La colona di Fuoco
E-1 Stand by your church. And so
then--then Monday night be back with us again. Bring your pastors along
and tell them to come down. We're going to teach a little bit out of the
Book of Genesis or Exodus, one, the Lord willing for a couple of
nights.
Then Wednesday night we have a healing service again and then on
Thursday night we begin at, down in Shreveport, Louisiana. And Sunday
night we be at the, as far as I know now, at the Municipal Auditorium
there at Shreveport. Then we go from there home, then up into Indiana to
where we got a meeting there where forty-three Full Gospel churches in
the district are sponsoring the meeting. And as far as I know, the next
meeting then will be Johannesburg, South Africa. So I'm depending on you
praying for me.
E-2 Many times, friends, when the storms
is going hard and trials besetting on every hand, I would think back
about Arkansas and down in here, and the Christians who raised their
hand on that night when you sing that song to me when I was leaving,
pledging that you'd pray for me while I was gone. I--I was believing you
were praying. God never failed to answer your prayers, for He stood
with me when the heat was on, the battles are going hard, all kinds of
things we had to combat.
Maybe you wouldn't understand just exactly. There's no need of trying to
explain these things. They're inexplainable. God Himself is the only
One Who knows. You might think that life is just a flower bed of ease.
But if you only knew the battle and the trials and the things that
accompanies this, you'd wonder.
E-3 You know most all prophets, poets
are considered neurotics. You knew that. I believe it was Stephen
Foster, brother, was considered one of the best... Well, he gave America
some of it's best folk songs. How many ever heard Stephen Foster's
songs? Sure many of you: The Old Folks at Home," "Suwannee River," and
"Old Kentucky Home."
Not long ago I was standing at the old Kentucky home. It's just a little
piece from where I live now. And I was looking at his picture there, of
how the seraphims was supposed to of touched him to give him
inspiration. I thought, "Mr. Foster, you had it in the head, not in the
heart." When he would... He would go out; he'd catch inspiration to
write a song. And after he got through writing a song, he'd get on a
drunk. And finally when he left the inspiration of writing a song, he
called a servant and got a razor and committed suicide: Stephen Foster.
E-4 Not long ago I was standing by
William Cowper's grave in London, England, considered a neurotic. He
wrote that famous song that I've used all my life nearly in Communion
song:
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
When sinners plunged beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
And after he wrote that song, he went up into an inspiration, as always
do, and when he come out of that inspiration, he tried to Seine river to
drowned himself, commit suicide. He was considered a little bit off, a
little upset.
This famous song that they just sung: "O love of God, how rich and
pure." You know where the last verse of that was found? Tacked on a wall
of an insane institution. Did you know that? That's right. It was
tacked on an insane institution, in the walls. People don't realize what
it means.
E-5 Well, you say, "That's songwriters.
How about prophets?" Jonah, when he went down on his road, and God give
him inspiration and give him an oxygen supply to keep him alive three
days and nights in the belly of a whale... And when he come out at
Nineveh, after being kept alive for three days and nights, he preached
with such force. He give his prophecy to a city the size of St. Louis,
Missouri: repented. They even put sackcloth on their animals.
And then after the inspiration left him, he set under a tree and prayed,
a little gourd to be cut down, and prayed God to take his life. That
right? See, he went up into inspiration. You don't understand, friend.
And when he come down...
E-6 Someone made a mention. One time
when I went out the building, I collapsed 'fore I got off the platform.
You say, "Well, that's nonsense. The man ought to walk out..." Oh, if he
only knew. If you only knew. You say, "Oh, Brother Branham, if God give
me visions..." You don't know what you're asking about, friend. You
don't understand.
Daniel the prophet, he seen one vision and said he was troubled at his
head for many days. You're in another world. You become a guinea pig.
You're a sacrifice for mankind. It's kinda hard when they won't believe
the Message, but it's been through the age. We've always had
unbelievers. We have to com--combat that always.
E-7 Look at Elijah the prophet. Elijah
was one of the major prophets. That man went up and stood on the
mountain and commanded that fire come from heaven and burn up the
sacrifice, and it did it. He called rain down out of the heaven, where
it hadn't rained for three years and six months. Is that right?
And then when the inspiration left him, he wandered in the wilderness
for forty days, don't know where he was at. And God found him pulled
back in a cave somewhere. Is that right? And run from a woman who
threatened his life, after he killed four hundred priests hisself that
day with a sword, chopped their heads off, Elijah the prophet. Is that
right?
He stood there before all the nations and dared them to defy God, and
made fun of all them priests and prophets while... of Balaam when they
was prophesying, cutting themselves and so forth. He said, "Call a
little louder. Maybe he's pursuing."
And when the inspiration was on him, he--he just defied everything that
was ungodly. And then when the inspiration left him, run from the threat
of one woman, and run out into the wilderness; and God fed him, and
woke him up and fed him again. And the man was unconscious, as far as I
know, wandering around the wilderness for forty days and nights, and God
found him back in a cave. Is that right?
So you see, you don't understand, friend. Men pray for things that they
don't know what they're praying for. Besides gifts and callings are
without repentance.
E-8 But I believe that we're living in the days just before the coming of the Lord. Now, if it's fanaticism to believe that, then I am a fanatic. But I... Friends, I know this, that I believe that God is fixing to do a real hurrying work.
E-9 The whole world, did you ever see
the like of nervousness? Just to let me tell you, even, every night when
I've been here, and I watch the audience. Now, each one, I want every
man and woman to be sincere with me. Feeling the pressure when nervous
people come to this platform, there's a least, right now in this
building, eighty percent of what's setting here is nervous, afflicted
with nervous trouble. That's exactly right.
You be sincere with me. Every man and woman, boy or girl in here that
has any nervous trouble raise your hands. Raise your hand. What'd I tell
you? What's the matter? The Bible said, men's heart failing, more heart
troubles, number one disease. Is that right? And fear, sights upon the
earth, perplexed of time, distress between the nations; sea roaring, big
tidal waves washing away parts of cities and breaking upon the shores,
just before the coming.
It is get... It's setting a stage for the greatest drama that was ever
acted out in all ages, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Could you
imagine seeing a little lamb out in the field feeding; he becomes
nervous. Why is he nervous? He can't see nothing, but back in behind the
rushes yonder there's something that's moving. It's a lion, crouching,
getting ready to spring on. That's what the nervousness is about.
E-10 The end is here. I don't know when;
no one else does. Who says, "He does." He--he doesn't know. For Jesus
said even Himself didn't know. But we know that when these things begin
to come to pass, He said, "Lift up our head, redemption's drawing nigh."
Now, we're at the end of the age, and I do not want to try to
misrepresent anything. I've never been guilty of that. I've always tried
to be honest and true and just as I... true as I could be, first with
God. And if I'm true with God, I will be true with His children. And I
realize, as I serve His people, I'm serving God. Jesus said, "Insomuch
you done it to least of these My little ones, you've done it to Me."
But I--I say tonight, friends, the reason that I'm... God has let me by
His grace be numbered with you, is because of something He has sent to
you. Now, I want you to receive it.
E-11 Now, I believe that Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I believe that in the
beginning God made man in His own image, and God is a Spirit. And God
made man spirit-man. Then He made him in the dust of the earth. Now, I
believe that man in the beginning, well, led the animals of the earth
like the Holy Spirit ought to be leaving the--leading the Church today.
There was no man to till the soul, so then He put him in five senses.
Them five senses was not to contact God. That was see, taste, feel,
smell, and hear. They were to contact his earthly home. But by his
spirit he contacts God.
Man lost his origin and he... back there, and fell from grace. And when
he did, then God came down and was made in the image of man, to redeem
man back to God. And God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
And the God of the Old Testament, Jesus Christ of the New, and the Holy
Spirit of this day is the same Jehovah God living down through the age.
See?
E-12 Now, in the days that He led Israel
through the wilderness... I want to read some Scripture. I want you to
notice closely: God commissioning Moses to send him, now. Over in Exodus
the 23rd chapter and the 20th verse. Listen closely now.
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. (Watch who this Angel is.)
Beware of him, and obey his voice, and provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But if thou will indeed obey his voice, and do
all that I have speak; then I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an
adversary to thy adversaries.
For mine Angel shall go before thee.
