Joshua 24:1-2 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Joshua 24:13-28 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. 14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods, which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods, which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
Judges 2:7-12 7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. 10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
Genesis 47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Exodus 8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus 10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Exodus 12:12-13 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exodus 13:21-22 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Exodus 14:19-22 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 16:4-5 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
Numbers 11:31-32 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Exodus 15:22-26 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Numbers 16:23-34 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children. 28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. 31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Deuteronomy 6:1-17 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightiest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; 15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Psalm 106:6-15 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. 12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Satan is the greatest sophist (a philosopher, one who is more concerned with superficial reasoning, rather than using a sound argument); he has never been overcome in a strife of words… In Divine service the words of men are usually heard more than the Word of God. Each one chatters as he pleases, or kills time by learned disquisitions and disproving the views of others. Of the new birth and how a man must be changed into the likeness of Christ to become partaker of the Divine Nature (II Peter 1:4), scarcely anything is said. Of the power of the keys, the Church has almost lost the power of binding, only the power of loosing remains.
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, The Sardisean Church Age
Luke 5:17–26 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man, which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. 20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. 21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? 22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? 23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? 24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. 25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. 26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
Behold, A Greater Than Solomon is Here
62-0612 · Columbia, South Carolina
68 Now, that’s contrary to God. See? God is not a idol; God is a Spirit, and we prostrate ourselves before that. And the Spirit don’t come into some idol, as some so-called Christians would have us to believe, but the Spirit comes into you. And you are God’s house, living…?…walking around, manifesting the living God. For God dwells not in temples made with hands, “but a body hast thou prepared Me.”
You are God’s letter, a written epistle. God is in you, manifesting Himself through. If you could prostrate yourself before God, and say, “God, I’m a sinner. Come into me,” and then the Holy Spirit comes in, and then you’re a living representative of God, walking around with God speaking through your lips to others.
What Was The Holy Ghost Given For?
59-1217 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
94 That’s the purpose of the Holy Ghost. That’s what God sent the Holy Ghost for. The Holy Ghost come to give you Power. I got some more Scriptures here, just a minute. The Holy Ghost come to give you Power. I—I ain’t…You can find this; I’m just too much of away, tonight.
Give you Power, Power in prayer!
95 You take a person that’s lived a good life, but they’re always defeated. “Oh, I tell you…” Good person, “Oh, sure, I love the Lord, Brother Branham.” Always defeated, they never get a prayer answered.
You fill that little woman with the Holy Ghost one time, watch what takes place. When she goes before God, she is not defeated. She comes boldly to the Throne of God, believing. She has a right because she’s a daughter of God, by a Birth.
Take that little man, so cowardly, the boss kick him all over the place. Say, “Wait a minute here now.” Something changed, see, he’s got the Holy Ghost. It gives you Power. Your life is full of Power.
It gives you Power in speech.
What Was The Holy Ghost Given For?
59-1217 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
101 As long as God has got a people, God has got a Church, God has got the Holy Ghost marching with It. That’s what God gave the Holy Ghost for. Intellectuals will rise; always have. But God has got a minority somewhere. God’s got a little Church that’ll move right on with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, to claiming the Light. And they’ll be the ones that, through their testimony, will judge the world.
Don’t the Bible say Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart; they shall see God”? And don’t It say, that, “The just, the saints, shall judge the earth”? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Sure.
Your testimony today will bring judgment against this city. Our testimony of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Power of God, a holy life, will bring judgment against the city. When this…
102 “Them that are first will be last; them that are last will be first.” I won’t know nothing about Sankey and Moody, in their resurrection. They’ll not know nothing about me, in this one. But I’ll stand in this one, to give testimony; so will you.
And through that, by the scattering of your Light, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and by the lives that you lived, and the things that God has done to prove that He’s moving here; and with their intellectuals, walked away from It; they’ll be judged by the saints. They’re already judged. They’ve already passed it. Oh, my!
103 I was talking on Power of prayer, Power of speech, Power for a holy life. Amen. That’s what the Holy Ghost is to do.
104 Some of you people walking along, saying, “Well, I just can’t quit drinking. I just can’t quit this.”
The Holy Ghost comes to live in you, to make all these can’ts get away from you. That’s right. Make women stop cutting their hair, make them quit wearing shorts and slacks. No excuses. Make them quit tattling. Oh, yes, that’s what It’s for, to make you a holy life. It’ll follow the instructions of the Bible every time.
The Rejected King
60-0515M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Psalm 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
1 Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?
121 The other morning I was laying in my bed. And I was…had been asleep, and I dreamed that Joseph was sick, and I had picked him up to pray for him. And when I woke up, I was very upset. I said, “Well, maybe Joseph is going to be sick.”
