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Day 335
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. (Proverbs 20:1)
67 A few weeks ago, over in a great, famous hotel in—in Canada where they had put me up. I went up to my room, after my service. And there was young ladies, perhaps in their late teens, eighteen, nineteen, maybe up to twenty-three, somewhere. Three of four of them running up-and-down the floor, with just their underneath garments on. And with bottles in their hands, running from one room to the other, lovely-looking young women.
68 As I got off the elevator, I stood and looked. Oh, there was Something in me! I thought, “O God, will my little Rebekah or Sarah ever come to that?”
69 And I looked at them. They staggered across the floor. I just stepped in, to one side, and they passed and walked on out, went the other way, drinking. I stopped, through the hall, looked down again, seen lovely little ladies which could probably be a real sweetheart to some man. And I heard one of them say, “Whoopee! This is life!”
I thought, “How wrong that is! That’s death.”
70 For, the Bible said, “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive.” So then we find out, that life, what we call life.
71 And we see signs today, such as this, “Where there is Budweiser, there is life.” How perverted that is! Where there is Budweiser, it is death.
72 And we see signs like this, too, “Life begins when the sun goes down.” No. Death begins when the sun goes down. The people become night prowlers. They prowl at night. And if you notice, they take the nature of the evil. Evil always prowls at night.
73 And I read an article in a magazine, one time when I was on an airplane. It was about Hollywood. And it said, that, “Life begins after midnight. You should come down on certain streets and certain things.” And it had the picture of burlesque, and so forth, that goes on.
And I said, “How perverted that is!”
74 You see, if Satan has a kingdom, he’s got to have a false economy. He’s got to have something that he can present to them, to make them think they are living. But it’s absolutely on the vice versa side. It’s death, in the form of life. See? It’s a perversion from real life.
75 Because, let us settle this in our mind now, once and forever. There’s only one way to have life. That’s right. “And to know Him is Life.” That’s the only way that we can have Life, and no other way, for God has only promised Life through Jesus Christ. And the great Jehovah, without beginning or without ending, without—without beginning of days or ending of years, has give us Life through Jesus Christ, and Him alone.
57-0602 – “Life”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 336
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. (1 Kings 18:36-38)
78 Wouldn’t that be wonderful, tonight, if everybody come in that prayer line, say, “I am a Christian. I have no condemnation. I—I know that my heart condemn me not. Something tells me that tonight’s the end of my suffering”? That, you’re going to do. You’ll go away here with something. No matter how much you come in emotion, how much you do, it won’t work until that Perfect Faith has manifested and identified itself in you, as a substance. And when it’s there, then nothing’s going to shake you from it.
79 If—if you had cancer, and the doctor told you yesterday that you’d be dead before Monday morning, (all your heart, your respiration’s gone, the cancer’s eat you up, your bloodstream’s become completely cancer, whatever it is); and Something come with this substance of this genuine faith, Perfect Faith was made a substance in you, you’d laugh in that doctor’s face.
80 You’d be like old Elijah, when he walked up-and-down before the idol, and said, “Won’t you call a little louder? And maybe he’s pursuing.” He knowed what he was going to do, because God had told him what was going to happen. He said, “Let the god that answers by fire, be God.”
81 They say, “We’ll take that proposition.” And they poured water upon the altars. And they—they cut themselves, and they done everything, and called, “O Baal! O Baal! Answer!”
82 Elijah was just as calm as he could be. He said, “Call a little louder,” said—said, “maybe he’s pursuing. Maybe—maybe he’s on a fishing trip. Maybe he’s doing something else, you see. He’s out somewhere.” They just…Just made fun of them, because he knew it’s going to happen.
83 Oh, watch when he got everything in order. He walked out there and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel!” He never called him now his name Jacob, “shyster.” He called him Israel, “prince with God.”
84 “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of that Prince (Jacob), let it be known today that I am Your servant; and I have done this, not at my desire, not at my make up, but at Your command I have did this; Your will, You told me what to do. You showed me these things would be here. Now, I’ve poured the water upon the altar. I’ve done all these things according to Your command. Now, let it be known!” And when he said that, fire fell from the heavens. He was just as confident it was going to fall, because he had the substance. Why? The Word said so.
63-0825e – “Perfect Faith”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 337
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Proverbs 22:6,15)
48 Sometimes I wonder if we intellectual Americans has enough discernment to discern right from wrong. Especially, the juvenile courts prove that we haven’t got it to discern right and wrong, for our children, and they seem to have a good psychologist’s answer.
49 For instance, like this. If junior comes up to his papa and stomps his little feet, and screams out and shakes his head, said, “Dad, I don’t care what you say. I want a hot rod.” That’s typical America.
And the father says, “All right, junior, I’ll buy it for you.”
You could say to that dad, “Why did you do it?”
“Oh, I love him.”
50 You remember, dad, junior is going to grow up to be a man, someday, and he’ll marry and have a family. God help that wife that lives with a boy that’s been brought up like that, to have his way about everything he wants. Can’t discern right from wrong. That’s not love. That’s pure ignorance. The Bible is right. “Spare the rod, and you spoil your son.”
51 Little Fanny will come up to mother, and she’s going to go at the rock-and-roll. Mother tells her she can’t do it. “But, oh, mother, you’re cruel to me.” Of course, you love Fanny, and you let her go. She’ll get out amongst that bunch of hoodlums, on all that nonsense; come in, and pucker up her little painted lips and tell you a lie, that, “There’s no harm in it.” God have mercy to the man that will marry something like that for a wife. Discerning right from wrong, we can’t discern our own.
59-0812 – “Discerning The Body Of The Lord”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 338
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John 2:15-17)
43 What a beautiful picture it is today, when we look at the Church and see the Church in its condition, every man that’s born of the Spirit of God despises the world. “And if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you.” That’s what the Bible said. And the real pilgrim, on his road, simply hates the things of the world. He hates to see men drinking. He hates to see men smoking. He hates to see women on the street, with them little old dirty clothes on. He hates to see buncos and card parties.
44 And yesterday, while Brother Tony…or Brother Wood and I were coming through the street, and some more, some of the men…There was a little lady there in Louisville, coming down the street, lovely looking little woman, with the clothes on that was horrible; just a little way up on the hip, and a little ribbon tied on her hips, on each side, and a little bitty round piece of cloth in front of her, and tied with a string behind. Walking down the street, horribly, and every man on the street looking at her. I said, “She doesn’t realize that she is guilty, in the sight of God, with committing adultery with every man that looked on her in that manner. And she’ll answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery with those men.”
45 Jesus said, “Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already.” That’s right.
46 So, you see, Brother Wood said to me, “What do you allow for that, Brother Branham?”
47 I said, “It’s either mental deficiency or devil possession.” There’s only two things to make it. A decent, clean woman won’t wear those things; unless she is devil possessed. That’s exactly the Truth.
48 Now, a pilgrim that’s on his road to Heaven, he lives in a different atmosphere. You don’t have to worry about him looking at her. He’ll turn his head if he’s got God in his heart, for he’s living in an atmosphere that’s a million miles from those things. That’s right. You don’t want to be guilty of that stuff, at the judgment. So he turns his head and say, “God, have mercy on the woman,” and on he goes. We’re in our journey. We’re on our way to Canaan’s Land. We’re on our way to that Eternal and blessful Rest that God has given us. And in the journey, we are tempted. We are tempted of all kinds of things, but yet be tempted without sinning.
57-0901e – “Hebrews, Chapter Four”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 339
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (1 John 3:8-9)
86 Did you ever take your camera and set it on infinite? Why, it just means from thereafter. All right. There’s no way of focusing it in any more.
87 Well, that’s what God is. He is infinite. And if He’s infinite, there could not be a beetle, not a fly, not a flea, not a louse, not a chigger, or nothing that ever was on the earth, or ever will be, but what God knowed it before the world was ever formed. There is some conception of infinite.
88 Well, then, an infinite God Who saves you here, knowing He is going to lose you next week, or next month, or next year, why, He’s defeating the very purpose. He can’t lose you. “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life and shall never come into the Judgment, but is done passed from death to Life.” Can’t do it. You’d no more…
89 “He that’s born of God does not commit sin; for the seed of God remains in him, and he cannot sin.” How can he sin when there’s a sin-offering for him?
90 How can I be sick when I’m in perfect health? How can I be blind when I can see? Oh, my! How can I be in the building and out of the building at the same time? How can I be drunk and sober at the same time? You can’t do it.
91 And when you’re saved, you’re under the Atonement, and your sins are not reckoned to you. Did not David say, “Blessed is the man who God will not reckon sin, and impute sin to”? God don’t hold the sin against His creature. That’s strong. That isn’t skim milk. But that’s the Bible. God will not reckon sin to the righteous.
92 “God,” by His grace, through predestination, “not willing that any should perish, but all might come to repentance.” But being infinite, and know who would come and who would not come, He could predestinate everything to work to His will. If He didn’t do it, why did He permit sin in the first place? When He was a Saviour…If there had never been a sinner, He would have never been a Saviour; the attribute, what was in Him, could not be pulled out.
58-0928e – “The Serpent’s Seed”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 340
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. (1 Kings 22:19-22)
118 Now, look, let me show you something. Oh, I see it. Looky here; this is fresh. There were four hundred seminary students who claimed to know the Word and wasn’t respecting It. They tried to bypass It because of pomp. They tried to bypass it because it was the king, to pat somebody on the back.
119 But this little “holy-roller,” as I called him a while ago, he didn’t care how much patting-on-the-back went on, he stayed with God’s Word. And he couldn’t prophesy nothing, or preach then, but what the Word said. Amen. Glory! Stay with the Word, there it is, brother. God will back that Word up every time. He didn’t care what the seminaries taught; he didn’t care what any of the rest of them was; he knowed the Word of God pronounced a curse on Ahab, and nothing else could take the place of it.
120 So therefore, being with the Word and lined up with the Word, the Holy Ghost lined up with him, or, he lined with the Holy Ghost and saw a vision. Well, glory! I feel real good, real religious. Get with the Word, stay with the Word. And if there ever, a true vision comes, it’ll come by the Word. Amen. Never thought of that before, that’s a new one. Thank the Lord. Stay with the Word, brother.
