2006-04-09 AM    I Am What I Am  (Jerusalem)

It reminds me of a story that Brother Branham told about someone who jumped up and gave a testimony.   And in this testimony they said, “I am not what I want to be, and I am not yet what I ought to be, but thank God I am not what I used to be.”

2006-04-09 AM    I Am What I Am  (Jerusalem)

I often heard Brother Branham talking about a revelation dropping from our head down to our heart.

2006-04-09 AM    I Am What I Am  (Jerusalem)

I mentioned Brother Branham several times.   I don’t think that will offend you, but if it does I’m sorry for that.   Let me just tell you another thing that he said that people really don’t like, but I like. I really like it.

He said, “Once you receive this revelation of who you are in the Lord Jesus Christ, once you really know, ‘I am a seed of God, I am a son of God,’ then you go forth with a revelation that you can no more be lost than God could be lost.”

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

And when I was privileged at the very end to speak with that seventh star that the Lord Jesus had in His hand, the messenger of the seventh angel . . .

He spoke to me, and just this one little piece I’ll share with you now.   And as soon as I can assimilate it all, put it all together . . .   You know, it’s big in my little head.

But when I spoke with him, one of the things that I would be willing to share this morning was that he spoke about the fact that . . . and this part I was surely aware of, but it was special in the way it was presented . . . that the evil of every other church age, all of these ages, he said was gathered together into this last church age that we’re . . . as the Bride, we’re moving out of.

But the world is still . . . the church world and the world is still experiencing the final days and stages of Laodicea.

But he said in the same way that all the evil of every age had been gathered together into Laodicea, in the same way the Anointing that it took to overcome - that special portion of His anointing and His glory that it took to overcome in each age - all of those portions of overcoming anointing, he said . . . they have also been gathered together into one measure, one great big measure.

And that’s exactly the words that he used to describe it - one great big measure of overcoming anointing.

And he assured me that it was going to be released very soon upon those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham described it as this little woman at the well who had had five husbands.   The one she was living with at this present time was not her own.

I don’t want to go through the whole dialog.  But I like what Brother Branham said about it.   He said that when that woman was a little girl . . . he said her mother used to pull her up on her knee in the evening and would tell her all of the miracles of the God of Israel, all of the glorious things that God had done for His people.

And he said it placed something inside of her.   She knew there was a God because of these wonderful stories that her mother had shared.   And it witnessed with something . . .   Of course, we know it witnessed with something that was in her by God’s foreknowledge.

And it began to grow.   But she pushed that yearning away and she went after her own pleasure, and she found disappointment and rejection and heartache, and so forth.

But all of a sudden, when she came in the Presence of the Son, the S-O-N - God expressed in human body, in human flesh - whatever that seed was, however you want to call it - a God-consciousness, something woven into her DNA, or perhaps she passed by at the right time on the conveyor belt . . .

You know what I’m saying?

There was something in her that was laying there in dormancy, and when she came in contact with the S-O-N, it drew that out of her and she began to hear and began to recognize and she received the Lord Jesus as her Messiah.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

And the dream was so real.   I believe all of these things that are happening are signs to us.

And especially the Word that Bro. Branham spoke in this dream . . . that this gathering together of all the anointing, that overcoming anointing that was present in every hour . . .   Remember the anointing that we have talked about in the Ox Age, and so forth - these powerful anointings.

And he was talking about how they had to be gathered together into this age and that we were going to overcome with a portion of that anointing that was really the overcoming portion of every age gathered into this age and that it would be released upon those that had eyes to see and ears to hear.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

But I am so impressed and so amazed because what I’ve been preaching now for over sixteen years - seventeen, eighteen, almost eighteen years - the very same message that I’ve been preaching, the same theme for eighteen years, I now recognize that God has raised somebody up, even among the Charismatic people, preaching the same thing.

I heard Paul Keith Davis preach along that line.   He had an experience about eyes and ears, and so forth, and he was preaching along, and then he began to talk very specifically about the ministry of Brother Branham.

And you know, that’s a very dangerous thing to do in the Charismatic world because most of the people have just brushed it off as though there was nothing to it.

But I want to give you a couple quotes here, things that I heard Paul Keith Davis say.

He said, “Brother Branham, his ministry, was to introduce us to our inheritance.”

Now that’s a very powerful word.   He also talked about worshipping Moses and how we cannot do that.

And he said, “Sometimes we struggle to distinguish between the humanity and the gift.   We lift up the man, we lift up humanity, and we don’t acknowledge the gift.”

Here’s something the Lord put into my heart, not because of what he was saying, but because of what I received.

“The inheritance of the rejected revelation of the past generation is ours.”   “The inheritance of the rejected revelation of the past generation is ours.”

Didn’t you hear Jesus say that?   “Your fathers didn’t see.   They couldn’t see.   They didn’t have eyes to see.   But blessed are your eyes for now you have seen what holy men . . .”

And I really believe that God is going to help a lot of people begin to see that there is a very clear word of righteousness that has been delivered in our day.

I heard Paul Keith Davis say, in reference to that thought . . .   He said that Satan has stolen away the inheritance of this generation by causing people to criticize that which they don’t understand and have not even taken the time to understand.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

God, we want those eyes to see and those ears to hear.   We recognize that You sent a great servant of God in this day.

You gave Him a word.   It was hard.   It was straight.   It has been rejected.   It has been mocked.   It has been turned down by many, many people.   It kind of pales in comparison to some of the things that have happened in the past twenty years in the Charismatic movement in a lot of people’s minds.   They just see it as very insignificant and some people go as far as to call it error.

But I thank You, Lord, that You have opened my eyes to it and my ears.   I thank You that You’ve given me a heart to perceive and the ability to receive revelation from what has already been spoken.   I thank You that You did not stop moving in those days.

I thank You there are still apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and evangelists.   I thank You that there is Truth today in many different streams.   It doesn’t all look the same.   It doesn’t all sound the same.   But I thank You that there is great Truth that is being proclaimed in many different streams.

2006-04-15 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear  (Jerusalem)

So we ask, oh God, today that You would give us eyes to see and ears to hear.   May we hear the righteous message that You have declared in this generation and may it be amplified and magnified in us.

Give us the anointing to break it down.   Give us the anointing to share it with those who have an ear to hear and an eye to see.

We bind the hand of the enemy that raises itself against Truth, and we declare that in a new season that the Lord is ushering in, that people will be more receptive to the Truth that was rejected by the past generation.   It is our inheritance.

We thank You for the words that we have heard of late.   We thank You, oh God, for those things that we’ve been hearing.

I heard last night, as I was laying down, a great preacher originally from India living now in Malaysia, and he was also preaching about the deposits of Truth and the great ministry of the past generation and how that You were going to sow into us the promises that were given in the last generation and not yet fulfilled.

We think about the great tent meeting, the tent vision, that is now being spoken about in circles of people that would have never considered it two years ago, three years ago.

We thank You, oh God.   We believe that part of that is because of proclamations and declarations that have gone up from this City.

We thank You for the small part.   We thank You for every bootie that has been knitted.   We thank You that You’re not taking Your people back into creeds and dogmas of men and into denominational structures and systems.

But we thank You that You’re going to raise up a true apostolic model as the church of the Book of Acts.

Oh, Lord, we’re looking for the apostolic to come in now, men with that apostolic vision who will establish and set in order the business of the King - Kingdom principles.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Now there was once a very gifted man who served under the ministry of Brother Branham.   And he was the pastor of the Tabernacle while Brother Branham was out doing all kinds of evangelistic work and holding meetings here and there and traveling even into foreign countries.

And there was a precious brother who was left in charge of the local church.   His name was Brother Neville.

And evidently Brother Neville had a very precious prophetic gift in his life.   And it was very accurate, and it had blessed a lot of people.

He had told them what their needs were.   God had come on the scene and ministered to those needs.

But there was an occasion that he received a very serious warning from Brother Branham.   It was something that he took extremely serious.

He might have even taken it a little too serious because it perhaps might have placed something within him that maybe would make him to be afraid to ever see and hear like he should.   And I can understand how that would happen.

Brother Branham said to him one time, “Brother Neville, you’ve got to be very careful with those kinds of gifts.”

He said, “You could have a hundred people and the gift could operate a hundred times and it could be right.   Everything you told people could be exactly right and it could help them and bless them ninety-nine times out of a hundred.”

But he said, “If you missed it one time, if you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you could destroy that person.”

I don’t know if you realize this or not, but there are people that are being destroyed by prophetic gifts all over the world.   And it’s a very serious thing.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

So we believe that anybody can reach into the mind of God and bring down a thought.   But all of these great leaders that God has raised up around the world . . . many of them are very specifically teaching in this hour, even as Brother Branham taught in this past generation, there is a difference between the gift of prophecy and a prophet.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Listen.   It got so bad when Brother Branham was alive . . .   And he was a mighty servant of the Lord.

But it got so bad, even in those days before there was a prophetic movement . . . it got so bad that when he would be trying to preach the Word, people would interrupt and give prophecies.

I once read a letter that Billy Paul, his son, wrote to a good friend of mine when there was a question asked about why Brother Branham preached a little message called “Church Order.”

And he talked about the gifts not operating during the time of the ministry of the Word.   He said the spirit of the prophet is subject unto the prophet.   And he gave this little outline.

And a letter was written to Brother Billy Paul - “Why did Brother Branham preach a sermon like that and kind of really put things in this black and white order - kind of stiff, a little bit?

And Billy Paul said that it had gotten so bad that people would even interrupt Brother Branham while he was preaching.

“Thus saith the Lord.   You’re to come to Chicago next, and I’m going to move, saith the Lord, and I’m going to do this and that and such great and mighty things.”

And another one might, another time . . . might stand up and say, “Thus saith the Lord, you’re supposed to come here on next month, and I’m going to do this, and I’m going to heal the sick, and I’m going to do the other.”

It got so bad.   And all these people were sincere.   They just wanted a mighty man of God in their city.   But it wasn’t God speaking every time.   And do you see what trouble Brother Branham could’ve got into?

He did get into trouble one time yielding to the pull of other people and not following the Lord.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But there’s a wonderful book that Jim Goll has written called “The Seer.”   Have you all ever seen it?   If you see it, get it.   It is so nice.   He did such a wonderful job.   It’s called “The Seer” - “S-e-e-r.”

And he goes through . . .   I haven’t finished it.   I haven’t finished the book yet.   I want to, but I’ve read the first three chapters, and it’s wonderful.

But he really breaks those words down and makes it very special.   And I really appreciate something that he said in the book concerning Brother Branham.

Because if you’ve been through what I’ve been through and others have been through, anytime somebody says something nice about Brother Branham, it makes you happy.

And in that book he mentions Brother Branham and he mentions that gift of a seer.   And he talks about how that was so heavy in Brother Branham’s life.

And I don’t want to offend anybody, but I have to say that if I was going to put Brother Branham . . .

We know that all seers are prophets, not all prophets are seers.   I know he was a prophet.   I know he had a major job to do.

But if I was going to say what he was the heaviest in, was it articulation or seeing, I would have to say it was seeing.   That was his heavy gift.

And there’s something that’s kind of noticeable about these seers.   And Jim Goll brings this out.

He said they often depend on an angel or the manifest Presence of God for the activation of their gift.

Now what in the world does that mean?

Well, it means that you may not be able to point at a seer and say, “Give me the Word of the Lord” because he may be dry as a bone if you do that.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

So there was a little bit of a difference - one who sees, who’s gifted in seeing, and one who is gifted in hearing and speaking.

And of course, if we look at somebody as outstanding as Brother Branham, we’d have to say he had both.   He was able to do both.   There’s no doubt about it.

But the outstanding thing was these visitations.   I think it added so much to what the Lord was speaking, these visitations.

And Jim Goll in this book . . .   I’m not sure he worded it exactly like I would’ve worded it, but he did good.   I’m not a writer.   He is.

But he talked about Brother Branham waiting on the Angel.   I just hope people understand that when you read it, you know, that you understand it.

He said . . .   I wish I would’ve brought it over here.   It said something about Brother Branham, you know, was heavily gifted in seeing.   And it says that his gift was pure, or whatever, however, slightly limited.

Now that doesn’t offend me because I know what the next phrase is.   Slightly limited - that would offend some people and they’d say, “Aww, I’ll tell you, that man of God wasn’t limited in any way.”

Well, he was.   He was limited in a good way.   The next sentence says, “He had to wait on the Angel of the Lord to come.”

And do you know some people use that . . .   Paul Keith Davis - I heard him say some people use that to criticize Brother Branham.

And they say, “Aww, he had to wait on the Angel of the Lord to come before he could minister,” as though that’s some slam against him.   That’s a privilege.

It’s a privilege if the Angel of the Lord decides to come and stand with somebody and minister through them.   That’s a privilege.

And a whole lot of people would’ve done better if they would’ve waited on Him to come instead of speaking presumptuously.

And what are all these people talking about?   They’re talking about times when Brother Branham would say, “We’re waiting on something.”

He would say it - “We’re waiting on something.   We’re waiting on something.”

And there was a time down there in Macon, Georgia, on one of those tapes . . .   And Sister West is here, and her father was one of the sponsors.

He was an Assembly of God pastor.   And her father was one of the sponsors who brought Brother Branham to Macon.

And in one of those meetings, they had moved out to this ball field.   And there were these big lights, these big, you know, stadium type lights.

And Brother Branham’s preaching away, or testifying, I should say - kind of telling some Bible stories to build people’s faith.

And all of a sudden he said, “Oh, we won’t have to talk about Him anymore.   He’s just come in the building.   I saw Him when He came across the lights there, that Pillar of Fire.”

And immediately the atmosphere changed.   And immediately this little humble man who had been telling Bible stories . . . immediately he became God’s mouthpiece.

And he started telling people their names, and where they were from, and where they lived, and their doctor’s names, and what their diseases were, and even their address on occasion.

Really, in the Spirit we call it reading people’s mail.   I mean really, spiritually, he read people’s mail.   He even told women what was in their purses sometimes.

He said, “Just so that you’ll know that this is God, you’ve got a letter in your purse and it’s addressed from your daughter, and she lives in Chicago, Illinois, and she’s telling you about these meetings.

“In the letter, she’s telling you that I’m going to be here and that these meetings are going on and she’s encouraging you.

“And when you went out the door tonight, you turned around and went back in and got that letter and put it in your purse, and it’s in your purse right now.”

Now that’s God.   But Brother Branham couldn’t have done that.   He wouldn’t have known that woman from Adam.

He would’ve just had to say, “Good evening, sister.”

That’s all he could’ve done until that Presence of the Lord came.   What’s wrong with that?   We want that.   We need that.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But what I wanted to share with you, as we close, was at the end of the dream, it was Brother Branham . . .   I believe Bro. Branham was the messenger to the seventh church age.   And he was there so I must be right.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

So, Bro. Branham was the last.   He put his hand there.   We walked over.   It was as though he knew me.   There was a nice feeling with all of them - a nice feeling of brotherhood, fraternal affection.

But with Bro. Branham it was as though he knew me and that we had seen each other before. And I have seen him before in vision and dream.

But there was a real, real, real familiarity as though we had . . .   You know, he just knew what I believed and what I had preached, and so forth.

And we sat down.   And he said several things to me.   And guess what he talked about first? Misunderstanding - how difficult it is to be misunderstood.

He even said, “It’s very difficult to keep the right spirit when people so misunderstand what you’re trying to say and do.”

And then he talked about how hard it is to overcome in Laodicea and the anointing that is required.

And then I mentioned to you yesterday that he explained that as all the evil of every age was gathered into the last age . . .   He said, “But that’s okay, because all the anointing, the anointing to overcome in all the other church ages,” he said, “that same anointing has all been gathered together in this day.”

So with all the evil that’s been gathered in, so there’s the anointing gathered in to overcome.   The same anointing that they overcame with in Ephesus, that’s been added to this day.   The anointing to overcome - it’s here.   It’s with us.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But then he began to talk to me about the prophetic.   And I had given a Word some months ago that the prophetic movement was muddy and that there was a clear Word coming from the Throne. He mentioned that prophecy to me as though he was very familiar with it.

I had prophesied that there was a clear Word of the Lord coming like a river from the Throne that was going to push away the dark water, the muddy water of the prophetic movement, and would establish a very clear direct Word from the Lord.

He mentioned that to me.   And we talked about this phrase, this expression, that is so powerful. It was so powerful in his ministry.   It has been so misused and so abused in the prophetic movement in the last twenty years - “Thus saith the Lord.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

And this was kind of the theme of it.   And all of a sudden, he looked at me.

We talked about the tent vision.   I’m not going to mention that this morning.   We talked about the tent vision, a little bit about the adoption and the manifested sons of God.

And then he put his hand again . . .   He had had it there before.   He put his hand over on my knee again like the apostle Paul.   He looked me right in the face, he dropped his voice . . .   I don’t know why, but the volume of his voice dropped in . . . and he said, “There’s something you need to know.”

I’m just waiting to see if I should . . .

And I said, “Yes sir, what is that?”

And he said, “You can tell the people that THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”

His eyes just sort of shifted away and his head hung away like that, and I just thought for a second, “I’ve got to know what it means.   I’d better not wake up.   I’d better not get out of this without knowing what it means.

I’ve got to know what does that mean - THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.   What does that mean?”

I was thinking it, and I was deciding how I was going to ask him.

And I said, “Brother Branham . . . ,” like that, “Brother Branham . . .”

And he said, “Oh, you want to know what it means.”

I never had the opportunity to ask the question.   I just said, “Brother Branham . . .”   He said, “Oh, you want to know what it means.”

And I’ll give you his answer.   This is the phrase that he gave me, but I’m going to give you more than the phrase.   This is what he said, but I’m going to give you where he said it in a sermon.

“Nothing can harm Her, not even death; for if the Seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Amen.”   He said, “(Now, I got a great big ‘Hallelujah.’)   Here is the secret: . . .”

This is what he answered me.   He looked at me and said . . .

I said, “Brother Branham . . .”

He said, “Oh, you want to know what it means.”   And here’s what he spoke to me.   He said to me, “Here is the secret: . . .”

And I didn’t know that that was even in the Message of the Hour.   I mean, I didn’t know that it came like that.

I’ve read this sermon.   And guess what sermon it is?   The very first sermon I ever heard Bro. Branham preach in my life - “The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed.”

And here’s what he said to me.   “Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word, and She does it in His Name.”   That’s what he said.

And then he finished with this, “She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

And then he said to me, which is not in this quote . . .   He said to me again, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”

Now let me finish the quote.   Let me read it again and then finish it.

“Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what he wants done with the Word, and She does it in His name.   She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Who is she?   The real Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now somebody has sent me, forwarded me . . .   I’ve read them already, but somebody forwarded me some articles about this . . .

You know it’s so sad that people will take the Word of God and go to seed on it, Brother Branham said.

You take a truth and you can’t stop until you make it something that it’s not.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

I’m trying to say that I believe . . . what I heard in the dream . . . I believe that God was saying that the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ in the earth is about to raise up with THUS SAITH THE LORD. And what she says is going to happen.   I believe that.

And here Bro. Branham was saying in 1963, or ‘62, “She’s got it.   The Bride has it.”   We just haven’t come to the place of using it fully.

Now let me finish this quote, if you don’t mind.

He said, “Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word . . .” (how the Word should be handled, amen?)   “. . . and She does it in His name.   She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.

“Then it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves it purpose.   They do only His will.   No one can persuade them different.   They have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still.”

Won’t that be the day?   That God raises up a people who are sensitive enough, they’ve got a pure enough stream from the Throne, that “It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD or I’m staying right here.   I’m not going if it’s not THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

You know, that’s what God was telling me in 2000 - “I don’t want you to go unless you know I’m sending you” - trying to get me ready for a time, THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still. Amen. I want to say “Amen” on the keeping still.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

We need THUS SAITH THE LORD or the Bride keeps still.   And then what is the rest of that quote?

“Then they will do the works of God.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

But I’m really looking forward to a time that I wouldn’t kill myself physically fighting demon spirits, but just raise up in the Name of the Lord and the unction THUS SAITH THE LORD and watch God do it, watch every demon flee.

“You really believe that that’s what God wants to do?”

I know it.   And I not only know it.   I heard that prophet messenger say, “It’s about to come in.”

How’s it going to come in?

He said it was already with the Bride in 1962.   That’s before I was born.

What do you mean, “come in”?

It’s going to raise up in us, and we’re going to recognize that all we need is in us.   It’s there.

God’s given us the Word.   He’s given us the Anointing.   He’s given us THUS SAITH THE LORD. And He’s training us to the place that He’ll be able to trust us to use it.

THUS SAITH THE LORD or keep still.   He said, “They will do the works of God.”   Amen.   “For it is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His day.   All things when he was here - He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Here’s another little quote.   “God is uniting His Bride.   She’s coming together from the east and the west, from the north and south.   There’s a uniting time . . .   What’s she uniting for?   The rapture!”

If you don’t believe in the Rapture then just don’t worry about it.   “God’s getting her ready.   Yes, sir, uniting, what’s She uniting with?   With the Word.   ‘For all heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away.’”

Listen at what he said, “She’s uniting herself with THUS SAITH THE LORD regardless of what any denomination or anybody else says.   She’s uniting herself.   Why?   She is the Bride.   And She’s united Herself with Her Bridegroom, and the Bridegroom is the Word.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

And in the “Perganean Church Age” . . .   I’ll close.  The “Church Age of Pergamos” - “Therefore nothing can harm her . . .”   “Notice,” he said, “the harmony of the Father and the Son.   Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father.   John 5:19.”

“This harmony is now to exist . . .”

Oh, this is good for me.   I must be old school.   This is so, so good to me.   ”This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His Bride.”

What harmony?   The same kind of harmony and unity that existed between the Father and the Son, the oneness that existed between the Father and the Son.

“This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His Bride.   He shows her His Word of life. She receives it.   She never doubts it.   Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death.   For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again.

“Here is the secret of this.   The Word is in the Bride (as it was in Mary).   The Bride has the mind of Christ for She knows what He wants done with the Word.   She performs the command of the Word in His name for She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.

“Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass.   Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving it’s purpose.   Those in the Bride do only His will.   No one can make them do otherwise.  They have THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still.

“They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word.   He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the Bride.   She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do.   But He will now fulfill through the Bride that work which He left for this specific time.

“Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word.   And She does it in His name.  She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

Lord, I thank You for that visitation that took place some months ago - how You sent a messenger, walked into a big Charismatic convention, walked over and appeared to two preachers.

You spoke to them.   You said to tell the Word that the tent vision was true and that it was soon that God was going to manifest it.   And now, Lord, I thank You.   The last trance vision You lifted me into, I saw that servant of the Lord.

The same Word was given, “The time is now.”   It’s soon, time for that tent vision to come.   All the glory . . .

What is that?   It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.   Nobody had to pray for them, agonize for them. They went in the tent one way, came out the other way.   What is that?   THUS SAITH THE LORD.

That’s what we’re looking for.   It all ties together.   And now this seventh church age messenger looked me right in the eye and said, (hallelujah) “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”   Oh Father, help us.

I don’t even feel like agonizing before You and begging for it.   I just feel like prophesying it, declaring it, rehearsing it, saying it again and again and again and again.

THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.   THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.   THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.

2006-04-16 AM    When Prophets Misdiagnose  (Jerusalem)

What’s going to bring the resurrection of all mankind?   THUS SAITH THE LORD.   You said it was coming in.   So we don’t ask You to do it.   You said You would.   You said You were.   We just ask You to please help us to prepare ourselves.   (Tongues)

That hour when the people of God change their circumstances with the Spoken Word of their lips, their circumstances and situations are just changed by the power of the Spoken Word.

You said to us that that Spoken Word was so powerful that you could speak a Word and a world would be created, you could step out and inhabit that earth.

That’s too big for some folks, but I know.   I know.   I understand.   You were just trying to teach us the power of that Spoken Word and the creative force that’s behind it.

It’s the same issue of Light that said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.   That’s the same issue that You want to manifest in Your Bride in this hour.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

And I was so proud because I had the entire Message . . .   I had all of Brother Branham’s sermons on this little laptop, and it was so heavy you could hardly travel with it.   But I did.   I carried it all over the world.

And now I can put all these sermons in something that will fit in my pocket.

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham received a Word from the Lord that was very strange.   And it didn’t say to watch the USSR.   But he was given a Word that said to watch Russia.

And a lot of Bible teachers say that Russia is dead.   There’s nothing to fear, there’s nothing to worry about.   Oh, but I want you to know Russia is still a powerful force.   They’re living, of course, in poverty, but still the government controlling that.

And I can see where they could have an important part in some of the Scriptures that we read about in the End-time - the army of the north coming down.   We could still see something out of Russia.   Amen?

2006-04-22 AM    The Generation That Shall Not Pass  (Jerusalem)

You know, Brother Branham said a very strange thing, and a lot of women have been very angry about it.   And perhaps it is a little hard, but I’m going to say it anyway just to remind you historically.

He said, “A great evil has been done in our nation.”   He said, “Women have been given the right to vote.”

Well, when you hear that today that sounds chauvinist, I guess, you know - chauvinist.   A woman given the right to vote - doesn’t she deserve equal rights?   And how could anybody say that it’s an evil thing that a woman would be given a right to vote?   And then you have to examine it historically, and you have to hear the rest of what he said.

It was the woman vote.   It was the vote of the women that elected a president like John F. Kennedy.   It’s historically a fact that it was the vote of the women who elected a liberal Catholic president like John F. Kennedy.

And it is a legal fact that it was a woman’s vote who placed this legislature into place that would legalize abortion in America.   It was the women lobbying and the women’s votes that placed the right justices in place and put the right laws in place for these kinds of things to happen.

So, based on that, I can see that it was a very serious thing.   I’m not saying, myself, that women shouldn’t have the right to vote.   But what I’m saying is it became a very serious thing because of this abortion issue and because they voted, “We want to have control over our own bodies.”   If it was only abortion, that’s one thing.   But it caused a downward spiral of morality worldwide.

2006-04-23 AM    Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne  (Jerusalem)

I heard a great man of God say one time . . .   Brother Branham was talking about the goodness of God and the power of God and all that God is and all that He will be - everything that’s in God.

And he said, “You know, it will take all of eternity for God to completely unfold and reveal all that He is.”

And I thought, “My, that’s a strange statement.”   But even when we get into eternity, God will still be unfolding Himself and revealing Himself to us.

2006-04-23 AM    Receiving 'Full Knowledge' from the Throne  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham had an unusual thought about that manna.   And he said in the same way that that manna was preserved and kept, he said every man of God, every real, true man of God, needs to have a taste of the original manna that fell on the day of Pentecost.

And he said if he doesn’t have a taste of that . . . I guess we could say that original blessing, that original experience . . . he has no right to stand behind the desk and teach the people God’s Word. And that’s very, very true.

2006-04-29 AM    The Infusion of Fire  (Jerusalem)

I remember Bro. Branham telling a story one time about he and his youngest son, Joseph, being in a large zoo.   And while they were in this zoo, there was a very large eagle that was in some sort of cage, you know, like maybe an aviary with a net or something.   And the eagle was just sitting there.

And Bro. Branham loved the eagle.   And it was very hard for him to see the eagle . . .   It was hard enough to see the other animals in a cage.   But it was very hard to see this eagle in a cage.

Because we all know that the eagle was not born to be earthbound, but it was born to soar through the skies.   That’s the very purpose of the eagle.   It’s his nature.   It’s what he desires to do.

And Bro. Branham was so grieved.   He was having this conversation with Joseph.   And he said, “In this eagle’s eye, there was a far-away look.”   He was grieved, and yet you could see that his mind wasn’t concentrating so much on the cage, but it was concentrating, kind of dreaming about what it would be like if he were to be set free.

I heard that story many years ago now, and it reminded me of something.   I’ve shared it here in Jerusalem before.   It reminded me of the look that the old saints used to get in our church, in our little Pentecostal church, when they were singing about heaven.

And so in this vision in January, I saw this real look, I remember seeing this real look, of exhilaration on this eagle’s face.

2006-04-29 AM    The Infusion of Fire  (Jerusalem)

Brother Branham prophesied this day when others out there would begin to get a hold of the Word of the Lord and what would happen.   And I believe we’re coming in that day.

2006-04-30 AM    Angels Announcing Destiny  (Jerusalem)

But I boldly, without apology, mention some of the wonderful things that I’ve learned in the ministry of William Branham.   And one of the things that he taught that was so, so special to me was he explained the dimensions that we’re living in.

And he talked about the fact that the righteous dead are not a million miles away somewhere in the eons of space, you know, where heaven . . . you know, in the blue lofty clouds or whatever . . . how we get these images in our mind.

But he said actually we’re living now where dimensions are parallel.   And they’re very close together.   And he talked about our theophany body.   If I would have mentioned E. W. Kenyon, then everybody would have said, “Oh, yes, I’ve read him.   That’s very interesting.”

Or if I would’ve mentioned that some of these other brothers have taught these very same things, people strangely enough have no problem with it.   But if you attribute the teaching to somebody like Bro. Branham, then people’s little sirens immediately start going off in their minds and they often miss this great revelation that I think is very, very important.

He talked about that we have a theophany body, a glorified body we used to call it in Pentecost. And one day we’re going to step out of this body into a glorified body.   And he said that in fact, we bypass that glorified body.   We could’ve had it in the beginning, but we bypassed it.   It was God’s will that we not step into that glorified body, but that we come here to the earth and that we live in a body made of flesh and that we are now being tested and tried to prove our love for the Lord Jesus Christ.

But one of these days, when we have finished the test, hallelujah, passed the test, finished the course, we’re going to step out of this fleshly body into this glorified body, this theophany body, that the Lord has promised us.

