death angel goes in and that settles it. They become formal and dead and denying God’s power. And the first thing you know, death is all over the whole group of them. You’d never get them to believe anything. They can’t believe it.
114 Now, watch this death angel. I can see the father. Now, they were supposed, when the sun went down and darkness set in, they once come under the blood of that lamb, they had to stay under there until marching orders was give. Brother, this is good for you Nazarenes, now.
115 Look, coming under the blood… Once under that blood, put it on the lintel of the door and on the post. But every time a man come through that door into this home, he stayed there until marching orders come to go out of Egypt. I like that. Stay there.
116 How I can see the young ladies going to the parties that night, to the young Israelite girls, saying, “Come on, Rebekah,” and so forth, “come on out, and we’re going to…”
117 “I can’t do it.”
118 “Why?”
119 “Well, we’re under the blood.” Oh, my. “We’re under the blood.”
120 “Oh, come on, let’s go. Nonsense, that old crazy religion your daddy’s got there.”
121 “But look, Something in my heart tells me that I mustn’t go beyond that blood.”
122 And on they went to their big parties and so forth. Then along about midnight there begin to come a strange feeling, just like coming over the world again now, we spoke of a while ago. Something’s wrong: great, howling darkness set upon the earth; winds begin to blow. I can see the little boy in this home here where we’re going to go. Look at him, he says, “Say, what is that? I—I—I kind of feel funny. I see all the young girls was at the dances, they’re hurrying up home.”
123 Oh, my. It’s too late to pray then. Now, the first thing you know, he begin to—he begins to look around. I can hear the little boy say, “Daddy, did—did—did the Word say that the elder son was going to be killed in the home?”
124 “Yes.”
125 “Well, Daddy, what about our home?”
126 “Son, we’re just as safe as we can be.”
127 “How do you know you’re safe?”
128 “We’ve obeyed God’s Word. We got… we’re under the blood.”
53-1201 – “God’s Provided Way”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 66
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:12-13)
125 Remember, if that token was not displayed, even the covenant was annulled. That’s right. The covenant was annulled. There was no—there was no covenant as long as that token wasn’t there. The token stood for the covenant. God made a covenant with them, yes, sir, but the token had to be. It wasn’t in effect, the covenant wasn’t, unless the token was there.
126 There might be many Jews could say, “Come here! I ain’t got no blood on my door, but I want to show you something, I’m a circumcised Jew. I am circumcised.” That didn’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] “When I see the blood! When I see the token!”
127 You might say, “I am Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist,” or whatever you want to be.
But, “When I see the Token!”
128 You say, “I’m a believer. My mother was a member of this church. My daddy was a member of this church. I’ve been a member there since a child.” That don’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger—Ed.] “I don’t lie, steal. I don’t do this. I…” That don’t mean that. [Brother Branham snaps his finger.] “I belong to Branham Tabernacle. I do this, that, or the other. I believe all the Word.”
129 Them Jews could say, “I believe Jehovah!” He’d a listened to the Message of the hour, if he did. Certainly.
They’d had a lot of messages, but This was the Message of the hour. See? I believe the Message of the hour. Yeah. The blood was applied in the evening time.
They might have said, “I, I’m a Jew.”
130 People say today, “I’m a Christian. I can show you my long membership. I want you to tell me where I ever stole anything, was ever in law courts. Show me where I ever committed adultery, I ever done all these things, or something like that. Show me one place.” That don’t mean a thing now. Oh, no. See, no matter how much covenant he was, the covenant is without effect. It’s non-effective.
You say, “Well, I’m a Bible student.”
131 I don’t care what you are. Without that covenant, the wrath of God is upon you. That’s right. It’s caught up with you. Yeah. “Your sins will find you out.” What is sin? Unbelief. You’ve disbelieved the Message. You’ve disbelieved the Word. You’ve disbelieved the witness of the Token, Itself, when It’s identified Itself in the midst of us. And have you disbelieved That? No matter how much you disbelieve It, It’s got to be applied.
63-0901m – “Token”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 67
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. (Mark 10:35-40)
37 When they crossed over, got over on the other side, he said, “Now, you’ve asked. Ask what you will, and I will give it to you.” Perfect type of the Church.
“All right,” he said, “I want a double portion of your spirit.” Amen. Don’t be scared to ask. Ask abundantly. “You have not, because you ask not. You ask not, because you believe not.” That’s right. Ask, ask a whole lot. God will give you a whole lot. Have a lot of faith.
A fellow told me the other day; he said, “He was riding an old model-T Ford, yet.” Said, “One day he happened to get some good faith and God give him a Buick.” Said, “I got a Buick faith, I’m—I’m praying for Cadillac faith.” All right. That’s good. That’s right. Keep on. What you believe, hold on to it. God will give it. He’s got Ford faith, so just stay with the Ford then, that’s all right. And so… Let’s get a little more faith. All right.
38 Now, notice. Then he said, “Nevertheless, if you see me go, you’ll have what you ask.” So he walked on. I can see him keeping his eye on that prophet. I can hear something say, “Oh, Elijah, look over this way.”
“No, no, I’m keeping my eye right on Elijah.” So he walked on, a type of the Church and a type of Christ, Christ being the Church, the Elijah, rather. And Elisha was a type of the Church, single.
A woman came to Jesus one time, and said, “Grant that my sons, one will sit on the right hand, and on the left hand.”
He said, “That is not Mine to give. But can you drink the cup that I drink?”
“Yes.”
“And can you be baptized with the baptism that I’m baptized with?”
Said, “Yes.”
Said, “You truly can. But the right and left hand in not Mine to give.”
39 Now watch. Baptized with the same baptism. Notice. He watched him. After while a chariot of fire come down and parted them, and the old prophet jumped on the chariot and went up in the rapture, as Jesus went up in the resurrection. And when he went up, then as he was going up, he pulled off his coat, and threw it down, and Elisha picked up his coat, put it over his own shoulders, walked down to the Jordan: a very beautiful type of Christ being taken up, baptized with the Holy Ghost. And when He went up into glory, He sent back the Holy Ghost for us to wear. The Church is baptized with the mantle of Christ.
“These things that I do,” a double portion? Yes. What? “These things that I do shall you also, and greater than this will you do, for I go to My Father.” Is that right? A double portion.
Pulled off his mantle and fought, folded it, and let it drop back down on the disciples at Pentecost. And brother, sister, if we’ve got the Pentecostal blessing, then in the Name of the Lord Jesus, let’s walk down there and strike her. Where is the God that was on Jesus Christ? Where is the power of His resurrection? Hallelujah.
53-0508 – “God Commissioning Moses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 68
And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Mark 11:15-17)
55 Just let me ask you something. You can’t believe nothing, hardly, but the Bible. We still have Christ; thanks to God. See? You—you can’t believe anything. You get on…For instance, when you turn your television on (you that have such), and when you turn your television on and see the—the commercials, well, if a person tried to live by one hundredth of those commercials, you’d die in a week. See, you couldn’t do it. And the very thing that some company will break down, like a product, and say, “This is the thing here, and don’t have this one over here,” and the same company sells the same product. Then another commercial will come on, take this on this side and not that, and the same company. The American people fall for such stuff as that, till the whole thing is become a rotten, until there’s no hopes at all. Nobody knows what to believe. But I’m going to tell you after a while what to believe, if you want comfort, if the Lord willing.
