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Day 32
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. (Matthew 21:10-11)
106 For, today, you can have any kind of an answer. You can see the Lord perform just exactly what He said do, and smart theologians will explain It away. They’ll say, “That was for another day. It was for this. Or, It’s for another age. Or, It’s wrong.” Like they said of Jesus, “He is Beelzebub, the devil. He’s a fortuneteller.” And all those things, they have an answer.
107 But when a man has ever come in contact with Christ, and seen Him as Paul did, or experienced Him, there is not enough theologians in the world to ever be able to explain that experience away from a man.
108 That’s the reason, today. They don’t have the experience. That’s the reason they can’t say. They’re all saying, “Who is This? What is This? Where does It come from?” They don’t have the answer. Why? Because, all they know is a theology that some church has made. Not “to know theology” is Life. Not “to know the Bible” is Life.
109 But “to know Him” is Life. “To know Him” as your personal Saviour, as the One Who has filled you with His Presence. You were there when it happened. There’s nobody can take It away from you. There’s no one can explain It away for you. When that experience happens to you, you know Who He is. To me, He is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
59-0510e – “Who Is This?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 33
20 Here some time ago, speaking to a rabbi, where a man, John Rhyn, had been blind for twenty years, received his sight—begging on the streets in Fort Wayne.
This rabbi called me in and said, “By what authority did you open John’s eyes?”
I said, “I never opened his eyes.”
Said, “Well, how did you do it?”
I said, “In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
And he said, “Far be it from God having a son. How could a Spirit have a son?”
I said, “Rabbi,” I said, “I’d like to ask you something. Would you believe the prophets? It wouldn’t be hard for you to believe the prophets?”
He said, “Sure, I believe the prophets.”
I said, “Who did Isaiah speak of in 9:6 when he said, ‘Unto us a Child is born, a Son is given?’”
“Well,” he said, “that was the Messiah.”
I said, “What relationship is Messiah to God?”
He said, “He is God, the anointed One.”
I said, “Tell me one place that Jesus ever failed to—but what He showed that He was the anointed Messiah, the Lord, your God?”
21 And he said, “Well, he was a thief.”
Said, “How was He a thief?”
Said, “He stole corn right out of the cornfield.”
I said, “Rabbi, your own law said that a man can pass through a cornfield and eat what he wants to; but he can’t take out any in a bag.” He didn’t even know that, being a rabbi. He can’t take any out, but…?…” I said, “He didn’t steal.” You know, that rabbi stood there for a few minutes. And I said, “Rabbi, don’t you believe that He was that?”
He said, “Look, sir,” said, “if I preached that, I’d be down there in the street begging.”
I said, “I’d rather be down there begging and drinking branch water, than eating chicken three times a day, and my name in gold on this temple here, and know I was in error. I’d rather he truthful.”
And he started to cry. And he turned around, and he said, “I’ll see you later.”
I said, “You’re not honest with me, rabbi.”
22 He said, “I believe if them temple priests would have listened to Him, we’d been better off today.”
And I said, “Then you believe… What about it?”
He said, “I believe He was a good man.”
I said, “Rabbi, do you believe He was a good man?”
Said, “I’ll go farther than that with you. I believe He was a prophet.”
I said, “That’s all I want you to say. Then He said He was the Son of God. And then, if He was a prophet, He can’t lie. So therefore, you believe He was the prophet, the Son of God; He showed the sign of Messiah.”
And he wouldn’t talk to me no more, and he went in the place.
Oh, brother. What that love of money will do. What a love of some ecclesiastical form will do. But what the love of God will do then, to a heart that’s willing to surrender to the will and ways of God.
61-0119e – “Queen Of Sheba”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 34
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. (Genesis 32:24-30)
That’s all that matters here, as long as God comes and answers, as long as we recognize it to be God…
Jacob, another character, he was caught between two occasions. He had done some mean things, some sneaky little tricks to his—his father-in-law, Laban. And he was running from his father-in-law, going back home to mama. And when he come to find out, here come his brother that he had done some dirty little tricks to, was coming, meeting him with an army.
Just remember, “Your sins find you out.” And then Jacob, all disturbed, and perplexed, and in trouble, set his wives across the little brook, went back on the other side in a unexpected place, and an unexpected time he met God in an unexpected way.
What a way to meet God: in a wrestling match. But it was God. Regardless of whether He’s in a burning bush or a wrestling match, It was God.
11 And the main thing was, that Jacob… He’d had dreams and visions and so forth, but this was one time he could lay his hand on something and say it’s God. And he was able to hold onto it until the blessing came.
Oh, if we could do that, if we could find a spot to where we could see God, whether it’s in His Word, wherever it is, and recognize it’s God, and hold onto it until the blessing comes… Wrestle it out with God. God promised to do it.
God said if we’d seek, we’d find; ask, and it shall be given; knock, it’ll be open. Every Word is true.
When Jacob got a hold of something that he could look at, hold to with his hands, and seen that it was God, he would not turn it loose.
12 Oh, if Christiandom could do that. If you can lay your hand a hold of something that’s real, catch a vision of God and see His Presence, and hold onto it until God sends the answer back and the blessing, what a revival would break out here in Tulsa, if people could do that, could see the power of the living God, something real. No matter what form He comes in, we have our ideas. But God has a way of a sending things to us, answering our prayer.
60-0326 – “The Unchangeable God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 35
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. (Matthew 22:15-22 )
78 I’m going to say this. Just looked at a person a few minutes ago. It was asked me by a fine boy the other day. We was hunting squirrels. That morning I got five; I left one of them for that afternoon. You only get six in the state of Kentucky; that’s the limit. So this certain person said, “I got nine.” Christian boy, fine kid.
I said, “You done wrong. You did wrong!”
He said, “Well…”
79 I said, “I had five that morning, saved one for that afternoon. And when I got that one squirrel, looked in a tree, and counted five or six setting right there where I could look at them, walked out and left them.” I said, “I walked up in through here not long ago, and there was about fifteen or twenty setting there. I just took the limit, and walked away, and left the rest of them there.” I said, “If I come to this country, preach to you boys and you people here the thing that’s right, I’ve got to live that example.” Christianity ain’t what you say, it’s what you live, what you do; it’s an example. You’re the salt of the earth. I said, “Then, the law says…Jesus said, ‘You give Caesar them things that belong to Caesar.’ You break that speed law out there, what are you doing? You’re doing wrong; you sin. Give Caesar what’s Caesar’s, and God’s what’s God’s.”
80 Say, “Well, the law’s wrong.” I can’t help what wrong it is; it’s wrong to break Jesus’ commandment. And if you don’t give Caesar the things that’s Caesar, then you did what Jesus told you not to do, and the transgression of the law is sin. That right?
81 We’re all guilty; we do it. But when you see yourself wrong, stop it! People are watching you; people won’t go to church, but they’ll read you, see what you do.