121 Elijah, or, Micaiah was with the Word, because the Word had pronounced cursings on that thing. And how could Micaiah say anything else but stay with the Word? So by staying with the Word, God showed him a continuation of the Word. Hallelujah! There you are. I hope you… sinks into you like it does me. But, there it is. God will show the continuation of the Word. Said, “Sure, go on if you want to. It’s all right, go do what the preachers tell you to do, but I saw Israel scattered like sheep that had no shepherd.” Said, “I saw God in Heaven; I saw the throne, and the host of Heaven standing at right and left hand. Said, ‘Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab? Who can we get to bring him out here to fulfill Elijah’s prophecy?’”
122 See, Micaiah was right on that Word. That Word had to be fulfilled. And a lying spirit come up, come out of hell, come up there and said, “I can do something for you.” Said, “You know what? I can get in that seminary easy, because they don’t have no, very much prayer meeting, no agonizing. There’s nothing around there, no Blood, so I can just walk any time I want to. Um-hum, um-hum. I can take possession of that thing, that whole denomination. I can get the whole thing; they don’t even believe in the Blood. So I—I can take the whole thing.”
God said, “That’s right, you can do that.”
56-1002a – “Father, The Hour Has Come”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 341
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. (1 John 5:4)
55 When you come to Him, don’t come as a floater, “I’ll go up and try it and see if it works.” You’ll never get nowhere.
56 But, when you come with this kind of a determination, that you have sold out, lock, stock, and barrel; when you’re tired of the world, and sin, and unbelief, and frustrations, and doubts, and come to the living God, with a anchor surely tightened in the Rock of Ages; the Holy Spirit is here to pull you into the Presence of the living God, that will give you a faith that’ll overcome anything there is in the world, sickness, disease, and even death itself.
57 You say, “You said ‘death,’ Brother Branham.” And that’s what I meant: death.
58 Was not it Lazarus who was laying dead in the ground, and already corruption set in, when Jesus said to Martha, “Where have you buried him? And if you won’t doubt, you shall see the glory of God”?
59 “Did not I tell you not to doubt?” He said to Jairus that night, or that day. “If you’ll only believe, you can see the glory of God.” Then faith overcomes death. Faith is the victory over death. Faith is the victory over sin. Faith is the victory over sickness. Faith is the victory over worry. Faith is the victory over flustrations. Faith is the victory over the world.
60 You say, “John, when he wrote that, he did not have my troubles. He did not have to deal with the folk that I deal with. He did not have to go through the things that I do.” That’s right.
61 He may not had to deal with the same folk. He may not had to overcome the same thing. But he never excluded them, for he said this, “The faith is the victory that overcomes the world,” the whole thing. How is it? Get faith in it. Ride above it. When we have the written Word of God laying before us, and the Holy Spirit here performing and showing the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, with the Divine promises written here, that, “Whatsoever thing you desire when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it.” What do you have to do then? Have faith. Not just floating faith, not just a make-believe faith, but a real faith.
62 Now, faith is a conqueror. Faith is an overcomer. It just isn’t a—a peace-maker. It overcomes. “Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.” What does it do? What is faith? What is, to “conqueror”? Conquer and victory is the same. To conquer, it means “to beat down; to over-ride; to handcuff; to throw into prison.” It means that the sin that once ruled you, you rule it now. It means that you have overcome it. You are…You’ve whipped it. You are greater than it is. Oh, I feel religious right now!
58-1004 – “Faith Is Our Victory”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 342
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly. And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. (2 Kings 1:9-12)
44 Notice, he said, “Well, now, we’ll keep the law.” The law was not a saviour after all. The law was a—the prison house. The law only made you know you was a sinner. The law pointed out your sin, but it didn’t have any remedy. If the policeman comes, and arrests you, and throws you back in the jail, that’s the law. That shows you you are a sinner, but how you going to get out? That’s the next thing. The law was just a school master. It pointed out sin.
And then what did Elijah mean? Elijah was the justice of God. Now, no man can be saved by the law, so I don’t want to hear Moses any more. No man’s saved by it. Now, no man could be saved by the law. It hasn’t got no grace in it at all. So you can’t be saved by your works, by the law, so then we’ll find out then what Elijah meant. He was the justice of God.
45 Elijah went up on the mountain. And here’s to show he’s justice. God told him to go up and set down. And when he did, the king sent up fifty men, said, “Come on down off there, Elijah, want to talk to you.”
Elijah raised up and said, “If I be a man of God, let fire from heaven come and consume you.” And fire fell out of heaven and killed fifty: justice. It was tampering on God’s territory. Who wants justice? I want to know today, who in this church would plead for justice? Not me. I plead for mercy, not justice. I’m justly due to die and go to hell. But it’s the mercy of God that saves me, not the justice. I don’t want it.
“Oh,” the king said, “That might’ve been an accident. It perhaps was a thunderbolt hit the sky. We’ll send another fifty.”
And he sent another fifty, and that old prophet raised up in the stern justice of God, and said, “If I be a man of God, let fire come and burn you up.”
And down it come again and destroyed fifty more. So it wasn’t a accident. It was the justice of God. How dare anybody to say, “I want justice.” I don’t want justice; I want mercy.
57-0519a – “Hear Ye Him”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 343
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. (2 Kings 2:9-10)
70 Elijah said, “If you…” Elijah said, “If you see me when I go, you’ll have what you ask for.” That’s right. You got to keep your eye on it; watch the promise. Like, what if some of the school, if he turn back, and say, “Hey, boys, how am I doing now, following right along behind the prophet?” He would have failed, maybe. But he didn’t care what the school thought, or what all the teachers thought. He didn’t care what the neighbors thought, or the houses, or who looked at him. He kept his faith in the promise.
71 What we need today is faith in the promise of God, and don’t pay no attention to what this one says or that one says.
72 As a brother said, a minister had two girls that were mute, and that the criticism on Divine healing, that, “The children could not be healed.”
73 Don’t pay no attention to the critics. Keep your faith on the promise. God said so! “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up.” If He can make one deaf mute to hear, He can make another deaf mute to hear. We know, by infallible proofs, that He does that. Keep our faith on the promise. Our eyes single; our ears single; our hearts single; and, one thing, on Jesus Christ, and He is able to perform that which He has promised. Oh, when we think of that, it changes the whole scene when we get that. God made the promise. God was the One that said it.
74 Now, here was God’s representative said it, and now God Himself has said it. Then what can we do? Nothing but keep our mind on that. Said, “If you see me when I go away, you can have the promise.” Elisha kept his eyes on Elijah. No matter what hollered from each side, what taken place on each side, what taken place before that, he never even looked at it. He kept his eyes on the promise. There you are, your eyes on the promise.
75 I think of the lady that we visited the other night, Sister Sauer. And the doctor telling her how bad she was. And I never told her; told the loved one. And how impossible it would be for her to ever get well. Now, brother, her son-in-law asked me about it. I said, “If she can keep her eyes on the promise.” No matter what takes place, keep your eyes on the promise.
76 A few weeks ago, Sister Wood here, and Brother Wood, two bosom friends of ours here at the church. I was in Michigan with my friends, Leo and Gene. We had left the Chicago meeting and went with some of their people, to…for two days, to go deer hunting with bows and arrows. And on my road back, my wife had got a hold of me, and she said, “Pray for Mrs. Wood’s mother. A cancer has eating off her face.” And said, “I never seen Sister Wood so alarmed. She is weeping.” Sister Wood has always been a hero of faith, since God healed her boy of a crippled leg, and healed her with TB, and so forth. But she had given down.
77 There at the room, that night, we prayed. Coming in, Mrs. Wood said, “Brother Branham, we’ll go over.” And we went to her mother, which was in Louisville. And she had had a cancer on the side of her nose, and the doctor had tampered with it, scattered it; till just a little ring the side of her nose, and up just about an eighth of an inch from her eye, just the bone laying there. Done eaten it just as fast as it could eat away.
78 Go into the room, and I knelt down. I said, “I want to speak to her alone.” And I goes into the room to pray with the woman. And while in the room, I thought, “O God, if You’ll just show me a vision of what’s going to happen to the woman.” Mr. and Mrs. Wood sitting on the outside, waiting to see what the vision would say.
79 But while I was there, I got condemned. I was condemned by waiting for a vision. Seemed like Something referred back, wasn’t the calling. “What you need a vision, when the promise is already been said?” So I knelt down and prayed. And while praying, something just anchored on the inside, the faith of the promise.
80 Come back out. And Mrs. Wood, when I told her about it, she said, “Did you see anything, Brother Branham?”
81 I said, “I never exactly seen anything, but I felt Something that told me that His promise was true and He was going to do it. And I believe that He’s going to do it.”
82 And in less than twenty-four hours, the end of that cancer begin to break away and a scab form over it. Cancers don’t scab, as you know, unless it’s dead. So there it was now. And the woman is healed, and home. What a wonderful Christ! By keeping our eyes on the promise! God said so!
56-1125m – “A Secondhanded Robe”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 344
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. (Jude 1:3)
2 And now, last evening, we were speaking on earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. And how, that God met with us, and let us know what kind of a faith that they had. And so, today, we are earnestly contending for this same faith that was once delivered to the saints. And to see that we are contending for it…
Now, that isn’t contending with each other, with the Methodists contending with the Baptists, the Presbyterian, or—or the Pentecostal, or whatever, we are just contending against the wiles of the devil, against Buddhism, and against Mohammedanism, and the hundreds of idols and gods of the world, and against the god of America, the god of Canada, many of their idols of worldliness. We’re contending that there’s one true, living God, and that He’s just as live tonight, as He ever was. And that we are not here just with a fictitious belief; we’re not here all emotionally wrapped up in some emotion, or psychology, or enthusiasm. We’re here in the Presence of the living, resurrected Jesus Christ, Who stands with us each night, and proves Himself to be alive, raised from the dead, and is here with us, now.
