BV Comments #64

3/1/97-8/2/97

2min 40 sec…So tonight we’re not in rebellion. We’re a free people
and we’re to the place that actually no other generation has ever
come. Before it was ‘if you had believed’ ‘if you had received
John the Baptist as Elijah’; so and so and so and so, and if you’d
believed this; so and so and so and so, but they couldn’t do it. It
wasn’t time on God’s scale and time table. But now there’s nothing
but a fearful looking forward to judgment, the burning, the end time,
the white throne, presence, secrets of men’s hearts revealed, God
revealed. So that’s why we’re here. It’s a very serious business
but it’s a very wonderful business.

4min 12 sec…By the grace of God, I’m one of those at the end time of
the book of Revelations that …uh…chapter ten, one to seven where
John was told to take the book and eat it. It would be sweet in his
mouth, bitter in his stomach and then you must go before kings and
presidents and great individuals; go out into the world and I ask
brother Branham, “is that you” he said “no that’s the Word”.
And we have a part in that Word going out and you have a part in it also
because you fulfill your particular position here. 

29min 35sec…There’s a greater glory coming but what we see now and
that greater glory is not in miracles and healings…that’s a
vindicated Word that brother Branham brought us. But the greater glory
is what’s coming out of that, what God instills and wants in this
human race.

30min 26 sec…Sometimes it’s much better to have 10 pulling with
you…course that’s the truth…than about 300 against you.

 31min 19sec… It’s nice to be here with you and trust the greatest
thing of course is the Lord with us. Now He’s not with us in the sense
like He was with brother Branham. But He’s with the church in the
sense that He was with brother Branham who came to tell us of the sense
why that One is here. And that’s the one that brought us the Word
completely vindicated and there’s no necessity for any vindication;
God doesn’t vindicate the same thing twice, He doesn’t have to… to
the people. And He doesn’t have to say the same thing more than once
although He’s gracious enough to do that, to repeat through His
prophets what was said. But we’re glad that we have this Word which
has been absolutely proven to us and that’s what really counts.
We’re not trusting in imagination anymore; we’re not trusting in
feelings.

39min… Again we appreciate you coming this distance to be with us and
I trust you won’t be disappointed. That something will be made more
real in your heart and more expanded because as we go on and on we
increase in knowledge, we can’t help it. You increase by sense
knowledge, you increase by various ways of reading and being taught but
to increase in the Word of God is the greatest thing in the world
because It endures forever. 

43min 22sec…We are fast having a generation on earth that knows
nothing but the unadulterated pure Word of God and I hope it is being
taught here. If it weren’t being taught here, I would feel very very
bad about it. because everything that has come in my life and I’m 83
years of age; has happened in these last few years, the training I have
received all those years of study, of looking into many many thoughts
and doctrines, reading many many scholars, looking diligently into
myself and trusting God hopefully. But I’ve come to one conclusion;
that this is what my life has been all about. And that’s why I
continue to this hour when I had just as soon as well be out of here,
although I have no rush to go and no great desire to go because I’m an
earthly person. 

55min 10sec…Well you know this Solemn he was a man of many wives many
affections which were not scriptural which were not actually illicit
they weren’t really legal and right and proper according to the Word
of God. And so he married all those kings’ daughters. And you know
after that tremendous time…this is the thing that’s so
serious…that when he was dedicating the temple he was able to build;
cause God would not allow David to do it because he’s a man of war not
a man of peace. And remember it says like a smoke came down in the
temple and the priest were not able to minister and he raised his hands
and prayed that marvelous prayer. And he ended up actually in idolatry
embracing the religion of his wives. Now that’s organization. You dare
to move one step towards the world, that’s it… you’re gone,
you’re gone. Don’t pretend, don’t fool don’t equivocate, make
excuses. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. See, well
those evil days and years don’t draw nigh and you’ll look back and
you’ll say, I’ve no pleasure in them. What was there to it anyway? 

