Psalm 139:16-18 16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalm 139:16-18 (CJB) 16Your eyes could see me as an embryo, but in your book all my days were already written; my days had been shaped before any of them existed. 17God, how I prize your thoughts! How many of them there are! 18If I count them, there are more than grains of sand if I finish the count, I am still with you.
Doctor Moses
55-0114 · Chicago, Illinois
34 …In the mind of God, Christ was already crucified. For He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Back in Eden, Christ in God’s thoughts, which became His Word, had not yet materialized. But He knew it was, for He had promised it. And He let the children of Israel draw interest before the deposit was made. So to show that it was, Him knowing what was going to be, He made something here that represented… So through the serpent, they could see what was going to happen, and through that, they received healing.
Hebrews 10:5-9 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Divine Love
56-0826 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
7 Last Sunday, with you here, I believe I preached on the assurance, the power that God had promised; and ordained you and called you before the foundation of the world, and put your name in His Book. You had nothing to do with it. God did it. Isn’t that wonderful? The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world, and (why?) it never happened till four thousand years later. But, God, when He spoke it, He had to do it, ‘cause He has to keep His Word. And the same time that the Lamb was wrote down, your…you were wrote with Him. “Our names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life,” not the night we come to Christ, but, “before the foundation of the world,” the Bible said. So that’s the assurance. And brother touched on that this morning in this marvelous Sunday school reading.
Influence
63-1114 · New York, New York
12 Now if you want your example, to lay aside your pattern, to see what the Scripture goes together with, just lay Jesus over here and go to watching Him, and placed it in the Bible. You got the whole thing come out right, ‘cause it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. The—the New Testament and Old, both, all speak of Jesus, see, Jesus Christ the Son of God, ‘cause He is (the) this Book of Redemption. He was the Word, and He is the Word, and that’s bound to be Him, you see. So this is the whole Book of Redemption, which is Jesus Christ, fitly put together by God; with the promises of redemption and healing, and everything, for the human being. See? Do you get that now? **This Book is Jesus Christ, put together by God.**See? And He come as a human being and redeemed us, and every promise is in Him, and for you, for He is the Redeemer.
John 1:14 (AMP) And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.
John 5:19-20 19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
John 5:30 30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
The Twentieth-Century Prophet
53-0800 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
3…But here I’ll quote His Words. He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do: this doeth the Son likewise.”
4 Then according to His Own Words, His ministry was based upon visions from His Father.
John 17:4 (AMP) 4I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.
Ephesians 1:4-12 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Luke 10:17-24 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. 21In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. 22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. 23And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: 24For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Ephesians 2:8-10 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed
63-0728· Jeffersonville, Indiana
190 “If ye abide in Me, the Word, My Word abide in you, then you ask what you will,” because you and the Word are the same. He has the preeminences. He’s got the rulership. You’re a—you’re a prisoner to Him. The world is dead. You have nothing more…You see the rest of the people living the way they do, but yet you do not do it. You’re a prisoner. You’re yoked with Him. “My yoke is easy.” Yoked with Christ, with His Word. “I do that only which the… pleases the Father. And if you can’t believe that I am He, then believe the Word.” So perfect! Notice.
The Inter-Veil
56-0121 · Sturgis, Michigan
20 Now, that is what I find around most Christian lives. Most, I hate to say it that way, but it’s true. The most people that can profess Christianity, they seem to have such a hard struggling time to hold on. I believe it’s because of a lack of correct teaching of—of the Bible. There’s no such a thing as holding on. He done the holding on. The whole Christian principle is based upon rest. “Come unto Me all ye that labor and heavy laden. I will give you rest.” Don’t have to worry and struggle. You’re just resting; that’s all. Given rest, you enter in peace, that the whole thing’s finished. “Them who He has called, He has justified. Those who He has justified, He has already glorified,” Scripture quoting.