56 The people, they lie, cheat, steal, till you almost have to have a bond of security to borrow five dollars from somebody. It’s a…You know, the Bible speaks that, that there’d be no love in the last days but just amongst the elect people. That’s right. The Scripture speaks of that, that the husband would be against wife, and wife against husband, children against parents. Just among the Elected of the Lord will there be any love left.
57 The churches has got into the same thing out of social life. They brought it into the church, their social life and their politics and their other things, until they’ve got the church so confused that it doesn’t know what to do. They brought politics into church. They brought also social life, their social life in the church, their social activities, bingo or bunco, or ever what they call it, and these suppers and dances, and so forth, in the house of the Lord. Why, it’s—it’s a pity.
They say, “Well, now, that isn’t, that’s on the annex.”
58 Remember, it was the annex also that Jesus beat the—the merchants out with their merchandise, and said, “It’s written, ‘My Father’s house is made a house of Prayer,’ and you have made it a den of thieves.” See? It’s wrong, I don’t care where it’s at. As long as the church…The church is not so much the building, it’s the people in the building. And if those people are anticipating in this, why, it’s wrong. And they’ve brought that practice.
59 Now we find out that the churches, too, are always promising something, like television and so forth, that they never get to the—the thing they promised. As I have often said, an old quotation, “Man is always praising God for what He did, praising God for what He will do (looking forward to what He will do), and then ignore what He’s doing.” See, they—they—they fail. And that’s the way they become history after a while, of the polluted, see, because they fail to recognize now! You can talk of the comfort Christ give once, and say that a comfort He will give in the ages to come, but refuse the comfort that He’s got here now for you. See? It’s on the same basis we find that. Well, it’s become a great thing. Now find out that they—they come…
63-0721 – “He Cares. Do You Care?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 69
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. (Exodus
14:19-22)
27 Look, here’s what they had done. They had left the garlic pots of Egypt to eat Angel’s food and was complaining. Could you think of it? Yes, we see it. They had also; they had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from that spiritual Rock, still complaining about it. They had left the boasting physicians of Egypt, that boasted how great they were, to be with the great Physician that there wasn’t—even their clothes didn’t get threadbare, and there wasn’t a feeble one among them when they come from the wilderness, still complaining. And then they had left the—they’d also left the people that said the days of miracles is past, to be with the people that’s got signs following the believers.
Now, isn’t that just the same today. You come up out of that old cold formal stuff, got the Holy Ghost, and God fills you with goodness, and you’re drinking from that Fountain that never runs dry, and all them things there, joy unspeakable and full of glory, and then go to complaining. Just the same thing. First thing you know, you’re bypassed off out into the desert. That’s the way God does it. It’s just that way. It… The pe… God doesn’t do it; the people does it themselves. Their own carnal thinking does it.
28 They had seen ten powerful miracles performed down in Egypt: flies, lice, fire, death angel. All they had seen in Egypt. All these great miracles that they’d seen God do, and were still carnal thinkers. And then they saw the Red Sea, that was laying in the path of duty. They were on their road marching then, come out, there was a Pillar of Fire before them, and they marched on to the Red Sea. And when they got there, right in the line of duty laid an obstacle. And first thing you know, fear struck them, and they didn’t know what to do.
That’s the way people does today. When fear strikes them when they’re right in the path of duty… Listen, brother, let me say this: If you’re walking in the light, having fellowship with God, with His people, and the Holy Spirit is upon you, and you meet an obstacle right in the path of duty, don’t stop, just keep pressing on. God will make a way through it. That’s one of the greatest experiences of my life, is to see God. When I can’t get over it, get under it, get around it, or anyway, God opens up a way and I go through it. Somehow or another His grace is sufficient to carry us through it.
60-0723 – “Speak To The Rock And It Shall Give Forth His Water”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 70
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. (Exodus 15:23-26)
169 And Moses had all the remedy. And when he was out there, think, Moses had about two million people with him. He had little children. He had old men, old women. He had cripples, and blind. Babies were born, thousands of them, in a week’s time. And Moses, Dr. Moses, was out there in the wilderness with all these people. I’d like to look into his medicine chest, wouldn’t you? I’d like to see what Dr. Moses had in the medicine chest. Let’s just take a little peep over in the medicine chest and see what he had.
170 “Moses, why, what’d you have in there, Moses?” Why, we find out that when all that forty-years journey, over two more million babies was born. That’s right. “What did you use, Moses? What did you use for all those hurts and aches and cancers, and blindness, and deafness, and dumbness? Why, they tell me, that when you come out of the wilderness, there wasn’t a feeble one among them.” Say, wouldn’t some of these doctors like to look into that, that medicine cabinet?
171 “And another thing, Moses, what did you sprinkle on those people, till even their clothes didn’t wear out? Their shoes never wore out, walking on those rocks.” If you ever been there, you know what the desert looks like, they wear out a pair of shoes in three days. And they never even wore one speck of the leather off of them, in forty years. “Moses, what was in your medicine chest?”
172 Let’s look into it. I see him, “Got one prescription, ‘I am the Lord that healeth thee.’” That settles it. Amen.
173 Said, “Oh, Moses, my father has been over here, he has just fell and broke his leg. What have you got for him?”
174 “Let me look and see. ‘If thou will obey My voice, do all I command, I’ll put none of these diseases upon you, as the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee.’ Tell him that.” He got well. Amen. That’s right.
“Oh, he’s seriously sick! My baby has got the colic, or the pneumonia, so bad! Dr. Moses, what can I do?”
175 “Let me see what I got. ‘I’m the Lord that healeth thee.’” That settles it. Amen. Away they went. That’s right. Going on, rejoicing. That’s all he needed, “I’m the Lord that healeth thee.”
176 Out of six hundred and something, definite promises of Divine healing, in the New Testament alone, and yet we question God, tonight. What will the Judgment mean for us? Right.
54-0330 – “Redemption In Completeness, In Joy”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 71
The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (Isaiah 50:5-6)
54 Now, we find out that the Spirit of God was in Him. All the old prophets spoke of Him. All the spirits, in portion, every little portion, wasn’t glorifying hisself (true prophets), all the true prophets was manifesting Him, speaking of Him. And everything they said was fulfilled in Him. Showed it was the Spirit of God in them, it was fulfilled. What was it? God speaking of Himself. See? God manifesting Himself through these prophets.
55 Not taking glory, “Who’ll be the next President? And who’ll be this?” And hit you on the head, “Tell us who hit you and we’ll believe you.” That isn’t it. It’s something to manifest God. It isn’t something to make Brother Weathers here, or Brother Shores, or Brother So-and-so out there, a great man, and make him a greater than the rest of the men of his group, make him the greatest man in Phoenix. It isn’t to make William Branham something great. But what is it to do? It isn’t to make Oral Roberts something great, Billy Graham something great. But it’s the hearts, we’re trying to achieve something for the Kingdom of God. It’s manifesting God. All gifts and things doesn’t make one greater than the other, it just makes us all working together for the perfection of the body, to bring us together as one people, as a people of God. But when you see them going contrary, don’t curse them; just let them alone, somebody has to do it. But wait till Jesus comes in power.
