John 12:20-26 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serves me, he will my Father honor.
Sirs, We Would See Jesus
54-0328 · Louisville, Kentucky
12 This soul cry of these Greeks…The Greeks seek wisdom and the Jews seek signs; and Paul said, “We preach Christ crucified.” And Greeks has always wanted wisdom. But these Greeks come up (perhaps were proselytes to the Jewish religion), and came up to Jerusalem to worship at the Pentecostal feast. And then while they were up there, they had heard of the great fame of this One Jesus of Nazareth. His fame had scattered everywhere. Many disbelieved Him. Thousands disbelieved Him. But thousands believed Him. And it was mostly among the common people who heard Him and believed Him. Those who were of the other type, they did not have much time for Him ‘cause they were satisfied with their religion. And they had—fathers had been taught certain things and their—and they’d had their traditions handed down. And something new, no matter how phenomena it was, and…Well, He tried to tell them it was in the Scriptures that He was to come. “And oh, well, they, if—if—if He was to be the person, the priest would know something about it.” And therefore, they wasn’t interested.
But these Greeks when they heard…Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God. And they come seeking Jesus. And this…I believe that has been the heart’s cry of every man and every woman who’s ever heard anything about Jesus Christ has had that same thing: “Sir, we would see Jesus.” They didn’t want to learn His theology. They didn’t care nothing about His teachings. They didn’t care about whether He, what kind of clothes He wore. They were only interested in one thing: that they wanted to see Jesus. That’s the main thing. And that’s the cry of today.
Sirs, We Would See Jesus
64-0304 · Dallas, Texas
46 That’s why these Greeks was desirous to see this Man. They knowed in the Word that what this Messiah was supposed to be, and they wanted to see Him. They were Gentiles. They had heard about Him, and they wanted to see Him.
The Mighty God Unveiled Before Us
64-0629 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
65 The Greeks wanted to see Him, but they were unable to see Him because He was in the temple of His humanity. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Now we find that, in this, these Greeks could not see Him.
66 And notice the very words that Jesus expressed to them, afterwards. He said, “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, dies, it abides alone.” In other words, they would never be able to see Him in the change, in the mask that He was in then, because He was veiled in human flesh. But when this corn of Wheat fell into the ground, then It would bring forth all races. He was sent to the Jews, of course, at that time. But this corn of Wheat must fall; veiled God, in human’s flesh, hidden from unbelievers, but being revealed to believers.
The Unveiling Of God
64-0614M · Jeffersonville. Indiana
94 The Greeks wanted to see Him. In Saint John 12:20, many of you heard me preach on that saying, “Sirs, we would see Jesus.” Did you notice that?
95 Now, the Greeks were scholars, they were great man. And they had a—they had a—a great feeling for God, as Paul preached to them on Mars’ hill. And they were, they led the world in science and education, they were great people. But they worshipped and believed in mythology and so, books of art and curious arts, and so forth.
96 But they got stirred up about this Man Who could heal the sick and could foretell things that happened, to the dot. And they got stirred up, so they come to see Him. Now, watch close now, don’t miss this. See? And they come and they said to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, “Sir, we would see Jesus.” And Philip and another disciple brought him to Jesus, to see Jesus.
John 12:24 24…** Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Sirs, We Would See Jesus
61-1224 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
104 How different today! How different today, today, with the churches, or the disciples of today! What do they do, if you come to disciples today?
105 Them disciples, before they did anything, they took these Greeks right into the Presence of Jesus. And if He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will have to act the same today if you’re brought in His Presence.
106 Disciples today is so much difference, for today. They try to take you to a cradle, or a manger, or to a Santa Claus, or to a bunny rabbit for Easter, or something another, instead of Christ. They never bring you in the Presence of Christ. Christmas isn’t Christ. No. Today, they bring you, some other place, to some statue, some church, some organization, some doctrinal laws, but never get you in the Presence of Christ.
107 A real, true disciple would bring you right straight in the Presence of Christ. And from there, Christ would show you what you had to do.
Paradox
61-1210 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
227 It’ll be a real paradox, one of these days, when Jesus comes; and the dead in Christ shall rise. This mortal takes on immortality, and the rapture of the Church comes.
228 In this Christmas times, when people are shopping, and dancing, and drinking, and celebrating something that they know nothing about, like they was celebrating Washington or Lincoln’s birthday, and not worshipping the…They’ve still got God in a manger.