21 Notice. It’s nothing that you do, or what you can do. It’s what God has done for you in Christ.
Psalms 118:22-24 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. 23This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. 24This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
2 Corinthians 5:10 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
1 Corinthians 3:11:15 15For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 14If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire
Acts 17:26-28 26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts 17:26 (NAS) having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation
- “Determined” — to make a determination about an entity, appoint, fix, set
- “TIme” — kairos, a destined time, an appointed or proper time
- “Appointed” — fixed before, allotted beforehand, to arrange or prescribe
- “Bound” — horothesia, the act of fixing boundaries; a bound certain and set, a fixed limit
Acts 17:26-27 (CJB) 26“From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish. 27God did this so that people would look for him and perhaps reach out and find him although in fact, he is not far from each one of us,
Jeremiah 29:11 11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
- “Thoughts” — Devised plans and purposes
- “Expected” — Cord, Hope- to give us a cord that BINDS us in HOPE to the far side or the end
- Other translations: to give you a future and a HOPE
- Literally, a destiny (a future) and a hope; that is, a desirable future
Nahum 1:7 7The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:7 (AMP) 7The Lord is good, a Strength and Stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows (recognizes, has knowledge of, and understands) those who take refuge and trust in Him.^†^
Psalms 56:1-13 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. 3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 4In God I will praise his word**, in God I have put my trust; **I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. 7Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
8** Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? ** 9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. 10** In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.** 11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. 12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalms 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psalms 56:8 (CJB) …aren’t they already recorded in your book?
Psalm 33:13-22 13The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. 14From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 15He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. 16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 18Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; 19** To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine**. 20Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. 21For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. 22Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Perfect Faith
63-0825E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
68 Now, the only thing you have to do then, is have faith in what you are. Have faith in what the Word says you are! And Jesus had faith in the Word of God, that said what He was, “It is written of Me.” Didn’t David, in the Psalms; and the prophets, and all of them speak of Him? “I am the Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven.” Amen! “I am that Tree of Life from the garden of Eden. I am all these things, I AM THAT I AM.”
And He knew with that Perfect Faith, that He was the anointed Messiah, that the Spirit of God was upon Him. He said, “Now, I, in Myself, do nothing; but it’s My faith in God.” And God was in Him, the Word made manifest. And when the Word of God comes in you, It’s made manifest, for you are a believer. See? And a believer is “the faith of God that moves in you.”
Malachi 3:16-18 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Romans 8:27-39 27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33** Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?** It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne *was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Revelation 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Works Is Faith Expressed
65-1126 · Shreveport, Louisiana
254 I was standing there, I said, “Lord, how is this? Young Man here” I said, “with hair like wool.”
255 And He said, “He is wigged.” Watch in the book, before it ever happened, I said that. And that day when that happened, it went up. And then you turn that picture sideways, if you’ve got Look Magazine or Life Magazine, turn sideways. There He is, just perfectly, Hofmann’s Head of Christ, looking right down where I was standing; there It is in the magazine! How many’s ever seen It? Course, you’ve all seen. There, looking right back, proved exactly the revelation was correct.
256 Why wigged? Why, the old English judges, the Jewish judges, used to wear a—a—a wig, they do yet in England; when he’s…that’s supreme authority, he wears a wig. And that showed Him standing there, wigged by Angels’ wings, He is the Alpha and Omega. He is the Supreme Judge, and none other but Him. He is to look upon as Alpha and Omega. And there He was a young Man, no, or more, thirty years old, wearing a wig of white. Showing that He was Supreme, God, “The Father has committed all judgment unto the hands of the Son.” Hallelujah! The revelation is never wrong! Speak It anyhow, no matter what it sounds like, goes right with the Word.
Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will
65-1127B · Jeffersonville, Indiana
92 I thought, “Maybe that Voice means turn it to the right.” And when I did, you see what it is: Hofmann’s Head of Christ, at thirty-three. Here, look in here, see His black beard, His face, His eyes, His nose, and everything else. See the part in His hair here coming up. And He’s wigged with that white Angel wig to show that the Message of Him being God is the Truth. He is the Supreme Judge of the universe, Supreme Judge of Heaven and earth. He is God, and nothing else but God. He is God expressed in human form called the Son of God, which the Son was the Man. And if that don’t make our Message exactly right: identified by the Scripture, identified in service, identified by His Presence, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore those Seven Seals are the Truth, brethren. Might disagree with them, but just set down and study it with your open heart one time, just let the Holy Spirit lead you from…
93 Here, when Brother Jack…I called him before preaching this and talked to him one time about “What was this white wig?”
94 He said, “Well, Brother Branham, I declare it to be that it was in His…after His resurrection in His glorified body.” I was talking to Brother Jack. And there’s…I don’t know of anybody in the world that I’d rely on anymore of their teachings on theology and things as I would like Brother Jack Moore and Brother Vayle, and such men as—as that, real theologians that’s read all kinds of books and different angles from everything. Well, but, you see, even with that, and my bosom friend, I—I—I just couldn’t receive it, there was something there just wouldn’t take it.