Now my idea of that body was it’s not yet created, perhaps.   In the moment I need it, it’s going to be created.   But that’s not what Bro. Branham taught.   He taught that God has already made those glorified bodies and that they’re just waiting on us.   Somewhere, they’re waiting on us.

And he was preaching away sometime and he said, “You see, actually my theophany body is just waiting on me in another dimension where my loved ones are, perhaps.”   And he said, “One of these days, we’re going to speed up and they’re going to slow down and we’re going to meet in the middle.”

Now that sounds very strange for some people to be able to get in their minds.   We’d rather think about all of the cloud of witnesses being . . . looking at us over the balconies of heaven or something.   But that’s too far to get to us when we need help.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

I’ve been in the Presence of the Lord - two powerful experiences that are too big to put into words. Really, there is no way to tell you how it has impacted my life.

But to think that after all these years of serving the Lord, the Lord would give me this experience - to be able to speak, to converse, with those seven stars that He held in His hand in Revelation 1 . . .

John . . .   You see, this is humbling.   John saw them as stars in His hand.   God allowed me to see them in reality as men.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

And then . . .   I don’t know when, but I’ll take time and we’ll go through the conversation with all seven.

But when I came to the last messenger and we talked, one of the things that he said to me was . . .   We talked also about rejection.   It was a theme.   It was an unusual theme that ran between all seven of these men.

They everyone spoke to me about rejection and how hard it was to continue feeling so rejected and misunderstood.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

And then come to the last of the last and hear his rejection and what he experienced . . .   And to hear him speak about the same overcoming anointing . . .   And to have him say, “There’s one other thing I want you to know” . . .

He said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in.”

And I knew what it meant.

It means that very soon there is something that’s going to come for the believers that’s going to shut up all the other voices that talk to you - all those other voices that battle for your attention, all those other voices that say, “You’re not a believer.   You’re not in it.   This is not for you.   You’re not an overcomer.   You don’t have the Holy Ghost.   You’re not this.   You’re not that.   You’ll never do it.   You’re nobody.   God’ll never use you.   You don’t see visions.   You don’t have a dream.   You’re just dumb.   You’re just stupid.   God don’t . . .” - all these other voices that . . .

There is something coming in.   Hallelujah.   Come on.   There’s something coming in that will silence every other voice that battles to get your attention - something coming in.

And do you know what he said it was?   He said, “It will be THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Once you get a revelation of His Voice, once you’re able to discern and to recognize His Voice and to distinguish His Voice from all other voices, then you have received into your life THUS SAITH THE LORD.

And it absolutely silences any other voice that the enemy could use to speak to you.   Because once you know His Voice, that’s the Voice you’re listening for.   That’s the Voice you believe.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

Brother Branham explained that the righteous dead are in the Presence of the Lord.   To be absent from this body is to be what?   Present with the Lord.   He explained that to us from the Scripture.

But they have not entered into the fullness of their reward.   No, sir.   They’re in a place where there’s no pain, no trouble, no heartache, no sorrow, but they have not entered into the fullness of their reward.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

We’ve heard the prophet of God preach about that great testimony meeting that took place in Paradise.   And when Jesus left Paradise, he emptied it.   He took those righteous dead with him.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

I heard Brother Branham say, “Our loved ones are with us tonight.”   We can’t see them, and we shouldn’t try to talk to them, but he said, “They’re with us tonight.”

They’re just in a faster dimension than the one we’re living in.   But they’re with us tonight.   How could our theophanies be with us?   They’re in that other dimension.

2006-05-06 PM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 1

That’s the way God designed it.   We’re all going in.   That eternal Bride from every age . . . we’re going into that last place to see His face together.

Do you want a quote?   The prophet of God said that the Bride of every age in that land beyond the curtain of time . . . the Bride of every age was gathered with the messenger of that age.   They’re all in the same place.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

I want you to know that this is not a time to play with God.   He is confirming His Word all over the world - even through men and women who don’t know the Truth as you and I know it, but they do have a sense to hear and the ability to see as seers and prophets.   But gifts and callings of God are without repentance.

And many of them, if you knew their doctrine you would be shocked.   You’d be surprised.   You’d be amazed.   You wouldn’t want to know what their fundamental doctrine is – most of them Trinitarians.   Most of them baptize in titles.   Most of them have no real understanding of the hour that we’re living in historically and through the ministry of the Seventh Angel messenger.

And yet they’re having Words from the Lord that are so . . . they’re dovetailing and they’re pulling something out that is necessary for the hour we’re living in.

And so to know the Truth . . . to know that this is the Truth and to reject it is serious business.   To know that the Message of the Hour is right and to continue to play around with denominations, it’s a serious thing, because there are many out there who have not been given a heart to perceive.

If you can perceive what God has done in this day, you belong unto the Truth, because many cannot even perceive it.   They don’t even have eyes to begin to see it or ears to begin to hear it.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

The sad thing is Moses had already been warned about what kind of people he was leading.   He knew they couldn’t hear.   He knew they couldn’t see.   He knew they couldn’t understand, and he still got upset when they didn’t understand, when they didn’t see, and when they didn’t hear.   He knew that’s the kind of people they were.   God already told him that’s what kind of people they were.

Anybody with me?   But he got upset anyway.   And in his frustration he beat the rock.

We heard Brother Branham preach this in “Speak to the Rock,” and several other places.   And he talked about Pentecost.   And we could look at it this way.   Here they are going around the mountain one more time.   One more time around the mountain, and we ought to be able to get back to where we want to be.

We just make one more lap around the mountain, perhaps we’ll come back to the old-time power of Pentecost.   Everybody wants the power, everybody wants the fire, everybody wants the healing, everybody wants the deliverance, but nobody wants to pay any kind of a price.

The Spoken Word is not going to come to those who are unsanctified and unseparated.   The power of the Spoken Word is going to come on those vessels that are yielded.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

And in 2005, it was 120 years.   And we’ve all heard how Paul Keith Davis has said that he was standing in Moriah Chapel in Wales at the end of the 100th anniversary of the Welch Revival, and how the Lord spoke to him and said, “Moses, My servant, is dead.”

Those of you that have heard his ministry, you’ll know that he has clearly stated that Brother Branham’s ministry was a type of that Moses ministry, a prophet who would gather the people together and give them the Word that would bring them out of Egyptian slavery and bondage.

We know that Brother Branham received a Word from the Lord that a portion of his commission was a “Joshua Commission.”   And I believe that.   I believe that the Joshua Commission that was written in his Bible . . .

You know what was written in his Bible?   He wrote it there in his Bible.   I’ve seen the Bible.   He wrote it there.

I believe that it was a symbol, or a tithe, or a token of those who would sit under his ministry and receive the Voice of God to this generation.

And I want you to know that there was only a small number of people who recognized what God was doing in that day.   Many people . . .

Listen, many people went.   Many people saw the signs, many people saw the miracles, many people ordered the record albums and read the booklets, but only a handful of people were able . . .

And to that handful of people, Brother Branham was a Joshua.   To that handful of people who recognized there was a message behind the sign, there was a voice behind the sign . . . to that small remnant of people, Brother Branham fulfilled the commission that was given to him as a Joshua.

But to the majority of people in his ministry, who heard his ministry, he was a Moses.   And the Lord said last year, 2005, “Moses, My servant is dead” - meaning that an old cycle, a 120-year cycle of restoration, everything that the caterpillar . . .   (I’m not trying to re-preach brother’s message.)

Everything that the caterpillar, and the locust, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm hath eaten away . . . it has been restored.

I want to tell the devil, I want to tell the world and I want to tell you if you care to listen, that the Bride-tree has been restored.   Everything that Satan has taken away from the Bride, it has been restored because of the message that God has delivered in our day.

To multitudes of people, William Branham’s ministry was a Moses ministry.   To a small remnant of people, William Branham’s ministry was a Joshua ministry.

“But Moses, My servant, is dead.”

120 years, a Moses cycle, has ended.   And we are entering into a new cycle that will have a new model.   It will be based on what God has already done.   But it will be so supernatural that all of our thoughts and ideas about it won’t even begin to cover the expansiveness and the effectiveness of what God is about to do.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

Somebody came in last night and said, “Do you know what tomorrow is?”   Other than a couple . . . does anybody know what today . . . what kind of an anniversary today is?   Today is what?   May 7th, 2006.   May 7, 1946, something happened.

Sixty years ago today, the Angel of the Lord appeared to a little humble man that God had begun to deal with in visions and in dreams.   And he had gone to his little Baptist pastor who had told him it was of the devil and he should do everything he could to stop these visions.

He went to some of his Baptist preacher friends and they warned him.   And they told him, “You’re headed down the wrong road.   You better get free from that.   You better shake free from that as quickly as you can.”

He had gone off on a hunting trip.   And coming back through, he saw bumper stickers.   And even on the bicycles there were stickers that said, “Jesus Only.”   And he wanted to know what was going on.

There was a large convention of two of the largest Apostolic Church organizations at that time. Black . . . one was black and one was white, the P.A.W. and the P.A.O.W. – something like that. Now, one of those movements has grown into the large black Pentecostal denomination, The Church of God in Christ.

He went to the meeting.   He’d spent all his money.   You heard him say that he had just enough money to buy some old, stale, day-old rolls from the bakery and he drank water out of a fire hydrant that was being flushed out in the downtown.

He took his seersucker pants off.   He slept in the old vehicle that he had.   And he pressed his seersucker britches between the seats, the folding seat of the car.   And he went to the meeting.

And when he went in there was an old black preacher who was preaching.   And he said, “You don’t have enough room for me to preach up here.”

He was old.   Brother Branham said he was old, but he was kickin’ up his heels.   He was jumpin’ around.   He was praisin’ the Lord.   He was talkin’ about, “Where were you when the morning star, the stars of the morning, leaped for joy?   Where were you?”   You know - from Job.   And you know that story.

You know how that he was given an opportunity to introduce himself and minister a little bit.   And people were inviting him to preach all over the country – him, a Baptist preacher.

And he went home and told his wife and family.   And his mother-in-law . . . she said, “You better not get mixed up with that trash.”

And he didn’t take his opportunity to fulfill any of those invitations.   And the great flood of the Ohio River came.   And his wife and little girl died from complications of the flood.

And you know the story.   He wanted to die.   He tried to take his own life.   He grabbed a hold of a live electric wire.   He was a lineman for the electric company.   And he grabbed a hold of a live electric wire hoping and believing that it would kill him.

But he lived.   He was so desperate that he told his wife one day . . .

(I’m not sure that I’ve even got the place marked here.   Yeah.)

“Oh,” she said, “Billy . . .”  (This is his wife talking.)   “Oh Billy, you oughtn’t to listen to what people tell you.”

“I said, ‘But, honey, look at other preachers.’   I said, ‘I don’t want it.   I’m going to my place in the woods.   I got about fifteen dollars; you take care of Billy.’

Billy was a little boy then.   He said, “That’s enough for you and Billy to live on awhile.   Call them up and tell them I may be back tomorrow, and I may not never be back.   If I ain’t back in the next five days, put a man on (the line) in my place.

“And I said, ‘Meda, I’ll never come out of that woods until God promises me He will take that thing away from me and never let it happen again.’”

He was so disturbed over those visions that he was going to go and hide away until the Lord took them away from him.

He said, “Think of the ignorance a man can be.   I went up there that night, went back up in a little old cabin floor.   It was next day, it was kind of late; I was going to go up to my camp the next day, farther around the mountain . . .   I don’t believe the FBI could find me up there.

“So this little old cabin . . .   I’d been praying all that afternoon and ‘fore it got too dark.   I’d prayed, was reading over there in the Bible where It said, ‘The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet.’

“I couldn’t make that out.   So it got too dark in the little old cabin where I used to trap when I was a boy, had a trap line through there, and go up there and fish and stay all night: just a little old dilapidated cabin setting over there . . .

“. . . I was just waiting there.   I thought, ‘Well.’   Got along towards one o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock in the morning; I was walking up and down the floor, walking back and forth.   I set down on a little old stool there . . . and I thought, ‘My God, why do You do this to me?’   I said, ‘Father, You know I love you.   You know that I love You.   And I don’t want to be possessed of the devil.’”

How terrible.   This preacher made him think he was possessed of the devil because he was seeing visions.   He said, “’I don’t want to be possessed of the devil.   I don’t want them things to happen to me.   Please, God, don’t never let it happen no more.’   I said, ’I love You.   I don’t want to go to hell.

“’What’s the use of me preaching, and trying, and putting my efforts forth if I’m wrong?   And I’m not only taking myself to hell; I’m misleading thousands of others.’   Or hundreds of others in them days.   And I said . . . I had a big ministry.   And I said, ‘Well, I don’t never want it to happen to me again.’

“And I set down on this little stool . . . kind of in this position, just like that.   And all at once I seen a Light flicker in the room.   I thought somebody was come up with a flashlight.

“And I looked around, and I thought, ‘Well.’   And here It was, right out in front of me.   And old wooden boards on the floor, and there It was, right in front of me.   There’s a little old drum stove setting in the corner; the top was tore out of it.   And right in here there was a Light on the floor, and I thought, ‘Well, where’s that?   Well, that couldn’t be coming . . .’

“I looked around.   And here it was above me, this very same light, right there above me, hanging right like that, circling around like a fire, It’s kind of an emerald color . . .”

Anybody know what color an emerald is?   Not red.

“. . . going, ‘Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh’ like that, just above it like that.   And I looked at That, and I thought, ‘What is That?’   Now, It scared me.

“And I heard somebody coming, just walking, only it was bare-footed.   And I seen the foot of a Man come in.   It was dark in the room, all but right here where It was shining right down.   I seen the foot of a Man coming in.   And when He come into the room, walked on up, He was a Man about, looked to weigh about 200 pounds.   He had His hands folded like this.

“Now, I’d seen it in a Whirlwind; I’d heard It talk to me, and seen it in the form of a light, but the first time I ever seen the image of It.   It walked up to me real close.”

He said, “Well, honest, friends, I thought my heart would fail me.   Just imagine.   Put yourself there,” he said.

“’Cause after hundreds and hundreds of times of visitation, it paralyzes me when He comes near . . .   I almost completely pass out, just so weak when I leave the platform.”

“So I was setting there and looking at Him.   I kind of had my hand up like that.   He was looking right at me, just as pleasant.   But He had a real deep voice, and He said, ‘Do not fear; I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God.’

“And when He spoke that voice, that was the same voice that spoke to me when I was two years old, all the way up.   I knowed that was Him.”

“He said, ‘Do not fear,’ just as quiet, said, ’I’m sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth . . .’   As you know what my birth was up there.”

(He’s telling this in a sermon.)   He said, “As you know what my birth was.   That same Light hung over me when I was first born.

“And so He said, ‘Your peculiar birth and misunderstood life has been to indicate that you’re to go into all the world and pray for the sick people.’   And said, ‘And regardless of what they have . . .’ And . . . He designated cancer.

“Said, ‘Nothing . . .   If you get the people to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayers, not even cancer, (See?) if you get the people to believe you.’”

He said, “What did I know about healings and things like that, those gifts?   I said, ‘Well, Sir, I’m a poor man.’   And I said, ’I’m among my people.   I live with my people who’s poor.   I’m uneducated.’   And I said, ‘And I would not be able; they’d not understand me.’   I said, ‘They wouldn’t hear me.’

“And He said, ‘As the prophet Moses was given two gifts, signs (rather) to a-vindicate his ministry, so . . . are you given two gifts to a-vindicate your ministry.’

“He said, ‘One of them will be that you’ll take the person that you’re praying for by the hand, with your left hand and their right,’ and said, ‘then just stand quiet, and there’ll be a physical effect that’ll happen on your body.’   And said, ‘Then you pray.   And if it leaves, the disease is gone from the people.   If it doesn’t leave, just ask a blessing and walk away.’

“’Well,’ I said, ‘Sir, I’m afraid they won’t receive me.’

“He said, ‘And the next thing will be, if they won’t hear that, then they will hear this.’   Said, ‘Then it’ll come to pass that you’ll know the very secret of their heart.’   Said, ‘This they will hear.’

“’Well,’ I said, ‘Sir, that’s why I’m here tonight.   I have been told by my clergymen that those things that’s been coming to me was wrong.’

“He said, ‘You were born in this world for that purpose.’”

“And I said, ‘Well, Sir, my clergymen told me that it was the evil spirit.’   And I said, ‘That’s why I’m here praying.’

“And here’s what He quoted to me.   He related to me the coming of the Lord Jesus in His first time.”

And I’m not going to read every bit of that, but it went on.

2006-05-07 AM    Eyes To See and Ears To Hear – Part 2

He called it many times, “How the Angel Came to Me.”   May the 7th, 1946, sixty years ago today, what happened?   An Angel came and commissioned him, told him what his ministry would be like.

Are there any witnesses here (yes) who can tell that it happened exactly like the Angel said it would?

I’m gathering a list of testimonies, little excerpts of words that have been spoken about his ministry by some of the greatest men that have ever lived.

Oral Roberts had one of the greatest healing ministries the world has ever seen.   And I found some of the quotations all of these different men have said.

Ern Baxter, who was once working with Brother Branham, this red-headed Canadian preacher . . . and he explained it and described it.   He was standing there.

He said, “I saw Brother Branham take their hand in his hand, and I watched these manifestations come on his hand.   It would either swell up, or it would turn red, or sometimes it would turn white like leprosy.

“And Brother Branham would look at his hand and by what he saw on his hand, he would tell them what their disease was.   And if their faith touched God, that breaking-out or pusy-ness or swelling, it would disappear.   And he’d say, ‘All right.   The spirit has left you.   The disease has left you. Go your way and be healed.’”

And thousands of people were healed that way.   And he had that ministry for quite some time. And then God changed the course of his ministry, and he began . . .   He didn’t need the hand anymore.   He didn’t have to hold people by the hand anymore.   They would just come before him, and he would tell them the very secrets of their heart.

Sometimes he would read their mail.   Literally, he would tell them what kind of a letter was in their purse.   He would tell them their name.   You should hear some of these prayer lines.   He would tell them their name.

He would say, “There’s a . . .   Yes, ma’am,” he said, “Your name is Burns.   No, Burke.   Burke, Burke.   You’re not from here.   You’re from another state.   And I see that you live in a house next to a little depot.   And I see that you’ve been diagnosed with such-and-such.   But go your way. Do you believe?   Do you believe what the . . . ?   Oh, then go your way, and you’re made whole.”

And thousands and thousands of people received their healing.

It was a Moses ministry to the multitudes, but to a small remnant of people, he was also a Joshua because his ministry took them farther than just sign and miracles and healings.

Sixty years ago, the Angel appeared to that man and told him what his ministry would be.   In 1965, his earthly ministry ended.   We’re here over forty years later.   There has been a generational gap.

I believe that the Lord has told me that in the same manner, in the same way, that the Angel came to commission Brother Branham sixty years ago today . . . I believe that before we leave this house, there will be a commissioning take place in the Spirit that will set the course for the final cycle of God’s dealings with men.

I believe that same Angel of the Lord is with God’s people today.   We can’t go forward by always looking backward.   But we cannot know who we are without knowing where we have come from.

And God is raising up people to go out and tell the stories, to tell the testimonies, to share the Message, to tell what God has done.   And it pales to compare with what God wants to do.

It will not be the same ministry model.   It will not be the same way – one man mightily used of God, multitudes coming to see one man perform the works of God.

It will be a multi-membered Bride raised up with the same power, the same anointing, the same calling and the same commissioning.

Brother Branham was only a Joshua to a small remnant of people.   But you and I are entering into that time of the Joshua commissioning.   And we will not go forth in the anointing of Moses.   We will go forth in the anointing of Joshua and Caleb.   It is a different anointing altogether.

The anointing of Moses was a gathering anointing, a calling-out anointing.   But the anointing of Joshua and Caleb is an anointing to possess and to overcome all of the enemies that stand between you and the promises of God in your life.

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Everything that God promised Moses and his followers never happened in the ministry of Moses. It only began to come to pass in the next generation.

Did God lie?   Did God not keep His promises?   No.   A whole generation of people forfeited their promises.   Hear me.   They did it because they murmured against the prophet.

A whole generation of people forfeited their promises.   And their children and grandchildren inherited the promises that had been given to them, but they failed to receive them.   They forfeited them.

They passed them on because they couldn’t get their deliverance, they couldn’t get their freedom. They couldn’t seem to manage to get eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to perceive.   So a generation followed.

The very same thing has happened in this last cycle as we’ve come now to the end of everything, the consummation of the ages, the end of the end.   The very same thing is happening.

God sent a Moses with a Message.   And that Moses brought precious promises that were to come upon the Bride of Christ in the last days.

And only a small remnant of people received it and became a part of that Joshua commissioning that God had given to the prophet.

Some people were not able to receive the promises because they fixated on the messenger.

You cannot hear the Message if you fixate on the messenger.   You cannot hear the Message if you fixate on the messenger.   You cannot hear the Message if you focus on the mouthpiece.

“Look what a mouthpiece.   Look what a mouthpiece.   Look what a mouthpiece.   Look what a messenger.   Look what a messenger.   Look what a messenger.   Look what a sign.   Look what a sign.   Look what a sign.   Look what a ministry.   Look what a man of God.   He was just like Jesus.   He never . . .”

I’m not telling you I believe this.   I’m telling you what a generation declared.   Be careful.   I’m just telling you what was declared.

“He never made a mistake - not one mistake.   He never made a mistake.   There was no sin in him.”   Some went so far as to say that in April, Christ was born.

I have in my files Christmas cards that have come from India in April with a log cabin on the front saying, “Christ Branham was born,” that celebrate the birth of Christ Branham.

You can’t receive a Message if you fixate on the messenger.   You can’t understand and perceive and receive a Message if you focus on the mouthpiece.   You’ll fall into error every time, every time, every time.   You’ll make your pilgrimages back to see if there’s any possibility that we can raise the mouthpiece from the dead.

But I want to tell you something.   If Brother Branham were raised from the dead and stood in this house this morning, he could not declare anything any different to you than what you have heard. He couldn’t.

And yet there are people who have fixated on the mouthpiece, on the messenger, who are waiting on him to raise from the dead.   They are waiting on a physical tent, a physical return.   And because of their behavior, many of them continued in their sin, not trusting Christ for redemption, but hoping that one day Brother Branham would bring deliverance to their lives.

So some of them continued to live in adultery.   Some of them continued to lust for other men’s wives and had them - had them, took them, prophesied.   I can give you facts, but I’m not going to this morning.

But there are people in this building who have been around these things long enough.   We know the good and the bad and the ugly.

You see, there are people in this place that know what it was like for women to go down to the lake and try to drown themselves because their husbands who believed this Message had decided . . . or who said they believed this Message had decided that there was an impurity in their wife that they had lived with all these years, so they were going to put her away and take a younger wife.

And there are people in this building that knew those kinds of situations and knew the wife that ran down to the water and tried to drown herself.

I went into the mental institution to pray for a woman whose husband had brought in another wife and said, “I’m going to have two wives because Brother Branham said, ‘many does to one buck.’” He was describing the animal kingdom, you nincompoop.

Any man who wants more than one wife is a raging idiot.   It’s strange enough to want one, but it’s terribly peculiar to want more than one.

I don’t even like to focus on these kinds of things, but I knew I came this morning with a mandate from the Lord.   And I had to tell you why that we’re living here sixty years after a prophet received a commission, forty-something years after he left the scene, and we have still not inherited the promises that were given to his generation.

We can no longer claim to be a part of the generation of William Branham because, I’m telling you, the years are taking us into another generation whether we want to believe it or not.   We’re being pushed into another generation.

And I could go on and on and on and tell you the uglies.   And it wouldn’t glorify God.   But I’ve told you enough to serve a purpose.

There was a generation of people who forfeited their rights to full adoption.   There was a generation of people who forfeited their rights to spiritual adoption.   There was a generation of people who forfeited their rights to the power of the Spoken Word.

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I thought about that great Cloud of Witnesses longing to come to the fullness of what they’ve waited for all these years.   I thought about all the promises that were given to a past generation, but they fixated on a man.

I want to say this, even though some may disagree.   I promise you I’ll love you regardless.   I will not be offended if you don’t agree.   But I want to tell you what the Spirit of God has taught me recently.   He’s taught me that the rebellion of this generation of people cut short the life . . .

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I believe Brother Branham’s life was cut short - not because of something he had done, but because of what the people had done.   And it’s all right with me.   It’s all right with me.

Tommy Osborne said at Brother Branham’s memorial service, “This was the greatest prophet who had lived since Bible days.”

No wonder people were in shock.   God was still using him.   The history books sometimes talk about how his ministry was waning away.

God was still using him in powerful ways in ’65.   God allowed . . . because listen, God’s jealous and He won’t let people share His glory.

Brother Branham went off the field because of people’s behavior.   But he later came back on the field.   You know the stories.   His life was definitely cut short.   And a whole generation of people forfeited the promises that had been given to them for their day.

But if the cutting of Stephen’s life short caused a greater harvest in the ministry of Paul, then could it be that God allowed the enemy to cut that prophet’s life short because God had a greater plan?

What He does this time, no one will be able to fixate on men because it will be so multiplied.   It’ll be carried out by a many-membered Bride - so many men and women moving under the Anointing of God, fulfilling God’s plan in their lives for a very quick, short work.

And God spoke to me and said, “Today I’m going to release a commissioning over this Joshua generation.”

And all the promises that were made to a prior generation and were forfeited, they fall on us.   They hang over our heads this morning.   All that God said He was going to do and couldn’t do in the prior generation, it hangs over our heads this day for us to reach up and say, “I’ll take that.   I’ll surrender my life.   I’ll lay my will before you, oh God.   And I want to do Your will.”

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Today the mantle is falling.   Elijah’s mantle is falling.   Will you see it?   Will you recognize it? Will you pick it up?   It’s the passing of the baton.   It’s the changing of the guard.   It’s a re-commissioning.   Will you see the mantle?   For in that mantle are the promises of prior generations, unfulfilled destinies.   Will you pick it up?

Nobody’s asking, “Where is Elijah?”   No one’s asking, “Where is William Branham, where is A. B. Simpson, where is Jack Coe, where is Amy Semple McPhearson, where is Katherine Kuhlman, where is Roland Buck, where is Smith Wigglesworth, where is John G. Lake, Alexander Dowie?”

No one is asking, “Where is Elijah?”  When we pick up that mantle, we only have one question. “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?   Where is the Lord God of William Branham?   Where is the Lord God of all of this great Cloud of Witnesses?”

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As Brother Branham went to that cabin asking You, Lord, to take this gift away from him, You didn’t come to take away the gift.   You sent Your Angel to commission him, to announce his destiny, to tell him what he was called to do.

And though he was poor and uneducated, You called him to stand before kings and potentates to minister Your Word of healing and deliverance.   We receive a commission.

We may not know every detail.   We may not know all that it entails.   But we receive Your commission in our lives, Your calling.   We recognize that You have called us, separated us, set us apart.   And we receive our calling.   We receive our commissioning.   We are ready, Lord, to do Your will, whatever it takes, whatever it involves.   We are ready to do Your will.

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How many of you understand that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance?   Now basically what that means . . . it really goes together with a Scripture that says, “The spirit of the prophet is subject unto the prophet.”

There are many different interpretations to both of these Scriptures.   But basically, let me say that people are born with gifts.   And the gift is from God.   The devil cannot give you a gift at birth.   Gifts come from the Lord.

The ability to see into another dimension, into another realm of the spirit . . . it is given to you at birth.   It is not something that you pray and all of a sudden God gives you.   It’s something you are born with.   Your awareness of it grows as you grow.

And you are able to distinguish . . .   As you mature in the Lord, you’re able to distinguish and recognize times in your life that the Lord was showing you something.   You say, “Hey, that was the Lord.   That was God showing me.   That was the leadership of the Lord in my life.”

Brother Branham explained it this way.   He had at least two, that we know of, interactions with fortunetellers.   And both of these fortunetellers told Brother Branham that he was born under a sign, a specific sign.   And that he was . . . basically, he was a seer – that he was able to see.

Brother Branham described his office as that of a prophet.   And he said that a prophet was built differently than anybody else - not any more special, just different.

There is a very small gulf or gap between the consciousness and the sub-consciousness of a prophet.   A normal person has a greater span between his consciousness and sub-consciousness.

But a man, or a woman (as a prophetess), who was born with that kind of special office, being the office of a prophet (we’re going to talk about that in the next few weeks), their consciousness and sub-consciousness is very close together.

And it’s easy for them to move back and forth between those realms.   Not at will, necessarily, but as the office matures in somebody’s life, they have a little bit more control over when and how and for how long they move back and forth between those realms.

You know, Brother Branham learned that if he could just do a little something distracting, or say a little something distracting, he could kind of cut off the vision.

And the reason why he wanted to do that is because there were times in his ministry that he would be going into vision for hours and hours and hours.   And it was such a tremendous strain on his physical body that there were times that he had to do that.

We all know the example that we give sometimes, when he was speaking privately to Brother and Sister West, that he reached up and kind of took a hold of the control for the windshield wiper. Asked Brother West, “Do you know why I’m doing that?”

Brother West acknowledged as though he did know, although he wasn’t quite sure.   And Brother Branham never really gave the explanation.   But we gathered enough from his sermons that he mentioned those kinds of things - breaking those visions.

He would set at certain times, sometimes, for people to come and knock on the door of the hotel so that . . .   And he would sometimes go to dinner . . .   He would set a time to go to dinner before a meeting just so he could have a little bit of an interaction and break that cycle.

He must have really flowed in a tremendously high level of the prophetic.   And the rest of us in the world who have any form of prophetic unction in us at all, we must be very immature in our gifts and callings.   But we’re working on maturity.

