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Day 121
And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. (Luke 22:63-65)
77 Now, they asked Jesus for a sign, and He told them that, “A—a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs.” And, now, I know there is an interpretation that He was meaning them. That’s true. But I’m going to just carry it on, having a compound meaning.
78 When did we ever have a more wicked and adulterous generation than we have right now? A wicked and adulterous generation! They will say to you, go out on the street, say, “Are you a Divine healer?”
“No. Christ is.”
79 “Well, if you’re a healer, or you believe, you say you’re a healer; I know a guy is down here sick, come heal him. I know you say you raised the dead; a man died and you raised him up? We got a graveyard full of them down here; prove it to us.”
80 Remember, that’s that same old devil that said, “If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be bread.”
81 It’s the same old devil that put a rag over our Lord’s eyes, in the palace that morning, covered up His eyes, and they took a stick, those drunken, brawling soldiers, and hit Him on the head with it, and then passed the stick, one to another, and said, “We understand that You know the secrets of heart. We understand that You’re a prophet. If You’re a prophet, prophesy and tell us who hit You. We’ll believe it then.” See, that’s that same old devil. See? God don’t clown for nobody.
82 It’s the same old devil that said, “Come off the cross. Let’s see You perform a miracle.” That devil lives today.
83 And Jesus said, that, “A wicked, weak, adulterous generation would seek after a sign, and they would get it. For as Jonas was in the belly of the whale, for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth.” Then what kind of a sign was He speaking of? A sign of the resurrection. And after two thousand years of Gospel preaching, two thousand years of criticism, the Bible has rode through all of it. And, tonight, Jesus Christ is in our midst, in the power of His resurrection, doing the same things He did when He was here on earth. This is that weak and adulterous generation.
63-0628e – “A Greater Than Solomon Is Here”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 122
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: (Leviticus 25:8-14)
136 When you receive Light…In the Old Testament…Let me show you the brand now. Listen close, then I’m going to go straight to my subject. Look, in the Old Testament, when a slave was under slavery, and then he had…He was bought over there, with a price. He had to serve that master until the year of jubilee. And when the year of jubilee come, there was a trumpet sounded.
137 And when the slave was out there, him and his kiddies, and wife and all of them wanting to return to the old homeland. They were stomping in the fields, and the taskmaster beating them, and this way and that way. And then when the jubilee priest come by, sounding the trumpet, and that priest sounded the trumpet, and that man heard the trumpet. He could drop his hoe, he could drop whatever he was doing, look in the taskmaster’s face, and say, “You can’t hit me one more time. I’m free.” Walk right away and go home. Why? There is the sounding of jubilee, when they heard the sound.
138 And that’s the Gospel, the jubilee, that you’re free from sin. You’re free from all these filthy habits and things that the world has produced here in the name of religion, under both Protestant and Catholicism, under the mark of the beast. That’s right. You’re free.
139 You don’t have to be. But then if that man refused to receive that, then that man was taken from there to the post of the altar of the church, and had a mark put on him, bored a hole in his ear. And he was a servant to that master as long as he lived.
140 And you refuse to accept Gospel Light when It’s preached in the Power of the Holy Ghost, by the Bible, you can seal yourself to your Eternal destination. Amen.
54-0514 – “The Seal Of God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 123
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family: After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. (Leviticus 25:47-50)
59 Now, here’s a great picture. The first: a redeemer, someone who can redeem a lost estate in Israel (you preachers know this), the man must first be a kinsman. He must be close kinfolks, not a way off kinsman, a near kinsman. And how could God ever become a close Kinsman? When God Himself was made flesh and dwelt among us, He become Kinfolks to the human race. That’s right. The only way it could be. When God was made flesh here among us, He become Kinfolks, not to Angels, but to human beings. He never come in the form of Angel, but He humiliated Himself, and stripped Himself from all of His heavenly glories, and come down, and was made Kinfolks with man, in order to fulfill the law of kinsman redeemership. Oh, what precious love the Father had for Adam’s fallen race. Gave His only Son to suffer and redeem us by His grace. There He is, a near Kinsman, God made flesh and dwelled among us, becoming Kinfolks to the human being, a Kinsman.
60 The next he must be, he must be financially able to do it. And who would be more financial? What kind of a debt could be paid? When God owns all the universes there is, and all the spaces, and all the times, and everything else, He was able financially. Hallelujah! But when He was in the form of Spirit, He could not do it, because He was Spirit, and man was human. And the Spirit was made flesh and dwelt among us, to become Kinfolks to us, in order to redeem us. You see it? Notice…
There’s the spread of welcome to you tonight. When God, stripping Himself, coming out of the ivory palaces, taking upon Himself the form of sinful flesh, to humiliate Himself to come down, to be Kinfolks to the poorest beggar there is in the world tonight, to become a Kinfolks to him, Jehovah Himself, made Kinfolks to a beggar. “The foxes have dens, and the birds have nest, but the Son of man don’t have a place to lay His head.” Born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling cloth, yet the very Prince of Glory, the Dayspring from on high. Humiliating, bringing Himself down, condescending, coming down, to be made Kinfolks with a sinner. Think of it people. How can you reject that matchless love?
55-0223 – “Job”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 124
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:25-27)
120 Now He might have said, “Cleopas, and your friend here, did not Moses say that in these days the Lord God would raise up a Prophet? And this Man that they crucified, did He meet that qualification? Now, Moses prophesied this. And now you haven’t had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds of years, and here this Man raised up. And what was this Man’s forerunner, did you say?” Get it? And all the prophets said about Him, for His age, He spoke to them. It sure would have been interested to listen at Him. Wouldn’t you liked to heard Him? I’d like to heard Him, to hear Him, what He said that the prophets said about Himself, but He never said it was Him. He just showed them by prophecy. He just said, “The prophet said this would happen.” See?
121 Let’s just go back a few minutes, and now let’s listen to the Words quoted from Himself. Watch here, the Word Itself quoting the Word of Himself. The Word Itself quoting the Word of Himself. Not tell them that He was that, but just let the Word speak for Itself, then they know Who He was. The letter of the Word, quoting the Word in…The Word in flesh, quoting the Word of the letter, being fully identified with Himself. Look here, now let’s listen to Him quote. How…Now, we know that they were all briefed of the late happenings, that is, of the crucifixion and of the story of the resurrection, the tomb, as we just read. Now He goes straight to the Word of prophecy about Himself. Now let’s just think that He said this; He said a lot more than this, but watch.
122 Let’s say Him…hear Him say, “Turn over to Zechariah 11:12. And wasn’t the Messiah to be sold, according to the prophet, for thirty pieces of silver? You just said that this Man was sold for thirty pieces of silver. Turn over…” You getting them Scriptures? Zechariah 11:12. And then He said, “Did you notice what David said in the Psalms, Psalm 41:9? He was be betrayed by His friends. And then again, in Zechariah 13:7, He was forsaken by His disciples. And in Psalms 35:11, accused by false witnesses. You just said He was. Isaiah 53:7, He was dumb before His accusers. Isaiah 50:6, they scourged Him, the prophet said. Psalms 22, He was to cry on the cross, ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’ Did He do that, day before yesterday afternoon? Psalms 22 again, 18, His garments was parted among them. Did they do that? And Psalms 22:7 to 8, mocked by His enemies, the church. Psalms 22 again, there was not a bone in His body to be broke, but ‘they pierced My hands and My feet,’” He said. Holding His hands behind Him, no doubt, at the time. “Isaiah 53:12 said He would die between malefactors. Isaiah 53:9 said He was buried with the rich. Psalms 16:10 said, ‘I will not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My Holy One to see corruption.’ And was not Malachi 3 the forerunner of this Man?” Oh, I’d like to have heard Him quote that. Look at the prophecies! Notice, then all the types He might have went through, about Isaac, in Genesis 22, how God foreshadowed Isaac, how father Abraham took his own son, packing the wood up the hill, and offered up his own son.
65-0801e – “Events Made Clear By Prophecy”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 125
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. (Jeremiah 16:10-13)
284 A little story. A little kid, one time, lived out in the country. He never seen a mirror, and he came into the city to see his mother’s sister. And she had a home…and the old-fashioned homes used to have a mirror on the door; I don’t know whether you remember that or not. But this little boy, he had never seen a mirror. So he’s playing around the house, and he looked in the… “Huh?” He looked at that little boy. And he waved, and the little boy waved. And he pulled his ear, and the little boy pulled his ear. And on like that. He kept walking up, close, and he turned around and said, “Mama! That’s me!” That’s me.
285 What do you look like? What are you following? What have we done? You must choose your leader. Choose today. You choose Life or death. Your choice will determine your Eternal destination, what you choose. Remember, Jesus said, “Follow Me.” And you’re invited tonight to do so. And to follow Him to Eternal Life you must come on His terms, that’s right, the Word. Not upon the creed, not upon the public opinion, not upon what anybody else thinks about It, but on what God said about It.
286 You say, “Well, Brother Branham, I know a woman just as good as she can be, she does this. I know a man that went through this.”
287 I can’t help what they done. God’s Word, He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth.” You’ve got to come on His terms, come on His conditions, the Word. You cannot come through creed. You cannot come through denomination. You cannot mix It like that. There’s only one thing you can do: accept It on His terms, that you’re willing to die to yourself and all your thoughts, and follow Him. “Get rid of all the things of the world, and follow Me.”