56 Now we see all those prophets speaking. Every one of them was glorifying God and the coming Messiah. And when they got in the Spirit, they acted and spoke and lived the life out just like the Messiah did. If it did that side the cross, speaking of His coming, how much more will it after His coming, will put the Spirit of Messiah in the Church to act, do, work, and live like the Messiah? It’s the Spirit of God.
57 Discern that spirit, see whether it is of God or not. See whether it acts like Him. See if your emotions…If somebody kicks up something against you and throws dirt upon your life, when you know you’re as innocent as you can be, and you know that you’ve got the Spirit of God, don’t try to separate yourself. Don’t try to act mean towards them. Don’t curse them. Just walk on, knowing that God did that to give you a test to see how you’d take it. He’ll have to come to it anyhow.
60-0308 – “Discernment Of Spirit”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 72
Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God. (2 Chron. 33:11-13)
92 Here not long ago in Chicago, a Full Gospel group called for a meeting. And they went to a certain big Bible school, and they got a great intellectual speaker. And it was advertised all over the city, about this great speaker from a certain great school, with such a name, my, and all the degrees on the end of the name, until they thought that would just be it. And when crowds gathered in to hear the man, when he raised up in the back of the building with a suit on, the collar turned around, and his speech under his arm, walked up and spread it across the place.
93 And the speech, my, it was superb. There was no one could say a word against that speech. It was perfect. The grammar was exact. His actions and his pulpit manners were perfect. He never stammered, stuttered, or slobbered, like a lot of us do. But he—but he…He brought his speech out, with such eloquence.
94 But he thought, “With this bunch of an illiterate people, I’ll get up there and show them what it really means to be a preacher.” With his chest out, he walked up, all puffed up, and gave this speech. But he found out that didn’t set with that kind of a crowd. It went over the top of their heads. So much great, big swelled-out words, they didn’t get it.
95 So after while, when he seen he was wrong, he gathered up his speech and put it on his arm. His shoulders dropped. His head dropped. His knees hanging. He drooped back down, humble, humiliated, off of the pulpit.
96 There was an old saint setting back there, looking around, touched another one, said, “If he would have went up the way he come down, he’d have come down the way he went up.”
97 So that’s just about right, until man knows that he knows nothing, and he’ll humble hisself before God and expect the Holy Ghost to do the work. That’s the thing. Man cannot achieve nothing by his intellectuals. He must depend solely upon God.
62-0119 – “An Ensign”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 73
And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee. But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I. And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all. (Mark 14:27-31)
599 You’ll make mistakes. You’ll fall. You’ll wilfully do wrong. You’ll go out sometime and do things. That don’t mean that you’re lost. That means that you’re going to get correction.
600 My little boy, lots of times, my children, will do things. Your does, too. That you…They know that’s against your—your rules. And they know what to expect when they do it. They’re going to get a whipping for it, sometimes a good one. But it’s still your child. Certainly.
601 It’s impossible for that man to ever be gone again, that’s once been born of Eternal Life. God is not an Indian giver. “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life; and shall never come to the Judgment, but is passed from death unto Life. I’ll raise him up at the last days.” That’s God’s promise.
602 Now if you go on, say, “Oh, well, then I can do just…” I always do what I want to do. But if you’re a Christian, you don’t want to do the thing that’s wrong, ’cause the very Life in you, the very foundation. If you want to do wrong, it shows the wrong thing is in here. “How can bitter and sweet water come from the same fountain?”
603 So you been all mixed up, on some kind of emotion or fabulous something, another sensation. Forget it. Go back to the altar and say, “God, take my old sinful life away, and put me in such a condition that my whole desire…”
“He that’s born of God does not commit sin.” That’s right. He has no desire to do so.
604 Certainly, the devil will trap him here and there, but not wilfully. The Bible said so. The devil will trap him, now and then. Sure, he will. He tried to throw a traps for our Lord Jesus. He did to Moses, and caught him. He did to Peter, and caught him. He did to many, but…Peter even denied Him, but then he went and wept bitterly. There was Something in him.
57-0915m – “Hebrews, Chapter Six #3”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 74
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priest and the scribes and the elders. And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely. And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him. (Mark 14:43-45)
69 The devil is religious as he can be, smart, scholarly, polished, but yet know no more about God than a rabbit would know about snowshoes. And here he comes up, walks up like that and falls down and worships Jesus, this maniac did. Well, you say, “Would that be the devil?” Why, Judas even come and kissed Him and betrayed Him by a kiss.
Religious spirits, certainly they are. Someone said, “Well…” This fellow goes ahead to write and said, “Why, religious spirits,” said, “don’t get around them Pentecostal people.” Said, “If you do, that spirit will get on you.” And said, “It’s of the devil.” Don’t get on… That’s right.
70 Listen. He said, “The Bible said,” said, “there was… Believe not every spirit, but try them see if they’re of—of God.” That’s exactly what the Bible did. And Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” See if that’s right or not, try it by the Spirit. Sure.
And the religious spirit all down through every age has always been a denier. The devils spirit that’s religious has denied the real genuine Spirit. And every time God’s Spirit comes, signs and wonders follows the Spirit.
Look in the days back there when Cain worshipped. He had a form of godliness. He built an altar; he built a church; he built everything just as religious as Ad… Abel was. But look, here’s a little something… I’m way off my subject; I don’t aim to keep it anyhow.
71 So look, in the days of Cain and Abel, notice, Cain was just as religious as Abel was. And notice, when he worshipped, he built his altars; he made it pretty just like a fine big church. He—he wasn’t an unbeliever; he bowed down and worshipped. And God absolutely refused him.
If God’s just and only requires faith in Him, if God only requires faith, only requires sacrifice, only requires membership of the church, God would be unjust to condemn that boy. For he absolutely was a believer in God. He confessed the same publicly, he was a believer in God.
He built a church to the Lord, an altar; he brought his fruits in and made it beautiful, and made a sacrifice and done obligations, and worshipped the Lord. Brother, that’s a pretty good church member today. Is that right? And God refused him.
72 But look, coming here, at Abel, not with working. Wrapped a little vine around this old sheep’s neck, and here he come pulling him up there, throwed him upon the altar and begin to beat his throat, and killed him. Why? Abel had a revelation. We’re letting that soak just a minute.
It was a revelation that Abel had that made him just. He had a revelation of the requirement of Almighty God, and he brought a lamb. And that’s the only way that you’ll ever be able to see Divine healing, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it’ll be by revelation.
54-0720A – “The Maniac Of Gadara”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 75
And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. (Exodus 20:1-17)
27 Did you ever eat it with salted crackers, them old barrel crackers, big ones, did you ever eat that and peppermint candy? Did you ever eat brown sugar with it? I tell you, the second thing I ever stole in my life, and the only thing that I know of, was a handful of brown sugar from my daddy. They had some brown sugar in a box, and made molasses for breakfast. Did you ever eat brown sugar molasses? Oh, my. So, I’m going home with somebody for dinner after while.
I went in, my brother said to me, said, “If you’ll go get the sugar, I’ll get the cracker.”
I said, “All right.”
Mother and Dad was hoeing in the garden. And I went in and got a big handful, enough for both of us. I was walking out with that; you can’t even look straight when you’re telling a lie, you know. So I walking along like that, down along the garden, only way I had to get out. And dad turned around, said, “Where you going, William?”
