Look Away To Jesus
63-1229E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
48 Well, it’s—it’s practically that way now. You can’t go to a church and preach unless you have a fellowship card or some identification. And now, on persons like ourselves, we’re going to be cut out of all that, altogether, that’s exactly, ‘cause they won’t be able to do it.
49 It’s tightening. And then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where you’re pressed out, then watch what I’m fixing to tell you in a few minutes. Watch the Third Pull then, see, and it’ll be absolutely to the total lost, but it—it will be for the Bride and the Church.
50 Now we are closer than it seems to be. I don’t know when, but it’s real, real close. I may be building a platform for somebody else to step on. I may be taken before that time. I don’t know. And that time may be this coming week, that the Holy Spirit will come with…and bring Christ Jesus. He may come this next week. He may come yet tonight. I don’t know when He will come. He doesn’t tell us that.
Souls That Are In Prison Now
63-1110M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
271 But one day He turned around and started prophesying, for He was the Word, and He was the Prophet that Moses spoke of. And when He went to tell them, and tell them how they was living, and the things they were doing, He become very unpopular. That was His Second Pull.
272 Wonder if it has typed right back again? Just think a minute. Could it be? The First, healing, everybody. The Second: “Oh, it could be Jesus Only. It could be Beelzebub, it could be a…” That’s the same thing they did there. See? Same spirits living in the same kind of people, condemned people that can never be saved, because they were condemned before; they, like Judas Iscariot, born the son of perdition.
You say, “Judas?” Sure.
273 Remember, he was very religious, but he couldn’t go all the way with the Message. He could take part of it, but the rest of it he couldn’t stomach. They can take healing and things like that, but when it comes to God speaking squirrels into existence, then that’s too deep for them. “Can’t be!” That was Judas. His spirit can live right up to that spot. He can’t go it after that. See?
274 They could take Moses all right when he opened the Red Sea, and so forth like that. But when it come down to telling, they wasn’t, all the rest of them wasn’t to do this or that, or the other: “He makes hisself a God, over us.” See, they couldn’t go that, Korahand them. So, they had to have a organization, so God just swallowed them up.
275 Jesus’ ministry, when He was healing the sick, “He was wonderful, that young Prophet of Galilee! Why, He makes the blind to see. He’s even raised the dead. We got three cases of it. He actually raised the dead.”
276 But one day He turned around, He said, “You generation of vipers. You make the outside of the platter clean. You appear to be holy, but the inside of you, you’re nothing but a bunch of snakes.” Oh, when that prophecy went forth, condemning that organization, then it changed. They turned against Him. That’s right. And finally, by rejecting Him, they crucified Him.
277 But you can’t kill the Ministry. It lives on. You can put the messenger to sleep, but you can’t put the Message. Uh-huh. Right. He lived on. And notice when the Third Pull of His ministry come. The First was healing the sick.
278 The Second was rebuking the organizations, and prophesying; what they had done, what they were, and what was coming. What is, what is, will come; and what was, what is, and what will come. That’s what He done. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
279 *But His Third Pull was when He preached to the lost that couldn’t be saved no more. They were down there where them big, painted eyes was, “Ooh, ooh!”Preached to the souls in hell, that did not accept mercy, but were Eternally separated from the Presence of God. But yet they had to recognize it, what He was, because God made Him there.
280 Wonder if His ministry climbs out the same way in the last days, as it was? “As the Father sent Me, so send I you. The works that I do shall you also.”
281 Lost could never be saved. They had rejected mercy. That was His Third Pull.
282 Now is there any question? His First Pull, He healed the sick. Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] His Second Ministry, He was prophesying. His Third Ministry was preaching to the Eternal lost. The three mountains, so forth; the lost, Eternal!
Souls That Are In Prison Now
63-1110M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
283 Noah’s ministry, all ministries, done the same. Noah preached. That exactly right. He went into the ark. And when he went into the ark, there were seven days that nothing happened. His testimony preached to the doomed.
284 Sodom and Gomorrah! Jesus referred to both of them as coming. “Before the coming of the Son of man, so shall it be like the days of Noah, so shall it be in like it was in the days of Sodom.” He referred to Noah.