288 I know that’s a stern, cutting Message, brother. But I didn’t come here and choose a—a message to the people just to try to make them sing, shout, holler. I been in heathen meetings where they done the same thing. I’m interested in your life. I’m a servant of God that’s got to answer to God someday, and the ministry that the Lord has given me has vindicated itself thousands of times before you.
289 Remember, Jesus said, “Follow Me. Follow Me. Get rid of what you got, and follow Me.” And that’s the only way to have Eternal Life. That’s the only remedy He give this man, was the only remedy He give this businessman, it’s the only remedy He gives anybody. His choice, He makes His decision, it’s perfect every time. And we must follow Him, is the only way to have Eternal Life. So the leadership of God is: follow the vindicated Word of the hour by the Holy Ghost.
Let us bow our heads.
65-1207 – “Leadership”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 126
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:12-14)
26 Not long ago up in the mountains, I met a man, an old trapper. And he told me, he said… He was supposed to have a real education. He was a scientist, had been. And he come up there in the winter and went to trapping, and just liked it much better; so he stayed because it was peaceful.
And he said to me; he said, “You believe that story about the virgin birth?”
I said, “Every Word of it.”
Said, “You don’t really believe that, Billy.”
And I said, “Yes, I do, every Word of it.”
He said, “Why, it’s impossible.” Said, “He couldn’t have been born like that.” Said, “That’s against all scientific research.”
I said, “I don’t know what scientific research it’s against, but it’s not against God’s Word.” And I said, “God said that He was His Son, and I believe it.”
He said, “Well, depends on who you think God was. If you want to say Joseph was God, it’s all right.”
I said, “Joseph was a man like you and I. But God is Jehovah, the Spirit of God, the Spirit that brood over the earth.”
He said, “Oh, that’s impossible.” He said, “Billy,” he said, “corn can’t even make… or nothing.” Said, “No baby could be born without actual contact between male and female.”
I said, “Grampy, I hate to dispute your word as an old man, but,” I said, “you’re wrong there.”
He said, “You don’t really believe that that baby was born.”
I said, “I believe that Jehovah God overshadowed a little virgin called Mary, and created in her womb a blood cell without knowing any man at all, and from there came the son of God.”
27 And we’re not born into that by His righteous, Holy Blood, without sexual desire. He died at Calvary, giving His Blood that we could be free from sin. Brother, you believe that? If you don’t, you’re lost. That’s all. Because it’s in the Blood.
We’re saved by the Blood of God. The… We’re the blood of our father. Jesus was the Blood of His Father, which was holy, unadulterated Blood, not by sexual desire, but by Holy Ghost was He born, conceived in the womb of Mary, and was born. I believe it with all my heart.
He said, “I just can’t see that that could be so.” Said, “Because it could not produce without actual contact.” And he said, “And no, they had to be…”
I said, “Look, Grampy. Will you admit to me then…” After a few days of argument. He met down there in a—in a little old cabin where there’s a bunch of men. He started again. I said, “Will you admit to me that He had an earthly mother, but it’s impossible for anything to be borned on this earth without having a literal father and mother.”
He said, “That’s exactly right.”
I said, “Well, I want to ask you something then. If you say it’s impossible for Him to be here by Jehovah God, the Creator, without a hea—earthly father, yet you give Him credit for having a earthly mother, then how did the first man get here without father or mother?” He had to have a pappy and mammy somewhere, let him be a tadpole, monkey, whatever you want to call it; he had to have a papa and a mama according to him. He’s never answered me yet today. He… That’s right. And he can’t. God the Creator made man in His own image. That’s the way I believe it.
He said, “Well, Darwin said so-and-so.”
I haven’t got faith enough to believe that. I just believe what God said about it. My faith is what the Lord said.
50-0716 – “Believest Thou This?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 127
One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. (John 1:40-42)
27 Now, when Jesus took His earthly ministry, let’s follow Him a few minutes, and watch what kind of a thing He did to prove He was the Messiah; and watch the attitudes of the people. Now, not to be rude, but let me repeat that again, so that you’ll be sure to know it’s a double statement that I’m making, the same statement twice: Let us see what He did in that day to prove He was the Messiah. And what He did then to show He was Messiah, if He’s the same today, He will do the same today. See?
And remember, He did not visit the Gentiles, and forbid His church to do the same, only the Jews and the Samaritans. And the Samaritans was half Jew and Gentile. And there’s only three classes of people on the earth, any way you want to take it; that’s Ham, Shem, and Japheth’s people; that’s Jew, Gentile and Samaritan. That’s the tribes of the earth, after the antediluvian destruction. Noah’s children, we all sprung from them. The places we live changed our color: white, black, brown, yellow, whatever it was, but all together, one human race. One can give the other one a blood transfusion and live.
28 Now notice, then Jesus, the first thing He… We find Him in Saint John 1, there was a man named Andrew, who saw Jesus, and believed on Him as the Messiah, and went quickly to get his brother, Simon. And when Simon, who later was called “Peter, Cephas” which is by interpretation “a stone, little stone…”
When he found Peter, he said, “Come now, and go with me.” And he brought him to Jesus. And we learn that Peter was an ignorant man, unlearned; I doubt whether he could sign his own name. The Scripture says, “He was both ignorant and unlearned.” Then why do we have to have so much scholarship? I’d just like to ask that simple question to you ministers; I don’t know which side you’re on. I want to ask you a question.
29 When Paul was converted, no doubt the church at Jerusalem said, “We’ve got the man now who can match the wits with these Pharisees. He’s smart; he’s intelligent. We got the man now (after Paul had been saved), and we’ll send this ignorant fisherman—who’s the head of the church here now at Jerusalem—we’ll send him out amongst the ignorant.”
Do you notice what God did? He took Paul, the educated, and sent him among the ignorant, and took the ignorant one and sent him among the educated ones. See, God does things in His own way. It’s simple faith to believe God; that’s what it takes.
But as soon as Jesus laid eyes upon this man, Peter, He said, “Your name is Simon, and your father’s name is Jonas.” How that must’ve struck him. Your… “Your name is Simon.” Never seen him before in his life… “And your father’s name is Jonas.”
And by this, it struck Simon. “This must be that Prophet.” And he accepted Jesus as his Saviour, was filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and become the head of the church, because he recognized that was the sign of the Messiah.
60-0109 – “Sirs, We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 128
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. (John 2:1-11)
23 Now, let’s just pray just a moment. Now, Father, anoint these words that’s been read, and may They sink deep into the hearts of these sick people, and all that’s in the building, we ask in Christ’s Name. Amen.
I’d like to take this just for a—a moment or two here, just a—for the—a—a little time. You’re so good out here and respond so much to the ministry of preaching, till I just couldn’t hardly leave without saying a word or two, like that.
So now, let’s take it was the just beginning of His ministry. He’d just went out and performed a miracle and turned water into wine. How I’d like to beat on that just for a minute, to show what He will do in the resurrection. How it eventually would’ve been wine. It would’ve been wine, all right, and it went up through the vine, into the grape, out to the vat, soured, fermented, come on out and was wine. But He just bypassed every bit of that, and made it from water to wine. See?
That’s the way He will do in the resurrection. I won’t have to live to be a twenty-two or twenty-three years old at my best again. My, be an old man shaking, broke down like that. He will just change it. Amen. Just bypass all that. Mrs. Branham and Mr. Branham will not have to be constituted or anything involved in my birth. He will just call me from the dust, and I’ll be just what I was at my best, so will you.
24 Every person in here will turn back to a young person again. When you got to be your… You take dad and mother setting out there, many of you. It hasn’t been too long.
I’m looking at an old couple setting here now, many of you, hair turning gray. Wasn’t long till you led her down to the altar. She was a beautiful young girl. You was a strapping young man. He… Holy wedlock, you was united together by God Almighty.
And first thing you know, it was… Oh, how strong, how she admired him as a beautiful young man and him a—her a pretty, young girl. But, first thing you know, you got up one morning, you said, “Mama, you know, there’s coming little wrinkles under your eyes.”
She said, “Dad, I just happened to notice the gray hair coming.” What’s happening? Death set in. Right. It’s going to get you. God’s ordained it so.
25 I asked a doctor the other day; I said, “I want to ask you something, doctor. Every time I eat, I renew my life. Is that right?”
“Yes, sir,” he said.
I said, “When I was a young man, I kept eating, eating, and every time I get stronger, stronger. All at once I eat the same food; I’m getting older all the time. Why is that?” I said, “Figure that one out. I’m eating the same kind of food, putting the same new life in, but I’m withering away all the time.” That’s one of them. See? I said, “Why?”
God said so. No matter what it is. See, scientifically, that should not be believed. See? Scientifically, that’s all against scientific, altogether. See? ’Cause if I renew my life, I’m getting new all the time. But, I’m renewing my life, and I got new to a certain age, and then I started getting old, taking the same new life in all the time. See?
26 So then, what is it? God ordains it. First thing you know, we’ll come down to the end of the river someday, old and gray. Perhaps mine will come too, like that. But all that death done for you here, when you die, that settles it.