I said, “Sir?”
He said, “Where you going?”
I said, “I’m—I’m going down at the barn.”
And he said, “What you got in your hand?”
And I thought, “Oh, oh.” I changed; I said, “Which hand?” You know.
“Come here.” Oh, my. I didn’t want no more sugar for a long time. Sure tasted good, though. I’m talking about the sugar, yet. Well, when my father gave us a whipping, he had a—a razor strap made out of a piece of belt leather. Oh, my. I’d…
And he had up over the door, the Golden Rule, and it had all Ten Commandments on it. It was out of hickory. A limb about that long, you know, with them ten branches out on it. We got our education out in the woodshed, just running around Dad as hard as we could go like that.
Listen, if we had some more dads like that we’d be better off. Amen. That’s right, instead of appeasing your child and giving him fifty cents to go to the picture show on Sunday afternoon. That’s right.
51-0722A – “Life Story”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 76
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. (Mark 15:33-39)
24 I can notice Moses before the great separation time. Before death come to strike the land, God made a way of escape for those who believed: said, “Go out and get a male lamb. Keep it up fourteen days.” Perfect type of Christ. First one from the old mother ewe, must be a male kept up fourteen days to be proved. It couldn’t have a blemish.
Christ, the same thing, first One from the mother, virgin, and was tried… Even Pontius Pilate said, “I find no fault in Him.” No one could find it.
Judas Iscariot said, “I’ve betrayed innocent Blood.”
That pagan wife back there of Pilate, had a dream and sent the—the boy down from the palace. I can see Pilate standing there just ready to pronounce judgment upon Jesus. I hear a horse come running, galloping up there. A boy jumps off and runs up, falls down by the side of the—his master; raised up and give him a piece of paper. He looks at it. I can see his face turn white, knees go to flopping together. Let’s look over his shoulder and see what it says.
25 It coming from a heathen now. Said, “Have nothing to do with this just Man. For I’ve suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”
I tell you. Every enemy had to testify of Him. The moon, stars shut off their glory to that day. That was the Son of God. The Roman centurion said, “Truly, that was the Son of God.”
And he said, “I’ve betrayed innocent Blood.” Hallelujah. Yes, sir. He’s God’s provided way tonight.
Here’s… Every man or woman that’s ever had any—done anything for God, has been men and women who’s believed that, held onto it, and kept it. It’s thrilled the hearts of poets through the ages.
When I think of Eddie Perronet back there, what do you think of Christ, Eddie Perronet, when he wrote the—the great song of:
All hail the power of Jesus’ Name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him Lord of all.
26 And I think of Hopkins, after being persecuted and everything, the way he did. He said.
When I survey the wondrous cross
Whereon the Prince of glory died,
I count all my pain to be but loss…
53-0613 – “God’s Provided Way”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 77
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:15-18)
41 It reminds me of a lady in Chicago. Her boy went away to a seminary, to learn to be a minister, some Bible school and seminary. And while he was away, the old mother took real seriously sick. And so they sent word for the boy to ‘stand by,’ his mother with such a high fever, she had pneumonia, and said that (she) it—it might be an emergency call. So the boy packed his clothes and got ready. Finally, the next day, he never heard no word through the night, and the next day, said, “All is well.”
42 So about a year later, he returned from the school in the East, some great school of teaching. And he came home and he greeted his precious mother, and he said, after talking a while, said, “Mother, I never did get the chance to ask you what happened.” Said, “One night they told me to ‘stand by’, and the next morning, said you were ‘well.’” Said, “What drug did the—the doctor use?”
Said, “Honey, the doctor didn’t use nothing.”
He said, “Well, how did you do it?”
43 Said, “You know where that little mission is down here on… almost to the loop, there at the square?”
“Yes.”
44 Said, “There was a lady. They was having a prayer meeting down there, one night, in this little mission, that poor little humble bunch of people, and,” said, “one of them was inspired to come up here and see me. And two women came, and they asked me if they could bring their pastor up and—and pray for me, and anoint me with oil, and—and,” said, “and lay their hands upon me, that I’d be well.” And said, “You know, I told them ‘sure.’ And they brought the pastor up, and he laid his hands upon me, and prayed.” And said, “Honey, he read it right out of the Bible, Mark the 16th chapter, said, ‘These signs will follow them that believe.’” And said, “You know what? The next morning, the doctor was so puzzled, he didn’t know what to do. There was no fever in me.”
45 “Oh,” he said, “mother, you didn’t associate with that group, did you?” Said, “See,” he said, “we in the school, we learned that Mark 16, from the 9th verse on, is not inspired.”
She said, “Glory to God!”
46 “Why,” he said, “mother, you’re beginning to act like those people.”
47 She said, “I was just thinking something.” Said, “I’ve been reading the Bible, all the way through, and other promises in other places, too, similar to that.” And said, “I was just thinking, if God could heal me with the uninspired, what would He do with that really is inspired?” That’s right.
48 To me, it’s all inspired. God, give me faith to believe it and confirm it!
64-0621 – “The Trial”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 78
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. (Isaiah 55:1-3)
38 But when you go to this cheap entertainment, you must remember that you’ve got to take lots of money. A young fellow who takes his girl friend to these parties and these dances, and so forth, is going to pay great lot of his week’s earnings. And the old people who try to find pleasure in going to the beer parlors, to drink away their sorrows of the week, they’re going to have to pay great money. And what do they get from it? They don’t get nothing but heartache.
39 And remember, you got to settle up with God someday for it. “And the wages of sin is death.” You don’t make nothing here on earth, by it. It’s a false mirage. Drinking will only add sorrow. Sin will only add death upon death. Your final check will be separation from God, Eternally, into the Lake of Fire. And you cannot gain anything, but lose.
40 Then God comes and asks the question, “Why do you spend your money for those things that satisfies not? Why do you do it?”
41 What makes man want to do it? They spend all that they’ve got, all that they can earn, to buy drinking, to clothe some woman that they run with, or some kind of a worldly, lustful pleasures.
42 But we are told in the Bible, and are bid to come to God, “And to buy Eternal joy and Eternal Life, without money or without price.”
43 Those things cannot satisfy, and the end of them is Eternal death. And it cost you all the money that you can muster together, to be the—the big shot or the entertainer, or the fun boy, or whatever you might be, or the popular girl, or whatever it is. It cost all you can get together, to do that. Dress in the very highest of dressings, and—and do the things that the world does, only to reap a check of Eternal damnation.
44 God said, then, “Why?” What are we going to do at the Day of Judgment, when we are asked why did we do that? What’s going to be our answer? What’s going to be the answer to modern America, who says that they are a Christian nation? And there’s more money spent for whiskey, in a year’s time, than there is for food. “Why spend your money for those kind of things?” Yet, the government would send you to penitentiary, for five dollars worth of taxes that you had sent maybe to some institution that wasn’t correctly set in order to receive taxes, to send some missionary overseas. We’re going to be asked some day, “Why did you do it?”
45 We are a Christian nation, and billions are sent to those people over there, that we’re trying to buy their friendship. Now they’re turning it down. No wonder Khrushchev said, “If there is a God, He’ll sweep His palace clean again.” The heathens can make such statements, to bring shame upon us. What a ridiculous thing it is! And we call ourselves Christians.