229 When, God is not in a manger. He has raised from the dead, and alive forevermore, living among us, proving Himself, as the same God that the Nicene fathers carried, and down through the ages has come since the Day of Pentecost. The same God that met Paul on the road to Damascus; he was a missionary to the Gentile, and a messenger from God, to the Gentiles. The Gentile’s Message started by a visitation of the Pillar of Fire, and it ends the same way.
Sirs, We Would See Jesus
61-1224 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
113 We take the word Christmas. It’s very seldom you ever hear Christ’s Name mentioned. You don’t hear It mentioned. The lights and tinsel is all on Santa Claus, not on Christ, till people hardly knows what Christmas is really for. They’ve just paganized it and paganized it, till it’s all become pagan. It’s a great commercial day of celebrations. Now, if they want to make a commercial day like Mother’s Day, or Father’s day, or son’s day, or daughter’s day, that’s all right. But keep that commercial off of Christmas. I seen a sign not long ago, said, “Put Christ back in Christmas.”
114 Now, they bring you to a church, you learn a creed. They bring you to a Christmas, what do you do? You see a Santa Claus. They bring you to a church, you see an organization.
115 But Christ brought them to the cross. And when you get a real disciple that will point you to Christ, Christ will bring you to the cross, where you are crucified with Him. And His Eternal Life and your life meet together, and your life dies, and you take on His Eternal Life, and then you’re a son of God. Amen.
116 What a difference, from the disciple of old and the disciple of today!
117 If you mention to a disciple, “I would love to know the Lord Jesus.”
118 “Well, now look, we belong to the certain-certain church, come down and join that, join us.” See? Or, “We was…We belong to this certain-certain society, and come join that.” And that’s what you hear.
119 But Christ Himself pointed people to His death, and said, “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground, it abides alone.”
120 Oh, how different it is! Yes, sir. How different! But your life and His Life find each other, not at the church, not in a building, not in a creed, not in good works, but in the cross where you are crucified with Him. That’s where you find Christ. You don’t find Him by doing better, turning a new page. Starting a new life, you don’t find Christ. You find Christ only in death; not in a manger, not in a confession. To believe in certain creeds and fables, you don’t find Christ there.
121 A true servant takes you to Him, and He is the Word. You say, “Then, Brother Branham, if Christ is on earth today, a real servant would take him to Him, Christ**.” Well, Christ is here, in the form of the Word. And the Word brings Life, because He is the Word. Christ is the Word.** Yes, sir. He is the Word, Himself. The true servant always takes you to the Word.
Sirs, We Would See Jesus
61-1224 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
135 That’s the Message to get to people; not a cradle, not a manger. Christmas is not mentioned in the entire Book of the Bibles. Never one time did Jesus refer them to His birth, but to His death.
Sirs, We Would See Jesus
61-1224 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
215 Not one time did He point any person to any creed, any denomination, or to His birth, or even to Christmas. Not one time did He ever do it. I could linger on that a while, but I—I won’t. Yet, if it isn’t important, if Jesus…You can nowhere find it in the Bible, where He ever pointed anyone to anywhere else, to know Him, but the cross. That’s right. And that is self-crucifixion to yourself. “Except a man be born again.” Then, if the manger, Santa Claus…
216 Jesus never did write a creed. He never did ordain a denomination. And then why is it we make so much of it, and even lay every responsibility on it? I want to ask you that; Christmas, now. Why is it then that our churches lay so much on it, that, “You must belong to this church. You’ve got to say this creed. You’ve got to do this, that, or the other”? Why is it we lay so much on it, if it’s not important? It shows we’ve got a different kind of a disciples than we used to have. They want to bring you to their church, to their denomination, or to their creed, and not to the Christ.
John 12:27-43 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. 30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. 34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? 35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. 42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Divine Healing
54-1219M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
10 Now, the Christmas is not a Protestant holiday. It’s a Catholic day. The 25th of December was months and months before our…after…or before our Lord was born. Our Lord was born in April. But He wasn’t born in December. If you’ve been in Judaea, in December, it’s colder than this, so—so you know He wasn’t born in December. And it’s spelled, it’s C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s, a mass for Christ. It’s the Christ-mass.