Let's see what the Angel looked like. In the 13th chapter of Exodus we read this in the 21st and 22nd verse:
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar
of a cloud, to lead them by a pillar, a cloud in--in the way;... by
night by a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by... night:
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, neither the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
E-13 That's God's Word. Now, what was
the Angel? Was the Angel of the covenant. And He led... And all the old
things was a type of the new things to come. You believe that? Scripture
says so, being a shadow, Hebrews.
Now, as God led the Church in the natural in that day, He's leading the
Church in the spiritual in this day. Do you believe it? They were the
people of God until they were called out of Egypt, and then they become
the church of God; for the word "church" means "called out." They were
called out of Egypt, and we're called out of the world, a peculiar
people to serve God.
And the same Angel, if Jesus is the same, the same Angel, the Angel of
the covenant was Jesus Christ; for the Bible said that Moses esteemed
the riches of Christ greater than the treasures of Egypt. So he forsook
Egypt, leaving all to follow and serve Christ. Christ is the Logos, of
course, the One that went out of God in the beginning, which was the
Pillar...
E-14 Would you like to hear what I think
about how God become...? Would you take a little trip with me for a few
minutes? Have I got time? Now, be reverent just a minute. Let me get
this straightened out for you.
Let's take a little trip in a little space now, a mental vision, and go
back a hundred million years before there was even a star in the sky, by
your mind. It was--it was God. He's always been God. And then, we're
setting on--standing here watching creation come into existence. There's
not a star; there's not nothing.
And then let's notice. Out yonder I see now all that space, that all is
God, without form, forever, for eternities, no beginning, no ending.
It's all God. Before there was even air there was God. The very
beginning of nature of creation was God.
E-15 And now, the Bible teaches us that
the Logos went out of God, or I might say, all of the--the God becoming
His first body form when the Logos went out of God. Let's look what It
looked like. No one has seen the Father at any time, nowhere, never did
and never will.
But then the Logos that went out of Him become like a little halo of
Light. Let's see it playing yonder, like a child before the doorstep of
the father. And now, I can see Him as He moves over here, and He draws
into His--His memory or His mind a picture of what the world should be.
Now, there's not a star or nothing.
I hear Him say, "Let there be." And an atom broke yonder. And when it
did, the sun came into existence and begin to whirl. She burned for
millions of years and millions and millions of years. After while, I see
a clinker fly off of it. [Brother Branham makes a noise--Ed.]
What is it? The first star that flew from the sun. He watches it fall
for a few million years and He stops it. Then another one flies off and
He lets it fall a few million years and stops it. What's He doing?
Writing His first Bible, the Zodiac.
E-16 God's wrote three Bibles: one, the
Zodiac, one in the pyramids, one on paper. Now, He's writing His first,
the Zodiac. It starts off with a virgin, ends up with Leo the lion:
Jesus' first coming and His second coming. If we had time to run down
through it, you'd see it.
But He writes that because He... Man is to look up. God is above. And
then after He gets all of every... all the heavenly, the solar system
written out, then I see Him move over here, and over a clinker was this
world. It was nothing but a iceberg hanging out of it. He moves it over
around the sun. And as he begins to revolve it around, He melts all the
water, the ice on it. The icebergs come flying down through. Texas is
formed, Louisiana and down through there, where it's scraped off, as
chronologists tell us that the icebergs went on into the Gulf and so
forth.
E-17 Now, the world's without form and
void, and water was upon the deep. We're in Genesis 1 now. See? Then He
made all the plant life. Then after while, He made man in His own image.
And if He made man in His own image, He had to make Him something on a
order of that supernatural Being. That's right.
Then there was no man to till the soil, Genesis 2. Then He made man out
of the dust of the earth, not in His image, but out of the dust of the
earth. He might give him a hand like a monkey and a foot like a bear. I
don't know what He give him. But he put him in five senses to contact
his earthly home.
E-18 And then He made a--a wife for him.
And man fell. I have my idea of what it was. You can have yours.
But--but he fell, anyhow, from grace. And instead of--of Adam running
up-and-down the garden hollering, "God, God, our Father, Father, where
are you?" Adam was hiding and God was hollering, "Adam, Adam, where art
thou?" That's still the same nature of man--hide, get away from God.
And he tried to make hisself a covering out of fig leaves. Man today
tries to make hisself a religion, always trying to do something to save
hisself. You couldn't do one thing to save yourself. You're just as
hopeless as you can be. That's right. God has to save you.
Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him." And you
can't be a daughter unless God has foreordained you to be so. "And when
he comes, I will in no wise cast him out. I will give him Everlasting
Life, raise him up at the last days."
E-19 The biggest trouble there is in the
church today is a bunch of fear. People's always scared, and that's of
the devil. Don't be scared. Be brave. You don't have nothing to be...
There ain't nothing to be afraid about. We'll get into that this coming
week, see, in there and we'll bring God on down and see what He was.
So you can see when man marred hisself, he sinned. And then the only way
it was, is for God to be manifested here on earth in a body of flesh to
take away the sin out of that man and bring him back in fellowship with
God, makes him a son of God again. It's the only way he can be.
E-20 Now, when He brought the children
of Israel out of the wilderness, out into the wilderness, He led them by
a Pillar of Fire. Is that right? The Bible said He did, and He went
before them. That was the Anointing, the Holy Spirit, Christ, that went
before the children of Israel.
Well, if He's the same as He was then, He's the same Man, the same
Person; He's everything that He was then, He--He is now. And as He led
the Church then in the natural, He's leading the Church today in the
spiritual. Is that right? Do you believe that we're in the wilderness?
We are. Are we on a road to the promised land?
Now, the... When they got over into Canaan, did not represent Heaven.
They had wars in Canaan and so forth. It represented the Millennium.
See? So we're going into that. And we're on our road now to the
Millennium. I believe it. And I believe the same Jesus Christ that led
back there, leads today. He's in a spiritual form. "I came from God; I
go to God. A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall
see Me, for I will be with you even in you to the end of the world." Is
that right? "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Now,
then if He is, then He's going to make Hisself manifested and known.
E-21 Now, sometime ago, coming through here... Now, all of you know the story. Now, please, dear Christian friends, God, Who is my sovereign Judge, with this Bible over my heart, knowed I... may have to stand before Him in Judgment before morning. See. I only say this in a humble way that you might thoroughly understand, that we're... the Church, the people is not trying to deceive anybody. We know what the truth is and we're trying to get it to you. The only thing will rob you from it is the devil. See? That's all. Now, just to confirm your faith, I want to use this for proof, to show you that it's the truth.
E-22 Now, God leading His Church
today... Now, on the road. Now, when I come out when I was a little
bitty boy, my mother told me when I was about three minutes old...
borned in a family which did not go to church, formally back behind that
was Catholic. But they never went to church.
That morning up there in the mountains when they opened up the cabin
door, little old door... It wasn't a window; it was a little door you
push out. It didn't have any glass in it, pushed it out. A Light, about
so big around, come whirling in and went down on the bed where mother
was holding me in her arms.
E-23 That's unadulterated; that's
without unmerited grace; that was God. See? Nothing that you can do or
nothing I can do. That's God's plan. It's got to be just what He said.
See? He's determined. If you notice, gifts and callings is without
repentance. You believe that?
Here... Jesus Christ was the woman's seed from the Garden of Eden, that
was promised. You believe that? It was. "Thy seed shall bruise the
serpent..."
Moses, he couldn't help because he was Moses. He was born Moses. Is that
right? John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was
born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness by Isaiah the
prophet. Is that right? Jeremiah, God told Jeremiah, said, "Before you
was born, I knew you and sanctified you and ordained you a prophet over
the nations, before you even come from your mother's womb. Who taking
thought could add one cubit to His statue?" See? You have to go on back
and say it's the sovereign grace of God.
E-24 Now, notice. Then when a little
bitty fellow, then the Holy Spirit spoke and said, "Don't never smoke,
chew, or drink, defile your body in any way. There's a work for you to
do when you get older."
And then, many times and down through life, I'd try to tell people with
the sincerity of my heart and they would misunderstand it. They'd called
it everything in the world.
