Spoken Word Is the Original Seed #23

 Book 1

Brother Branham’s Ministry

 Planting of True Word

April 28, 1993 

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for Your Presence and Your
great grace You manifest in this hour, showing us very visibly, Lord,
that none can deny the power to predestinate Your Word, has been
demonstrated to us, Lord, and we know the perfect faith which comes from
that demonstration. And we pray, O Lord, that we shall give way to that
and to nothing else, Lord, and let nothing come between us and that
Word. Knowing that as we stand with that Word we shall someday face You
and crown You King of Kings and Lord of Lords, when You become visible
and the reincarnation, and we want to have a part of that, and we
believe, Lord, by virtue of the fact that we are here as Your disciples
that has been guaranteed to us. We do not see any difference, Lord,
between Matthew 12 when You were there in the flesh and made the promise
to Your disciples, and then saw that they certainly came to that end to
which they were predestinated, neither can we, Lord, in this end time
miss that end. That is the truth; we know it to be the truth. May it
consume us, Lord, so that nothing else be real to us. In Jesus’ Name,
we pray. Amen. 	

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, we’re continuing tonight on number 23 of “The Spoken Word Is
Original Seed”. And of course, we realize in the last twenty-two
messages we have been bringing on this particular sermon, that Bro.
Branham has continually emphasized the fact that the spoken Word is of
God. That’s the original, spoken Word, not something that somebody has
doctored or meddled with, but the actual, original, spoken Word of God
is the true, original seed from which all things have sprung, having
brought forth based on foreknowledge, coming into a mature harvest that
is predestinated according to what God placed in His Seed Words. And of
course, He by His Own power has brought this to pass and is bringing it
to pass until there’s a complete consummation of what has been set
forth in the record of the Scripture as we know It to this particular
hour.

2.	Now, it’s also seen in these twenty-two messages that if one Word
of God is changed and believed in that changed form, there is no way the
believer will garner the predestinated harvest of the true, original,
unchanged Word of God. Now, this, of course, is something that people
simply do not want to accept. Now, they may accept It, and I think they
pretty well do accept It in the sense of, “Well, that’s logical.”
But to really believe It, that they, positively, are outside of the
kingdom of God, not a part of It, and could well be predestinated to
miss even the White Throne privilege of coming into eternal Life, it’s
very hard to convince them, because they want loopholes. They don’t
want to confess to a reality. Now, we’ve had that here, and I don’t
want to belabor the point, but you know that. There are those who say,
“Well, it’s not live, die, sink or swim. There’s a possibility
that we could somehow, you know, work our own little program.” 

	That’s impossible. The point is: if you do not know the Word of God
and you fall short, you hate to think it, but that’s your tough luck.
You know, people are not convinced of sovereignty. And I don’t want to
be hard on people, because I’m part of the people, but you have to
come to the point some time in your life where you realize you have to
face that reality. 

3.	Now, it must never be forgotten that, as we’ve seen in these
twenty-two messages, that the predestinated Word has a predestinated
people because, actually, people is what the Bible is all about.
That’s not so much about God, (He remains a tremendous mystery.) but
how God deals with us and what He has for us should not be a mystery. It
should be exceedingly clear, and I think it is, of course, in this last
day of Bro. Branham bringing us the truth.

4.	Now, this little Bride, who has the truth, will be one with the Word
so that the believer actually is, through the power of God, the
manifested, living Word. Now, that has to be true because you are
dealing with the predestinated people, and this Word here has everything
to do with them. So really, you have the people and the Word as one,
just the same as you have God and the Word as One. That’s why Bro.
Branham spoke on “The Invisible Union…”, and that’s why Jesus
said, “In that day you will know that I am in the Father and you in
me, and I in you.” So, there has to be, with no mistake made about it,
the Word, the Spirit, and the believer in complete union. And it cannot
be otherwise. 

5.	Now, today it is abundantly clear that the world is in a Sodom
condition and ready for burning; however, there will be a little bride
of the Word that will be one with the unchanged Word. Now, you notice
that we’re very careful here: there will be a Bride that is one with
the unchanged Word. Then, of course, there will be those who are, then,
one with the changed word, and those with a further changed word,
whichever way it goes. Or you can sink into sheer a hundred percent
idolatry which would be nothing but serpent seed, because that’s the
truth of it.

6.	As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight believers were one with
the Word and the Spirit, so there will be a little tiny Bride of the
same, and all other believers will be one with their hybridized word
which at the present time is set forth in two mainstream, denominational
teachings under Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, who represent the major
mainstream denominations—number one. And number two: the Pentecostals.
William Branham sowed the true Word. So you have three sowings that are
recognized, and, of course, Billy Graham sowed the denominational dogma,
[Oral] Roberts sowed the Pentecostal seed. The truth was sown by Bro.
Branham.

	So, the error has been sown; no doubt about it, but only the Word will
produce sons of God and the Bride will be raptured, and all others will
die through the anti-Christ system. That would be, of course, your
foolish virgin, and then, the others will all be destroyed at the return
of the Lord Jesus Christ, God incarnated, in the Book of Revelation,
chapter 19. 

7.	Now, before we start reading, we just want to remember that Bro.
Branham, actually, is fulfilled here in Acts 3. Now, we want to look at
that just a second and bring ourselves up-to-date on Bro. Branham’s
ministry. And It says in verse 19, and of course, it’s the middle of
the verse 19 we want to look at.

(19)	…when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the
Lord…

	Now, we know here that Israel rejected Christ. And according to their
own statement, “Let his blood be upon us, and upon our children,”
they took full responsibility for the act and for the consequences
thereof. Now they are held to that particular covenant they cut with God
by blood, and there’s no way they’re going to get out of it. You saw
some of what they went through under Hitler, Stalin, and that’s only a
part of what they’ll come through, because those two hundred thousand
evil spirits at the River Euphrates have not been retied. They haven’t
been tied down again and changed. All right.

	“When times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the
Lord;” that is a wind blowing as it were, the Spirit of God moving,
and Bro. Branham put that down there as a revival, the great healing
revival of which there cannot be a true healing revival unless a
genuine, fresh message follows it, because God does not vindicate the
same tired, old message. It’s run its course. 

8.	Now, look what It says. 

(19)	…when times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the
Lord;

(20)	(Even) he shall send Jesus Christ, which was (appointed) preached
unto you.

	Now, there’ll you’ll notice that Jesus Christ was only preached to
some people, but this cannot stand concerning the Jews because Messiah
was preached for hundreds and hundreds of years. But the Messiah Himself
was not preached; He was indicated by John, and He stood right there,
and they heard Him and crucified Him. So when you look at this
Scripture, you understand that this is to the Gentiles. It has to be. 

	Now also, you’ll notice:

(21)	Whom the heaven(s) must (retain)…

	So, it’s the same one that was Messiah, same one is being retained as
Mediator, Intercessor, still Messiah, and he’s got to stay there. See?
Until what?

(21)	…the (restoration) of all things, which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

	Now, I don’t care how you stretch that, and how you want to put a
meaning to It, It tells you simply one thing: the Word must be restored,
because that’s what comes to the prophets. Now, the great healing
ministry that Bro. Branham had here, “the times of refreshing from the
presence of the Lord,” actually categorizes or parallels found in 1 Th
4:16, “The Lord Himself descending from heaven with a shout,” and,
of course, that’s the Message. 

9.	Now, this ministry here of the great, healing movement, “THUS SAITH
THE LORD,” is the vindication of the prophet of Deuteronomy 18. Now,
notice; in spite of the fact of a message, which is the Word of God
resown, the moureh, or the former rain, the first teaching is resown,
and it’s only after that, that Jesus Christ can actually come to the
position where the Bride can be caught up with him to the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb. And you notice in verse 22: [Acts 3]

(22)	…Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him you (will)
hear in all things whatsoever he…say unto you.