And then, in the resurrection you’ll be the pattern that God made you, that young man and young woman. And you and mother will be in eternity, or in the great Millennium, young men and young women again forever. I can prove that by God’s Word.
Next time, I’ll do that in a camp meeting, the Lord willing. That’s right.
Showed through Sarah and Abraham, and all the promises and everything leads right straight to that… We haven’t got a thing to worry about, not a thing.
Hadn’t been for the healing service, I’d get in on that this week (See?), to—to get that. We’ll try it and see if you don’t holler for healing…?…
So to get in on there where you see, it takes all the fear away. My, you just… There’s nothing in the world can harm you. And oh, we’re bound for the promised land. That’s all there is to it. God can’t take His Word back. He couldn’t be God.
I might take mine back ’cause it ain’t true. But His—His is true, and He can’t take His back. And how beautiful.
54-0221 – “At Thy Word, Lord”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 129
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:1-3)
19 No matter how much you go to church, how well your name is engraved on its stained windows, or whatmore, or on its book, it’ll never mean nothing to you, until you are a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ by the infilling of the power of the Holy Spirit. You are taking somebody else’s word. Why, I’d say…
“Well, Brother Branham, I know that Jesus is the Christ, ’cause the Bible said so.” The Bible is right, but what do you know about it? See? It’s an individual affair with every individual. It must be a personal witness that every person must have in order to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is when His Spirit bears record with your spirit, in an experience of the new birth, borned again and you cry, “Abba, Father.”
20 Oh, my. If we had a world like that tonight, the Millennium would be on, wouldn’t it? That’s right. When your spirit bears record with His Spirit that you’re sons and daughters of God, then you are witnesses of God.
Someone said the other day, said, “Brother Branham, you believe God by faith. Abraham believed God by faith and that’s all that you can do. There is no experience with it.”
I said, “Oh, yes, my brother.”
He said, “How… What more can you do than believe God?”
I said, “That’s all you can do.”
Said, “That’s what I thought.”
I said, “But Abraham believed God. By faith he believed God and God gave him the confirmation of his faith by the sign of circumcision. And we believe God by faith, and God gave us the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a sign of the seal of the promise of our faith.” See, see? Ephesians 4:30 says, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the day of your redemption.” That’s the seal of the covenant now, is the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
21 You believe God and say you believe God, and haven’t received the Holy Spirit, there’s something wrong with your faith. ’Cause God’s under obligation to give every believer that repents and is baptized, is under obligation to give you the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And He’s more willing to give it to you, than you are to receive it. That’s right. So there’s something wrong somewhere. You just got a mental faith and instead of a heart faith. For God’s under obligation to keep His Word.
He said, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and your children, to them that’s far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” That’s true. And God’s got to keep that promise. Yes, sir.
54-0303 – “Witnesses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 130
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease. (John 3:27-30)
107 Never does He omit or change His way. God never changes His system. Do you know that, brethren? Sure, you do. He never changes His system. He always keeps it going in continuity, the way He started.
108 He never dealt with a world, only under preaching, with one man, Noah. He never had four to go down and deliver them, or an organization, in the days of Moses. He never had two on the earth at the same time. Each one of us different from one another, our features, our make-up. God just gets a hold…All He needs is one person that He can get in control; that’s His example. He did it by Moses. He did it always.
109 When Elijah and Elisha was on earth, they both couldn’t stay the same time. One was taken, the other one got his mantle upon him.
110 When John came upon the earth, He was the manifested Word of God for that hour. We know that. He was God’s manifested Word. Because why? Isaiah said, “There would be a voice of one crying in the wilderness.” Malachi, the last prophet, said, “Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way before the people.” Now, that was not Malachi 4; that was Malachi 3. John was Elijah of Malachi 3, not Malachi 4.
111 Because, when Malachi 4, when that prophecy comes forth, the earth is to be burnt with a fervent heat, and the righteous walk out in the Millennium, up over the ashes. And it never happened in the days of John.
112 In Matthew 11, we find out that when John sent disciples down to there where…John paid Jesus the—the least respect that he could, after he had already seen the sign over Him. And said, “That’s Him. He that told me in the wilderness to go baptize in water, said, ‘On Whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining, He’ll baptize with the Holy Ghost.’” He said he was sure of that. He saw the sign. Then after his eagle eye got filmed over, down in the prison, he said, “Go ask Him if He really is the One, or another.” That was disregarding the Word.
113 But Jesus knew that. He paid John a great respect. He said, “Who did you go out to see, a man dressed in soft raiment? They don’t handle the sword. They’re kiss the babies and bury the dead, they’re in kings’ palaces.” Said, “What did you go out to see, a reed shaken with any wind?” When one organization offer him a little more than the other, or some community, he’ll move to that community ’cause…? Not John.
114 Said, “What did you go to see, a prophet?” Said, “I say unto you, and greater than a prophet.” He was. He was the messenger of the covenant. He was the breach. He was the keystone between law and grace. “What’d you go out to see, a prophet? And I say unto you, more than a prophet.”
115 He said, “He was a bright and shining light, for a while.” Why? He was the Word made light. He was the Word manifested.
116 Then when He come on the scene, he said, “I must decrease; He must increase.” Two of them couldn’t stay at the same time. John had to go; Jesus remained. See? It’s always that way.
64-0206b – “Paradox”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 131
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar. And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof: And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar: And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it. (Numbers 4:5-14)
148 We notice another thing, in the Old Testament. I have the Scripture here, in Exodus. That, the old badger skins, what did it do? It hid the Glory of God from the people. The badger skins; even people couldn’t see It, because it was a skin that held It. The skin was…The Glory of God was behind the skin.
149 And now the Glory of God is behind your skin. That’s right. And the traditions don’t see It. It’s inside the veil, where His Word was.
150 What was on the inside of that skin back there, the old badger skins?
151 Which, “There was no beauty we should desire It. And when It was made flesh and dwelt among us, It was still no beauty we should desire It.”
152 And now the same thing is today. There’s nothing in a man or a woman, that can be desired. It’s what’s in behind there. That’s what it is. “Well,” you say, “that fellow, I know he used to be a drunkard. He used to do this.” I don’t care what he used to do. What’s hid behind that skin? What is behind there, that’s what counts. That’s what, the people is blinded. The skin blinds the people. See? They say, “I remember when that woman used to.” I know what she used to, but what about now? See?
153 Them skins, that was once on the badger, but now it’s hiding the Glory of God, got It housed behind it. It was on an animal, but now it’s housing the Glory of God.
154 And so can your skin be changed, tonight, to be made a housing place for God, God dwelling in humanity.
64-0629 – “The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 132
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. (John 4:47-53)
51 Jesus said that a sower sowed. And if you’ll just take It in your heart and don’t dig It up every day to see how it’s getting along. Just sink It in your heart and settle It. That’s all. Walk right on. God will take care of the rest of it. He’s obligated to His Word.
Do you know that every thing that you see tonight is God’s Word materialized? Do you know your body is God’s Word materialized? Do you know them beans there is God’s Word materialized? Do you know that concrete is God’s spoken Word materialized? You know this whole earth is God spoke and said, “Let there be,” and He believed His Own Word and a earth come into existence? If it didn’t, where did it come from?
Well, you say, “It come off the sun.” Well, who spoke the sun into existence? See? Everything is God’s Word. The worlds were framed by the Word of God. The Bible said so. God just spoke it, and He believed His Own Word, and that’s what it was.
52 Now, God has spoken His Word to us. Just believe Him and watch what happens. Now, when He speaks something… This is His Word initially first, and any other word that’s contrary to This, is not God’s Word. It has to come from this Bible.
Now, this is His Word to the nations. Now, He sets after that, in the Church some apostles, prophets, gifts of healing and other manners. And if a prophet, or a seer, would speak any word, and it wasn’t according to this Bible here, come in that fashion, or contrary to the Word, it’s not right. But this is God’s Word first. And what God speaks secondarily, that’s secondarily His Word to the individual.
53 Some time ago, it was a two—couple of women in the meeting. One of them had a stomach trouble. And when… On the platform the Lord… I don’t know whether she’s at the platform, or in the audience somewhere. Anyhow the Word spoke out, “THUS SAITH THE LORD that you’re healed.” Told her to go eat anything she wanted to. Watch that when He speaks. That ain’t me, but THUS SAITH THE LORD.
And so the woman went home to try to eat, and when she did, she liked to died. She just had an awful case of it. It went on for several days. And one morning she felt something cool pass through her, weeks later. And she begin to eat. It was all right.
She run down the street to tell her neighbor that had a big lump on her throat. And the Lord had spoke to her and said that, “She was going to be well, THUS SAITH THE LORD.” And said… Then when she went out to see her, she found her neighbor just screaming to the top of her voice. The lump had just left her throat.
54 So what happened? Here’s what it was. The Angel of the Lord Who had spoke the Word was coming through that neighborhood confirming His Word. See, see?
Sometimes they can’t get on a spur of the moment. Daniel prayed. The Angel said it was twenty-one days, I believe, before (Is that right?)—before he got to him. Now, we must remember it’s God, but when God has said anything, it’s the Truth. Hold right onto it. It’s got to happen. If you weaken, then unbelief will take over. But you stay with the Word of God.