46 God said, “Come, buy Eternal Life, without money, without price.” Life, to live forever, and we turn our backs on It and laugh in His face. What are we going to do on that Day? What’s going to be…?
59-0802 – “Without Money Or Without Price”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 79
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. (Luke 1:26-31)
24 As she was thinking, not noticing who was around her, the little lady perhaps with a pair of sandals on her feet, walking along this little dusty path, but thinking of the Lord and of His promises of—of things to come… And as she was thinking, all of a sudden that feeling got so great around her until she just raised up her head. And when she did, standing before her was a Light. And standing by that Light was Gabriel the Angel, the Archangel of God.
If you want Angels to appear to you, keep your mind on God and off the things of the world. Go about your business; go to your church; go to your washing of dishes; wherever you are, keep your mind on Him all day and all night long. Then God will do something. You’re drawing close to Him; you’ve got the world shut out; just you and He are together.
25 This appearing of the Angel frightened the little virgin. She had been taught that the days of miracles was past. But she had seen something happen. The Angel told her, said, “Hail, Mary.” “Hail” means “to stop.” And He had a message for her. When an Angel comes, He’s got a message for you. And the Holy Spirit, God’s Angel is here tonight with a message for every believer. Just keep Him on your mind. Keep thinking about Him, how lovely He is, how sweet He is, of His promises. If you’re sick, get this on your mind, “He was wounded for my transgressions; He was bruised for my iniquity: the chastisement of my peace was upon Him; and with His stripes I was healed.” Keep your mind centered like that; something will happen to you. All of a sudden there’ll be a—something draw nigh to you, an anointing will come on you and out of that chair you’ll go. “Draw nigh unto the Lord, and He will draw nigh unto you.”
26 And she looked at this great Angel, and His Name is Gabriel. Now, there is Angels of the Lord, many of them, and they come to the earth and bring messages. But Gabriel, when He comes, there’s something major going to happen. He was the One Who announced the first coming of Christ; He will be the One that’ll announce the second coming of Christ.
And He told Mary, “Thou has found favor with God.” What a message to bring to her. “Thou has found favor with God.” And while she was thinking on that Scripture, then that was the Scripture that was confirmed to her.
Now, if you’re sick, think on that Scripture. If you’re lost, think on that Scripture. If you want the Holy Spirit, think on that Scripture, and the Holy Spirit will confirm it to you.
59-1126 – “Jehovah Of Miracles”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 80
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. (Exodus 25:1-9)
259 Don’t watch all these gimmick workers. But remember, they’re only speaking, a bogus dollar only speaks that there’s a real one somewhere. When you see this organization stuff growing and prospering, as it said “craft would prosper in his hand,” just remember, there’s a little Church of God somewhere, really is Holy Ghost filled, genuine, that’s moving up the ladder. Don’t look at the big organization.
260 What greater church is spoke of in the Bible than the Ephesian church age? And when Paul passed through the upper coasts of Ephesus, and comes to this church, there was twelve men in it. That’s right. And they all was good people, shouted and have a great time, but had not received the Holy Ghost yet. Paul said, “You haven’t received the Holy Ghost since you believed?”
They said, “Why, we didn’t know there was a Holy Ghost.”
261 He said, “Then how was you baptized?” If it didn’t make a difference, what did he say to that church there?
262 They said, “We’ve already been baptized by one of the greatest man that ever stood on the earth, John the Baptist, who baptized our Lord. Ain’t that baptizing good enough?”
263 He said, “No, sir. You’ve got to be baptized over, ’cause the Kingdom is sealed to anything else.” And when they heard this…Said, “John only baptized unto repentance, not for remission of sins, saying that you should believe on Him to come, that is, on Jesus.” And when they heard this, they were rebaptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. That’s right. Exactly. They followed the Scripture.
264 You know, in the dedication this morning, Moses followed the pattern that he saw in Heaven, and pitched a tent to represent it. When Solomon built the temple, he (what did he do?) followed the pattern that Moses, by the tent, keeping the Scripture in line.
265 And when God come to His Temple for the last days, this Temple, the Holy Ghost, “a body hast Thou prepared Me,” the Holy Ghost fell on the Day of Pentecost, the message was, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” If you want to call your minister a doctor, Doctor Simon Peter wrote a prescription, an Eternal prescription. That’s what cures the sick.
62-1111E – “Why I’m Against Organized Religion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 81
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. (Luke 2:7-8)
3 And, yet, at Christmas, you know, little kiddies, you can’t tell them no different. They, just, it’s Christmas time for them. And they wouldn’t have their little sock hung up, there would be something. It’s a tradition, even in our nation, that they hang up a sock, and something another. Why, I did, when I was a kid, and—and although as—as far off the Scripture, beaten path as it is. Yet, kids are, they hear the other kids say, “Well, I got this for Christmas. I got this.” The little fellows stand around, look, you know. You, you can’t make them understand. See? So, just, Christmas is here to stay. Yeah.
4 And it isn’t the birthday of our Lord, the time He was born. Now, if you’ll get on your…on the globe, and look, Judaea is just about as far under the equator as this is above it. So we find out, in Judaea, in them mountains up there, that there is snow. My! It’s more snow than there is here. So the shepherds could not be at…on the mountain at that time, herding their sheep.
5 And another thing, He, it’d be contrary to all nature. See? Lambs and so forth are spring born, not this time of year. Lambs are not born now. The—the ewes don’t lamb now. And He was the Lamb of God, you see. So there, He was born along in, they claim, along in April sometime, middle of April, something like that.
6 But, this being the 25th of December, why, making it the birthday. This is the sun-god’s birthday. See? The Roman Baalim, the sun-god. See? And the sun is just exactly halfway around now. And from the 20th unto the 25th was when the Roman circus was, in celebration of the sun-god’s birthday. And so they said, “Well, now, to please the both Christian and pagan, we’ll make, instead of sun-god, the Son of God and the sun-god, together. So we’ll put it all together and make it the same birthday, and make it on the 25th.” So it seemed to please the pagan and the nominal church then, in the first church of Rome. Was just…It was just all right with them, so they didn’t care. So they made it both sun-god and Son-of-God’s birthday.
7 Now, the longest day in the year is along about the 21st or 22nd, the longest night, I mean, in the year, is along about the 21st or 22nd, when, in the solar system, the sun is just bouncing over, coming back. Now they’ll start getting just a few seconds or minutes longer. And then sometime up in June or July, we have the longest day in the year.
So, but, Christmas is here to stay, so we—we can’t help it.
8 Tubeless tires are here to stay. I hate them, but they’re—they’re here to stay. Uh-huh. That’s right.
9 Undressed women, they’re here to stay. Shorts, they’re going to stay. That’s all. They’re going to get shorter all the time, so ain’t nothing I can do about it.
I just say it’s wrong. Stay with It, and that’s right.
10 Sin, it’s here to stay. It’s here to stay. We’re going to have it, on and on. So, just, it’s here to stay until Jesus comes. And all these things are here to stay. Now, I do not believe…
11 Let me make this clear. I do not believe that Jesus would care what day you worshipped His birthday on, if it’s the 25th, 26th, or whether it’s April, May, June, July, or whenever it might be, just so you worship, you worship Him on any day.