122 And I looked, going before me, in a little, dark shadow, rather of a brownish color. And it seemed like it was me. And I watched it. And coming behind it was Someone white, and it was Him. I looked over to my wife, to see if she was awake, that I could show her, if she could see the vision. But she was sleeping.
123 I said, “Oh, I’m sorry, Lord. But, that’s been my life. You’ve had to drive me to everything that I done. Every time anything would happen, I’d think it was You doing it. And I realize it was Satan trying to keep me away from it.” I said, “If You could only lead me.” And as I looked, I seen the prettiest face I ever saw on a man. He was in front of me, looking back. He raised His hand and got a hold of mine, and started moving this a way. The vision left me. Last Sunday morning, I was, had waken up early. That was on Saturday, this vision. On…
124 I’ve always worried, I’ve always thought of dying. It, me being fifty, it’s, my time is not…didn’t think was too long. And I wondered what I would be in that theophany, celestial body. “Would it be that I would see my precious friends and, say, a little white fog going by, and say, ‘There goes Brother Neville,’ or, he couldn’t say, ‘Hello, Brother Branham’? And when Jesus come, then I’d be man again.” I often thought that.
125 I was dreaming that I was out West. And I coming down through a little sagebrush place, and my wife was with me, and we had been trout fishing. And I stopped and—and opened up the gate. And the skies were so pretty. They didn’t look like they do over the valley here. They were blue, and the pretty white clouds. And I said to wife, I said, “We ought to been out here, long time ago, honey.” She said, “For the children’s sake, we should have been, Billy.” I said, “That’s…” And I woke up.
126 I thought, “I’m dreaming so much! I wonder why.” And I looked down, and she was laying by me.
127 And I raised up on my pillow, as many of you people have done it, put my head upon the—the headboard of the bed, and put my hands behind me. And I was laying there like this. And I said, “Well, I just wonder what it will be, the other side. I am already fifty, and I haven’t done nothing yet. If I could only do something to help the Lord, for I know I won’t be mortal. Half of my time is gone, at least, or more than half. If I live to be as old as my people, still half my time is gone.” And I looked around. And I was laying there, fixing to get up. It was about seven o’clock. I said, “I believe I’ll go down to church, this morning. If I am hoarse, I’d like to hear Brother Neville preach.”
128 So I said, “Are you awake, honey?” And she was sleeping very soundly.
129 And I don’t want you to miss this. It has changed me. I can’t be the same Brother Branham that I was.
130 And I looked. And I heard Something, kept saying, “You’re just starting. Press the battle. Just keep pressing.”
131 I shook my head a minute. I thought, “Well, I probably just thinking like this.” You know, a persons can get some imaginations. And I said, “I just probably imagined that.” It said, “Press the battle. Keep going. Keep going.”
132 I said, “Maybe I said it.” And I put my lips within my teeth, and put my hand over my mouth.
133 And there It come again, said, “Just keep pressing. If you only knew what was at the end of the road!”
134 And it seemed like I could hear Graham Snelling, or somebody, that sang that song like this (They sings it here, Anna Mae and all of you all.): I’m homesick and blue, and I want to see Jesus. I would like to hear those sweet harbor bells chime. It would brighten my path and would vanish all fears. Lord, let me look past the curtain of time. You’ve heard it sang here at the church.
135 And I heard Something say, “Would you like to see just beyond the curtain?” I said, “It would help me so much.”
136 And I looked. In just a moment, I…one breath I had come into a little Place that slanted. I looked back, and there I was, laying on the bed. And I said, “This is a strange thing.”
137 Now, I would not want you to repeat this. This is before my church, or my sheep that I am pastoring. Whether it was, I was in this body or out, whether it was a translation, it wasn’t like any vision I ever had. I could look There, and I could look here.
138 And when I hit that little Place, I never seen so many people come running, screaming, “Oh, our precious brother!”
139 And I looked. And young women, maybe in their early twenties, eighteen to twenty, they were throwing their arms around me, and screaming, “Our precious brother!”
140 Here come young men, in the brilliance of young manhood. And their eyes glistening and looking like stars on a darkened night. Their teeth as white as pearl. And they were screaming, and grabbing me, and screaming, “Oh, our precious brother!”
141 And I stopped, and I looked. And I was young. I looked back at my old body laying there, with my hands behind my head. And I said, “I don’t understand this.”