Let’s bow our heads. Loving Father, Who raised up Jesus, Thy Son, from the dead, we thank Thee for Thy mercies and kindness. Pray that You’ll be with us, and help us, tonight. We love to testify, because You said, “They overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and their testimony.” And I thank Thee for the Blood of the Lamb and a testimony.
53-1204 – “At Thy Word”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 133
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord: He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body. He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord. (Numbers 6:1-8)
21 God will, continually has been separating, separating, and that’s what He’s doing tonight. That’s what He always does. You can see it in every meeting. He separates faith from unbelief. He speaks out. He declares Himself to those who will believe Him and have faith in Him.
22 Now we find out, in Numbers, the 6th chapter, that a Nazarite’s call, a Nazarite call was to separate themselves from all the world, to the Word of God. That is a Nazarite call, separated.
23 We find out that Samson was a Nazarite, unto the Lord, and he was separated from the…by a sign. And this sign was that he was to wear his hair long, with seven locks. It was a—a sign of separation, that he was called for a purpose.
24 And I don’t want to get started on this, because I said that it…I was just going to speak a few minutes.
25 But I think, today, when we see our sisters wearing long hair, as the Bible said they should, I think it’s a Nazarite sign that they want to follow the Lord. And I know that sounds flat, and I—I—I want it to go home, see, because it is. It looks like somebody is trying to—to do, keep a—a something that God told them to do. No matter what the price, the world has to say about It out there, or how many scornful, or laughers, or critics, that doesn’t bother a person that’s totally separated from the things of the world, to the things of God. They’ll obey the Word, and separate themselves from the things of the world, because the Word separates them.
26 I know they stand criticism. But if we wasn’t criticized, then there’d be something wrong. The world always knows its own. But as I’ve said, that, remember, criticism, on account of the Word of God, is only growing pains of His grace. It shows that you have separated yourself to—to be a Christian, to act like one, to live like one, to obey every Commandment of God. And it’s a—it’s a Nazarite vow, to separate, a call from God that separates you from the things of the World.
27 I believe, tonight, that every man and woman, every boy and girl, that’s born of the Spirit of God, is a Nazarite unto the Lord; because they have separated them things, themselves, from the cares of the world and whatever the world has got to say.
64-0121 – “God’s Word Calls For A Total Separation From Unbelief”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 134
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24)
18 Reminds me of when I was in school, as a boy, we had had a chum there, was a very fine friend, he was an insurance salesman. And somehow, nothing against insurance, now, but I just don’t have any this earthly insurance. So some time ago, this young fellow… His brother is a Baptist minister, also, and he writes articles in the Upper…for the Upper Room. And he came up to my house, and he said, “Well, Billy, I’m sure glad to get to see you again.”
I said, “Sit down, Wilmer.”
19 We got to talking. And I knew what he was coming for. I got a brother that sells insurance, but I just never did take any, somehow. So he said, after we talked a while, he said, “I understand, Billy, that you haven’t got any insurance,” he said, “and I thought maybe I could talk to you about a policy. And…”
20 “Oh,” I said, “thank you, Wilmer, but I’ve got a—a paid-up policy.”
21 And he said, “Oh, I’m sorry,” he said, “what kind of a policy do you have, Billy?”
And I said, “Eternal Life.”
22 And believe it or not, the boy said, “I don’t believe I’m acquainted with the Company.” Says, “Where is its headquarters?”
I said, “Glory.”
“Oh,” he said.
I said:
It’s blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory Divine!
I’m an heir of salvation, purchased by God,
Born of His Spirit, and washed in His Blood.
23 “Oh,” he said, “that’s very nice, Billy, but that won’t put you up here in the graveyard.”
24 “But,” I said, “it’ll get me out.” I’m not worried about getting in. Yeah. Amen. I’m not worried about getting in. It’s, getting out.
25 So I—I’m so glad to have this assurance that I will come out. Because, He Who made the policy, that we could all come out, I have received that assurance in my heart, that I’ve passed from death unto Life. And I know, someday, that He’ll bring me out.
63-1116B – “Investments”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 135
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
8 Before he left he saw a vision of heaven. And about two hours before his passing over, he went into, in a coma, raising up in his bed, shaking hands with someone, and greeting people that he had met and preached the Gospel to, had been gone for years. I think this of him.
Lives of great men all remind us,
And we can make our lives sublime,
With partings leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time.
I’m sure that he got to shake hands with Paul Rader, which was an associate to him. How many ever heard of Paul Rader? He wrote my theme song, “Only Believe.” How little did he know, that that boy setting at his feet would take this song around the world. It’s called me in, I don’t know how many languages, hundreds of languages around the world, as a theme song.
9 Paul, when he died in California, they had pulled the curtains down and had—had the little Bible—the little quartet, Moody Bible Institute, down there singing songs. They were singing, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” And of all that knowed Paul, know he had a sense of humor. And he looked up, and he said, “Who’s dying, you or I?” He said, “Pull back those shades and sing me some real snappy Gospel songs.” And they begin to sing “Down at the cross where my Saviour died.” He said, “That sounds better.”
And then he said, “Where’s Luke?” Luke was his brother. Luke and Paul stuck together and worked together like my son and I. They were brothers and buddies. He said, “Where’s Luke?” Luke was in the next room. He couldn’t stand to see his brother die. So he said, “Tell Luke to come here.” And Luke came in. He took Luke by the hand, he said, “Luke, we’ve been a long ways together and through a many hard battle. But think of it, Luke: in five minutes from now, I’ll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness.”
10 Let me go like that. Let my end be like that. I’ve held them when they screamed and fought devils off of them and so forth. I seen man go in all kinds of conditions. Let me go as a Christian. Let me come to the last beat of my heart knowing this, when I go into that big dark chamber yonder that’s called death, I don’t want to go in like a coward. I want, when I know it’s my end, I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, entering into death knowing this, that I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls, I’ll come out from among the dead, some of these days.
58-0125 – “The Queen Of The South”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 136
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44)
59 You are not saved because you are a good person. You are saved because Christ chose you. No man seeks God; God seeks man. Jesus said, “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first.” And if we could stop just for a few moments and realize the great importance of that one thing, that it was God Who chose you, not willing that you should perish; but give to you the opportunity, and called you, and elected you to be His servant. Well, what could be more precious than that? Without you having a choice! It would be total impossible for any man to seek God, for he is, by nature, is a sinner, and he has nothing within him to give a desire to serve God.
60 Could you go to the pig and tell him he is wrong? He is a pig, by nature. Could you tell him his diet is wrong? Certainly not. By nature, he is a pig. You should tell him he would be a lamb, but he is satisfied as a pig.
And a sinner is satisfied as a sinner, because his nature is a sinner.
61 And here it is! “We are all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies;” by nature, a child of disobedience, without God, without a hope, the wrath of God abiding on us. And by the loving grace of Christ, God, in His sovereign grace and His omnipotence, knocks at your heart and gives you the blessed opportunity, and turned you around, and sent you up the road. How could you turn that down? Changes your whole desire, turns you around, and starts you the other way! Oh, you will be silly, to the world; but you will be blessed, in the sight of God. “Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled,” said our Lord Jesus Christ. God, by His amazing grace!
62 Notice, it was what God did, what God called. You had no will to call. You could have had no desire to call, because your nature was completely contrary to It. But God, by election, called you and turned you around, and set your affections towards Christ and the things Above. How could we turn It down?
57-0418 – “The Communion”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 137
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. (John 6:60-69)
22 You know, man hasn’t changed very much. He’s still wandering about in the world seeking pleasure, restless, never satisfied, never coming to any right conclusions, never finding rest. He’s just about in the same condition that he was when he left God in the garden of Eden and went out to shift for himself. He’s been shifting ever since. And he finds it’s a rough way to go. And it looks like he doesn’t care very much, to many, just where this life will end up for them.
23 And if we could set down and take inventory, and ask the question of why are we here? How come that we ever come on this earth and what brought us here? And where is our eternal destination going to be?
24 I believe if we would all think that way for five minutes of our life, seriously, we would all speak like Peter did. Because Peter had found something in Jesus Christ that isn’t in other men. That’s the reason he asked, “To whom would we go?” He didn’t say, “Where will we go?” “To whom will we go? For Thou has the words of Eternal Life.” And wonder why that—that Jesus was so much different from other men. Why was it that He…? Or what was it He had that other men does not have? There was something about Jesus that no man has, or had had to that time. And it made Him different.
25 And I think it’s the same thing tonight, that a man when he becomes a Christian, there’s something about him that’s different from all the other walks of life. No matter how good; he may be a good citizen, go the second mile, or be a good neighbor, but when he comes in contact with Jesus, there’s something changes in him. There’s something makes him different, noticeable different.
60-0606 – “To Whom Would We Go?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 138
Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. (John 7:14-18)
27 Now remember, take it, believe it. Put your faith and turn it loose yonder with God, and the Holy Ghost will come upon you. He promised it. Then, brother, the devil looked like a little bitty fellow.