(23)	…it (will) come to pass, that every soul, which (shall) not hear
that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

(24)	Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel…

	Now, notice; he does not go back to Moses. The only prophet he mentions
is a man that is not a Word prophet, but a genuine prophet as far as his
ability to be vindicated is concerned and his ability, thereby to prove
that he has the correct understanding of the Word of God and is the
judge of that hour. So, what you see here is not a prophet like Moses.
You don’t see a prophet like the apostle Paul. You don’t see that.
You see a man exactly like Samuel, and you will notice that Bro. Branham
always quoted Samuel. He said, “When did I take a mule or an ass from
you. When did I take any money? When was I ever wrong in what I said?
Show me one time I made a mistake.” See? The vindication. 

10.	Now, so what I’m trying to get you to is this: we have a
vindicated message, the sowing of the true Word. Now, right after that,
the great ministry that Bro. Branham had, to vindicate that he was that
prophet, you will notice at the same time Billy Graham was in the land
and Oral Roberts was in the land, and shortly after the vindication,
Billy Graham began to go downhill, Oral Roberts began to go downhill,
and Bro. Branham began to go downhill. There wasn’t any necessity for
Bro. Branham to be constantly vindicated once he was vindicated. He
himself said, “Listen, I can go to Africa…have “THUS SAITH THE
LORD” one time, and thirty thousand people come in.” I can come to
America after thirty thousand times… He didn’t say this, but I’m
saying it for him: I could have thirty thousand vindications and maybe
one person come in.

11. So, he’s telling you here, as we saw last Sunday, that what
you’re looking at in his ministry as he explained it, where it was not
in the scope that it used to be, in that peculiar miracle, THUS SAITH
THE LORD ministry, was because he had entered into the sowing season.
And when you sow a seed, you have to have a rain fall on it in order to
bring it forth in maturity. That’s why you get the Scripture where the
rain falls on the just and the unjust. And that’s why Bro. Branham and
his vision, when he was in the cave and he looked up, the wind blew the
Bible open, over to Hebrews 6, and there he saw the seeds being sown:
one by the Son of man and one by the son of perdition. And so, he
explains to us that the seed has to bear its own kind of fruit. 

	And there’s no way that there can be a Bride, nor can there be the
Son of God come forth in human flesh again…and you know, when you look
at the Son of God, knowing he was the Son of God, you know that God
indwelt him. So you’re looking not just at the fact of the Holy Spirit
having a great ministry, but you’re looking right at the fact where
God is going to reincarnate Himself, as Bro. Branham said, “When the
spirit that’s in our midst becomes incarnate to us, we’ll crown Him
King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Now you know there’s only one body
that He would go to and that is that Lamb that was on the Mercy Seat, or
behind him on the Mercy Seat, whichever position you want to put it, and
then he climbed upon the Father’s throne. So, all right.

12.	Brother Branham is now explaining, then, the point of where he is in
his ministry, so the people truly understand that, as Oral had a job and
Billy Graham had a job, he also had a job to do, and it has to do with
the sowing of seed, preparatory for the rain to fall upon it. Now,
there’s two kinds of rain. There’s a former rain, and there’s a
latter rain. Now, if you’ll listen, Bro. Branham, I’m sure, made
mention way back about 1906, the latter rain began to fall. And the
former rain begins to fall in the time of the latter rain though the
latter rain that Bro. Branham will be speaking of concerning in this
“Spoken Word Is Original Seed”, does not go back to 1906. What
you’re looking at is the rain that’s going to bring forth the
harvest, and there’s going to be a tremendous separation of the true
Bride from the rest of the people. 

13.	So, we’re going to quickly read then. 

[46-2] 	Billy Graham has struck the world. The Pentecostals struck the
world, and the Word has struck the world. Now, what’s the matter now?
She’s now waiting for the latter rain. That’s when she produces her
fruit (in other words, it’s a harvest rain). Oh, I hope you get it.

	Now, as I say, you can take that back to 1906, where the power ministry
began, the restoration of gifts. And that’s all it really was, was a
restoration of gifts. But when you go to the Book of Ephesians, and
there you see the Spirit Himself completely revealing God as to Who He
is, and the relationship between the Bride, the next thing you see is
the dead coming forth and the rest being changed in a Rapture. Now, to
me you’re looking at the real climax and the definitive latter rain,
the power rain, though that would be the climax of it (You see?)
because, let’s face it, during Bro. Branham’s ministry, when he was
thoroughly vindicated, you cannot separate that great power of the Holy
Ghost, which was in Bro. Branham, God Himself. As like when they said to
Bro. Branham “What did Jesus mean when He said, “He that hath seen
me has seen the Father?” He said, “You’re looking at me, aren’t
you?” 

	He said, “Same difference.” “Why,” he said, “it’s not
William Branham that has THUS SAITH THE LORD, that says these things
ever so correctly and they all come to pass in this great power.”
“No,” he said, “it is God.” 

	So, you cannot deny that there’s an intermingling in there, but
there’s actually a separation with the two words. The teaching rain
coming at this season proves that this is the teaching rain, proving now
that the seed sown must be watered and must come forth into a harvest.
See? This is the time that the reaper catches up with the sower, so to
speak. 

15.	[46-3]	Now, then the kind of seed you have planted in your field
will be the kind of crop you will reap. If the denominations want more
members, that’s what they’re going to get. That’s what they have
gotten. The Pentecostals wants more Pentecostals; that’s what
they’re going to get. Right. But the Word’s going to produce sons
and daughters of God. That’s coming too. Watch, look at that great
latter rain supposed to be done—how they would run over the walls, and
leap over, and how they’d be an army coming. Just wait a minute. The
kind of crop you’ll get is the kind of seed you put in your field.

	Now, he’s telling you right there, if you don’t have the proper
seed to be that Bride, (And that’s in Joel, that goes over the wall
and goes up in the Rapture.) you’re not going to get there. Why?
Because there’s got to be a seed to produce a harvest, and we are a
harvest. Then, what is the seed that’s in us? There’s going to be a
harvest. Don’t ever doubt that. There’s going to be a lot of people
stand here in the Great Tribulation; they’ll end up being destroyed,
hunted down as dogs, animals. And they’ve got to appear at the White
Throne; they’ll enter into eternal Life. And there’ll be those that
die, and they’ll go into the Lake of Fire. People standing right here
are going to be consumed like the atomic flash. Their eyeballs and
everything consumed away, they’ll be ashes under our feet. Now
you’ve got to understand that. And what Bro. Branham is bringing us
here… He’s telling us that the former rain, which is a teaching
rain, a seed has been planted in the earth, and we are earth. See? 

16.	Now, if the seed isn’t there, you’ll never come forth as a child
of God, see, just like in your own body. Like I explained the other day:
doctors tell you flat—the pathologists, everybody has cancer cells;
everybody has TB cells; everybody has measles cells; everybody got
everything. Everything’s in you. You’re a walking graveyard or a
pathologist’s laboratory. Everything’s there, but it doesn’t
matter. It doesn’t mean that that seed is going to come forth, unless
you are particularly adapted to it. So, now we’ve got a people with a
Seed-Word of God, and they are particularly adapted. As Bro. Branham
said, “You put a seed in the ground, it’s got the right fertilizer
in it, all it needs is the sun and the rain.” That’s why he said,
“Lie in the sun, and come to a place of maturity.” Okay. We begin to
see this, then, what he’s really talking about.

17.	Now, watch! Look at the great latter rain supposed to be done and so
on. 

[46-4]	All right. The two denominational kinds... You understand? The
two denominational kinds will unite together and go to Sodom. 