64-0830m – “Questions And Answers #3”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 36
62 Now, my Adventist brother, I want to ask you something. That’s exactly right. The Sabbath, that’s kind of a strange word. The Sabbath really is a Hebrew word which means r-e-s-t, rest. It’s a rest day, Sabbath day; you quit working and so forth. God finished His work, and never did come back no more. Hebrews 4 speaks of it there, He… “For God did rest on the Sabbath day. And He said in a certain place, another time, in David, ‘Today after so long a time when you hear His voice, harden not your heart.’ Then if Jesus would’ve given them another Sabbath, He’d have afterwards spoke of it. But there remaineth a Sabbath keeping to the people of God, for we which have entered into His rest, have ceased from our works like God did from His.”
When do we enter into His rest? Now, you with the pencils, turn with me to Isaiah 28:8 to 12. Here’s where you get it,
… precept must be upon precept;… line upon line; here a little, and there a little. (Hold fast to that which is good.)
For with stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people.
“And this is the Sabbath, this is the rest that I said would come. And for all this they would not hear, walk away wagging their heads and so forth.” He said that the seal of the finish of salvation, Luther, justification, Wesley, sanctification; but when the Sabbath come, the real rest day, it would be when “stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people,” and this is the finished work. Hallelujah. This is the seal. This is the Sabbath.
63 Don’t you see, it’s the Holy Ghost, brother. That’s when you enter into the finished work. If you’ve just been justified, that’s all right, that’s good. If you’ve been sanctified, that’s good. But when you receive the Holy Ghost, it’s a finished work, and God has completed His plan of salvation, and sealed it with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Oh, my. How many believes it? The Holy Ghost in every place in the Bible is a finished work. And God completed His work.
61-0217 – “The Mark Of The Beast And The Seal Of God #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 37
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. (Matthew 23:29-31)
76 God would send His prophet like Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah. And if you’ll notice, never in all the history of the world, did ever the church produce a prophet. Search it in the Old Testament, New Testament, or in this day, in the latter day. Show me any prophet was ever raised out of the church in the last day. Show me one ever come up, out. And show me one time that a prophet, a real servant of God, that the ecclesiastical system of the world didn’t condemn him.
77 Just think of it. Jeremiah, Isaiah, all down through the Old Testament, they condemn it. Jesus said, “You garnish the tombs of the prophets and make them white, and you put them in there.” That’s right.
78 The church continues that. Look at Saint Patrick. You Catholic people claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am. That’s right. But you claim him.
79 Look at Saint Francis of Assisi. Claim him. He isn’t no more Catholic than I am.
80 Look at Joan of Arc. You burnt her to a stake, as a witch, because she saw visions and is spiritual. Burnt her to a stake. And that woman screaming for mercy, and they burnt her to a stake. About a hundred years later, they found out that she was a prophetess. She was a servant of God. Oh, course, you done a big penalty: you dug up the priests’ body and throwed them in the river.
81 “You do garnish the tombs of the prophets, and put them in there.” Right. Never did the ecclesiastical system ever produce a man of God; never did, hasn’t today, and never will. Organized religion has never been God’s theme.
82 The oldest organized church in the world is the Catholic church; Luther, second; then come Zwingli; after Zwingli, come Calvin; Calvin, on, the Anglican, Anglo-Saxons taking up, then the Anglican church; and King Henry the Eighth, when he protested, and so forth; and on down to the Wesley Methodist, and Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness; and on down to the last, is Pentecostal, all organized. And the Bible plainly teaches that the Catholic church is a—a ill-famed woman, and the Protestant churches and their organizations are her daughters, Revelation 17. That’s exactly right. So they’re…
83 Not the people, now. There is good in all them churches; sainted, saved people. But God doesn’t call His people by an organization. He calls them as individuals. God deals with individuals, whether you’re a Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic, or what you are. God, before the foundation of the world, knew you, and predestinated you to Eternal Life, or either you was predestinated to Eternal loss. Not…
57-0821 – “Hebrews, Chapter One”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 38
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (Matthew 24:23-24)
41 “There shall rise…” In that now you’re coming on down into another age. See? “…raise false christs and false prophets.” A false christ is a false anointed, because Christ is the Anointed. How many knows that the Christ means “the anointed One”? There will be false anointed ones, and they’ll call themselves prophets. But how will you recognize them? By the Word; that’s how you’ll know it, by the Word, whether they are right. How will we recognize them? Will be by the Word. If they’re…If they say that they have the Word, and then deny the Word, then there’s nothing to it, no matter what they do. They might heal the sick; they might open the eyes of the blind; and deny the Word, stay away from it. Don’t care what it is, stay with that Word regardless (see?), because many times I’ve seen voodoo and all kinds of things take place under—under healing.
42 Here sits Brother Sidney Jackson, Sister Jackson this morning from South Africa. He could stand up here and take that subject and really tell you some things about it down there. Why sure, people come to idols and are healed. See, because why?
43 Just like Dr. Hegre gave me that bawling out that time, of me saying that the devil cannot heal. And it said, “A man that stands before as many people as you do, and such poor theology,” said, “saying that the devil can’t heal.” Said, “We got a woman right in our neighborhood carries a apron around her, and goes there; and the people come around her and is supposed to drop money in this apron; then she’ll rub them and take hair out of her head and blood out of their veins and—and put it on a hair and throw it behind her; and she’s constrained to look back around, the disease comes back to people. And,” said, “thirty percent of them get well. And then you say the devil can’t heal?”
44 And I thought, “Oh, my!” I wrote him back, and I said, “Dear sir:” I said, “It’s a strange thing to me that a dean of a Lutheran college would base his theology upon an experience instead of the Word of God.” See? “The Word of God says that Satan cannot cast out Satan. That settles it; Jesus said so.” If Satan…Say, “Then you might wonder how these people are healed through that, that witch, is because the people themselves think they are approaching God through that witch. And healing is based upon faith, not upon how righteous you are, how good you are, how much you keep the commandments, or whatever it is, it’s based solemnly upon faith. ‘All things are possible to them that believe!’ See? It’s not based upon how good you are. I’ve seen prostitutes come to the platform and be instantly healed and a sainted woman cross the platform and miss it. Sure, it’s based upon faith, ‘If thou canst believe,’ not upon righteousness.”
64-0823m – “Questions And Answers #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 39
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:37-39)
118 Jesus’ Own Word said what would happen, that great display.
119 Also He said, “In the days of Lot.” If you want to mark that Scripture down, it’s—it’s Luke 17:28. He said, “They were eating, drinking. They bought. They sold.” Ordinarily, these are legitimate things. But watch. And—and that they occupied, but they put all the…their mind on it.
120 And in the days of Lot, women were so low, in their morals, until they was not used as women should be used, but they were perverted, until they…It become so common, that women become so common that, they—they, man lived with man. The natural perversion from the sex cells had changed its position, because that women had become so cheap.
121 A few days ago I was over, Tucson, went to get a loaf of bread. And there was a boy setting out there, and two little boys in the car. Another come in, get a pack of cigarettes. The old gray-headed gentleman looked down, said, “Who is these cigarettes for, your mother?”
Said, “No, it’s for that boy.”
He said, “Is he old enough to have them?”
Said, “Yes, sir.”
He looked back like that. And I was standing with a loaf of bread and a quart of milk, watching. And he went, said, “All right,” and he give it to him.