So I said all that to say this.   I’ve also had a couple of experiences with someone who was a fortuneteller.   And they . . .   Brother Branham said, “The gift that’s in their life is from God.   The ability to know the future, the ability to see into the future, is a gift from God.”

But they have a decision to make, like all of us, a choice to make with our gifts and talents - how we will use the gift, how we will use the talent.   And they choose to access that realm of information with a God-given gift, but not using it to glorify God.

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And for instance, Brother Branham talked to us about a woman and what her place was in handling the Word of God.   The Bible carefully tells us that a woman should not usurp authority over a man in the Word.

We hear women who have been mightily used of God like Maria Woodworth-Etter, Kathryn Kuhlman and Amy Semple McPhearson.

But we hear Kathryn Kuhlman saying something that’s almost profound.   And she said, “You know I live every day with the reality that I was not God’s first choice.   I was not His second choice, not His third choice.”   She said, “I may not have even been His fourth or fifth choice.”

Later in her life, she would go a step farther.   And she would say, “I was not God’s first choice. He offered this gift of faith and healing to four or five men.   And they all turned it down.   And I just happened to be the one who said, ‘I’ll be used.’”

Can anybody see that?   Can anybody see that you can be passed over by rejecting what God has for you?   You can really . . . you can really lose.   I just wonder.

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Brother Branham preached at her church, Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, California, in 1956 a message called, “Azusa Jubilee.”

It’s exciting to know that just a few weeks ago, at the same building in the same city, there was a celebration that took place in Angelus Temple celebrating one-hundred years of Pentecostal fire around the world.

I have listened recently to “Azusa Jubilee” in 1956.   And I hear Brother Branham crying out against the compromise of the Pentecostal world in merely fifty years.   I pray that he was busy elsewhere a few weeks ago because the things that he cried out against are just common practice, acceptable behavior, in the Pentecostal world today.

Brother Branham did not believe that a woman had the right to stand, to take authority over a man, and handle the Word of God.   But do you know what he said about Amy Semple McPhearson that night?   “I know that she is standing over the balcony of heaven looking down on this great gathering.”

Here was a man who had the revelation that you can do God a service and not be in the center of His will.   He also had a revelation that a lot of Message people don’t have.   (How ironic.)

And that is that God can reward you.   He can reward you and even bless you for doing Him a service that is not according to His perfect will.

He rewarded her by letting her stand and look over the balcony of heaven and see what had come of the little ministry that she had started.   She was rewarded.   She’s a veteran, so to speak, of another time.

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I have personally heard him [Benny Hinn] say wonderful things about Brother Branham’s ministry - powerfully strong things about Brother Branham’s ministry.

The focus of it is they were talking about two men who are about to leave the scene and that their leaving was going to be a sign to the whole world that something was changing.

And if you’ll remember, a prophecy was given in the middle of a sermon here not too, too long ago that was fresh from the Lord.

It’s not something that we wouldn’t already kind of know because of what we’ve heard from the Message of the Hour.   But it came as a Rhema.   It came as a fresh Word from the Lord.

And maybe you’re not as aware of this analogy that Brother Branham gave.   I think everybody in here who has studied the Message knows that he talked about Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.

He said they were men of God.   He had respect for them.   He loved them.   He had nothing against them.   But he said that they were messengers to Sodom to call out . . . to call out some folks from Sodom.

And isn’t it ironic that Brother Branham has been off the scene since 1965?   We’re talking about forty-one years later.   And the men that had really a smaller purpose are still alive and still preaching.

Now it’s just announced, you know, that Billy Graham did his last sermon some months ago.   But I’ve heard since then that he’s feeling pretty good, and perhaps he’ll do something else.   Hadn’t died yet, so maybe he should organize something else, he said.

Can you imagine?   Just kind of waiting on the deadline.   It’s kind of a strange thought.

Oral Roberts is in his eighties.   His wife has already passed away.   And he still looks pretty good. Make-up on television can do some wonderful things.   And he still has a ministry.   In fact, he just had a book published not too long ago.

It’s amazing.   Forty-one years after William Branham left the scene, we’ve got the two messengers that went to Sodom still alive and still functioning in some form of ministry.

But the Lord spoke here and he said, “Their passing will be a sign.”

Maybe you’re not aware of the other analogy that Brother Branham gave.   He also said that these two men’s ministry was typed in the three angels, or the three messengers, that appeared to Abraham - a different story.

We’re not talking about Sodom and Gomorrah now.   We’re talking about this great appointment that took place at Abraham’s tent.   Remember?   And we know that one of those was God in a theophany body.   The other two were angels.   And Brother Branham said several times that the ministry of Oral Roberts and Billy Graham typed those two angels.

But he said, “God sort of stayed with Abraham.”   He ministered to Abraham.   And there was a transfer of power and authority into Abraham’s life.   It was typed by the physical changing of his name from Abram to Abraham, the “h-a-m.”

And Brother Branham also pointed out that Billy Graham had the “ham” in his name.   And, of course, Brother Branham had the “ham” in his name.

And Abram changed to Abraham.   Really, we’ve talked about it before.   What that was - it was the “ha.”   It was “ha” that was added to his name.   And this “ha” is the breath of God.   So God breathed His breath into Abram, changed his name to Abraham - the breath of God is in him.

And then Brother Branham talked about this ministry that took place there when the back was turned, so to speak . . . when one of these messengers turned his back in the sense that Sarah was inside the tent.   He had no way of seeing Sarah in the tent, and yet he knew and discerned that she laughed.

And he talked about Billy Graham and Oral Roberts represented by these other angels.   They came and they left.

But this impartation, so to speak . . .   (I’m using a modern word, but it surely fits in with what concept he was bringing out in this message.)   But this breath of God, this impartation of God, stayed with Abraham.   It was a gifting that was placed in his life.   And there are many, many times . . .

And I don’t have time to go from one to the other, but let me just read this.   And then I’m going to read you the prophecy that was given on international television.

In a message called “The End Time Sign Seed," preached, strangely enough, in Tifton, Georgia:

“Jesus said, ‘As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.’ There was two angels went down to the Sodomites.

“Remember, Lot once walked with Abraham.   The church once walked in fellowship with Christ with the Word.   But they sold out their birthrights for denomination.  Now, she’s selling the whole thing and organizing into one big confederation of church.”

He said, “That’s exactly what happened to Lot.   He went down there.   Two angels, (Oral Roberts, and a Billy Graham, as it would be in this day) went down there, and placed the Gospel to them. What happened?   A disgrace even came out of it.

“But Abraham . . .   One stood back with him.   There’s One that he called God.   And the sign that He performed there before them . . .”

“The sign that was performed . . .”   What was the sign that was performed at Abraham’s tent? Knowing the secrets of the heart.

Brother Branham called that the sign of the Messiah, the Messianic sign.   The sign of the Messiah was to know the secrets of the heart.   And this happened there at Abraham’s tent.

He said, “It proved what he was.   Abraham was the elected because he was . . .   Abraham had the promise.”

Anybody in the house got a promise?

“And now look,” he said, “this is Abraham’s seed.   The promise was not only made to Abraham, but his seed.   Not his seed Isaac, it failed; it proved it did.

“But the seed, the faith that he had: no matter what the circumstances was, how against the nature it was, how much the doctor said it wasn’t so . . .   Abraham, after he had the promise given to him, when it was impossible . . .”

And he goes on and talks about not having children, and the church has been sowed with something that doesn’t have the Word . . .   And he talks about the foolish virgins and the . . .   And on and on it goes.

And there are many other places where Brother Branham kind of types that ministry of the Messiah, the Messianic sign, the Angel that stayed, or God staying with them while two go on.

Now if this was given in a Message Church, okay, that’s wonderful.   But this is, again, given by someone who is as far away from what I’m comfortable with as possible.   But this was a prophecy that was given.

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Now they’ve already had this discussion without calling the names of two . . .   And they said “two anointed men of God who are on the scene, who are alive today.”

But then the prophecy comes.   And he said:

“Even as I subtract these two great lives that have been carrying My anointing . . .”

“God said, ‘As I subtract, at that very moment multiplication shall begin to take place.   And the earth shall say, “Surely the Lord God of Israel lives.   He reigns.   He heals.   He delivers.”’

“God says, ‘This is your hour.’”

And then he goes a step further.   We can watch this.   He said:

“Look to the summer of this year.   For even as there is subtraction, so there will be multiplication.”

Now we’re not interpreting this, but it appears as though he is saying these men may be removed this summer.

We don’t know.   Doesn’t even matter to me when.   But we already have heard it’s a sign.   And when we go back and hear what the prophet of God said, we can really say it’s a sign because these other messengers have to go on their way so that this impartation from God can come to Abraham’s seed.

That’s good.   That’s good.   That’s good news.   This God lingered with Abraham, breathed on him, ministered to him, declared and produced multiplication in him.   And this is, you know . . . to me it’s so exciting because that’s good right there.

But what did Brother Branham call the Bride?   Over and over and over and over again, what did he call the Bride?   The royal seed of Abraham, the sons of Abraham, the royal sons of the Promise – over and over again.   Hallelujah.

Over and over again, he spiritually taught us that we were the spiritual descendants.   He said, “Not Baptist, not Methodist, not white, not black, not European, not this, not that, but the royal seed of Abraham . . .”

“That’s the kind of blood,” he said, “that’s flowing through my veins.”

Wow, what a spiritual inheritance.   Hallelujah.   But it comes by impartation.   It comes by a release.   This prophecy even said it.

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In that sermon I mentioned it wasn’t that the dove had no place to put his feet, because don’t you know that the waters were full of places that he could have put his feet?

“What kind of places?”   The dead carrion.   The dead, floating, bloated, rottening carcasses of flesh, both human and animals, that had been destroyed in the Flood.   And if the dove was really typed . . .

Listen, he sent out a raven first.   And the raven didn’t come back because it wasn’t in the raven’s nature to be picky.

The Bride of Jesus Christ . . . we’re very, very, very peculiar and very, very picky about where we rest.   We’re very discerning and discriminating about where we find . . . hallelujah . . . about where we find our rest.

The dove . . .   See, there’s been a blending of natures.   He talked about the nature of the dove and the lamb.   Oh, my.   All that old stuff, all that old stuff . . .   Why do you want to listen to all that old stuff for?

But, my, how old stuff can become new.   Hear the things the prophet preached in the fifties, and they’re new.   And they’re fresh.   And they’re being declared to a people who . . .

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This same sign that Abraham saw in his tent, that same sign was in the earth in the ministry of this little preacher.   He did the very same thing that the Angel of God did to Abraham.   He turned His back and discerned the secrets of the . . . and hearts of the people.

I preached . . .   This is what I’m about to say, and it went over like a lead balloon in the early nineties.   Let’s see if it will float tonight.   Let’s see if it will float tonight.

Isn’t it amazing that what sunk like lead in the early nineties just might float in 2006?   Wouldn’t that be something?   Fifteen years sure can make a difference.

But I talked about “What is the sign of the Messiah?”   The prophet of God gave us examples from the Scripture – this God who appeared to Abraham in his tent.

And what about this God who appeared and said to Nathaniel, “I saw thee when you were under the fig tree.   You are a devout man.   I see you.   I knew you.”

“How do you know me?”

“I saw you, Nathaniel, when you were under the fig tree.”

The very same sign.

The woman at the well.   (Remember these?)   The woman at the well.   He didn’t know anything about that woman.

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But Yeshua knew exactly where in Samaria He needed to go to.   He ended up near Shechem, modern day Nablus, at the foot of Mount Gerazim and found this Jacob’s well and met this woman. And you know the interaction they had.   And He starts telling her, “Go, get your husband.”

“Oh, I have no husband.”

“You have well said that you have no husband.   For you have had five husbands, and the one you’re living with right now is not even your own.”

He just read her mail.   How could he do that?   Because he was fulfilling the type.   He was fulfilling the shadow of what happened in the ministry of Abraham and other occasions in the Old Testament.   This was pointing to the coming of the Messiah.

Well, the Messiah came.   And when He came, He did exactly what happened to Abraham by this God in a theophany body.

And we saw that very same thing happen in our generation.

I can still hear my granny tonight.   1964 - she was in Birmingham, Alabama.   It was ’64, wasn’t it?

She heard “A Trial” and “Spiritual Amnesia.”   And she said in one of those meetings she saw Brother Branham - said, “I’m not going to do this for show, but I just want you to see what God’s doing here.”

A lot of this . . . we can’t even find some of these things on audio tape.   But my granny was never in any other meetings as far as I know, as far as she said to me . . .   I asked.   And she didn’t know a lot of this so she was telling me, I believe, honestly what she saw.

And she said, “He turned his back and he went all the way down a row.   He just chose a row and went all the way down the row with his back turned and told each person their name.   Some of them their address and where they were from and what their needs were.”

What did that mean?   It meant not that Brother Branham was more than a man, but it meant that the Angel of the Lord who was standing with him on the platform was more than a man.

It meant that this Angel that had come to minister to him and through him was more than a man. In fact, it must have been the same Angel, the same thing living again.

It must have been Jesus raised from the pages of history and proving Himself a current reality. Right?   The sign of the Messiah.   Amen.

And this is what sunk in the 90's.   Here goes.   “That’s the sign of the Messiah, the last sign” - first sign - in the hand, the last sign - knowing the hearts of the people.

“If you can’t get them to believe you this way, this is what will happen.   This is the sign of the Messiah.   This will testify that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

2006-05-09 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 1

I have a revelation that there’s going to be a fresh revelation of Hebrews 13:8 - a fresh revelation.

And it’s going to come by remembering those that have had the rule over us, those who have come before us, and by imitating their faith.

2006-05-09 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 1

This is what I preached in the ’90's that sunk.   I said:

“Okay, if this is the sign of the Messiah, discerning the thoughts and secrets of men’s hearts, and we have been told over and over and over again we’re Abraham’s royal seed, we’re the manifested sons of God, we’re coming to full adoption, the Spoken Word is restored . . .”

But more than that, more than that, he said, “Oh, Super Church.   Don’t forget that Super Church,” and “If the vine ever puts forth another branch exactly like the original . . .” and all these promises that we’ve had.

And we found out Sunday morning that the only way the Bridegroom can come into the Chuppah is for the Bride to invite Him.   The only way our marriage can be consummated to the Lord Jesus Christ is for us to open up the door and make ourselves available for intimacy with Him.

You with me?

And above all those things that he said we were going to be, and that we should be, and that we’re going to do . . .   In all these things did he not call us . . .   Over and over and over again, did he not say that in the End-time this little royal seed of Abraham, the sons of God manifested, should raise up and be as what?   Messiahettes.

And didn’t he give definitions of Messiahettes?   What was the definition he gave?   Remember? What?   Little Messiahs.

Somebody said, “What in the world do you mean?”

I simply mean a chip off the old block.   You’re looking more like your father every day instead of your mother.   That’s the revelation that’s about to sweep forth.

For too many years the church has looked like her mother.   And who is her mother?   That harlot. No, no, that whore.

The Bible said she was a whore and she was the mother of harlots.   Didn’t it?   So the mother was a whorish woman, and she gave birth to little whorish women - harlots.

And what is that?   It’s those denominational systems that have substituted and replaced the purity of the Word of God for creeds, dogmas and traditions - doctrines and traditions of men.

And so, for too long the church world has looked more and more like it’s mother.

2006-05-09 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 1

But they’re just like their mother.   You can’t tell them all apart.   They’re just like their mother. But we’re coming to a new hour of revelation where the Bride, the Church called out of the church, the remnant called out, the remnant, that true Third Exodus, the true Third Exodus, is going to be a revelation where the people of God are going to start looking like their father - not like their mother, that old Roman Catholic system – their father.

Who is your father?   God Almighty, the One who breathed breath in you and let you live.   We’re going to start taking on His attributes and His character.

“I’ve heard all that before.”

Well?   Glad you have.   But in the nineties, it sunk.   Because I went so far as to say, “If this is the sign of the Messiah, knowing the secrets of the heart, and God has called His Bride in the last days to be little Messiahettes, does it not stand to reason that they will have to walk under the same sign that the Messiah did?

So I said, “Don’t be surprised if you don’t see this gift manifested in the ordinary lives of those who are really the Bride of Jesus Christ.”

I said that in the nineties, Sister Gloria.   And it just went “over the heads.”   “Because that makes it sound like you’re trying to be like Brother Branham.”

No, no, no.   I have set my aspirations, I have set my affections and my goals, a lot higher than on Brother Branham.

I put my goals and my affection and my desires, and what I want to be, and who I want to be, much higher than that.

I want to go right back to where he got his from.   I want to be like Jesus.   That’s where we’ve got to go is to be like Jesus.

And in order to do that then we’re going to have the gifts that operated in Him - the Giver living inside of us, even greater than a manifestation of the gifts.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

You see, it’s not just John that had an appointment before the Throne.   It wasn’t just Brother Shelley that had an appointment, or Brother Branham, or any of these other people that have had these heavenly experiences.

But I believe that God has an appointment with each and every one of us in heavenly places.   We may not physically leave this building tonight, but how many of you know just sitting in the Presence of the Lord, we can soar into heavenly places in Christ Jesus.   It’s not a physical relocation.   It’s a spiritual relocation.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

I want you to know you don’t have to wait until your soul leaves your body tonight to let your spirit and your inner man soar into heavenly places to receive that revelation and that overcoming anointing that has been promised for us in this hour.

How many of you want an overcomer’s anointing?

You’ve got to have it.   You’re not going to get it here.   You’re not going to get it focusing on this life.   You’re not going to get it caught up in the things around you.

The only way you’re going to receive that portion that Brother Branham said was reserved for the end of this age, that overcoming portion, hallelujah . . .

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

You see, when we preached here the other day about that THUS SAITH THE LORD . . .   When I saw Brother Branham in that night vision, all these different messengers, and received a little Word, and then come down . . .

And when Brother Branham said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in and all other voices are going to be silenced,” I knew that’s what I needed.

I knew I didn’t need another prophecy.   I knew I didn’t need somebody else to tell me what God wanted to do in my life.

I knew I didn’t have to sit in a service ever again and pray, “Lord, let him speak to me.   Lord, let him prophesy to me.   Lord, let him tell me about my problem.”

I knew that when THIS SAITH THE LORD comes in to the Bride of Jesus Christ, then all those other lying vanities, all of those other voices of discouragement, all of those other voices that cause our circumstances to cry out, all of that is silenced.

And our focus immediately shifts from where we are right now into another realm before the Throne where all of God’s government issues from, where all of His administration, everything that God is doing in the earth . . . it issues forth from the control room of heaven.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

Kind of like Brother Branham told us about the middle of the road.

Funny thing about the middle of the road, you can often get run over if you stay in the middle of the road.   But it’s still where we have to be.

Brother Branham said, “The middle of the road is the highest point of the road.”   It gets lower toward the edges.   And that’s so that when the rain comes, it washes all the filth into the gutter.

So he said, “We have to live our lives in the middle of the road.”   God, give us that proper balance.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

Even in the Message I’ve heard these quotes, you know - “We’re just laying in the Presence of God now, ripening in the sun.   There’s nothing left to do now, but wait.   We’re just biding our time. We’re just holding on until that glorious day.”

I read all that.   I heard all that.   That’s the way I was raised in the church.   But I’m finding out it’s not the Biblical way.   God is not shifty.  He doesn’t do the flip-flop.   He knows His will.   He knows what He wants done.   He knows who is the man or the woman for the job.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

When you face the judgment of God, you’re all right because when He sees you, He sees you through that filter that Brother Branham talked about – the blood of Jesus Christ.

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

You don’t have to fear the Throne.   You don’t have to fear the Throne.   The Blood’s already there. The Blood’s already there.   You don’t have to fear standing before the Throne.

Brother Branham said, “That great veil has been torn in two.   You’ve been invited in to the Holy of Holies.”

He said, “What we need now is for that veil to fall behind us, shutting us in to the glories of God and shutting out the world.”

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

And Daniel saw in a vision the Ancient of Days.   John saw the same thing.   Brother Branham preached about what He looked like – hair like wool.   He said in the “Revelation of Jesus Christ Series” - “. . . like the old powdered wigs they wore as a sign of wisdom and authority upon those who could render judgment.”

2006-05-13 PM    The Throne Emphasis - Part 2

Well, that’s what he said to me in this experience, this night vision.

He said, “In the same manner that the evil of every age was gathered together into Laodicea, the most evil of all ages, in the same manner the overcoming portion, the overcoming anointing from every age - what it took in the Church Age of Ephesus, what it took in the Church Age of . . . all the way through . . . Sardis - all the way through, every one of them . . .

There was a portion that it took to overcome in that day.   The prophet talked about it, typed it to the four Living Creatures.   . . . Was released - a measure of that.

He said to me in this experience, “The same way all the evil was gathered together, the portions of overcoming anointing that were poured out upon the overcomers in every age have been gathered together as well.   And God is about to pour that great big measure, that great big portion of overcoming anointing upon those that have eyes to see,” he said.

That was his description - “upon those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.”

Pray that that’s you.   Pray that you’ll hurry up and get eyes to see and ears to hear because when God pours out that fullness . . .

It’s the same thing Brother Branham said.   He just called it a potion - a potion.   I think he meant portion.   But he was country.   He said, “That ‘potion’ that’s been reserved until the End-time.”

2006-05-14 AM    Full Knowledge, From the Throne

It’s a tragedy, brother, sister, that so many churches and denominations and movements seem to indicate that salvation is the end of this thing - when you’re saved, you’ve arrived.   And yet the New Testament clearly indicates that salvation is not the end of the journey, it’s only the beginning of the journey.

But oh, what a wonderful beginning it is.   And I don’t know very much about baseball, but I know you can’t get back to home plate if you don’t make first, second and third base.   I know that.

And I know that, not because I studied it, but because I heard Brother Branham talk about it one time.   He talked about how that a lot of people try to skip, they try to take shortcuts, they don’t want to go all the way.

2006-05-14 AM    Full Knowledge, From the Throne

Brother Branham taught us this.   There are many different Greek words that are all translated the same way in English - “love.”   But in order to get the full meaning of what kind of love and a description of this relationship of love, it’s helpful sometimes to go back to the original language and see what kind of love is being described.

2006-05-14 AM    Full Knowledge, From the Throne

We understand by the Message . . .   We understand by the Message that there is still a higher place than that.   Anybody in here believe that there’s a higher place than where the righteous dead are?   I believe there’s a higher place.

I’ve seen it twice now.   In the Spirit, I saw a staircase leading from one realm to another.   I know that’s not really how it is because dimensions are parallel.   They’re not stacked on top of one another - they’re parallel.

2006-05-14 AM    Full Knowledge, From the Throne

And some of us believe that Laodicea, the Bride of Laodicea, is going to be held in high esteem.   I do.   I heard Brother Branham talk about it.   And how we sit down at that table spread for a million miles and we start expressing how we overcame.

And looking at it now, you’d think I wouldn’t have anything to share.   What would I share?   Here’s somebody coming out of the Ox Age, saw their wives’ bellies opened up, their little unborn babies pulled out and stomped on, sawn asunder and burned at the stake, and they’re testifying of how they overcame.

And you’d think, “How could I . . .?   Lord, I just had a little trouble here and a little trouble . . . What kind of testimony do I have?”

But they talked about . . . the question being, “And now what age did you come from?”

And you say, “Laodicea.”

And they say, “Oh.   Laodicea.   Why, we didn’t hardly think anybody would be able to come out of Laodicea and overcome.”   Hallelujah.

But they just didn’t know about that overcoming portion that had been snowballing down through the ages, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Where more grace is needed, more grace is available.   Amen?   And God is giving us that grace as He’s moving us out of the realm of partial understanding into the realm of the full knowledge of His will.

2006-05-14 AM    Full Knowledge, From the Throne

We’re going to have a hard time when we get to heaven to see how gaudy it is.   The Temple was gaudy, wasn’t . . .   I don’t believe God wants you to be gaudy.   Please, please, please.   That’s not what I’m saying at all.

But we kind of get that idea, you know.   Somebody . . .   And I’m not trying to embarrass anybody.   But somebody said to me last night, “I’m sorry, I left my other shoes . . .   I’m sorry, these shoes are a little high.”

I said, “It doesn’t hurt me if it doesn’t hurt you.   I don’t have to walk in ‘em.”   I’m not measuring that.   I know what Brother Branham said about it, but that’s not how I’m measuring people.  I know he talked about that spirit that makes women twist.   But I’ll tell you what I found out about that.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

Somebody said, “What about all those people in the Bible that missed the will of God?   Is there not a possibility that I can miss the will of God?”

Nine times out of ten, if a predestinated seed of God misses the will of God, it’s because the instruction wasn’t clear enough for them.   Because it is our desire, when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Message of the Hour and the revelation of the Word, we want to do God’s will.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

We have an High Priest who has lived as we live, who has suffered as we suffered, and greater. And He is now positioned in a place where He can make the biggest difference.   He is with us spiritually, in the Spirit, inside.   But He is positioned at the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens.

Somebody said, “Tell me what that means.”   It means exactly what the Lord Jesus said.   And two thousand years later, Brother Branham takes this one verse of Scripture and makes it live for a whole generation of people.

I don’t know how Jesus looked when He said it, but when Brother Branham said it, and I saw him say it, I believed it.   There’s something about the real, genuine humility that was on Brother Branham when he was being interviewed in his home . . .   We’ve showed the film here.

And they’re asking him about these things.   And he says, “It’s just like the Lord Jesus,” and tilts his head.   He said, “I can do nothing except My Father in heaven shows Me.”

I can do nothing of Myself.   “All authority that I have has been given to Me by My Father.”   Do you believe that?   That’s what Jesus was saying.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

Brother Branham said, “All the Father was, He emptied into the Son.   All the Son was, He poured in, or emptied into, the Church.”

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

“Are you preaching there’s no Rapture?”   Absolutely not.   That is not what I’m preaching.

But I am preaching that we’re not fixing to have one.   Because the Bride of Jesus Christ is not going to be Houdinied out of here in the middle of the night, weak, sick, beggarly, whinin’, complainin’, strugglin’, cryin’, moanin’, groanin’, sickly, beat up, spending all her money at the doctor.   No.   Uh, uh.

You need the Scripture for that?   You need a quote for that?

The prophet of God to this generation said that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is coming back for a Church that is exactly like the Church that was birthed or born on the Day of Pentecost - same signs, same wonders, same power, same miracles, everything that was in that early Church, including fellowship and depending on one another in fraternal affection, lending, not expecting it back, supporting one another.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

The true Tabernacle of God which the Lord pitched is not Moses’ Tabernacle.

“Can you prove that?”   Absolutely.   Read who pitched it.   Read the Bible.   Go back and read the Book of Exodus and find out who pitched the Tabernacle of Moses - the people, the Levites, who unpacked it, who set it up – men, who packed it up and packed it away, traveled away with it - men.

“Who designed it?”   God.   “Who instituted it?”   God.   “But who pitched it?”   It didn’t say who designed it.   It said, “Which the Lord pitched and not man.”

Do you know who He’s talking about?   Do you know what He’s talking about?   He’s talking about what Brother Branham was talking about at the end of his ministry when he preached that great little message, “What House Will Ye Build Me?”

You are the true Tabernacle that the Lord has pitched.   We are His Tabernacle.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

In a message called “The Token,” Brother Branham said something so very powerful.   He told us what the Message is.   If you’ve ever been asked, “Well, what is the Message?” hold up your hand. Have you ever been asked that question, “What is the Message?”   Hold up your hand if you’ve ever been asked the question, “What is the Message?”

Well, some of you must have never even told people that you believed in anything called a Message because that is one of the first questions that people ask after they’ve observed you or overheard you using the term, “The Message.”

I’ve been asked thousands of times.   “Well, what is the Message?”

Well, I normally answer, “It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.   That’s what the Message is.”

But that’s not satisfying, you know.   “Do you mean the Book of the Revelation?”

“No.   The full revelation of the Lord Jesus - who He is and His attributes and what He wants to, you know, do through us and adoption.”   And you just start talking along these lines.

Do you know what most people believe the Message is out there when they hear the Message? They seem to tend to think it’s getting a people to a prophet.   If we tell enough miracles that were performed in Brother Branham’s life, then everybody will have confidence in Brother Branham.

“And do you know what they’ll have?”   Confidence in Brother Branham.   But that’s all.   That’s all it’ll do for them.   It’ll do no more for them than your confidence in me as your pastor.   That’s not enough.

You can tell about all the miracles and the visions, the commissionings and the calling and you can convince people that he was a man of God.   There’s a whole lot of people out there now that are beginning to acknowledge that he is a man of God, or was a man of God, but does that mean they’ve grasped the Message?   I think not because they don’t any more know what the Message is than most of the people who claim to be Message followers.

But I found it so strange that Brother Branham summed it up . . .   Here we are again.   Paul summed up for us the New Testament.

The sum of the New Testament basically, Paul said, is we have a High Priest who is sitting in a position to do something about what we’re going through.   That’s the revelation.   He’s not just a High Priest, but He’s in a position He can do something about being a High Priest.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

Why is it that God would have had Moses to place two Cherubims on the Mercy Seat?   Because that’s what Moses saw before the Throne.

If you need a quote, Brother Branham said, “These four Living Creatures are the guardians of the Throne.”   (Way too much for one night, isn’t it?)   They guard the Throne.

They once guarded the Ark of the Covenant, the earthly representation and symbol of the Throne, because Moses saw them guarding the heavenly Throne.

Can I tell you something?   Who would be better positioned to tell us what has happened at the Throne than the guardians of the Throne?”

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

At that moment, the fact that they were the guardians of the Throne was the last thought in my mind.   But in “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” series and in the . . . of course, in the Church Age book, Brother Branham said, “Those four Living Creatures are the guardians of the Throne.”