61-1224 – “Sirs, We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 82
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. (Luke 2:25-26)
201 Now, how she must have felt, that day of the dedication, or the coming for the circumcision of the Baby, when there she was walking up with this little Baby in her arms, like that. And all the women keeping their distance, all with fine needle work, to dedicate their babies and have them circumcised, and nearly all of them pulling a lamb. But she had two turtle doves, cleansing for her own purification. The little Baby wrapped in swaddling cloth, made out of the yoke off of the back of an ox’s neck, yoke, the wrapping on the back of an ox. That was just swaddling cloth in the manger. They had nothing for Him. They was too poor. And here she stood.
202 No doubt, all the women kept their distance from the little virgin. Said, “You see, she’s got an illegitimate child.” See how God makes things so radical-looking. Oh, my! He just pulls the wool right over Satan’s eyes. “How filthy! How dirty! Adultery. That’s what she is. She’s an adulteress.” That didn’t stop that beat in little Mary’s heart. They kept their distance from Him.
203 They’re still doing the same thing, call Him now, “Holy-roller, or fanatic,” or something.
Mary knew Whose Baby that was. She just kept on, just the same.
204 But, oh, shouldn’t they have noticed when, Simeon, sitting back in the room, he had been promised? He went around, prophesying. He said, “The Lord appeared to me.” And said, “I’ll not see death…” And he was eighty-something then. “I’m not going to see death before I see His salvation.”
205 “Oh, Simeon, you’re old, son. Your—your…Old fellow has kind of got his head, you know, he’s a little…Just let him alone. He’s harmless. He won’t hurt nobody.”
206 But Simeon had the Word of the Lord, said, “I saw the Spirit of God descend upon me. I stood and looked at Him. He told me, ‘Simeon, you been a righteous man. And you’re not going…I’m going to make you a testimony out there.’” Uh-huh. That’s all.
“What are You going to do that for, Lord?”
“That’s My business.”
207 My opinion is, that He can sure pour the coal to them, on that Day. “You had a witness. Why didn’t you listen to it?”
208 There is old blind Ann, sitting in the temple, praying. The Lord revealed to her, “Simeon is right.” Amen. She couldn’t see daylight from dark, but she could see farther than many people today that’s got good eyes. She saw, in the Spirit, the coming Messiah was at hand, the Spirit moving in her heart.
209 See what a little bitty Church there was? Zacharias, Elisabeth, Mary, John, Ann, and Simeon; six out of the millions. Like in the days of Noah. Six of them. God dealt with every one of them. They was all in harmony. They all got together. Amen.
62-1223 – “The Reproach For The Cause Of The Word”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 83
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue. And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent. And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not. (Exodus 28:31-35)
31 Now, you cannot do that by your creeds. You cannot… Creeds will never satisfy a hungry soul. They’re all right. I’ve nothing against them, but what we need today is Divine fellowship. There’s only one way to get it: through the Blood, into the Shekinah Glory.
In the Old Testament, the high priest went in once a year, once a year, and that, bearing the blood before him. He was anointed. Oh, I like to study that, how he was anointed with the—with the anointing oil. I believe David cried, “How sweet it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It’s like the precious anointing oil that was on the—the beard of Aaron, it run all the way to the hems of his garment.”
Oil makes things run easy, soft. You know, when a man gets really anointed and ready for God, he’s just flexible. You know when he’s not, he sets back real stiff, you know, just—oh, I don’t know, just like a…
32 I always felt sorry for a mule. A—a—a mule was the dumbest thing I ever looked at. You can whistle to him, call to him, and he will just set and stick them big ears out and look at you. He don’t know the gentleness like a horse does. See? He—he—does… He hasn’t got that much gumption. And another thing, a mule, he doesn’t—he doesn’t know where he come from. Don’t you never say God ever made a mule. That was man did that. No. Don’t you put God guilty of something like that. That was cross-breeding, the—the mare to the—the jack. But don’t you never—don’t you never lay that onto God. God wouldn’t do a thing like that.
No, sir. You know, I like a pretty pedigreed horse. You know a pretty pedigreed horse, he’s really nice, and he knows who his papa was. He knows where his mama was. He knows exactly where he’s standing. But an old mule don’t know who his papa was and his mama was… And here’s another thing about it. He cannot cross hisself back again. He’s ruined for life.
Puts me in the mind of a lot of… It puts me in the mind of a lot of people that call themselves Christians. Talk about the Blood of Jesus, and they set with their ears out, set there like bug eyed. They don’t even know what the call means. That’s right. You don’t know who your papa was or your mama was. But I’m telling you, if you’ve ever come under the real Divine fellowship, been baptized with the Holy Ghost, you know Who your Father was. You know where you’re standing. You know the Blood that cleansed you. You know the Holy Spirit that borned you and give you new life. You know where you come from. You know Who your Father is.
We got too much mule religion today, I believe. I—I really believe it, with no dishonor.
33 The high priest, once a year, went in one time a year with the Blood before him and worshipped in the Shekinah Glory, all anointed. (Oh, I love that.) Anointed, walking… And he had garments on that had a pomegranate and a bell. And he had to walk with that in such a step, that played, “Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord. Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord,” packing the Blood before him as he went.
What a beautiful picture of the church today. Walking into the… And you know the reason he made them bells? The people on the outside didn’t know whether he was alive or not unless he was making some noise. I’m telling you, brother… mmmmm. Our dead church, that don’t make any noise. Ah, something’s happened. Yes, sir. They haven’t entered into that holy of holy. God is—everywhere you find God, you find a lot of noise. It’s exactly right. When Jesus went into Jerusalem, they broke down palms; them Galilean peasants begin to sing, “Hosanna, to Him that cometh in the Name of the Lord.”
Some of those Pharisees said, “Oh, that makes chills go up my back. That’s sacrilegious. Oh don’t you do… Make them hold their peace.”
Jesus said, “If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out.” Something has to take place when Christ comes in. Some [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]
60-0630 – “God’s Provided Approach To Divine Fellowship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 84
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. (Isaiah 59:16-19)
70 But in the face of all these un-…doubting ages and things that we have went through and live in today, the worst of all, in the face of all this doubt, God does go right on proving His Words to be right, as He has in every age. He…Unbelief doesn’t stop God, it doesn’t hinder Him. I don’t care how much the world unbelieves, It’s still going to happen. Unbelief doesn’t do nothing but condemns the unbeliever. The unbelief will send the unbeliever to Hell. It’ll rob him of every blessing God promised to him, but it doesn’t hinder God from going right on with the believer. See, unbelief doesn’t stop God, it only stops the unbeliever.
71 You say, “I…The sun ain’t going to shine tomorrow, I’m going to stop it.” You try it. See? All right, you can’t do it. God has set it in order and said it would shine, and it’s going to shine, that’s all, He said it would. Might be some clouds under it, but it’s still shining just the same. And you can’t stop God with that. He, what…
72 How does He make His Word known to the people? First, God knowing that there would be unbelievers…Now watch the wisdom of God; knowing there would be unbelievers, and how the majority would be unbelievers. He, by foreknowledge, predestinated a seed for every age, that would believe It. Now if you’ll notice in there, for, each age goes right on with His Word, everything right on time, nothing hinders God. He goes right on, and every click is moving just exactly right. We think, sometimes, it’s not going to work right. But don’t you worry, His clock is timed just exactly to the split instant, and everything’s working just exactly right.
