Fallible Men With the Infallible Word

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to take the humble man. You don't find men over here in America that have ministries like he has and then play what's called second fiddle. One man today who is off the field, I believe very ingloriously. When he was asked to go to Europe instead of Brother Branham back in about 55 or somewhere in there. I forget which. I don't much pay attention to dates. And he said, Brother Branham or no Brother Branham. I don't place second fiddle to anybody. He's a big shot. Not any longer. Last I heard, they picked him up drunk. And I'm not talking about Paul Kane either. He

preaches to hundreds of thousands. That guy, 1 ,301 days. Yet he has no problem of bringing his thoughts into captivity to what the prophet said. There's a difference. There's a difference, Brother Sister. I don't care what a man produces or thinks he's producing. You know the best that Jesus said about a man that produces a miracle? He said, he'll not lightly speak evil of me. That's all he said. They don't run Jesus down. They don't talk about the Virgin Mary and the Pope. They talk about Jesus, but I believe in that old colored song that said everybody talk about heaven ain't going, everybody talk about Jesus ain't got him.

So, I'm very glad that the Lord's using our brother and that he is doing his level best to understand all that he can to bring to a people the word of the Lord. That makes me very, very happy. I'm happy to be with you this morning and trust that before

we get into the subject, let's bow our heads in prayer.

Eternal Father, we thank you that you've allowed us to come together, Lord. You've given us health and strength. You've provided for us richly and liberally in all things. So much of this material, good Lord, we become fearful, lest we also should be categorized with those of this world that have so little anointing. Holy Ghost, God -manifested Word.

In the horror of those things which would spot the garment, we would be contaminated in any way. Be in that bride, Lord, who has... and made herself ready that the Lord has given her.

Now, stabilize our hearts and our minds this morning, Lord, to just see your word and to humbly take it. And then, Lord, believe it. And where we need to act upon it, to act upon it. For, Lord, we know that much is given to us that acts within us and upon us. And yet much is given us that we must act with it and upon it. So, Lord, help us to be in a real balance this morning of the grace and glory of God. And we give thee this praise in Jesus' name. I bring a message this morning, the

infallible word. New scriptures beginning at, if

you care to turn to them, chapter

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the grace that

I'm not going to delineate upon each verse that I read, but isn't it not worthy of note that Peter speaking that these men who prophesied searched what or what manner of time where the God which was in them did signify things which were their own understanding. And many said things which were beyond their own understanding, which they themselves never did understand, but which came to place in its proper and due order. Now, you may not gather this from Scripture, but it is here that, again, if I read a little further, unto whom it was written that not unto themselves they did minister the things which are now reported

in the gospel, later

come to be revealed. And you remember the last message I brought here, if you were here. that the word of God for the day must be revealed in human flesh, that the people themselves became the living epistles, became the literal, revealed, ministered words in their day, because God's word must come to pass. And it's not coming to pass in just bodily miracles because they'll go. It doesn't come to pass in simple nature, but it is a people in whom the word is fulfilled. Because the purpose of God stands in election. Election is not to a simple creation. It is to one creation, which is man.

preach the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost and doubt in heaven, which angels desire to look into, and they cannot. Now, in 2 Peter, continuously speaking of the prophets and their messages, in the first chapter, verses 15 to 21, Peter speaking again, Moreover, I would endeavor that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remember. For we have not followed a cunningly devised fable. when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty, for he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son, whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mount, the mount of transfiguration. We have also more sure word of prophecy, whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. until the day dawn and the day arise in your hearts, knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation, but for prophecy came not in old time by the will of man. You just can't will to bring it by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke. They were moved by the Holy Ghost. It was the Holy Ghost speaking in them. Turning back to the book of Hebrews, the first chapter, verses 1 to 2. God, who at sundry times in his driver's manner spake in the time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, by whom he hath appointed here of all things, by whom he also made the world. Now, you have noticed here that there should be a correction in verses 1 and 2. It does not say that God in time past spake unto the fathers by the prophets, though that is true. The literal rendition is what Peter gives, that God spoke in... a path unto the Father in the prophets. God the Holy Ghost was in the prophets, and they were speaking, not that they were saying it, an instrumentality was there, but that was God in them, of

the prophets bringing God the Word to the people. And to do so, we'll turn to Exodus, the fourth day of history, leading

up to why God deals with the people by prophets. Now, God says to Moses and

unto the people, He shall be even. He shall be to thee instead of a mouse. Thou shalt be instead of God. In

the mouth of another man. 20.