A man was telling me the other night; he said he had a dream. And said he dreamed the devil was a little bitty old devil got after him. And said, “The devil said, ‘Boo.’” And he jumped back. And every time he jumped back, the devil got bigger. He jumped back, and he jumped back, and he jumped back, and the devil got bigger and bigger all the time. And after while, he… He knowed he had to fight that devil, so the only thing he had to do then, he said he just reached over and got the Bible, and he kept backing back. He said he made a hit at him, and the devil started getting littler, going down. Said, “He knowed he had to fight him sometime.”
28 Brother, every time he hollers, “Boo” and you jump back, he will just keep getting bigger, but when you take God’s Word and stand there and say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, it’s written.” He will take his flight; he will get littler.
Look up there and say, “Well, looky here, what kind of condition are you in?”
“I’m looking at this; I’m looking to what He said.” Amen.
God had promised. David got this little old sling, picked up five stones, put one in the slingshot, old Goliath looked over at him and said, “Well, what am I, a dog? Look what’s coming to fight me.” He didn’t understand what it was all about. He said, “Why, today,” he cursed him in the name of his gods, and he said, “why, today, I will give your flesh to the birds.”
David said, “You met me as a Philistine, in the name of a Philistine, with an armor and a spear, but I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel. And this day, God will give me…”
29 Why? He knowed what he believed. He had that little old slingshot wrapped around in his fingers like this, and away he went to meet Goliath, around and around and around. Well, he said he had five stones: J-e-s-u-s. What was in five fingers? F-a-i-t-h. Faith wrapped up in Jesus, here he went.
Brother, I’m telling. It sent the rock to the killing place, and down went Goliath. You know what happened? Then the Israelites took courage, and away they went. They cut Philistines plumb to the walls. It just takes one person that’s got enough courage to step out and say, “It’s right. And God said so.” Brother, you’ll down a Goliath, and your whole family will go to cutting Philistines the first things you know.
What’s that in your hand? What can you do? Testify, sing, do something another on the job. Do something for the glory of God.
53-0508 – “God Commissioning Moses”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 139
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:37-39)
85 And Zipporah went and circumcised the baby. Said, “Moses, you’re so—so concerned about everything else and about your journey, that your own boy hasn’t been circumcised.”
I just wonder a lot of times if…Sometimes I’ve met people that said, “Oh, glory to God. The Lord wants me to do a certain thing. He wants me to go to Africa, to India.”
86 I said, “Have you ever asked the milkman if he was saved? Have you ever asked the paperboy if he’d been borned again yet? How about your neighbor, are they saved?” See? Now, that’s the question. See? If it’s in your heart…
87 Here some time ago a woman met me down here in Florida. And the little woman, I have no way…I’m not the judge. But there’s a little preacher had been right here and preached at this platform. And the little fellow in another country was married and had a wife, three or four children. And this woman was a widow woman. And they had come from Texas, together over here in a big Cadillac car. And the woman come in. And she has the right to dress anyway she wants to, didn’t make nothing to me; but as a Christian woman she didn’t dress just like it. She was (oh, my!), she was…had great big long…them ear bobs (ever what you call it) hanging down like this, and she had a real lot of—of stuff on her mouth; and—and—and her eyebrows had been cut off and she had other eyebrows, with a pencil, put on. And she said, “Brother Branham,” said, “the Lord’s calling me to a foreign country.”
I said, “He is?”
“Yes!” And she said, “I’m going over with this man.”
And I said, “Well, if the Lord’s calling you, well, all right.” (But by their fruit…Didn’t look very much to me like…See?)
And she said, “Don’t you believe the Lord…?”
88 I said, “Now, don’t ask me. If the Lord’s told you, you do what the Lord told you to do. But for me, I don’t think so, for myself. I’ll just be honest with you.”
She said, “Well, why do you think so?”
I said, “The first thing, as you as a married woman with this married man don’t look very good, you staying down here in the city together. If anything brings reproach is that. See?” And I said, “Now, the first thing…”
89 Now, what had happened to that woman? The same thing would have…She had kept messing around without receiving the Holy Ghost, just like that woman over yonder today that called me and wanted to marry that man, and leave her own husband, and marry the man. She had come in such a place, maybe one time being in contact with God, but had been lusting after the things of the world. And I asked her; I said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost?”
She said, “Not yet, but I’m seeking It.”
90 I said, “You get the Holy Ghost first, and He’ll tell you what husband to have.” That’s right. See?
You—you got…That’s what it is. If you don’t, you’ll die spiritually. God’s seeking a lot tonight, that He’s knocked [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit—Ed.] at their heart so many times. And one of these times He’s going to shut the door, and—and mercy’s gone. See?
54-0103E – “Questions And Answers #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 140
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. (Numbers 12:1-2)
71 But I want to bring another thing into your—into your remembrance. If God sent the messenger, and vindicated, by the signs, that he was the messenger sent from God, then it’s up to them to obey this messenger. Exactly. They must obey the messenger and have respects to that messenger. Look at Joshua and Caleb, they stayed right by his side. Yes, sir. Whatever Moses was in, they was in it, too. Whether Moses was right or wrong, they stayed right with him, anyhow, see, because they knowed that was God’s messenger.
72 And there, one day, we find out that even Miriam, a prophetess, and Aaron, the high priest, made fun of Moses’ wife because she was an Ethiopian, and thought, “Wasn’t there enough women of our own group, to marry, instead of going down there and marrying that woman?” That wasn’t Moses’ choice; that was God’s choice for Moses. And when they made fun of it, that angered God in such a way until He struck Miriam, the prophetess, full of leprosy, Moses’ own sister. What about that? Her, a prophetess, but what was she doing? She was making fun and an irreverence to God’s messenger, the messenger of the covenant of that day. And she was irreverent. And also Aaron, the high priest, the very mouthpiece of Moses, right, he was with her.
73 And Aaron then, when he saw his sister struck with leprosy, he went in and told Moses, “Would you let your own sister die?”
74 And Moses went into the tabernacle and fell before the Lord, and begin to weep and call out for God, mercy for his sister. And the Spirit of the Lord came down and said, “Call Aaron and Miriam to stand here before Me.” Oh, my!
75 God demands respects! God sends His Message, you listen to It and you reverence It. Don’t care if they call It a bunch of holy-rollers, or whatever they call It; let the world do what they want to. But you give respects!
76 So, there stood Miriam. God said, “Call Miriam and call Moses…or call Aaron here, your brother and sister, to stand before Me.”
77 And when they come in before God, God said, “Don’t you fear God?” Said that to the high priest and to Miriam the prophetess. Said, “If there be any, a man among you, who’s spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. I’ll speak to him in visions and reveal Myself in dreams to him, and so forth, if he’s spiritual or a prophet.” But said, “My servant Moses, I speak lip to ear with him.” Said, “Don’t you fear God?” In other words, “You talk about Moses, you’re talking about Me. If you can’t respect Moses, you don’t respect Me.” Said, “Haven’t I proved among you that he’s My servant? And you have no reverence for him at all.”
78 What that would be a lesson for the people of this day, no respects, no honor!
79 Now He said, “And because you didn’t do that, that’s the reason you got leprosy. That’s the reason these things has went,” said, “because you ought to have knowed that this was My servant. You do know it, so when you say something against him you’re saying it against Me.”
80 So Moses prayed for her life to be spared, and God did spare her life. She didn’t live very long afterwards, she died. But she did get cleansed of her leprosy, and was out of the camp for seven days, you know, for her…for having it, for purification, getting herself cleaned again from her leprosy. God healed her.
81 But what He was trying to get to them, was this, “You’ve got to respect what I do.”
82 And if that was the attitude of God in that day, and God can’t change, God wants us to respect what He’s doing. He demands it. Said, “You either respect that or something else is going to happen.”
61-1015e – “Respects”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 141
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? (Job 31:1)
158 Now we are living in the last days, with a promised sign of the resurrection. After two thousand years of in-documenting and drawing off the road, and this way, and that way, till people don’t know what to do. But Jesus told them, and promised them, “As it was in the days of Lot and Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.”
159 Compare it today. Take Genesis 6, and look what He said; how that “renown man,” how “women would get pretty.” We got the prettiest group of women that ever was on earth, since that time. Women are much prettier than they was years ago. They got so many different things to make them pretty. So many different paints and powders and fixes and hair-do’s and everything, and immoral clothes and things, till they make them attractive.
160 A man come to me yesterday, he said, “I got a boy, sixteen, Brother Branham. I got a boy, twelve. I take them on the street, these little stripteases out here.” He said, “The boys, they’re little males,” he said, “what can I tell them?”
161 I said, “Sir, I don’t know. Take them to Christ, and let them get saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, and they’ll turn their heads to them modern stripteases.”
162 Remember, when the sons of God looked upon the daughters of man and seen they were fair, they took unto them women, took unto them women. Look over here at this great scandal in England, look through the United States, look at these call girls in the U.N., everything else, oh, it’s just terrible. And that’s it, man “renown.” We’re right back in that hour, the red lights are flashing everywhere, the coming of the—of the Lord. And Jesus said, “As it was before Sodom was burned, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man.” [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] That’s right.
163 The women are becoming so, they don’t realize what they’re doing; an evil spirit upon them. Why would a woman take her clothes off like that, to expose herself? She don’t mean to be bad, they—they, they’re just caught in that trap, and they don’t know it. See, just like it was back there in that time. Female flesh being displayed everywhere, see, very attractive, runs the sons of God right out of their mind, nearly, and then a Sodom and Gomorrah law to protect her from it. What a disgrace, and our government standing for such stuff as that!