3 And I tell you, it’s makes the heart of a man or a woman really rejoice with great exceedingly joy to know that we are not just making up something, we’re not just trying to… I’m so glad that—that the thing that I am talking about is truth, that Jesus Christ…
One time I worked for a utility company. They had a campaign on, and they were selling electric lights and the low-bowl lamps, General Electric. And they—they had a… See who could sell the most, no prizes, just see who could get, sell the most. And we, all the men together, were having a… I was a linesman and many others were salesmen. But before I’d ever go in to sell the lamp, before I would misrepresent anything to people, I had to know first what it was. So I went to the company, and I said, “Now what about this lamp, what is it? What’s it made of? What—what—what will you do? What do you stand behind it?”
4 And they told me all about it, how long it was guaranteed and so still, I thought, “I’m going to try one of them awhile to see what it’s made out of, before, even if the word of the company… I have to experience it myself to see what it’s made out of. Being an electrician at the time, I took the thing apart, took every movement out of it to find out just exactly how it was made up, how the switches, how they were tightened down, and how the wires run and the current, how it was insulated, and how the reflector would work, and how tight it was, and what the material was. And I found out that it was a really a real light. So when I went to a person’s house to sell the lamp, not being a salesman, but I—I sold more lamps than all of them, because I took in there with the knowing in my heart that what I was talking about was the truth.
5 I said, “Now, I’m not coming to you to sell the lamp. I’m coming to leave a lamp here. You try it, and if it isn’t just exactly what I say it is, then I’ll take it up.” Why, I put about two or three thousand lamps out, and I took up about four or five lamps out of two or three thousand. Everybody when they seen it was the truth, had time to look through it, inspect it, try it out, and the company’s guarantee behind it; and if one of them would’ve went bad, they knew me; I’d go right to the company. The company had to make it good to me, and I’d have to make it good to the person. Therefore, I could walk with a real straight face, and look every man in the face, and say, “The product is good if you want it.”
6 And that’s the way it is with Jesus Christ. As a sinner, I found Him to be a Saviour. And I know that He saves from sin. I experienced it. And I know that He heals sickness, because I have experienced it. And tonight with all the—the respect that I can give to Him, I can look my—the people in the face, the purchase of His Blood. Remember, to God, you’re more than the Blood of Jesus, because Jesus gave His Blood for you. You are the purchase of His Blood. And I can look at you, knowing that I’ll meet you at the day of judgment at the end of the world, and say this one thing: that the product that I am telling you about, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lives and reigns tonight; and He’s just as powerful, just as real, and just as alive as He ever was at any time. That’s right. And I… If anything a man ought to be is honest. God will respect you when you become honest.
I was speaking on that at… down at the Brother Boze’s church tonight coming through. He was telling me about it a few moments ago. Be honest; be honest with one another. If you won’t be honest with one another who you can see, how are you going to be honest with God Who you don’t see. See? You got to be loyal and honest with one another, brotherly love, and then God will bless you.
56-0814 – “Divine Love And Sovereign Grace”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 345
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child. (2 Kings 4:29)
31 Now, I believe he’s just probing. But he knew that God had blessed whatever he touched. You see it? He believed that God blessed it. So he said, “God has blessed this. And if you’ll it lay it on the baby, I believe that God will make it well.”
Now, no matter what his faith was, if the woman’s faith wasn’t the same, then it won’t work. You see what I mean? It takes your faith and your pastor’s faith together. You too have got to have the same faith. And if you believe the same thing that the man of God has told you, then something’s got to happen. So the man of God believed that he wouldn’t have to go over there; he would just send the staff. But the woman said, “No, no, no. I going to stay right with you. I’m going to stay right here till I find out.”
So then Gehazi said, “There’s no breath in the baby. He’s still dead.”
So away they went, come into the yard, and now look at the crowd, everybody around, a wailing and screaming. What a place for faith. Elisha standing there, no vision, didn’t know what to do, all he could do was look around. There was the father screaming, there was all the neighbors, and everybody carrying on. Well, he goes around to his little old chamber, and the woman had the baby laying on the bed, so he shut everybody out of the room, and pulled the door together, by himself. Went over in a corner, and knelt down, and begin to pray. When he got through praying, he got up, walked up and down the floor, back and forth, to and fro, up and down the floor, until the Spirit of God come upon him. When the Spirit of God come upon him, no doubt but what he saw a vision, goes over, stretches hisself on top of the baby, his nose again its nose, no prayer; just the nose against its nose, lips against its lips, eyes against its eyes, hands against its hands, and the baby sneezed seven times and come to life. What was that? That wasn’t that preacher. That was Christ in His prophet that brought that baby back to life. Hallelujah.
Oh, my, when he stood out there then and said, “Gehazi, call that Shunammite.” Amen.
The woman come to the door. Then all the good things that she had done, little did she know when she had that bed made in there for Elisha, and made his bed with her own hands, that someday her dead baby would be laying there, and the body of that prophet, through the Christ would bring that baby back to life again. You don’t know what’s happening when you try to do something for one another. Try to help one another. That’s right. Like bread upon the water, it’ll return to you someday.
55-0301 – “Elijah”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 346
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. (Proverbs 31:10)
122 Abraham believed God, that’s right, and it was imputed to him for righteousness. But God give him a sign; circumcised him, as a sign, a seal. Then, Abraham’s seed still receives circumcision. They did all through the age, until the—the moon faded out, the law, and the Son came in. And when the Son of God come, He circumcised them yet.
123 And every son of Abraham is circumcised today, not of the flesh, and of the heart. The Holy Spirit circumcises the heart, cuts away the things of the world, and makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Circumcision is “cut off surplus flesh.” Only the males could be circumcised. All the males was the only one was in the covenant. And the woman, being married, was brought in. You take, today, if…Now I ain’t saying…
124 There’s a lot of women here, and the women is a marvelous thing. If God could have give a man anything better than a woman, He would have done so. But He give a woman.
125 But this is a woman’s world. She is running the whole thing. Not you housemothers here; but I mean out in the world. Let’s say, let some little striptease out in Hollywood, starts to cut her hair, some women, watch all the girls cut their hair the same way. Or, they start some fad, in dress, and watch all the girls do the same thing; Christians and all, so-called. That’s right. It’s a woman’s world.
126 You notice, they paint the pictures of a—of an angel woman. There is not such a thing. Show me one place in the Scripture. Every Angel is man, not women. Angel women, mother Mary’s, and all these things like that, there is no such a thing. Find one place in the Scripture where it ever said there was a woman Angel. It’s always, “He.” Michael! Gabriel! “He drawed His sword.” It’s always, “He, He, He, He.” That’s right.
127 “Woman was made for man, not man for women.” Sure. But they, how they…
128 That’s just what the devil took, the woman, in the garden of Eden, for his instrument. He is still using her. That’s right.
129 Not the converted, not the converted! The woman that’s a Christian, and a good woman, is the best thing that a man could find, outside of salvation. But one that ain’t no good, is the worst thing he could find, outside. That’s right.
130 Solomon said, that, “A good woman was a jewel in a man’s crown, but an unrighteous one was water in his blood.” His blood is his life. And how much more could he have than water in his blood? It would kill him.
54-1212 – “He Swore By Himself”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 347
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. (2 Kings 6:18-19)
69 Here not long ago, a minister said, “If you be a servant of the Lord, smite me blind.”
I said, “You’re already blind.” He said, “Me, blind?”
70 I said, “Yes, sir.” Cause, he was ridiculing Divine healing, ridiculing the baptism of the Holy Spirit, saying there wasn’t such a thing. I said, “You’re blind.”
He said, “No, that’s some of your own make-up.” I said, “That’s the Scripture. The Bible said so.” Said, “When was the mind ever blind?”
71 I said, “Well, many times. Jesus told your father, said, ‘You blind Pharisees! You got eyes and you can’t see.’ That’s right. ‘But if you’d have knowed the time!’” I said…
72 Elijah was down, that great prophet, at Dothan, one time. And there the whole Syrian army got around, to take Elijah. And Gehazi said, “…?…Father, they’re upon us! The whole city is compassed around here, with the army of the Syrians.”
73 He said, “Well, there is more with us than there is with them.”
74 He said, “Well, now, here they was. I can’t see nobody but you.”
Said, “God, open his eyes.”
75 And when his eyes come open, he looked; and around that old prophet was chariots of Fire, the hills was on Fire, the Angels of…?…
76 He walked right out to where they was, and he said… “He smote them blind.” Walked out…And how? Not physically. One way, they were physically blind. He went out, said, “Are you looking for Elijah?” He was Elijah, himself.
Said, “Yes, we’re looking for him.”
77 Said, “Come, follow me, I’ll lead you right to him.” They didn’t know it. They were blind.
78 And, today, men are stricken blind because they are rejecting God, mercy. That only leaves judgment left. But God, in His love and mercy, has so appropriated a way. That, before Divine judgment ever strikes, there is a way. God makes a way of escape for all those who desire to follow that way. That’s the mercies of Him, making a way of escape. “Not willing that any should perish, but all might come to repentance.”
55-0522 – “The Ark”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 348
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. (Revelation 4:6-8)
265 “What’s the symbol here, Brother Branham? What is it?” It means that these guards—these guards was God’s ark…They were in journey, rolling on wheels when Ezekiel saw them; but when John saw them, they had already come into their right position in Heaven. The ark of God was on earth, rolling on wheels, as they took it from place to place, meant it was in travel, they took it all the way up through the wilderness and all the way into the temple and so forth; but now it’s received up ’cause the Church age is over, and it’s received up into Glory. See? It’s stationary now, in Heaven, with all the Angels and things around it. We find them after while taking off their crowns and falling on their faces and giving glory to Him. See? It was God’s guards of the temple, of the ark.
266 Now, remember God’s guards of the ark, or the mercy seat. Now, remember. To how many, John saw, how many? Four. How many did—did he see? He seen four, too, four living Creatures. Now, watch, they both seen the same vision.