Well, one night up yonder in Green's Mill, Indiana, to a cave where I
was at in a place, the Angel of the Lord appeared and said, "You're to
go pray for sick people." And told me what would take place. He said,
"Do not fear. I will be with you." I took off, and come through the
country, and down through Jonesboro, telling what He said was and what
would come to pass. And it's been that way and proved now plumb around
the world.
E-25 And He... When I was--I was a young
Baptist preacher baptizing my first converts, five hundred of them down
on the river, my first revival... I had about three thousand attend at
the revival. And my education was so poor, till my girlfriend read the
Bible while I preached. That's right. It's not much better tonight. But
God's not known by education. God's known by faith. God's not known by
knowledge.
There was two trees in the garden of Eden. One of them was the tree of
knowledge, the other one the Tree of Life. Man left the Tree of Life to
eat the Tree of Knowledge, and he's separating hisself from God. And
ever since then, by knowledge, he's drove hisself away from God. God's
not known by knowledge; He's known by faith. That's right.
E-26 Now, I want you to notice. Then,
coming along, I was in Texas. And there was a man by the name of Mr.
Best, Dr. Best. I was having a nice revival. About eight thousand people
attended. And Dr. Best put a piece in the paper and said, "That
religious fanatic, William Branham, imposing hisself as a man of God,
ought to be run out of this city and I ought to be the guy to do it."
Well, Brother Bosworth come to me, one of the managers, and said, "Looky
here, Brother Branham." And he dared me and challenged me and
everything, to debate the subject. Well, I wasn't going to fuss with
him. I don't believe in fussing. God sent me to pray for the sick, to
preach the Gospel. There's thousands that will believe it. Why spend it
with one fanatic who don't believe it? That's right. Let him alone. They
say they be blind leaders of the blind. Let them go on. See?
E-27 Some men was foreordained to that
condemnation. The Bible said so--can't be saved, blinded from the
beginning, born to be blind. We'll get that this next week. That didn't
go very good, but I will prove to you by the Scriptures; it's the truth.
And they'll absolutely be religious teachers, fundamental as they can
be. That's exactly right. But never know no more about God than a
Hottentot would know about a Egyptian knight.
Now... But they know all the fundamentals, the key notes and everything,
but know nothing about God: "Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof," Divine healing, and Power of the Holy Spirit, and
everything. Church, you got something but you just don't know what to do
with it. That's all. It's true.
E-28 Now, notice this. And then
Brother... Second day he said, "It shows that... what kind of a
something they're made out of, paid ad in the paper, showed what they're
made out of. They're afraid to--to examine their Divine healing by the
Light of the Word of God."
So then, Mr. Bosworth come, said, "Brother Branham, for our prestige before the people you've got to take it up."
I said, "Brother Bosworth, there's about eight thousand people there.
There's about seven thousand of them to be prayed for." I said, "I got
two more days to stay here in Houston. Why fool with that crank when we
can go over here and be praying for the sick people?" I said, "I don't
fool with it."
He said, "Brother Branham, let me do it."
And I thought, "Seventy-five years old." I thought of Caleb, when he
said, "I'm eighty today, and I'm just as good a man as I was when Joshua
put the sword in my hand." I--I admired the old man.
I said, "Well, Brother Bosworth, I admire you, brother."
He said, "That man hasn't got one leg to stand on or one Scripture." He said, "Let me prove it to him."
And I said, "If you promise me that you won't fuss."
He said, "I promise you, I won't fuss."
I said, "All right."
E-29 So then he goes down. They wouldn't
let the reporters stay in the Rice Hotel. They wouldn't let the
reporters come to the door. So he went down and seen the reporters. He
said, "Brother Branham won't fuss with them." I said... But he said, "I
will--I will stand it."
So then, of course, the "Houston Chronicle," great big headlines:
"Ecclesiastical Fur Will Fly," you know. So that just set the debate.
And that's where it comes to show to me that all you Pentecostal groups
of people who fuss about your little doctrines and things, some of these
days that'll be shook out of you. That's right. You're one big Church,
brother. That's right. Your little points don't mean nothing in the
sight of God. You're one big Church of God.
E-30 Notice. Then they didn't care
whether they was riding a one humped camel, or two humped camel, or a
three humped camel, or the fourth rain, fifth rain, latter rain, middle
rain, or what rain it was. They were one thing. They believed in Divine
healing, and they all run together in that big coliseum, about
thirty-thousand packed out. They come in airplanes from everywhere and
everything, drove in, and taken all night, at a time. What was it? The
thing that their Lord had taught was at stake and they was ready to
stand their grounds.
There it was. It went on the associated press. And people flew in from
way in the east and way in the west and everywhere. They packed that big
coliseum out.
E-31 And that night my brother said, "Now, you're not going down."
I said, "I know it. I don't want to go down there." So, Sire Ramsar was
leading the singing. But when it come time to go, Something just told me
to go down there anyhow. So I took my coat and pulled it up over my
shoulders like this, over my head; went down, wife and I, and we went
way up. I went up in balcony thirty, if you've ever been in the San
Houston coliseum. I was way up like this. Nobody knowed I was up there
but the two police that took me up, my wife and my--my brother. And we
were sitting up there.
E-32 And Mr. Bosworth... and they had
all the ministers lined up. And so, Mr. Ramsar was leading the singing.
He said, "Well, next is the main event of the evening." He said, "I
understand, I seen in the paper around here where that a certain fellow
wanted to run William Branham out of the city." He said, "I think if you
people of Houston will take more time running bootleggers out of the
city you would man of God, your city would be better off." And there was
a scream went all over the whole building; I knowed Mr. Best was gone.
So, I just set there.
Dr. Bosworth got to the platform. They made him get up first. He said,
"Mr. Best, I have six hundred Bible questions setting here, wrote out on
this piece of paper, that proves that Christ's present attitude towards
the sick is just the same as it was in the beginning, when He was here
on earth." Said, "If you can take any one of the six hundred and
disprove it by the Word of God, I will walk off the platform." Six
hundred.
And said, "If you can give me one Scripture in the whole Bible that says
that His--His--His attitude towards the sick isn't just the same today,
then I will walk off the platform." That's pretty gallant. So he hand
it over.
E-33 Mr. Best said, "I will take care of that when I get up there."
And he said, "Well," he said, "just show me, just show me one
Scripture." And--and so he wouldn't do it. He said, "Well, then Brother
Best, I'm going to ask you one question." And here's what he asked him.
He said, "Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Jesus? Yes or
no. Answer that yes or no and I will walk off the platform." Mr. Best
wouldn't answer him, 'cause he couldn't. "Was the redemptive Names of
Jehovah applied to Jesus? Yes or no."
If He was Jehovah--if He was Jehovah-jireh... If He wasn't
Jehovah-jireh, then He's not God's provided sacrifice and He wasn't the
Son of God. And if He was Jehovah-jireh, He's also Jehovah-rapha, the
Healer, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That settled it. That'd
settle it forever.
E-34 He just slobbered at the mouth, and
got up and walked up and down the platform four or five times, and
slapped a preacher in the mouth, start a little fuss. So when he did, he
said, "Bring forth that Divine healer." Said, "Let me see him heal
somebody."
And Mr. Bosworth said, "Shame on you, Mr. Best."
Said, "If Brother Branham preaching Divine healing makes him a Divine
healer, if you preach salvation makes you a Divine saviour." Said, "You
wouldn't want to be called a Divine saviour." Said, "And you're not."
Said, "But he never a Divine healer because he preaches Divine healing."
Said, "Christ is the Healer and Christ is the Saviour. We only point it
by the Word, and that's what you and I are here tonight, to find out
whether it's in the Word or not." Says, "Then I want you to show me that
it's not in the Word."
E-35 He just thought we was a bunch of
holy-rollers or fanatics, but he found out we're not lost in the fog. We
know where we're going.
So then, he walked up and down the floor. And Raymond Richey said...
asked the moderator, "Can I have a word?" He said, "I happened to see
about a dozen Baptist ministers setting there." He said, "And I know the
president of--of the--of the conference of the--of the... not
conference, but what... convention is setting here, called him by name."
He said, "Is this the attitude of the Southern Baptist Convention
towards Divine healing?" So they wouldn't answer them.
So he said, "Did Mr. Best come here on his own or did this Southern
Baptist Convention send him here?" Said, "I..." And the moderator told
him to set down. He said, "Sir, you give me the floor, and I'm asking a
question that hasn't been answered." So he held his ground. And he said,
"Well..."