	Now, he’s typing right there the two angels that went down to Sodom
where God stayed behind with Abraham. Never forget that that’s a very
important Scripture, and that’s where you’re going to find that Bro.
Branham tells you about the sign that’s the last sign of this hour.
And it’s Heb 13:8, epitomized or given to us as the truth of Heb 13:8,
God standing outside the tent, Sarah in the tent, and she’s laughing
behind His back, and God tells and says, “Why do you laugh?” and
then she said, “I didn’t laugh,” and so on. And Bro. Branham
brought that right to Heb 4:12, the discernment, and he said,
“That’s the last sign you’re going to see.” 

	Now, if that’s the last sign you’re going to see, what good is the
sign if you don’t have the seed planted in here? I mean, a sign is
just a sign. You know, what good’s a sign if it just says “Buses,”
and you get there and there’s no buses? the sign that says, “Butter,
25 cents a pound,” there’s no butter? See what I mean? You’re
dealing strictly with the Word.

18.	[46-4]	All right. The two denominational kinds will unite together
to go to Sodom. But the Word will stay with the elected, the Royal Seed.
Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so it will be in the
coming of the Son of man.” 

	Now, right there you must recognize that every time you have a
negative, you’ve got to have a positive. And all the world says just
like Sodom, a bunch of homosexuals riffraff…blah, blah, blah. Now,
just a minute; at the time of Sodom, there was a positive. Number one:
two angels went down as messengers. On top of that there was God out
there with Abraham. So can you have Sodom, just with a bunch of
homosexuals and perverts, without having the other? And my answer is,
“Re-e-ediculous,” because always you have the two together. You
cannot have the Son of man ministry without the son of perdition. And
you cannot have the Son of man ministry give [way] to an incarnation of
God without an incarnation of the spirit of the devil. So, as it was in
the days of Sodom, eating and drinking…but go back to the setting.
See, how could you run a perfect example if you didn’t hold true to
what you’re talking about? See? You’ve got to keep your types the
way they are. Just like Bro. Branham said about visions, “It must be a
hundred percent, or forget it.”

19.	[46-4]	Two angels went down, two anointed ministers, (messengers,
you see) went down to Sodom to try to bring out a man that was
backslidden (had a little speck of God about him), and his wife, his
bride. You know what happened to her; she was disgraced. And look at his
daughters and look what it hatched out to be after they got out.
There’s always a ‘hair in the biscuit’. You know that’s right. 

	Now, what’s he telling you? He’s telling you, “Same thing
today.” Same thing today; you’re going to have them come out, this,
that. What are they going to go into? 

[46-4]	You know that’s right. (The “hair in the biscuit.”) Excuse
me for that expression, …you know, a gaggy thing, so that’s... It
always was; we know that. Now, you can’t deny God’s Word!

	Now you see, he’s taking and showing you the positive and the
negative, and you can’t stop the parallelism of Scripture: blessing
and cursing. 

[47-0]	But there was One that stayed with Abraham that gave a sign. 

	That’s the woman in the tent behind His back, and He read her heart.
Now, here’s where we’re reading fresh.

20.	[47-1]	All right, all right. One stayed back... …What was Abraham
and his group called? The elected seed that never went down. They were
pilgrims. They journeyed there; they journeyed here. They journeyed
here; they journeyed there… interdenominational. 

	In other words, they were coming up between what everything was there,
and they’d look at everything and pass on. What was good, they could
take; what wasn’t, they’d just pass on. See? 

[47-1]	But the denomination went down and made himself a city, and Lot
became the priest, or the bishop, (He’s the mayor sitting in the city
gate.) …you know, whatever it was there, the big man, sat in the
city…did the judging, who said…(Bro. Branham said maybe he’s…the
bishop or state presbyter, and he said,) “No, we won’t have that guy
in our midst; no, sir! He disagrees with our theology. We can’t have
it.” There’s old Lot. But there he sat. “If he didn’t pack
credentials from our group, we won’t have him at all.” (Or if he
doesn’t pack credentials, we won’t have him.) Who made you a judge
over the house of God, you hybrid? (Now Bro. Branham was hitting back,
because of his own ministry.) God’s Word will be preached anyhow!

	Now, he’s narrowing it down to eight souls, and very few people even
with those few elect will be standing here, just a few in Sodom, a few
coming out into the…and staying outside of the whole thing with God. 
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21.	[47-2]	Saint Martin went to a group like that, (You know, they
didn’t want to have anything to do with him.) and that guy
wouldn’t—the king—wouldn’t even stand up and give him respect
after he…broke the gate. God even burned his robes off of him, back of
him; made him rise up and salute that prophet of God that entered the
city. That’s right. His seat caught on fire where he was sitting, the
throne he sat on. That’s right. You have read church history... Yes,
sir. He went down there with the true Word, performed miracles…signs
and proved on the Word that he was evidently authenticated. They had
their own bishops, and bishoprics, and they had what they wanted,
and…just what they wanted; but God’s going to see that...there may
be some elected children in there, and He’s going to get them out.
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22.	[47-3] 	So remember, what was it? Now, let’s stop here for a
minute. Lot once had the choice to be an interdenominational himself. Is
that right? He once had the choice to journey with Abraham, but the love
of the world choked him out. That’s what it’s done today. And
remember, those down in Sodom never saw one of those supernatural
miracles. They had a blinding; and the preaching of the Word blinds the
eyes of the unbeliever. That’s what Billy Graham and those have
done— blinded the eyes of those unbelievers out there. That’s right.
Now, you can’t deny that Jesus said, “As it was in the days of
Sodom, so shall it be in the coming…of the Son of man.” 

	Now, he tells you right there, that the people are going to be blinded
to the reality of vindication and the Word that follows the vindication.
They’re going to be plumb blinded by some spellbinding preachers going
down there: one with all the denominational force of a Billy Graham and
one with a healing ministry, son of perdition, Oral Roberts, Tommy
Osborne, Hicks, and the whole bunch of them. And it’s so…

	Now, let me read it again. He says here: 

[47-3]	That’s right. …you can’t deny that Jesus said, “As it was
in the days of Sodom, so it will be in the days of the coming... of the
Son of man.” And here it is in the Bible. It will be the same thing at
the coming of the Son of man. (See, the parallel.) 

	You’ve got to always work in parallels; you cannot go positive
without a negative, but neither can you go negative without the
positive. That’s the thing the Christians have the hardest job with
because there is so much in our lives that appears to be negative, and
it is only negative on the grounds that we treat it so. All right. 
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23.	[48-1] 	Now, watch, but there was One which was the Word. He was the
Word, and where did He stay? With the promised ones, the elected one.
The Word stayed with the elected one. And the Word of God today will
stay with the elected one! It’s the Royal Seed of Abraham by the
promise. 

	Now, what does he (Bro. Branham) say afterward? He said, “The Pillar
of Fire will lead you into the Millennium.” Our Joshua is the Holy
Spirit.

[48-2]	What kind of a works did He do? (Talking now about this One that
stayed behind.) When it was manifested about eight hundred years later
in the form of Jesus Christ, it did the same works that that One did
there, the Word did, at the gate of Abraham’s tent—sat with His back
turned to the tent, told Abraham his name was Abraham, not Abram any
longer, what it always had been…but his name was Abraham, because God
met him a few days before that and told him his name was Abraham and
said, “Where is thy wife, Sarah?” …S-a-r-a, now it was S-a-r-a-h.
Where is thy wife, S-a-r-a-h?” like He didn’t know.

[48-3]	Abraham said, “She’s in the tent behind You.”