Acts Of The Holy Spirit
54-1219E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
146 Now, as we’re approaching Christmas time now, and here the things are decorated all up with Santa Claus instead of Jesus. They don’t even spell it anymore. “X-m-a-s.” They don’t even spell “Christ” in Christmas anymore. They put up…Why, the people never—never even think about the birth or anything, of Christ, what it’s really for. Only thing they think about, is, Santa Claus took Its place**. And instead of rejoicing under the Spirit of God**, they go out and get drunk and rejoice. See? That’s what makes the difference.
147 So, after all, brother, sister, I can’t stop that. You can’t stop it. God’s Word said it would be that way. “Men will be lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God.” How you going to break that down? “Having a form of godliness.” Every one of them goes to church. Yes, sir. “Having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof; from such turn away.”
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Syncretism: the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)
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Religious syncretism: The blending of different religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.
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You cannot mix the things of Yahweh and demons (1 Corinthians 10:21).
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Yahweh forbids using pagan practices and images in His worship (Deuteronomy 12:29-31; Exodus 32 (merging or synchronizing pagan worship with the worship of the Father)).
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The custom of using green trees (and groves of trees) is pagan practice in worship and forbidden (Deuteronomy 12:1-4; Jeremiah 3:6 & 10:1-4; Exodus 34:13; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 18:4; Isaiah 57:5).
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Paul instructs that we are to separate from and not participate in pagan days and idols (2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 4:9-11).
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Yahweh condemns adding to or taking away from His Commandments (Deuteronomy 12:32).
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Yahweh condemns idolatry (1 Corinthians 11:26).
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God/Elohim is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 4:24; Exodus 32:7-8).
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Yeshua commands us to come out of the world and not to partake of her sins (Revelation 18:4).
The Feast of Trumpets
64-0719M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
163 There is that Roman empire, bound there by (what?) the ecclesiastical powers. Which, Rome, pagan Rome become papal Rome, and was bound there in its traditions of Christian. What part of Christian, and—and superstitions it had of Rome putting together all these; worship of women, and all these other kind of stuff, and Christmas days, and holidays, and holy days, and things. It’s been bound with that tradition that it cannot let loose, because it’s against Christian principles. Still the same ungodly, pagan spirit! And that spirit caught
The Harvest Time
64-1212 · Phoenix, Arizona
282 …And changed the birth day of Jesus from April, where all nature, where He was born under the ram, ‘cause He was a ram, and changed that up to the sun-god’s birthday in the solar there, where it makes one day…There is just only about a minute difference in the day when it passes on the twenty-fifth day of December, the sun-god’s birthday, not the Son of God. And every one of us play Santa Claus, and decorate trees, a heathenism, and things like that, and then call ourselves Christians? What’s the matter with the Christian church?
The Cruelty of Sin and the Penalty That It Cost to Rid Sin From Our Lives
53-0403 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
82 And every man or woman that goes to church…Today I was thinking of the cathedrals a ringing out, and the bells a tolling, and so forth like that; and people going to the church, and making ready, and the women buying their Easter hats, and so forth. What has this come to? My! How I can’t understand where a rabbit has anything to do with the resurrection, see, (no, sir) how a Christmas tree has anything to do with the birth of Christ. It’s pagan, friends. We’ve got off the path somewhere. That’s right. [But now a real born-again man or woman realizes, because there is life within you, tells you that that’s wrong.]{.mark} Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
The Patmos Vision
60-1204E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
115 In a few weeks, or even right now, there’s reindeers and Santa Clauses and—and jingle bells and all kinds of things hanging up, which is pagan ceremony. It’s an article of the Catholic church. People paying great prices and swapping presents and things like that, pagan! Christmas is a day of worship.
116 And by the way, Christ wasn’t born on the twenty-fifth day of December either. He couldn’t have been. If you’d ever been in Judaea, the hills are full of snow, worse than it is here. Born in April when all nature comes forth.
117 Now, but it’s their tradition. And why—why do we do those things? Because we follow the traditions of men instead of the commandments of God. Them…Something like that wouldn’t matter, but they just make a commercial day out of it. It’s a disgrace, a shame for them to do such things as that. A pagan ceremony! When did Santa Claus have anything to do with Jesus? When did the Easter rabbit or a chicken or…colored up with some kind of ink or something, or some kind of little white rabbit have anything to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Don’t you see how the commercial world…?