E-36 They said, "We didn't send him
there." Mr. Best come on his own. He knowed better, thirty thousand
people setting there. See? So he said, "No, they didn't." Mr. Best said
he come on his own. All right. That was okay then.
He said, "I just wanted to know." So he set down.
So then, Mr. Best jumped up and said, "Let me see that Divine healer."
Mr. Bosworth said, "Why, he isn't a Divine healer." Said, "His--his
books are translated about seventeen different languages. Never has he
said he was a Divine healer. He just prays for the sick. Christ is the
Healer."
He said, "Well, you got signs up, miracles every night."
And Brother Bosworth said, "Sure. Because a miracle is something that
cannot be figured out by human mind." And said, "In the supernatural
realm," said, "he's got... has a gift that knows and foretells, and
tells us things even weeks and months and so forth ahead." And said, "It
never fails to be just that way." Said, "That is a miracle." Well, he
couldn't say nothing about that.
Said, "According to Mr. Webster... If you want to discuss about it, fuss with him.
E-37 So then he said, "Bring him forth
and let me see him perform a miracle, and let me see it last a year."
Said, "You're just worked up in your mind." Said, "Nothing but a bunch
of holy-rollers like... that are around here," said, "Only thing that
believes in Divine healing." Said, "True Baptists don't believe it."
He said, "I beg your pardon. Brother Branham happens to have a
membership card in his pocket right now. He belongs to the Missionary
Baptist Church." (A Baptist church is sovereign. Whatever your
congregation will stand for your preaching, that's all right with the
con... with the convention.)
So, he said... "Well," he said, "that's just a bunch of backsliders, and
so forth, is the only ones that believe that." Said, "A bunch of
holy-rollers." Said, "True Baptists don't believe it."
E-38 Mr. Bosworth said, "Just a moment."
He said, "How many in this audience that's got membership in these
Baptist churches and good fellowship with the church, good standing,
that's been healed these last ten days since Brother Branham's been
here, could stand and testify, and show you by your doctor, and
everything, that you are well willing to go before a doctor to show that
you're healed. How many in here has been healed in Brother Branham's
meeting that's members of these churches, of these men that's setting
here, stand to your feet." And three hundred stood up. Said, "What about
that?"
He said, "Anybody can testify of anything; that still don't make it
wrong." He started off the platform. Said, "Bring me that Divine healer
here and let me see him." Just kept saying that, just aw...
He had just told that day; he said, "I'm going to take that old man and
I'm going to skin him, and take his skin and rub salt in it and put it
on my study door for a commemoration of Divine healing." Could you
imagine a brother saying that about another one? Go to show where it
comes from. See? A man saying that about skinning that brother. Well,
that's all right.
E-39 Notice, he's just out of a cemetery
or, well, sem... That's right. Seminary. All right. Anyhow, he knowed
all the angles, knowed nothing about God. And then--then when he did
that... He hired the Douglas Studios of Houston, Texas, which is a
member of the American Bible, or the American Photographer Association,
to come over and take six glossies of him while he skinned the old man,
so he could put it in the... So, the man that was going to take the
pictures was a critic, too. So he got out there and posed like this,
with his finger sticking in Brother Bosworth's face, "And now get my
picture like this." Brother Bosworth just stood there.
He stuck his finger in his face, said... Then he posed again like this,
you know, and put his finger in his face like that, how he was skinning
him. Well, the photographer took his pictures and all. When he all...
got down and everything like that, there stood the "Look," "Life,' and
"Times," and the--the magazines and the reporters all standing there,
around there.
E-40 So just then, when the meeting was
fixing to end, he said, "Now, look." He said, "I know this." He said
that Brother Branham is in the building. He said, "If he wants to come
and dismiss the audience, all right. But I won't expose him if he
doesn't."
And my brother said, "Now, you set still." I said, "I'm sitting still, ain't I?" So I just sitting there.
And he said, "Now, if he doesn't want to," said, "I know he's in the building, but if he wants to come..."
And I was setting there. I thought, "Well, I'm setting still." And the
police looked over to me, setting. I just set there and I heard
something going whirr, whirr, whirr. [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] I--I knowed I couldn't set still. Something just said, "Stand up." It said again, "Stand up." I stood up.
Howard said, "Set down."
My wife said, "Don't Howard. Look." It changes my expression. Said, "Don't."
E-41 And the people looked up that way,
begin screaming and crying. About three or four hundred ushers throwed
their hands together to make a line, for the poor people that was trying
to touch my clothes. Coming down along that banister, down through this
way, walked up to the platform.
I said, "I'm sorry that these things has to happen. And don't no one
feel hard at Mr. Best." I said, "Truly he's got a right to his ideas the
same as I have mine. That's why the boys are fighting in Korea." I
said, "For the American freedom of speech." I said, "I don't believe
he's sincere as he said he was, 'cause he told these people he felt
sorry for them, and there sits some of their kind and these... The
doctors has done all they can do for these people; they're going to die
in a few days; and there they are, some of them setting here last week
is back there well today. And now he's trying to rob them from the only
hope that they have of ever being well, and then saying, he'd be
sincere. I just can't believe that."
E-42 But I said, "However, I only
testify of the truth. I am not a healer." And I said, "I tell the truth.
And if I tell the truth, God will testify of the truth. He never will
testify of a lie." I said, "God will always stand by the truth. And if I
say... If I tell the truth, then God will..."
And about that time something went whhhirrrr. [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.]
Here come the Angel of the Lord, coming down through the building,
moving down. Silence went over the audience. The photographer wasn't
supposed to take any pictures, but a regular...?... true to form he run
out and shot the picture. I said, "The Lord has spoken. I will have no
more to say." Walked out of the building, police take me on. I got in
the car and went up.
E-43 Mr. Kipperman, studio, they went
home, taking their pictures home, went down to the studio, the Douglas
Studios. So they went down there to--to develop pictures. And this one
of them was a Catholic, and he said, "You know, maybe I..." And the
day... paper before, oh, my, he said I was a hypnotizer and everything,
Mr. Ayers. And he said, "You know, I might be wrong." Said, "That boy's
back parents were Catholic. That might be a Divine gift. If it is, that
boy's headed for the Catholic church." He said... 'Course they believe
all gifts come to the church, but, you know.
So then he said, "Maybe I--I've misjudged the boy." And he went home and
he... Mr. Kipperman went upstairs in the studio, and Mr. Ayers put the
pictures in to be developed. He said, "Mr. Best will want these pictures
tomorrow, so we'll just put them in the acid and get the proofs for
him, for tomorrow." So he put them in there, and he set there and smoked
a cigarette; he was thinking about it.
E-44 When he went... Mr. Kipperman come
down, and when he went to take in the dark room to get the pictures out,
the first one he took, Mr. Best, blank; second one, blank; third,
blank; fourth, fifth, sixth, every one of them blank. Not a one of them
with his poses with his finger in that saintly old man's face, Mr.
Bosworth, not a one of them. And when he pulled the next one out, he had
a heart attack. There was the Angel of the Lord on the picture. They
called for me; and I couldn't come to him.
Immediately at eleven o'clock they rushed it away to--to Washington D.C.
for copyright, brought it back and sent to--to over to--to California
for George J. Lacy. If anybody knows anything about photography, know
George J. Lacy is the head of the FBI fingerprint and so forth, best
there is in the world. He had it three days in the Shell Building. On
the third day he said--said he'd show it to us, and he'd give his...
what he thought it was. They went to the room; they done everything.
They took the camera, the negative, and everything. He put it under all
kind of lights.
E-45 He come out. He's kinda red-headed
fellow, very hard-boiled. He walked out. Said, "Who's name's Branham?"
There was just about as many setting as there is right in this middle
aisle here. I was back towards the back. I said, "Mine."
Said, "Stand up." I stood up. He said, "Mr. Branham," said, "you're going to pass out of this life like all mortals."
I said, "I'm aware of that, sir, but I thank God that Jesus Christ has taken my place in death."