[48-4]	And He said, “I’m going to visit you… (‘I,’ the
personal pronoun.), I’m going to visit you according to the time of
life, (Oh!) and you’re going to have that baby that you’ve waited
on. The latter rain is fixing to fall. 

	In other words, to bring into manifestation what you’re really
looking for is the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ meeting a Bride in
the air, see, because remember; the sign of God outside the tent and
Sarah in the tent and Him talking to Abraham…and that’s the last
sign before the Son is presented in flesh, human flesh. Now, remember;
you have the Son presented in human flesh by the Holy Spirit working in
a prophet. But we’re not talking about that now. We’re talking about
the literal, physical Second Coming as far as I understand this to be.

24.	[48-4]	The latter rain is fixing to fall. You’ve held that seed in
there long enough now, in believing, and you’re looking for a coming
son, and he’s coming.” That’s the real Church today, see, the
elected Seed. “You have been looking for him, and I’m going to send
him to you.” Who said that? The Word.

	Now, you can see right here what we said in Acts 3. When you see the
vindicated ministry, the great healing ministry, Jesus Christ must come.
He’s only been preached. He’s been appointed, but he cannot come
down from the heavens, or we meet him there, until the restoration. Now,
remember; Elijah does the restoring. You’ve got to just keep your
Scripture together, because otherwise you’ll have a problem.

[48-4]	Now, “You’ve been looking for him, and I’m going to send
him to you.” …Who…What said that? The Word.   HYPERLINK
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[48-5] “Oh,” you say, “that wasn’t the Word.” I beg your
pardon. Abraham called Him ‘Elohim’; that’s the Almighty
Self-Existing One. He was the Word: Elohim. (Bro. Branham said,)
“Where did He come to?” (Or to whom did He come, he really should
have said.) To Abraham’s seed.

[48-6]	Now, remember; He had nothing to do with those denominations. He
stayed right there with the elected and preached…and showed the sign. 

	Now, you see what you’re looking at also, what people cannot
understand, and they think we’re preaching two gods and everything
else. Do you realize what you’re looking at here? The promised Son was
not there. We’re drawing a complete parallel. Who was there? God was
there. Now, who is here now? God is here. Brother Branham categorically
said who that was: “Elohim.” You’re looking at a reality.

25.	Now, what about the promised coming Son? There is no return until
Revelation 19. Brother Branham said, “You see the Church disappear in
chapter 4, come back in chapter 19.” And who’s heading the Church?
And who is the head of the Church? And Who’s the head of the head of
the one that’s the head of the Church? Christ is the head of the
Church, and God is the head of Christ. Now, now we’re looking at the
incarnation. So, who is here? Elohim is here. You’ve got 1 Corinthians
15, where church order is being set out before us and Ephesians 4,
showing the headship growing right up into Christ. And remember:
headship is here; that which is perfect is come. 

	Many people still think we’re preaching that the Lord Jesus is
come…and I’ve been accused of saying the Resurrection is over. Well,
you see, when you get mixed up in the Word, you’ll say anything very
ridiculous. All right.

26.	[48-6]	Now, remember, Elohim had nothing to do with those
denominations. (Now watch what he says.) Elohim had nothing to do with
those denominations. He stayed right with the elected, and preached
(That’s right.) and showed the sign.

	Now, Bro. Branham is telling you right now that the ministry that he
had, which is the ministry of the Son of man—God doing the works in
him and through him, that was nothing to do with denominations. They
turned it down flat. Okay. Who didn’t want his little gift of healing?
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27.	[48-7] 	Then Sarah, in herself... Watch that pollution, see. Now,
actually to disbelieve that, God would’ve killed her right there. Did
you know that? And she came out and denied Abraham. She laughed up her
sleeve, in other words, to herself. Now, she never…even cracked a
smile but down in her heart…kind of laughed a little bit. “Me, an
old woman, a hundred years old, fifty years since the menopause, time of
life, live with him all these years. Why, we haven’t lived as husband
and wife for twenty-five years, maybe thirty, see. And you mean to say
I’m going to have pleasure with my lord?”—Abraham, her husband.
That’s the kind of wives you all ought to be, should be. Paul said the
same thing. Love your husband that much. Not just hybridizing something
out there, you see. Remember your thoughts. We’ll get to that this
afternoon in ‘the womb’ thought.

 HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');" [49-1] 	So now, but in that, she
loved Abraham so much she called him her lord, “My lord being old,
too, and I old, and I have pleasure with him again?” And the angel
showed Abraham Who He was—the messenger, I mean, showed…Who He was,
that He was the Word! And He said, “Why did Sarah laugh?”So he
called her forth, and she said, “I never.”

[49-2]	He said, “But you did!” What? That’s grace. See, right
there God would’ve slain her, right there, but He couldn’t! See our
stupidity? He’d kill every one of us, but He can’t. To kill Sarah,
He had to take Abraham, because Sarah was a part of Abraham. They were
one in union! And to take the Church and destroy it, He can’t do it,
(See, that’s the Book of Malachi, right there, 4th chapter.) …to
take the Church…He can’t do it, (He cannot destroy it; He cannot do
it.) because It’s part of Himself: Christ, part of Himself, the Word
being made flesh! “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!” Couldn’t
do it. You get it? He couldn’t kill her. He couldn’t take her…,
because she’s part of Abraham. See, she was flesh of his flesh and
bone of his bone.

	Now, of course, what you’re looking at here, just in very simple,
plain English, is Revelation 3, see, where he said, so then, “I know
your works because you’re neither cold nor hot. I would you were cold
or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,
I’ll spew you out of my mouth because you say, I’m increased with
goods and have need of nothing and knowest not you’re wretched,
miserable, blind and poor and naked and so on.” [verses 15-17] But
what he says down here:

(20)	Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: (and) if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I’ll come…to him, and sup with him, and he
with me. 

	Now, what is the knocking at the door? Well, in plain English it’s
making the Bride aware of who is present, “Behold, the Bridegroom.”
So, how do you know who is present? By the sign of the prophet,
discerning, being one of the great ones. So, the whole thing is laid out
here like Bro. Branham is saying it: “Elohim is on the scene.” 

28.	Now, remember that what you’re looking at is the example of Sodom
again, the negative/positive where Paul says: [2 Thessalonians 1]

(7)	…you (that) are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall 
be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

(8)	In flaming (flames of) fire taking vengeance…

(10)	When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and…be admired
in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed)
in that day.

	You can see the restoration of Word. You can see the presence of God.
You can see the negative. You can see the positive. You can see just
where it is. And the whole Scripture lines up. Otherwise, how could it
line up if you only had a half of Sodom? 

	Would you be happy to have a half of a car? Now, which half would you
like?—me to take my chainsaw and cut it from front to back or in the
middle? Well, you just might get a little better deal if I cut it in the
middle, instead of north-south, cut it east-west. But I still wouldn’t
bank on it. I still wouldn’t bank… In fact; I would be very leery of
it, because I think that’s one of the ways to commit suicide. Yeah,
with the engine roaring and you trying to control the front wheels and
all, crack up in the embankment. Well, more than one way to skin a cat,
if you’re a cat. It would be one way to go, wouldn’t it? 

	See, Bro. Branham here brings out the truth. There’s no way that,
when God comes on the scene, being Who He is, He has to consider who you
are. See? And Bro. Branham said, “He can’t kill a part of
Himself.” He can’t destroy It because there’s a union there. Now,
this is not a marriage union like Abraham and Sarah. This far supersedes
it—far supersedes it!