How The Angel Came To Me, And His Commission
55-0117
9 All these things is God’s foreknowledge. When He spoke of them what would be, He foreknew it. Now, God, in order to be God, at the beginning He had to know the end* or He wasn’t the infinite God.** God’s not willing that any should perish. Certainly not! He doesn’t want anyone to perish. But at the beginning of the beginning of the days, the—the world, God knew just exactly who would be saved and who would not be saved. He didn’t want the people to be lost, “It’s not His will that any should be lost, but it’s His will to save everybody,” but He knew from the beginning who would and who would not. That’s the reason He could foresay, “This thing will happen. That thing will happen,” or, “This will be that. This person will be that way.” See?
10 He could foreknow it because He’s infinite. If you know what it means, that’s just, “there’s nothing that He don’t know.” See, He knows. Well, there’s nothing from before time, and after there’s no more time, see, He still knows everything. Everything is in His mind. And then as Paul said in Romans, the 8th and 9th chapter, “Then why does He still find fault?” So we see that, but God…
11 Like preaching the Gospel. Someone said, “Brother Branham, do you believe That?”
I said, “Look.”
Said, “You must be Calvinist.”
I said, “I am Calvinist as long as Calvinist is in the Bible.”
12 Now, there’s a limb on the Tree, that’s Calvinism, but there’s more limbs on the Tree, too. A tree has more than one limb. He just wanted to run it on out there into Eternal Security, and after a while you go on off into Universalism and you drop off out there somewhere, there’s no end to it. But when you get through with Calvinism, come back up and start on Arminianism. See, there’s another limb on the Tree, and another limb on the Tree, just keep on. The whole thing together makes the Tree. So I believe in—in the…in Calvinism as long as it stays in the Scripture.
13 And I believe that God knew before the foundation of the world, chose His Church in Christ, and slayed Christ before the foundation of the world. Scripture said so, “He was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world.” See? And Jesus said that He knew us before the foundation of the world, Paul said that, “He—He knew us and predestinated us unto the adoption of the children by Jesus Christ before the world was ever formed.” That’s God. That’s our Father. See?
It is the Rising of the Sun
65-0418
243Well, how can the Bride come, and fail to manifest everything was promised of Him; and the Groom come, and He wouldn’t be the Bride? But when He did everything, even to proving it by raising Himself up from the dead, afterwards, then don’t the–the Bride have to do the same thing, have to be exactly what the Word said She would be in these last days? Don’t She have to return through Malachi 4? Don’t She have to be manifested like it was in the days of Sodom? Don’t the world have to be just exactly like it is? Isn’t* these things a perfect identification of the Word of God made known to us?**
245 Look, notice this. But God foresaw the Bride in the Groom. Hallelujah! See, to save His Wife, like Adam, He had to go with Her. Adam knowed what he was doing; Eve didn’t know what she was doing, but Adam walked out with his wife. See? And Jesus took His Wife’s place and became sin for Her. Remember, He became you, He stood your punishment, that you might stand in His place. He stood in your place, that you might stand in His place. What a love! What a fellowship! How can we deny it? How can we do anything but love Him, friend? I could stay on it hours, but let’s move on a little farther.
Satan’s Eden
65-0829
52 Now, that’s the way God was in the beginning. Every son of God and every daughter of God was in God at the beginning. You don’t remember it now, but you were there. He knowed* it. And He wanted you to become so He could contact you, speak with you and love you, and shake your hands.**
Hebrew’s Chapter Seven #1
57-0915
129 He not willing that any should perish. Certainly not. But if He’s God, He knowed who would be saved and who wouldn’t be saved, or He didn’t know anything. If He didn’t know…If he didn’t know who would make the Rapture, before the world was ever formed, then He’s not God. If He’s infinite, He’d…He knowed every flea, every fly, every louse, every chigger, that would ever be on the earth, before the earth was ever formed. That’s right. He knew all things. Before the foundation of the world, He knew us. The Bible said, that, “He knew us and predestinated us.”
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the father, through sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Where I Think Pentecost Failed
55-1111
28 But if we’d only go back to find out when God made His first man, He made man in His Own image. And God is a Spirit, so He had to make spirit-man.