He looked back to me, and said, “I doubt that.”
122 I said, “He can’t get old enough to do it. He is too…He ain’t old enough at any age.”
He said, “I’ll agree with you.” Said, “Do you—do you have a hard time trying to quit them?”
123 I said, “I never did start them.” I said, “I never did start it.” I said, “My parents smoked and used tobacco, but the Lord God kept me from it.”
124 He turned and looked at me kind of strange, and he said, “Well, I think it’s a rotten shame today, to see of how…” Said, “Used to be, we put women on a pedestal.” Said, “We honored her. We took off our hat in her presence. We walked down the streets, and gentlemen would hear somebody make a remark about a certain woman, they’d slap him down.” See? And said, “They honored women.” But he said, “Sir, women has brought it on themselves.” Said, “Now they don’t get up. They used to get up; in a streetcar, a lady get up, every man would take his hat off and let her set down.” Said “Now it’s push, crowd!” Said, “They have brought it on themselves.” And that’s the truth.
That devil hole of Hollywood yonder produced it out on the televisions and magazines, till the thing has become a great big pot of filth. That’s right.
125 I know that ain’t popular saying, but it’s a true saying. It’s the Truth. It’s the Word of the Lord, and also a warning sign that Christ will come in this generation. Said, “The ones that sees this come to pass, will not pass out until all these things be fulfilled.” Said, “Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word will never pass away.” It’s a warning. The red light is flashing; drop of the curtain. We’re at the end time.
63-0623e – “The Flashing Red Light Of The Sign Of His Coming”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 40
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. (Matthew 25:1-13)
174 Now, just a minute. “Will the foolish virgin be saved?” No! Whatever happens she—happens now. After that time she’s in the state…Now, she will have to go through the tribulation period. And the reason of it is, is because she has rejected the Atonement in Its fullness. She is a believer, a professed believer, but she will have to go through the tribulation period. The Bible said, “And the rest of them, the dragon spurted water out of his mouth to go and make war…” And what an hour that is. The…
175 There’s never been a time in history where that the nominal churches has become so hungry to find the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I—I speak for the Christian Business Men. Constantly, it’s Presbyterian, and Lutheran, Catholic, and all, Baptists by the hundreds, Church of Christ, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, Seventh Day Adventist, every one of them flocking in trying to—to find…See?
176 Now, this is a striking thing. Please don’t take it as a doctrine, but do you understand what the Scriptures said would take place when that did? Time was over. For look, there was seven virgins—or ten virgins went out to meet the Bridegroom, and half of them had oil in their lamp, half of them didn’t. That’s the part of the Body that’s dead and the part that’s alive. The five’s wise, when they—the cry come, “Behold the Bridegroom…” they all trimmed—woke and trimmed their lamps to go into the wedding supper. But when the foolish virgin said, “Give us some of your oil, our lamps is gone out. (See?) Give us of your oil.” They said, “Not so, we just got enough for ourself. Go buy it.” And while they went to buy it, the Bridegroom came.
177 When the proclamation went out, the decree, “The Bridegroom’s coming,” everybody wanted to get right, right quick. Ain’t that the hour when the handwriting’s on the wall?
178 “Oh, we want the baptism of the Holy Ghost.” “We want this, that, or the other!” But while they went to buy It, the Bridegroom came. The wise went in, and they were left outside where there’ll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
64-0823e – “Questions And Answers #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 41
But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper. (Genesis 39:21-23)
21 How Joseph was a perfect type of Christ. How Moses was a type of Christ. Moses the law-giver, the priest… How that Joseph was the prince of prosperity. Everything he did prospered. When he was here on the earth, put him in the dungeon, everything prospered, put him in Pharaoh’s place, everything prospered. Wherever he went, he was the prince of prosperity.
And when He comes again in His glory, the desert shall blossom as a rose, and we’ll have no more deserts; and everything will prosper in the great Millennium when the prince of prosperity arrives. How wonderful.
Notice how that Joseph was loved of his father, hated of his brethren, sold for almost thirty pieces of silver, throwed into a pit to be dead, taken up, and set at the right hand of the greatest commercial city in the world. No man could come to Pharaoh only through Joseph.
Jesus sold for thirty pieces of silver by His brethren and was taken up, setting at the right hand of God, and no man can come to the Father except by the Son.
22 And when Joseph went forth, there was a proclamation signed, brothers went before saying, “Bow the knee; Joseph is coming.” Oh, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess the Lord Jesus Christ. Whether you do it now or your works go on before you, whatever it is. Someday, you’ve got to bow the knee to the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Notice it, how beautiful. How that in Moses, the law-giver, how that he was both a priest and a law-giver. And how he led the people. That was God in Joseph; that was God in Moses.
Look at David when he was dethroned and rejected in his city, and he climbed out up the Mount of Olives, and rejected by his own son. And his people had turned him down. And as he went up the hill, he went up weeping, looking back over Jerusalem, weeping. What was it? It was the Spirit of Christ in him.
When the Son of David came, some eight hundred years later, he set on the same hill, rejected of His own, and wept over Jerusalem and said, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have have hovered you as a hen covers her chicks, and you would not.”
All the Old Testament just a foreshadow of the New Testament, the things to come.
56-1207 – “Gifts”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 42
Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said. (Matthew 26:20-25)
88 See, there was a clash. When the carnal and the spiritual meets, there is always a clash. When Judas and Jesus met, there was a clash; One, the Son of God; the other one, the son of Satan. Just like Cain and Abel, there was a clash when they met. One of them was the treasurer of the church, and the other One a pastor. And as now, we come in this day, to the same thing again. The carnal denomination to the spiritual Bride of Christ. The spiritual Bride of Christ is so much different from the carnal organizations, till there’s no comparison in them at all.
89 Now notice, the natural always tries to type the spiritual. But, as in Jacob and Esau, it will not work. It would not. Now, when it come to doing good works, I—I believe that Esau actually was a better man than Jacob, in the sight of man. He tried to take care of his daddy; he was blind, a prophet. And all these things that he tried to do, but yet Esau didn’t think about that being just carnal work. He thought he could get in by what he done, do something good for somebody, which was all right. But Jacob, his whole soul was to get that birthright, and that’s what God recognized in him spiritual.
90 Notice, and it’s always caused the natural to hate the spiritual. It caused Cain to hate Abel. It caused Korah to hate Moses. It caused Judas to hate Jesus. And on and on it goes. It causes the natural to hate the spiritual, just as Cain at the beginning hated Abel, the one that God received the sacrifice from, and tries to destroy them.
Even they try to destroy the influence. They try to destroy everything, because it’s nothing but jealousy. It started in Cain and proved that it was jealousy, and it’s still the same thing today when the natural (the carnal) and the spiritual meet together. It proves it’s Satan, no other way, because jealousy comes from Satan. And then causes an impersonation of the Truth, somebody to try to impersonate something that isn’t, they are not ordained to do. How much of that have we seen in this last days! Oh, my, how much of it!