29.	[49-2]	Okay. Couldn’t do it. You get it? He couldn’t kill her.
He couldn’t take her life, because she was a part of Abraham. See, she
was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. (That’s back in
Ephesians. Right?)   HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"  

[49-3] 	In our mistakes... Don’t say, “Well, I made a failure.”
No... Abraham made failures too. See? But He couldn’t take the Church.
He can’t kill the elected. He can’t take your life, because you’re
part of Himself. You’re the Word. The Word is in you. It’s
manifested Itself, proven Itself: love, joy, peace, long-suffering. All
the Words of God, you believe every one of them: working, God working
through you. See, you’re part of the Word which is Christ. And we are
taught that He is the Word, and we are flesh of His flesh and bone of
His bone (in other words, a manifestation). There you are. (Of course,
the real Bride, the real Church, is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.)
Now, we’re coming down to something. Okay.

30.	We’re coming down to something he wants to teach right back now to
the former rain. 

  HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"  [50-1]	Moureh, m-o-u-r-e-h, the
rain, former rain, claiming rain…

	Now, notice; ‘claiming rain’: he called it ‘teaching rain’. Now
he’s calling it ‘claiming rain’. Why is it a claiming rain?
Because it comes out to claim the elect, and that’s the only way
they’re claimed. The rest of them go for signs and wonders. Now,
remember; at the end time only the very elect are not deceived. Now, who
are the very elect? Well, that’s the Bride. Who would be the elected?
Well, that could be the foolish virgin. So there’s elect and very
elect. Of course, we usually put the elect just with the Bride. But
remember; there’s a part out there that’s got to come in later. But
don’t worry about it. 

	Now, he says:

[50-1]	…the rain, the former rain, claiming rain, has gone forth. Now,
what has happened? The former rain was being planted. The latter rain
fell. What happened? Sodom and its Sodomites burned! Abraham received
the promised son.

	So, what you’re looking at is right again Malachi 4.

31.	[50-2]	Jesus said, “Let them grow together. The tares will be
bound, bundled, and burned. The wheat will go into the garner,” see.
The latter rain is just at hand. 

	Now, what’s he talking about? You’ve got to have rain to bring
forth a harvest. Now, remember; that rain—the latter rain—is going
to bring forth the harvest of the elect and denominationals and
Pentecost. Now, remember; the denominational… Brother Branham talked
about the foolish virgin in there. I don’t know too much about it. He
said it. I believe it. I can’t figure it too much. But I do know the
Scripture, and he said, “Pentecostals are chaff; and the chaff
burns.” See, your worst situation is going to lie in the Pentecostals,
going to lay right within them. All right now. 

32.	[50-1]	The former rain was being planted. (Now the former rain means
‘teaching’, which is teaching the Word that’s planted.) The latter
rain fell. What happened? Sodom and…Sodomites burned! 

	But what happened? This is 2 Th 1:7-10: same thing. “You that are
troubled rest with us.” Out here in the valley… I mean way back here
in the desert with Abraham, just rest; “When the Lord shall appear.”
Okay.

[50-2]	Jesus said, “Let them grow together. The tares will be bound,
bundled, and burned. The wheat…go to the garner.” The latter rain is
just at hand. We’re going to get... I don’t want to wait too long on
that, because I got something real good back here on that…  HYPERLINK
"javascript:go_to('null');"  

[50-3] 	The two denominations will unite, Pentecostal and these
others…will unite, but the Word will stay with Abraham’s promised
Seed as It did then. 

	Now, watch carefully, because you’re not just using an example. What
you’re doing here, you’re seeing an ‘alpha and omega’ situation,
and God cannot change His ways of doing things. Now, remember that this
chapter in Genesis is what Bro. Branham categorically calls Heb 13:8.
Now, he doesn’t go the Pentecostal way that they go. Un un. Brother
Branham in Heb 13:8 goes, “God and His ways never change,” which is
Ecclesiastes. Now, if I can find that right off the bat for you, but
sometimes I’m lucky; sometimes I’m not. Psalms, Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, right before the Songs of Solomon. Okay, somewhere in
here; now chapter 3.

(14)	I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing
can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that
men should fear before him.

(15)	That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
been; and God requireth that which is past.

	So you see, you’re getting a picture of what we’re talking about
here. See? Events made clear by Scripture.

33.	[50-3]	The two denominations will unite, Pentecostal and these
others, will unite, but the Word will stay with Abraham’s promised
Seed as It did then. Jesus said, “As it was then...” Have you got
ears to hear? Eyes to see? Understanding to understand with? Jesus said,
“As it was... Is not it written...” would he say if he was standing
here this morning? (In other words, wouldn’t he say the same thing
like on the road to Emmaus? like the time of John the Baptist?) Would he
not say…: “Is it not written that as the days of Sodom, so…it will
be at the coming of the Son of man.” Don’t you see the two harvests
coming up here, receiving their last shower? They’ve come along to
that last shower, see. Then what happens? The angels and the Lord
disappears. Then the rain took place. 

	So, you see Hebrews 6, the sowing is over. Now, in Hebrews 6, Bro.
Branham saw a man go forth in white sowing, right after that a sneaky
fellow in black went forth sowing. And he saw the wheat come up, and he
saw the tares come up. Now, please watch carefully. The tare looks
identical to the wheat in a certain stage. Now, you’re looking at
vindication. That’s why the Pentecostals scream they’re vindicated
and they’ve got “THUS SAITH THE LORD” and everything else, and
they cannot take the Scripture. But It says here, “Let’s go to
perfection.” And you cannot go to perfection until you come to this
place when “that which is perfect is come.” [Hebrews 6]

(4)	For it is impossible for those who were once (for all) enlightened,
and have tasted the heavenly gift, …made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

(5)	And taste the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come.

	Now, that tells you right there that in this particular period, you
must have a juncture which embraces the heavens and the earth in
progression to going to the heavens—time and eternity coming together.
All these things coming right together: ushering in of the Millennium.
You’re looking here, actually, at a complete display of the complete
power of Almighty God—the greatest, perhaps, ever to be seen. And
under the circumstances, I would say that wouldn’t be too hard to
believe. 

34.	Now It says:

(6)	…(having fallen) away, (They can never repent. See?) seeing they
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame. 

	What is ‘the open shame’? Not recognizing Who He is. The ministry
is completely repeated. And remember, Jesus did not say for one minute
that “I am doing the works.” He said, “The Father in me is doing
the works and doing the talking. I am His image,” just like a statue
that God is speaking through—a man completely possessed. 

	Now, we see the mighty manifestation of God, the mighty, end-time
prophet—and the prophet himself is nothing. As Bro. Branham said,
“God is His Own Prophet. He just uses somebody.” And He uses
somebody because Israel asked Him to. God was using Himself right up to
that time. He showed Himself in a Pillar of Fire to the people,
earthquake and thundering. They heard His voice, saw His visage in the
sense of what He could present of Himself to them, which was the Pillar
of Fire. They knew God was there. They said, “Hey, forget it. Use a
man.” 

	So, God uses a man, and they crucified the Son of God, and they killed
the prophets—turned them down. You know it’s a messy situation, but
you’ve got to believe the Bible. 

35.	Now, he said here: 

(6)	…they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, (not Son of man
now, Son of God, and it’s the Holy Ghost now.)

	God in the form of the Holy Spirit having the Son of man ministry doing
what He did in the role of Son: they crucify Him to themselves. What
happens? Now, listen!

(7)	…the earth which drinketh in the rain that comes oft upon it, (Now
we’re talking right now about actual human beings.) …bringeth forth
herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing(s) (of)
God:

(8)	But that which beareth thorns and briers…is nigh unto cursing;
whose end is to be burned. 