267 And four is the number of earth. Did you know that? How many knows now before we have to go into it, four is an earthly number? Sure! Like the four Hebrew…It’s an earth-…It’s a number of earth, of “deliverance, deliverance.” Now, keep that in your mind, “deliverance,” ’cause I’m going to strike it, just a minute, real hard. See, “Deliverance!” Now, there was three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, but the fourth One come, it was deliverance. Lazarus was in the grave three days, but when the fourth one come he was delivered. Four is God’s number of “deliverance,” so it showed that these Beings must have been something about the earth.
268 I hope you’re not too hungry now. I hope your spiritual appetite is a little—a little above your natural now. See? All right.
269 Now, notice, “They have eyes” (in Ezekiel in here) “in front and in back and within.” Let’s just read that. Look here, see. You see in here, I believe they spoke through here, “beasts,” four faces, like an eagle, and wings, full of eyes without, within. Look here:
And the four beasts and each of them had six wings about him;…
270 “And they flew,” and so forth, “and had eyes without, within, and behind.” It spoke of their intelligence. They knowed what was, which is, and which shall come; for they was right at the Seat, so close till they wasn’t even human. (Temple guards…or not temple guards, the temple guards are the hundred and forty-four thousand.) But this is the mercy seat guard, the Throne guards. The throne right up next to God, “living Creatures,” next thing to God, standing there. Their intelligence, they know what was, which is, what shall come. They had “eyes without,” showing what they could see, what was to come; “eyes within,” knows everything now; and “eyes in the back,” which knowed what was. Which was, which is, which shall come, reflecting through the church ages “He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come; Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
61-0108 – “Revelation, Chapter Four #3”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 349
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
48 However, now notice. Israel—God had to harden Pharaoh’s heart to drive them out the first time. And He done the same thing this time. He hardened Hitler’s heart against the Jews; that’s what started the war. Remember, God said, “Ever who curses Israel, I’ll curse them. Who blesses Israel, I’ll bless him.” And it was scattered all over the world. And then He hardened Hitler’s heart, hardened Mussolini’s heart, hardened Stalin’s heart. All the different hearts of the nation, He hardened them and finally opened up the way, and Israel is returning and already in her homeland.
If you want to see what day of the month it is, look on the calendar. If you want to see what day in the season it is of the coming of the Lord, watch where Israel’s setting. That’s God’s timepiece. There she is, setting in her homeland. The oldest flag in the world, the six-point star of David, the oldest flag in the world flies again for the first time for twenty-five hundred years (Yes, sir.), yes, the ensign that was to be lifted up. Israel, Palestine blossoming as a rose, you read in the magazines, and watch how they come back, way down in Iran and so forth. “Look” magazine packed articles, how they went out after them Jews. They wouldn’t get on that airplane. That old Rabbi went out there, said, “Our prophet told us, Isaiah, hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago, that when we come back to the homeland, we’d come back on the wings of an eagle.” There it sets. Amen. They got right on and away they went.
49 When Brother Arganbright, one of our brethren here, went over—had me come out to the West Coast this time. He was there taking the pictures. Other pictures, got one “Three Minutes To Midnight.” And science says that’s what it is, three minutes to midnight. And we look over there and see all them Jews placed in their homeland.
Lewi Pethrus, how many ever heard of him? The Stockholm church in Sweden, wonderful brother. He said to me, “Brother Branham, the Jews has always believed their prophets.” Said, “If you just go down to Israel…”
I said, “Fine, that looks good to me.”
He said, “Look, they… I sent them down a million of these Testaments (They read from the back to the front.), and—and they read them New Testaments.”
They asked these Jews; they said, “Why you coming home for, bringing your papa and mama, them blind and sick and packing them in, come to the homeland to die?”
Said, “We come to see the Messiah.” Amen.
Brother, don’t worry. Gentile, your days is just about over. Let me warn you in the Name of the Lord: The Gentile door is closing just as certain as I’m standing here. Jesus said, “The Mohammedans there would tread down the walls of Jerusalem until the Gentile dispensation be finished and fulfilled.” There she is, Israel in her homeland, a nation with her own army and her own money. Amen. She’s a full nation now. The fig tree’s putting forth its buds and already budded out.
61-0217 – “The Mark Of The Beast And The Seal Of God #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 350
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. (Revelation 6:1)
75 Which, it’s all right to have wisdom. But if the wisdom is contrary, if the wisdom isn’t correct wisdom from God, Divine wisdom, and becomes natural wisdom; I don’t care how much science we have, and whatmore, or education, it’s of the devil. I’ll prove it to you, the Lord willing, in a few minutes. It’s of the devil.
76 Civilization is of the devil. I just got through preaching on that. All culture in the earth, all powers of science, and everything, is of the devil. It’s his gospel he preached, of knowledge, in the garden of Eden. And he has took that knowledge, perverted knowledge, contrary to the Word and will and plan of God. And now he has had six thousand years to do just exactly what God did, only in a perverted way, and took the same amount of time to bring his own Eden in. Now he has got an Eden here on earth, and it’s filled with wisdom, knowledge. That was his gospel at the beginning, knowledge, wisdom, science. Never did God ever cater to such. And I—I want you to watch a minute. He did this, and because that he was a man of worldly wisdom.
77 Now, it’s hard to say this. It’s—it’s very hard, because speaking to people who feel the same way I do, and the way I have been for many years. But since the opening of those Seven Seals, of them Angels just behind the mountain yonder, This has become a new Book. It’s the things that’s been hid, is being revealed as God promised in Revelation 10, He would do it. And we are the privileged people that God has chosen, of the earth, that we might see and understand these things; which is not some mythical, fleshly mind of a person trying to make it up. It’s the Word of God made manifest, proven, that It’s right. Proven, not by science; but by God, that It’s right. God, as I have said before in a message, God doesn’t need anyone to interpret His Word. He is His Own Interpreter. He says it’ll happen, and it happens. That’s, He—He confirms it, that interprets it.
78 A few years ago when, we pentecostal people, when the—the other churches told us that we were “crazy,” we “could not, the Holy Ghost was a thing past.” But we find out that God’s promise was to whosoever will, and now we know different. See, and that’s just little by little, this thing has opened up.
79 And now He promised that the mysteries that was hid in those, all those church ages, would be revealed right at the end time. And He lets us know now. We are at the end time. We’re here now.
65-0911 – “God’s Power To Transform”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 351
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. (Ecclesiastes 5:13-15)
7 I’ve noticed to… When I first started, and I knew there’d be a lot hooked up with this, and there’s nobody on the field in them days. And me being a Baptist and coming out amongst Full Gospel people, I realized what it was going to be. And there was three things that I noticed in the Bible that always…?… a minister. And one of them was money, and the other one was popularity, and women. So I know that Saul fell because of popularity, Balaam because of money, and Samson because of women. So then I know those three things was a hindrance that we must always keep covered up. And money of course, would be the—the greatest. And… or trying to think you’re just a little better than somebody else.
8 I—I tried, Christian friends, tried my best; by God’s grace I can say with His grace, all of it’s been in the background. You pray that I can keep it that way. I never took money. I suppose that… Billy told me a few minutes ago, said, “Daddy, I think they took you up a love offering.” That wasn’t necessary, didn’t have to do that. I never come for that purpose; God knows that. No, sir. I’m a poor man, could have been a multi-millionaire. Many of you knows that I was give at one time one million five hundred thousand dollars at one time. When the agents brought it to me, I refused to look at their order; I said, “No, sir, I wouldn’t put my hand on it.”
9 They said, “Oh, my,” said, “but this man’s worth twenty-eight million dollars. He owns a big Mission Bell Winery and all.”
I said, “I don’t care what he owns, sir; my Father owns the cattle of every hill and He… I—I don’t have any need of the money.”
And he said, “Well, I was just seeing your mother’s home and yours here, the parsonage,” and said, “you could use it.”
I said, “Yes, when I need it, Father will send it to me. But I—I don’t need it now.”
And I refused to look at it: A million five hundred thousand dollars in one offering. I’d rather take fifty cents or a dime from so-and-so, and so-and-so, and let everybody have a part in it, than to take a big lot of money. Heartaches, troubles, and then you think, “Well…” It’s just too much, the curse of the love of it. And I—I was born poor, raised poor; my people are poor; I want to die poor. The only thing I want to have when I die is favor with God; that’s all I want. I brought nothing into this world, it’s certain we take nothing out. That’s true. So what we get from the line of God, is only thing we can take with us. So if you ever want to pray for me, it’s not to have money, not to have big homes, or be popular, but just pray that I can stay in the hands of Christ, mold, clay, that He can mold me, and use me, in any way that He sees fit to do it. I’ll pray the same thing for you, that you’ll be the same way.
56-0422 – “Show Us The Father And It’ll Satisfy”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 352
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (Revelation 8:1)
102 Now, God’s secret mystery, He had before the world began. Now, back in the back part of God’s mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed. Because, first, there wasn’t even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything. He was God. But He exactly wasn’t God at that time, because God is an object of worship, and there wasn’t nothing to worship Him.
103 So, in His great mind, He wanted these attributes to be expressed. And in Him was love; in Him was to be Father; in Him was to be Son; in Him was to be a Saviour; in Him was to be a Healer. And all these great attributes that we see already expressed, they were in God.
104 So, my opinion, the first thing that He made was Angels. And then they worshiped Him, and that made Him God. And He started from there. As in previous Messages I have tried to explain it, break it down. And now, then, when Angels began to worship Him, that was before there was even a molecule in the earth. There was nothing. It was all darkness. There wasn’t no sun, nor no moon, no stars, no nothing, then He was God. As He asked Job, “Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world, see, when the morning stars sang together, the sons of God shouted for joy? See? Now, where were you?” See? That was way back before the earth.
105 Now, God had a purpose and a hidden mystery. And that’s what I want to speak on to the Church this morning, the hidden mystery of God that He had in His mind before the world ever began, and how that it’s unfolded itself right down to this present hour that we’re living. See? Then you will understand clearly then, you see, on, I believe, what is being done.