He said, "Come forward." And I walked up. He said, "Rev. Branham, I've
heard of your meetings and I said it was psychology, that the people
imagined they saw that Light." Said, "I've said the same things." But
said, "My mother was an old Christian woman." He said, "But let me tell
you, Rev. Branham, that mechanical eye of that camera will not take
psychology." He said, "It's a genuine supernatural Being, and the only
time in all the world's history that a picture like that was ever
taken." He said, "The old hypocrite can never say no more that there's
no such a thing as scientific proof of the supernatural Being, for this
has been took through every test there is." And said, "I submit it to
you."
E-46 And he give it to me, and I give it
over to the American Photographer Association, and they fixed it so it
couldn't be sold for too much. He said, "Rev. Branham, before you
leave..." Everybody was crying. He said, "Before you leave, someday when
you pass away from this life," he said, "that picture will be on ten
cent store shelves and things." He said, "Because it's the only thing
that we've ever had our hands on that we could prove that was a actual
supernatural Being." Said, "Around the Saviour, the saints, they painted
lights." He said, "And they'd say that was psychology, the unbeliever."
But said, "I believe it was there." Said, "This is not psychology. The
mechanical eye of that camera didn't take it that way and I..." He said,
"For... I'd say for the sacredness of the picture, I will write you a
little statement and give my statement concerning it." And I submitted
it to them and here's the picture.
It's a milling Fire about so big around. Now you... I want you after the
service is over, come up here and look at it. I wish... I have a bunch
of them. If you'll just write to my office up home, I think they give
about fifty cents apiece for them. They'll send it to you with his
writing on it, whatever it is.
E-47 Now, it's not nothing in them... We
don't... Nothing in the picture, 'cause if Jesus Christ thought enough
of me to come down and have His picture taken beside of me for the first
time in all the world's history, I love Him too much to commercialize
His picture. You know that. That's right. See?
Now, there it is. I just borrowed this one from Mr. Shebley and them,
the Reverend here and--and I give it to him the other day, and I want
you to see it. Look at It, It's a milling Fire. Now, what is that? A
Pillar of Fire led the children of Israel. And the same Pillar of Fire
was among those people is among this people now: Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right?
E-48 And when Christ was here on earth,
He didn't claim to heal people. He knowed the secrets of their hearts
and so forth. Is that right? And He's doing the same work right here at
Jonesboro, Arkansas, right in this little group of people that He did
back there. There it is, the same God of the Old Testament is the same
God of the New Testament. Jesus Christ that led the children of Israel
is leading the Pentecostal church. There it is, the proof of it,
scientifically, and by signs and wonders.
Oh, why do you fear anymore? Why do you wonder? Rise and be healed.
Believe on the Lord. Don't be smothered down. Satan will keep blinders
before you as long as he can. Don't set asleep, friends. The greatest
thing in all the world is right here with us in this latter day. Here It
is proved by signs and wonders; here It is proved by scientific. And if
I die tonight, my testimony rings clear through the scientific world
and through this Christian world tonight that I've told the truth by
God's Word. That's right.
E-49 Thousands times thousands and tens
of thousands, and yes, millions of saints have stood. That Angel come
here on the platform last night and stood right here, and a woman in
this audience seen Him come in before I even mentioned it. And He's not
ten foot from this platform right now, the same Angel of God. That's
true.
Now, friends, look. Look where it's went to. Look where it's gone over
the world, what it is. See, get all the fear and everything out of your
mind. Just love the Lord with all your heart and serve Him and believe
Him, and God will bring it to pass. How He leads. You believe those that
are sons of God are led by Spirit of God? Do you believe that?
E-50 Just one little incident happened
right here in your neighborhood... I'm going to tell this before I
close. Look. One day I was coming from Dallas, Texas (I come pretty near
of coming through Jonesboro), and a big storm forced the plane down,
and I landed in--in over here at the Memphis, Tennessee. I was on my
road home, so they put us up down there in that big, fine hotel,
Peabody. That's right, Peabody. I... (Oh, I see who you are.) I--I
didn't know who the lady was. All right, the Peabody Hotel. Now, I
couldn't afford to stay in a hotel like that. They put me up there, the
airline.
And they told me they'd call me the next morning. And the next morning,
early, I got up, and the sun was ready to come up. And I--I had wrote
some letters, and I'd thought I'd run down at the post office real quick
or find some place to mail it. And I got out of the hotel and started
walking down the street. And I was walking down the street singing that
little Pentecostal song you all sing: There are people almost
everywhere, Whose hearts are all aflame, With the fire that fell on
Pentecost, That cleansed and made them clean; It's burning now within my
heart. Oh, glory to His Name! I'm glad that I can say I'm one of them.
E-51 You remember the little song? And
so, I was going along humming that little song. I thought, "Now, I just
about got it." I thought, "They were gathered in the upper room, All
praying in His Name, They were baptized with the Holy Ghost, And power
for service came; What He did for them that day, He will do for you the
same, I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them."
I had my letters in my hand, and I was just a stepping down the street. I
started across the street, and when I did, Something said, "Stop." I
started... "Stop." It was Him. I thought, "Well...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And I walked
and I walked. I was going to ask somebody where the post office was. And
I just kept walking, walked right on by the hotel. I just--I just kept
walking. I didn't know where I was going, just kept on walking, walking,
walking, walking.
E-52 After while, I come plumb back out
into a colored district. Why, the sun was way up. The plane was going to
leave about eight o'clock. So I knowed I was late, and I kept looking
at my watch. He just kept saying, "Walk on." I just kept walking, and I
kept on till I come way down in some little place near the river or
something another. There was a lot of colored shacks along there, where
colored people lived in shacks, rather.
And I was going along there. And there was a beautiful... It was early
in spring. The--the sun was just shining down. The sweet smell of roses
around the door, you know, was blooming up. And I was walking along
there and I was singing, and humming in my heart going, [Brother Branham hums "Only Believe"--Ed.]
"Only believe, all things are possible." I said, "Lord, my plane's
going to leave. Only believe. Only believe, only believe..." And just
walk on. And I thought, "All things are possible, only believe." I
thought, "Where does He want me to go?" [Brother Branham hums the song] I'd been walking for, oh, fifteen, twenty minutes. And I just kept on walking. "Only believe...?..."
E-53 And I looked, and a little old gate
down there, a little old place where a little old shanty like setting
there. I seen an old typical Aunt Jemima leaning over the gate with a
man's shirt tied around her head, leaning over the gate, the tears was
running down her cheeks. I was as far as the end of the building there
from her. I just quit singing, you know, till... I wasn't singing, I was
humming. [Brother Branham hums "Only Believe."--Ed.] I just started walking on.
She said, "Good morning, parson."
I said, "How do you do, auntie?" I thought, "Parson?" I turned around. I said, "How did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "I knowed who you was."
I said, "I don't understand." I said, "Do you know me?"
She said, "No, sir." She says, "But the... I was going to tell you my story."
I said, "All right." And I stopped.
And she said, "Did you ever read in the Bible about the Shunammite woman
who received a child after she was old, and Elijah, the prophet, told
her..."
I--I said, "Yes, ma'am."
She said, "I's was that kind of woman."
"Yes."
E-54 Said, "I promised the Lord if He'd
give me a baby, and I would raise him to His glory." And said, "The Lord
give me a baby." And said--said, "Parson," said, "I--I--I--I raised the
baby." Said, "I've always been a Christian, and I've served the Lord
all my..."
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "God of heaven Who would bli... ground a plane for an ignorant wash woman down there, sovereign grace." Went walking on...
I said, "What?"
She said, "Parson, would you come into my house?" And look, there was an
old piece of iron hanging on the gate that pulled it back. I walked
into that little old whitewashed fence, into a door with no rug on the
floor. A little sign upon the door said "God bless our home." I walked
in there. I've walked into king's palaces, three of them. I've been in
the richest homes there is in America, but I never was more welcome in
any place than I was in that colored hut that morning. You never felt
any more at home.
E-55 I walked in there and there was a
great, big, burly-looking colored boy laying there about eighteen years
old with the blankets in his hand going... [Brother Branham makes a moaning noise--Ed.] Said, "It's so dark. It's so dark." [Brother Branham moans again--Ed.] "So dark."
I thought, "What's the matter?"
"So dark."
She said, "He's been saying that for several days." Said, "He's in a...
unconscious." And says, "He's been talking about being out on a sea, and
it's so dark he don't know where he's going." Said, "Parson, I don't
want to see my baby dying like that." So she reached over and kissed him
on his head, patted his cheek, said, "Mammy's baby."