	But Paul says to these people… Now, listen; he doesn’t take this
statement back and say “Ho, this isn’t going to happen to anybody.
I’m just talking through my head.” He said, “This is the truth,
but I know you people, and I know you know the Word as Hebrews know the
Word, and you’re believing me, and you won’t make the same mistake
they made as your forefathers. I don’t expect that you’ll burn,
though somebody is going to burn. But let me tell you flat: they’re
going to burn.” And they become ashes. Some of this is not God’s
husbandry and some is. Cain was not God’s husbandry. Cain was not
God’s fruitful field. Eve was! Then she messed up. See?

36.	(9)	…we are persuaded better things of you, (and so on)…

	So, this is what Bro. Branham is looking at here, and he’s telling
us, “Hey, it’s right on you, if you can’t see it…” How many
chances did Jesus give those disciples in His Resurrection? Well, you
don’t have to believe, or if this isn’t the real thing you know,
you’re being educated now for the real thing to come along. Do you
think that God that destroyed Jerusalem through Titus in 70 A.D. till
the blood ran like water, and He fulfilled His Word of prophecy
concerning their destruction where they fill up the cup of iniquity and
unrighteousness and pay for it? Do you think that He’s just mouthing
off and just saying something to try to scare people like you say,
“Hey, there’s a bogeyman in the closet”? 

	Remember you used to say that to kids years ago? Bogeyman under the
beds…scare the kid. Do you think God’s got bogeymen? This is not a
bogeyman Bible? It’s not some little fairytale, some fable. A fable is
a story with a moral to it. This is not a book of morals. You’re
dealing with reality. It’s too bad that we just can’t reciprocate
with God the way we should. Oh, He’s so fair with us and laying it all
on the table. But anyway, I’m glad it’s his faith that’s doing it.
That’s what Paul came down, he said, “I live by the faith of the Son
of God.” He didn’t live by faith in the Son of God, not for one
minute. He lived by the faith that Jesus had toward his Father, because
He knew the end from the beginning, had been with Him, and He could come
right down here and know He could zero in and take us right over. Come
on, this ark isn’t going to fail, brother/sister. And Christ is our
ark. All right. 

37.	Now, he said:  HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"  

[50-4] 	All right. Now, watch real close now. Now, I believe I was on
the subject here; yeah, on the rain, …the latter rain. All signs are
pointing to the end now. Everybody that believes God’s Word knows
that. 

[50-5]	Let me stop on another one right here. I’m going to have to
call names. I don’t mean to be rude, but I’ve got to… I’ve told
God I…pull no punches. I’d come right here and just express exactly
what I’ve known all my life, and then there’s some things over here
at the end I’m going to have to withhold, I know, but I’m going to
express to you as far as He will let me do... (Then later on if He lets
him it will be in the second and third sermon. All right.) Mrs. Wood
knows that after I got this and many more pages beside this, the Holy
Spirit said, “Don’t do that.” Did I call you, Mrs. Wood, and…He
told me not to do that? So I went back and prayed…that night He came
to me in a vision and said, “Go do this. Take this and place it there
because they won’t understand this. It isn’t time for this yet;
place this here.” And I did. That’s right. “Obedience is better
than sacrifice.”

	Now, he’s talking to Mrs. Wood as a witness here, and it doesn’t
mean a thing to me because I don’t know if he ever said what this was,
if he ever told me or anybody else. I don’t have a bit of recall. 

38.	[50-5]	All right. Obeying.

	He’s telling you right here that he is giving you the truth here in
obedience to Almighty God. He would have liked to have said something in
a certain way. God said, “No, don’t do it.” Later on, if it’s
allowed of God… Seems to be he’s going to be allowed of God, but at
this particular point he’s not to do something, but he’s to do what
he’s going to do now. So, let’s listen to what God directed him to
say at this point which would have been not right had he not said it,
and if he had said the other thing that would have been even worse. So,
all right.

[51-1]	All right. Obeying.

	Now, he obeyed a certain thing that I don’t know about. And I
didn’t ask Mrs. Wood. Maybe she wouldn’t remember anyway.

[51-1]	All right. Obeying.  HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"   Now,
now look, we’re... Show you…we’re at the end time, even the
parable of the wise virgin and the unwise virgin is with us. Now, look,
the unwise…virgin …the unwise virgin is going to be the hybrid. See,
she had the seed without the oil, the moisture to make it grow.

	Now, notice; he talked of Eve being a hybrid, too. And yet he said the
unwise virgin, the foolish virgin, is identical to the wise virgin
except for one thing, see: didn’t have the oil. They didn’t have
that Word in there that could receive the light of the oil, the rain,
whatever you want to call it, to bring it forth in there.

[51-1]	Now, see, she had the seed without the oil, the moisture to make
it grow. (Now, notice)…she had the seed without the oil, the mositure
to make it grow. Now, …what’s she doing? The two groups, the
Pentecostal group…the denominational of the world, the Evangelical
groups are emerging together. See? What for? Going to Sodom…to reap
this harvest.  HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"  

39.	[51-2]	Notice, the unwise virgin... Have you noticed this one…even
one of my great friends, a real scholar, a man that’s smart,
intelligent, brilliant Pentecostal man... (Likely Jack Moore or
somebody.) And I noticed my brethren in the Christian businessmen
shouting the praises of God because in there they got Episcopalian
preachers, Catholic priests. I wonder if those men are sound asleep.
(You know, the virgins are asleep.) Do you realize... They say, “Oh,
it’s the greatest thing you ever heard, Brother Branham. Why, this
Episcopalian people, temple…come over here, and they say they got the
Holy Ghost. They spoke in tongues; they’ve done these things. Glory to
God! I’m telling you, ...Why, their church has been revolutionized.”
Oh, my, brethren, don’t you know what that is? It’s a sign. See?
HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');" 

[51-3]	When the unwise virgin, the foolish virgin, wants oil, and while
she’s buying it, that’s the time the Bridegroom comes! Oh, you
Pentecostals, what’s the matter? Well, you can’t see it unless God
shows it to you; that’s one thing sure. If…you weren’t born…back
yonder, predestinated to it, you’re going to miss it. Blessed are
their ears that can hear; blessed are the hearts that can understand,
for the time is at hand, every sign pointing to it, see.

	Now, you see right there they’re saying, “Hey, we’ve got the true
baptism, this is that, and we also got the latter rain. We’re that
power, that great power there that’s going to throw us right into the
Resurrection.” 

	And he said, “Hey,” he said, “You’re wrong.”  HYPERLINK
"javascript:go_to('null');"  

40.	[51-4]	Look what kind of revivals they’re having: great revivals,
have had. Looks good, doesn’t it? You say, “Well, Brother Branham,
now you’ve got us on a limb.” That’s where I wanted you. How you
going to know what’s right and wrong? Give it the Word test. 

	Now, this is what I’ve been preaching all along, and I find after ten
years and better, there’re people sitting right here all these years,
they didn’t hear one word. They didn’t hear a word! I’m sorry. 

[51-4]	That’s the way to tell whether it’s right or wrong. That’s
it; just give it the Word test. 

	In other words, you check the spirit by the Word. You never, ever check
the Word by the spirit because they’re so close. And the Spirit of God
is anointing these people, and He’s anointing the very Word that they
want anointed that’s going to fool you. Now, what if you come up with
all this wonderful love you talk about and you’re off the Word? Ah,
no. Just let that sink in. I’m not especially anxious to chew on that
one tonight, because it would be like my teeth made of steel biting on a
flint. You’d see the sparks fly because I can quote you names and
places, and you might be hurt, so who worried about it. 