65-0418e – “Does God Ever Change His Mind About His Word?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 43
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom. (Matthew 26:26-29)
105 Notice, after the battle was over, Melchisedec served His victorious child communion; think of that, part of Himself! Now we want to see here. In type here is, in view, the communion. After the battle, He gave of Himself, because the communion is part of Christ. And after the struggle is over, after you’ve done got yourself whipped out, then is when you partake of Christ, become part of this Being. You get it?
106 Jacob wrestled all night, and wouldn’t turn Him loose until He blessed him. That’s right. Battled for Life! And after the battle is over, then God gives you of Himself. That is His true communion. The little bread and wafer just represents It. You shouldn’t take it ’less you’ve wrestled it out and become part of God.
107 Remember, at this time, the communion had never been instituted, not until before the death of Jesus Christ, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years later.
108 But Melchisedec, after His child Abraham had won the victory, Melchisedec met him and gave him wine and bread; showing that after this earthly battle is over, we will meet Him in the heavens and take the communion again. It’ll be the Wedding Supper. “I will not drink no more of the vine, or eat the fruit, until I eat it and drink it with you, anew, in My Father’s Kingdom.” Is that right?
109 Notice again, Melchisedec went to meet Abraham before he got back home. What a beautiful type here we have! Melchisedec meeting Abraham before he got back home, after the battle.
We meet Jesus in the air, before we get Home. That’s right. Second Thessalonians tells us that, for, “we meet Him in the air.” A beautiful type of Rebekah meeting Isaac, in the field, in the cool of the day. “We meet Him in the air.” Second Thessalonians tells us so. “For we which are alive and remain shall not prevent or hinder those which are asleep; for the trumpet of God shall sound; the dead in Christ shall rise first; we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air.” Perfect, all these types.
110 Therefore, the theophany, if you have died and entered into that theophany, (what happens?) the theophany comes to the earth to pick up the redeemed body. And if you’re here in the air, you take the body to meet the theophany, there you are, “and caught up, and go to meet the Lord in the air.”
65-0221e – “Who Is This Melchisedec?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 44
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. (Genesis 41:41-43)
I look back there, see Joseph, when he was born of his father by—and loved of him, rejected of his brethren. And his father give him a coat with many colors. Seven colors is a—only seven colors, original colors. And this coat went over his little body, just exactly like the rainbow was given over Jesus after His death, burial, and resurrection. When John saw Him He had a rainbow around Him to look upon as jasper and sardius stone, and that was the stones of Ephraim, and or the—of Benjamin and Reuben. And—and how that the—the first and the last… The rainbow around Him, which meant a covenant, the covenant of the Blood, Jesus got—Jesus gave to the Church as a covenant. And the rainbow is always the sign of the covenant.
21 And Joseph then, when he went to see his brothers he was rejected and supposingly to have been killed.
Now, that’s what the Jews did when he came to own, his own received him not. They didn’t like him, why? Because he was a seer, because he was a prophet, because he was more spiritual than the rest of them. And they was going to kill him, and one of them called out and said, “Don’t kill him, he’s our brother.”
But they threw him in a ditch. And then they took him… He was taken up out of the ditch, and was taken to the greatest city in the world at that time in Egypt, and become the right hand man to Pharaoh. Just as Jesus was rejected of his brothers, killed and put into the ditch, raised up again, and now setting at the right hand of the greatest city in all eternity, heaven.
22 And no man could come to Pharaoh, only through Joseph. And no man could come to God, only through Jesus (See?), just perfect.
And another thing you notice I… we just got to hurry, but placing the background here.
But notice in his temptation when he was in the—when he was in prison, through the great gift that he had, there was two men. And one of them was a butler, and the other one the butcher, or the baker. And one of them was lost, and the other one was saved. Is that right?
And look at Jesus on the cross. There was two come to Him, and one was lost, and the other one saved, on the cross, just perfect. And then I noticed another thing that when Joseph was rejected of his own people, he was given a bride from the Gentiles. Is that right?
Pharaoh give him a bride. Well, it’s just the same thing… that Jesus being rejected by the Jews comes to the Gentile church and picks out a Bride. And we are Mrs. Jesus this afternoon. That’s right. Amen. I like that. Sure.
53-1115a – “Speak To The Rock”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 45
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chron. 7:14)
13 Jonah said, “They are lying vanities.” He said, “Once more will I look to Your holy temple,” told God.
Because when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, “If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look to this holy place and pray, then You hear from heaven.”
And he believed, Jonah believed that God heard Solomon’s prayer. And he started saying, “I’ll not look at this whale’s belly. I’ll not think about my backslidden condition. I’m looking towards Your holy temple and making confession.” And God sent oxygen down there, and kept him alive for three days and nights, and delivered him right in Nineveh where he belonged.
Well, if Solomon prayed that prayer, and if… There’s no one here that’s in the condition, or halfway, like Jonah was. You ain’t got nothing like the symptoms he had. Well, if he, in that condition, could look to a temple where it was built by hands of a man, and a earthly being, a man, Solomon, sitting and praying, and could have faith in Solomon’s prayer, how much more ought you and I, tonight, setting here, look to the throne of God where Jesus stands at His right hand with His Blood there to make intercessions on your confession. Just refuse to have the symptoms.
14 Symptoms is something like, say tomorrow, when you go home now, to your place, the express agent will come up and say, “Are you Mrs. Doe?”
“Yes.”
“I have a present for you.”
“All right. What is it?” He hands over a—a basket, or box, and you hear something hitting in that box. You look in it. It’s a big box of snakes, rattlesnakes. Well, you don’t want them things.
Well, you say, “I don’t want them.”
“Oh, but they’re yours. Somebody sent them to you. Here’s your name. Here’s the name. It’s somebody sent these snakes to you; they’re yours. You have to take them.”
Now, in one sense of the word they’re yours, in another sense they’re not. Somebody sent them to you, but they’re not yours until you sign for them that you’ve received them. And when you sign you received them, then they’re yours. But if you refuse to sign for them, he has to take them back to the express company. The express company has to send them to the one that sent them to you. Is that right?
Well, don’t sign for nothing the devil brought. No, sir. Just refuse to have it. No, sir. Say, “I just haven’t got it. Devil, you take it all back. That’s all. I won’t have it.” Refuse to have your sickness, your arthritis, whatever it is, “I just haven’t got it. By His stripes I’m healed.” Stand right on your ground. Confess it. Believe it. Stay there. God will bring it to pass. No matter what it is, just believe Him.
53-0219 – “Accept God’s Gift”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 46
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. (Matthew 27:41-42)
42 Let’s change our picture for a few minutes. Let’s take four thousand years later. Let’s get in Jerusalem. It’s a morning; it’s about eight o’clock. I hear a noise outside. We’re all talking. What’s going on? Oh, a great bunch of carrying on, and some hiss, and some crying, some mocking. Let’s go pull the shade back and look out, see what’s out there. Why, look, coming down the street, there comes a Man. And He’s got a—two malefactors following Him. He’s got a cross on His back. “Well, Who is that?” I say to my company in the upstairs.