Nobody is getting to the Throne, nobody is going to get to the Throne . . .   Then why do you want to get there?   So that you can get down and kiss His feet?   Well, that’ll be nice.

But when you get through doing that, you really ought to get up and receive some impartation of who you are in Christ, because guess what Brother Branham said . . .

(Oh, my.   I’m so sorry.   It’s midnight.   You couldn’t . . . you couldn’t concentrate at midnight.)

Guess what Brother Branham said in “The Token”?   He said, “That is the Message.”

“What?   What?   What is the Message?”   I’ll tell you later.

“What is the Message?”   He said (I love ya), “That is the Message - to come into Christ.”   That’s the Message - to come into Christ.   That’s the Message.

“It’s too simple.   That can’t be the Message.   That couldn’t be the Message.   It’s too simple - to come into Christ.   Paul said that.   It couldn’t be the Message - to come into Christ.”

That’s what he said - in “The Token,” in “The Token,” in “The Token,” mind you.   In “The Token” he said, “That is the Message - to come into Christ.”

You thought the Message was “serpent seed.”   You thought the Message was “hell - explaining hell and about hell.”   You thought the Message was “the Seven Seals revealed.”   And you thought the Message was learning about the Church Ages, the messengers.   You thought the Message was this and that and the other, and Sunset, and Jeffersonville . . .

And we thought all of this was the Message.   And what we didn’t understand was we had to go all the way back to the Garden of Eden, in the beginning, and learn some things.   And God had to bring us by a prophet who had been before the Throne.

“How do you think Brother Branham knew who those four Living Creatures were?”   Of course he had had interaction with them.   They’re guardians of the Throne.   Nobody gets to the Lord without passing by them.   Of course he had heavenly experiences and revelations, and angels came to him.

And all that we know about in a Message . . .   (“The sum of it all is we have a High Priest,” Paul said.)   “The sum of it all is to come into Christ.”   That’s the sum of it all - to come into Christ. That’s why we have to spend time in the Throne - because we’re coming into Christ.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

Lord, let us receive that divine click that tells us, “That’s me.   That’s me.   I’m the one.   He’s preaching about me.   I am identified in that.   That’s my destiny.   That’s my heritage.   That’s where I’ve come from, and that’s where I’m going back to.”

Remember, the prophet said, “The spear went in His side.   Blood and water ran out.”   The blood represented redemption, the price that was to be paid.   He said, “The water represented His Bride.”

He went on to say, “We were separated from Christ at Calvary.”   And where are we going now? Into Christ.   And if we were separated from Christ at Calvary, and we’re going back into Christ . . .

We’re going back.   I preached some years ago, “We’re going back in the same way we came out. It’s going to be a narrow way.”   It’s going to be a narrow way.   But God is going to do the work. It’s ours.   Hallelujah.

2006-05-16 PM    Set Down In Messiah’s Throne

You don’t love the children of Israel any more than You love us today.   And You let them eat manna.   The prophet of God said that manna was angels’ food.   The prophet of God said that manna was the food that angels ate.

You don’t love the children of Israel any more than You love Your Bride today.   Feed us, Lord.   Let us eat angels’ food.   Let us eat manna that has been stored up for us in this hour.   Let it transform us into that kind of a man or a woman that can just believe You.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

It doesn’t matter how you struggle.   It doesn’t matter how you feel.   It doesn’t matter how unwanted, unappreciated, or whatever else this stuff is that you carry around.

You need to make sure that when you come into this house, you leave all those little impish things somewhere else, because you want to come here, as Brother Branham taught us, and add your lick of fire to the atmosphere that’s already building.   You don’t want to do anything to disturb the peace.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

You need to follow, as Brother Branham taught us, the leadership of the Holy Ghost.

He will teach you how to dress.   He will teach you how to walk.   He will teach you how to talk. He’ll teach you how to treat one another.   And He’s teaching you.   He is your Teacher.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

What God is doing is He is sending forth His Message and His Word to make contact with those who are His Bride.   And when they get under that anointing, they’re going to have to come to Him and come to His Word.

They’re not going to have to come to a Message Church to get God because they may have to hunt Him if they got there.   But what they are going to have to do is come to the Truth.

And so it’s not going to them as though they’re fixing to get a monopoly on it and the people that have stood for it and faithfully held on to it are going to lose it.   That is not what I said.   And that is not what I believe.

And somebody said, “Isn’t this good news that God’s raising up people to tell . . .”

Listen.   Brother Branham’s name is being written in more books today than it’s ever been before in a positive way.

His name was mentioned in this month’s edition of Charisma Magazine in a positive way.   Every author that’s written anything about the prophetic or the gifted or the spiritual realm is mentioning Brother Branham’s name.

And more and more . . .   It used to be always caboosed with this negative disclaimer.   But more and more, they’re leaving the negative alone – just leaving it in God’s hands.

I don’t want you to miss what I’m saying here.   Because it’s very, very important what God is about to do.   He’s waving this thing.   You see, this is a firstfruits demonstration.   And it’s clear that a lot of people don’t have an understanding or revelation of what firstfruits is.

But firstfruits is the first to come to spiritual maturity.   And that is not the rakings and the scrapings.   That is the elite.   That is the chosen of the Lord.

And God is doing that.   He is raising up forerunners, and He’s letting this Word get into people that have never heard the Word before - I mean in the fullness that they’re hearing it in now.

To think all of a sudden that prophetic people, and Pentecostal people, Charismatic people would start writing positive about Brother Branham, calling his name positive, turning people back to examine his ministry so they can emulate his faith - it’s a wonderful thing.

But it is like a net being cast.   He’s using the Truth to call them out.   And some will come fleeing to the Word - not to the Message world, the Message structure, the Message organization.   But they will come fleeing to the Word.

And when they do, it’s pretty close to being over according to what the prophet said.   It’s like the last gathering.   And that’s where we are.   So this is an exciting time, but it’s a fearful time.

And this is what’s about to put the icing on the cake.   This is what’s about to do it.

You see, the Lord spoke here some years ago and He said, “All these revivals that everybody is so excited about at the time, they’re going to dwindle because any revival that is not established in present Truth is going to dwindle.”   You can’t keep propping it up.   You can only prop it up for so long.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

You’ve got to set your affection higher.   God doesn’t want you fixating on your pastor.   He doesn’t want you fixating on Brother Branham.   He doesn’t want you fixating on any other man of God that is currently being used with a Word from heaven around the world.   He wants your focus to be on Him.

In every generation, this is where people have missed the mark.   In every generation, this is the test that people of God have failed.

They have not been able to separate the flesh of a man from the reality of his God.   And this is where we have to be.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

And he [Mike Bickle] said, “This is not how we judge prophetic things.   A man can have an anointing, he can have gifts, he can have visions and dreams that come to pass and his life still not be in line with Kingdom principles and Biblical precedence.”

Do you believe that?   You want a message?   Do you want to hear the prophet’s message on it? What is it called?   “Anointed Ones at the Endtime.”

The anointing can be from God, the gift can be from God, the unction and inspiration can be from God, but the man’s life . . .

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

Paul Cain is probably a man who has had the most powerful prophetic gift in his life, other than William Branham, in the last one hundred years.

He is the only man alive that I know of that has consistently and faithfully called people out, other than Brother Branham, giving them their first name, their last name and their address.

Brother Branham saw such a gift in Paul Cain and loved him.   He called him “Pauli.”   And he loved him.   And he even sent him . . .

I don’t remember where.   Will somebody find out where and tell me.   There was a trip that Brother Branham couldn’t make, and he called Paul Cain and sent him there.   That’s big.   With the kind of ministry that Brother Branham had, that’s big.

Paul Cain . . .   I need about ten or fifteen more minutes.

Paul Cain had many supernatural signs surrounding his birth like Brother Branham - words of prophecy and inspiration . . . who came to his mother and told her . . .   Also John Kilpatrick had some similar things.

And even, you know, in a smaller, smaller, smaller scale, there was a Word given while I was still in my mother’s belly about my life and ministry and my commission.

And it was even so clear that it was said that I would be like Agabus, that I would have that office that Agabus had.

And Paul Cain’s mother was a spiritual woman who had gifts in her life.

How many days was it, Stacey, that he ministered without stopping?   Do you remember?   Was it close to a week or . . .   It was longer than a week that he ministered twenty-four hours a day.

And he took a break to go get a sandwich or some drink and would go back out.   And people would just keep filling the building.

You know Brother Branham had this kind of experience.   Maria Woodworth-Etter had this kind of experience.   People would just . . .   New crowds would come and go.

I mean, that’s a revival center.   Crowds would just come and go.   And he would go in and out of the meeting, but never go home consistently.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

And whose fault was it that Moses . . .?   Who provoked God by provoking Moses and cut his life and ministry short?   The people.

The same thing happened to Brother Branham.   I didn’t know it, really.   I’ve thought it, but I didn’t really realize it.

He said, “He told me one day, ‘Pauli, the Lord’s going to take me home.’”   And he said, “Do you know why?”   He said, “The people won’t quit calling me Elijah.”

Somebody said, “I don’t believe that happened.”   I do.   And your opinion and my opinion is just that - opinions.   But in my opinion, it happened.

I believe that’s exactly what Brother Branham said.   Because I know that he was diabolically opposed to that kind of idea.

He did not believe that he was Elijah.   Because it was not Elijah, but the spirit of Elijah, that needed to visit the earth.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

He [Alexander Dowie] rejected it and refused it.   But it was a hook in his heart until the day came that he declared himself publicly as Elijah, the restorer.

We have a lot to be thankful for.   You wouldn’t be where you are tonight, believing what you believe tonight, if Brother Branham hadn’t have been the character of a man, didn’t have the character and was not the kind of man that he was, because the very same thing happened to him on a weekly basis.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

And we’re blessed because the same thing could have happened to Brother Branham.   But instead, he refused and left the scene until that thing got a little bit under control, and came back because of the way people were doing.

And you’ve heard him say, “I had rather quit.   I had rather face God as a quitter than to face Him as an anti-Christ, another Christ.”

And that’s what people were trying to do.   And they failed their spiritual test.   A lot of people are in love with religion.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

And after all these years . . .   Twenty-five years went by.   Paul Cain was unheard of.   And he emerged in Kansas City as one of the Kansas City prophets.

He had the most outstanding accuracy.   Many people said . . . not Message followers, of course. They could never stretch themselves that far.

But many people said, “It’s like having William Branham.   Really, it’s like seeing Brother Branham’s gift again,” he was so accurate.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

You’ll hear Brother Branham teach this principle that when a man is set up, he sets himself up for a fall.

When you allow people to place you in that arena of infallibility, almost, you set yourself up for a great temptation.

And one of two things has to happen.   Your flesh either has to become weakened and you fall into that trap, or God somehow causes you to overcome.

We are so blessed.   We had a man of God in this generation who died with integrity.   The end of his life was glorious.

And the dirty, rotten low-down storytellers are having to change their stories.   And historians are having to be more accurate.

And I’ve lived long enough now to see his name held in high regard in many circles.   I’m able now to pick up a book in my own library where somebody says, “The greatest prophet and prophetic gift that the world has ever known since the day of the Apostles was in the life and ministry of William Branham.”

That’s the hour we’ve come to.   God has big things in store.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

Why do you think God would allow me to sit down in an experience and speak to the Church Ages, the messengers of the Seven Church Ages of history?

And why do you think that the last one, Brother Branham, would say to me with his hand on my knee, “There is something I want to tell you.   THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in.”

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

Do you remember a Word the Lord gave me sitting there some months ago that the muddy waters of the prophetic were about to be made clear, that a true Word of God was coming from the Throne that was going to push all the muddy waters out of the clear stream, that prophecy was going to come that would challenge the prophetic world?

Well, that’s exactly what was spoken to me in this night revelation where Brother Branham said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in.”

I said, “All other voices are going to be silenced.”

Somebody said, “What’s the difference?   What’s the difference going to be?”

“What?   What’s the difference going to be?”

And I’ll read these again tomorrow probably because this is the candy.   But I want to leave you with a little candy tonight.

In a message called “The Spoken Word is the Original Seed,” Brother Branham said, “Notice, what harmony.   Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father or the Father showed him first: (Harmony between God and Christ.   See? John 5:19)   “So will the Bride . . .”

Is that what I was preaching to you Tuesday night?

“So will the Bride . . .”

Didn’t I say here by the Spirit of God, “The same relationship that Messiah had with His Father, the Son of God had with His Father, that’s the relationship that the Bride is called to have with Jesus?” Here it is in the Message of the Hour.

“So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life . . .”   Anybody listening?   He shows her His Word of Life.

“(He shows Her),” he says, “and She receives It.   She never doubts It.”

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

There’s no way in the world that anybody in this building couldn’t say that somewhere down through the years there has been a little bit of doubt about something.

You wonder, “Well, how could that have been?” or in the future, or even with Brother Branham, or even some of my experiences, or what the Bride’s going to do.

We can hardly say that we haven’t experienced some form of doubt.

But here is what he said.   “He shows Her His Word of Life . . . and She receives it.   (And) She never doubts it.   Nothing can harm Her, not even death; for if the Seed be planted, the water will raise it up again.   Amen.”

“(Now, I got a great big ‘Hallelujah,’)” he said.   “Here is the secret . . .”

Tuesday night I preached about what the Message was from “The Token.”   Now I’m going to preach about what the secret is.

“Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride . . .”

Rest.   Rest.   Stop letting the devil disturb your Shabbat.   Rest.   “. . . the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word . . .”

Not only is the Word of God in the Bride, but the wisdom, the knowledge, to know what to do with the Word is in the Bride.

Ooh.   “. . . and She does it in His Name.   And then he said, “She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

What did I tell you?   I may be a liar.   I may be a phony.   I may be a fraud.   What did I tell you that Brother Branham said to me in this night vision?   He said to me, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in.”

He said, “She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.   Then it is germitized; so the Holy Spirit waters it until it is grown and serves its purpose.   They do only His will.”

You worried about what God’s going to make you do?   It will be His will.   It will be His will. You’re only going to do His will.

Relax.   Rest.

“No one can persuade them different.”

Don’t tell me, “Come over here.   Come over there.   Go over yonder.”

“No one can persuade them different.”

And this is the most powerful quote in the Message.   Listen.   It’s so powerful.   “They have THUS SAITH THE LORD, or they keep still.”

Only one thing can disturb your rest – THUS SAITH THE LORD.   When THUS SAITH THE LORD comes, you’re ready to get up and do whatever God tells you to do.

But until you have THUS SAITH THE LORD, you just do what you know to do and the rest you leave in His hands.

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

There is a Bride about to step on the scene who will not move unless she has “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”   She won’t open her mouth unless she has “THUS SAITH THE LORD.”   She won’t go or be still either.   She won’t do anything unless she has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

Don’t you see why it was so, so important and so powerful that Brother Branham would say to me, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in.”

I got these the next day.   I got these quotes the next morning.   I didn’t realize the significance.

“Then they will do the works of God.”   Then they will do the works of God.

When are they going to do the works of God?   When they have THUS SAITH THE LORD.

“Then they will do the works of God.   For it is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His day.   All things when He was here--He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.”

Did you hear that?   Jesus didn’t finish His ministry when He was on the earth.   And so therefore, it’s going to be finished in the Last Days.   Did you just hear that?   Did you just hear that.

He just said Jesus didn’t finish . . .   He said, “They will do the works of God.   For it is Himself in them, continuing His Word to fulfill as He did complete in His day.   All things when He was here--He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.”

There is to be a continuation of the ministry of Jesus Christ in the Last Days.

And it will not be because of His bodily resurrection, or the bodily resurrection of any prophet, sage or priest.   It will be because God has raised up a little people and placed “THUS SAITH THE LORD” in them.

’63.   “God is uniting His Bride.   She’s coming together from the east and the west, from the north and south.   There’s a uniting time, and that’s on right now.”

2006-05-20 PM    Prophets & Seers - Part 1

This is where people’s minds are.   That’s what’s wrong with people in this Message.   That’s where their minds are.   They’ve either got it in the past, or they’ve got in the tent, in the future. They’re missing this part.

Because how could we have “THUS SAITH THE LORD” unless Brother Branham comes back? Well, how could Jesus finish His ministry unless he bodily resurrected and come back, too? Wrong.

The Bride’s going to finish the ministry.

I’m still reading.   We can . . . maybe we don’t even have to have a service in the morning.

“God is uniting His Bride.   She's coming together from the east and the west, from the north and south.   There's a uniting time, and that's on right now.   What's She uniting for?   The rapture! Amen.   God's getting her ready.   Yes, sir, uniting, what's She uniting with?”

Any guesses?

“With the Word,” he said.   “For all heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away."

Do you want to hear what else she’s uniting herself with?

“She's uniting Herself with THUS SAITH THE LORD . . .”

You better know what THUS SAITH THE LORD is or you’ll be joining yourself to something that’s not.   You better know the difference THUS SAITH THE LORD and every other voice that’s out there, or you’ll be joining yourself to the wrong thing.

“Ooh, it doesn’t matter.   It doesn’t matter what you do.”

Yes, it must.   It matters what you join yourself to.   It matters what you unite with.

“She's uniting Herself.   She's getting ready.   Why?   She’s the Bride.   That’s right.   And she's united Herself with her Bridegroom (See?), and the Bridegroom is 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."

Now in the “Church Age to Pergamos” he said, “Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son.”

Are you so tired that you can’t get this?   I’m going to read it anyway.   You can get the tape.

“Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son.   Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father.   John 5:19.   This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life.   She receives it.   She never doubts it.”

This is the condensed version in “The Church Age Book” of what was said in “The Spoken Word is the Original Seed.”   Didn’t all come from “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” series.

“She never doubts it.   Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death.   For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again.   Here is the secret of this.   The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary).

“The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word.   She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has ‘thus saith the Lord.’

“Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass.   Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.”

Then he said,

“Those in the bride do only His will.   No one can make them do otherwise.   They have 'thus saith the Lord' or they keep still.   They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word.   He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride.

“She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do.   But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.”

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

It means that the relationship, the calling, the election on the life of Moses was such that when God spoke to him, when God revealed something to him . . .   Brother Branham described it in another ministry by saying, “It bypassed his intellect.”

You see, what we hear through our ear is filtered through our knowledge.   It is filtered through our mind.   It is filtered through our intellect.

But when God spoke to Moses, it came out of Moses’ mouth, the Word of the Lord.   God said, “I’m going to speak to him mouth to mouth.   What comes out of My mouth is going to come out of his mouth.”

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

But these men who were more than prophets, they had a special relationship and a special vehicle that God had given them whereby He could speak directly through them, bypassing their intellect, their senses, their opinions, what they thought about things, how they felt about things.

Not since have we had such a pure Word from heaven.   We are greatly blessed to have the Message of the Hour.   It is pure.   It is God’s Word.   It’s God’s opinion about His Word.

It’s God’s expression of His Word.   But I am not one who can say . . . (you may be able to say it) . . . but I am not one who can say that there isn’t some of man in the entire ministry.

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

Now to justify the statement I just made about the Message of the Hour - the reason why we can’t make the same kind of statement is we understand that over a period of years the Message as we know it developed.

Revelation progressed.   We find that there are some things that the prophet of God was preaching differently in the end than he was in the beginning.

This is not to his discredit.   In fact, it’s to his credit because it proves that he was able to hear from God in spite of his own opinions.   That’s a blessing.

But in the early years, we do hear some of the opinions of Brother Branham in the Message, how he thought about things.

Did you know that in the writings of the Epistles . . .   Okay, do you need an example?   “Hell is eternal.”   He preached it.   And yet later, he explained that we don’t have the proper understanding of that because he said, “The soul that sinneth shall surely die.”

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

God allowed for the human element.   And yet He chose the foolishness of preaching.   So the two greatest prophetic expressions that the world has ever known were Moses and the Lord Jesus Christ, a Prophet that was raised up like unto Moses.

But God did a beautiful thing in this hour.   We go through the Church Ages.   We understand how Truth was lost.   And He raised up one who He had a very special relationship with.

I do not believe that every time God spoke to Brother Branham He spoke to him mouth to mouth. But I do believe there were many times that God spoke to Brother Branham mouth to mouth.

And when God spoke to Brother Branham mouth to mouth, guess how it came out?   How did it come out?   THUS SAITH THE LORD.

Do you understand why it’s dangerous in the prophetic world for people to throw that around?   “Thus saith the Lord.   Thus saith the Lord.   Thus saith the Lord.”   It has become a habit.

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

The point I’m making right now is there were times in the ministry of William Branham, and others, when God was speaking to them in the same manner that He spoke through Moses and in the same manner that He spoke through the Lord Jesus Christ.

And every time He did, whether or not those words were added . . .   When I say, “Thus saith the Lord,” I don’t mean the addendum.   I don’t mean the appendix.   I don’t mean the end of the word has to say, “Thus saith the Lord.”

When I had this revelation and Brother Branham spoke to me by the Spirit and said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD is coming in,” I don’t believe he meant a Word from heaven that will always end with “Thus saith the Lord.”

It’s not the ending that we’re describing.   It’s the authority from where it comes.   It’s the purity of the Word that God is wanting to stress in this hour.

There were many times that Brother Branham spoke to us THUS SAITH THE LORD and never said, “Thus saith the Lord.”

But there were times that he spoke and he was speaking under inspiration.   But it did not come mouth to mouth.

How can you say that?   I can say it because truth is truth, and we have to be willing to understand the truth on which we stand so that we can continue to understand the power and the importance of what God is saying.

God is saying that there is a THUS SAITH THE LORD that is about to come in.   And the Bride will have it.

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

And when she gave it to me, she said to me, “You know, brother, we didn’t know any better.   And when we came to the Message,” she said, “we had all kinds of books.   And we had all kinds of tapes.”

And she said, “We either threw them away or we burned them because we knew that we had found the Truth and we didn’t need all that other stuff.”

But she said, “You have helped us to see, or me to see, that a lot of those things were bringing us to this place, getting us ready for what God was going to reveal.”

So is it necessary to throw it all away because it was written by Trinitarians who were baptized in the name of titles?   Or perhaps could we . . .?   (I’m putting my own words here now.)

Perhaps we could have monitored the influence of those things.   Perhaps we could have become very anointed seed-spitters, and we could have kept them for a reference, but judged everything that we read by what Truth God has revealed to us from the Word.

But we made a mistake.   She said, “Oh, I wish now we had them because I could have given you so many things that you would have loved and treasured.   But we just destroyed them.”

So I’m not thinking that it’s necessary to reject all ministries who don’t have the Message of the Hour on their business card.   But I do believe that we need to monitor their influence over our lives.

And we need to consider that a man cannot just have a ministry based on visions, dreams, visitations and revelations without having a Word foundation.

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

The Bible said sometimes we have a zeal, but it’s not according to knowledge.   It’s good to be zealous.   It’s good to want to share the Word of God.   But we’ve got to understand.

Like Brother Branham said to Brother Neville, “The gift that’s in your life is wonderful.   You’re helping people.   But you need to be very careful because if you help 99 people and miss it one time and destroy somebody, it’s very, very serious what you’re doing.”

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

I said what I said in the earlier part of this message when I told you that I believe there were great periods of time, great examples of God speaking to Brother Branham mouth to mouth . . .   And I know that He spoke to Moses that way.   And I know He spoke through the Lord Jesus that way.

And I believe that He’s going to have a company of people . . .   Jesus was not the completion of the resurrection, He was the what?   The firstfruits.   Brother Branham was not the completion of the harvest.   He was the firstfruits of the harvest.   He was not the only mature son.   He was the beginning of mature sons.

He wasn’t the only man with THUS SAITH THE LORD.   He was the beginning of men who would come forth, and women who would come forth, with THUS SAITH THE LORD.

It’s coming in.   It’s going to right a lot of wrongs and set a lot of things in order.   And I’m ready for it.

I’m one of those ready to lay my opinions before God and let the divine justice of the Lord be released through this ministry.   Hallelujah.

2006-05-21 AM    Prophets & Seers - Part 2

Why would two of the most powerful angels that had ever existed . . . why would they have fought, disputed, over the body of Moses?   It was because of this special status that God had given him that he would speak to him mouth to mouth.

And the people were so clinging to Moses that God did not want his body to be worshipped.   He did not want his memory to be worshipped.   Precious memories, how they linger.   They’re to be shared and enjoyed, but not worshipped.

Men of God are to be enjoyed.   Their legacy, their heritage, their ministries are to be gleaned from. Their faith is to be emulated.   But the test of spiritual maturity in the Last Days will be to see who will be able to turn loose of man and focus on the Lord Jesus Christ.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

The Bible talks about a time that everything will be surrendered - all power, all authority, all government, all administration, everything that’s been committed to the Son - that it will be surrendered back to the Father.

Somebody said, “Isn’t that proof that there’s a Trinity?”   Not in my Bible.

But it is a proof that there is a division of this eternal Spirit of God.   It’s proof to me that there is a different office in the Son.   He may not be a different person, but He definitely has a different commission and a different office.

I love hearing Brother Branham.   I told you this already.   I love hearing Brother Branham quote that Scripture.   And I love seeing him quote that Scripture.

I love the look he gets on his face when he’s talking to these two brothers in the interview, and he says to them that it is like the Lord Jesus said, “I can do nothing except it be revealed to me by my Father in heaven.”

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

And the words of Samuel, this established prophet of the Lord who began hearing the Voice of God at an early age, who was dedicated to the Lord from his birth like Brother Branham, like Paul Cain, like others who had experiences with God, even supernatural things surrounding their birth . . .

Samuel was established in such a way that the words that came out of his mouth did not fall to the ground.   Why not?   Because God made sure that what Samuel said came to pass.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

And so we know that Samuel could discern and hear the Voice of God.   But we don’t have any indication that he had this special gift that Moses had that God would just bypass his brain and talk right out of his mouth.

We mentioned last night that we have . . .   Listen to me what God has done in this day.   We have it on recording.   I don’t have any of Samuel’s prophecies on tape, but I have in this generation the tape where Brother Branham was ministering, and he would say . . . as we mentioned last night, but I think we should say it here.

He would say, “Now, what did He say?   That wasn’t me.   I think He said something about such and such.”   Literally, there were times . . . not every time, not all the time.

But there were times when he was dealing with people with various sicknesses and needs that God would come down and speak through his voice.

He said, “Now that was not me.   That was my voice, but that was not me.”

Somebody said, “Oh, that doesn’t sound right.”

Ooh, you’re not listening with the kind of ears I’m listening to.   It sounds very right to me.   Talk about God confirming His Word.   Talk about God knowing the need.   How could that happen?   It could happen because he was ministering under the sign of the Messiah.

And what happened in the ministry of Moses, what happened in the ministry of the Messiah, was happening again in his ministry.

And we mentioned a tape.   (Kary, we need to find that so we can play it.)   We mentioned a time where Brother Branham is speaking and the Voice of the Lord speaks through him and says, “This is not Brother Branham.”

Why would God do that?   Because He knows how we are.   He has to tell us everything.   We don’t know sometimes when God is speaking and when the pastor is speaking.

So God just came down one time and spoke out of Brother Branham’s lips and said, “I’m only using his voice.   This is not Brother Branham.”

Somebody said, “Couldn’t a man put on?”   Sure a man could put on.   “Couldn’t a man fake something like that?”   Sure he could.   But a man operating as a man could not then turn around and reveal the secrets of man’s hearts that would later be followed up with documented miracles.

And we have that on tape.   And I’m not going to preach about Brother Branham this morning, but I have in my hand two books – one an older book from 1996.

This is the book that I read in 1996.   And it was a book that talked about the prophetic.   It mentions Paul Cain, Mike Bickle, John Paul Jackson and Bob Jones.   It also mentions Brother Branham.

Everything that is said about Brother Branham in this book is not positive, but it doesn’t bother me. I just understand that this is common opinions.   But he talks about . . .   In fact, this is one of the books where it says he made his mistake by being a teacher.

But even in a book like this, there is no denying, I noticed . . .   They questioned his doctrine, but there is no denying that he was a prophet.   It’s clear.   They don’t try to deny it.   They can’t argue with it.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

And we’ve talked about also last week this phrase, “Thus saith the Lord,” and how that gets thrown around.

He [Bob Jones] said, “I get so tired of hearing that.”   He said, “Everybody has THUS SAITH THE LORD.”

And he said, “They don’t even understand how important, how serious, that is, because you’re saying . . .   When you declare something to be THUS SAITH THE LORD, you’re saying there is none of you in that.   “There’s none of me in that.   That is only the Lord.”

And to declare that something is only the Lord . . .   In fact, he said we should only receive that kind of a Word from a prophet who has been established.

How do we get established?   Well, by experience, and so forth.   But he said, “That’s a high level.”

When we talked to him about what had been spoke to me in the Spirit in Jerusalem that THUS SAITH THE LORD was about to come in, he said, “I know that is nothing but the truth.”

He said, “I’ve been feeling that and I’ve been sensing that.   And it’s going to take that to settle things down in the Spirit.

I told him about the muddy water that I saw.   He said, “That is exactly right.   And there’s only one thing that’s going to clear up that mess.   It’s THUS SAITH THE LORD.”   Hallelujah.

To think that we’re living right on the verge of something that would so shake the very foundation . . .

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

And who has supreme authority?   God, our Father, the eternal Spirit of God has all authority.   All authority belongs to Him.   But remember that Jesus made an unusual statement when He said, “Behold . . .”

This was to the disciples.   This was part of their commissioning.   A few weeks ago on the sixtieth anniversary, wasn’t it, of Brother Branham’s commission, the Lord said, “I’m going to do a re-commissioning.   There is something coming out of this.”

And a part of the commissioning that Jesus gave to His disciples was, “Behold.”   “Behold” doesn’t mean just “listen up.”   That’s “hearken.”