285 Noah had Three Pulls, and his Third was to the lost after the door was shut. For, God let it sit right there, where nobody could enter or go out. They were inside. For, (as on the seventh mountain) the highest mountain, that’s where He settled the ark, mountain. See? That right?
286 In the days of Sodom, the First Pull was the righteous Lot. And the Bible said, “The sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul daily,” how them women acted and done.
287 You remember, “As it was in the days of Noah.” What was they doing? “Eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage.” Women, see, women. What was it in the days of—of Sodom? Women.
288 And the First message was Lot. They laughed him to scorn.
289 Then they sent another messengers, two of them, and they went down. That was His Second Pull for Lot…for Sodom.
290 But look at that One that went last, there’s more and more mercy. It was all over then, all over at that time. That third Messenger that went down there, the Third Pull, what was He? What kind of a ministry did He have? He set with the elected, and told them what was taking place behind Him. That right? But when He stepped off into Babylon, or into Sodom, He wanted to find…
29 1Even Abraham, crying, “If I could find fifty righteous?” On down to “ten righteous?”
God said, “Yes, find ten righteous.”
The World is Falling Apart
63-1127 · Shreveport, Louisiana
12 Just got through with those Seven Seals, just recently. I’d like to go through them again. And just how the Lord blessed us! Many of you has heard of it, and read in Life magazine, and things, the things that taken place during that time. When, they caught the picture, even, of the seven Angels, as was predicted as we went West. And He told me, three months before, where it would be and how I would be standing there, and there it was! And the—and the cameras, oh, for hundreds of miles, caught the picture of It right there, just exactly. Was foretold exactly! And if I ever preached anything that was inspired, in my life, it’s The Seven Seals. And so I know we’re at the end time.
13 And the last name goes on that Book, or, the last name that’s redeemed, that was put on that Book, that settles it, He comes to claim what He redeemed. And it might be a strange time. Did you ever think: people will go right on preaching, the church will go right on even thinking they’re getting people saved. It’s too late then, it’s all over, see, and the Message will go to the totally lost; just like it did in the days of Noah, seven days in the ark. It did in the days of Sodom. Jesus Himself, His—His third stage of His ministry, He went and preached to souls that were Eternally lost, that were in prison, that repented not, the longsuffering in the days of Noah. And we don’t know what time these things might happen.
14 And let’s be warned. Don’t just stand around, let’s do something about it. If we’re not right with God, let’s get right with God.
Token
63-0901M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
135 Paul said, “I give my body to be burned, as a sacrifice; give all my goods to feed the poor; I have faith to move mountains, and so forth; and speak in tongues, like men and angels; and all these other things,” and said, “I am nothing until the Token has been applied. Until this Token!” That’s what I’m speaking on tonight, the love. See? “Now, until this has been applied, I am nothing.” See?
136 I don’t care, you might have cast out devils. You might have healed the sick by your prayer of faith. You might have done all these things. But if that Token is not there, you’re under the wrath of God. You might be a believer. You might stand in the pulpit and preach the Gospel. “Many will come to Me in that day, and say, ‘Lord, Lord, have not I prophesied in Your Name, preached in Your Name? Have not I cast out devils in Your Name?’” That’s both Methodists, Baptists, and Pentecostals. Jesus said, “Depart from Me, you that work iniquity. I never even knew you.”
137 “But when I see the Token, I’ll pass over you.” It’s God’s requirement of the hour. The evening-time Message, is to apply the Token.
138 Satan has throwed all kinds of counterfeits, of shaking hands, and evidences, and everything like that. Forget it! The hour has arrived that the Token, Itself; not some counterfeit, make-belief, substitutionary, anything.
139 The hour is here when the Token Himself is identifying Himself right among us, and proving that He is the same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever, and He’s right with the Word. It’s got to be applied. A man that says he’s got the Token, deny this Word, then what about it? See, you can’t do it. The Token has got to be there. “When I…The blood shall be a token unto you.” Now the Holy Spirit, the Life that was in the Blood, is a Token unto you. Get to it in a moment, see. The Holy Ghost is the Token. The case is closed. Yes, sir. Now, remember. And I…
Token
63-0901M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
201 Apply It, church! Now don’t fail. Will you now? Don’t, don’t, don’t let the sun set. Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t rest, day or night. Don’t take no chance. It won’t work, children. It won’t work. You must have the Token!