118 [That’s the reason they sell these ol’ rock-and-roll books, and dirty pictures, and vulgar, and things like that, is because the nature of the people crave for such nonsense.] [It’s because there’s something wrong in the heart,] they’ve never entered into that Rest with God and ceased from these things. When they come into that and receive the Holy Ghost, then they’re finished with the world and the things of the world.
The Pergamean Church Age
60-1207 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
252 Now, the historian says that “All evidence that Jesus was born in the month of April when all other life comes forth.” But they’ve changed it back to the 25th day of December, five days after (see?) after the pagan god, so they could put their ceremonies together: paganism and Christianity. And Catholicism is nothing in the world but a bunch of pagan superstitions and Christianity’s off-casts put together. That’s right. That is true. And the Protestants that knock to it is just exactly the daughter of the mother prostitute. That’s exactly.
253 Now, God help us to be real protestors against anything that’s not godly. See? Oh!
Christianity Versus Idolatry
61-1217 · Jeffersonville Indiana
172 And here the other day my wife was telling me, “Someone said, ‘I don’t know what to get Daddy.’ Said, ‘Brother is going to get him a quart of whiskey, and the other one said he was going to get him some champagne.’ And one said, ‘Well, I’m going to get him a—a poker set.’” Celebration of Christmas, pagan, devil-worship! All right.
Christianity Versus Idolatry
61-1217 · Jeffersonville Indiana
174 Not catholic, the word catholic, they don’t they don’t deserve that name. They are Roman pagans.
175 Not those precious people. There’s tens of thousands of them people out there, just as sincere as them…any other idolater is. They think that they’re worshipping God, when (back to the Word) they’re in an idol with idols all over the place. See!
An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages
The Patmos Vision · Chapter 2
Then the most of them go to church on Sunday. That is good but even there they have no idea of how to approach God and how to worship Him. Jesus said that true worship was in Spirit and in truth, John 4:24. But what kind of worship can you get in a church that knows so little of God it puts up a Santa Claus at Christmas and bunnies at Easter? Where did they get that? They got it from the pagans and made it a part of the church doctrine. [But when one turns to the Lord and is filled with the Holy Ghost he ceases from all such things. He has a rest in his soul. He really begins to live, and love God and worship Him.]
We Have Seen His Star and Have Come to Worship Him
63-1216 · Tucson, Arizona
198 Say, “I want to follow, I want to follow the Morning Star, Christ. I want to follow and find my Jesus this day. [I want to get away from all this here Christmas tinsel and things, because some day it’s going to be burnt with unquenchable fire.” And all those who are intolerating with it, will be burned with it.] The world, the sinner, will punished be, they will perish with the world. The worldly-loving people will perish with the world. And if you have, though, still the love of the world in you, and you want to sell yourself completely tonight to Jesus Christ and His Word, raise your hand. Again now, anybody that hasn’t raised. God bless you. Bless you. I just say that. God bless you, lady.
199 You don’t know, one minute somebody might raise up their hand. Say, “What difference does that make, Brother Branham?” Difference between death and Life.
We Have Seen His Star and Have Come to Worship Him
63-1216 · Tucson, Arizona
182 [Oh, brother, sister, how nice it would be if each one of you, if each one of us, us, me, if each one of us could lay aside all this here Christmas tinsel, see, quit all this swapping gifts, one with another, all of this nonsense of the world; and just take off our pride and lay it down, and stomp the thing under foot, say, “Lord Jesus, guide me to that perfect Light.” Watch something Supernatural happen. The Holy Spirit will come in a phenomenal way. See?]
1 Corinthians 10:19-23 19What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. 22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? 23All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
1 Corinthians 10:19-23 (AMP) 19What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is [intrinsically changed by the fact and amounts to] anything or that an idol itself is a [living] thing? 20No, I am suggesting that what the pagans sacrifice they offer [in effect] to demons (to evil spiritual powers) and not to God [at all]. I do not want you to fellowship and be partners with diabolical spirits [by eating at their feasts]. 21You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the demons’ cup. You cannot partake of the Lord’s table and the demons’ table. 22Shall we thus provoke the Lord to jealousy and anger and indignation? Are we stronger than He [that we should defy Him]? 23All things are legitimate [permissible—and we are free to do anything we please], but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life].