There you are, a mother's love. No matter what he had done, that's...
still that mother's love reaches on out for her child. And if a mother's
love would do that, what will the love of God do? See? She patted him.
E-56 And I said, "Auntie, could we have
prayer?" And that old saint of God knelt down there, who'd made her
living over a washboard. She prayed a prayer, brother, that would chill
you through and through.
She said, "Lord, don't let my baby die." She said, "I don't understand
it, nothing about Your parson here." Said, "I's prayed; You told me...
for him to come. Maybe he pray and then You'll save my baby." Said, "I
don't want him to die like this, dear Lord. I thank You. I know You's
here."
And when she got through praying, I was standing there crying, listening
at her. So I walked over and I put my hand on his feet, just as cold as
it could be. Death was on the boy, if I ever seen death. And I stood
back a little bit. I said, "Let's pray again, Auntie."
E-57 And I got down and I said, "Dear
Lord, I don't know why You sent me down here, but You Who grounded that
plane last night and sent me down... I went to the post office this
morning and You sent me back down here. I stopped here. I don't know
why. But, Lord, I ask You to be merciful now, if You sent me here to
fulfill Your mission. I lay my hands upon his legs like this and ask
You, dear God, if You'll spare his life, if You'll grant it."
And I ask that, and when I did he was going [Brother Branham moans--Ed.] Said, "Mammy, mammy? Oh, mammy!"
She said, "It's the first time he's called me." She raised up, begin to wipe her eye.
Said, "Mammy, it's getting light in the room. It's getting light in the
room." Five minutes from then the boy was setting on the side of a bed.
E-58 About two months or three months
from then, a little later, I was coming through on a train making my way
to Phoenix, Arizona. And I stopped, you know how the trains pull in.
And I went up there in the little restaurant to get something to eat. I
heard somebody hollering, "Parson Branham!" And I looked, and here he
was; he was a red cap down there. He said, "You remember me?"
I said, "No, sir."
He said, "I was the boy that was dying down there that morning when the
Lord sent you down, would answer my mammy's prayer." He said, "I... He
never only healed me, but He saved me." He said, "I's full of the Holy
Ghost now, parson." Hallelujah!
E-59 What is it? Same Holy Spirit,
brother, sister. Thousands of those things... I wish I had time to go in
and tell you what's happened around the country of the leading of the
Holy Spirit: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. That
same Angel of God's right here in this building tonight. Do you believe
it?
Let's bow our heads, talk to Him just a moment.
E-60 Father, would take hours, yes, and
weeks to tell what You've done in that manner in the last five or six
years. Time is passing on though. Soon I got to come down to the river.
Help me then, Lord. I don't want no trouble at the river. I want to be
ready that morning when all those crowds are waiting there, boat to come
across.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... "Me and My Word in you, you can ask what you will and it'll be given unto you." These are Your promises, Lord.
And just stand here tonight before this audience of people. I thank
Thee, O God I thank Thee, that Thou hast seen fit to take the low things
of this world, poor men, unworthy, guilty sinners and wash them in the
Blood of that Holy One. Set them out here as a purchase of Your Blood.
Give us the Morning Star, the Pillar of Fire to lead us, though we be
outcast, though we be called fanatics. "And all that live godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." We're happy tonight that we can
be considered that way for the Kingdom of God's sake.
E-61 God, take all fear out of these
sick people's hearts tonight. Let them know that Thou art here. You're
only doing these things to prove that You're with them. The scientific
world knows it tonight; the Church knows it tonight. Lord, it'd be a sin
for us to doubt Your Word. Help us, Lord.
Forgive our sin of unbelief, which is the original and only sin. God
help us tonight to be faithful and believe. Heal every sick person. Save
the lost tonight, Lord. Maybe there'll be some here that doesn't know
Thee, alien from God, cut off without Christ, without God. I pray that
You'll save them just now. May every backslider come back to God through
Christ.
E-62 While we have our heads bowed, if
God will hear my prayer, give visions. He stopped me then, in my prayer,
and said for me to ask something. While you're praying, all Christians,
is there a man or woman in here that doesn't know Christ yet and hasn't
been borned again, would raise your hand up and say, "Brother Branham,
pray for me. I want God to give me the experience of being borned
again"? God bless you. God bless you, you, you, you. Anywhere... over in
the wing? God bless you. God bless you. Back in the second wing, God
bless you, you, you. Back in the back of the building, God bless you,
you. I see your hands there, yes.
Someone else say, "Brother Branham, I need Christ. I--I knew it." The
Holy Spirit told me to do this. God bless you. God bless you, brother. I
see your hand. Back over to my right, this right row, any back there
say, "Brother Branham, pray for me." God bless you, lady. I see you. God
bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. God bless you. I see you. And you
back there, young lady, I see you. God bless you, sister. God bless you,
sir. You sister, God bless you. God bless you and you, you, you.
That's... The same Angel of God that I showed His picture right here,
that's the One's talking to you now. See what He does? I pray that God
will grant it to you now.
E-63 Now, heavenly Father, their hearts
are hungry. May they accept Thee just now as their personal Saviour. May
something be done just now. At the end of this service may they go into
the room here and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Grant it,
Lord. We thank Thee for their hands raised up, their sincerity, and pray
that You'll bless every one of them in Jesus Christ's Name we ask it.
Amen. How wonderful.
This is the way I like to feel the Spirit of God, when it's coming time
for the evening service, mellow. I'm just old fashioned. I like the old
weeping, down, broke down so God can mold you anew. I like that.
E-64 Poor old woman setting here crying,
wiping the tears from her eyes. God bless you, lady. A little shawl
over her shoulder, like a typical little old mother... Something about
the little thing, too. Look up this way just a minute, lady. She's
praying there. Would you mention it to her?
Oh, your trouble's that place on your nose, isn't it? The place on your
nose... I tell you what happened. You have a lot of trouble that you're
worried about. Isn't that right? You were once healed of that. Is that
right? Yes, sir. And you got amongst a bunch of unbelievers. Is that
right? Caused you to go back and that thing come again. Yes, sir. [The woman speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] You just have faith in God and it'll leave.
Look. You have something you're bothered with, too, I noticed. You lay
things down and forget what you do with it, kind of got a loss of
memory. Isn't that right? If that's right, raise up your hand so the
people... That's right. I see you lay things down and can't find them
again. Isn't that right? That's right. I'm not reading your mind, but
you couldn't hide your life now. See? Now, you just have faith in God. I
will watch while we're praying for the sick, maybe the Lord will give
me a word for you.
He's here. The Angel of the Lord is right here now.
E-65 Where's Billy. What--what prayer
cards did you give out, Billy? T-1 to 50. Let's take the first fifteen
of them, stand them up right quick if you will.
T, prayer cards-T. Is that...? Look over on... You'll see my picture and
your name on one side. On the other side it's got a number and a
letter--it's got T. 1, who's got T-1? Prayer card T-1? T-2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
on up to about first fifteen of them if you can, or get ten of them. See
what you get, first ten and see how...
[A brother gives an announcement--Ed.]
E-66 I wish this audience could see
this. The whole room's becoming milky, just like milk. Oh, friends,
I'm--I'm telling you the truth. God vindicates it with His Spirit. And
this is the same Angel of God, the same Pillar of Fire Who stood upon
the Lord Jesus Christ in His Person and knew the thoughts of the people
and done the things. Here it is, the same Jesus Christ. Have faith
tonight.
Wonder if we could just stand a minute, slowly with your heads bowed,
and sing "Only Believe" just for a change of posture, if you will.
Only believe, only believe, (Everybody reverent)
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.
E-67 Now, let's bow our heads just a moment. Now, hum it with me while the boys are lining up the prayer line. [Brother Branham begins humming the song--Ed.]
I want you to look this way. Raise up your hand. Now, sing it like this
with me. "Now, I'm not going to pray any more, Lord, but now I
believe."
Now, I believe (not I won't after while, I do now.)
Now, I believe,
All things are possible, now I believe;
Now, I believe, now, I believe,
All things are possible, now, I believe.
Shall we be seated now just a moment. Something just happened in the
church just then; I told Brother Reed. Now, be... Have faith now.