41.	[51-4]	Give them the Word test. That’s the way to tell whether
it’s right or wrong. That’s it; just, just give it the Word test.
See what it says about the Word. Any spirit, see what it says about the
Word. If it denies the Word, it’s not of God. See? No matter what it
is, if it denies the Word, it is not of God. Look, give it the Word test
and see what happens. (See, why I’ve been preaching this all these
years: “Give it the Word test?”) Jesus warned us of these things:
Matthew 24 and verse 35... I just want to refer to that, because on
account of the tapes.  HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"  

[52-1] 	Just a minute. Now, we haven’t got just maybe twenty minutes
or more till we dismiss, and I’m sure we’re not going to even get
one third through, but I’ve got to read…anyhow…Matthew 24:35. (And
here’s what It says:)

[52-2] 	…Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass
away.

[52-3]	Now, He... that the two spirits so close together... Now, it’s
got to be that way. It’s got to be that way. The Pentecostal
denomination has got to act so real like the real until Jesus said that
only the elected wouldn’t be deceived. 

	Now, watch right there, he’s telling you about the Pentecostal chaff,
and he’s telling you they’ve invaded every denominational church.
They got them all fooled. See?

42.	[52-3]	That kills me nearly. But, my denominational brethren,
can’t you see why I’ve done what I done? So close that it would
deceive the very elected if it were possible. But the elected, that’s
elected to eternal Life... Now, you talk about striking this; we’re
going to strike it after while, really hit it, see. See, remember;
it’s the elected; it’s the only kind that will catch it.

 HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');" [52-4] “Well,” you say,
“how do you know that you’re not right?” (Or how do you know that
you’re right?) Then test me by the Word. Come, test your denomination
by this Word. Let’s see who’s right. “Prove all things,” the
Bible said. [You say,]“It doesn’t make any difference; be baptized
this way...” It does make a difference. That’s what Satan told Eve.

	Now, remember; at this point he’s just going to go to the Bible, and
he’s going to be very casual about baptizing in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Even a Baptist can figure that out. Anybody can figure it
out by looking at the Word. When did any apostle, any disciple, or
anybody ever baptize any other way, that’s not just Jesus’ Name—no
way, shape and form. They baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and Jesus Christ—put it together—and Lord Jesus Christ. We’re not
Oneness, yet people right today are Oneness. Most of the people in Bro.
Branham’s message are Oneness people. And yet he said, “Don’t be
Oneness. I’m not Oneness.” They just don’t have a clue. But you
know if you can’t teach them, you can’t teach them. It’s not my
job to take the place of the Holy Ghost. You see? 

43.	He said here:

[52-5]	Somebody…already been baptized in Acts 19. A good Christian man
baptized them…, John the Baptist. And Paul said, “Have you received
the Holy Ghost since you believed?” (That’s up there at Ephesus,
see.)

[52-6]	He said, “We don’t know whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
(What are you talking about?)

[52-7]	Said, “Then how were you baptized? If you had caught it you’d
have known it.” (See?) Said, “How were you baptized?”

[52-8]	They said, “Unto John—the great man that baptized Jesus.”

[53-1]	And Paul said, “That will not work now.” Because John never
baptized, only unto repentance, not for remission of sins; and the
sacrifice wasn’t offered. And when they heard this, they were
rebaptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

 HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');" [53-2] 	What if Moses said... and
God said to Moses, “Take your shoes off, Moses”?

[53-3]	And he said, “You know, I tied them a little too tight this
morning, Lord. But I’ll show even more respect; I’ll take off my
hat.” That wouldn’t have worked. He never said hat; He said shoes.
And that’s the devil that tries to whitewash that like he did with
mother Eve. It’s every Word the Truth just the way God’s got it
written here. And that’s the way I believe it.

[53-4]	Now, you can go ahead; you say, “Well, we got the truth.”
Well, you go ahead then. That’s all right. If you’re that blind, you
go right ahead and stagger in darkness. This is the Word that’s going
to judge you, brother, not your creed. Oh, it looks good. Yes, sir,
looks good.

	But you know, when you look at this what Bro. Branham is saying here,
you know jolly well that some smart scholars is all it takes to just run
back and forth with this. See, never forget that Bro. Branham, way
before here, hit the vindication: “The last sign you’re going to
see.” He pinned down his own ministry as to the correct interpretation
or restoration of Paul’s doctrine and went even further, because not
only was the Word restored in the sense of the truth of the continuity
and bringing It to us, but he also revealed those things which had not
been revealed. So, we know positively where we stand.   HYPERLINK
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44.	[53-5] 	Now, and you say, “Well, Brother Branham, wait a minute.
Bless God, I’ve seen them go out there and heal the sick.” Oh, sure;
so have I. “…I’ve heard them speak in tongues.” Yes, sir. So
have I. And I’ve never believed, and there’s no one can prove it by
God’s Word that the initial evidence with the Holy Ghost is speaking
in tongues. I want the man to come do it. I’ve challenged that all
along. I believe in speaking in tongues. Yes, sir; but I’ve seen
devils speak in tongues, witches and wizards speak in tongues and
interpret it, denying there was such a thing as Jesus Christ. I’ve
seen men speak in tongues living with another man’s wife, stand and
look me right in the face and a vision before him—call him out to one
side and made a witness to it. And you call that the Holy Spirit? Oh
yes.

 HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');" [53-6]	You say, “Well, Brother
Branham, don’t you believe the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues?” Yes,
sir, but give it the Word test. See, Jannes and Jambres worked miracles.
That’s right, didn’t they? Yes, sir, Jannes and Jambres... (Bible
says so.) When Moses went down to Egypt, everything that Moses did in
the way of a sign, Jannes and Jambres, …two witches, could produce the
same thing—two devils. Moses would say, “Fleas.”

[53-7]	They said, “Fleas!”

[53-8]	Moses said, “…stick on the ground!”

[53-9]	They said, “…stick on the ground!”

[53-10]	“A serpent!”

[53-11]	“A serpent!”

[54-4]	That’s right! They could work miracles. The Bible said that in
the last days that devils would rise up working miracles and would
deceive the people. Awful hard, brother, but you must know the Truth. 

 	And of course, they get carried away right here. The Baptist say,
“Ha, ha, ha, I told you the devil could heal.” The devil doesn’t
heal. Never has; never will. He can speak in tongues, sure. Yeah, but he
can’t heal. “I’m the Lord that healeth thee.” Well, you say,
“God sort of let the devil do it.” Well, why did He say, “I’m
the Lord that healeth thee?” Well, “I’m the Lord that healed by
letting the devil do it.” Where do you find that one? See, you can run
yourself up the flagpole so far you’ll never see the ground, you just
be up there swaying back and forth thinking you’re near heaven. First
lightning bolt will scatter your ashes plumb across the universe. You
know, you’re not going to get away with this nonsense. See?

45.	[54-4]	That’s right. They could work miracles. The Bible said in
the last days devils would rise up working miracles and deceive the
people. Awful hard, brother, but you must know the Truth.  HYPERLINK
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[54-5]	Jesus said, “Many will come in that day and say, ‘Lord, Lord,
have we not…done this, and that, and that, and so forth, in Your
Name?’”

[54-6]	And He’ll say, “Depart from me, you worker of iniquity.”
(See, those that knew to do better and wouldn’t do it.) What is
iniquity? Something…you know that’s wrong, and you do it anyhow; and
you know that God’s Word is right! Why do you play the hypocrit?
Because of your organization and pick a little bit here and won’t take
the rest of it. “You worker of iniquity,” He said, “depart from
me; I never ever knew you.” Now, ...you either wade through hell or
hereafter, and so on…  HYPERLINK "javascript:go_to('null');"  

[54-7]	Now, remember, that’s true; that’s what Jesus said. Jannes
and Jambres withstood Moses; remember…the Bible says, “As they
withstood Moses, in the last day they’d reappear—those
spirits—again.” What? Just before the liberation of the people.
Hallelujah! The liberation time is here!

