Episode 169: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 135

Episode Summary:

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (Jeremiah 23:5-6)

8 Before he left he saw a vision of heaven. And about two hours before his passing over, he went into, in a coma, raising up in his bed, shaking hands with someone, and greeting people that he had met and preached the Gospel to, had been gone for years. I think this of him.

Lives of great men all remind us,

And we can make our lives sublime,

With partings leave behind us,

Footprints on the sands of time.

I’m sure that he got to shake hands with Paul Rader, which was an associate to him. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? He wrote my theme song, “Only Believe.” How little did he know, that that boy setting at his feet would take this song around the world. It’s called me in, I don’t know how many languages, hundreds of languages around the world, as a theme song.

9 Paul, when he died in California, they had pulled the curtains down and had—had the little Bible—the little quartet, Moody Bible Institute, down there singing songs. They were singing, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” And of all that knowed Paul, know he had a sense of humor. And he looked up, and he said, “Who’s dying, you or I?” He said, “Pull back those shades and sing me some real snappy Gospel songs.” And they begin to sing “Down at the cross where my Saviour died.” He said, “That sounds better.”

And then he said, “Where’s Luke?” Luke was his brother. Luke and Paul stuck together and worked together like my son and I. They were brothers and buddies. He said, “Where’s Luke?” Luke was in the next room. He couldn’t stand to see his brother die. So he said, “Tell Luke to come here.” And Luke came in. He took Luke by the hand, he said, “Luke, we’ve been a long ways together and through a many hard battle. But think of it, Luke: in five minutes from now, I’ll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness.”

10 Let me go like that. Let my end be like that. I’ve held them when they screamed and fought devils off of them and so forth. I seen man go in all kinds of conditions. Let me go as a Christian. Let me come to the last beat of my heart knowing this, when I go into that big dark chamber yonder that’s called death, I don’t want to go in like a coward. I want, when I know it’s my end, I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, entering into death knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls, I’ll come out from among the dead, some of these days.

58-0125 – “The Queen Of The South”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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