63-0731 – “There Is Only One Way Provided By God For Anything”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 142
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. (Numbers 14:22-24)
12 When Israel left Egypt, they all believed in one prophet’s message. They seen the signs of God, by Moses. Every one of them saw them. And they each one come out of Egypt, and walked through the Red Sea, and was baptized unto Moses. Each one saw the power of God strike him, when he sang in the Spirit; and when Miriam beat the tambourine, run up-and-down the coast. Each one of them, every night, eat fresh, heavenly manna out of the skies. Each of those drank from that spiritual Rock that was smitten. And there was two million people left Egypt. How many made the promised land? Two. One out of a million! Where they all at? Jesus said they perished. “Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for the space of thirty years, and I say unto you that they are all dead.”
13 Now there is about five hundred million Christians in the world tonight, counting Catholic, Protestant, and all. If Jesus should come in that Rapture, according to what I’ve just said, there would be five hundred missing in the world tonight, in the Rapture. And they probably is that every day, counting all the lands, that’s never accounted for. So it could be at any time, see.
14 Oh, Christians, let us buckle on the armor of God. Let us do all that we know how, to serve Him, love Him, and wait for that great time.
15 Now, there is not going to be a great millions and multitudes come out of a generation and march in. There—there can’t be.
Now, remember, each day ends a generation, each day. “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man, wherein eight souls was saved by water.” But each day ends a forty-year period for somebody, for some. See? And each day, so many is sealed away in the Kingdom. One day, the last day will arrive.
Let us be sure now, while we are in our right mind. And in the church, and amongst the people, where the Holy Spirit so has identified Hisself with us, let’s be sure that everything is all right, and stays all right, before Him.
16 Don’t you stop. Don’t rest, day and night, until that quickening Power has brought you from the things of the world, into the Kingdom of God. And you that truly are brought into the Kingdom of God and quickened by the Spirit of God, how happy! With tears of joy we should be on our knees, day and night, thanking God for what He’s done.
65-0418e – “Does God Ever Change His Mind About His Word?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 143
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (John 10:7-9)
37 I… One time when I was over in the orient, I learned a great lesson about… I seen in Saint John, I believe the 10th chapter, where He said, “I am the—the gate to the sheepfold,” or the door to the sheepfold. I often wondered how could He, being a man, be a door? But then when I was over there I learned what it meant. The shepherds drive their sheep into the sheepfold, and they got a—a arch that they go in at, and when he drives them all in there, then after they’re all in, then he counts them, and ev… If there’s one lacking, he will go out and get it. He has to bring it in. Every sheep has to be accounted for every hour of the day.
Oh, what a Shepherd He is. He had—gives an account for every sheep every hour of the day. No matter where you’re at, He knows where you’re at. He knows all about you. That’s the reason He can stand here at the platform through yielded people and reveal and tell and talk; He knows. He knows where you was at a year ago. He knows where you was at—at all the time. He has to give an account for His sheep, ever—and especially they’re all renumbered again after they’re gathered into the fold. I thought, “What a beautiful picture, gathering them into the fold and numbering them.”
38 And then after he gets them all numbered and they’re all bedded down, the shepherd goes down by this hole where the sheep come in at, and lays himself down across the hole. Then no wolf can come in, no thief can come in, no harm can come in, ’less it comes over the shepherd first.
What a picture of Christ laying Hisself down for us, that nothing can harm us unless it comes over Him. So if you’re sick and you say, “Brother Branham, sickness crossed over Him.” But it was for the glory of God. That’s right. He wants to maybe give you a testimony. As the fellow said one time, he seen a shepherd with its a—packing a sheep. And he said, “Well…” The… Had his leg all bandaged up, and he said, “Well, what did you… What’s the matter, did it fall off a cliff?”
Said, “No,” said, “I broke its leg.”
“Oh,” he said, “you must be a cruel shepherd to break your own sheep’s leg.”
Said, “No, the sheep wouldn’t mind me, so I had to break her leg in order to hold her, pet her, and love her, and give her a little special food, so that she would love me and follow me.”
And so sometime God has to do that to us. Let the doctor say, “Oh, it’s all over; nothing could be done.”
And then God takes you up in His arms and pats you a little bit, says, “Child of Mine, don’t you know I love you? Don’t you know I’m the Lord that healeth all of thy diseases?”
“But Lord, I was taught that the days of mir…”
“I know you was, but I just had to let this happen so I could just show you a little special favor. Now, don’t you love Me just a little more now I’m going to let you get well.”
Did you ever have that just come to you? I have many times. Let something happen, just to check me down a little, to let Him express His love…
56-0403 – “Shepherd Of The Sheepfold”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 144
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. (John 10:27-30)
58 When was your name put in the Book of Life? As I said last night, the man that wrote the song, “There’s a new name written down in Glory, and it’s mine, it’s mine,” meaningly he was right, but Scripturally he was wrong. Your name was not written the night you come to Christ.
Jesus said, “All the Father has given Me will come to Me. And no man can come except My Father draws him. All that comes to Me, I’ll give them Eternal Life, and raise him up at the last day. There’s none of them lost. I loose nothing, ’cause no man can pluck them out of My Father’s hand, Who gave them to Me.” Oh, my! Whew! Saint John 5:24, “He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life.” That’s why this church believes in the security of the perseverance of the saints, not in the Baptist form, not in the Presbyterian form, but in the Bible form.
59 “Well,” you say, “now, Brother Branham, I guess once in grace always in grace.” That brings a lot of disgrace. But when a man or a woman has been born of the Spirit of God, old things have passed away, all things have become new, and he’s been birthed and blessed by the Eternal God. And they can no more perish than God Himself can perish.
60 Do you mean to tell me that a God, the infinite God, would come down and give you Eternal Life, knowing that He was going to lose you? Save you here, knowing He’s going to lose you there? What did He save you for? Why, He’s working against Himself. If He saved you once, you are saved for all Eternity. There’s no demons in hell could upset you.
61 Now, the infinite God Who could tell the end from the beginning, and then save you here, this week, and knowing next year you’re going to backslide, and lose you? Well, what’s He doing a work like that for? That would be foolish; I wouldn’t do that. If I made you my friend today, knowing you was going to be my enemy tomorrow, well, I wouldn’t do it. I’d just let you alone. See? God makes you His servant, today, because He knows, and knowed before you ever come on the earth. When He was making the calcium that went in your body, when He created the cosmic light that you…that’s in you. When the petroleums and all that you’re made up of, when God created it on the earth, He knew every fiber of you and what you’d do. How can the infinite God…
62 “Well, I better walk careful today; I might backslide and be lost tomorrow.” You wasn’t saved at the beginning. You might be worked up, under emotions. You might just think you’re saved. You might feel like you’re saved. You might believe that you’re saved. You might join the church. You might be a good Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal. That don’t have one thing to do with it. Your name’s ever…If you are ever saved, you were saved before the world ever began, when God sent Jesus, in His mind, to save that one who He saw was savable. Now, He’s not willing that any should perish. He’s not willing, but, if He’s God, He knowed who would and who would not. The Scripture says so. So there you are.
58-0928m – “The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 145
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (John 11:21-27)
19 And we’ll find out every time that God is right. He thinks with his head, but he believes in his heart. Now, the devil thinks through his mind to show him something with his eye. But his heart will make him believe something that would be impossible to look at, because it’s the faith that he has in his heart. He believes with his heart for things that he can’t see. And the devil turns around and takes his head and makes him scientifically prove something. And his heart turns around and denies it.
Oh, if we could get away from our head knowledge and head religion, to heart religion where God could go to work in the Church… Out of our head into our heart… A man believes in his heart. He thinks with his head, believes in his heart.
Now, the mind reasons things. The heart doesn’t reason at all. It just believes what God says. But you see, today we’re so scientific, oh, we Americans anyhow. We are so scientific; it has to be all proved out to us.
20 In the old days when someone said the Lord did a miracle they just believed it. They thought, “That’s all right. Thank the Lord for it.” But today, oh, we’ve got to scientific take it down and prove it. And if it can be proved scientifically, then it’s not faith any more. Oh, I hope you get that. If it’s scientific, it isn’t faith any more.
What if Moses would’ve said, “Wait a minute here. Let me stop for a minute. What kind of a chemical spray has been put on that tree? Them leaves are on fire, but they’re not burning. You know what I’ll do? When it quits burning, I’ll pick off some of those leaves and take them down to the laboratory. And I’ll have them, the chemicals analyzed, and just find out what kind of a scientific thing this is.”
If he would’ve had that kind of a thought, God would’ve never said, “Take off your shoes.” What did he do? He walked up humbly. He didn’t care what the fire, how it was burning, or whether the tree burned up or not; he was searching for God. And every other child of God will believe it the same way. He heard a voice that said, “Take off your shoes, Moses. You’re on holy ground.”