202 You say, “I believe. Yes, I go. I, yeah, I believe the Message. I…” That’s all right, but, that—that’s good.
203 But you must have the Token! Do you hear, Branham Tabernacle? You must have the Token displayed! Without It, all your believing is in vain. See? You’ll live a good life; you listen to what the Word says; you go to church; you try to live right; that’s fine, but that’s not It. “When I see the Blood,” that’s the Token. And the Token here is not…
204 Cause, what, He—He had to see the actual chemistry, because the life had gone, he…had gone from it, it was an animal.
205 But here It’s His Own Life that was in the Blood. And the chemistry was only a signal or a sign of sanctification, but the Life Itself is the Token; for without the circumcision, without the Token, you’re not even in the covenant. The whole thing works together. If you say you’re circumcised to the Word, and It only, then you’ll believe the Word; if you believe the Word, then the Token has got to come, for he said, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” There you are. Oh, my!
Token
63-0901M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
228 Minister, member, good man, moral man, whatever you are, and you know that God taken cigarettes from you. Women, you know He has taken shorts, and—and short hair, and everything, from…You know He did that. But then if you turn around and do despite, and count that Blood of the covenant, as It was, “an unholy thing,” Who has sanctified you and brought you this far!
229 Like the spies, if they come right up here to the borderland, and looked over, and said, “Well, I know it’s there, but the obstacle is too great. We look like grasshoppers,” they perished in the wilderness. Borderline believers!
230 Don’t just come this far, say, “I believe the Message.” You obey the messenger. Come into Christ! You say, “Well, I believe every Word said, Brother Branham.” That’s good, but that’s just—that’s just being able to read.
231 Take the Message, take It into your heart, that you must have the Token, the very Life that was in Christ be in you.“When I see That, I will pass over you.”
A Prisoner
63-0717· Jeffersonville, Indiana
54 Now, for the disappointments will be coming at the Judgment. Now, the sinner, the bootlegger, the gambler, the adulterous, he—he won’t be disappointed to hear his sentence read, “To depart into everlasting fire.” He won’t be disappointed. But that fellow who is trying to hide himself behind some kind of a church profession, that’s the boy is going to be disappointed at the Day of Judgment. See? That professes to be a Christian, and lives some other way. It’d be better for him that he never did even make any kind of profession, started off, than to start and live something different. Because, he’s the greatest stumbling block we got, is for that professor that says that he—he—he is a Christian, and lives something different.
55 Always, don’t judge your life by how much power you have to perform miracles. And we don’t judge ourself by how much knowledge you have of the Word. But always judge yourself, look back and taking inventory of what kind of a fruit that the life you presently live now is bearing. See?
56 As I preached some time ago, at a businessmen’s meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, of the reflection of Jesus, reflecting Christian Life…
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages
Chapter 5 · The Pergamean Church Age
I said, “Do you mean I am responsible for all these?”
He said, “Every one. You were born a leader.”
I asked him, “Will every one be responsible? What about Saint Paul?”
He answered me, “He will be responsible for his day.”
“Well,” I said, “I’ve preached the same Gospel that Paul preached.”
And the multitude cried, “We’re resting on that.
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages
Chapter 10 · A Resume of the Ages
But what about the true seed? It will happen just as we have said. The people of God are being made ready by the Word of Truth from the messenger to this age. In her will be the fulness of Pentecost for the Spirit will bring the people right back to where they were at the beginning. That is “Thus saith the Lord.”
Rapturing Grace
I Have Heard But Now I See
65-1127E · Shreveport, Louisiana
185 Now, everybody knows that we have a promise of the church condition, in the last day. The church, in its present condition, can never fulfill the commandments of God, the great commission, could never call the Bride out. Which one would do it? The Pentecostal’s? I should say not. None of the rest of them. That’s the shuck that’s on the wheat. That come out, looked just exactly like the wheat, but there was no wheat to it. It opens up, but the grain comes out of that. They organize, they kill themselves. There’s where they die. They’re stalks. But the wheat has come up through there, and now it’s begin to form in the Bride-form. The corn of wheat that fell into the ground through the dark ages, it had to die.