142 And these young women throwing their arms around me. Now, I do realize this is the mixed audience, and I say this with the sweetness and with the mellowness of the Spirit. Men cannot put your arm around women without a human sensation; but it wasn’t There. There was no yesterday nor tomorrow. They didn’t get tired. They were…I never seen such pretty women in all my life. They had hair way down to their waistline, long skirts to their feet. And they were just a hugging me. It wasn’t a hug like even my own sister, setting there, would hug me. They were not kissing me, and I was not kissing them. It was something that I—I have not got the—the vocabulary, I haven’t got the words to say. “Perfection” wouldn’t touch it. “Superb” wouldn’t even touch it, nowhere. It was something that I never…You just have to be There.
143 And I looked this way, and that way. And they were coming, by the thousands. And I said, “I don’t understand this.” I said, “Well, they…”
144 And here come Hope. That was my first wife. She run, and never said, “My husband.” She said, “My precious brother,” and when she hugged me, there was another woman standing there, that had hugged me, and then Hope hugged this woman; and each one. And I thought, “Oh, this has to be something different. It can’t be…There’s something…” I thought, “Oh, would I ever want to go back to that old carcass again?”
145 I looked around then. I thought, “What is this?” And I looked, real good. And I—I said, “I—I can’t understand this.” But Hope seemed to be like, oh, a guest of honor. She was no different, but just like a guest of honor.
146 And I heard a Voice then that spoke to me, that was in the room, said, “This is what you preached was the Holy Ghost. This is perfect Love. And nothing can enter Here without It.”
147 I am more determined, than ever in my life, that it takes perfect Love, to enter There. There was no jealousy. There was no tiredness. There was no death. Sickness could never, in There. Mortality; could—could never make you old. And the…They could not cry. It was just one joy.
148 “Oh, my precious brother!” And they took me up, and set me up on a great big high place.
149 I thought, “I am not dreaming. I’m looking back at my—my body laying down here on the bed.”
150 And they set me up there. And I said, “Oh, I shouldn’t sit up here.”
151 And here come women and men, from both sides, just in their bloom of youth, screaming. And one woman was standing there, and she screamed, “Oh, my precious brother! Oh, we are so happy to see you Here.” I said, “I don’t understand this.”
152 And then that Voice that was speaking, from above me, said, “You know, it is written in the Bible that the prophets were gathered with their people.” And I said, “Yes. I remember that in the Scriptures.” Said, “Well, this is when you will gather with your people.” I said, “Then they’ll be real, and I can feel them.” “Oh, yes.”
153 I said, “But, there’s millions. There’s not that many Branhams.”
154 And that Voice said, “They’re not Branhams. Them is your converts. That’s the ones that you’ve led to the Lord.” And said, “Some of them women there, that you think is so beautiful, were better than ninety years old when you led them to the Lord. No wonder they’re screaming, ‘Our precious brother!’”
155 And they screamed, all at once, said, “If you hadn’t have went, we wouldn’t be Here.” I looked around. I thought, “Well, I don’t get it.” I said, “Oh, where is Jesus? I want to see Him, so bad.”
156 They said, “Now, He is just a little higher, right up that way.” Said, “Someday He will come to you.” See? Said, “You were sent, for a leader. And God will come. And when He does, He’ll judge you according to what you taught them, first, whether they go in or not. We’ll go in according to your teaching.”
157 I said, “Oh, I’m so glad. Did Paul, does he have to stand like this? Does Peter have to stand like this?” “Yes.”
158 I said, “Then I preached every Word that they preached. I never divvied from It, one side to the other. Where they baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, I did too. Where they taught the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I did too. Whatever they taught, I did too.”
159 And them people screamed, and said, “We know that. And we know we’re going with you, someday, back to earth.” Said, “Jesus will come, and you’ll be judged according to the Word that you preached us. And then if you are accepted at that time, which you will be,” and said, “then you will present us to Him, as your trophies of your ministry.” Said, “You will guide us to Him, and, all together, we’ll go back to the earth, to live forever.” I said, “Do I have to return back now?” “Yes. But keep pressing on.”
160 I looked. And I could see the people, just as far as I could see, still coming, wanting to hug me, screaming, “Our precious brother!”
161 Just then a Voice said, “All that you ever loved, and all that ever loved you, God has given you Here.” And I looked. And here come my old dog, come walking up. Here come my horse, and laid his head upon my shoulder, and nickered. Said, “All that you ever loved, and all that ever loved you, God has given them into your hand, through your ministry.” And I felt myself move from that beautiful Place.
162 And I looked around. I said, “Are you awake, honey?” She was still asleep.
163 And I thought, “O God! Oh, help me, O God. Never let me compromise with one Word. Let me stay right straight on that Word, and preach It. I don’t care what comes or goes, what anybody does; how many Sauls of…sons of Kish rise, how many this, that, or the other. Let me, Lord, press to that Place.”