21 If you go down to the meeting tonight, and you come down to find some kind of a fault… “The people make too much noise. The preacher preaches too long. I can scientifically tell you there’s people there that’s weary. They oughtn’t to stay up that long at night.” Go ahead. But those who come with their shoes off, with their head knowledge left behind, and a heart open for God, you’ll hear a voice say, “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”
“I’ll go down and count how many members of my church attended that revival. And I’ll hurry right back to tell the pastor that our good Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist brethren are down there. What a disgrace.” Well, there you go again, back with the head. God deals with the heart.
58-0326 – “United Under One Head”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 146
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. (John 11:39-46)
103 So Martha, when she come up… And she fell down at His feet, and she said, “Lord,” Lord, that’s what He was, “if You’d have been here my brother would not died,” See? Said, “But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it.” Oh, there you are. There you are. “No matter what You’ve done, Your attitude, You’re following what God said do. Whether You said this or that, or whether You did come, or didn’t come, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You.”
He said, “Thy brother shall rise again.”
Said, “Yea, Lord, he will rise in the last days. He will rise… He’s a good man, he will—he will rise in the general resurrection.”
He said, “I am the Resurrection and Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Nobody could say that but Him. “He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
She said, “Yea, Lord: I believe that You are the Son of God, that was to come into the world.” There you are.
104 What is it? She’s acting. She wants to see a miracle, so she’s finding out what the Word says. “I believe the Word. It’s standing there in the form of the Son of God. His Words is not His. ‘Not Me that speaketh, but the Father that dwelleth in Me.’ Whatever comes from them little lips of Yours that speaks, I’ll believe it’s the commission of God. (Oh, my, my.) You are the Messiah.” What is Messiah? The anointed One. “You are God’s anointed One.”
105 God had an anointed one in a lesser measure one day, and his name was Elijah. And there Elisha… And the woman had a baby that died. And she went up to this servant of God, and she said, “Thou man of God.” She recognized him. And that anointed one of God come and walked through the floor (Oh, my.), laid his body upon that little dead baby, and it sneezed seven times and come to life.
And if God did that by His anointed prophet, how much more will He do by Immanuel? “I believe that You are the Son of God.” If you ever get anything from God, you’ve got to believe God’s servant, God’s Word. See? And He was the Word. “I believe. Just tell me what to do.”
“Where have you laid him?” Down He went to the grave, weeping like a man. When He got down there, what did He say now do when you get here? See, you got something to do too, you know. Said, “Take ye away the stone, if you want to see a miracle.”
106 You sick people tonight, if you want to see a miracle, take away the stone. Take away that stone, that sin that lays at the door. What is it? Say, “Brother Branham, I don’t do nothing.” But if you don’t believe it, it can’t happen. Take away that stone of unbelief and watch what happens. Just take away the stone. And when she obeyed the Word of the Lord, she saw a miracle. Sure.
62-0124 – “Have Not I Sent Thee?”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 147
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. (John 12:20-21)
3 Now, these Greeks that came to Philip, their heart’s desire was to see Jesus. How many has that same desire tonight? Everyone. We all want to see Him. That’s the call of the human heart: Sir, We Would See Jesus. Now, that’s what we want to do tonight.
Let’s just think a minute. Now, let’s just get away from all of our fantastic ideas.
And if He’s so real as Christians claim He is, why can’t we see Him? We say He—He’s not dead, that He’s living. He said He’d be with us and every generation would see Him until the end of the world. Now, Jesus promised that. He said, “A little while the unbelievers won’t see Me no more. But you’ll see Me for I’ll be with you to the end of the world.” Then every generation has been promised to see Him. So let’s take a look for Him tonight. I want to see Him.
4 I remember one time I was getting up my little old cabin, cold, I was trying to make a fire, and oh, if it wouldn’t burn. And I turned on the radio, and a sister was singing, I want to see Jesus. I just set down in the floor and just started weeping. I raised up both hands and I said, “Yes, Lord, I want to see You.”
And you want to see Him. And if He is so real, why can’t we see Him? If you were looking for Him tonight, what type of person would you look for? Would you look for a man in long robes, dressed different from other men? Not Jesus, He dressed just like other men. He was… if He was here in a body of flesh tonight, He’d wear a suit of clothes like we have. And we couldn’t look for a well-dressed man, and I don’t imagine He would look like He was from a bandbox.
5 We wouldn’t go out to the great, great cathedrals to find Him, for when He was here they wouldn’t receive Him. And they wouldn’t again tonight. Would you go to a man that had a great forceful voice? No. Would you look for a man that had a great swelling education, that had so much education till He continually spoke in tongues? Just so common people couldn’t understand Him? Not Jesus. He talked like common people. So where would you find Him? You’d have to find Him among the common people. He’d be a common Man.
Then what would He be doing? Bragging on His education? Bragging on His affiliation in churches? No. Would He be bragging He was a healer? No. He’d be saying, “Not Me, it’s the Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.” He would look out over the audience, the people suffering, He’d say, when they had faith, “Daughter,” or “child, thy faith has saved thee from such and such diseases.” Then if the Father would tell Him something, He’d speak it out to the audience. That’s the kind of Jesus we’d look for.
55-0828e – “Sir, We Would See Jesus”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
Day 148
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. (Numbers 19:1-9)
24 And then, I noticed the red heifer how He said she must be, not never have a yoke upon her; if you notice how it represented Jesus. When He come He never yoked himself up with any worldly order. He never taken Pharisee or Sadducee side; He stayed free from both. He declared God to both sides.
And another way, that she must be killed in the presence of the high priest. The priest must see the heifer killed. And so was Jesus, when Caiaphas even sentenced Him and so forth. There He was killed in the presence of the high priest, right upon Golgotha where he could look from the temple and see Him dying in the presence of the high priest.
What a picture, how it speaks of the Lord Jesus. And then when they must take his fingers, and pick up the blood, and make seven stripes across the door of the—right in the door of the congregation, that no one could come into the door except recognizing that something died to go before them. It was a public testimony of the Lord Jesus.
Oh, friend, I want you to see that so bad: a public testimony, seven stripes representing the seven church ages; which by Israel, the seven church ages, we’re in the last, the Laodicean. And to every church age, He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Then it was to be burnt. All the body was to be burnt, and was to be made a waters of separation, mixed with water, and kept in a clean place outside the court.
Notice, that represented the waters of separation, represented the Word of God now: Wash us by the water by the Word. The Word is the waters of separation. Christ was the sacrificial beast. And He died in order…
You sick people listen to this. Christ died in order that He might be able to fulfill every Word. He was the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us, and died making the waters of separation, and this is the Word.
This is Christ, every Word in Here is God Itself wrote in print. Receive It into your heart and watch what happens after you receive It.
Just take any Divine promise. Listen to this, and you can make this statement, it’s on recordings, everything. But I say this, and challenge anybody. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of this Word will bring it to pass, regardless of what it is. If God said so, you take the right mental attitude towards that Word, and see what happens. God’s obligated to His Word. He swore by It. We’re going to get in that in a few nights.
55-0606 – “The Waters Of Separation”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 149
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. (John 13:12-15)
72 Now, notice Him. As He, here on earth, we see some of His work. Let’s see what He meant in Christian faith now. Here He is here. The stream of all Christianity, the Head, the Beginning, the Origin of the Christian faith was Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the beginning of Christian faith, the starting place for all mankind of all ages to look to that starting place and begin from there. He was an Example to us. Is that right?
73 When, 13th chapter, Saint John, when feetwashing was brought along, and He said… Watch as Peter, self-starched, this Peter—Peter was, protected, sassed, stood there as a stiff collared. And He walked up to wash Peter’s feet. He said, “You’re never washing my feet.” Oh, my. We have so many of those today.
“You’re never washing my feet.”
74 Jesus looked at him, said, “Well, if I don’t wash you, you got no part with Me.”
75 Peter said, “Then Lord not my feet only, but my hands and head.” Kind of unstarched him, didn’t it?
76 Oh, I’d imagine those kind words, looking around at Peter and saying, “Now, now… If I—if I can’t wash you, you got no part with Me, if you can’t follow My commandment, if you can’t do the will of the Father; Peter, I love you, but you’ve got to do these things.” That’s part of the Christian faith.
77 Then after He got through washing the disciples’ feet, set down, said, “Now, you call Me Lord and Master: and you say, well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you ought to wash one another’s. For…” Listen at it. “For I have given you an example, that you should do to each other as I have done unto you.” He was the Example of Christianity. He was Christianity. He was our Pattern.
78 Don’t never try to pattern your life after some preacher, after some priest, after some great religious man here on earth, but pattern your life after Christ. He is your Example. He set an example. He lived an example and presented it to the Church. Oh, I hope that soaks so deep.
55-0123e – “Earnestly Contend For The Faith”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 150
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. (Numbers 21:5-9)
13 Notice, then right in that crucial moment, serpents had come in among the people and were biting them. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and they were boasting positions, far beyond in many things, than what we are today. Had our doctors skinned by hundreds of miles. But Dr. Moses had no cure for that snakebite. Nothing could be done. There they was, way in the wilderness. And Moses prayed and God came to him and told him the remedy for it. I like that. What is He? God, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide, make a way. I love it.
Notice, then God told Moses, in this type or symbol; said, “Go make a serpent out of brass and put it on a pole.” Now, the serpent, in a symbol, meant sin. The serpent represented the serpent from the garden of Eden already judged: snake turned from a—a animal.