The Invisible Union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 · Shreveport, Louisiana
221 But, you remember, when it went down, and the grain begin to ripen, that you find, before that grain can ripen, everything in that stalk has to be dead. Hallelujah! Can’t you see where we’re standing? Life is in the grain again. What is it? Just exactly like the same grain that went in the ground, the same Jesus in the Bride form, same power, same Church, same thing, same Word. The same Word sucked up through these and come out here,and come to a head here. And all that Life that come through here, picked up its people. Now it’s forming up into a head, for the Rapture. Speaking on that tomorrow night, or next night, one, the Lord willing.
Three Kinds Of Believers
63-1124E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
97 That’s the reason I do believe that when that Bride is called out and elected, and set in the Book of Life, there will come a sound from Heaven that’ll take such a baptism of the Holy Spirit into that Bride that’ll take Her from the earth, in a Rapturing grace. God promised it. Don’t care how many science, and how many astronauts they signed up, and everything else, and how many million miles they can see; I don’t care nothing about that. There is a Heaven, and there is a literal Jesus Christ There that will come in a body form to receive His Church to Himself. No matter how old the story seems, it’s still the Truth. God said so. That’s—that’s what believers believe.
Shalom
64-0112 · Sierra Vista, Arizona
126 And today that we’re now living in, God has come on the scene to a-vindicate and prove His promises. So, it’s the Light of the hour, so we can rise and shine. The Light shines upon us again today, the Word is being made manifest. It’s the Light.
127 Just like that light’s shining out there, the sunshine, this morning. That’s God’s spoken Word, there’s nothing else can give light like that. There’s nothing can do it. Any artificial light burns out in a little bit, and bulbs and everything else. But that never fails, for it’s the spoken Word of God made manifest.
128 Little denominational creeds will bust a bulb, and blow a bulb, and knock a fuse, and everything else. But the Word of God shall never fail! It’ll be Itself, always, the Word.
129 I’m afraid I’m going to run overtime a little bit here. Or, or it’s all right to go ahead and finish this message, isn’t it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] All right.
130 Rise, and shine, for the Light has come to you. The Word, Light, is vindicated.
131 The only way, as God was, Jesus Christ was the manifestation of God’s spoken Word, the Light of the hour.
132 John the Baptist was the Light of the hour. He was the Light before Jesus was Light. The prophet Isaiah said, “A voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, and make straight His path.” That was the spoken Word of God, It was laying there, hadn’t come to life yet. Malachi, the last prophet, four hundred years before it taken place, he said, “Behold, I send My messenger before Me, to prepare the way of the Lord.” Here come one out of the wilderness, without denomination, without creed, without identification. But his Light identified him. The Word identified him. They said, “Are you the Messiah?”
133 He said, “I’m not! But I’m the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord!’”
134 Jesus said, “You did walk in his Light.” He was a bright and shining Light for a while. Why? Until the way was prepared, then his Light went out.
135 You can’t walk in that light, you Baptists, This is the Light of the hour! The Light has come. Rise, and shine. The Word, Light. Word, the manifested Word of God (identified) is a Light.
136 Now what about the new year that we’re facing? We could have more to say on this in-between, from the darkness to the Light, the introducing of the Light coming between, but now we want to get right straight to the new year. All right.
The Spoken Word is the Original Seed
62-0318 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
375 Where is the government going to be upon? Upon the shoulders, His Body. “The government upon His shoulders,” that’s a part of the Body. What is it? His earthly strength. God’s earthly strength is His Word made flesh in His Body here on earth, bringing to pass.
The Spoken Word is the Original Seed
62-0318 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
413 I’m going to read some now. Just…I want you to listen real close to this. Here is where the Spirit said, “Pick up the pen.” I’d have to leave some of It go, but I’ve got to bring some of It to you. All right. [Brother Branham reads paragraphs 414 through 441—Ed.]