Believe with all your heart now while I'm praying for the sick. I be
God's servant, God will speak now that I've told the truth. If I tell
the truth, God will speak it's the truth. If I don't tell the truth
about Him, God will not speak for it; for God will only speak for truth.
Have faith in God.
E-68 This here...? Just want to talk to
you a minute, sir. I perceive that you are a Christian man, and, but
yet, we're strangers to one another. I don't know you, as I know of. I
never seen you, I don't know you. No, we're strangers. The... I want
you... Your conscious that something's going on. See? You're aware that
Something is near. Well, I... Here's what it is, sir.
I want you to believe with all your heart. Now, see, that just--just
happened to be that I was telling the truth. That's why He was there.
He's with the Church everywhere, everywhere. But... Do you believe me to
be His servant? I believe that's the truth. If I be His servant, if
there's anything I could do to help you, brother, I--I'd do it. I'd just
go right quick and do it, but I can't. You see, I'm just a man.
But being His servant is just like that light. Now, if the lights would
go off here, or you would come over tomorrow night and snap the lights
on and they wouldn't come on, you wouldn't say there was no such a thing
as electricity. You'd say the wires was crossed up somewhere, the
reason you couldn't get light. Well now, maybe the same thing here. See?
It may be that something's wrong that I can't get in contact with God
for you. But if the light shines, God has to turn it on. See? I can't do
it. I can't do it. But He has never failed me, and I don't believe He
will fail me now.
E-69 Now, if--if God would reveal to me
something about your life, before I pray for you, to let you know that
He's standing here present... Here's His picture. In His Presence and
you're conscious that Something's near you, a feeling of, like all
reverence. Isn't that right? Now, if that's right, hold up your hands so
the people can know that's the truth. Now--now, that is the only thing
that can help you. See?
If you're... You're suffering with something in a kidney trouble, isn't
it? Kidney trouble? And you've been to a doctor. And oh, it's a bladder,
too. And he told you that something another and he kind of shook his
head. He's in doubt about something. Isn't that right? And it might be
cancer, I believe. Isn't that right? You also have heart trouble. Is
that right?
This... It went from before me then. Was that the truth? If it was the
truth what I said, raise up your hand. And do you believe He's standing
here? He knows everything about you? Your sins are under the Blood so
there's nothing against you? Do you have faith to believe now? Come
here.
Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life, on
this dying child of Yours, Lord, I lay my hands and ask a rebuke that
this devil that's trying to take his life and send him to a premature
grave will leave him. And may he get well, Lord. I bless him for his
healing. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ may it be so. Amen. God
bless you, sir. Now, go rejoicing. Let us hear how you're getting along.
E-70 Now, just--just be reverent. Don't doubt. Have faith. All right. Now, do not think that I--I'm not aware of where I am, but it's just moving all through the building tonight. See? Oh, what a night. How people could be blessed right, if they would.
E-71 Come here just a minute. Do you
believe? With all your heart? I don't know you...?... here. What's your
name? Young. I'm glad to meet you, sister. But do you believe that
you're standing in the Presence of His Being? Is that what you feel is
not because your brother's standing here, is because He's standing here.
Do you believe that?
Now, I'm a stranger to you. I never saw you in my life. But if there's
anything in your life, it'll have to come from God. Is that right? And
if He reveals it to me, then if I be His prophet, He can tell me
anything He desires to tell me. Is that right?
You--you're really sicker than what you think you are. You have tumors
that's in the female ovaries. You was examined for that and that's what
he said. That true? It left me just then. I want... Something was taking
place and I couldn't catch it just right. Somebody right there with a
tumor too, you see. I mentioned that, it moved from one to the other
one.
E-72 I want to talk to you again just a
moment. You--you have a nervous condition also. That right?
Stomach--stomach trouble, and your nervousness is causing your stomach.
And you're a person that does a lot of worrying. Well, look. You get
really nervous sometimes, don't you? Here sometime ago you were washing
the dishes and almost dropped a dish. Remember that? And then you were
praying by the side... When you heard that I was being here. You'd asked
God if you could get in the line, you believed He'd get you healed. Is
that right? You said that to Him by the side of the... Is that right?
Now, do you believe that? No one in the world could hear that prayer but
God alone. Is that true? Now, do you believe? My sister, I bless thee
for thy healing. Believer in Christ, receive your healing. In the Name
of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, may you go from here and get well.
Amen.
Now, if you believe ... Now, your whole trouble has been, come on you
recently, because it's getting the time of life that's causing you to be
nervous and upset. Now, you leave from here. If God could reveal to me
what your past life has been... I don't remember just now what it was.
It's a vision. You see? And if He could tell you what you've been in
your past life, won't He know what will be in your future life? If He
could let me know that, won't He let me know what will be? If you can go
from here tonight in a happy rejoicing spirit and thank God and just be
happy and throw the thing away, you're going to get all right. God
bless you. Go in the Name of Jesus...?...
E-73 How do you do? Are we strangers? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.]
Yes. Well, you've seen me since I've been here this time. You're the
piano player, you say? The piano player. I see. And you... But I mean to
be... I'm not a personal acquaintance of yours, know nothing about you.
Do you believe me to be God's servant? The reason I asked that, He
asked... told me to do it, to ask the people. Well now, to heal you,
sister, I--I couldn't do it, for I'm just a man. But for your life, God
knows that. 'Course, I see you're wearing glasses. Anyone would know
that, just like if I'd say that man setting there is crippled, anybody
would know that by looking at him. But a person that looks as healthy as
you do and then something wrong with them, then that's the different.
That's the unseen part.
But you have astigmatism in your eye and your... cause you to have
headaches and things all the time. Isn't that right? You have severe
headaches all the time. And you're worried about this child, too. You
come very near losing that child, didn't you? And the baby... The
trouble of it is, it's what's... I'm not reading your mind, but that
baby can't walk and it's getting past the age and it can't walk. Is that
right? You believe me to be God's prophet? You believe if I'd ask God
then to bless you, the curse will go away and blessings will come? Come
forward.
Almighty God, I lay hands upon the woman, upon the baby. Bless her and
give her healing, Lord. May the baby and she be blessed...?... God bless
them in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen...?...
E-74 Is this the patient? Is this the patient? How do you do, sister? [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.]
Excuse me. I--I just want to talk to you. Do you--do you believe these
things that you see done comes from God? You do. They can't come from
man. Nowhere else but God. The Lord bless thee and reward you for your
faith.
Now, if I be God's prophet and Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today,
and forever, that same Pillar of Fire that led the children through the
wilderness came upon the Son of God and led Him and He claimed He could
do nothing but what the Father showed Him, then He's the same One today.
Is that right? If I know you not, and He be here and you and I talking,
it'll be just like the woman at the well and the Master talking to her.
He couldn't heal her, but He found how... where her trouble was. Is
that right?
Well, I claim that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that He
brought me into this world for a purpose, raised up to bless the people
in a manner of the Divine gift which was ministered to me by an Angel.
You believe that true? You believe that to be true.
E-75 There's something peculiar about
your life. I--I can't strike it yet. It keeps moving; then gets dark and
moves away from me. I just want to talk to... Yes, I see. Yes, ma'am.
You have rectal trouble for one thing. Isn't that right? 'Cause it's
very much so. Some sort of a kidney dis... ailment, something in the
glands there. And then another thing, here's something that... I might
as well say it. You have a habit that you're trying to lay down. Isn't
that right? Smoking cigarettes. Is that right? That's right. God be
merciful to you. Come here.
Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, Author of Everlasting Life,
seeing that poor woman there, that vision, laying them things down and
try to walk away from them, cry and go back and get them, I pray for
mercy for this poor soul. Oh, thou unclean spirit that would bind this
woman in the form of a tobacco habit, come out of her in the Name of
Jesus Christ. Leave the woman. Now, my sister, you're free from it now.
Don't smoke no more. Those other things will clear up. You're all right
now. Go and the Lord bless you.
E-76 Praise the Lord from Whom all
blessings come. How do you do, sir? I believe we are strangers, sir.
We're strangers, yes, sir. Do you believe me to be God's prophet? I
don't say that for... I--I'm only trying to--to help you, you see,
brother. You understand? Have you read that little book you got in your
pocket? Then you understand what's going on now, don't you? Wouldn't you
like to eat again and have a good stomach and eat like you used to? Do
you believe me to be God's prophet? Then go do what I tell you to do,
eat anything you want to, you're...?...