1 Corinthians 10:19-21 (CJB) 20No, what I am saying is that the things which pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice not to God but to demons; and I don’t want you to become sharers of the demons! 21You can’t drink both a cup of the Lord and a cup of demons, you can’t partake in both a meal of the Lord and a meal of demons.
Deuteronomy 12:29-31 29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:29-31 (CJB) 29**“When ADONAI your God has cut off ahead of you the nations you are entering in order to dispossess, and when you have dispossessed them and are living in their land; 30be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, not to be trapped into following them; so that you inquire after their gods and ask, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I want to do the same.’ 31You must not do this to ADONAI your God! For they have done to their gods all the abominations that ADONAI hates! They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods!
Deuteronomy 12:1-4 1These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
Jeremiah 3:6-7 6The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 7And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah 10:1-4 1**Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Exodus 34:13 13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
1 Kings 14:23 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 18:1-4 1Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. 3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 4He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Isaiah 57:5 5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
God’s Wrapped Gift
60-1225 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
6 And then I want to take this time to express, to each and every one of you, how grateful I am to you, for your Christmas cards and gifts, and things that was received at our house. I certainly thank you, with all my heart. It certainly did us good, this morning. When…I got a little boy, small enough yet to kind of want a Christmas tree, and we had it in the room. And this morning, go under there, I found several gifts from my church here, and my friends from around different places, that had come in, laying under the tree. And I don’t have words to express to you what I…how I appreciate every one of them. And may the God of Heaven bless you richly, is my prayer. And now…
Birth Pains
65-0124 · Phoenix, Arizona
202 And I challenge anybody here, that’s knowed all these years, to say at any time that the Lord ever let me say “THUS SAITH THE LORD” but what it happened. How many knows it’s the Truth? Raise your hand. [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Right. Could anybody speak contrary? [Brother Branham pauses. Congregation is silent.] It’s true.
203 Don’t pay any attention to the messenger. Look at the Message it is. [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] That’s what is. See? It isn’t that. Don’t notice the little [Blank spot on tape**.] baldheaded, you know, person,** ‘cause it’s just a—it’s just a human being, all, and we’re just all the same. But watch what’s happening. That’s what declares it. I was taken…
204 Now, I know people say all kinds of things, and we know that a lot of it’s not right. I can’t answer for what other, any man says. I got to answer what I say. I can only say whether it’s Truth, or not. And I—I—I’m the one has to be responsible for it, not what somebody else says. I can’t judge no one. I wasn’t sent to judge, but to preach the Message. Notice.
Why Little Bethlehem
63-1214 · Phoenix, Arizona
130 Today we can do the same thing. You can either take your creeds, take your so-and-so, and go wherever you want to with it; but you can say, “Not my will, but Thine be done.” Come back to that Word of God. Take your tinsel and Christmas and do what with it you want to. But give me Jesus Christ in my heart, no matter how humble It is, and how people laugh at It, or what of It. Watch—watch its nature, see if it does just like He did. [If it didn’t, and it don’t compare with this Word, leave it alone, it’s not Christ; ‘cause Christ is the Word.]
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Galatians 4:9-11 9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Deuteronomy 12:32 32What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
- Yahweh condemns idolatry (1 Corinthians 10:14).
1 Corinthians 10:14 14Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Acts 17:29-31 (AMP) 29Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to suppose that Deity (the Godhead) is like gold or silver or stone, [of the nature of] a representation by human art and imagination, or anything constructed or invented. 30Such [former] ages of ignorance God, it is true, ignored and allowed to pass unnoticed; but now He charges all people everywhere to repent (to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins), 31Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world righteously (justly) by a Man Whom He has destined and appointed for that task, and He has made this credible and given conviction and assurance and evidence to everyone by raising Him from the dead.
Isaiah 40:28-31 28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31But they that WAIT upon the Lord shall renew their STRENGTH; they shall mount up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 (AMP) 31But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.
Putting On The Whole Armor Of God
62-0607 · Aberdeen, North Carolina
82 The Chief is leading, leading us home. Amen. Come on home. “In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it wasn’t so, I’d have told you. I’ll not leave you comfortless: I’ll come again and be with you, even in you to the end of the world. The works that I do shall you do also. A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me: for I’ll be with you, even in you to the end of the world.” Chief, leading on. Amen.