Now, the Word is used here in the 5th verse of “predestination,” Predestinated, it’s not a very good word for an evangelist or a minister to use, because it kinda confuses people when you say “predestinate.” Predestination speaks—looks back to foreknowledge; foreknowledge looks to destination. Predestination goes back to foreknowledge; foreknowledge goes to destination.
In other words God didn’t say, “Now, I’ll make this man be this, and I’ll make this man to be that.” But in order to be God, He had to know the end from the beginning. So in order to foreknowledge that He knew, He could say, “This would happen, and that would happen,” because He was God and knowed where everything would be placed. And therefore, He could ordain certain things for certain ages. You believe that? That—that’s truly Scripture.
Jehovah-Jireh
61-0212
12 See, we have to* be what we are**. “Gifts and callings are without repentance.” When you were born in this world, before the world ever begin, God knew you, positionally placed you. If that isn’t so, then the Bible isn’t so. That’s exactly. God put our names on the Lamb’s Book of Life, not when you come to the altar, but before the foundation of the world. That’s right. That’s what the Bible said.
That’s… When was the Lamb slain? Before the foundation of the world. And when the Lamb was slain, your name was put on His Book. God by His foreknowledge saw all things.* He’s infinite. He knowed the end from the beginning.** He isn’t willing that any should perish. That’s not His desire. But being God, He had to know who would, and who would not. See? Like Esau and Jacob, He hated one and loved the other one before they was even born and had a chance to do anything, because He was God; He knowed* all things**.
Jehovah-Jireh #1
62-0705
51 Now this unconditional covenant. Not “if you will, I will, but I will later on,” or something like that; “I have already give the land to you, and your Seed after you!” Amen. See, already done it! It’s a finished work.
52 You said, “To Abraham He did that.” Yes, not only Abraham, but his Seed after him.
53 And if we’re Abraham’s Seed, it’s a finished product.** “Those who He foreknew, He called; those who He called, He justified; those who He has justified, He has already glorified.” What you scared about? That’s right. “And the antichrist, in the last days,” according to Revelation, “deceived all that dwelt upon the face of the earth, whose names were not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life” (since the last revival? No) “before the foundation of the world.” That’s when your name was put in the Lamb’s Book of Life, when the Lamb was slain. God spoke the Word; It was in His thinking, in His thought, He spoke the Word* and everything happened just at that time.** This is just God’s Seed materializing, that’s all, His Words coming down. Now, when the Light of God flashes across that, quickly that Seed recognizes It, because It’s borned of God. It’s Abraham’s Seed, foreknowed by God. That’s why the Light flashes, is to catch that Seed. If it…
54 We’ve had a revival. Joel said. We fuss so much about latter rain, had movements called “latter rain,” latter rain, former rain, inter rain, outer rain. I was reading the other day. Do you know what former rain means in the Hebrew word? I can’t call it right now; I never wrote it down, it skipped my mind. But former rain, the first rain, means “a rain of teaching.” The second rain is the Spirit that comes upon what’s been taught, and produces the crop. Why is it we had such a revival? Pentecostal, Baptist, all the other trees put forth their buds, as Jesus said they would be. And what have we hatched out? The Baptists said they “got a million more in ‘44.” Look at the Catholic, how they increased. Look at all denominations. Look at Pentecost. What did we do? We sowed denominational seeds, we reaped the denominational harvest. Why, the church ought to be on fire for God right now, if there had been a Word seed sowed back there, and there would be signs, wonders, miracles, and that church would be together, one heart, one accord, and marching toward Zion, for the Rapture. That’s right. What did we do? We had intellectual speeches instead of the Word. We had reasoning against the Word, and everything else.
55 We got to get back to the Word. Got…We’ll do it! God said, “I will restore, saith the Lord, all the years that the cankerworms and palmerworms eat.” It’s going to bloom out in the evening time. There will come forth one with a Message, he’ll restore the hearts, or the faith of the children back to the Faith of the fathers. He promised it in Malachi 4, that He would do it, return them back again.
The Spoken Word is the Original Seed
62-0318
420 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, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. 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. Then I got a great big “Hallelujah!”) 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. Then It is germitized, so the Holy Spirit waters It until It is grown and serves Its purpose.
421 They do only His will. (Amen. I’ll believe that.) No one can persuade them different. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still. 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 days. All things, when He was here, He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.