What does “behold” mean?   To see.   He said, “Behold, I give you power over all the powers of the enemy.”   “Look and see.   Recognize that I’m giving you power over all the powers of the enemy.”

And do you know what happened?   What does that mean?   Somebody tell me what that means? That means that He gave them authority.   There was a definite shift in authority.   They didn’t have this authority before then.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

We look to the example of the five manifestations of the Spoken Word and we see that all authority is revealed in those five divisions of the manifestation of the Spoken Word in Brother Branham’s ministry.

They cover all realms of authority.   One was speaking to disease.   One was speaking to the elements.   One was speaking deliverance or salvation.   One was speaking resurrection.   And this covers all.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

I told you when I first got back from Jerusalem that I saw in the Spirit that the seven Church Age messengers were still working.

Bob Jones looked at me and he said, “Do you know how Brother Branham could come to you that way?   Do you know how these others could come to you that way?”

He said, “If it wasn’t this way, it would be spiritualism.”

He said, “Some people will hear that and they’ll say, ‘Why, that’s spiritualism.   That’s communicating with the dead.’”

He said, “But that’s not in the arena of that at all.”   He said, “This is how it comes.   He was able to come to you because he came in that Cloud of Witnesses.”

I said, “Amen.”   How could I say, “Amen?”

Because that’s what God revealed to me in Jerusalem when I thought how am I even going to share that?   People will say, “You talked to Paul?   You sat down and had a conversation?”

Somebody said, “How in the world could you believe something like that?”   I have to believe it because the Bible said, “They without us are not complete.”

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

If it’s for us, we want to know it.   We want to be able to discern it.   We want to be able to take it back to the Word.

But we don’t want to be undressed.   We don’t want to stand before God naked.   Brother Branham said, “The five-fold ministry is God’s dresswear.   That’s what He uses to dress His Bride.”

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

You know everything we read, everything we hear, everything we get a hold of out there . . .   I don’t know.   I can’t help it.   I believe it’s what God wants me to do.

But if I didn’t want to do it, I think I would have to do it anyway.   It’s part of who we’ve been made to be in this hour.   We bring it all the way back always to the Message.

And we see that if Message people could have been taught a little bit about this division, it would have been so helpful for them.   And perhaps they wouldn’t have been disputing like they’re disputing today (Jude 9) over the body of Moses.

They are still disputing over the body of Moses.   And that wouldn’t have happened.   God knew that was going to happen.   That’s why He hid the body of Moses.

And when He hid it, He thought He had clearly hid it and it wasn’t going to be a problem, perhaps. But here comes the devil.   And he said, “I want that.   I want the body of Moses.   You’re through with him.”

“What do you want it for?”   God said, “I’m not through with him and you’re not going to get him.” Michael went down and settled this dispute.   We read the verse last night - Jude 9. Michael, the archangel . . . he went down and settled this dispute.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

Ooh.   But there’s a lot of people around this Message who are disputing and arguing and fighting and stewing and troubled about the body of Moses.   And I’m not in the least bit concerned about the body of Moses.

I know where that body is.   I know where the body of the Moses for this generation is.   It’s laying up there in the cemetery under a pyramid-shaped capstone, headstone, tombstone.

And I’ve been there, and I didn’t receive any special virtue or power when I was standing there either.   But it was a nice memorial for a wonderful servant of God.   But I don’t have to dispute about that body.   I know exactly where that body is, and I know exactly where it’s going to stay until the general resurrection.

It’s settled for me, but a lot of people missed it because they don’t understand.   They’ve taken the generalization of the term “prophet” and they don’t understand.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

And then to some is given the gift of prophecy, meaning all don’t have that special gift, but some have that gift.

Brother Branham said, “It may work one time.   God may use you one time in that gift.   You may never be used again, or it may be a gift that stays with you your whole Christian life.”

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

I found this very interesting.   I quoted this, and I think I’ll read it to you right out of Jim Goll’s book here, about Brother Branham.

He said, “Seers often are dependent upon angelic visitations or the manifested Presence of God. Consequently, these prophetic vessels may appear to have certain limitations until they sense the anointing.   This was supposedly the case with William Branham, one of the leaders of the healing and deliverance movement in the 40's and 50's.

One day in the late 40's, he had an angelic encounter that brought with it gifts of healing and a word of knowledge from that day on.   William Branham moved in a very high level of specifics, but with some limitations.”

(Remember, I made this quote.   I was just looking to see when this book was published - 2004.)

“William Branham moved in a very high level of specifics, but with some limitations.   Sometimes he would not be able to do anything until his angels showed up.   When the angels came, he received release because revelation began to flow.”

Now, I personally believe that is not an accurate description of the ministry of Brother Branham, although I understand the concept that he’s trying to explain.

But notice, as believers, doesn’t that almost undersell the ministry that we have seen?   And doesn’t it make it sound like he had to wait for a group of angels to come and help him minister? And how many of you know that’s not what he said?   But do you see the position that people are put in sometimes when they have to try to articulate to their friends?

It wasn’t just any angel.   It was the Angel of the Lord.   It was the Angel of the Covenant.   He never said angels, in plural, but it was the Angel of the Lord that came.   And he called Him on some occasions, “The Lord Jesus Christ.”

And he would say things like, “We don’t have to talk about Him any more.   He has just come in the building.”   And immediately, miracles would start taking place - discernments, and so forth.

So I love it.   I love that.   I do.   It’s so much better than what a lot of people have said.   But it’s not 100 percent accurate.   But it proves that he was a man with limitations . . . it helps us to see that . . . until something showed up, until he saw something of His Father, until the Angel of the Lord came down, because Brother Branham was a prophet.   Oh, yes.

But he was a seer.   He saw things in the spirit realm and he described them.   And he was dependent on the Angel of the Lord.

And I want to ask you a question.   What’s wrong with that?   He was dependent on the Angel of the Lord.   You see, all seers are prophets, but not all prophets are seers.   All seers, all who see in this kind of revelatory vision realm are prophets, but a man can be a prophet and not see.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

And I said, “No, no, no, no, no, no.   I’m not going to let you disturb my peace.”

The Lord is my peace.   The Lord is my peace.   Somebody say it, “The Lord is my peace.” Yahweh Shalom - God is my peace.

Brother Branham preached a message, “Shalom.”   God is my peace.   Let Him settle your heart with peace this morning.   Let His grace just come and give you peace.

“You don’t know what I’m going through.”   Peace.   “You don’t know how I feel.”   Peace.

2006-05-28 AM    Prophets & Seers – Part 3

I told my boys . . . I said, “Benjamin and Joshua, and Olivia, too, we are going to somebody’s newly remodeled condominium.   We don’t really know them.   We will never get to see Brother Branham until we see him in heaven.   And Brother Branham was a special prophet.   He had a special office.

“But we’re going to see a man [Bob Jones] who is a prophet and who has a place in God’s economy.   And we want to show him respect.   And I want you to be on your best behavior.”

And I prepared them all the way, and they did pretty good for a change.   They were real respectful - spoke nice and answered back and did pretty good.

2006-06-01 PM    The Ministry of Angels in the End Time - Part 1

Now it’s not a mystery to a lot of people, but it may be a little different to some of those who are new to the streaming tonight, that we would mention so many times the name of one of God’s generals, Brother William Branham.

I’m not going to spend a lot of time with that tonight.   But I can tell you that in one of these meetings I am.   And I’m going to show you . . . because I know that we are preaching to people from all kinds of church backgrounds.

But there is a group of people who are among us tonight and who are streaming with us that are very familiar with his ministry - not because we are, what they say, “Branhamites,” but because we believe that God used him with a special sign, a gift that was a sign to this world, that the Messiah was at hand, that He was coming again.

And it was similar . . . it was exactly the same kind of sign that introduced the Messiah the first time He came.

And so I’ve spent some time today, and many days in the last few weeks, just going through some of the things that Brother Branham preached about angels.

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Now I said all that to say this.   We who have studied the teachings of Brother Branham over the years, we have kind of fixated on one aspect of angels - the Angel of the Lord.   That’s a good thing to be excited about.

But I was surprised when I found the thousands of times that Brother Branham mentioned angels - thousands of times.   If you take “angel” and then “angels,” and all the different ways - “host of angels” - all the different ways that you can do it and search . . .

We’re very blessed.   If you’re interested in anything he had to say, and there are some people out there that are . . .   And we’re very blessed because we can just do a search and go right through and find out.

And I’ve heard it.   I’ve read it.   I’ve heard the tapes where a lot of those things were said.   But it just went over me.   It was just a common thing and it just went right over me.   It never . . .   You know, that’s what’s so special about what God has done here.

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But I was so amazed when I started . . .   I’m not through yet.   I haven’t made it all the way through.   There are too many of them.   I haven’t made it all the way through.   I’ve spent hours reading the things.   I said the only way to know is to read everyone of them.   And that’s what I’ve been doing.

Sometimes my eyes get so tired, I can hardly see the screen and I have to stop and do something else.   Couldn’t afford to print it all out yet.   I’m just going through selecting some to print.

But some of the things . . .   I just want to say a couple of things before we . . .   Tonight is just a foundation.   I felt bad about it, going through the course of the day.   I thought, “You know, it won’t be so exciting, you know, because there’s a foundation that has to be laid.”

We’ve got to see it Scripturally.   Then I’m going to come here in a service or so and give it to you according to the Message of the Hour.   And then I want to talk to you about what God is revealing in this day.   We’ve got to know what our foundation is.

And I was amazed at how many times Brother Branham prayed to God that the angels of the Lord would come into the building.   Time after time . . . I’ve heard the tapes.   I’ve read the books.   But it never . . . What do you say?   It never stood out.   It never leapt up, jumped up, into my face or it never captured my attention.   But it has now.   Over and over again . . .

And I mentioned today to somebody, “Do you know what time of the service, all these hundreds of services out there where great outstanding miracles were taking place (the majority of them in the 50's and early 60's, late 40's, all the 50's and early 60's) - great, mighty miracles, discernment and even the secrets of men’s hearts revealed . . .”

What time would it usually be that Brother Branham would start talking about angels?   It would be at the end of the preaching, when the sermon was coming to a close and he was getting ready to pray a blessing, so to speak, over the Word of God, and he was getting ready to open up the prayer line.   He was getting ready to call for the numbers on the prayer cards, or perhaps there were already people in front of him.

You’d be surprised how many times Brother Branham was already praying for a woman, or praying for a man, and in his prayer over them he would pray . . . because he hadn’t done it earlier.   At that moment he would start praying that the angels of the Lord would come into the building.

He not only said that, I want to tell you, hundreds of times . . .   And it never . . .   How can you listen to something, as I have, and it not stand out in your mind?   I don’t . . .   There is a season, there’s an hour, there’s a time that God wants to make something emphasized.

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We’ve heard it.   I’ve heard it.   I kept sitting there at my desk . . .   I’ve heard these sermons.   I’ve read these books.   How is it that I have missed him saying things like, “Now, may the angels of heaven, let the host of heaven, come and take their positions.   May they stand . . .   Let them come now and stand by every bench.”

You know Brother Branham was a country preacher when he said “bench” instead of pew.   We didn’t have pews in the church I was raised in either.   We had benches.

And he said, “Let the angels of the Lord come and stand by every bench.”

I heard Brother Hollin Hickerson say this week in a testimony that I was listening to . . .   I heard him say that on many occasions he had heard Brother Branham say . . .   I couldn’t find it exactly like this.   But he said, “I heard Brother Branham say it many times.   ‘Look,’ he said, ‘you might not see it . . .’”

I found some places where he said it like that.   But he said, “The angels of the Lord are lined all the way up and down these walls.”   That’s good.   Somebody say, “That’s good.”   And it’s good to know that.

And he would give them specific purposes for coming.   He would say, “Let them come and do such-and-such.”   He even would say, “Let them come and help the people to get this Word that’s going forth.   Let angels come and help the people to grasp this Word that’s going . . .”

How do they do that?   I don’t know.   But if I were you, I’d open my mouth in case the angel wants to help pour something in.

He gave us so many different descriptions.   And I’m not exaggerating.   The Presence . . .   I was reading, not listening.   But several times today the Spirit of God just came down in my office and I was just speaking in heavenly languages because I felt what he was talking about.   I even heard him say, “Hey, that’s . . .   Don’t you feel . . .   Did you feel that?”   He said, “That was the angels of the Lord just coming in.”

I’ve heard him say things about the Angel of the Lord, but now he’s talking about the angels.   And you’ll see some of this later.   He even gave some duties of angels.   He talked a lot about recording angels - angels that are recording things, writing them down, making sure that a record is made.

He talked about gathering angels, angels that come to gather the tares out of the way.   He talked about investigating angels.   And he talked about investigating angels of judgment - angels who come to see, to observe, like heavenly spies, what’s going on in the earth in preparation for judgment.

Many, many times . . .   And I’m going to move on, but I’m excited about these things.   Many, many times he used these things as warnings.   He said, “We see now angels are appearing to men.   Prophets are raising up.   We must be at a junction of time.”

Think on that a minute.   Selah - pause and think on that just a minute.   And he didn’t say that once, he said it a multitude of times - maybe over twenty times.

“Angels are appearing to people,” he said.   “Prophets are raising up.   Signs and wonders are being shown.   We must be at a junction of time.”

“There’s an increase in the prophetic anointing in the earth right now.   Angels are appearing to men and women all over the world.   Signs and wonders are taking place among the Bride, the Bridal Company.   It must mean to us that we are at another junction of time.”

Wait till you hear it.   Some of you won’t believe it till you hear it.

“We must be at another junction of time.   Something must be about to take place.”   And I know it is.   I have no doubt in my mind.

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Did you know I heard the man of God talk about reading some great things?   I heard him talking about those Messiahettes . . .   I’ve got to tell this.   I can’t hold it.   I wanted to hold this.   I can’t hold this.

Will you let me tell something tonight and then give you the exact language tomorrow night?   Can I just tell you tonight the best of my memory and then tomorrow night give you the exact language?

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We hear a message called, “Restoration of the Bride Tree.”   We know that doctrinally God has put everything back on that tree that needs to be there.   But somehow in this generation, from the time that the Word was restored till the hour we’re living in now, there is some kind of gap that’s happened.

Something has happened that we’re not manifesting what we know.   We know the right stuff, but we’re not manifesting it yet.   We’re not putting it into action.

But you just wait until God announces that shift of authority.   Then your name on the check is just like the heavenly Father’s Name.   And that means all the authority that He has is given to you. Brother, this is really something else.

And I’ve been reading about these Messiahettes.   This is how Brother Branham described the people of God in the last days operating with the power that the Messiah had when He came. Because everything that was in Yeshua, the Lord Jesus, has been poured into the Church.

And now we understand the Bride and the church overlap.   But it’s not the same entity.   I said, “It overlaps.”

“How could you say that the Bride and the church overlap?”   Because it’s raining on both.   The church and the Bride are getting some rain - experiencing things, seeing things, hearing things, feeling things.   So there is certainly an overlap.

But thank God, we can understand that there’s a remnant that’s been called out.   Anybody believe that?   And when God announces this shift of authority, it’ll answer a lot of these questions.   You won’t even think to ask them any more.   I’ve been sensing that.

So I’ve been reading about these Messiahettes and these manifested sons of God.   And you know, when that manifested son of God truth, when that started coming out years ago, of course people went way off out there somewhere like they always do.   But there’s a balance.

There’s got to be a balance there.   And we want that.   We don’t want to go way out there or way over here.   We want to stay right here with this.

So in reading along in these things and seeing what God was going to do . . .   We’ve talked a lot about the double portion that Elisha had.   If Brother Branham, like we see in the Scripture, came in the anointing . . .   He was not Elijah.   He did not believe he was Elijah.   But the spirit of Elijah operated in his ministry.   Do you believe that?

Then there’s a Bride in this hour that will be a part of that anointing because Elijah was a forerunner.   Elisha was a type of those who would believe and manifest the Message that Elijah brought.   Therefore they receive a double portion.

He said, “If you see me going away . . .   If you can recognize my leaving, you’ll receive a double portion.   You’ve got to let me go.”   Elijah was saying to Elisha, “You’ve got to let me go.   I know you love me, but you’ve got to let me go because something else is coming in.   You’ve got to let me go.   Something else is coming in.”

And this is what happened.

And we’ve been reading all this and getting it into our spirit.   We know Brother Branham had a special gift as a seer prophet - very, very special - high.   It’s not disputed in the Charismatic and Pentecostal world today.

They may argue about his doctrine.   They may argue about his methods.   But they agree that he had a prophetic gift, or the office of a prophet, like they had never seen before.

2006-06-01 PM    The Ministry of Angels in the End Time - Part 1

I watched again yesterday . . .   How many of you have seen that little interview that Paul and Jan Crouch did some years ago with Daisy and T. L. Osborne?   Anybody seen it?

I watch it again yesterday.   It’s just about twenty minutes.   And you know, nobody could be any more colorful than Daisy and T. L. Osborne.   But they absolutely do not mince any words when it comes to describing what they saw in the ministry of Brother Branham.

T. L. was a leader in . . . I think, in the Assemblies of God.   Might have been Church of God.   I’m not sure exactly.   But he was a leader in a big denomination.   Their church was like a . . . almost like a headquarter church.   He was the secretary for the district.   And in those days, several states made up a district.

And all the . . .   This was early, too.   And the denominational leaders were telling people, “Don’t go to the meetings.   Don’t go to the meetings,” - warning people not to go.

T. L. and Daisy had just come back from India as failures - failures.   Nothing was accomplished much is what they say.   And they were hungry.   And yet T. L., who had been fasting, who had been praying . . .   Tommy, who had been fasting and who had been praying, was willing to let his denomination tell him where to go to look for something.   So he stayed at home.

And Daisy went with an 85 year-old woman, who said she was old enough, it didn’t matter what anybody told her to do.   And they went to the meeting.   And the things they saw amazed them.

And Daisy went home to talk to Tommy and she said, “You’ve got to go.   You’ve got to go and see.   This is bigger than we’ve ever seen before.   You’ve got to go.”   And they went together the next night.   And the things they saw in that meeting . . .

I’ll tell you what T. L. said to Jan and Paul Crouch.   And they both agreed, acknowledged publicly, what a great man of God this was.   He said, “I saw God in a man.   I’d never seen it that way before.”

He said, “And there were thousands of voices saying to me at one time, ‘You can do that.’”

Now some of you might be offended by that, but I’m not.   Because that meeting launched one of the most successful evangelistic ministries of our time - T. L. and Daisy Osborne.

They went back to India.   And this time the dead were raised and the blind received their sight and the deaf were hearing.   Miracles were taking place because they finally saw somebody who said, “It’s not just a printed record of what Jesus was.   He’s alive.   He’s on the scene.   He’s still doing great . . .”

Isn’t that beautiful?   Hallelujah, that’s beautiful to me.   It’s beautiful to me.   And it’s a matter of history.   A lot of things took place.

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But Brother Hickerson was kind of explaining this gift.   And I hope this doesn’t stir you the wrong way.   He was telling that he was having dinner with Brother Branham in Fur’s Cafeteria.   I’ve been there.   Some of you have.

And he said that Brother Branham was talking about the Sword that appeared in his hand in Sabino Canyon.   You’ve heard it?

And he said, “Brother Branham reached over and took the butter knife and laid the butter knife in his hand.   And he said, ‘Brother, that’s how real it was.’   He took his hand and put it around that knife.   He said, ‘That’s how real it was.   It was real.   It wasn’t just a vision, a dream.   It was a Sword came in my hand.   And I put my hand . . .   It was just that real.’”

And I don’t remember.   I told you I’d give you the details tomorrow or another night.   I don’t remember what the question was, but Brother Hickerson had a question he wanted to ask Brother Branham about the supernatural, about the gifts and about these different things.

And in this testimony, Brother Hickerson clearly says that he believes that the Bride is going to have the double portion of Elijah’s Spirit.   That’s powerful for somebody who has come from where he’s come from.

And he was talking about it.   And he asked Brother Branham a question.   And listen, please don’t be offended by this.   If I didn’t believe it was God, I wouldn’t be telling it tonight with all these new people streaming.   I believe people have to know this.

And I hope you don’t think Brother Branham was trying to be somebody he wasn’t.   Because I heard T. L. say, “That was the thing that amazed me the most.   He just came to the pulpit and you had no reason to believe that anything was going to happen.”

He said, “Not by his looks, not by the way he dressed, not by the way he spoke, not by the way he addressed the crowd or moved was there any indication that God was about to do something.” But He was.   He said, “That’s what impressed me.   There was no airs, you know.”

You know, today it would be so flamboyant.   Wouldn’t it?   It would be so Hollywood - make-up and flashing lights and everything.   But it was just so pure and so precious.   So don’t misunderstand what I’m saying.

But he was asking Brother Branham some questions about it.   And Brother Branham said to him, “Now here it is.   It’s like this.”   He said, “You’re here [he put his hand low] and God is here [he put his hand high] , and I’m here [he put his hand in the middle].”

He was talking about his office, the office of a prophet.   That doesn’t offend anybody, does it?   If it does, you just need a foundation.   And if you haven’t got one by now, you’ll probably never have it - not if you’ve been sitting here all this time.

“God is here.”   And he said, “You’re here, Brother Hick.”   And he said, “I’m here.”   That doesn’t offend me.   He looked at him and he said, “Don’t you dare try to come up to where I am.”

That’s a powerful statement, isn’t it?   “Don’t you dare try to come up to where I am, this office.” He didn’t call it an office, but he just described it right here.

Brother Hickerson, at his own admission, was a very uneducated and simple man.   And he said, “He would have had to talk to me in terms like that because I wouldn’t have got it otherwise.“

But he said, “If you should see me go up here . . . “   What was up here?   This is where God was. “If you should see me move up here, you might be able to come up to here [to the middle position where Bro. Branham had been].”

Wow.   I remember that’s one of the things I heard and I nearly passed out on the floor.   It’s been hidden in my memory all these years.   I feel trembling, I feel weak inside, when I think of something like that - right now, the way it struck me then.

That’s so powerful.

Somebody said, “If it’s so powerful, tell me what it means.”   It means exactly what we’ve been preaching.   It substantiates, it confirms, this THUS SAITH THE LORD.   It confirms the double portion that’s going to fall on the Bride in the last hour.   It confirms the authority.

A prophet has authority.   Didn’t he?   A real true prophet of God has authority.   He spoke with authority to the elements, and to the lost, and to sickness and disease, and so many different things.

He said, “If you see me . . .”   It sounded to me just like what Elijah said.   “If you see me . . . “ Oh, there’s a holy remnant of people being called out all over the world who have seen with their eyes and with the eyes of their spirit that Elijah has gone up.   He’s gone up.

And it’s left something.   It’s left a realm empty.   It’s left a position empty.   And not just any Joe Blow or Tom, Dick or Harry is going to jump up into that place.   But there’s a holy remnant of people - the overcomers, those who are hearing the cry of the Spirit, “Come over,” - overcomers.

Those are the ones who are going to recognize their destiny, their calling.   Your destiny is to move into a new position of authority in the Spirit.   That’s part of your destiny.

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And this is something that I’ll show you in a night or two.   This is one of the things that made Brother Branham really upset.   It really bothered him, because he met with an evangelical preacher who told him, who said to him . . .   And I’ll read the conversation, because he told it over and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.   He kept telling it.

It never got out of his spirit.   It seemed almost like it was in his craw.   Why did he take it so personal?   Because he was one who was ministered to by angels.   He understood.

And this man said to him, “Don’t you know that angelic ministry ceased in the New Testament when the Holy Ghost was given?”

So he said, “This story that you tell and how you base your ministry on the visitation of an Angel,” he said, “it’s not Biblical.”

Ooh, I like what the prophet of God told him.   And I’ll . . . I’m not giving it all to you tonight, but I’ll read it.   You’ll like it.   He said to him, “Do you believe So-and-so had the Holy Ghost?”

“Yes.”

“Do you believe Paul had the Holy Ghost?”

“I do.”

He said, “But an angel appeared to him.”

He went right down the list.   “Do you believe Peter had the Holy Ghost?”

“Yes.”

“But an angel appeared to him.   He needed the ministry of angels.”

Even with the Holy Ghost given to the Early Church, the ministry of angels was still important - so much so that they’re mentioned 165 times in the New Testament.

So if anybody in here believes that because you’ve got the Holy Ghost that angels are not important, and so forth . . .   And I’m going to say again tonight, as Brother Branham said many times and all God’s men have said, I hope, “We don’t pray to angels.   We don’t worship angels. We’re not going to fixate on angels.  But I’m going to welcome them.”

I want them to know I’m going to welcome their help.   I’m going to make sure that I make room in my life for angelic intervention.   I need all the help I can get.   Maybe you don’t, but I do.

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Why are we going through this?   Do you really feel like this is important?   Do you really feel like this is how a foundation is laid?   Absolutely.   There are people who are here and who are listening that would not give this Word any kind of confidence or credence or authority if I couldn’t show you that the Bible is filled . . .

And for you who are students of the Message of the Hour, I will show you that the Message of the Hour is filled . . .   Prayer after prayer, after prayer, after prayer, after prayer, he prayed, “Send the angels.   Let the angels come.”

What a prayer.   And I heard it and missed it.   I’ve read the Bible and I missed it.

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It’s just like the devil.   It’s just how he operates.   He sent out this counterfeit New Age fascination with angels.   He put those scarecrows out there to make people afraid of the truth about angels.

And so the church people . . . we just read over it, we skim over it.   It didn’t stand out in our mind and in our spirit.

But you just let God take you out of your bed and hang you suspended in the Spirit between heaven and earth like He did for me (not to me, but for me) some weeks ago now . . .

And I looked down and saw on one side the New City of Jerusalem and looked down on the other side and saw the Old City of Jerusalem.   In front of me was a ladder that was leading straight up into heaven.   And I saw angels ascending and descending.

And not only that.   But I was privileged in the Spirit to be able to fulfill a prayer that Brother Branham prayed years ago concerning God allowing us to join those angels and climb that ladder. I found the prayer.   He was praying a prayer.

And he prayed that God would let us.   I know it’s a spiritual thing, but it registered with me. Okay? It registered with me.

Another thing that is a little bit significant is the Bible, when it describes Jacob at Bethel seeing this ladder and the angels ascending and descending . . . he had just left Beersheva.   And it says that as he left, when he left, after he left, is when he saw this experience.

Brother Branham talks about this experience lots of times.   And he said, “What it signified was the House of God, the Sanctuary, Beth-el, Bethel, the House of God.”

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And then he [Bob Jones] talked about something that has always been a little mysterious to me. And Brother Branham talked about it a little bit differently than what we were taught in the denominations about Saul and the witch of Endor, and Samuel.

And some people have taught . . .   We were taught in the denominations that this was an evil spirit that had taken on the look of Samuel.

Brother Branham said on more than one occasion . . .   (And it was brought up at the table that Brother Branham said it.   I appreciated that.   I didn’t bring it up.) . . . that it was Samuel - that it was not the spirit of Samuel or an evil spirit masquerading as Samuel, that it was Samuel - seemingly come back from the dead.

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I’ve really been enjoying hearing these testimonies.   I told you about Brother Collins.   Brother West brought the DVD.   I enjoyed it so much.   I am a tremendous seed-spitter.   I worry about some of you because I don’t think some of you have the gift of spitting seed.   But I think God has given . . .

If He’s given me a good gift, I believe that’s one of the good gifts He’s given me.   I believe I’m a good seed-spitter.   And I’m not bragging or boasting, I’m just saying, “I thank the Lord because that is not my nature, and that is not who I was before I came to the revelation of this Message.

I was not a seed-spitter.   I was the one who threw the baby out the window because the bath water was dirty.   That would have been me.   I would have opened the window . . .   If there was something I didn’t agree with, even after my first years of being in the Message, I would have just opened the window, threw baby, bath water, dirt, soap, everything out the window.   No need in fooling with that.

But you know, you really cannot listen to these messages over and over again and not start picking up a little bit of that spirit, the ability to discern and to know and to see and to see through.

That’s what a seed-spitter does.   You can honor the gift.   You honor the good.   You look for the good.   You can read a book and you know by the Spirit what’s right and what’s wrong.   I worry about people, but I want to have that kind of a spirit.

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He was talking about these portals and these openings, and so forth, and he said to me (Bob Jones) . . . he said, “This is how Samuel was able to come through and appear to Saul.   He came through a portal that was opened for that purpose.”

Now I can’t tell you all of it, but it answered a lot of questions.   Now he talked about a portal being an open place.   We have a different terminology for it (okay?) - a place that God has put His Name.   This is kind of what we think about.

When God has put His blessing on a place, special things happen there, (Do you believe that?) whether it’s Jerusalem or Smith Stations, Alabama, or wherever it is.

This is a little bit different than that.   It’s an opening in the heavenly realms.   I heard Brother Branham explain it - saw it . . . read it, rather - him explain it.   He talked about the different levels of heaven and moving from one level to the next.   Did you know he talked about that?

I heard him talk about it.   He explained the third heaven.   “That was a high place,” he said.

And anyway, without going into that yet . . .   We will.   We’ll get there.

But then he said, “About this portal I see it over your head, it’s moving with you.”   He said, “And that’s how you were able to go up.”   As God opened a way in the Spirit, He let you go up.   You saw that ladder.   You climbed that ladder.”

And he said, “I want you to know, that portal is still open over you.”   He said, “There comes a time that a portal will open and it will close, and so forth.”   But he said, “That portal, the same portal that was used to take you up in the Spirit, it’s still open over your head.”

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Brother Kary was telling me about something.   (We’ll get the quote for you.)   He was telling me about something, when I mentioned this to him today, where there was a black man . . .   (What was the story?   What was wrong with him?   He was sick?)