414 Now, here is what I’m trying to say to you. The law of reproduction, bring forth of its kind, Genesis 1:11. These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race, as the…nears the great Headstone. They will be much like, so much like Him, even they will be in His very image, in the order to be united with Him. They will be One. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations can never produce This. This will be…They will produce their creeds and dogmas, mixed with the Word, and—and brings a hybrid product.
415 The first son was spoken Seed-Word of God. He was given a bride. (I’m just reviewing. The Spirit now is picking up what I said. See?) A bride, produ-…to produce himself. She fell. See, that’s what…The bride was given, to produce himself again, another son of God. But she fell, by hybreeding, see. Produce himself; but she fell, caused him to die.
416 The second Son, a spoken Seed-Word of God, was given a bride, like Adam. But before He could marry her, she had fallen, also. For she was put to a free moral agency, like Adam’s wife was, to believe God’s Word and live, or doubt It and die. And she did.
417 Then from a little group of the true Seed of the Word, God will present Christ a beloved Bride, a Virgin, a Virgin of His Word. And through them, and by them, will be fulfilled all that has been promised for His Word in the Virgin who knows no man-made creeds or dogmas.
418 The Word of promise in Himself, like It was in Mary, God Himself made manifest. He will act Himself, by His Own Word of promise, so to fulfill all that has been written of Him, as He did when He came from the virgin womb. Type of the Spirit womb now, so will the Virgin now, accepting His Word, “Be it unto me as Thou has said.” Though it was said by an Angel, while it yet was the written Word, Isaiah 9:6.
419 They will love Him, love His, and will have His potentials, for He is their Head. And they are His subjects, subject to His Head. Headship of Christ was His.
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.
The Word Became Flesh
54-1003M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
183 “And they that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.” Then when the human element goes out, and the Spirit of God fills that vacancy, where you empty yourself, amen, then will be when the Church, in Its Power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, will walk in His steps, in His Power, in His thoughts, in His Being, in His moving! You see what I mean? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Then your thoughts will become words, and words will become material. That’s, when, the Church in it’s Power.
184 I believe it’s on its road, that when the Church will be so wrapped in Christ, the Holy Spirit, mankind so away from theirselves, that they don’t see themselves, they don’t have no [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] but to serve God. And their thoughts move on. They refuse the things of the world. They just move in the Spirit, live in the Spirit, move in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, so fulfill the law of Christ. Then, the love of Christ in the human heart, moving in the Holy Ghost, that great wonderful Church will go forth with Power and Deity; because Deity will be revealed in human beings, by the Holy Spirit, bringing to pass, the thought of their mind.
The Handwriting on the Wall
56-0902 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
43 Remember, if God has a work for you to do, all the demons out of torment can’t take you. They just can’t startle you in any way. God has got a purpose for the Holy Ghost Church, and all the devils of hell will never be able to take it way. God has got a purpose for It. And It’ll never be destroyed, until God let’s It fulfill the purpose that He has ordained It to do. And It will.
The Future Home of the Heavenly Bridegroom and the Earthly Bride
64-0802 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
375 Jesus comes three times. Come, once, to redeem His Bride; next time, to get His Bride; next time, with His Bride. See?
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages
Chapter 7 · The Sardisean Church Age
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. The ones who qualify for the first resurrection (the bride) are not in the judgment. John 5:24, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life” (that is, the believer is already the recipient of eternal life which he has in his possession now), “and shall not come into condemnation” (shall not come into the judgment, is what it really says); “but is passed (permanently) from death unto life.” But notice carefully, Jesus must have yet another group in mind who at a certain resurrection will receive eternal life. They will receive it at the resurrection, NOT HAVING PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED IT AS A MEMBER OF THE BRIDE.
John 5:28-29, “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which ALL that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” Now we all know that John 5:28-29 is NOT THE RAPTURE for only the dead in Christ will arise from the graves at that time along with the living bride who still is on the earth. I Thessalonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” But it says in John 5:28-29 that ALL are going to come forth from the grave. This is the very same resurrection that is spoken of in Revelation 20:11-15 wherein THE DEAD were brought before the Lord and judged according to their works, and all whose names were not in the Book of Life were then cast into the lake of fire.