They say, “That’s that Jesus of Nazareth, that impostor, that Divine healer, that one who troubles our churches and makes trouble with them, teaches things that the priests don’t believe in. That’s Him. They’re taking Him to Calvary. They’re going to crucify Him.”
Those big old cobblestones as He went out the gate, that cross bumping up and down on His shoulder… And as they took Him out along, I noticed He had one robe, it was wove throughout without seam, and all over that robe comes little bitty red dots. Is it speckled? Is that its natural color? No, it was white. Why those little speckled dots? Let’s watch them. As He goes on towards Calvary, them little dots begin to get bigger, bigger, bigger. And after while they all run into one big red splotch. What is it? Blood.
43 And as He starts up Calvary there, I can hear something going [Brother Branham claps—Ed.] What is it? The second Adam, the Redeemer, the Blood of a righteous One, bleeding for the sinner to cover up our sins. And we spit it back to Him. We wag our heads and said, “I’ll have my own way about religion. I’ve got my own religion, I don’t have to have that stuff.” Without that you’re lost, without hope, without God, without Christ, in the world dying, going to a sinners grave and a devil’s hell, without that.
God made a preparation for you. I can see Him going up the hill packing that cross, His little weak body staggering as He went up the hill. The first thing you know, it was whirling around Him; death was biting at Him hard, and He’s moving on with a cross on His back, moving towards Calvary yonder. What? Because He had to? No, because love drove Him to it.
44 There, think of it. They said, “He saved Hisself… others… He saved the others; Himself He cannot save.” That was a compliment. He couldn’t save others and Himself. Did you ever think of it? He was the Father. Amen. He was Father God as a Sacrifice. That’s the reason I love that song, brother. When you try to make Him just a prophet… He was more than a prophet; He was God manifested in flesh.
Why couldn’t He… He said He could get twelve legions of Angels. Why didn’t He call them? He couldn’t. That’s the reason His own children was crying for His Blood. Could you imagine your own children screaming for your blood? If He condemned them He condemned His own children. He said, “I won’t condemn you before the Father.” He said, “You got one that condemned you and accused you before God; that was Moses; and you believe in him.” He didn’t condemn them. He said, “Forgive them, Father; they don’t know what they’re doing.”
55-0115 – “Law”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 47
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. (Isaiah 35:8)
44 Now, there’s no two Holy Ghosts; there only one Holy Ghost (That’s right.), only one Holy Ghost. And that same Holy Ghost that led Simeon to believe that he would not die until he seen the Lord’s Christ, that same Holy Spirit’s telling me, “Something going to happen.” Amen. I just believe it. And It’s telling you the same thing. Let’s be expecting it. Let’s get ready for it, make ready. Like taking a trip, get everything packed up. No, this—this kind of a trip, you unpack everything. Got too much packed up now. The trouble of it, we have to unload. So this trip you unload. You have to get right in the middle of the road.
45 One of the dear brothers, Brother… I was going to say Deweece, I believe… no, not… that’s Oral Roberts. Oh, he’s the state superintendent of the Assemblies of God at Indiana. I forget what his name is now. Anyhow… Brother Weed, Roy Weed, I guess you all know him. Brother Weed… one day, my cousin, Brother Vibbert, has one of the biggest Pentecostal Assembly of God churches in the east in Evansville, Indiana. He has whole city block, it’s just took into church meeting. So they had a, I believe it was called the Five Hundred Room. Across the street there’s a garage, so Brother Vibbert just bought it out and his brother running competition in Indianapolis, who can have how many thousand in Sunday school. So he had a man school over there that he just taught in on Sunday morning, five hundred in the class.
So I was supposed to speak that morning at the men’s class. I was setting behind Brother Roy, and Brother Roy said, “You know, I heard a man say,” and that was me, “that the—the middle of road is the place.” Said, “The middle of the road…” I believe that.
God said in Isaiah 35, “There shall be a highway.” Many of you dear Nazarenes used to sing, “A highway of holiness.” No, “There shall be a highway and (‘And’ is a conjunction; it ties your sentence together.)—and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness,” not the highway of holiness, the way. Correct road’s built so the water washes trash to one side or the other. So you’d either be real cold and starchy or a fanatic on the… But the way’s right in the middle of the road, right towards Calvary, right up the road.
46 So Brother Weed stood up and said, “A man… That isn’t good driving ethics.” He said, “If a man drove in the middle of the road, he’d get killed.” Said, “That’s not good driving ethics.” He didn’t know I was setting behind him. I touched him on the shoulder; I said, “That’s it, brother; you’re just so earthbound, you’re…” I said, “This road you don’t come back. It’s just one-way traffic going that way.” And so… He is—he’s a sweet brother, just as fine as could ever be thought. Oh, my, they don’t—don’t make them better than Roy Weed. But it was just so cute, you know, he said, “Now, you drive in the middle of the road you get hit.”
I said, “Brother Weed, we won’t get hit; we’re going one straight way. Just right way. We’re not coming back at all.” A one-way ticket, I’m glad I’ve got it then, aren’t you? a one-way ticket. What the Holy Ghost reveals through His Word, I believe that is truth; we stay right with it.
61-0207 – “Expectation”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 48
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. (Genesis 45:4-7)
186 And they said, “We are the sons of one man, which is Jacob, which is old; you know, Israel, and which was the blessed of the Lord, and so forth.” And then he heard that his dear old daddy was still alive. Listen what he said here. And he made hisself known to them when he closed up the doors. His heart, look at the love of God there, still calling. And there those Jews standing there, poor boys, they’re starving.
187 Their father was starving, said, “Go down and get a little more corn, or we’ll starve to death.”
188 And he kept Benjamin down there for a token. And you know how it was, how he stood before him. And then he looked and he seen Benjamin, he couldn’t refrain any longer. He made every man go from him, get away. And poor Joseph stood there, and he said, “I am Joseph, your brother.”
189 And his brothers had just told him, said, “We have one brother which is not, that was killed by beasts,” and he was talking right to his brother. That was his brother, Joseph, who was standing there.
190 And he—he made them all leave, then he revealed himself, he said, “I am Joseph, your brother.” And they were scared, the patriarch. They was afraid. He said, “Don’t be afraid.” And he begin to scream so loud till even over in Pharaoh’s palace they heard him screaming, heard his screams and cry. He run down and throwed his arms around little Benjamin, and hugged him and kissed him, and fell on his neck and begin crying, said, “You mean to say that my poor old daddy’s still alive up in Canaan?” What a feeling! What, the love of God that’s shed abroad! “My daddy’s still alive and I’m giving him some corn.” Said, “Oh!” And he screamed to the top of his voice.
191 I wonder what that will be, the day when our Lord Jesus breaks down through the eastern horizon, coming back to the earth again. Hallelujah!
192 There he screamed and wept, that great prince standing there, and the patriarchs. Said, he said, “Don’t feel bad.” Said, “God sent me.” See the Holy Spirit, how Love Divine will do? Said, “God sent me down here. Don’t feel bad at yourself.” Said, “God sent me down here to preserve life for these times.”
193 And what did God send Him here for, but to preserve Life? What’s the Holy Spirit here for tonight, but to preserve Life? He was rejected of the Jews, and sent over here to the Gentiles, to preserve Life. Have you got It tonight, my friend?