106 God’s great mystery, of how, it’s a secret. He kept it a secret. Nobody knowed nothing about it. Even the Angels didn’t understand it. See, He didn’t reveal it. That’s the reason, under our seventh mystery, when the seventh seal was opened, there was silence. Jesus, when He was on earth, they wanted to know when He would come. He said, “It’s not…Even the Son Himself don’t know when it’s going to happen.” See, God has this all to Himself. It’s a secret. And that’s the reason there was silence in Heaven for a space of a half hour, and seven thunders utter their voices, and John was even forbidden to write it, see, the Coming of the Lord. That’s one thing He hasn’t revealed yet, of how He will come, and when He will come. It’s a good thing that He doesn’t. No.
63-0728 – “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 353
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. (Ecclesiastes 7:27-28)
79 Then I remember coming on up. I got to be a young man. (I’ll hurry to make it within the next little bit.) When I got to be a young man I had ideas like all young men. I…going to school, I’d found them little girls. You know, I was real bashful, you know. And I—I finally got me a little girlfriend. And like all little boys, about fifteen years old, I guess. And—and so, oh, she was pretty. My, she had eyes like a dove, and she had teeth like pearl, and a neck like a swan, and she—she was really pretty.
80 And another little boy, he…we were buddies, so he got his daddy’s old model-T Ford, and we got a date with our girls. And we was going to take them out, riding. We got enough to buy two gallons of gasoline. We had to jack the back wheel up to crank it. I don’t know whether you ever remember that or not, you know, to crank it. But we—we was going along pretty good.
81 And so I had a few nickels in my pocket, and we stopped at a little place and got…you could get a ham sandwich for a nickel. And so, oh, I was rich, I could buy four of them! See? And after we had eat the sandwiches and drank the Coke, I started taking the bottles back. And to my surprise, when I come out, (women had just start falling from grace at that time, or from womanhood) my little dove was smoking a cigarette.
82 Well, I’ve always had my opinion of a woman that would smoke a cigarette, and I haven’t changed it one bit from that time on. That’s right. It’s the lowest thing she can do. And that’s exactly right. And I—I thought I…Now, the cigarette company could get after me for this, but, I’m telling you, that’s just a stunt of the devil. It’s the biggest killer and sabotage this nation’s got. I’d rather my boy be a drunkard than to be a cigarette smoker. That’s the truth. I’d rather see my wife laying on the floor, drunk, than to see her with a cigarette. That’s how…
83 Now, this Spirit of God that’s with me, if That is the Spirit of God (as you might question), you smoking cigarettes has got a slim chance when you get there, ’cause that just…every time. You notice it on the platform, how He condemns it. It’s a horrible thing. Keep away from it. Ladies, if you have been guilty of that, please, in the Name of Christ, get away from it! It breaks you. It’ll kill you. It’ll…It’s a—it’s a cancer by the carloads.
84 The doctors try to warn you. And then how they can sell you that stuff! If you’d go down to the drug store and say, “Buy…I want to buy fifty-cents worth of cancer.” Why, they’d come lock them up. But when you buy fifty-cents worth of cigarettes, you’re buying the same thing. Doctors say so. Oh, this money-mad nation. It’s too bad. It’s a killer. It’s been proved.
85 Well, when I seen that pretty little girl just acting smart, this cigarette in her hand, that liked to killed me, ’cause I really thought I loved her. And I thought, “Well…”
86 Now, I’m called a “woman-hater,” you know that, because I’m always kind of against women, but not against you Sisters. I’m just against the way modern women act. That’s right. Good women should be packed along.
87 But I can remember when my father’s still up there running, I had to be out there with water and stuff, see young ladies that wasn’t over seventeen, eighteen years old, up there with men my age now, drunk. And they’d have to sober them up and give them black coffee, to get home to cook their husband’s supper. Oh, something like that, I said, “I…” This was my remark then, “They’re not worth a good clean bullet to kill them with it.” That’s right. And I hated women. That’s right. And I just have to watch every move now, to keep from still thinking the same thing.
88 So, but now, a good woman is a jewel in a man’s crown. She should be honored. She…My mother’s a woman, my wife is, and they’re lovely. And I’ve got thousands of Christian sisters who I highly respect. But if—if they can respect what God made them, a motherhood and a real queen, that’s all right. She’s one of the best things that God could give a man, was a wife. Besides salvation, a wife is the best thing if she is a good wife. But if she isn’t, Solomon said, “A good woman is a jewel in a man’s crown, but a—an ornery one or no-good one is water in his blood.” And that’s right, it’s the worst thing could happen. So a good woman…If you’ve got a good wife, brother, you ought to respect her with the highest. That’s right, you should do that. A real woman! And, children, if you’ve got a real mother that stays home and tries to take care of you, keeping your clothes clean, sends you to school, teaching you about Jesus, you should honor that sweet old mother with all that’s in you. You should respect that woman, yes, sir, because she’s a real mother.
59-0419a – “My Life Story”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 354
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. (Revelation 10:7)
74 The Book of the Revelation is the last Book of the Bible. It’s sealed to unbelievers. In there, the Bible says, in 22nd chapter, “Whosoever shall take one Word from It, or add one word to It, I’ll take his part from the Book of Life.” We realize that, then, it was altogether given for believers. And It opens the Book of Revelation and reveals Who the Author of this entire Book is. “He is to look upon as Alpha and Omega,” from Genesis to Revelation, Jesus Christ just the same, right straight through. And reveals His complete mystery of Himself, and His plans for His church ages that’s to come, and was sealed in there by Seven Seals.
75 Now, the Book was written, but then, remember, It was sealed with Seven Seals. And these Seven Seals was not to be opened (Revelation 10) until the sounding of the last earthly angel on earth, Revelation 10:7. See? “And in the days of the sounding of the last angel’s Message, seventh angel, the mystery of God should be finished in that age.” That, and that’s the age that we’re living in.
76 We all know we’re living in the Laodicea Age. There will never be another age to it. It can’t be. So, we’re living in the Laodicea Age. And these Seven Seals that’s held that Book, is a mystery to people, should be opened at that day. That’s what He promised. Now, it won’t be nothing outside the Word, because you can’t add to the Word or take from the Word. It’s got to remain always the Word. But the revelation is to reveal the Truth of It, what It is, to make It fit with the rest the Scripture. And then God vindicates that to be the Truth. See?
77 God don’t need no interpreter. He is His Own interpreter. He does His Own interpretation by bringing to pass the things that He said would happen. Like, in the beginning, He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. That don’t need any interpretation. It was vindicated.
78 Now, He promised certain things in this last day, in the Scripture. Why, there it was.
That’s how Jesus was the Son of God. He promised to send Him. When He was in His days here on earth, and the people couldn’t believe Him, He said, “Search the Scripture, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me. If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if you can’t believe Me, believe the works that I do, ’cause they testify Who I am.”
79 Well, then, in Wesley’s age, the works that he did testified who he was.
In Luther’s age, on reformation, why, sure, it testified who he was.
80 In the days of the Pentecostals, the restoring back of the gifts, the restoration of the gifts, speaking in tongues and casting out devils, and the gifts, why, it testified. There was no joke about it. People said, when it first raised up…I read the books on the history of Pentecost. They said, “It can’t last long. It’ll burn down.” It’s still burning. Why? Is because you’ll never put it out. God said it would be there. It’s that portion of the Word, and no more could you put that out.
And then when the Bride is being called out, how you going to put it out? It’s the revelation of the manifestation of the Word made true. And we’re living in that day; praise be to God; the revelation of the mystery of Hisself.
65-1204 – “The Rapture”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 355
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
34 And I wrote the vision immediately after I’d—I had the vision that morning. And then when the manager, as we call him that for the time being, had made an arrangements to go into India. And he—he didn’t kinda like Africa very much. So he said to me in Chicago; he said, “Brother Branham, let’s just bypass Africa and go on to India.”
I said, “That is up to you, brother; wherever the Lord wants me to labor, all right.”
I feel that, brethren, and like in here. Whether we have… I would rather be down here in this meeting with five people attending in that six thousand auditorium, and be in the will of God, than to have the place turning away five thousand every night, and be out of the will of God. See? The main thing is do the will of God, whether it’s small, or whether it’s great, whatever it is.
35 I just held a revival in a church that held twenty people, a revival. I don’t have any television; I don’t have any programs to sponsor or anything. People just pay the expense, and that’s all there is to it. See, see? And so I don’t want any of those things. If I do, I am obligated.
You think our dear Brother Oral Roberts, which is my bosom friend and a real man of God, do you think that Oral Roberts could come to a place and hold a meeting for two or three days in a church that held twenty people, when it takes about seven or eight thousand dollars a day for him to thrive? Certainly, he couldn’t. He would like to, but he can’t do it. He’s under such an obligation. Now, I haven’t got the brains to do what he’s doing, and God knows that, so He lets Oral do that. He just keeps me this way where I can… See, i—i—if we just—if we just realize what—what our—are limited what we can do. So then, I don’t have to have money, so that’s… There you are. See? I can go anywhere He sends me.
36 If He wants me to go to Africa and preach to a hundred thousand people, He will produce the money. He’s got all of it anyhow, so I don’t have to ask for it, so He just gives it to me. If He wants me to go down to—to the old saint of Timbuktu, Gravel Switch, or somewhere, you know, and preach to ten people, amen. I’ll just go and stay till He tells me it’s over. So that’s the way… I—I try to live that way. And I don’t not have nothing, no programs to support, nor nothing. See?
Now, I am not saying… See, now that is my part. Now, Brother Oral Roberts, God give him something else to do. And Brother A. A. Allen, and many of those other brethren, who has great radio broadcast and things, they’ve got to have money. I help support them myself. See? I do all that I can, because I realize that’s my brother. I couldn’t fwil—fill his place, and I—I’m kind of glad that I don’t not have to. See? Because I haven’t got the mental powers to work those things out, and so I just stay the way I am. You… As Congressman Upshaw used to say, “You can’t be nothing that you haint.” So that’s right. And the quicker we realize that, the better off we’ll be.
You just be what you are. God wants you the way He made you. And just keep that in mind, and be just what… If it’s a doormat, be a doormat. I want to be the best doormat He ever had, if—if I have to be the doormat. Or whatever it is in the House of God, let me serve my office the best that I can for Him.