 56min 44sec…But I can look back by the grace of God on a life that is
not void it’s not empty…it’s not lived up to what it should have
lived up to I don’t for one minute claim that. But I thank God I can
look back and know that there are days in my life that I wouldn’t
trade for millions of dollars or anything anybody could give me because
those were great days. And those days all had to do with God and with
nobody else. But what He allowed me to see be near and by…that’s the
thought I want to impress upon you tonight…we’re all going pretty
soon by the way of the grave or somewhere. Famine floods perils
nakedness sword, who knows how it’s going to go. Squeeze coming down
all those things coming. Are you ready to look back and say well you
know I haven’t lived very long but I can see the goodness of the Lord
and I can see I took advantage, I took opportunity, when the call came I
answered. When it was there the grace of God was there for receiving it
and I received it. I stood the battle, the heat of the day. I was able
to take my sword and stand there knowing cursed is the man whose sword
doesn’t draw blood. Were  wrapped up in a good old fight but never
looked back and say well maybe I ‘boo booed’ a lot , maybe I failed
God a lot; failed myself; failed my family; failed everybody. That sure
wasn’t too great as far as the record concerned. But I got a part of
that record that I know stands stead fast with God to whom I’ve
committed my soul cause He did direct my life, He did direct my path and
I do know that I met with Him, walked with Him…not perfectly. Nobody
but Jesus could ever say that. Not Paul not William Branham not anybody
not Moses not anybody. Nobody ever can nobody ever will but you have the
testimony that you know in whom you have believed. That you’re
persuaded He’s able to keep that which you committed to Him against
that day.

And you have walked with God. You have walked with God and are walking
with God. And that’s the great thing. And I just trust that you put
that down deep in your hearts commit it to the Lord tonight that you are
on that path and there’s nothing going to stay you, there’s nothing
going to stop you there’s nothing possibly can hinder you now. I
believe we’ve crossed the…as it were…over the precipice  and there
are those who don’t know they’ve crossed; their just balancing as it
were in mid-air the same as we are, they’re going to go down. By the
grace of God, we’re going up.

1hr 8min 3sec… As I realized many, many years ago when I talked to a
certain minister and his understanding of this scripture and all was
different from mine but we were very close very good friends. We were
talking on the phone one day and I said I want to tell you something.
I’ve looked at every single thing this age in which brother Branham
appeared. Where he came with this dynamic ministry and I said, look I
want to tell you something. I enjoyed brother Branham’s dynamic
ministry. It was marvelous to see the blind suddenly see; the deft hear,
the dumb speak. Cripples that looked like twisted cold macaroni sticks
and once their boiled and their cold you know what their like, woven
together knurled and see just like that straightened out see by the
power of God. 

See the insane delivered. But I said I didn’t need that. I’d read
about it… what I hadn’t seen myself, that is…no ministry now of
mine; but having seen in the lives of people I knew were delivered from
death; running in our own family, my sister wonderfully healed by the
power of God. I said I didn’t need that. Said raising of the dead, all
those things, I knew about them; it was evidence, it was catalogued in
the ministry of men like Smith Wigglesworth. In Vancouver where Dr
Charles Price stood on the platform with doctors and ministers…they
spit up gorders    on the platform. How do you spit up a goiter when the
goiter is in the walls of your throat? Spit up actually so many they
took a dust pan and a broom and picked them up and dumped them in a
garbage can. I didn’t need that. Brother Branham’s great ministry he
had discerning, that’s wonderful.

 All those things were great, but it boiled down to one thing. What did
I need that brother Branham had to bring us; just one thing, the
revealed Word. And I don’t care what anybody says or anybody produces.
There is one thing you know you have. A vindicated word from God Himself
by the method that God ordained that is so clearly settled in that Word
and we saw it completely manifested. And if that goes over your heads
and you’re looking for something else, I’m sorry…you’ll be
caught in a trap of delusion and you’ll find yourself wakening up too
late. 

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