53-0325 – “Israel And The Church #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 49
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. (Mark 1:23-25)
112 Let me stop just a minute, to get this demonology down just a little bit. She was a demon, but she was in close contact with the spirit world. Now, today, there is many spiritualists that know really more about the spiritual world than people who profess themselves to be Christians, yet she’s a demon. In the Bible times it was the same thing.
113 When Jesus was here on earth, there was them professors and scholars and teachers, some of the best there was, out of the better seminaries than we could produce today. And holy, renown man, they had to be. If a Levite was found, he had to be found blameless, righteous in every way. And yet that man knowed no more about God than a rabbit knowed about snowshoes. When Jesus come, he failed to recognize Him, and he called Jesus a “devil.” He said, “He’s Beelzebub, the prince of the devil.” Is that right?
114 And here come the lowest type of a demon, that had a man bound out yonder in the tombs, and everything, and they called out. The devil himself said, “We know Who You are. You’re the Son of God, the Holy One.” Is that right? Witches and wizards, devils, recognized Him the Son of God; while educated, theological seminary preachers recognized Him to be Beelzebub. Which was right, the devil or the preacher? The devil was. And, brother, it hasn’t changed too much today. They don’t recognize the power of God.
115 No matter how much teaching you got, you can drum that into you. God is not in big words. God is in an honest heart. You might stand here, speak big words, like I don’t know what, that doesn’t bring you closer to God. You can stand and practice how to repeat your sermon and say these things, that don’t get you closer to God. You can learn dictionary till you sleep with one, and it still wouldn’t get you closer to God. A humble, submitted heart, in the simplicity, is what brings you to God. And that’s true. Amen! A humble heart, God loves. Now, no matter if you don’t know your ABC’s, that don’t make any difference. Just a humble heart! God dwells in a humble heart; not in education, it’s not in schools, not in theology, seminaries, not in all these other different places; not in big words, or not in classical places. God dwells in human heart. And the lower you can break yourself down, the more simple, you can become greater in the sight of God.
116 Let me give you something. I see your fields are full of wheat out here. A full head of wheat always bows. A little old sprig sticks up there, and flopping around like it knows everything, it ain’t got it in the head. That’s the way with a lot of these guys that think they got a whole lot in their head, and nothing in their heart, though. A holy head will bow to the Power, recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and believe His works.
53-0609a – “Demonology, Religious Realm”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 50
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. (Mark 2:21-22)
92 The intellectuals! The old lady, they give her a face lift; she is still the same old woman. The old man, they give him a face lift; he’s just the same old man. “I’ll turn my new page, on—on New Year’s, and I’ll start life new. I’ll throw away my pipe,” and pick it up the next day. See? That’s just you. It isn’t a face lifting; it’s a Birth, the church needs.
93 Now you can’t preach This in the old church. She won’t stand It. Jesus said that in Luke, about the 5th chapter, about the wine in the bottles. He said, “You can’t put new wine in old bottles. If you do, they’ll perish.”
94 That used to wonder me, that used to startle my—my boyish mind, when I used to think, “How could the bottle perish?” Now what we call the bottle, being old, it makes no difference, because it’s glass.
95 But, in Jesus’ time, what He was speaking of, was the bottle that they used then, which was made out of an animal hide. And an animal hide had been tanned. And when the animal hide was old, why…When it was new and young, and just had been tanned, it was flexible. But when it got old, it got dry. Now, many of you people know what a hide is when it gets dry. It gets old and dry, and it’s all shrunk up and real hard. Now, if you put new wine in that, it hasn’t got any life in it; it’s going to burst.
96 It’s just like trying to preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost, in the real genuine power of the—of the resurrection, is trying to place that before the people. When you do, what happens if you put it in? The new Wine has got Life, and the new Wine is still fermenting. Oh, I hope you see it. The new Life is fermenting.
97 The new wine is still fermenting. And if it’s in a new flexible bottle, where the oil of the animal is still in the skin, when the new wine goes to pushing out, the skin will stretch.
98 In otherwise, when the Bible said, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever,” the new skin will say, “amen,” stretch out with It. And when the new Wine says, that, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, “I am the Life of God that’s working in you,” the new skin will say, “amen,” stretch out to It. When the new Wine says, that, “the Holy Ghost is sufficient for our healing today,” the new Wine will stretch itself out, the Wine being the Word. And when It says that, then the new bottle will say, “amen,” stretch out to It.
99 But what will the old body do? “Days of miracles is passed and gone on.” Then, what are we doing? What are we accomplishing? We are…He said, “The old bottle will perish, and the wine will perish with it.” And it’s almost like casting your pearls before swine. They turn and tramp under the feet. Do you see it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”]
57-0120m – “The Impersonation Of Christianity”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 51
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, 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. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. (Isaiah 38:1-5)
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.
52-0716 – “Thou Knowest All Things”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 52
And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. (Mark 3:32-35)
67 Notice how infallible the Word is. Mary and Joseph…Now to you, my dear Catholic friends, that said Mary was the mother of God. Mary wasn’t even the mother of Jesus, let alone being the mother of God. How could she be? Right. Not one time did He ever address her as mother; not at all.
68 They come to Him one time, and said, “Your mother and brothers wait outside.”
69 He looked on His congregation, said, “Who is My mother? Who is My brethren?” Looked at His disciples, said, “The ones that does the will of My Father, that’s the same as My mother, My…”
70 On the cross, when He was dying, He also spoke the same thing. He said to John, John here, this man, “Son, behold your mother!” Not, “Mother, behold thy son.” “Woman, behold your son!” Not, see, she wasn’t no mother of God.
71 She was just a borrowed womb that God used; no more than any other woman that God take a notion to use. He might use (your) the womb of your heart, to declare His Son, if you—if you’d just let Him do it. See? Not no mother of God. There would have to be a sensation, even to be a seed of Mary. He wasn’t even a seed from Mary.
72 It was, the whole thing, was God, the Creator. If the first Adam back there was created without father and mother, the Second Adam was the same thing. And anything less than that wouldn’t put Him on equal with Him. That’s right. The same God, He created a body that He Himself dwelt in.
73 Now we find, look how, look, if Mary was the mother of God, how she slipped up, there. She said, “Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears.” Denying the virgin birth, “Thy father, Joseph, and I, have sought Thee.”
74 Watch that twelve-year-old Boy, twelve-year-old Child, saying, “Don’t you know that I must be about My Father’s business, debating with them denominations up there?” Now, if He was with, about Joseph’s business, He’d have been down at the carpenter shop. Joseph wasn’t His father. God was His Father. “Don’t you know I ought to be about My Father’s business?” Up there, at twelve years old, with them learned priests. Not a day in school, but yet they were astonished at the wisdom. And look at the…
75 He was the Word. When He was born, He was the Word. He is still the Word. Notice, the Word will not take counterfeit. She said, “Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears.”