Come here. When I said that to that man, you quivered all over, didn't
you? because you had the same thing. Just go on, eat your supper.
Just...?... Have faith in God.
E-77 All right, come, lady. Have faith.
The very God of heaven's in your presence. You're in His Presence, the
very One that said to the woman, "Thy sins be forgiven thee."
How do you do, lady? Are we strangers? When you was... five years ago
when we was here, I--I saw you, went through a line or something. You
was healed then. Between you and I comes a dark shadow. It shaking and
jumping. There's only one thing that can mean that. That's a demon, and
that's a demon of nervousness. Is that right? You think sometimes that
you've lost your mind. Isn't that right? But he's a liar. You're not.
You're just as sane as anybody else. But he's trying to get you down,
lady. Don't you pay no attention to that.
Do you believe me to be his servant? Looky. Let me tell you something.
You've tried so long to even get one place, you thought if you... just
like you put your foot you could start from there. Isn't that right? I'm
not reading your mind, but you was praying about that. That's right.
You said a many times in your thoughts in there, "If I could just get
one place to start from." Is that... This is your starting place, right
here...?... God's servant. Thou devil, in the Name of Jesus Christ,
you're exposed. Come out of the woman. Leave her. Go rejoicing, sister.
You're free now...?... May the Lord bless thee...?... that thing.
E-78 Come, lady. How do you do, lady?
You were healed the same time she was. You had the same thing,
nervousness. Isn't that right? You're healed. You can go on and God
bless you. Have faith in God. Believe with all your heart.
That Light keeps hanging in that corner there for some cause. Every time
It leaves a patient, It goes to that corner. Just awhile ago It went
over the audience, come back and stopped right there in that corner. And
every time It leaves a patient here, seems to go right to that corner,
but I can't see what it is. So be praying. I don't know. Now, be
reverent. You have no right to disbelieve God anymore. You have no
right.
That woman setting in sorrow, isn't she? There's been something happen
where that... You know her? Has there been something happen that's in
the home or something, a death or something? Cheer up, lady. Be of a
good courage. Jesus lives and reigns.
E-79 Have faith in God. Bring this
baby...?... Who dares to say... All devils in hell is defeated. All
spirits is subject now to me through Jesus Christ. The thing is under
control now. What could happen?
My little sister, do you love the Lord Jesus? Come here, honey. If Jesus
of Nazareth was here, He'd put--put His hands upon you and bless you,
and He'd know what was wrong with you, and you'd get well. Is that
right? You believe Jesus will reveal to Brother Branham what's wrong
with you? You look like a fine, sweet, healthy little girl, but you're
not. You have asthma, don't you, honey? You have an awful time with it.
You just cough and cough, and at nighttime mother has to get you up,
sometime, to set up and cough. Isn't that right? I see mother working.
But you're going to get well, aren't you?
Come here. My hands are a poor substitute for His, honey, but this great
Angel of God, Who's standing near now, will honor my prayer, do you
believe that? 'Cause I ask for you as my own little girl. See? Now, you
come here to Brother Branham. Dear heavenly Father, poor little thing. I
pray that You'll take this curse away from her and may the little thing
get well. I bless her in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless
you...?...
E-80 Who has rights to doubt God? No one
what... Come here again, honey, sweetheart. Come here just a minute.
Looky, just here, right here. No, go ahead. That's all right.
There he is. She suffers the same thing. That right, sir? Lady, I never
seen you in my life. Do you have a prayer card? You don't have a prayer
card. [The woman speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Healed with a goiter here seven years ago.
God be merciful. When I felt that little girl go by, I felt that asthma
jerk again. I thought, "Where's that coming from? That's on that child.
It jumped back on her again." It come back through there and I
thought... I brought the child back, but the child's free. I come back
and felt it, and there he was. He might hide from a doctor, but he can't
hide from God. He's exposed. It's a horrible demon, especially he's
hibernate in countries like this, that's low and swampy. Have faith in
God. I was just watching to see what would take place.
E-81 You want to get over them
hemorrhoids, setting there praying? You do? Well, stand up and accept
your healing now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. That's what you had.
All right. God bless you. You can be seated now.
Something wrong with your eyes, isn't there, sir? Your wife setting
there has got varicose veins, too, hasn't she? Is that right? I thought
He was hanging in that corner for something. Now, that's what you feel
now, this feeling's from the Lord. Put your hand over on one another.
May God bless you both.
E-82 Satan's exposed. All right. Come,
lady. You want to get over her heart trouble? If you just walk on off
and accept your healing, say, "Lord Jesus, I thank You." God bless her
in Jesus Christ's Name.
You want to get over yours, lady? Just walk off and accept it. Say, "God
thank You for my healing and follow Him again. God bless you, sister.
That's...?... nervous condition than anything else. You get upset...?...
You think sometimes...?... just because you're all... When you lay down
it's worse than ever. It's not reading your mind, but I just thought
when you went by there to tell you. See? So you go on now; you're going
to get all right. Just go on thanking God for...?...
E-83 Let's say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.]
Come...?... You might think that I was reading the person's mind. I
never looked at this woman in the face. Lay your hand over on my
shoulder, lady, the patient here. Do you believe me to be God's prophet?
Do you believe God can show me out here over this audience what's wrong
with you? If I will tell you in the Name of the Lord what's wrong with
you, you'll believe it of course, won't you? It's just diabetes. Is that
right? If it is raise up your hand. Now, go off and be made well in the
Name of the Lord Jesus. Have faith. Believe Him with all your heart.
Have faith in God.
Do you believe, lady, setting there? Come here. Mother, strain, heart
trouble... Is that right? Went through an awful life, had a lot of
sorrows. Now go, believe the Lord now and be well in Jesus Christ's
Name.
Have faith in God. Do you believe with all your heart?
E-84 Would you like to get that goiter
healed, lady? You believe that it can be made well? 'Course I can see
that on your throat from here. That's right. Look to me and believe me
as God's prophet. You was setting there praying that I call you. That
right? Then if you might now know... Is that your husband setting next
to you there? You look at me then, sir. What do you think about it? Do
you believe I be God's prophet? You suffer with piles, don't you? Is
that true? Then lay your hands on one another and accept Jesus Christ as
your Healer.
Have faith in God. Don't doubt. Believe.
You keep looking at me, mister. You keep looking at me. You have stomach
trouble, don't you? Yes. You have stomach trouble. Something wrong in
your head, isn't it? Yes, sir. But the only thing it is, you just
haven't been able to appr... You've been prayed for many times. Is that
right? You've tried radio, laying your hands on radio. You've tried
everything in the world, laid out fleeces. Is that right? Well then, why
don't you stand up and accept your healing in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Amen.
Why don't you do the same, lady? Why don't you rise up from there and
say, "Lord, I get well. If I lay here, I will die." Why don't you rise,
believe now, and accept your healing, and be made well.
E-85 Anybody in here believe that you
can be healed right now? Lay your hands over on one another and let me
pray. Put your hand on her. Lady, that asthmatic can go to...?... in the
throat. You're receiving your call. Be reverent.
Now, if God will make demons hear, God can stand here and with one
prayer make every devil in this building leave. Do you believe it?
If--if Peter the apostle, approved of God, and his shadow passed over
the people because they knowed that God was with him, who stood on a
housetop and saw the visions, and so forth, and the people believed it,
don't you believe that the same God is here with us tonight? Every
scientific proof...
E-86 I can feel my strength withering
away. Somebody's got their hand on my back. It's somebody, and I know
that's just about the sign that I should be going. But if you'll believe
with all your heart, the devil is exposed. There isn't a person in here
now, not a spirit but what would be subject to this prayer. If I can
only get you to believe it, and whatmore. We might bring you one by one,
one by one, to this platform, one by one, one by one, and it'd be the
same thing. You couldn't hide your life if you had to.
But look, brother, it'll take your faith to heal you. Look up yonder to
Calvary now and say, "Lord God, Creator of heavens and earth, I believe
You right now." Have faith now while I pray for you.
E-87 Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon Thy people. Thou demon, Satan, come out of the people. I adjure thee to leave this people in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Come out of the people.