My Lord knows the way through the wilderness. All I have to do is follow. Amen. Hear the tramp, tramp, tramping of the army, marching on to victory, not paying any attention to all this unbelief and old crows and buzzards hollering around here. We’re eagles. Let’s soar out of everything. Amen.
God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship
65-1128M · Shreveport, Louisiana
196 That’s the same thing in the church. They’re trying to mix the denomination with the Word, to make the…try to make the Word say what the denomination says. And when you do that, you have to spray them, and baby them, and—and give them gold stars to come to Sunday school, and everything else. That’s right. When, a genuine, born-again Christian, born with the Word of God, he’s rugged. That’s you. The lice and things of the world don’t bother him. He’s an eagle, he flies plumb past it. See, soars in the heavenly. See? It is true. Nothing…
It Is The Rising Of The Sun
65-0418M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
263 We are tired of such stuff as that. Get back! You’re eagles; back to the Word of God! Be burly; nothing can hurt your feelings, therefore you’re free from all the scandal of man. Whatever anybody says against you, that just brings more love. Amen. And, quickening Power, caught away into the Heavenlies, **a eagle that’s done flew above the chickens, way up yonder in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus! Oh! It was on Philip. That quickened him, caught him away. **
The Countdown
62-1125E · Shreveport, Louisiana
76 The spiritual astronaut is eagles. He goes beyond all denominational creeds, all denominational barriers, all denominational thinkings, all their cloudy thoughts. He’s above every cloud, everything there is to look at, he’s up in the…around the stars: the astronaut. And the astronaut believer is also up in the heavenlies. He’s far beyond these earthbound things. He’s up high. He’s in the outer space. See, the earthly man doesn’t know very much about the outer space. But if the astronaut’s in the outer space, he’s there with it.
The Countdown
62-1125E · Shreveport, Louisiana
79 What does it represent? A spiritual age, a spiritual time to where God’s going to have spiritual astronauts. Amen! They’re here right now! Hallelujah! The eagles of the air that can go beyond any other bird, sail above everything, spiritual astronauts (Glory!) that can take the Word of God and prove that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. A spiritual astronaut! Oh, my! Glory! That makes me feel good, living in this age! Now what a wonderful thing for a spiritual astronaut! See? What is it? What did the natural scientists do? Has been able to achieve that. And God, through man who would stay with the Bible and say that “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever,” and not afraid of the promise regardless of what anybody said, stay with it. What is it? You become in an astronaut that can go so far it’s beyond denominational thinking. It’s beyond anything else. It’s beyond the things of the church. Out yonder with God and Him alone you stay. Astronauts!
The Countdown
62-1125E · Shreveport, Louisiana
81 God wants man who can come into Christ and believe that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, and don’t take their own thinking, move out into space, controlled by the Holy Ghost. Amen. Astronauts! Whew! How far it is back from the old horse and buggy! How far it is even from the airplane! How far it is from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost! They’re coming to eagles. The first, they were lizards, then they become chickens, then they become crows, but now they’re eagles. No one can follow them!
82 An eagle is a special bird. He can go higher than any other bird. He’s prepared to see, keep his head level when he gets up there. There’s some people can jump way up and don’t know where they’re at after they get there, ‘cause he can’t see no farther than what he’s jumped. But there’s some that can look back and see what’s going on. That’s the eagle. He can stand there till he looks it over, and waits till he hears a message that tells him what to say. That’s the astronaut of God. See? It’s followed all the other achievements, why won’t it follow this achievement?
As The Eagle Stirreth Up Her Nes
60-0804 · Yakima, Washington
21 Another thing about an eagle, an eagle is a—a special bird, because he will never build his nest on the ground. He builds his nest way high. He likens that to His church. You are a city that sets on a hill, not in a valley. You’re a city that sets on a hill, that can be seen far off. A lighted candle, it can be seen far out. The church setting high, with high expectations, high ambitions…
Matthew 24:28 28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Return And Jubilee
62-1122 · Shreveport, Louisiana
63 A eagle can go where no other bird can think of going. If he’d try to follow him, he’d disintegrate. He’s a special built bird, yes indeed. I will tell you, a man that’s borned of the Spirit of God is a special built man or woman. Hallelujah. They’re born with a Spirit in them and knows how to act and to do and to be a son of God. Amen. It’s true. You know that’s the truth.