73 When I look around sometime and see these Rickys and Rickettas that we got today, and on the streets, and how everything’s going on, I think, “O God!”
74 “Wait a minute,” He says, see, “My timepiece is turning just exactly right. I’ve got to put you upon the same basis I did the first man, them days. And I put you on the same basis of Luther, and on the same basis of Wesley.” Because, you see, sin wasn’t known then like it is now. And when we got more knowledge now than we had then, and when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises a standard against it. See? And now today, we’ve got more knowledge, more understanding, so the rivers of unbelief is flowing in hard, but God raises a standard against it. But, remember, He’s always…The reason that He—He predestinated these things to happen. He foretold them by His prophets they would happen. And when the righteous see these things confirmed, then they know It’s right. Regardless of what anyone else says, they know It’s right.
64-0816 – “Proving His Word”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 85
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (Isaiah 60:1-2)
40 It seems like that gross darkness has settled upon the people till they think the only thing there is to do is to go to church and be a pretty good person, put your name on the book, and some little mysterious thing, “God will twist the key when you die, and change that spirit in you, to Him.” You’re mistaken. When you die, that spirit that’s on you, that’s the way you’ll forever be. And remember, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and so forth, was very religious people.
41 God is a jealous God. He is jealous, and he wants His wife pure. He wants her a virgin, chaste. Nothing in the world into her, at all; altogether His Word, part of Him. We must be a part of the Word. Not a part of the creed; a part of the Word! Not a part of the church; a part of the Bride! Church is condemned, we know that she goes to outer darkness, but the Bride goes up.
42 Now if people could only wake up for a few moments and realize what the great thing is. It’s pride that does that. It’s people who—who wants to go like the rest of the world. You can’t do that. You’re not of the world. Do you think a woman laying in her casket will want to know whether she had her hair waterdo-ed, or whatever you want to call it? Do you think she would pay attention to how she was dressed if she was laying in a casket, or some man? They wouldn’t do it.
43 And that’s the reason, today, there is so much stuff that we have to copy after the neighbors, or some Hollywood star, or some fashion, or something like that, is because that we haven’t died yet to Christ and His Word. What’s the matter with the churches? We’re in darkness, groping in darkness. Said, “There would be gross darkness upon the people.” A gross darkness on the people now!
44 What does it all mean? It means this, that when the world… What made the moon fade out, was because that the—the sun…the earth got in the shadow of the sun, that was reflecting itself on the earth. The world got in the shadow. That’s what’s the matter with the church. That’s what’s the matter with the Presbyterian, Methodist, Pentecostals. That’s what’s the matter with all of us. The world shuts out the Light that we’re supposed to be reflecting, swings itself around and gets into It, and, as they pass one another, it throws darkness over it.
45 And the world has come into the church, in the—in the name of denomination, the name of some creed, and “we’re religious and all this and all this,” but yet it denies the resurrecting power of Christ to vindicate His Word that’s prophesied for this day. There can only be Light through the Word of God. We know that. God, in the beginning, said, “Let there be light,” and there was light, vindication of His Word that He had spoken.
64-0119 – “Shalom”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 86
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son? And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. (Luke 4:16-23)
186 Don’t you see? Through that righteousness, through that clear-cut decision, He become our Kinsman Redeemer. God became kinfolks to us, to come down and be made like us, a human being, suffer hunger, suffer thirst. “I thirst. Give Me drink.” And they put vinegar in His mouth, gall. He thirsted like we did. He knowed how to do without.
187 He was sick like we are. He said, “Won’t they say to Me the old parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself’?” But His great powers wasn’t for Himself. He had the power to do it, but He couldn’t use it on Himself. No.
188 Somebody said to me, the other day, said, “Brother Branham, before anything happens, you know all about what’s going to happen to you.”
189 I said, “The gift is not for me. I cannot use it for myself.” It’s for you. You’re the one that gets the benefit, not me. I’m just a public servant of God, to you.
190 The preacher is a public servant. He just holds himself there. Like a lily of the field, the bumble bee flies in, get his part. The honey bee flies and gets his. The bypasser gets his, and everything. He toils, day and night, to keep his radiance. And the Gospel minister does the same thing; walks in the line of God. Holds his testimony true, that the world might partake of him, see, Mr. Pastor Lily. He’s a good one. Jesus said, “Consider him. Solomon is not like him.” That’s right. Dr. Lily, I guess you all know him. See?
191 “Consider the lilies of the field, how they toil and spin, neither. I say, and, yet, Solomon, all of his glory…” A lily has to struggle, day and night, to get the radiance to keep his garments, to keep the perfume and things going. And others…He just opens up hisself, and they come by and take it out of him. The bee and the fly, and everything, comes by, good or bad, just takes from him.
192 That’s the way the servant is, of Christ, the Christian servant; opens himself up, “Just take from me, world.” There’s nothing for himself. It’s for the others. That’s what Christ become when He become kinfolks to us. He become man, that the world might partake of His righteousness, see, and be made sons of God.
60-1002 – “The Kinsman Redeemer”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 87
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. (Isaiah 61:1-3)
228 Minister, member, good man, moral man, whatever you are, and you know that God taken cigarettes from you. Women, you know He has taken shorts, and—and short hair, and everything, from…You know He did that. But then if you turn around and do despite, and count that Blood of the covenant, as It was, “an unholy thing,” Who has sanctified you and brought you this far!
229 Like the spies, if they come right up here to the borderland, and looked over, and said, “Well, I know it’s there, but the obstacle is too great. We look like grasshoppers,” they perished in the wilderness. Borderline believers!
230 Don’t just come this far, say, “I believe the Message.” You obey the messenger. Come into Christ! You say, “Well, I believe every Word said, Brother Branham.” That’s good, but that’s just—that’s just being able to read.
231 Take the Message, take It into your heart, that you must have the Token, the very Life that was in Christ be in you. “When I see That, I will pass over you.”
232 As we see the great end-time signs on earth today, we know that that’s right. Now look, I’ve waited for this, for a long, long time, for this Message to you. See? And you’ve seen the end-time signs. And I’ve preached It to you, and showed It to you, by everything that Christ said. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] You’ll admit that? [“Amen.”] We’re at the end time. I don’t see nothing left.
233 You say, “What about the mark of the beast?” Those who reject the Holy Spirit is already marked by the beast. The punishment will come later. See?
234 In Israel, when the trumpet sounded in the Jubilee year, every man…You notice Christ, in reading that? He just read half of it, ’cause just half of it was applied to that time. See? “He sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, preach deliverance, and so forth, see,” but, He, “and the acceptable year of the Lord.” The rest of it, He never—He never read that; He laid the Scroll down, for that’s for this day. See? He just read part of it, part was His day.
235 Now this is what He is going to do today. This is what He is speaking, through His anointed Spirit, to the church today. Now is the hour. Now is the time. Receive It, people. Receive It!