Now, he wasn’t a reptile. The Bible said he was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field. He wasn’t a reptile; he was a beast. And he turned to a serpent on his belly. And that snake represented sin judged. And made out of brass meant Divine judgment. Brass means Divine judgment in the Bible. See, the people were sinning because they didn’t believe the prophet. They were chiding against him and against God. They had sinned, and because of sin, serpents had bit them, and they were dying.
14 And all sickness is caused by sin. That’s right. Before we had—before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sin—or sickness, is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it’ll follow. God said so.
Notice. And so God put up this—had Moses to put up this ensign to Israel. And when he lifted it up, sickness and sin, a compound reason for both sickness and sin. Jehovah-jireh was providing an ensign that represented that their sin was forgiven and a healing for their sickness. You get it? Serpent represented sin judged.
15 Brass… See brass is one thing that you can’t tamper with. Brass cannot be tempered. You find some form or a temper brass, your tithings for six months will pay my way for fifty years around the world missionary, if you can find something that’ll temper brass. Can’t be tempered. Goes to show that God’s represented brass as Divine judgment and God’s Divine judgment cannot be tempered. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Here you are. I want you to get it now.
Look. Brass, the brazen altar where the sacrifices were burned: judgment, Divine judgment. And in the days of Elijah, when he went out and looked at the skies, he said they looked like brass: Divine judgment upon a rebellious nation. God have mercy. The skies sometimes look brass around here in America. Divine judgment, hardly can break through. Judgment…
16 Notice, then the ensign was lifted up; a beautiful picture of this, it’s pictured in—in Ruth. Many of you just read Ruth as maybe a little love story in the Bible (which it is), but oh, what a beautiful story that is representing Christ and His church. How that Naomi went over into the land of Moab. And there her husband died. Her two sons died, leaving widows. On the road back, the beautiful picture… Listen. Ruth, the Moabite, a Gentile, carried away with dumb idols like we were… And when it came time, Naomi kissed her and said, “Go back to your people, and with your people. I’ll go alone.”
But she said, “Let your people be my people. Let me live where you live. Let me die where you die. And let me be buried where you are buried. And let your God be my God.” Beautiful picture of the young Gentile church coming in by the old Jewish church. The Jews had packed the Gospel first. Oh, how marvelous.
17 Let’s get the picture right quick, while we’re running along this line, if we can. Now notice, and she would not, but she went on. And did you notice, Naomi returned in barley season, just exactly at the right time when were they gathering barley. And Boaz was her kinsman, and he was harvesting his great fields: the lord of the harvest. And Ruth, the young gleaner, went out into the field to glean: a type of the Gentile church, gleaning (Amen.), picking up just what they could, the gleaners going ahead. Oh, they say, “You all haven’t got the Pentecostal blessing.” Oh, yeah. Were gleaning all right.
Look at the lord of the harvest when he looked down and seen the little woman ready to glean and pick up what she could: a little blessing here and one there, which was life to her. Beautiful type of the church today. He said to the reapers, “Ever once in a while, drop a handful.” I like to find them, don’t you?…?… “Just drop a handful for her,” said, “because she’s found favor with me.” Amen. I like that. She might be an offcast, a holy roller, or whatever you want to call her, but just drop a few handfuls now and then. See? I like her.”
18 Said, “Who is she? Where’d she come from?” And when the harvest was over, the great lord of the harvest, which was Boaz, a representative of Christ to the church… He’d fallen in love with her, and he wanted to marry her. But before he could marry her, he had to redeem Naomi’s lost estate. And before he could redeem her estate, the law, Levitical law was, he had to be a kinsman, a near kinsman. When I think of that… The law required him to be a near kinsman, her closest kinsman. And he must be worthy, a man of honor. And he must be able to do it financially. And then he must make an ensign if he’d redeemed all she had.
Notice, a kinsman. God… Man was made in the image of God first. And God is a Spirit. And then, in order to redeem that man, God had to come down in the form of sinful flesh and become a Kinsman. Christ (Amen.); Christ was made a Kinsman. God was made a Kinfolks to us; flesh and blood like we are. Amen. What a beautiful story. The whole Bible just ties together everywhere; nothing of It out of the way: all ties right together.
19 As Boaz had to be Naomi’s kinsman, God, to redeem the church, must be a Kinsman. And He came down, taken on Himself the form of sinful flesh. Amen. He was worthy; He was God’s Son. He had to be worth it: He had all the heavens and all the earth.
Notice, Boaz then, gathered Israel. And then, remember, the ensign had to be lifted up outside the gates of the city. I want you to get it. And Boaz came out there, and brought the Israel—Israel elders, and said, “Now, if anyone has got anything to say, let them say it. And see this day, that I have redeemed Naomi’s lost estate.” And he kicked off his shoe and threw it amongst the Israelites, which was the custom: an ensign that he had redeemed Naomi and all she had.
20 What a beautiful type of God made flesh and dwelled among us, come down to suffer the death and the penalty: the Innocent for the guilty, the lovely One for the unlovely. How it’d break the man’s heart to think of such that God had to do for lost sinners like you and I. An ensign must be lifted up. You said, “Brother Branham, you mean there, to place that snake: Jesus?” Yes, it represented Jesus, that brass serpent, the ensign; for Christ, knowing no sin, yet was made sin for us.
And look at Him now, when He was beaten. God’s just judgment had to be paid: “The day you eat thereof, that day you die.” God’s Word has to be kept. There He is, standing in Pilate’s judgment halls; with mockery spit hanging over His face; the hands that raised the widow’s son; spoke peace to the harlot; the eyes that looked so tenderly upon the crowds, was now bleeding: blood running down His face and mockery spit from church members and soldiers.
There He goes. Look at Him. I see little red dots in His robe. Them little red dots begins to get bigger as He goes up the hill. After while they all go together. Then you hear a slapping on His side. It’s His bloody robe. Then at Golgotha they nailed His hands up and lifted Him up as an Ensign. He redeemed the church. Redeemed her what? He said, “Just as Moses lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” Why? A compound reason: because she had sinned and was sick. And He lifted it up for their salvation and healing. And “He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed,” the Ensign lifted up. Beautiful.
21 There’s the Son of God lifted up for your Ensign. “As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must—and just the same way, same cause, same thing… Then what did He do when He lifted up there, when He—God lifted up the Ensign? To the world… He showed to this church tonight, He showed to the world that He had redeemed all the lost estate of the church and the peoples. And what is our loss? If you’ve lost your salvation, He’s the En… [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] …sign for the sins of the world. What a pity. And then, do you mean to tell me that you could deny Divine healing? There it is in the Scripture. That’s what Jesus said: “Just as Moses lifted the brass serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up for sin and sickness.” And He’s here tonight. He’s still lifted up. And He was put into the grave, and God lifted Him up. And His Spirit is among us tonight, doing signs and wonders. Do you believe it?
53-0606 – “An Ensign”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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Day 151
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)
109 I’ve never believed that Heaven was a place where there’s a bunch of buildings, where there’s a bunch of houses up There, made with mortar, daubed up with paper, paint on the wall. I’ve never believed that a supernatural Being would have to live in a literal house. I believe, when Jesus spoke in Gen-…John 14 said, “In my Father’s house is many mansions,” He meant, “a body, a dwelling place.”
110 For, the Scriptures verify the same thing, and say, “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” You see it?
111 Mortal beings is the only one who lives in mortal habitations. Immortal beings live in immortal habitations. Then, the place that we go into, until we return back, is not a place of brick, and mortar, and clay, or precious stones, or jewels. It’s a place of condition, that we move out of this dimension that we live into, into another dimension. And it’s a house, a tabernacle, a dwelling place.
112 Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and I’ll raise it up in three days.” And they thought He was speaking of the Solomon’s temple, but He was speaking of His Own body.
113 And He has gone to prepare a place for every believer, that the very moment we step out of these mortal regions, we don’t go out into myth or some supernatural spirit, but we go into a tabernacle, a dwelling place. And that might be right here in this building this morning, in a place that no other radio activity, or nothing could touch. It’s there solely fixed by God alone.
114 Listen. Moses had been dead for eight hundred years. Elijah had been translated for around six or seven hundred years. And there they stood on Mount Transfiguration, both of them, in their mortal looks, talking to Jesus just before He went to Calvary. See what I mean?
115 Then what am I trying to say, that we are looking at some mythical something, a way off, out yonder, a hundred million years?
116 I got a revelation the other day, standing up there on Mount Palomar, at the observatory, and seeing the time, the space, over to Mars, and to the last continents and so forth, and light traveling at so many thousands miles per second.
117 If an Angel started from the farthest star, and coming here, it would take It billions times billions times billions of years to get here. If he started from Mars and come here, flying at the speed of—of light—of light space, or light speed. It would take Him billions of years to get here.
118 I cannot believe that there is a house way out yonder. But, I believe that that house that God was speaking of is right present here now. That, that’s the place where the mortal beings, when we cease to be mortal here, we step into immorality yonder, into a place.
119 And I believe that’s where Jesus is today, the resurrected Lord Jesus; not out yonder somewhere, a million miles away, but right here present with us now.
55-0403 – “Fellowship By Redemption”
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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