58-0301b – “The Great Commission”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
Day 356
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord. (Zechariah 8:16-17)
45 Now, I suppose there’s practically all of us here, tonight, could call to member, remembrance of certain things that taken place at certain time. From that time, something changed. Such-and-such a thing, it happened at that time. And from that time on, it was different. And it’s a good thing that we can. And some of those memories, of things that we think of, is worthy things that changed. And there’s some things that is not so worthy of thinking of.
46 For instance, if the woman of an ill-fame, that she said, “There was a time that I was a good, righteous, moral girl. And on a certain night, or a certain place, a certain thing happened.” And since that time, she’s been on the wrong road. Her life has been marred with sin, and blackness and darkness, and only judgment waits her. But she can remember, from that certain time, it happened when she took the wrong road.
47 The—the drunk man, tonight, on the streets, that trying to drink his sorrows away. You might pick him up. Like I was down on the bowery here, sometime ago, in New York, the great center of the drunken people. I was walking with a certain minister. And there laid a man, oh, just plenty of men, harmless, helpless, laying there with the front of their clothes all wet, and—and their beards all over their faces, and just in a terrible condition. And they were perfectly harmless.
48 And this minister said, “Pick that one up, and just ask him.”
49 And I went over to this man which was laying with one foot across a bumper of a car, and his head laying down on the street, and where that he had been unable to—to—to go at times, of to the rest rooms. Oh, he was just in a terrible condition. And I took a hold of him, and I said, “Can you speak?” And he wouldn’t make me no answer.
50 So the minister got down. He knowed more about how to deal with him. And he asked him, “Who are you?”
51 And finally he got him roused up enough, till he would say, “If you’ll buy me a drink!” And come to find out, he could point his finger to the bank that he used to be president of.
52 “Well,” he said, “we are preachers. Could you tell me what took place?”
“If you’ll promise me a drink!”
53 Well, we couldn’t do that. I said, “I couldn’t add sorrow to your sorrows. I want to help you.”
54 All his story. He come home, one night, and there was a, what he called, a “Dear John” letter on the—the table. Then, his wife had left him. And had…He loved her. And she had taken his children. And he was divorced, and she had run away with another man. And he said, “I didn’t know what to do, to shoot my brains out, or what to do. So I—I went down to the saloon.” And from that time, there he was. That’s all over the world.
55 The liar. You might take one, as I said to a man, one day, that I thought was telling jokes. And come to find out, that, he told so many lies till he really believed them, hisself. And I said, “What makes you do that?” And I set down to talk with him. I said, “I want to ask you. Those stories are too wild for people to believe.”
56 He said, “The first one I can ever remember telling.” He said, “I was a little boy that was raised in a good home.” And he said, “I went out and smoked corn silk cigarettes, just to be smart. And I eat some coffee, to take it off of my breath.” And he said, “I done it back behind the old chimney, behind the house.” And he said, “I’ll never forget, when mother caught me up, and said to me, ‘Sonny, let me smell your breath.’ And I blowed my breath into her face, and she said, ‘You’ve eat coffee to take something off of your breath. What have you been doing? Have you been smoking cigarettes?’”
57 And he said, “Something told me to tell her the truth.” He said, “But I said, ‘No, mama. I cross my heart. I haven’t been smoking cigarettes.’” He said, “And from that time, that started it.”
58 We can all find something that—that begin at a certain time. And from then on, things was changed.
59-1231 – “And From That Time”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 357
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
2 So God is God. He’s still the great I AM, not the I was, I AM, now, present tense. And He’s—He always here to heal to those who believe. But only those who believe are the only ones that’s going to be healed, regardless. You’ve got to believe it.
If you would… God might permit you right here this afternoon to get up and be crippled, and you walk around on this platform. You could walk off, and doubt and unbelief hit your heart, your condition will come right back to you again. And if you walk off and don’t serve Him, a worse thing’s going to come back to you again. That’s right. You must serve God reverently all your life, believing Him with all your heart.
3 And now, today, we got plenty of time this afternoon, because we’re going to pray for everybody in the building this afternoon. ’Cause we got time to do it. And then before leaving, I want to pray for everyone ’fore leaving Phoenix. And I won’t talk to you very much, because I want to put the time in. You’ve got good preachers here. You got a fine bunch of ministers. And they preach; and I’m not a preacher in the first place. So you can… These ministers can speak to you as they did this morning in their services.
And how many attended church this morning, let’s see your hands, all over the building? Well, that’s fine. And how many intended to attend tonight, let’s see your hands, all over the building, going to go to church tonight? That’s fine. That’s about one third of you that didn’t; I hope you do tonight. I hope you go to church tonight. Go somewhere to church. Don’t never miss going to church on Sunday. And… for the prayer meeting.
4 And you people, who have little churches here, who’s struggling. My advice would be for you to stand at your post of duty just as loyal as you can to the cause of Christ, and back up your minister and everything that’s—that’s—that’s going on, and—for the cause of Christ. And do that, and God will bless you. The only way that you can respect God is to respect one another. Is that right?
If you want somebody to say something good about you, you say something good about somebody else; they’ll say something good about you. Cast your bread upon the water; it will return to you. As the brother said in Canada the other day said, “Yes, Brother Branham: buttered.” So that’s about right. You see, if you’ll just cast it upon the water, it’ll return buttered. That’s the way, so it comes back. So you do… You do unto others as you’d have them do unto you. So that’s a good thing to live by.
48-0302 – “Experiences”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 358
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
74 You know, that’s the way to get God close to you, is think about Him, talk about Him. Just keep Jesus… Don’t talk about the things of the world; talk about Jesus. That’s the way to do it. People may think you’re a little funny, but that’s all right. Just keep on, let your conversation be about Him. Here…
I want to stop here a minute. My son, Billy… He’s around here somewhere. Here about three or four years ago, we were in a meeting. And he… They was playing some kind of music or something. We went in after service at Wood River, Illinois. And we went in to get some—some food. And they was playing some kind of a song. I don’t know what it was.
And he said, “Daddy, ain’t that a pretty song?”
I said, “What song?”
And I despise them little old jukeboxes, ever what you call it. I’ve went into a many restaurant and said, “Lady, I’ll lay two dollars down here; I got my family, if you’ll pull the plug out of that filthy thing there, ’till I can let my family eat. You just pull the plug out.”
75 Them old rock and rolls, and boogly-woogly, and every that kind of stuff, it’s a disgrace. It makes me so nervous, you can’t eat. I—I—I don’t mind it myself, ’cause I got a little gear I can pull myself in and just keep thinking about God, and I don’t hear it at all.
So after awhile (He was single then, before he was married.), some little lady would tip by, and he said, “Daddy, hasn’t she got pretty hair?”
I said, “Who?”
He said, “Daddy, all you think about is the Bible and God.”
I said, “Thank you, honey. That’s a very nice compliment. That’s all I want to think about.” That’s right. Think… If I can just keep my mind settled on Him all the time, that’s all that’s necessary.
60-0713 – “Blind Bartimaeus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 359
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. (Song of Solomon 1:4)
290 Nothing will ever touch that sod but holiness, the Redeemed. Oh, my! Yeah. Oh, I just feel so good. God, and His creation; and His creatures of this creation is redeemed by His Own Blood. Cleansed by His Own cleansing process; His germ-killing, sin-killing process!
291 Like if anything is sterilized, the best sterilization we’ve ever had has been fire. You can take anything and wash it with soapsuds and all these chemicals that they talk about, it still ain’t free. But you burn it once!
292 And when the holy Fire of God sterilizes the earth with the Chemicals; He has lifted His Bride, which can come into Heaven with Him, while this is going on. And comes back upon the earth again, a New Heavens and a New Earth. The cold winter can’t hurt it. The hot summers can’t hurt it. The deserts will blossom as a rose. Sin and sinners are gone.
293 God, and His creatures and creation, is dwelling together in perfect harmony. As the heavens and the earth is husband and wife, so is Christ and the Church, and they all meet in one big glorious plan of redemption and is brought right into the bosoms of God again. You see it?
294 And, in the New Earth, there is a New City. Oh, my! Now listen close. Don’t forget this. That, Jesus said, in John 14, He would go to prepare. “Let not your hearts be troubled.” When He’s going away, “I have a reason to go away. You’ve believed in God,” He said, “believe also in Me.” They couldn’t see that He was God. Said, “You’ve believed in God, now you believe in Me. And I’m going to prepare a Place for you. In My Father’s House is many mansions; in My Father’s Kingdom is many palaces.” Christ is there, under the construction of this New Jerusalem now. Now listen close. Don’t move. Don’t, don’t miss this. Christ is in Heaven, today, preparing the New Jerusalem.
295 Just as God created the earth in six days, made the earth in six days, or six thousand years. As he said, “Be not ignorant,” we read in the Scripture, “one thousand years is one day.”
296 And Christ has gone and is preparing a Place, that’s been on its construction for many, many thousands of years, preparing a Place. “And if I go and prepare a Place, I will come again, and receive you; that wherever I am, there you may be also.” Notice the Redeemer and the Redeemed!
297 Wish we had time now. I got marked here, Solomon quoting, “this girl, the Bride.” Oh, we just have to omit it; it’s getting too late, see. I’ll get it, again. “When he tries to get her, but she’s engaged to a shepherd boy.” Some probably thought that was a song he sang. Oh, no. Solomon was the throne inherit of David, on earth, but showed that kingdom had to pass away. It was a type of Christ in love with the Bride. See?
64-0802 – “The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 360
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)
91 Now, God, so anointed Jesus with the fulness of Himself till the…He was God’s Gift to the world. That the wise men are clearly identified, that they’re offering their gift to Him; showed that in their heart they knew who He was, and what He was going to do for them. So (no wonder) the first thing they did, they fell down, perfectly in order, and worshipped Him. Before they could even understand it, they fell down and worshipped Him and then presented their gifts. That’s the way to have real Christmas: worship Him, then present your gift; presenting your body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.