	What’s that? The jubilee: and [at] the jubilee, you can go to your
master and say, “I’m no longer a slave. I want to be free. And I’m
free.” But if you like what you’re into, you say, “Hey, I like my
organization.” Put your ear to the door, they’ll put the awl mark
through it; from then on you’ll never hear again as long as you live.
You’re finished. You’ll never believe. You can’t do it. See, you
can’t repent if you turn It down. And people think they’re repenting
unto salvation. Don’t be ridiculous. That’s what Bro. Branham tried
to show Joe Boze when he went to Africa: “End-Time Evangelism”, and
old Joe sitting right there, dying a Trinitarian, really fighting a
prophet of God, and Bro. Branham loving him, just the same. You talk
about…[Bro. Vayle considers time remaining]. 

46.	[54-8]	…liberation time’s here! Jesus said in Matthew 24 over
there that they would deceive the very elected if it were possible. Just
the elected will catch it, just one here…just one there: the very
elected, if it were possible... “As Jannes and Jambres withstood
Moses, so will these men of reprobate mind—(see, reprobate
mind)—concerning the truth.” concerning the Truth, and the Word is
the Truth. Is that right? Now, this is not skim milk, friends.  
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[54-9]	Look, …the Bible said… Jesus said…they would be so
close…they would deceive the very elected, if it were possible; but it
isn’t possible. The Seed’s going to fall there, because of it’s
predestinated to fall there. (See, it’s predestinated to do it.) The
seed has gone forth. The denominations have sown; the Word’s been
sown, see. And Jannes and Jambres, they—those people... The Bible said
those devils would rise up in the last days…would deceive the people
by their miracles and signs that they could perform. How are you going
to know the difference? The Word!

	And they never guessed this if Bro. Branham didn’t tell it. It’s
the same anointing. When those weeds were crying and I didn’t talk
about that in Hebrews 6, but the time came when the weeds came up and
the wheat was there already, and there was a big drought; the wheat
began to form over and crumble down, the weeds began to bend down, all
the moisture going out, and they were crying to God for rain. The rain
comes splashing down. And the wheat says, “Praise the Lord.” And the
tares said, “Praise the Lord.” It’s the same rain, the same power,
that latter rain, because remember; the seeds are sown. Coming to the
harvest, that latter rain, they’ll do everything that the Bride will
do, except they don’t have THUS SAITH THE LORD because they turned
down the Word. You see the picture. We went into this many, many, many
times over many years, but anyways, it’s the same story.   HYPERLINK
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47.	[55-1]	Even the Old Testament said, “If they speak not according
to the law and prophets, there’s no life in them.” (Now Bro.
Branham…I’m very glad he said,) “The prophets,” (because he’s
a prophet. He said, “Say what I say.”) If they deny one
thing...(See, don’t do it.) Then show me one person that was ever
baptized using the title of—Name of—Father, Son, …Holy Ghost. Why
do you do it then? …creed, hybrid, dead children, bastard children,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots. “And every plant that my heavenly
Father hasn’t planted will be rooted up. 

	Now you say, well, just a minute, what is there here that God didn’t
plant? He never planted hybrids. He put the seed for both kinds. Man
hybridized; he messed up. Oh yeah. Yeah. All right. 

[55-1]	Both heavens and earth will pass away, but my Word shall not pass
away,” said Jesus. Now, you see why I’ve stood the way I have?

	Now, this little conclusion here is not a conclusion yet; he’s
telling you what he said back over here in about page… Where were we
at? Oh, back here in about page 42. He’s telling us why he has
preached and done what he’s done, believed what he’s believed, and
what his ministry is about. And his ministry is all about the planting
of the true Word which must come to pass. See? And remember; it went off
in the Garden of Eden. You’ve got to get right back to where you can
walk to the Tree of Life and that little interim in there, that little
gate, little slit, little path in there, where at that time Adam and
Eve, especially Adam, was one in spirit and himself with the Word. And
the Tree of Life stood right there, and he didn’t move to it; he moved
opposite. Now we’re going to be in the same position. Who will now
move to the Tree of Life? No way, they go right back. And this time
there’s no repentance—Why?—because the fire falls; doesn’t do
you any good to repent.

	Hey, when they catch you with your hand in the cash register, like the
raccoon—is it?—that gets his hand in the bottle to pick up the
silver coin and won’t undo his fist. Hey, they got you dead. You is a
thief. You can’t fool with God. Not now and not anymore you can’t
fool with God. 

48.	You know, people should be so happy that believe this message,
should just love each other and you know, it should be fabulous what we
have, what we got from God. So, all right. 

	We’ll stop right here, and we’ll try to pick it up on Sunday. And
we’re going to try to go as quickly as we can because my we can finish
on Sunday very easily. I could have finished tonight except I don’t
want to go over our tape [recording time available], because we get to
number two. And we see here, then, Bro. Branham, the faithful prophet,
the one in white taking the place of Jesus Christ standing for God here
on this earth, going forth and planting the true seed. 

49.	Now, let’s ask the next question. What earth is He planting it in?
These vessels here: vessels of clay unto honor—earthen vessels. Though
they may be vessels of dishonor for tempting and trial, it was still the
way God wanted it knowing He would get you exactly where He wanted you.
Not what we wanted, because we, though in Him, have no consciousness of
His plans. You know why? Because He’s the head; and He’s forming a
body. And the feet doesn’t know what’s in the head; the head knows
what’s in the feet. You see it? Building a body. All right. I hope you
believe more than you believe before you got in. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You again for the time of fellowship we have
here, knowing, Lord, that it is a blessed time to fellowship around the
Word. As Bro. Branham talked about, “Spiritual food in due season,”
talked about, “Eating of the Word,” and marveled that so many people
were not eating with him and rejoicing, eating real fine and enjoying
It. Here we are, Lord, little group of people here so happy to find Your
Word here and just go over It and see what the prophet said, and see the
application, and Lord, knowing that there’s got to be those that do
receive and those who do not receive. Tonight, Father, we’re so
grateful and so happy to count ourselves a part of those who are
receiving right down deep into the soul to come forth in transfiguration
as the latter rain brings them up to that place of perfection where it
says in the Scripture, “They without us cannot be made perfect.” And
here we are now, Lord, being made perfect. They had to go to pick up
their little, spirit-Word bodies and, then, come back here. 

	But we, Lord, are going to be so peculiar, so rich in this grace in
Christ, that we’re going to get changed and rise and meet our Word
body. What a fantastic, tremendous thing, the mystery shown to us, “We
shall not all sleep; we’ll all be changed in a moment in a twinkling
of an eye at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound.” Yes, Lord,
we believe that was Rev 10:7—Trumpet sounding. We’re going to be
changed. We thank you, Lord, for Your grace and Your mercy. 

	Lord, let there not be one sick amongst us, Father. Help us to come to
that place as Bro. Branham said, “If we just go ahead and confess with
our mouth the truth and there will come a time when God will cause our
bodies to become what our mouths testify which is the truth, which is
healing and these great things which are in You.” So, Father, may we
not miss anything where we don’t believe we missed anything of the
truth tonight, Lord, we know that we haven’t got It’s fullness, word
by word like a prophet, but we believe, Lord, that It has been revealed
to us and unwound to us and these things, Lord, that we now hang on to
will bring forth fruit in season, Lord. And that fruit, oh God, we see
so clearly in the Word that is going to actually bring forth that Son in
flesh and we’re going to crown Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords as
the Spirit in our midst becomes incarnate to us. 

	So Father, we commend ourselves to You and thank You for the privilege
that You’ve given us to do so. 

	Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power, honor, and glory, through Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior. 

	Amen and Amen.