76 Said, “Don’t you know that I must be about My Father’s business?”
77 Rebuked His Own mother? Why? He was the Word. There would be a question in somebody’s mind, if Mary here, who once said the “Holy Ghost” overshadowed her and brought forth a Son, and then here calling Joseph the father. The Word is infallible. It can’t fail.
64-0119 – “Shalom”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 53
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 50:24-26)
37 Notice, when Job died, here’s just a little drop, and then we will go right on with redemption. Notice, when Job died, before he died, specifying in the place that he was buried… That had something to do with it. And along came Abraham. And when Sarah died, his sweetheart and wife, when she died, it was strange, but Abraham goes up into the land to where Job was buried, and buried Sarah in the same land where Job was buried. Now watch, they were prophets. Now, this wasn’t written in the Scripture now.
And notice, when Abraham died, he slept with Sarah, the same place. Abraham begot Isaac, and when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. And when Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob died down in Egypt. But before he died, he made his prophet son, Joseph, come down and put his hand on his hip where the Angel had touched him, and changed his walk, and swore by God that he’d not bury him down in Egypt. Wonder why? Wonder why?
38 Now, it wasn’t written, but they were spiritual man. They read between the lines. And he said, “Take me back up into Canaan. Bury me up there with my father Abraham, with Isaac.”
And when… Watch Joseph. When he died, he said, “Don’t you bury my bones down here. But someday God’s going to visit you, so you take my bones before you and bury them with my father,” the same place where Job was buried, same place where Sarah and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Rebekah, and Leah, and all was buried up in the promised land. I wonder why? God…
Here it is, God hadn’t promised a resurrection down there in Egypt, but they knew that the resurrection was going to be in the promised land. And on the day when Jesus finally come, the Redeemer, they did to Him like they said they would. He died, buried, and on the third day, He rose. And those that were buried up there with Him, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the saints, come out of the grave. They knowed the resurrection was going to take place in Palestine. Because it was spiritual revealed to them.
That’s the reason, tonight, I say you can have all your world you want, all your fancy, fandangles, all your educations, and things you want to, but bury me in Jesus Christ: For those that are in Christ, God will bring with Him in the first resurrection. So it… Just let the Holy Spirit reveal that to you. Redeemed by His Blood, those that are in Christ, will God bring with Him at His coming.
What difference does it make what the world wants to call you? Fanatic, or whatever it may be, just stay in Christ.
55-1119 – “Redeemer, Redemption”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 54
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31)
9 Now, we want you to turn tonight on some notes that I have here, in a way of a little… What I’m—want to do, trying to do (It’s no secret.), is to try to build a faith in the people to where we can have a great climax and something really take place that’ll stir the whole country.
Now, we did that by the grace of God at Grass Valley, where there wasn’t one feeble person left in the midst of the whole congregation in that big auditorium: wasn’t one. I never prayed for the sick. I just kept building faith, just kept on with the Word, in the simplicity of the Word, in the simple way I have of putting it. But the people just hung right on and stayed right on. And then the great time come. And just everything in the building lifted up.
And it was that way again at Spokane the other night, when the whole front was laying full of wheelchairs, and stretcher cases, and things like that. And completely down that row went the Holy Spirit, delivering every one just as It come to it, right along like that. There… They laid there in those wheelchairs and sweated it out and everything, listening, holding on to that faith, just grasping it, and searching, and finding out. And then after while, all at once the Holy Spirit dropped right down, come right down the row like that, and every one of them got right up and walked away. See, see?
10 The trouble of it, with we people, we’re in too much of a hurry. It’s just got to be done right now, can’t come back no more. See? And when you get that in your mind (See?), that—you’re going to lose right there. You’re—you’re on losing grounds right there. You—you have nothing to stand on. You must be patient. “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and mount up with wings like an eagle.” I—I like that. Just be patient. Wait.
God’s in no hurry. He let the Hebrew children walk right into the fiery furnace before He ever turned a finger. That’s right. And let Daniel go right into the lions’ den, let Jesus go plumb into the grave, and His soul descend into hell, then raised Him right up through the bottomless pits, right on out through the grave, and cut every avenue of the devil off, and went straight into glory with it. See? Sure. He’s in no hurry. He’s God. See? He just… We just get in a hurry, is the only thing. You see? We miss it.
So don’t be in a hurry. Wait and watch; listen. Take the Scripture, examine It, see if It’s right. And if It’s right, hold on to it. If it’s not, tell me so I can get it right.
So we—we see that every work must be the Holy Spirit’s work. It must be His work. It’s His. And it must come out of the Bible. We mustn’t draw anything from some conception or reasoning. We must draw it from the Bible.
62-0719e – “Perseverant”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 55
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. (Exodus 2:5-10)
244 To you little mothers here this morning, that’s been real mothers, and I know there’s many of you; I think, every one of you. Let me tell you something. God bless you. You’re the fifth Gospel, I think. Let me tell you what now for your children, just a little thing. Cause, Brother Neville will probably preach on the…about mother tonight, or whoever, one of us that preaches, all right, about mother. But, listen, let me ask you something.
245 Remember, when Moses was a little boy, it was a mother who give him his instruction. It was a godly mother who took little Moses on her knees, and said, “Moses,” taught him all. He was her teacher, or, she was his teacher, rather, under Pharaoh, and said, “Now, these things,” said, “Moses, someday you’re going to deliver the children of Israel. You’re the boy that’s called. Keep yourself pure and unspotted from the world, for you’re the one. You’re the one.”
246 No other place do we know, where he ever went to any seminary, any teaching at all, he ever got. He stayed right in Pharaoh’s palace, which was a heathen; but his mother taught him. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit three times—Ed.] That’s a real mother. She taught him the precepts of the Lord. She told him how he must be holy. She told him how and what he must live, and how, what God must do, would do for him. And it stuck with Moses all the days of his life.
247 And any good, true, loyal mother that’ll take her little babies, instead of send them to picture shows and dances, and so forth like that, and she’ll put them on her lap and teach them about the Lord Jesus Christ.
248 Here the other day, I was talking to a mother on the telephone. And the mother said, “Oh, Brother Billy,” she said, “my poor boy is in trouble.” Said, “Oh, what a trouble he’s in.”
249 I said, “Yes, I know about it, sister, dear.” And she said, “He may be wrong. I don’t know.” Said, “One says this and one says that. I don’t know. But,” said, “no matter whether he’s wrong or right, I love him.” There you are, “I love him.”
250 He said to his mother, said, “I’ve been so deceived by this and that.” Said, “Mother, I believe you’re about the only sweetheart I really have; a woman that’s true to me, and sticks to me.” That’s mother’s love. That’s a real mother that’ll put her arms around her baby. Regardless whether he’s right or wrong, she goes right on through. And if God…If a mother can think that of her baby, how much more will God think that of His. You see? You stay right with Him. Go right.
54-0509 – “The Invasion Of The United States”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 56
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. (Exodus 3:2-5)
6 There’s probably a many a man setting here tonight, that if he’d just done what God told him to a long time ago, he’d be preaching the Gospel somewhere. Do something. Don’t just stand still. Get out…?… If you’re not a preacher, testify, do something somewhere. Don’t stand still. If you’re washing the dishes, why, testify to the neighbor. Get out and pass tracts; do something. Don’t stand still. What is in your hand? Get doing something. And whatever is at your hand, use it.