Yes, sir, we don’t have to have… Our women, it used to be a shame for our women to cut their hair. They’re doing it. It used to be wrong for women to wear makeup, they do it: Pentecostals.
I went here not long ago to one of our famous Pentecostal churches. They knowed what was coming, so I just go preach the Word. And I’ve been preaching it… Every one of them got up and went out almost. They didn’t have hardly enough to have a Sunday school. There went bobbed hair women, Rickys and Elvises, and all of them taking off one way and this way, that way, and was Sunday school teachers. I said, “That bunch of chickens, they can’t stand good fresh meat.” That’s right.
We need a Holy Ghost. Eagles eat eagle food. Eagles don’t live off of creeds. They live off of the Holy Ghost. They live off of Christ. God’s real eagles, they’re had to be born special.
Questions And Answers #1
64-0823M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
54 Not what Noah done, what Moses done, they’re examples; we see and read what they did, but it’s what He promised to do now. He was the Word back there; that was the Carcase for that day. The day of—of Wesley was a carcase for that day; the day of Luther was a carcase for that day; but they don’t go back to that. That’s already contaminated. What was left over must be burned, of the Communion even; don’t leave it for the next generation. The Bible said when you’re taking the Communion, what’s left over of it, don’t even let it lay till morning; burn it. So refer back to that? No, sir! We got fresh Food today; that’s the Word that’s promised to this hour, be made manifest in this hour. That’s where the eagles are, where the carcase is. We can stay a long time on that, but I’m sure you understand what I mean.
Revelation 4:7 (KJVS) And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
The Easter Seal
65-0410 · Phoenix, Arizona
182 “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. They were eating, drinking, marrying, given in marrying. And as it was in the days of Lot, so will it be in the hours that the Son of man will be revealed on earth,” not Son of God, no more. “Son of man,” come back as the prophetic Message for the last day when that eagle will be flying; not the lion; not the ox in the sacrifice age. See?
183 Every time, a religious power went forth to meet the challenge of the political power of the world. When the lion raised up, the religious power, it went to meet the Roman power.
184 And then when come the sacrifice hour, the ox went, because he’s the sacrifice Beast of the Lord.
185 Then come the reformers, down through the church ages, come the face of a man. And the reformers had been since Luther, Wesley, oh, Calvin, on down, down, pentecostal age.
186 But in the last Message that went forth, there come a flying eagle. It’s eagle time, reveal time, the Word of God made manifest, the Word of God proved. Oh, children, walk into this baptism of the Holy Spirit. Come in and believe It, with all your heart, God will fill you.
The Fourth Seal
63-0321 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
120 But under the revelation of the lion…Now watch. Now I want to read this close, so I’d be sure; wrote down some of the place, stand here. Under, not under the revelation of the lion’s age, or of the first age, the early age, This wasn’t revealed. The next age was the age of the ox, which is the dark age, the middle age, it wasn’t revealed as what It was. Nor the man-like Beast, of wisdom, representing the reformers, Luther and Wesley and so forth, It wasn’t revealed. But in the eagle age, the last age, the prophetic age, where there is to rise prophetic utterance, see, to whom the secrets always comes! Now there is where we just…
Watchman, What Of The Night?
58-1130 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
35 And as Isaiah in his day, was speaking that God had made him a watchman. God likened His prophets like eagles. And as I have often preached of the subject of the eagles, the eagle is a bird who can go higher than any other bird. And he has to be built special for that altitude that he goes into. Now, the hawk could never follow him. No other bird could follow him. He’s God’s designed bird. And he was made thus. If another bird tried to take his place, he would perish. He has to have strong feathers, strong wings. And what good would it do him to go high if he couldn’t see, have good eyes to see. A hawk would be blind up there. He could not see.
37 But higher the eagle climbs, the further off he can see. And God likened His prophets to the eagles. They are the watchman that climb higher so that they can see further off. And their eyes are made spiritual so that they can see the approaching dangers. And God had set Isaiah up to warn the people that there was approaching danger, and they wouldn’t listen to him. And today God still has eagles, our messengers, our man on the tower, who climbs up in the Spirit far beyond all the mechanisms, and all the atomic bombs, and the scientific researches. He has men who is special designed for that purpose, who climbs up the ramparts of Calvary in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and stands on the top of the cross, and can send the message back, “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” Their spiritual sight is far greater than the priest in the temple, far beyond the ordinary man in the walk of life. For they are special designed for the duties that God has called them to. Therefore, it pays us to take heed when we hear of the things that are approaching.