92 But you know what, after the wise men did that? The father and mother of Christ…the foster father (of course) and also mother, because God was both His father and mother. But we find out that they accepted these gifts from these wise men. No wonder they were called wise men. They were wise. They were really…had wisdom. If men today would just be that wise, just as wise! It takes a wise man to come to Christ. A man that turns away from Him is a unwise man. But it takes a wise man, to come to Christ.
93 Now notice! And after then the wise men identifying Him what He would be, and we find through the Scripture that’s exactly what He was: Deity in service for death. What for? Deity in service to God for death. Jesus was Deity in service for death, to redeem the world. But what did the world do to It? They refused It. They rejected It. Why? Some of them, a big part of them, did that because this: because He did die! They said, “He couldn’t be Deity and die.” The Man (the body) was not Deity, but Deity was in the body. This body has to perish. The very Christ that’s in you is the only thing that can raise you up. That’s Deity, God in you.
94 Now, notice! Now, the same as now, they reject identified Deity. Do you get it? They will certainly put their name on a church book and say, “I’ll try to live by this creed.” They’ll take an oath by this. But when it comes to accepting Deity, and expressing back the same kind of a gift like they did…that you are identified by your gift, that you give your entire being to It, to identified Deity. Then you identify yourself with the Deity, by giving all you are, what you are, to Deity Himself.
95 Now, Christ in this day, that we now live in, is still a Dei-…identifying Himself: Deity, among the people. He’s still Deity, because He is the Word. And when we see the Word living Itself, then we know that man can’t do that. It’s Deity, the Word being made manifest by man. And Jesus said Himself, “The Son can do nothing in Himself. I can’t do nothing, I’m a Man,” Jesus said. “But My Father that dwelleth in Me, He showeth Me all things that Himself doeth.” Amen! There you are! What is it? Deity being identified in man. Now, the same thing is today; that Deity, the promised Word for this day, can identify Itself in you. Amen! Then give your whole to It. Show that you believe in It. Give It Deity: believe It, service, and be ready to die out to yourself and your own thoughts. But today It’s rejected as It was then.
63-1222 – “God’s Gifts Always Find Their Places”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 361
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying, I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. (2 Kings 20:1-5)
14 After all, friends, it’s the prayer of faith that saves the sick. Sometimes I’ve noticed here the last few nights, I’ve been watching, and I noticed the people… I come through, and maybe, they—they want to… Some… See, if there’s something in their life, that’s just not tallying up right, and when they do that, when they find that out, then I can tell in the Spirit, the way It moves they want me to pray for them. See? After that, they’re wanting me to pray for them. See?
And after all, this… It’s—it’s prayer is the most vital force that God ever put into the hand of mankind. The most effective force that’s known to man, is prayer. Do you believe that? It is. It’s prayer that changes things.
15 Look at Hezekiah when…?… and the prophet went up and said, “All right, Hezekiah, you’re not coming off the bed. God’s done said you was going to die right there where you’re at.”
And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer… Now remember, you’ve got to give God a cause, a reason. Now, he didn’t say, “Just because I can get out there and ride around in a chariot, and show the people I’m a king.” No, he wanted to rebuild the altars of the God; and a few things had to be done to get the kingdom in order right.
And he prayed that God would give him fifteen years longer, and he wept bitterly, just wept to God. He said, “God, I beseech You to consider me. I’ve walked before You with a perfect heart.”
How many of us can say that tonight, we’ve walked before Him with a perfect heart?
“I’ve walked before Thee, Lord, with a perfect heart. And I ask You to consider me. Now, I want…”
And God Almighty, Jehovah, reconsidered that man’s case, because he prayed. Think of that. Almighty God, that had pronounced death upon the man, reconsidered His case. My, that’s too much for me. Great Jehovah, to a mortal, to one of the earth, would reconsider His Word that He’d said to him.
16 Now, God has ways of doing things. Looked like He would have spoke right back and told him, “But I—I considered your case, again; I’m going to let you stay for that, if you’ll do that.” But He didn’t. He spoke to the prophet, and sent the prophet all the way back up there again to tell him. Said, “All right, God heard your prayer.” See, God revealed to the prophet what was going to happen; he come back, “Your—your days is considered, and you’re going to come off the bed now in three days.” You got some poultices and so forth, put on him. And Hezekiah come off the bed and was made well.
17 Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It’s bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose—you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a—a faith that you have laid it out before God, said, “Now here, God, here it is. And I—I want to get well for, this cause.” Or, “I want You to do this for me, for this cause. I want You to heal me from—from—from this cancer, or this TB or—or this anemia condition,” or whatever it is. “I will walk before You, I will—I will do everything I can. I will give this testimony everywhere I go. I will be happy to do that, Lord. And I will use my life, not for myself. I will—I will use it for Your glory, to help others to see You.”
18 Now, then you lay that before God, and say, “God, will You consider my case?” I believe, just as Hezekiah was… O God, yet today, don’t you believe so? Every night He confirms it right here in the building. I believe He will do it again tonight, don’t you? He will come right down here among us tonight and confirm the same thing. As men and women, I don’t know no one here. I did recognize, a few minutes ago, someone I was going to call attention to, friends from Jeffersonville, or down around my hometown, was sitting right back in here somewhere. I met, seen them, awhile… Here… That’s right. God bless you, I… folks from my church. I… Just get up today? This your first day? Saturday. And I missed you all this time. All right.
Well, we’re glad to have them up here, folks from my church. All right.
52-0716 – “Thou Knowest All Things”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 362
But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. (Zechariah 14:7)
158 So we see the evening Light’s here. And what does it do to have Light, if you don’t have any eyes to see how to get around in It? What is the evening Light? The Light comes on, to reveal something. Is that right? If there’s something here, you feel and you can’t understand what it is, in the darkness, then turn a light on. It’s to reveal! What’s Malachi 4 to do? See? Do the same thing. What was the opening of the Seven Seals to do, where all these denominations staggering around in this…?…Is to reveal, bring out. If you haven’t got any eyes, then what’s the use to reveal? There has to be eyes, first, to see. Is that right? To reveal Malachi 4, reveal Saint Luke 17:30, Saint John 14:12, also John 15:24, 16:13. And to also reveal Revelation 10:1 to 7, the opening of the Seven Seals, and the seventh angel’s Message; to open up, to reveal, when the evening Light’s come. Now if a man…
159 In the Laodicean Age, the people were (what?) “naked.” Are they? “Blind.” What good does Light do to a blind man? If the blind leads the blind, don’t they all fall in the ditch? “Naked, blind, and don’t know it.” Even their mental faculties are gone, their spiritual faculties of mental, spiritual understanding. See?
“Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good; having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof.” The power of revelation; they don’t even believe in it. See? They don’t believe in such things as prophets. And so they don’t believe in it. They believe that—that Malachi 4 is to be a certain church or a certain organization.
When he come the first time, he was a man. When he come the second time, with a double portion, he was a man. When he come in the form of John the Baptist, he was a man. See?
In the last days, when the evening Lights begin to shine, eyes will become open and you’ll see where you’re going. Then the Body is already formed, standing upon its feet, taking motion, moving by the Holy Spirit. What? The same One that moved upon the prophets that wrote the Bible, the same Holy Ghost moving in a Body filled with the Holy Ghost, moved in the Holy Ghost, out of every organization, every kindred, tongue, and people.
160 A little lady here, she don’t belong in this organization, or this organization…belong in this congregation. She comes from somewhere else, and she come in this morning, got a picture there. She was…give it to my son, who was very much astonished. I don’t know whether she ever heard about This or not. I don’t know. She had a picture of this Angel of the Lord that was on the Seven Church Ages, Seven Seals opened, out there, when it did. Said, looked back through there, and she seen that standing in the sky, in a dream. And she looked back through there and seen that, seen somebody in white, marching forward; and behind it, said it looked…Said, “Brother Branham, it was you.” And said, “Marched in there,” said, “behind you, was people of different colors, packing banners; Georgia, Alabama, all different kind of places, marching forward,” coming up into the headship to where Christ was being revealed into the vision. Oh, hallelujah!
161 We’re in the last days, and the last hours of the days. Do you see Him now in His Word, and all of His Word made manifest right here before us? Oh, Church of the living God, get to your feet, believe Him with all that’s in you. Hold to that little Wheel in the middle of the wheel, let It stabilize every move and every motion that you make. Every thought that you have, may it be controlled by this Tower on the inside of you. Because, God is setting right in His Word of this hour, in the evening Light, showing forth the Light.
162 The blindness of a bat! You could turn on a light, and the bat—bat would be so blind he couldn’t fly. A hoot owl, all those night prowlers, and things like that, roaches and things, can’t see in the daytime. They don’t know what it’s all about. They can’t see.
And the evening Lights has come on. Every parable, everywhere we go, to nature, to the Bible, to the—the statues that Melc-…that Daniel saw, and—and the king of that day, all of them saw; and all these things, everybody, every form, every move, every place in the Body, positionally shows us the very hour that we’re living in. Not another move can come above it.
There was a move of the hand; charity, Wesley. There was a move, of foundation; Luther. Charity, there never was a greater; it was called the Wesley move. They sent missionaries to all the world. One of the greatest moves that was made, in the age before that.
Then come the Pentecostal age; then come in the different fingers and things, the Pentecostal age, of tongues, and nose, and so forth.
Now it’s in the eyes. What good will you need eyes, or need light, if that eyes wasn’t there to see? There has to be eyes, first, to see. And then when that come, He opened the Seven Seals and revealed the evening Light, taking all the mysteries that’s been hid down through these church ages, and now revealed them as He promised to do in Revelation 10:1 to 7. Here we are today setting in the midst of the Word, and the Word being revealed to us by Jesus Christ. Then, This is God’s Word.
163 And be His subjects, we must walk close to the Author, to understand It, for It to reveal. “O Lord, what will Thou have to me, to do? If I must go to the fields and preach the Gospel, or must I stay at home? No matter what it is, if I must be a good housewife, if I must be a good mother, if I must do this, that, or the other? Whatever it is, if I must be a farmer, if I…Whatever it is, Lord, what would You have me do?”