He was blind.   There was a black man, a colored man, in Arkansas.   And he was blind and couldn’t see.   And he had never heard about Brother Branham.   And he said he had a dream. And in that dream his black nanny . . .   That’s how Brother Branham explained it.   Please don’t take no harm with that, by that.   What that means is a mama - a real mama.   He had a real mama who loved the Lord, evidently.

And she came to him in a dream and told him . . .   (What now?)

“You’re going to receive your sight.”   (Did she tell him to go to Brother Branham?)   Told him in this dream to go to Brother Branham, and he’d be prayed for and he would receive his sight.

And Brother Branham tells that on a tape and Brother Kary was listening to it.

Now was that a dream?   Maybe.   Or it could have been one of those portals that had opened. And she was able to step through that portal and speak to him.   I heard the prophet say, “Don’t try to communicate with them.   That’s spiritualism (Although he didn’t always call it spiritualism. Sometimes he said “spiritism.”) - spiritualism.   Don’t try to contact them.”

But, they can say something to you.   They can talk to you.   And you can answer back.   But don’t you go out there contacting them.

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What about this story?   Hmm.   If you think some of the things that they talk about today are wild . . .   (Haha)   I wonder why you have a problem with them?   Think about some of the things we’ve heard.

What about Brother Welch Evans?   On the gas station and a wrecker was called to go down and cut a boy out of a vehicle.   (Is that right?   Am I talking about the right person?)

When he got there, he went to cut the boy out and saw his shirt . . . (Oh no, is that the same? Am I giving it the right name?   I think so.) . . . and realized it was his son.   And he went to Brother Branham.

I need some of these testimonies transcribed so that I can have them ‘cause I just can’t grasp them all in my mind to sort them all out and the stories you hear . . .   And I’ve listened to a lot in the last few days.

But if I’ve got it right, he called Brother Branham.   Brother Branham wasn’t around.   He talked to Brother Branham.   He told him what happened and wanted Brother Branham, of course, to bring him back.   If I’ve got the story right, Brother Branham prayed.   He let him pray.

He called him back, or made contact with him somehow.   And he said, “I searched and searched, and I finally found him.”

Now that is . . .   You know?   You think somebody telling me, a little prophet telling me, there is a portal over my head . . . . you think that sounds strange?   What about somebody saying in the fifties and sixties, “I searched and searched for him.”

Do you think the Baptist preacher was talking like that?   Do you think there was any preacher in the Assembly of God talking about, “I searched and searched for his spirit out there, and I found him?”   No.   No.

What we hear today shouldn’t in any way be revolutionary to us.   We believe something out of season - all of us, really, all of us.

“I searched and searched for him, and found him.”   And he said, “I could bring him back.   I could call him back.”   But he said, “If I were you, I would leave him there.   He’s at peace.”

And the man said, “That’s what I want to do.”   I believe it was . . .   I believe it was the Evans boy, wasn’t it?   Wasn’t it?   I think.

There were several of them.   I believe it was.   So it wasn’t Ronnie, but the other one.   It’s way back.   And he wanted to go get him.   He wanted him, of course, raised from the dead.

How?   How could Brother Branham do that?   How could he go out in the Spirit realm like that and search?

Well, we . . .   If you want to bring it to terminology that’s being used now, he moved through a portal that God had given him in his position, in his place.   Even though he had this position, he had to have access.   And God gave him access.

What do you think had happened if he could ever move up there to where God was?   It might help you to move up into a place where you have something more with God than you’ve got right now. So you can sit on a pew and have a quilting session and say, “Oh, bless God, we’ve got it all?”

No, so you can be sent forth to do the works of the Lord.   Whooo . . .   He said, “That’s how . . . “ He told . . .   Bob Jones said, “That’s how Samuel came through.   He came through that way.” That’s . . .   They weren’t teaching that in the denominations.

I had a hard time believing when I heard Brother Branham say it, especially since in the next paragraph he says, “Saul was killed by the Philistines.   He didn’t commit suicide.”

Don’t understand it, but that’s what he said.

We’re getting ready for something.   I’m ready.   I’m ready.   I want God’s will.

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I heard Brother Branham say the same thing today.   They [angels] don’t understand the ways of mankind.   They don’t understand the plan of redemption.   They don’t understand this overcoming and fighting the good fight.   And this is not something that is a part of their knowledge.

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But every time in history that angels have showed up with frequency, like I believe is about to happen . . .   Brother Branham was preaching on this and he said, “It is a junction of time.   And it is mercy before judgment.”

Now if that doesn’t want to make you shout down the isle - talk about judgment.   But if God is going to do what I believe He’s doing for the Body of Christ, it will also be a sign to others that the wrath and the judgment of God is about to be poured out on this world.

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Concerning that “Third Pull” . . .   I’m going to say this a little mysterious, without giving any explanation.   Because some of you are students and you know what I’m talking about.   Later . . . Others will know later.   We’ll discuss it another service, but not right now.

I never got this until today.   You can look at it lots of different ways, but this is what I heard a man of God say about an experience that he had many years ago.

First there were little birds,
   then there were bigger birds,
      and then there were angels.

He said it just that way.

Now I had heard him teach before on it, and it seemed as though he was having a hard time describing what he saw.   He said, “Well, they were little birds.”

And then he said, “I looked - they were bigger birds, and then I realized they were angels.”

So I just thought it was him seeking to describe what he saw.   But today I heard him say, in study . . .   I say “heard” - I read where he said very, very carefully . . .   And he typed it to three pulls.

He said, “I saw the little birds.   They were typing the First Pull.   Bigger birds typing the Second Pull.”   But he said, “The Third Pull, it was typed by angels.”

And he preached later on . . .   Of course, we know he was teaching about angels being messengers, and so forth - sometimes men being these kind of angels and messengers in the Book of the Revelation.

But I think it’s very significant that he said later on in this teaching . . .   He is preaching about the Third Pull and he talks about one of the characteristics of the Third Pull being the fact that angels came down.

And so I believe there’s a lot of connections that we don’t have time to make.   This is a very prophetic hour.

Anybody with me?   Very exciting hour that we’re living in right now.

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“And to you who are troubled, rest with us.”

There is a rest.   Hello?   There is a rest.   There is a rest.   And that rest is a Person – not a day, but a Person.   That rest is the Messiah.

And we heard what the Message is.   What is the Message?   Not just the revelation of Jesus Christ, as we have often described it, but we’ve heard the definition of the Message.

He said, “It is to come into Christ, to come into the Messiah, to come into His Rest.”

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It’s time for the Bride of Yeshua to believe the report of the Lord.   Who did the Lord say you are? What did the Lord say about it?   What is THUS SAITH THE LORD on the issue, on the matter?

Jdg 6:14.   . . . Go in this thy might . . .   [Angel to Gideon]

What might?   He’s just confessed that God has forsaken . . .

Did you know that the Lord was revealing to him through this Angel that just knowing what God thinks about you should empower you and strengthen you with might to go now and do what God has called you to do.

Doesn’t that sound like what we heard in the Message?   Doesn’t that sound like what that poor little man of God kept trying to say over and over and over and over and over . . . again?

For twenty-five years he was preaching over and over again to people - “It’s not about what your five senses tell you.   You’ve been given a sixth sense of faith.   You can’t believe what you see, what you hear, what you feel - not even what you think, sometimes.

“You’ve got to believe God’s Word.   You’ve got to take God’s Word.”

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Do you want to know why it’s so important? If this is right, if God really did speak to me that He’s about to release a multitude of angels to come down and announce to people their destiny and reveal to them their next step . . . (We’re talking about in the Spirit.)

You may not see them, because that . . .   The fact that they’re in the building . . .   You know me. I mentioned this last night.   I ran this disclaimer last night.   But I’ve spent now over ten hours reading through the sermons of Brother Branham, searching . . . because that’s where I’ve received a lot of my help.

And I have spent now over ten hours just running the quotes on angels - just trying to find out some of the things that he said about angels.   And it got richer.

I’m not going to share it tonight because it was 170-something pages I printed.   I’m sure the printer is out of paper.   It needs to be given some more.

And that was just the gems.   You ought to see how many hundreds I didn’t take.

Somebody said, “We’ll be here a month.”   No, I will never be able to share it all.   I’ll just have to share little gems and pieces, but oh, my - things like him praying . . .

Somebody said, “Why does that mean anything?”   It means something to me.   It means something to me.   That’s why it’s important.   It means something to me.

Things like him praying, “Oh, God, send the angels into this house tonight to stand at every bench, to take their position and to bring conviction upon every sinner.”

I didn’t know that angels had the ability to be the messengers of conviction, to help bring an atmosphere of conviction, but that’s how he prayed.   Must be . . . I feel like there must be something to it.

And on and on and on and on and on and on it goes - helping to confirm in my spirit that we’re about to receive this shift.   And the greatest thing that I believe God’s going to reveal in the shift is your authority.

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- Psalm 34:7 talks about the deliverance that angels bring.   I heard Brother Branham talking about the “angels of deliverance.”   Psalm 34:7 talks about it.

- We have to be balanced and we have to acknowledge that Psalm 35, verses 5 & 6 talk about angels coming to execute judgment - mercy preceding judgment.   He called them “investigating judgment angels.”

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He [Philip] was translated.   And I believe I heard that little . . . that little Brother Branham I mention so many times . . .   I believe he talked about a time when people would travel as a thought.

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But Thursday night and Friday night we started just giving the Biblical foundation for the ministry of angels in the End Time.

And I guess if nothing else has happened, one thing has happened good for me.   And that is I have found out that you can hear the Message, you can read the Message, you can study the Message and miss something very big.

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Next thing I knew, I had read over a hundred pages and marked down and highlighted.   And I have . . . I just never heard it.   I just never heard it.   It may not even be all that important to you, but I heard Brother Branham pray.   I’ve been listening to the tapes a long time now.   I’ve heard many sermons.

I don’t want to say how many, but I’ve heard a lot, a lot of them.   I’ve heard a lot of them ten, fifteen, twenty times.  Got favorites.   And I’ve worn some out.   But . . .   And I’ve heard him pray. I’ve heard the prayer lines.   The prayer lines are some of my favorite things to listen to when I need help, encouragement, or healing, or strength.

Sometimes I just claim those promises that are being made to those people who are standing there.   And I’m telling you, some of the greatest words are spoken when the Angel of the Lord was on the platform, even though it wasn’t preaching - beautiful things.

And I never noticed how many times Brother Branham called for the angels.   I never realized it. Hundreds and hundreds of times he called in prayer that the angels of the Lord would come into the building, that they would take their position in every corner, beside every bench, every pew, beside every believer.   And each time He gave them a little bit different request.

Sometimes he said, “And minister conviction.”   Sometimes he said, “And bring understanding.” Sometimes he said, “Anoint people’s faith for healing.”   It wasn’t always the same request.

It was kind of in line with what the message was, because he normally prayed this prayer as the preaching was over and it was coming time to pray for the sick.   And it was over and over again.

I want to give you one example that some time in the future I’ll read to you, before we speak a little bit about this Daniel 7.   He was praying for someone with cancer.   They were standing before him.

He said, “I’m a stranger to you, you’re a stranger to me.   Is that right?”

“Yes.”

He talked a little bit like he did oftentimes and he said, “It’s cancer (I believe he said) of the stomach.   Is that right?”

“Yes,” the person said.

All of a sudden Brother Branham turned and he said, “It’s the same thing that that man right there has.”   And he pointed out in the audience at another man, a stranger.

He said, “It’s cancer, the same kind of cancer.   You’ve got it, you’ve got it there.”   And he said, “You want to know how I know that?   I know it because those demons were crying out at the same time.”

“I heard this demon of cancer crying out and that demon of cancer crying out,” he said, “making such a loud racket in here.”

Do you know why they were crying out?   Anybody know why they were crying out?   Because they sensed that their days were numbered.   They sensed that they were about to be commissioned back to hell from the place where they had come.

Any time in the Scripture that some demon-possessed person came in contact with the Lord Jesus Christ, always those demons cried out.   And those spirits began to cry out.

But then Brother Branham said, “Wait.”   He said, “There’s something else calling out.”   He said, “I heard the angels of God calling out in the same manner that these demon spirits were crying out to one another.”

I don’t know what they were saying.   Anybody with me?   I don’t know what these demon spirits were saying.   Maybe they were telling one another, “Hold on a little tighter.”   Maybe they were saying, “Don’t dare let go, no matter what is spoken.”

But they were certainly trying to encourage one another.

Is that a problem for anybody?   Not for me.

It appeared that those demon spirits were trying to strengthen one another and encourage one another.   “Don’t you be afraid of that man, or don’t you be afraid of that . . .   You hold on.”   I don’t know what they were saying.

But Brother Branham said all of a sudden, “The angels of God are calling out as well.”   It was like there was a warfare going on.   Oh, my.   Brings me to other things that he said - countless times, almost.

He said, “If our eyes could be opened tonight, we would see that these walls are lined with angels. They’re moving now above our heads.   They have come to drop down on us and minister to us the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

He said, “If our eyes could be opened.   You don’t see them, but they’re here.   They’ve come to help us, to minister to us.”

And I don’t know what was going on, but he talked about a warfare.   I’ll read it to you.   It would take me too long to thumb through and find it now.

He said, “They were in conflict with one another.   These angels were crying out.”

I wonder what the angels were saying.   Don’t know.   Maybe the angels were telling the demons, “Shut up.   Hold your peace.   You have no choice.”

I don’t know what they were saying.   Maybe they were communicating with one another where they should stand or where they should go.   But there was communication going on.

He said, “The angels of God are crying out.”   And he said, “It will be up to you who wins.” Whatever those demons were crying out . . .

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What do you think he was saying?   Well, it’s kind of like this.   He told us a story one time.   I think it maybe was an Indian that told the story originally, but I might get it wrong.   I’ve read the story other places, not just Brother Branham telling it.

Not too long ago I was reading something and read it.   But it talked about . . .   Sometimes people tell it like you have two little angels sitting on your shoulder, you know - one is an angel . . .   In cartoons, they used to show it.

I saw a cartoon one time.   I’m going to preach on cartoons now.   I saw a cartoon one time.   And old Foghorn Leghorn . . . he had two things on his shoulder - an angel over here and a devil over here.   And the angel was telling him one thing and the devil was telling him another thing.

He’d listen to the devil a while and listen to the angel a while.   You know, that’s not so far from reality.   “In my innermost being there is a warfare.   When I seek to do that which is good, evil is present.”   Paul said that - not Foghorn Leghorn.   But he just illustrated it.

Brother Branham told a story . . . I think it was about an Indian (wasn’t it?) that told the story about getting saved.

And he described it as two dogs - a black dog and a white dog.   And one of those dogs is going to rule the roost.   One of those dogs is going to rule the roost.   And the question is which dog is it going to be?

How many of you know which dog it’s going to be?   It’s going to be the dog that you feed the most.

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Do you know what Brother Branham said about Zacharias?   Now, listen.   I told you there would come a time I’d have to put some of this in the Message.   So if you missed some of the other nights, listen to ‘em.   I didn’t talk so much about what Brother Branham had to say.

But if God’s going to show me something, I’m going to have to see it in the Word.   This is me. You don’t have to be my way.   But if God’s going to show me a vision or anything, a dream or anything, I’m going to have to see it in the Word.   And then, me personally - not you, me personally - I’m going to have to see it in the Message of the Hour somehow.   That’s just me.

Because I know what God has done for me through this Message, all right?   So it’s not to put it on you.   But I think you’ll get a blessing out of a few of these little things.

It . . .   What dog is going to rule the roost?   It’s determined by which one you feed.

Brother Branham said, “The reason why Zacharias was able to have an angel come and visit him is because he had a righteous household.”   He said, “Yes . . .”

And you know what?   The Bible says that.   He didn’t just make that up.   Listen to me.   I just want to give you one of the reasons why I appreciate the Message, what Brother Branham said.

I’ve read these Scriptures over and over and over again.   I wonder how many times I’ve read the Book of Luke.   Isn’t it Luke?   Let’s see if it’s Luke there.   Just show you one example.   I think it is.   I looked at it last night.

I believe it was Luke.   Isn’t it Luke 1?   Yeah.   And remember, we read about it not too long ago when we were teaching on John the Baptist and when he was born, and so forth.

Luke 1:6 says,

6.   And they were both righteous before God (Zacharias and Elisabeth), walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

I’ve read that.   I’ve preached that.   But it didn’t stand out in my spirit until I heard Brother Branham say it.   And when I heard him say it, I said, “You know, that’s exactly right.   I want to see if the Bible really said it that way.”

And last night in the chair, I looked it up.   And sure enough, there it was.   But he didn’t just pull that out of the air or get it from some kind of . . . just an inspiration, or just make it up to juice the story up a little bit.

He said, “The reason why Zacharias was able to have a visitation from an angel was because he had a righteous household.   He was keeping the Commandments of God.”

Why did you mention that?   Because you want to say something about yourself?   Heavens, no. Mine must have been because of mercy.   Zacharias saw an angel because he had a righteous household.   Mine must have been the mercies of God.

I’m going to say that kind of like Brother Branham called the Angel that came to him a minor angel. Isn’t that odd?   (We’ll have to get to that one later.)

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And you know what else he said?   He said, “You want to see an angel?”   So I want you to know, it’s very grounded in the Message of the Hour for people to see angels - very, very grounded in the Word and very, very grounded in the Message.

Brother Branham said, “You want to see angels?”   He said, “You want to know why you don’t see angels?”   He said, “Because you don’t turn the television off.”   He said, “You spend all your time reading those true love stories.”

I’m going to say it like this.   “You go down to Walmart and buy them big old, thick Clancy novels and all that big old stuff that the world is putting out - number one bestseller on the New York list. That right there tells me that it’s dangerous.   If the whole world’s going crazy about it, it couldn’t be a whole lot of truth in it.

You know what the world’s crazy about?   Da Vinci Code.   Well, there couldn’t be nothing to it. And on and on and on it goes.   He said, “That’s why you don’t see angels.”   He said, “Why don’t you take some time to get rid of that stuff and clean up your house a little bit, build a righteous household, you and your wife and children there.”   And he said, “Then angels will come and visit you.”

Isn’t that nice?   I want visitations.   And I want to make the kind of household that it can happen in.

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Let me give you another little nugget here.   I’m not reading, I’m just bringing some of these from my spirit that I thought were important.

The prophet of God was talking about this angel that came to him.   He described Him many times as a minor angel, in the early part of his ministry.   And then he said, “But I’ll tell you, if Gabriel ever shows up . . .”   He said, “when Gabriel comes . . .”

He said, “Now, people will see angels.   They’ll see minor angels.   They’ll have visitations of angels.”   But he said, “When Gabriel ever comes, he comes because something big is happening.”   He said, “Something big is going to happen when Gabriel shows up.”

And he went through the Scripture and gave us those examples.   And he said, “You’ll notice every time . . .”   He said, “That Angel has come to me many times.   He’s a large, rather large fellow - 200 pounds.”

And he describes his hair - “hair down to his shoulder.”   He describes him - “Middle Eastern” - kind of tells what he looks like.   He said, “Every time He has ever come to me in the form of a man, He has come to me on my right side.”   A lot of you knew that, didn’t you?

He said, “That’s why we run the prayer lines the way we do.   Because the Angel of the Lord has always come and stood at my right side, beside me on my right side.   So we run the prayer lines that way so that everyone can come and no one is interfering where I see the Angel of the Lord standing here.”

He’s preaching away one time and he said, “You know what?”   He said, “That’s exactly how Gabriel . . .”   (I’m not saying anything about Gabriel.   Please don’t make that connection.   That’s not a connection I’m making.)

But he said, “Do you know what?”   He said, “If I remember correctly, the Bible said that when the Angel of the Lord, Gabriel, appeared to Zacharias to tell him what was about to take place, I believe the Bible said He was standing on the right side of the altar.”

When I read that, I looked real quick to the Book of Luke there to see.   And exactly as Brother Branham described it - said, “The Angel Gabriel was standing . . .   He was there burning the incense, waving the incense back and forth.   He was doing his duty according to the course of the priesthood.

“And all of a sudden Gabriel appeared, standing on the right side of the altar.”   Zacharias standing before the altar and the Angel of the Lord came, Gabriel, and stood on the right side of the altar.

The prophet made a connection with all those things.

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He talks about their ministry and what they impart, and what they bring with them when they come. He distinguishes at times between the Angel of the Lord and angels.   Sometimes he was praying and he said, “Let the Angel of the Lord come and all the host of angels come.”

There’s a distinguishing.   We know that because we’ve got further revelation.   And now we understand . . .

I personally believe this was not a minor angel that was standing with the prophet of God.   I believe it was the Angel of the Covenant.   I believe it was the same Angel.   And he said as much many times after that.

He said, “Why, this Angel that has been coming, He is the very same One that appeared at the crossing of the Red Sea.”

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You know what else Brother Branham said about angels?   He said, “They never die.   They’re immortal.”   He said, “Angels never die.   God created them that way, but they never die.”   That’s what he said.

And do you know why he said that?   He said, “So that same Angel that let Peter out of prison is still alive somewhere.”   He said, “And that same Angel that spoke over there to this one, to the Apostle Paul . . .   Remember?   He liked to talk about . . . he liked to talk about . . .   Many, many times he talked about Paul, when the Angel of the Lord . . .

He said, “And the Angel of the Lord, whose servant I am, stood by me this day.”   Remember in the shipwreck?   He’d been, what, about fourteen days out?   And he talked about . . .

He said, “That same Angel that appeared to the Apostle Paul . . . he’s alive.   He’s somewhere today.”

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And he didn’t indicate that it was all the same angel.   He indicated there were different angels that did different purposes.   He said, “There are some Cherubim, there’s some Seraphim, there’s major angels, there’s minor angels.”

Brother Branham called one of the names of the angels “Wormwood.”   And he said that Wormwood was given authority over the waters.   And he said, “In the End Time, Wormwood is . . . It would be an angel - not an asteroid or a meteor or something like that - it would be an angel that would come down and poison the waters in the time of the Great Tribulation that we read about in the Book of Revelation.”

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When our Lord was in the Garden of Eden, and when . . .   In the Garden of Gethsemane . . .   You do know our Lord was in the Garden of Eden, don’t you?

But in the Garden of Gethsemane when He was in agony, when His best friends had fallen asleep, it wasn’t Peter, it wasn’t James, it wasn’t John, it wasn’t Matthew that comforted Him.   It wasn’t any of the disciples that wiped the blood and sweat from His brow.   But the Bible said that the angels came and ministered unto Him.

It must have been some of those same angels that Brother Branham said came down and baked a hoe cake of cornbread.

I’m so glad to find out that Elijah was a Southerner.   The only problem was . . .   I’m going to disagree with that just a tad because I don’t believe the angels were baking it, I believe they had to be frying it.   Because I’d much rather have it fried than baked.

But I’m not Elijah.   Maybe Elijah was partial to bake.

He said, “The angels came and stirred him up some cornbread and baked it.”   And he said, “Here come one angel and dumped in a load of vitamins.”   He said, “It was what the angels put in that cornbread that caused it to be so sustaining that Elijah could go in the strength of that some forty days or more.”   Angels did that.

And it goes on and on and on and on . . .

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But this morning I want to speak to you just a little bit about this.   Here we see Daniel having a night vision, having an experience concerning the End of Days.   The prophet of God typed this second part of chapter 7 to the Great White Throne Judgment in a couple places.

Perhaps that is the finality of it.   Perhaps that is the ending of it - “The Great White Throne Judgment.”   But I think there’s something else being introduced here.   And this is very confusing for those of us who have held to a very strict idea of Oneness.

Because we have two separate visions in Daniel 7.   We see that Daniel said, “I saw the Ancient of Days.   He is girded with a white robe and His . . .   It’s white, and His hair is white like wool.”

Now I don’t know if you realize this or not, but Brother Branham said, about a year before the Seals were revealed, he saw standing before him One who appeared to be the Lord Jesus, but His hair was white like wool.

And he said, “Here stood a Man in His thirties, young face, just like I had seen out in that broom sage field, much like Hoffman painted Him.”

“But this time He stood before me in my little room.   His hair was white like wool.   And it disturbed me,” he said.

So he said, “I called a good theologian friend of mine, Brother Jack Moore.   And I explained to Brother Jack Moore what I saw.   And he told me, ‘Why, Brother Branham, that’s nothing to be confused about.   You just saw the Lord Jesus in His glorified body.   That’s what that was.’”

Brother Branham said, “That sounded okay.   It sounded good.   But something didn’t settle just right with me,” he said.

Now really, that is the Lord Jesus in His glorified body, but that’s not what He was trying to reveal to Brother Branham at that time.   He was revealing something else.

So it was about a year later, he said, that that constellation of angels came down over Sunset Mountain.   And he said . . .   I don’t know if you know this or not, but he said, “In that Cloud picture . . .”

Anybody want to give us the Cloud picture?   Can you do that, Katie?

In that Cloud picture . . .   You know, it was the deacon at the Tabernacle, Brother Hickerson, that found this picture in the magazine.   Nobody knew about it.   He found this picture in a magazine and he tore it out.

I’ve been all over, all over the country in malls where they’re having these antique shows.   And they’ve got old magazines set up.   And because people like to have . . .   I have the Life Magazine from the week I was born.   A lot of people like to have things like that to go back and read . . .

It’s really something to go back and read a Life Magazine from ‘68 to see what kind of ads were in it, and so forth.   And I have one, and I think I’ve got one for my wife.

A lot of people collect those.   But any time I’ve ever gone up, I’ll say . . .   You don’t have to say the date.   You don’t have to say anything.   Most of the time these dealers have been dealing with us so long, you just say, “Have you got one of those magazines with the Cloud?”

“Oh, yes,” he said.   “If I’d have had a 100 . . .” a man told me right here in Columbus.   He said, “If I’d have had a 100, I could have sold every one of them in the past few weeks.”   Because people want to get a hold of that magazine.

Brother Hickerson found it, ripped it out and laid it on Brother Branham’s desk.   He said, “I believe this is something to it.”

Brother Branham came and showed him some things in it.

“Do you have that one that . . .   The next one.   Don’t we have another one that . . . where they took Hoffman’s head and kind of put it in there?   The painting that Hoffman did . . .   Right there. That’s kind of an interesting thing.”

When I was reading these quotes about the angels, he said, “Now when those angels left,” he said, “it was like a jet stream, you know, went up.”   And he said, “That’s what formed that Cloud out there.”

He told how far it was from Tucson, and so forth.   And he said, “I looked there and the wig of that, the white hair of that . . .”

He talked about how that the old British judges would wear a white wig.   And he said even . . . he had some idea to believe that even in Bible days that it was important, and I believe it was, for a man to have white hair and a white beard if he had a position of authority and respect.

And he said, “When those angels were leaving, I looked.”   And he said, “That white wig on the head was formed by the wings of the angels.”   He said, “That was the wings of the angels that formed the wig.”

And do you know what he said that represented?   Complete authority and sovereignty and justice.

He said, “I just wasn’t satisfied.”   (That’s good.)   “I wasn’t satisfied with Brother Moore’s answer.” But he said, “When those angels came, when the Seals came,” he said, “I realized it was more than that.”   He said, “It was like what Daniel saw.”

It was more than just the glorified expression of His Person.   It was a symbol of supreme authority and righteousness.   That’s the Lord Jesus - His eyes like Fire.

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And what I realize is that if you go back, you’ll hear Brother Branham preaching about Gabriel’s instructions to Daniel.   And you’ll hear him preaching about, in the Revelation of Jesus Christ Series, this 7-fold glory of His Person.

And he describes the feet like brass, and what that means, and eyes like fire . . .

And what I realize this morning by revelation in the Spirit is what John was seeing.   He wasn’t seeing just the Ancient of Days.   What he was seeing was this One who had been brought before the Ancient of Days . . .

This is a vision, symbols.   What John was seeing is this One who had been brought by the angels before the Ancient of Days.   And the Ancient of Days, which is the Spirit of the Father, had bestowed upon Him, had invested into Him . . .

Brother Branham said, “He poured all that He was into Him.   This Son of Man took on all the attributes of the Father.”   Is that right?

Did you know Brother Branham said, “The angels of the Lord are the attributes of God?”   And they come sometimes to minister to us the attributes of God.

So he said, “Be careful how you entertain them.   They may have come to minister to you the attributes of God.”

Come, come, angels.   Come, angels of the Lord, with the attributes of God and bestow them, impart them, smear them, dump them on me.   That’s what I need.   That’s what he said.

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The prophet of God said, “Jacob’s ladder runs between God and Christ.”   What in the world? “Jacob’s ladder runs between God and Christ.”

If we are not careful, we’re going to have two people here before we finish.

Then he went on to explain that Jacob’s ladder was an important part in the life of every believer.   It represented something that every believer must experience.   He said, “Every believer must climb Jacob’s ladder.”

He said, “It is that stepping stone, those stepping stones, that take you into Christ.”   He said, “You’re . . .   The answer to your relationship that you’re looking for is found in Jacob’s ladder, somewhere between God and Christ.”

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But really, what John saw was the product of what Daniel saw.   John saw it after this had happened.   And this One who was standing before Him, it’s very safe for us to say (we know by what the prophet said) it was the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brother Branham said, “I saw Him standing before me.   He looked like He was in His thirties, but He had white hair.”   Why?   Because He was manifesting what had happened.   He was manifesting that He held all the authority.

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The prophet of God said, “We’re at a junction of time.   We know we’re at the end now.   Angels are appearing to men.   Prophets have arisen on the scene.   And Omnipotence is speaking from eternity.”   Omnipotence is speaking from eternity.

Did you know he prophesied about another time that Omnipotence would speak?   He talked about a time . . .   This time it wouldn’t be through “the” Son of Man, this time it wouldn’t be through “a” son of man, this time it wouldn’t be through angels, but Omnipotence would speak through a Body of people.