63-0901m – “Token”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 88
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. (Exodus 33:20-23)
126 Thomas said unto Him, “Lord, show us the Father.” It’ll satisfy him.
127 He said, “I been so long with you, and you don’t know Me?” Said, “When you see Me, you’ve seen the Father. And why say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
128 Now, the Oneness took it, the oneness group of people, and try to make Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, just one office and one place, and like your finger, one. That’s wrong. God could not…Jesus could not been His Own father. If He was, then He was a…Well, how could He been His Own father?
129 And if God is a man, separated from the Holy Ghost, He had two fathers. For the Bible said, that, “The Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary and she conceived.” And the Bible said, in Matthew 1:18, that, “that thing which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” Then which is His father, the Holy Ghost or God? Both, the same Spirit, or He had an illegitimate birth by two spirits.
That’s a Catholic dogma, and it never was a Bible teaching. Martin Luther brought it out, with a lot of other Catholicism that’s in Lutheran church. Wesley followed on with it. And it’s still going on, but it’s an error. It’s not the Truth. Never was it, never was it a Bible Doctrine. Never was it a commandment in the Bible, to teach three Gods.
There is one God. Jesus said, “Hear ye, O Israel, I’m the Lord your God, one God,” not three Gods.
130 In Africa, they baptize once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost. And then the poor Jew comes around, say, “Which one of them is your God? Which one is, the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost?” They’re, all three, One. The Bible said they were One.
131 Jesus was a house that God lived in. The Bible said that—that, First Timothy 3:16, “Without controversy,” (that’s, “argument”) “great is the mystery of godliness. For God was manifested in the flesh, seen of Angels, received on…preached, believed on, and received up into Glory.” God was. The Bible said, “His Name shall be called Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, ‘God with us.’” The Bible said, that, “Jesus, in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
132 As we had it the other night: God, in the beginning, was Spirit. And then, from God, went out the Logos, or the theophany, which was a form of a man, called the Son of God, prefigured. He came in earth, in a body of flesh, even before He came in Jesus Christ. Now swallow that one once, brother. I’ll prove it to you.
133 When, when Moses saw Him. He said, “Let me see Your form, Lord.” And God hid him in the rock. And when He passed by, he said, “It was the back part of a man.” That was that Theophany. That’s exactly.
Then, that Theophany had to be made flesh. Not another Person, but the same Person had to become flesh, to take the sting out of death.
Like a bee when he stings, it leaves the stinger. And he never left that…He could put a sting in human flesh because it’s sin. But, brother, when he stung that Emmanuel’s flesh, he lost his stinger. Yes, sir. He can buzz but he ain’t got no stinger no more.
57-0901e – “Hebrews, Chapter Four”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 89
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. (Exodus 34:29-33)
148 Now the natural veil. God, the Word, veiled in human flesh. What was it? God was veiled in Moses. God was in Moses, veiled, and the Presence of God was in him. He was so perfect with that Word in him like that, till he had to veil his face. And it was a vindicated prophet that unfolded the Word and told them, “Thou shalt not! Thou shall! And thou shall not!” See?
149 To give His Word to that generation, He veiled Himself in a human being, or the Word would have blinded even the called-out. See? Even the people that was out there, they could not stand to see that. In—in Exodus we find that, they said, “Let Moses speak, not God.” See why the Pillar of Fire don’t appear too much? See?
150 God said, “I—I—I’ll do that. I’ll raise them up a Prophet.” Amen! “I’ll raise them up one.” And He came just exactly. “I’ll raise, and He’ll have, be the Word.”
151 He said, “If they want to see what the Word is…” Said, “Now, Moses, I appeared to you yonder, the burning bush.” Said, “I’m going to come down and set that mountain afire.” Said, “They’ll see that you’ve told the truth. I’ll appear here in the—in the—the same burning way. I’ll appear here and prove to the people, I’ll vindicate your ministry.” That’s what He told Moses here, so many words.
152 Notice, He said, “Now I’m going to—I’m going to glorify you before the people.” Said, “Now, you told them that I met you out there in a burning bush; now I’m going to come down, same Fire, and I’m going to let the people see that you never lied about It.” You can scientifically prove It, even, if you want to. See? “I’m going to come right down and let them know.”
153 And when He begin to thunder, when Jehovah started thundering, the people said, “No! No! No! Don’t let Jehovah speak; we’ll—we’ll die.”
154 See, He had to be veiled, so God veiled Himself in Moses and give Moses the Word. And Moses come down and spoke the Word of the Lord, in a veil over his face. That right? Jehovah veiled in a form of a prophet, ’cause it would’ve absolutely…And God said He wouldn’t speak to them anymore like that. He would only speak to them by a prophet. That’s the only way He would ever speak from then on. That’s the only way He’s ever spoke. That’s right. Never any other way. He don’t lie.
64-0614m – “The Unveiling Of God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 90
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. (Luke 6:47-49)
235 Not long ago, in London, England; taking a little walk. And England is, the British Isles, are so covered with people! In England, you can’t hardly find a place, hardly, but what’s got a house on it, and they’re raising their…Like in Germany, and so forth, there they’re the old countries, and the grounds are wore out, and they got a little garden. In Germany and places like that, you don’t find, in the back yard, some nice mowed grass and a lot of trees. You find tomatoes and beans and potatoes, something to eat. They have to. And the grounds are so taken up till…
236 The little limey soldier that was taking me around, we went up over top the hill, Brother Baxter and I, and this boy. We come to a place that was a beautiful spot. There were trees, and the green grass, and everything. I thought, “Isn’t that a pretty place!” I said to this limey, I said, “Sir, I—I would like to ask you a question. I see that your island here is so covered. Why would a large space here, for several acres, a beautiful spot with trees and a valley, and everything like that, why would you leave that, and no one would ever build a house here?”
237 He said, “Reverend, I—I want to say this. About two hundred years ago, there was an epidemic of blackwater fever, broke out here in England.” And said, “They had no serum, and the people died like flies.” He said, “The wagons, they tell me, come day and night. They couldn’t even bury them. The clergymen would just come out here, once in a while, raise up his hands and pray, and go back. They throwed them all in this valley here. They couldn’t even bury them.” Said, “They died, and they died, till thousands times thousands, of children, grownups, teen-agers and everything, died. And they just took them out there, and then they just took and sprayed dirt over the top of them when the plague had ceased.”
238 And he said, “You know what?” He said, “From that day, to this, the Englishman is so sure he’ll not plant his foundations on where a thing like that once was. He’ll not plant his foundation upon things like…He’ll never set his house on a place where death laid like that.” And I stood there a little bit, and I thought. No need telling him, he wouldn’t understand it.
239 But how, in the world, that a person will face so sincerely; till, if black fever, two hundred years ago, laid on that ground. But you are so suspicious, and so concerned about you got to live a little longer, and you might take black fever if you ever planted your house there. And then you will plant your Eternal destination upon some man-made creed that died hundreds of years ago, upon some theology, theology of some church that’s been laying on a shelf for hundreds of years; not a thing, not a move of God in them, and everything else. And you will stick your name and creed, and everything, right on there, and go on living. Listen, friend, don’t you do that.
240 “Upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell can’t prevail against It. The works that I do, shall you also. Lo, I am with you, even in you, always, to the end of the world; Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
241 God is a God of reality. Don’t just take a creed. Don’t just take a sensation. Take a reality! Take a real God, something that God is, a God of reality. That gives you assurance.
60-0626 – “The Unfailing Realities Of The Living God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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