And I can see Moses as he was going along, herding some sheep, one morning, probably thinking about the days. He was about eighty years then.
7 Some people say, “Well, I’m too old.” Moses wasn’t when he was eighty. So he’d been forty years, God child-trained him back there on the backside of the desert, and then, getting him ready, preparing him for the service of the Lord.
And then there was a burning bush. And Moses stepped up to the burning bush to look at it. I don’t believe to criticize it. It was a lot of fire, and burning, and carrying on. So they… He thought, he’d just walk aside to see why it wasn’t consumed. And while he was walking up close to it, the Lord said, “Take off your shoes; you’re on holy ground.”
8 And what if Moses said, “I will just take off my hat, Lord, that’ll be just as good.” But God didn’t tell him his hat, He said, his shoes. I believe we must do just what the Scripture says do, no matter how hard it seems, and how indifferent from our teaching, we’ve got to do what God said do. He said, shoes, He meant shoes.
Moses slipped off his shoes, and started walking up in the… That was the—the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, setting in that bush, the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. And any teacher knows that the—the Angel of the covenant was Jesus Christ. He was the Rock that was in the wilderness. He was in the brass serpent. He was in all the patriarchs. He was in David. He was down through the New Testament. And He’s in His Church tonight. Just the same Jesus the yesterday, today, and forever: changes not.
53-0508 – “God Commissioning Moses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 57
And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. (Exodus 4:10-14)
181 Did God feel sorry for Moses with all of his weaknesses, said, “Poor little Moses, something—something sure has happened to you, you fell from your degree. Oh, my! Here, yeah, you was a great man, an intellectual, and there wasn’t nothing going to stop you. Brother, you had all your Ph.D.’s and LL.D.’s, and everything else, and now here you come confessing that you are nothing, you can’t do a thing. You’re—you’re just so weak”? No! God wasn’t sorry for him. God never took pity on him. God had him cured then of all that stuff. He wasn’t sorry for him.
182 But we find out, if you’re putting it down, Exodus 4:14, “The anger of God was kindled against him.” God wasn’t sorry for him ’cause he was weak.
183 You say, “O Lord, I just feel so bad, I don’t believe I could do it.” God don’t feel sorry for you; feels like kicking you around a little bit. See? See? Sure. God don’t feel sorry for you; He—He gets angry with you. You’re just getting in shape then to where He can use you. Yeah.
184 Moses getting cured up, God can use him. He had the cure, he was away from human abilities then. He didn’t have nothing he could rely upon then, ’cause he—he was ready then for the service.
185 God said, “Forty years out here I’ve had you and Zipporah fussing and carrying around out here in this wilderness, whether you could find out there’s human weakness or not, where you’re standing up there as a big prince, ‘Hello, Doctor Moses. Good morning, Reverend, Sir. Yes, sir. Moses, you’re the coming prince. All…We all think of you.’ Now you’re out here in the desert with a bunch of sheep and a high-tempered wife.” See? That fixed him up. Yes, sir. Moses in an awful shape, but He said, “Now I can use you, when you realize that you’re nothing. Now come on up here by this burning bush, I want to send you down yonder.” Oh, my!
186 God, give us some more of that kind, give us some more weaklings. That’s what we need, some weaklings. Sure!
61-1119 – “Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 58
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole. (Mark 6:56)
22 Now, what we try to do, is—is try to get the people to believe the Lord Jesus, just accept Him, without being hands laid on. Now, we know there is a Scripture that says, “Lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” And we don’t try to belittle that Scripture, because that was the commission Jesus Christ gave to the Church, to “lay hands on the sick.” But, if you’ll bear with me, that was more like a Jewish tradition. Now, remember the—the girl that was laying sick, she died, Jairus’ daughter. He said, “Come, lay Your hands upon my child, and—and she’ll get well.”
23 But the Roman centurion, a Gentile, said, “I’m not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word, and my servant will live.”
24 And Jesus turned around and said, “I never seen faith like that in Israel.”
25 See, the Gentile way is to believe Him, just absolutely believe Him. Now, we lay hands on the sick, of course, we do. But we try to—to bring the—the reality, by the Scriptures, of Jesus Christ being present; then when you, by faith, reach up and touch Him, yourself, see, like the woman with the blood issue touched His garment.
“Well,” you say, “if He was here, I would touch Him.”
26 The Bible says, in Hebrews 3, that, “He is now a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.” He can be touched just as well tonight as He was then. So we want to touch Him.
27 Usually somebody say, “Well, you know Brother So-and-so,” some minister, evangelist, “laid hands upon me, and, oh, the Lord healed me. They lay…Brother So-and-so laid hands.” See? That makes everybody want to see that brother to lay hands on somebody. After all, it wasn’t a brother’s hands that did it. It’s your faith, that’s what does it. So, then when the evangelist leaves town, the pastor is just a little bitty fellow, in the sight of the congregation, usually. Some things happen, the healings and so forth. They think they have to have that evangelist back in town before anybody can be healed. Listen. Don’t you never believe that.
28 It’s your faith in God that does the healing. See? You must believe God. And now if you can touch Him, then, nobody laid hands on you. It was your faith that touched Him, and your faith brought the reality. So then it wasn’t no one touched you, but your faith touched Him. And so that brings real genuine testimony to Him then. That’s what we’re here for, to—to magnify Him.
64-0415 – “Christ Is Identified The Same In All Generations”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 59
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. (Isaiah 43:10-11)
176 When, “God,” in the Bible, the word in Genesis, Genesis 1 said, “In the beginning God…” Take that name God in the Hebrew, and see what it means. It’s spelled El, Elah, Elohim, which means “the all, self-existing One, the all-sufficient One, the strong One.” There was nothing before That. There was no air. There was no stars. There was no moisture. There was no—there was no atmosphere. There was no atoms. There was no molecules. There was nothing before That. It was God, the Eternal One. And in Him were attributes, to be a Saviour, to be a Father, to be God. There, He wasn’t God, then. He was—He was God, but there wasn’t nothing else, no worship. So, God is “an object of worship,” and there was nothing to worship Him. So there was attributes in Him to be that, to be a Saviour, to be a Healer, to be all these things that He is.
177 So, the first thing He created. Now, some of you want to know about my Genesis story. God said, “Let us make man.” The first thing He created was Angels, to worship Him, then He become God. Then when He said, “Let us make man after our Own image,” what kind of a man did He make? Spirit man. Then, when He made that man, He give him control. Then He made man out of the dust of the earth. Then, he fell; then He become a Saviour. A God, then a Saviour. Sin brought on sickness, then He become a Healer. Hallelujah! There ain’t nothing going wrong. He knowed all about it, before the world was ever formed. He knew we’d have this meeting tonight. He knowed every gnat would ever be on the earth, and how much tallow he would make, and how many times he’d bat his eyes. He’s the infinite God. He knows all things. Amen. Aren’t you glad, tonight, that your name is on the Book? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
60-0911e – “Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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