Psalms 103:5 (KJVS) 5Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalms 103:5 (AMP) 5Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation] with good so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagle’s [strong, overcoming, soaring]!
Letting Off The Pressure
62-0609E · Aberdeen, North Carolina
40 I was reading here not long ago…I preached a subject called, The Eagle Stirreth Its Nest, in Chicago. I was reading about a certain kind of an eagle. There’s forty different kinds of them, they claim, means a “ripper with the beak.” God always likens His people to eagles. He calls Himself Jehovah-eagle.
And His little eaglets, that’s those who are borned of Him. And I made a little rude illustration many times on that, how that…how the eagle gets her little ones ready to fly, and takes them up in the air, and turns them loose.
And if a crow tried to get up there, every feather would fall out of him. He’s not pressurized to it. See, he couldn’t stand the pressure. But the eagle is the only bird that’s born with that kind of a feather, that can go so high till a hawk couldn’t even come around him. And he’s got eyes…And higher you go the further you can see. And what good would it do him to get up there, if he didn’t have eyes to see way away? He couldn’t see back where he come from.
And that’s the way with the Christian. Some of the people maybe got a buzzard disposition, and eating the things of the world, and the vulture, and try to fly up there with an eagle, why, he—he blows up. There’s too much pressure. You got to be made for it.
41 And this certain kind of a eagle, when he begins to get old, he gets weary, like all of us old people, and he gets a crust over his head. And he gets so weary he don’t know what to do. And now, the Bible said that the eagle renews his youth. So I studied about this fellow. And when he gets old and weary, and that crust all over his head, he flies just as high as he can go till he finds a great high rock. He sets down by the side of this rock, and he sets there and beats his head on this rock.
What’s he trying to do? Beat the crust off, all the crust. And the blood will fly out of his head. He goes through all kinds of torture. But as long as he can feel some of the crust on him, he’s got to get that off. So he beats it on the rock, just keeps beating till all the crust is off his head.
And as soon as all of his crust is off his head, though he’s bleeding, wounded, he just screams to the top of his voice. He lets off the pressure. Why? Because, as soon as all that crust is off, then he renews his youth. It’s sure to come, so, as soon as all the crust is gone, he can start screaming, because he knows that he’s got rid of all the crust. So his youth is sure to be renewed, so he can just let off the pressure and start screaming, because he’s going back to a young eagle again. That’s wonderful. I’m glad for the eagle. I’m glad for that bird.
42 But you know, I know a Rock where that we can go, and beat in prayer till all the crust of the world is beat away from us, till all the unbelief in God’s Word is beat away, till we enter into a place where all things are possible. And as soon as we got all the world and unbelief in God’s Word beat off of us, then we can scream and shout because Eternal Life is sure, just as certain as anything. Certainly, because all the world is beat off.
If you keep the world onto you, keep loving the world and the things of the world, you’re sure to die. But if you can get away from all of that, then your youth will be restored. You’ll have Eternal Life. So glad of that.
As The Eagle Stirs Her Nest
61-0122 · Beaumont, Texas
76 And if he can’t knock it off, he dies. But if he gets it knocked off, he will start rejoicing and screaming. You can hear him for miles, just screaming. Why? He knows that he’s got all the crust off of him. He knows that his youth’s going to be renewed because that he got the crust off. That’s wonderful. I appreciate that for the eagle…
**62-0518 - Letting Off The Pressure Green Lake, Wisconsin **
55 “As an eagle renews his youth.” Yes, sir. The revival takes and shakes all the old funny feelings away from you, fly out into an atmosphere yonder. Likened His heritage to an eagle, because the eagle renews his youth.
Now, makes him shout. You watch the church. It’ll be setting, all dry. First thing you know, the Holy Spirit strikes them, their youth…Why, the old people is just up on their feet, jumping and shouting and praising God, renews their youth again. That’s right. Do anything a young person can do, just jump, and holler, and scream, and shout. He renews his youth. That’s right. I believe in that, don’t you?