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I remember Kenneth saying, I remember hearing Kenneth Copeland saying many years ago . . .   I remember hearing him say, “Do you understand what that overcoming Body of people are?”   He said, “They’re not ‘big G’-o-d, but ‘little g’-o-d.”

He said, “They’re little gods.”   And did the denominations ever spin on their heads.   He said a lot of other crazy things, but that wasn’t very crazy.

But I want you to know that when I heard it, my little Holiness Pentecostal denominational mind couldn’t hardly swallow the fact that I was being taught . . .   Although it’s in the Bible.   It’s a direct quote from the Scripture - “You are gods.”   Okay?

It’s not something you just made up and symbolized.   It’s in the Bible.   But it had been explained away.

And Brother Branham came, and he was the one . . .   Let me tell you something.   That’s why . . . Because he had a way of putting it in such a way that I could see it and understand it through the Scripture.   And he said it was little messiahs.

And I read this week where he said “amateur gods.”   Kenneth Copeland said “little gods.”   He said “amateur gods.”

Listen, I heard him say this week . . .   He said, “And if you are an amateur god, if you’ve come to that place of the full manifestation of the sons of God, then you would be an amateur creator. Because the creative Word is God, and God is His creative Word.

“And if His Word is in you, it would make you as an amateur god, or messiah, or full manifested son of God.   So the Word of God in your mouth would be the same as the Word of God in His mouth.”

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This shift of authority, it’s going to change . . .   The biggest thing it’s going to change?   It’s going to change how you call the shots.   It’s going to change how you talk about what’s going on in your life.   You are soon going to understand that the prophet of God said, “The angels . . .”

“The angels are camped around us.   They don’t move.”   He said, “They stay with us.”   I’m sure when we move, they move.   But that wasn’t the point he was trying to make.   He said, “They are camped around us.”

He didn’t say this once, but many times.   “And they don’t move and they don’t die.”   And he said, “For you people that don’t believe in guardian angels, then you don’t believe what the Bible said. The Bible talks about how blessed the little ones are - the little children - how blessed they are. And be careful how you treat them for their angels do ever behold the face of the Father.”

He said, “So you’ve got to believe in guardian angels.”   He said, “Everybody has them.   And on top of that,” he said, “you’ve got angels camped all around you.”   And he said, “But there is something you need to listen to here.”   He said, “They see everything you do and they hear everything you say.”

And we don’t want to look at ‘em like spies that are going to go tattletale on the Father about us. But we do want to be concerned.

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Somebody said, “Well, the Holy Spirit’s in me.   Ain’t that bigger?”

Sure, it’s wonderful, glorious, heavenly, hallelujah thing.   This was the whole argument that Brother Branham was having with this fundamentalist preacher.   I’m telling you, it disturbed him.   He must have mentioned it twenty times.

He said, “They came and told me that since the New Testament days were here, angels had no ministry.   It was the Holy Spirit leading the church.   He said, “Of course it’s the Holy Spirit leading the Church.”   But he said, “I want to ask you a question.   Did Peter have the Holy Ghost?”

And the preacher said, “Yes, he did.”

He said, “Then why did Peter need an angel to help him get out of prison?”

“Did Philip have the Holy Ghost?”

“Yes, he did.”

“Then why did Philip need an angel to tell him where to go to meet up with the Ethiopian eunuch?”

And he goes all the way through the Old Testament.   Every time these angels appear . . .   He said, “Did Paul have the Holy Ghost when he was shipwrecked and went through all this stuff?   Did the Apostle Paul have the Holy Ghost?”   “Yes.”

“Then why did Paul need an angel to come and tell him what to do next?”

He said, “So don’t tell me . . .”   He said, “In fact, the ministry of angels increased in the New Testament, it didn’t decrease.”   And he said, “They’re with us here tonight.   If our eyes could be opened, they hear everything we say, they see everything we do.”

And he said, “We need to be careful.   In other words, I believe they are listening to our confession. They hear what we say.   They hear how we call the shots.”

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We need to let our language reflect . . .   We need to let our language reflect who we are and what we are.   And God saw what a struggle we were having and He said, “I’m going to sent another wave of angels to come and assist you and minister to you and help you.”

And I’ve got a feeling that some of you are going to feel their elbows in your ribs.   And you may not always welcome it.   But I’ve got a feeling that these heavenly creatures, these heavenly things that God had made to aid us and assist us and protect us and help us . . .   He called them ministers of God’s grace.

He said, “May the angels come and drop down the dew of God’s mercy upon us, help us to recognize what He has done for us.   May they give us understanding.”

I didn’t know that angels had the ability, the talent, the gifts, the calling to give us understanding. But he said, “May they come . . .” - one time, two times, three times.   “May they come and take their position in this House and may they give us understanding of the Word that is going forth. May they give us understanding.   May they give us understanding.   May they minister to us the attributes of God.

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Tell me I’m majoring on a minor?   You know what the prophet said about divine healing?   He said it’s a minor.   He said divine healing is a minor.   And he said Amy Semple McPhearson said it’s one of the four foundations of the Truth, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”   That’s how she started the Four Square Church.

Brother Branham said, “Divine healing is a minor.”

Somebody said, “That just don’t sound right.”   It’s so important.   It is when you’re sick.   How many of you know divine healing is a major when you’re sick?   But it shouldn’t be.   What he was telling us was it’s the children’s bread.   It’s been ministered to us.

I don’t care how many demons of cancer are crying out to one another.   That’s not the end of the story because somewhere in the atmosphere there are angels calling out.   And he said, “It is up to you who wins.”

You got it that time, did you?   He didn’t say it was up to the angels.   He didn’t say it was up to the demons.   He said, “It’s up to you.”

And you know what he’s saying to this woman and to that man down there in the congregation that didn’t even make it up with a prayer card but God just discerned through the prophet he had cancer and gave him a miracle, probably - gave him the rest of his life, perhaps gave him twenty or thirty more years of his life, even though the demon within him was calling out and didn’t want to turn him loose?

The angels of God were calling out for healing and deliverance and the demons were calling out that they should bury down deeper and not turn loose and let go.   And he said, “And it’s up to you who wins.”

And what did that woman have to do?   What did that woman have to do?   She had to immediately be careful who she was listening to.   And all those forces that were telling her, “Stage four, stage four, stage four . . .   Three months, three months, three months . . .   You won’t be able to see your children raised.   You won’t be able to see your grandchildren.   You’ll never see your little daughter walk down the aisle . . .”

All those voices that say, “You’re already skin and bones.   Blah, blah . . .   And you don’t live a good enough life.   The Lord . . . He would heal you, but you don’t live a good enough life.   And you don’t do all the things you’re supposed to do . . .”

And all those things those demons were screaming out in her ear.   And there the angels of God . . .   I have no idea what they were calling out.   I don’t know what the Cloud of Witnesses was calling out.

But all she had to do was determine, “I’m not going to listen to those demons.   I’m going to listen to whatever it is that the angels of God are calling out.   (And simply) I’m going to believe God’s Word.”

Brother Branham said, “All right.   According to your faith . . .”

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But I was preaching for Brother Ledford in Middletown, Ohio.   He followed Brother Branham’s ministry for years - knew Brother Branham, Brother Branham knew him.

And there was a neighbor girl . . .   Remember?   I told the story.   There was the neighbor girl dying of leukemia.   And in my mind I thought Brother Ledford had told me that he just took the girl up.   But Brother Hickerson was telling it this week and he said that he got the mom and daddy to go with him.   I don’t remember.   I honestly thought it was the other way.   But it’s really irrelevant, isn’t it?

But here is what I missed.   She was dying.   She was in the last stages of leukemia.   She was a young girl, but they didn’t have the treatments for leukemia that they have now.   And her mother and daddy didn’t really believe.

And Brother Ledford either convinced them to go up to Jeffersonville with him from . . . or down, I guess, from Middletown, Ohio, or to take the daughter.   I don’t know which it really was.

But they had arranged a private interview with Brother Branham, either before or after the service (I think it was before) in his little study in the Tabernacle.   And Brother Ledford and the little girl walked in.   I don’t know who else walked in.   But at least Brother Ledford, maybe his wife, and this little girl dying of leukemia walked into the office.

She hadn’t eaten in days and days and days anything.   She was just a shadow of a girl.

And the first thing Brother Branham did was reach in his wallet.   (Which, by the way, I don’t have mine.   And while I’m confessing, my coat did not match my pants.   It was two different materials. Sorry.)

But first thing Brother Branham did, he reached in his wallet and he pulled out five dollars and greeted them - “Hello.   God bless you.”   He pulled out five dollars and he handed it to the little girl, and he said, “Honey, this is to buy you some hamburgers on the way home.”

She hadn’t eaten in days.   Brother Branham didn’t know anything about her condition except I am sure he could look at her and see she was a shadow of death.   He said, “Here, get you some hamburgers.   Buy them on the way home.”

And they talked a little bit, and Brother Branham prayed for her and pronounced her well.   And they got up to leave after some more conversation.   They got up to leave and Brother Branham reached into his wallet and took out a $10 bill.   And he said, “Brother Ledford, I want to give you your gas money for bringing this little girl up here for the Lord to heal her.”

Brother Ledford is a fine old brother.   And he said, “No, siree.   I couldn’t, Brother Branham.   I couldn’t possibly take that money.   It was my pleasure.   I wanted to do it.”

And I don’t know what happened after that - if they stayed for a meeting, if the meeting was over. All I remember is that I can remember Brother and Sister Ledford sitting there telling me this story. And I remember Sister Ledford taking over and telling that they started out of town and she was getting hungry.

Sister Ledford was getting hungry, but she didn’t want to say anything because the little girl . . . you know, and wasn’t sure what they would do.   They just hadn’t decided.   They hadn’t discussed if they were going to eat, stop and eat, or what they were going to do.   She wouldn’t say nothing.

All of a sudden that little girl spoke up and she said, “I sure am hungry.   I believe I could eat me some hamburgers.”

And they pulled over at a little hamburger stand.   She ate $5 . . .   Can you imagine, in the 60's? $5 worth of hamburgers?   She ate every penny – hamburgers, $5 worth of hamburgers.   That wouldn’t buy a whole lot today, but it did then.   And she was made whole.

And when Brother Ledford was telling me this testimony, she was a nurse in a hospital in Ohio somewhere.

I can’t imagine how God could do such a marvelous miraculous thing.   The doctors were baffled and amazed.   And wouldn’t you want to find out, “Where does that come from?   There’s got to be something.   This is not happening everywhere all over the world.   Something’s got to be going on here.”

And that’s how so many people were.   They saw the blessings of God.   They saw the signs and the miracles, but they didn’t realize that there was a Message, there was a Word that was coming forth.

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And in the 60's, when that Cloud appeared . . . the angels came down, the Word of God was revealed and the Cloud came down as an eternal sign, a testimony of what God had done, it was a warning.   It was a message and it was a warning.   And it was telling people that . . .

Well, I’ll tell you what Brother Branham said.   He said, “When Daniel saw into this place, the thrones were empty.   But when John saw it, He was on the Throne.”   And he said, “What that means is what John saw . . . he saw One who was not Prophet, Priest and King only.   He saw the Judge.”

And there are many indications that the Savior is about to be the Judge.   The signs are everywhere.   The Word of God is telling it.   The prophetic is telling it.   The visions are telling it. Everything going on . . .   We’re about to see the Judge.

2006-06-04 AM    The Ministry of Angels in the End Time - Part 3

Brother Branham said, “I saw a painting one time (remember?) by a German artist.”   It was called (What was it called?) “Cloud - something” - “Cloud Talk” or “Cloud - something strange.”

He said when you stood off away from that painting and you looked at it, it looked like the awfullest mess of gloom and doom and darkness and shadows and . . .   It looked like nothing.   But he said when you got real close to it, it was a whole painting of angels’ wings just lapped over together - all these angels.

He said, “You’d back up and you couldn’t make out anything.   The way it was painted, you couldn’t make out anything.   It looked just like an old stormy, gloomy mess.   But you’d walk up close to it and look, and it was just beautiful angels and their wings, lapped over and over.”

And he said, “That’s exactly how it is.”   Sometimes you have to get real close to recognize what God’s really doing.   You’ve got to get up real close.   You’ve got to draw yourself right up to Him. And he said, “You back up and it looks horrible, terrible, a mess.   How are you ever going to get it?   But you get real close to it and you realize that God has already made provision.   It’s already there.   It’s . . .”

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

I mentioned to you that Brother Branham had preached to us in “The Patmos Vision,” which is the beginning or the prequel to the Revelation of Jesus Christ Series . . .

He talked to us about this manifold glory that was on display in the Lord Jesus Christ when John saw Him.   And every part of this glory - His feet, His eyes, His hair, everything about Him - was a revelation of His glory and His purpose.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

And I mentioned to you Sunday, Brother Branham said he was pretty disturbed when he saw this. He said he knew that the Lord was thirty-two, thirty-three years old at the end of His ministry.

And he said, “Yet He stood before me in white hair.   And it disturbed me because I could see His features were the features of a young man, but yet His hair had the look of an old man.”

And he said, “This really bothered me.   So I called a theologian friend of mine, Brother Jack Moore.”   He said, “And I asked Jack Moore what this was, and he said, ‘Well, Brother Branham, that’s not hard.’   He said, ‘That’s the glorified Christ.   That’s what Christ looks like now.’”

And Brother Branham said, “I guess theologically or from a theologian that sounds right, but I wasn’t completely satisfied with it.”   And so he said, “About a year before, I began to preach on those things that God had done.   He stood before me.   I saw Him.”   And he said, “The answer began to come of what this represented.”

And he talked to us . . .   I know this is a little redundant.   Bear with me.   Repetitive, we should say.

He had hair like wool.   He took us in history to the powdered wigs of colonialism.   And even in our country . . . it came over here.   And did you know?   It’s a funny sight to see, because I’ve been overseas in Europe and turned on the television and seen these Parliamentarians, some of them wearing to this day these powdered white wigs.

And they look like something from pre-colonial times.   And they move with such authority, and they come out with these little powdered wigs on.

But one time, I was watching and one of the men insulted the other.   And I want you to know that right before my eyes they had a knock-down, drag-out with powdered wigs a-flyin’.

And I mentioned it to somebody.   And they said, “That’s not unusual.   That happens often.”   He said, “That’s the way our government is run.   They’re all the time fighting and physically shoving and pushing and . . .”

Well, whatever works, right?

But this white wig was a sign of authority and wisdom.   And it was supposed to kind of . . .   What would you say?   Transform a younger looking man with a measure of experience . . .   It was to transform him into looking like he was much wiser and older and with more authority, as a judge, or a lawyer, or a Parliamentarian, or something like this.

And Brother Branham said that the answer is in there somewhere.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

You know, I spoke here Tuesday night, “There are no accidents with God.”   God’s children don’t have accidents.   No.   Brother Branham told us, “Satan is a tool in the hand of God to perfect the saints.”

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

He was not given full authority.   The Son was not given full authority over His Father.   It was excepted.   It was an exemption.   It was not allowed of Him.

And Jesus knew that.   And this is why He said, “Not even the Son knows.”   Even though He was God, very much God in flesh, there were still things that He did not know until it was revealed to Him by the Father.

He could meet a blind man and not know whether or not that blind man was going to be healed.   Is that right?   Yes.   Unless what?   It was shown Him by the Father.

Oh, I know this can be confusing.   I know you can wonder why this is so important.   But when you get it, you’ll get it and you’ll really, really get it.   When I get it, I’ll really get it.

And the reason why it has any value at all is because it is a message to us about the Oneness, the relationship that God is looking for with us.

Brother Branham called it like this, “The Word becoming flesh again.”   Is that what happened in the Lord Jesus?   He was the Living Word.   He was the Logos.   He was the Logos made flesh, incarnate.   And yet the Bible said, “Though He were a Son, yet He learned obedience.”

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

“Okay, Balaam.   You can go, but only what I tell you . . .   I’m going to let you go.   I’m going to let you go and prophesy.   But you had better do only what I tell you to do and only say what I tell you to say.”

Isn’t that how Jesus . . . ?   Wasn’t that the ministry of Jesus?   Did you know that’s your ministry? Did you know that’s what your ministry is?   To only do what Jesus would reveal to you to do by the Spirit and only say what Jesus would have you to say by the Spirit.

That’s the ministry we’re working on every day - same like Brother Branham taught us, same like the ministry that Jesus had.   And this is what God spoke to Balaam.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

When you were out there in the world, you’re lonely, you’re ugly, you didn’t get a date, you know, you feel like you’re the ugliest person in the world.   So what are you going to do?   You’re just going to go party.

And what did you do?   Your will . . . You just said, “I’m going to go, and I’m going to do such-and-such.”   And you did it.   People do that, don’t they? They want some gratification so they went out and took somebody who wasn’t their own.   They just did it.

Their will, right?   They just made up their mind to do it.   Where did they get that will?   There’s only two things, two forces . . .   You know this.   This is elementary.   There’s only two forces that could have ever given them that will - God or the devil.

Brother Branham said, “The devil’s a lot of things, but he’s not a creator.   He didn’t ever make nothing but trouble.”   So if the devil didn’t give them the will, who gave them the will?   So all along, my friend, when you were doing your will, you were using the very thing that God gave you to do it - your will.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

You’re going to come to a revelation that has fallen upon us from His Throne.   And this revelation is going to teach you, or be revealed to you.

And this is going to be the revelation - God is in charge of everything.   He saved you by grace and the Blood.   He can’t lose you.   You’ve heard Brother Branham say it.

What about that quote that I’ve heard butchered and twisted and . . .   I’ve heard people take simplicity and cause it not to make any sense where the prophet of God said, “In that respect you could no more be lost than God is lost.”

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

Do you remember Brother Branham saying the difference between Calvinism and Arminianism (he was preaching on the two) . . .   And he said, “I’m a Calvinist as long as Calvinists are in the Word. I’m an Arminian as long as Arminianism is in the Word.   But I’m not going out on a limb beyond what the Word says.   I’m between the two.”

One is this big free-will thing - everybody’s always doing their own thing, making their own choices. And one over here is everything is fixed, you have no choice in the matter, blah, blah, blah.

Brother Branham said, “No, no, no.   It’s over here somewhere.”

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

And all He had to do was turn toward a man by the name of Adolf Hitler and He knew everything about Hitler.   He knew exactly what he was going to be, what spirit was going to possess him, he was not going to choose to serve the Lord, he was going to allow his life to be filled with prejudice and hatred and bitterness, he was never going to turn toward God.

And in the middle, in the middle, between . . .   I hate to say . . .   Who should we say?   I was going to say Mother Theresa.   Who would just be really special?   Brother Branham.   Okay?

Brother Branham, you know, the epitome of God’s full adoption and Hitler . . .   Between the two, God saw a Judas - a believer, a make-believer and an unbeliever.   He saw a Judas.   He saw a man that was going to be so close that sometimes he was going to make the right decisions.   He saw a man that was going to cast out devils, lay hands on the sick through the power of Jesus Christ, the sick would be healed . . .   All these things would happen in his ministry.

But God saw about Judas that when it came down to the final chapter of his life, Judas was not going to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.   Brother Branham said about Judas, “He had the same miracles, did the same good deeds.   It was only on the way up to the Upper Room (which we know there was a span of time, but it’s the concept) . . .”

On the way up to the Upper Room, he did what?   He showed his true colors.   He did exactly what God knew he was going to do in the beginning.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

I didn’t come this far with you to try to fool you now, pull the wool over your eyes, preach something to you that’s not in the Bible or in the Message of the Hour.

I’ve got better things to do with my time than to try to fool you.   You just take it back to the Word. If it don’t jive, you come to me.   Let’s talk about it.   Let’s see what we can do with it.   But if it jives, it may be the opposite of everything you’ve ever believed.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

Why did God feel for Adam’s loneliness?   It was out of His own need.

“God - sovereign?   God - omniscient?   God had a need?”   He did.   He had a need.   His need was for fellowship, so He created the angels.

You want to study with me the Message of the Hour?   You want to go back and read and see if you can finally make sense of a lot of things that Brother Branham said?   A time when before God was God - do you want to talk about that?

Who wants to go through that again?   But He taught us - a time before God was God . . .

“What do you mean before God was God?   God is eternal.   He’s Elohim, the self-existing One. How could He be . . .?”

But Brother Branham explained to us He was once the eternal Spirit of the Father but technically not a god.

Oh, what didn’t matter when you heard it the first thousand times, it may matter if you start getting the picture.   Let me show you know why.

Technically, not God - why?   Because there was no one to worship Him.   There was in God a need to be loved, to be held in esteem.

Somebody said, “I don’t believe you’ll find that in the Message.”   Oh yes, I will.   The prophet said, “In the Spirit were all these attributes (remember?) - Savior, Healer, Counselor . . . - but nobody was lost, nobody was sick, nobody needed counsel because there wasn’t nobody.”

So God said, “I’m going to make angels, and they’re going to worship Me.   They’re going to tend to heaven’s business.”   And He created Seraphims and Cherubims, and all these heavenly hosts. And in all of that creation . . .   It was wonderful, it was beautiful.   These angels began to worship Him.

He’s now God.   They’re worshipping Him as God.   He was always who He was going to be.   But technically now, someone is showing Him the respect and honor that He deserves.   But it’s not enough.   It’s just not enough.

And God makes Adam, and He makes Eve.   And He loves them.   And He’s going to make sure that they love Him.   He’s going to allow them to have their will and their way.   But He is also going to provide a way of redemption and salvation for them.

And mankind begins to unfold.   And I can take you all through the Scripture and show you where God, who gives us will, also molds our will, and changes our will, and causes us to want to serve Him deeper, and deeper, and deeper.

2006-06-10 PM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 1

No wonder the prophet of God taught us that everything we need to make the Rapture is in us.   No wonder he taught us that all these things are in us.

Yes, in potential form they’ll come to greater manifestation and maturity.   And yes, we’re coming. Yes, we’re coming.

Yes, we’re coming, but not because we learn how to come or we learn step one, two, three, but because we yielded ourselves to the Holy Ghost and He brought revelation and fed us and changed our thinking.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

I read a lot of books and I hear a lot of preachers preach every week during the course of a week. And I do that because I believe that God speaks to a lot of people, and I believe that each man of God has a place in the Body, a job to do, and we better try to stay with our job.

And everybody has a . . . those who are truly called of God, they have a special flavor to add.   And I’m not afraid, personally, to listen because I have a policy of taking everything back to the Word of God and the Message of the Hour.   And some things I don’t understand, I just leave where they are.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

Now, we were wanting to catch up here just a minute on this “Ancient of Days.”   Now, I think I’ve explained it now twice relatively thorough, I think.   But I wanted to bring it back to the Message of the Hour and let you get a little glimpse here of what Brother Branham said about the Ancient of Days.

I could read all the quotes.   They would be very repetitive.   I could read whole paragraphs.   That would take a lot of time.   But I pretty much highlighted, if that’s okay, portions of the quote.

And I don’t believe that I have taken anything out of context to just share with you a portion of . . . It would take a long time to read it all.

But here are some things that Brother Branham said from “The Patmos Vision.”   And it’s a beautiful sermon.   If you have a chance to hear it again, you should do it - or read it again.   It would be interesting to you, I think.

He said, “Oh, for that day when you see Him like that.   His hair was as white as snow.   Daniel saw Him coming to the Ancient of Days.”

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

Now, Brother Branham said, “Daniel saw Him (Him who?   One like unto the Son of man, the Lord Jesus) coming to the Ancient of Days” - the Ancient of Days representing the eternal Spirit of the Father, the Judge of all judges.   All right?

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“Daniel saw Him coming to the Ancient of Days.   Watch Him blend these two together.”   It was really a blending together.   The Ancient of Days was depositing from Himself into the Son of Man. It is called incarnation.   It is God becoming flesh, taking on a body.

We’ll give you the Greek word in just a moment that Brother Branham used over and over again.

In the same sermon he said, “(He) come to the Ancient of Days whose hair was white as wool. And John turned and he saw One like the Son of man standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks . . .”

Now what had happened between Daniel’s vision and John’s vision?   The Son of Man had taken on the attributes of the Ancient of Days.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

No, what John saw was the same Messiah that had walked through Galilee and ministered in His day, but now He had taken on the full character, the full attributes, of the Ancient of Days.   He was now the glorified Christ.   He was now the full adopted Son.   He was now the full manifestation of the eternal Spirit of the Father.

So He looked exactly like the one and only physical fleshly representation we have in the entire Bible of the Father.   Every other time we study the Father as a spirit, He might appear as a fire, He might appear as a rainbow.   But one time, and one time only, here . . .

Well . . . unless we want to talk about Christology.   And we don’t want to talk about that right now. But what that is - Brother Branham called it the theophany.

And Brother Branham clearly told us that it was God Almighty and two angels that appeared to Abraham.   We have to be careful with these . . . when we try to make something so exclusive as I was doing.   Forgive me for that.

But here is an image that Daniel saw of the Father.   Now John is seeing an image of the Son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ, and He looks exactly like the one that Daniel called “the Ancient of Days.”

Brother Branham said, “Watch how they are blended together.“   A kingdom created by God was given to One like unto the Son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ.   It is the incarnation - which we know about that.

He goes on to say, “John turned . . . he saw One like the Son of man standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, with a snow white hair: the Judge, not girded around the waist, but girded around the paps . . .” he says.

“With the sash of the judge over His shoulder, He stood with a golden, pure, holy, refined girdle that held His righteousness, His cover.   He was covered all the way to the feet.   Watch the sevenfold manifestation of His Person and glory.”

Then he goes on to say, “’Head, white as wool,’ righteousness . . .”

He’s explaining the white - “. . . righteousness, experience, eloquency, sufficient, wisdom.”

My, that’s a bunch, huh?

“Aged, white, speaks of wisdom,” he said, “old.   Knows what He’s doing . . .   He’s the Fountain of wisdom.   He’s the Fountain of experience,” Brother Branham said.

“He’s the Fountain of every good thing; therefore He’s represented in this One like the Son of man . . . with white hair hanging down.”

“Daniel saw Him many hundred years, seven hundred years (before), and said, ‘He was the Ancient of Days.   And One like the Son of Man come in power and united with this Ancient of Days, and the judgment was set.’”

First of all he said it was a blending between the Ancient of Days and One like unto the Son of man - a blending.

Now he calls it . . . he says they’re united - One like unto the Son of man came in power and was united with this Ancient of Days and that caused the judgment to be set.   It was like the judge coming into the courtroom (Amen.   Come on.) and everybody stands up.

And he goes on to say, “. . . it’s breathtaking . . .   See Him standing there in the supreme - the supremity of His Deity.   He’s the Judge, the Priest, the King, the Eagle, the Lamb, the Lion, the Alpha, the Omega, the Father, Son, Holy Ghost; He that was, which is, and shall come.”   It is all these descriptions.

“There John looked up and saw Him standing there with feet of brass, eyes like flames of fire running to and fro throughout the earth.   Daniel saw Him seven hundred years before that in the same position, the same kind, same Man standing there, the Ancient of Days, and One like the Son of man that joined in with Him, and all judgment was committed to Him . . .”

The Ancient of Days, the Judge of all judges, committed all judgment into the hands of the One who was like unto the Son of Man.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

All right.   Then he says in a message called “Ashamed,” “He came to the Ancient of Days . . .   I called up Brother Jack Moore, a theologian.   He said, ‘Oh, Brother Branham, that’s Jesus in His glorified stage.’   Said, ‘After His death, burial, and resurrection, He turned to that.’”

He said, “That sounded all right for a theologian, but it didn’t go good, it just didn’t hit the something.   I went up there and started on that first church age, there the Holy Spirit revealed it.”

“Now, you’ve got it right on your church ages.   I guess the books will be out pretty soon now, the full detail of it.   And it showed that Jesus was Judge.”

I want you to know, in the same manner that the instruction was given to Brother Branham, “This is the Sword of the King” - not a king, not a king’s sword, not even the King’s sword, but the Sword of the King . . .

There’s relevancy there.   And so He was King of all kings.   When you’ve got that Sword, you’ve got the Sword of the King of kings.

And here we have a Judge, but not just a judge or any judge, or in the manner of judges, but the Judge of all judges, the Supreme Judge.

“There’s a white wig that they used to wear, put a wig on and wear it as a judge . . .”   He said, “England still does it.”   And it is a symbol here of authority.

He said, “And that turning sideways in this picture, there He is, His black hair, you can see it in the side of His beard, and the white wig on.   He is the last of the authority; He’s Supreme Authority.”

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

There’s only one Being who can speak the Word and cause authority to be given to those who don’t have authority.   And that is this Supreme Authority - One like unto the Son of man, who has blended together, who has united together, with the Judge of all judges, the Ancient of Days.

“It shows that it is His very covering (same message); . . . it’s His supreme authority.”   And then He gives this Greek word “en morphe” - “e-n m-o-r-p-h-e.”

And that word he describes . . .   He said it’s like a Greek actor playing many roles or many parts. “Today he is one thing, in the next act he’s something else.”

Remember Brother Branham using that expression?   In Greek and in Roman theater, they often kept the same costumes but changed masks.   He uses that sometimes to describe how Satan has done, but he also uses it to describe this all . . .

It’s a beautiful thing, this en morphe.   It shows how that the eternal Spirit of the Father has changed His mask down through the ages - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Ancient of Days, One like unto the Son of Man.

But the actor has not changed.   His purpose has changed.   The part that He is playing has changed.   His role has changed.   But He’s still only one person.

Evidently this comes from this same Greek word “en morphe.”   Today, He is one thing, in the next act, He’s something else.   Brother Branham said, “He was God the Father in one act; God the Son in another act; and He’s God the Holy Ghost in this act.   See?   There He is; His Word is still Supreme.”