65-0822m – “Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 363
I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. (Malachi 1:2-3)
57 And so, therefore, Melchisedec, the great Priest, like a man, He had no beginning and He has no end. And when we, through that theophany, that, we were made in the image of God before the world was ever made; when that theophany has been made flesh and dwelt among us, then, through His death, we ourselves receive His Spirit and we have no end; Eternal Life; not Angels, but men and women. Oh, I…Somehow, if I could only get it in a way that my—my audience would catch it! You will never be an Angel. God made Angels, but God made man. And what God does is off of God, which is as Eternal as God is. And man is just as Eternal as his Creator, because he was made from Eternity.
58 But sin has an end, suffering has an end. Therefore, there cannot be an Eternal hell. There’s a hell, fire and brimstone, we know that, but there’s no Eternal hell. There’s only one type of Eternal Life and that belongs to God. If you’re to suffer forever, you got Eternal Life. Hell has an end, it may be billions of years, but it’ll finally come to an end.
59 The Bible doesn’t say, anywhere, that they suffered Eternally, said, “Forever and forever.” Jonah thought he was in the belly of the whale “forever,” too. Forever has a distance or a time limit. But Eternal is perpetual, it has no beginning or end. It’s like a ring, a circle. And as our time moves on, we’re only in revolving around the great motives of God.
60 God’s motive was to make man in His image, to fellowship with Him. And He made him a tangible being. Now, sin brought us into a place of—of—of corruption, but that never stops the program of God. And, sinner friend, today, if you’re not born again of the Spirit of God, you have an end somewhere. And your end is chaos, in ruin, and suffering and misery. But to you who have believed on the Lord Jesus, and accepted the same as your personal Saviour, it’s just as Eternal as God is Eternal. You have no end, “I give unto them Eternal Zoe, God’s own Life, and they will never perish or come into the judgment even, but has passed from death unto Life.” That’s what He was. That’s what He come for.
61 Now, Jesus, in His coming, of His priesthood, did not come just for a sympathy’s sake. Many people teach it like that, that He come, saying, “Well, maybe if I suffer, I will be a—a—a pitiful sight and people will surely come to Me.” That’s an error. There’s no Scripture for that.
For, every person that ever will be saved, God knew them before the world was ever formed. The Bible said so. God is not willing, now, that anybody should perish. He wants them all to come to repentance. But, being God, by foreknowledge He knew it.
62 Look in Romans, 8th chapter. Paul was holding up there, saying about the election of God, that, “Esau and Jacob, before either baby was born, or anything, God said that He knew them and He hated Esau and loved Jacob,” before either boy had a—had a chance to express their gratitude, for He was God. He know…He is infinite. If He is infinite, He knowed every flea, every fly, every gnat, everything that’d ever be on the earth, He knew it. He’s the infinite, Eternal, immortal, blessed God, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. There is nothing that He doesn’t know. That’s the reason He can tell what the end will be. He knowed the end from the beginning.
57-0908m – “Hebrews, Chapter Five And Six #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 364
42 We find out when Uzziah got lifted up in his heart, we find out that God smote him. What did he do? He tried so much to try to take a minister’s place. He thought because he got lifted up, God had blessed him, made him a great man, he could just do anything he wanted to.
43 I heard a young man tell me not long ago, he said, “You know, God loves me so much, Brother Branham, He just lets me do anything I want to. He don’t care.”
44 I hear so much today about God being a good God. He is. I’m not disputing that. He is a good God. But He is also a God of wrath. His Holiness requires righteousness. His law requires judgment. If there is no judgment to law, law is of non-effect. What good would it do to say, “It’s against the law to run this redlight down here,” without being a penalty behind it? See, it would be no law. They couldn’t do nothing about it; there isn’t a penalty. There is a penalty for transgressing God’s laws, and, it will, you’ll have to pay to the utmost farthings before you’re brought out.
45 Now many man today makes that sad mistake like this fellow did, when he got exalted, got big, got so he had everything in his own hands, he felt secure, “God loves me so much, till there is nothing can bother me now.” When he did that, he throwed hisself in the same shape that Nebuchadnezzar did one time, as you Bible readers know. Then we find out that he was smitten with leprosy because he tried to take a minister’s place.
46 Not long ago, I speak international for the Full Gospel Business Men. Sometime ago, I was sitting in a place, it was over in Jamaica, we was having a meeting.
47 I love them, because it’s people out of all the churches. It gives me a chance to—to speak. Sometime the churches won’t cooperate, but their businessmen are cooperating, they—they’ll have to kind of hold their face for the businessmen’s sake.
48 So now we find out, that in there, I was having a meeting. That night when we come back over to the Flamingo Motel, I said, “I’m ashamed of you fellows.” I said, “It’s a disgrace. All you talked about, before all the political leaders and things, and businessmen up-and-down here, was about, ‘I had a little bitty business down here, and I got sixteen Cadillacs,’ or whatever more.” I said, “Them man, you can’t compare with them.”
49 That’s what’s the trouble with the church today, you are trying to compare with Hollywood. You’re trying to make it like Hollywood. Remember, Hollywood glares; the Gospel glows. You can’t go over on their ground; you’ve got to bring them on our ground. That’s where we’ve got to get them. Got to get them over here, not us go out there. We could never compare with them. We don’t want to. They shine and glitter; the Gospel glows with meekness and humility. That’s just the difference between a glow and a glare.
64-0215 – “Influences”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 365
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Revelation 21:1)
180 What does it mean? The earth will be loosed from the grip of Satan. It’ll be loosed. It’ll be loosed from politics, it’ll be loosed from denominational religious systems; to be used for the Kingdom of God, to be establish it here on the earth. But as long it’s in the hands of Satan, politics…Satan the ruler of the earth, he owns it; it belonged to him, but now Christ has redeemed it.
181 One time, I was his property, but not now. One time, that little woman was his property, but not now. See, He come to loose the grip of it. He loosed the grip of sin, of Satan, upon my life, upon your life, and now we’re not his.
182 Have you often heard me say, in prayer, “take your hands off of God’s property”? See? Amen! Have faith to claim your own. That’s your rights. “Take your hands off of her! Take your hands off of him!” See, faith will do it. Oh, my! Not annihilate it, but, just, “Take your hands off of it,” to loose it, let it go, pass it away. It changes.
183 The earth will change. Politics will change. The religions will change. The denominations will pass away. Politics will pass away. The Kingdom of God shall be established.
184 We read in John, read John in Revelation 6:14, see, “it departed as a scroll.” The Bible said the…that it…John said, “I saw the heaven and earth depart as a scroll.” John, Revelation 6:14.
185 Jesus said, “Heavens and earth shall pass away,” or, other words, “heavens and earth shall be changed.” See, used that same word right there again.
186 No, not annihilated. For, later, in Revelation 21:2 to 24, he seen the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven, and sitting upon this earth. It doesn’t mean it’ll be annihilated. The systems will be changed.
187 Daniel saw the same thing. A Rock struck the world, was hewed out without hands; and the whole image of the systems was broke down and become like chaff on a summer threshingfloor, and the wind packed it away. And the Rock, Itself, grew into a great Mountain that covered the earth. Watch that Mountain now, in a little bit. That Mountain covered the earth.
188 Also, we find out here, over in, also, in Revelation there, it said, “The kings of the New Earth will bring their honor and glory into it.” In the earth, is sitting…The New Jerusalem is sitting on this earth. See, it just changed.
189 You’re the same man, in stature, that you was when God called you, same woman. But, you see, what it did, it was a regeneration. The old life passed away. The old desire has passed away. When, you used to like to drink, and cuss, and fuss, and stew, and run around, and immoral, that thing just died. See? But now you are used…Then you was Satan’s instrument; now you are redeemed.
190 And that’s what the world will be, the same way, redeemed, a New Heavens and New Earth.
191 Just like you, “You are a new creature.” And the Greek word there, anybody knows, said, “You are a new creation.” Amen! A new creation in the same old temple. Hallelujah. Watch what happens here now. Glorious! All right.
64-0802 – “The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 366
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22:20)
22 And being that this is such a vital thing, I think just before…at the eve, rather, of our little revival, that we should look solemnly, and into the Scriptures, and see how close that we are. If I wanted to know what time it was, I would look at my watch. If I wanted to know what day of the week we was living in, or the month of the year, I would look at the calendar. And if I want to know the approaching time of this great event, I look at the Word of God, It tells the time when it is at hand. For the Bible said, “When these things begin to come to pass, lift up your head, your redemption is drawing nigh.” The time is at hand.
23 It was such a great thing to John, the revelator, on the Isle of Patmos, that when he saw the preview of the Coming of the Lord. When he saw the curses that rested upon the unbeliever, and the blessings that rest upon the believer, he screamed out, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” It so thrilled his heart after all he had seen, the events before His Coming, he screamed, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” And when the whole church age had been passed in his view, and he seen everything in major, the way it would happen, then the scream, “Come, Lord Jesus!” It must be a glorious thing that the Coming of the Lord draws near at hand.
24 Jesus, when His disciples had got to a place that they were looking at the carnal or the natural things of the earth. Now, here we want to stop just a few minutes. It doesn’t have to always be carnal that’ll draw us away, sometimes just the natural things will draw us away. Jesus’ servants, or His disciples, was pointing to Him the city temple, Jerusalem, the great temple where God in His Shekinah Glory had appeared in the Holiest of holies. And when they told Him of how goodly the stones was placed in, how the great master-mind of God had ordained that these stones was cut in many places in the world and come together. That, in forty years of its erecting, there wasn’t even to a buzz of a saw or the sound of a hammer. It was so masterly put together. And that how God had come in over the cherubims and it showed forth His Shekinah Glory, and how they had great hope in this great church.
25 And Jesus told them, “See not all these things.” Yet it was a holy place, it was a good place. It was a place, house of the dwelling of the Lord. But Jesus said, “Don’t see these things. I’ve got something to tell you that’s far greater than this. For there is coming the time” He said “that there will not be one stone left upon the other.”
26 No matter how well we try to take care of our physical being, no matter how hard we work for our organization, how hard we work in the church for our—our orders of the church, there’s coming a time when all those things will vanish and pass away.
57-0417 – “The Second Coming Of The Lord”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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