But He’s only God.   He’s only one Person.   Beside Him there is none.   But He’s made a good Father.   He’s made a good Son.   He’s made a good Holy Ghost.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

And then they testified one to another, “Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked with us by the way?”

How was the Lord Jesus able to pull that off, to sort of remain incognito so that they didn’t know who He was?   He did it by appearing to them in another form - en morphe.

So He had the ability to change His form.   And that is the exact word that we use for this beautiful incarnation - God coming down, and so forth.

And Brother Branham used the word a good many times.   In the message, “Spiritual Food in Due Season” . . .   I think this is a nice significant quote.

He said, “Now, that . . .”   (This is ’65, of course.)   “Now, that was before the - and remember, before the Seven Seals was opened, about a year or more before.   I was praying there, ‘Lord, what was it?’

“And I looked, standing before me, and there stood a man, and he was a judge, and he had a white wig on.”

I’ve never remembered or recognized Brother Branham ever telling this experience.   I always thought that this was just a part of what was being revealed in the Church Ages or the Seals, and I know he said that the Angel came down every day and taught him there in the room, and so forth, but I never really caught what He was saying.

But He said, “Now, that was before the . . . Seven Seals was opened, about a year or more before. I was praying there, ‘Lord, what was it?’

“And I looked, standing before me . . .”   (This sounds to me like a visitation.)

“And I looked, standing before me, and there stood a man, and he was a judge, and he had a white wig on.

“The old judges of ancient days used to wear a white wig to show that he was a supreme authority. And then when I seen Jesus with the white wig, I said it only vindicates the truth that we know, that He is the supreme Authority.”

And he said, “God witnessed the same thing on Mount Transfiguration, (when a voice) said, ‘This is My beloved Son, hear Him,’ (He is) the supreme authority.”   All authority was given to Him.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

And then in a message here (we’re almost coming to the end of this), “A Thinking Man’s Filter,” he said, “I’d read over in the Book . . . of Daniel, where He came to the Ancient of Days, Whose hair was as white as wool.   Then I seen that Ancient of Days; He was that Ancient of Days . . .   I seen it was a symbol. . . . because the white over him [high priest in Israel] signified that he was supreme authority of the judges of Israel.”

“. . . to show that there’s no other authority in that kingdom above their word,” to show that there’s no other authority in that Kingdom above their word.

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“Their Word is the ultimate of the kingdom.”

“He was the full, supreme Authority: He was (and is) the (Living) Word.   He alone was that wigged One and supreme authority.”

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And then in a message, “The Invisible Union of the Bride of Christ,” he said . . .   And this is how Brother Branham saw this Ancient of Days whose hair was as white as wool - “Ten thousands times ten thousands came with Him to minister to Him . . .”

Brother Branham says that this is the Bride.   Now whether or not we’re getting two scenes a little combined, I don’t know, because it . . .

Brother Branham goes on to talk about the Lord Jesus coming the first time to redeem His Bride, the second time to get His Bride, the third time with His Bride.

And He uses that theme.   He’s coming with the saints of heaven to sort of set up this story of the Ancient of Days.

So we’ve got details from Daniel’s vision and details from John’s vision.   And I’m not sure exactly what belongs in each place.   But this is how he explains it here in “The Invisible Union . . .”

“Ten thousands times ten thousands came with Him to minister to Him: the Bride.   And then the Books were opened, and another Book was open, which was the Book of Life.   See?   There’s saints already there, the church, the Bride.   Huh?   Another Book was open which was the Book of Life.”

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“See, the Bride is with Him in the Throne.   As she is to judge the world she has to be sitting in the judgment with Him.   That is exactly what Daniel saw.”

“See, it is the same scene, for the thousand thousands who are ministering to Him are the Bride, for who ministers to the husband but the wife?”

And then he goes on to explain this position of the Bride in the judgment.   He said, “Now . . .”

And this is in the Church Age of Sardis here.   He said, “The question now arises, why are these righteous ones in the judgment?   There is no other place that they can come up, for there are but two resurrections and since they could not qualify for the first resurrection they must come up in the second which is a resurrection unto judgment.”

Remember the Bible said even hell empties itself.   The sea gives up the dead.   And this is not the first resurrection, which is the resurrection of the dead in Christ, the Bride.   But it is the second resurrection, which brings up all of those who will stand before the Throne Judgment, the Great White Throne Judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He said, “The ones who qualify for the first resurrection (the Bride) are not in the judgment.” Brother Branham says they’re standing there ministering to the Judge as the Bride.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

I better say that again.   The whole purpose of Jesus - everything He was, everything He did, everything He said - was for one reason, and one reason only - that He might serve the will and the purpose of His Father.

Somebody said, “Why is that so special?”   Anybody know?   Why is that so special?

The only purpose, the whole reason, for the Lord Jesus . . .   I think it would be good to say here, for those of you who’ve studied the Message with me, we do not believe in eternal Sonship.

But I guarantee you that a lot of you are thinking “eternal Sonship.”   And that’s why this is a little bit of a thing for you to grasp because eternal Sonship is this.

There is a teaching that’s widely accepted that the Son of God always existed.   Did He?   No, not as a Son.

Was the Son eternal?   Yes, in that His very essence was given to Him by eternal God.

Are you mortal?   Yes.   Are you immortal?   Yes.   I thought those words were opposite.   I thought you were either mortal, which means you could die, the ability to die, or immortal, so that you will never die.

You are both.   There is a part of you that is mortal and there . . . hallelujah . . . and there is a part of you that is immortal that will never die.

There was a part of Jesus that was eternal, and there was a part of Him that was not eternal.   His body was not eternal and His position was not eternal, but His Spirit, His essence, who He was - God - was eternal.

Now, the churches generally teach eternal Sonship - that Jesus always existed as a Son in the Presence of the Father.   What do you have?   Two.   And there are . . .

We laugh when we hear the word “Two-ness.”   Brother Branham used the word “Two-ness.”   We laugh about it.

There are major denominations that teach there are two in the Godhead - the Father and Jesus. Major denominations that you and I would classify as Trinitarian that are really not Trinitarian.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

Do you know why you’re here this morning?   Do you know why you’re willing to sit through this and struggle to try to catch some truth that’s a little evasive to you and go through all the things you go through?   Do you know why?

Do you know what it is?   Do you know why you have responded to the Message of the Hour?

Do you know why thousands heard it and it was uneducated babble, it was hillbilly English, it was . . . it was the least of theological expression, and you heard it and you said, “Oh, my God, that is the truth.   I know that’s God speaking to me.   I don’t understand it all, but I found something that really is an absolute.   It’s an anchor in my life.”

Do you know why?   Do you know why you’re here this morning and not on a hangover at home, hugging a toilet bowl somewhere?

Do you know why this is the life . . .?   Not because you smartened up, but because He enlarged your heart.   He touched you.   And when He touched you, it caused you, it drove you, it motivated you to want to run in the way of His Commandments.   It just happened.

2006-06-11 AM    The Sovereignty of God - Part 2

Brother Branham said, “No man has ever sought God at any time.   It was always God seeking you.”

2006-06-13 PM    Balaam’s Adversary - The Angel of the Lord

I say this to people who really are caught up in the controversy around the ministry of Brother Branham.   I always say to people, “If you don’t want to hear anything about it, that’s fine.   But there’s one tape that every Christian should hear, and it was preached in Chatauqua, Ohio, and it was called ‘The Rejected King.’”

I tell you, there’s an anointing on that tape that pulls me to the side of the road sometimes.

At the end of that service in the altar call when Brother Branham is screaming out . . .   And he’s not the most emotional person that I’ve ever heard preaching on tape.   But he’s screaming out, and the people are responding with such noise that he can hardly talk.

And he talks about those lambs that have gotten away from the fold.   And he screams, “Little lambs, we’re coming after you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to bring you back in and restore you.”

And in that message, he talks about Israel, how she just had to have a king.   And you know what? God gave her exactly what she wanted.   And it was the most awful thing that she could have ever hoped for.   But she got what she wanted.   Amen.

2006-06-13 PM    Balaam’s Adversary - The Angel of the Lord

You know, we’re taught in Pentecost any hindrance is the devil.   “That’s got to be the devil. That’s surely the devil.”   And yet we heard a prophet say . . .

That’s what makes this so real to me.   We heard a prophet say that Satan is no more than a tool in the hand of God to perfect His children, the saints, the sons of God.

2006-06-17 PM    A Fresh Revelation of God’s Sovereignty

And I want to tell you something.   If you happen to be here and believe the Message of the Hour and you happen to believe that William Branham is a prophet, I challenge you to prove that anything I’ve said tonight is not exactly what he was preaching.

How is it that we didn’t get it?   I know exactly how.   I can tell you exactly how.   Because we have the ability to take what is said and make it fit our theology.

2006-06-17 PM    A Fresh Revelation of God’s Sovereignty

Many of you are going to have a terrible time, many of you are having a terrible time, grasping this because you’re thinking perhaps of something that has already been said.

It crippled a ministry before us because people allowed no room for the progress of revelation.   It’s crippled a ministry, so to speak, because you can open a book and you can read more about the contradictions, the times that he said things differently, than when he would come back and go into a little bit further revelation.

You need an example?   Okay.   I just recently read in a book about this white horse rider. Remember the story?   The white horse rider?   Remember that Brother Branham said, “I have preached before, I was going to preach again, that that white horse rider was Jesus Christ.”

He’d already preached it that way.   “But the Angel of the Lord came to me and corrected me.”

Where was the Angel of the Lord when he’d said that twenty other times?   I don’t know.   It’s not my business.

But all I know is when God revealed it to him he said, “No, that wasn’t Jesus Christ.   That was the anti-Christ.”

Is there anybody in this house that thinks that’s drastic?   I think it’s big.   Somebody said, “Why would that matter?”

Well, it matters very much when a man comes on the scene and points and says, “This is Jesus Christ,” and later comes and says, “No, no, no, this is the anti-Christ.”   That’s big.

But we understand it, and we accept it, because we understand the progression.

Somebody said, “Well, couldn’t God have kept him from ever saying it another . . . ?”   He could have, but He didn’t.   There was a reason for it.   There was a purpose for it.

And if God should come along in this hour and decide that He wants to take us farther in the progress of revelation, we want to do it.

And how do we do it?   We walk softly.   And what do we use as our Absolute?   The Word of God.  The Word of God.

So if I can come and show you that something I’ve said in the past was not one hundred percent according to the Word, but could have in some way been influenced by my own teachings and understandings . . .

But if I come honestly, repenting before you and saying, “I want you to reconsider by the Word . . .” would you have some sort of obligation to examine the Word of God, or would you kill me?

I’ve preached these Scriptures many times emphasizing your choice.   And I believe your choice is important.   But I want to preach them tonight with a little bit different revelation and understanding. It’s what I’ve been trying to do for several weeks now.

I want to now take these same Scriptures, although I don’t believe I was preaching this particular subject out of the Word, but emphasizing your choice.

Now I see something a little clearer by revelation that it’s His choice, and He has influenced your choice with His choice.

Yeah, if you need to know that you’ve made a choice, again, you’ve made a choice.   But you couldn’t have made it if it wasn’t given to you.   If you weren’t called to choose Him, you could have stood a hundred years and told the Lord every day, “I choose You, I choose You, I choose You, I choose You,” and it would have been like a tinkling brass.   It would have made no difference to God.

Somebody said, “Why is this so important now?”   It’s important for people like some of you that have been following the Truth fifteen and sixteen years and you still tremble that you’re going to miss the Rapture.

It’s important for those of you who still fight such a terrible mind battle about who you are.   It’s important for you to know that God’s Word said, “You have been predestinated.”

2006-06-17 PM    A Fresh Revelation of God’s Sovereignty

Brother Branham said, “A Jew is not a Jew unless . . .” what?

Why, that . . . people got mad.   I’ve met people who are angry about that.

“You’re born a Jew.   You’ve got Jewish blood flowing in your body.”

That’s not what he was saying.   He wasn’t talking about technically.   He was talking about, “If you want to receive your part of the Promise, if you want the blessings of the Covenant to be upon you, you’ve got to be living in the Covenant Land.   Even though you’re chosen, you have an obligation and a responsibility to keep My Commandments.”

2006-06-17 PM    A Fresh Revelation of God’s Sovereignty

See, God promised me that there would be psalmists and songwriters who would be anointed to write the music around the Truth, the present Truth.

What we need to write a song about tonight, if we’ve got a gift, is what God is saying, what He’s doing, what He’s calling us to right now.

And there are going to be some people that will never be able to do that.   And the reason why is because everybody gets their inspiration from somewhere.

And if you’re not receiving your inspiration from present Truth, you won’t express, when you start preaching, or talking, or testifying, or the singing, or whatever you’re doing . . . you won’t express what God is doing right now.

2006-06-17 PM    A Fresh Revelation of God’s Sovereignty

There is none that seeketh after God.   I used to hear Brother Branham say that - “No man has sought God at any time.”

Have you ever heard him say it?   And I used to feel like I immediately had to excuse him.   You go back and listen and think about it a minute.   I thought that I immediately had to excuse him because my experience is I have seen people weeping their way through to God in the altar.

And we called that “seeking God” - “Let’s come around the altar tonight and seek God.”   It was a Pentecostal expression of what we were doing.   And so I always came back . . .

Some of you old-timers, you’ve been with me now.   You could say this, and some of you younger ones, too, if you remember.   I’ve said it many, many, many, many times - “Brother Branham said, ‘No man seeketh . . .’   But he also said, ‘. . . unless God is seeking you.’”

One time he said it that way.   All the other times, I think, if I remember correctly, he just left it kind of hanging.   “No man has sought God at any time.   No man has sought God at any time.”

And I used to always feel like people are going to read that . . .   I’ve got to kind of explain that it is okay to come and seek God if God is seeking you.   And that is the truth.   That is the truth.

But let me tell you how it is that you could come around this altar tonight and seek God.   “No man has sought God at any time.”

Did the Bible just say . . .   Go back to that verse, would you?   11.

Verse 11,

11.  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

None.   You don’t seek God.   You don’t seek God.   He seeks you.   That’s the Word.   And that’s all I was trying to say.   God knows my heart.   I just want to make sure people understood that no man has sought God at any time, unless God is seeking . . .

And that’s exactly what I’m saying tonight.   I’m just saying I know how I would feel when I’d run across those quotes - “I’ve got to help make people understand that it is all right to call on the Lord, and cry out to God, and come and seek God, and desire to be . . .”

Sure it is.   But you can’t.   You can’t unless He’s seeking you.   If God is looking for you, you can come.   But you can’t sit in this church and decide all of a sudden, “I’m going to get my life in order.”

And that’s how I’ve preached.   I knew a little better, but basically this is . . .

“Okay, come on now.   You’ve got to . . .”   And all these tongues and interpretations that we’ve had in Pentecost all down through the years - “Come and find the Lord,” “Come and get saved,” and “Come and give your heart to God tonight” . . .

We could say that any service, but it would be impossible for you to do it unless it was as what we heard tonight - God searching for somebody.

2006-06-17 PM    A Fresh Revelation of God’s Sovereignty

Oh, I heard the prophet when he said, “Lord, it’s manifesting time.   It’s time for every seed to bring forth of its own kind.”

Some people will hear the simplicity of this Word and will perhaps turn loose and let the world overtake them.   But it’s manifesting time.

Others will hear it.   They’ll find a new liberty in You and a desire to evangelize, share the Word of what You’re doing, this great plan of salvation.

2006-06-18 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 1  (Excerpt)

But that’s how much your Father loves you.   He’ll follow you into somebody else’s bedroom.   He’ll follow you into the watering hole.   He’ll follow you wherever He has to follow you.   He’s looking for you.

And one day, you’re going to recognize, like some of us have, He was looking for me all along and I didn’t know it.   I was walking all over Him.

Did you hear a man of God preach a message one time, “God Hiding Himself and Revealing Himself in Simplicity”?

When God finds you, you see God in everything.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

God took Adam.   From the dust of the earth, He made him.   And He made him to . . .   Of course, we’ve heard . . . (this is getting bigger than I wanted it to get right now) but we’ve heard that in God’s original design, reproduction was not going to happen by an act of sexual intimacy.   It was going to be by the spoken Word.

Do you remember that?   It was only after the Fall that it was determined that this would always be the way.   Of course, we know that God knew everything that was going to happen in the Garden.

Brother Branham said, “It was in God’s original design, His highest order.   And He could have brought forth, and would have brought forth, every son or daughter by the spoken Word, just like He did Adam.”

But that wouldn’t have worked because there was a plan unfolding for man’s redemption.   Amen?

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

Unlike what some people teach, there is not a race of people out there who are serpent’s seed because this seed of the devil was passed down from generation to generation to generation.   That is not what is happening today.

So if you’re listening to . . .   What’s his name?   Murray - from the Shepherd’s Chapel.   He teaches this serpent’s seed doctrine.   He’s known all over the world for teaching it.   But what they’re teaching is the same thing Brother Branham said people were teaching back then - that there was a literal seed.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

You did come here with some kind of spiritual seed in you.   You did.   And all that has to do with is God’s foreknowledge of you and His will for you.

And that seed lays dormant in your life like the little woman at the well.   It’s there.   There’s life in it.   But it’s like life that’s locked inside and can’t get out.

But when she came in contact with the S-o-n, the Son, the Messiah, it was as though that light that emanated from Him . . . it shined on that seed that was in her.

And what was never important to her, what never interested her before, except maybe the little stories, as Brother Branham said, that her mother told her . . .

But it wasn’t enough.   Her interest was not enough to cause her to live a virtuous life.   She had lived a loose life.   She’d lived a life full of sin, doing her own thing, making her own decisions.   And that seed was laying in her all along.

But when she came in contact with Jesus, the S-o-n, the Son of God, Brother Branham said, “that seed that laid there dormant in her . . . it became germitized.”

That shell that was on that seed . . . it died.   It broke off.   And the germ of life that was inside of her all along . . . it sprouted forth.   It changed her.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

It’s very hard for me to say this.   But it’s another one of those issues where you’re studying the Seals and you say . . .

You’re reading along and it’s . . .   “They’re open.   The seventh Seal is open.”   And you’re reading along . . .  “It’s not open,” you think, about what’s being said.   And you read a little further, get on to another message . . .   “Oh no, no, it’s opened.”

And you read a little bit further, and he makes . . .   “When it’s opened . . .”

“Oh, oh, oh, it’s not opened.”

This can really be confusing.

And I’ve always had a problem with this seed.   And I’ve always picked my quotes very carefully because I spent a lot of time debating with my brothers, my preacher friends, about this seed.

And, finally, I found some quotes that I really could hold onto because it seemed that it was saying what I believed.   And this can be a terrible mistake when you ignore lots of other Truth and you only take what seems to be Truth lining up with what you believe.

Oh, you need to say, “Amen,” because you’re guilty, too.

More times than not, that prophet talked about you coming into this world with the seed of God in you.   And I . . .

“Okay, yes, yes.   That representation . . . I see, like a vacuum.   Hm, hm.   I can see that.   Hm, hm.   No problem.”

But what I really like is this quote over here that says, “She received it on her mother’s knee,” because that seems to go better with what I see.   Her mother sat her down . . .

Have you ever heard me make that quote?   Her mother sat her down, told her all the stories of Israel, the exploits, how God did this, and it placed that seed within her.

I like that one because it really lines up with how I was seeing things.  But in honesty, I have to tell you tonight . . .   I’m not prepared to go through them with you.   We can sometime.   There’s cooby-doodles of them.

But can I tell you that more times than not, the prophet of God said, “You came here with a seed of God in you.   You were born with that seed.”

And I used to have such a struggle with that because it sounded like, “If you were born with the seed of God, it was easy for you to be saved.   If you weren’t born with the seed of God, there’s only enough . . .”

I mean how many seeds can you have?   We’re not talking about varieties of apples here.   How many apple seeds can you have?

It’s a little more serious than that.   It’s a representation of that which is good and that which is evil. So there’s only two choices.

And I always struggled with that.   If you’re born with a seed of God, what about those who are not born with a seed of God?   Then whose seed are they born with?

This is a spiritual seed.   It’s not a physical seed.   And I don’t mean to upset anybody.   It’s not a sperm.   It’s the seed of God.   It’s the Word of God.

Do you want to know what the seed was?   The spoken Word is the original seed.   That was the seed that He placed in you - the Word of God.

But I always would move away from those quotes because I really liked this one that talked about how that seed got in that little girl.   It got in her because her mother was teaching her how good God was.

But I’m understanding as I look at the Scripture, it is not a wild idea.   It’s not so far out after all that God is the one who looks ahead and determines who is going to be granted repentance and who is not going to be granted repentance.

The Bible tells us how predestination . . .   You can’t do away with the Scripture.   You can’t do away with this one.  You can’t do away with the fact that the Bible said predestination is by foreknowledge.   You can’t change that.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

And I believe that the Scripture and the Message of the Hour is teaching . . .

“So why is that so important now?   Because it’s a little bit scary, and it makes us wonder why is it important now?”

Again, the only reason why . . .   I’ve stayed away from this subject for almost eighteen years. And the only reason why I would even begin to breach the subject now is because you must know. You have got to know by revelation who you are.   If you don’t know, you’ve got to know.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

Now I had that experience.   In the Spirit, I was carried on the wings of a white eagle.   It happened to me in the Spirit.   And I even saw the feathers in the neck of that eagle.   And I even saw some of the things, the Truths . . .   It was just Truths, just God’s Truths.   That’s all.   Don’t make a big production.   I don’t.   I haven’t.

It was just God’s Truths that were written, or engraved, on the wings of that eagle.

Now what do we know about the white eagle, we who have studied the Message?   (And I have to close.   Unfortunately, I’ve got to something I’d like to share.)

What do we know about it?   Well, it came by an experience with Brother Branham.   It’s an experience that he had, this story of the white eagle.   We could read it, but we don’t have time to do that tonight.

But he was up in Sabino Canyon.   He’d gone through a lot of things.   Was this perhaps also the time that he was trying to overcome the stomach condition and all of that?

Was that the same time, or another time, that the little creature came out and jumped on the cactus, and that was finished, and so forth?

But anyway.   He took a higher trail.   I’ve been there.   I’ve been on both trails.   I’ve climbed all the way up to the place where this took place.

And he said that . . .   Of course, he was there alone.   No one was around.   And his shirt was off. He was naked from his waist up he said.   His shirt was tied around his waist.   It was hot.   He’s out on the Arizona desert.

And he leaned up against a rock.   And he saw over his shoulder a word written in the rock.   I have a picture of that word written in the rock.

And the word was “eagle.”   And it was written . . .   It wasn’t “white eagle.”   It was “eagle” written in white quartz inside that rock.   Inside that rock there was white quartz that literally spelled out the word “eagle.”

And this was such a revelation that he even talked about it at different times.   And there’s one quote where he talked about a Message, a “White Eagle Message.”   And it must have been very spiritually significant.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

And I know that Brother Branham kept emphasizing over and over again, “It’s by the Word you’re going to overcome.   You’re going to overcome by the Word.”

Not by sensation, not by feeling, not by speaking in tongues, not by running around the building - that’s not how . . .   All those things are wonderful, aren’t they?   We need more rejoicing and praising God and loving the Lord.   We need all that.

But I heard Brother Branham today talking about praise and worship.   He said, “Worship alone . . . in worship alone, you will not overcome.   It takes more than that.   It takes the Word of God.”

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

And I recognized today that that greater price that Brother Branham was talking about . . . that greater price - “You’ve gone as far with God as you’re ever going to go until you pay a greater price” . . . I realized what that greater price was.

There’s not a whole lot I can pay.   There’s really not a whole lot.   I don’t have a lot that I could pay.   So what is that greater price that’s going to get me to a greater relationship with God?

I recognize it’s just a greater surrender.   It’s just a greater surrender.   And it’s just giving more of myself, laying more of my will down, and letting His will rule in my life.

2006-06-20 AM    God Granting Repentance - Part 2  (Excerpt)

I’m going to ask you to praise Him.   The man of God said the perfect time to praise the Lord was when the Word of God had gone forth.   So let’s make a little sacrifice here before we leave.

2006-06-24 PM    The Seed of God  (Excerpt)

And notice Paul said that Abraham is the father of us all.   Both those who have come to trust God as Jews by the Law and those who have come to trust God by revelation, the Gentiles - Abraham is the father of us all.

I like how Brother Branham preached this so many years ago.   What?   Fifties, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety

Fifty years ago, he preached about the royal seed of Abraham - those who didn’t have this genetic thing, they weren’t Jews by bloodline passed down generation to generation to generation.

It’s a good thing that God is looking at it this way because there’s probably never been a more scattered and mixed people than the Jewish people today.

2006-07-09 AM    Our Labor Is To Yield

I read last night in the Hebrews book where Brother Branham said . . .   After I went home, I read where Brother Branham said that Hebrews is one of the most wonderful Books in the whole Bible because it really reveals how the Lord Jesus has come and fulfilled the Old Testament types and shadows.   And I believe it’s right.

2006-07-09 AM    Our Labor Is To Yield

I love to hear Brother Branham tell it.   It’s a little gory, but I like it.   He said, “Can’t you see Abel with that sharp rock in his hand, that lamb on his lap?   He don’t have a knife.   He don’t have a saw.   He don’t have a surgical scalpel.   He’s just got a sharp rock.   But something inside of him tells him that God is looking for a sacrifice, and it has to be a bloody one.”

“And he starts working on the jugular vein of that lamb in his lap with that sharp rock.   And he’s jabbing at it.”

Oh, sister, you’re not going to puke.   Come on, you’re a big girl.

“Unh.   Unh.   Unh.   Oof.   Oof.”

“And every time he does it, splash.”

I love you even if you are three shades of red.

“Splash.   Every time . . .”

I didn’t know she blushed like that.   I’m in trouble.

“And the blood just squeezed up on him, splurted out.   Every time that little lamb’s heart would pump, for one of the last times it was going to pump . . .”

Ooh.   I can see it.   It caused that blood to shoot up over Abel.   And he’s still finishing the job.

You know, that was a beautiful, perfect, perfect, absolute perfect type because the blood just covered him.

Abel sat covered in the blood of the sacrifice that he was offering to God - perfect type of the Lamb of God (hallelujah) who came and shed His Blood.

2006-07-09 AM    Our Labor Is To Yield

I’ve said before . . .   I think I’ll say again because some people still don’t understand why I mention Brother Branham’s name so much.

And I think it’s because . . .   Well, there’s lots of reasons, but one little reason is I’ve served the Lord for a long time, and I lived for Him the best way I know how, but I didn’t love Him like I should love Him because it had never been revealed to me how to love Him.   And I’d never really met anybody that loved Him in this way.

2006-07-09 AM    Our Labor Is To Yield

But when I began to hear Brother Branham on tape, he talked about Jesus in a way that I’d never heard anybody talk about Jesus before.

He talked about Him as though he had eaten lunch with Him, or just had a biscuit with him for breakfast.

You know, my upbringing in the church . . . I heard good preaching.  But it seemed that by their preaching, Jesus was still a million miles away.

He only got concerned with me when I started doing something ugly or wrong, and then He was right on my case.   That’s kind of the way He was preached to me.

Brother Branham made it sound like he’d just been hunting with Him.   Well, He’s just like a . . .

I mean, he gave Him all the respect in the world, but yet he made Him a buddy.   He made Him a friend.   He talked about Him as somebody that really walked with him.

And I said, “I’d never known anybody to love Jesus like that man.   And if You’ll just help me, Lord, I want to love You like Brother Branham loved You.   I want to know You like Brother Branham knew You.   I want to walk with You like he walked with You.   And I want to be able to show some of that.”

And my, it wasn’t long after hearing those tapes and eating that Word that I began to fall in love with Him.

And I said, “This is the most wonderful thing that’s ever happened to me.   I love Him in a way I’ve never loved Him.”

2006-07-09 AM    Our Labor Is To Yield

No wonder Brother Branham said one time if the devil would come and repent and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, he’d no longer be the devil, he’d be your brother.

It ain’t going to happen, is it?   It just ain’t going to happen.   But I guess the prophet was saying the Word works.   You believe the Word works?

2006-07-11 PM    My Burden Is Light  (Excerpt)

Let them be a part of this fresh generation that’s being raised up in this hour to take the Truth that was delivered to us by a prophet to this generation.   And let us take that Truth over into the Promised Land.

2006-07-11 PM    My Burden Is Light  (Excerpt)

Let them have the harvest.   Let them eat the corn.   Let them eat the grain that was promised to another generation.

Abraham didn’t live long enough to see all of his promises fulfilled, but there was a generation that came along behind him that kept carrying on the promise.

This is the generation.   There’ll not be another one.   This is the generation that must inherit the promises of God to the past generation.   This is the generation that must inherit the promises.

This is the generation that must walk as manifested sons of God.   This is the generation that must come to full adoption and spiritual maturity.

This is the generation that must hear the Sound of the Thunders.   This is the generation that must walk in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.

This is the generation that will operate in the power of the spoken Word.   This is the generation that will speak to nations.   This is the generation that will call in the rest of the Bride.   (Tongues)

We call for the character of the Lord to be on display.

2006-07-11 PM    My Burden Is Light  (Excerpt)

Let them walk in faith like John G. Lake, like Smith Wigglesworth, like Jack Coe, like W. V. Grant, Sr., like William Branham, like Alexander Dowie, like William Seymour, like Raymond T. Richie, like Gordon Lindsay, like A. A. Allen.

The anointing, the mantle . . .   May we not inherit their weaknesses, may we not inherit their mistakes.   May we learn from their mistakes, but may we carry their glory - the glory that You poured out in a previous generation.