This is now God speaking.

The sound of long. And waxed louder and louder. Moses' faith. And God answered Moses by a voice. Top

of the mount. Moses up to the top of the mount. 20

verse 9. Now

with us. Hear

God for ourselves. You

are going to hear for us. Because

I will not be a voice

of my prophet. This is something of course. Also taught on, you've heard me speak on, I believe, the spirit that rises up, the spirit

there is today,

they profit. They don't walk

to God's place. Because

if you are not able to consider these holy men of God sinners, you do them an injustice. Dangerous ground, because God came not to call the righteous to repentance, from

God outside of this particular way that you must come. So when I use the word sinner, I am not being light. I am being scriptural and exceedingly serious. In the book of Exodus, beginning therefore, you may turn to Exodus 2, I want you to see here a bewildered servant of God trying to fulfill his destiny in a human manner. Man

is aware of a destiny. I want you to know that there isn't a great man in the ministry of God, particularly a prophet who is not aware of a destiny. And he stands out within that destiny. There is a sense of the predestinated and the compulsive about him. His

anointing from God. He is bewildered.

The

ministry that God placed upon him. The

day of the prophets. And

was bewildered at times.

Couldn't be what he was. Well, thanks for one, amen.

Moses was

groaning in

their burdens. And he spat and smiting in Hebrew one of his brethren. He looked this way and that way. And when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And he went out the second day. Behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together. And he said to him that did the wrong, wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And this other man replied, Who may be a prince and a judge over us and tendest thou to kill me as thou killst the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said, Surely this thing is known. And when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. And Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and from the land of Midian, sat down by the well. Here was a man who was ordained a prophet, a leader of Israel, the great deliverer before the foundation of the world who knew that he was called and he tried to go about that which was burning in his heart that he was predestinated to. as a prophet in the room, prophet even before he was born, and yet in here he was reaching out, striving, and in bewilderment he did the wrong thing. The

calling of God upon him didn't try to do something religious in a wrong way. Saul, the apostle, has

a stirring that they're crying for the water of the word. He's always wrong direction. If Jesus turned in a wrong way,

he was so wrong. If the poor chap, 24, sought

to kill him, then he took a sharp stone and cut off the poor skin of her son and cast it at his feet and said, surely a bloody husband thou art to me. So let him go. Then she said, a bloody husband because of the circumcision. God warned him concerning the covenant of circumcision and going down to deliver Egypt in his own strength, not obeying God's word. In

Exodus 4 again, 21 to 23. And unto Moses, when thou goest to return to Egypt, see thou doest all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I shall

not let that even

my firstborn. And I shall not let my son go that he may serve me. And if thou wilt refuse to let him go, thy firstborn. Now

in work, when there'll be no straw given you, yet you'll deliver the same number of bricks. And the officers, the children of Israel, did see that they were in an evil case after it said, you shall not diminish from the bricks of your daily task. And they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh. And they said unto them, the Lord look upon you and judge because you have made our favor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and the eyes of his servants to put a sword in their hand of Leah. And Moses returned unto the Lord and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou done? Hast thou so evil and treated this people? Why is it that you sent me? For since I came to fare to speak in thine name, he hath not yet done evil to this people, and neither hast thou delivered the people at all. God said to Moses, I'm sending you down. You'll do signs and wonders. It's hard to be hardened. I won't let him go. And yet Moses goes back weeping and screaming. God, oh God, why didn't you let him go like you said? I

have eight

hands up and said, God, you haven't drawn one sign.

Before their

eyes, out

of the rock, so shalt thou get.

presence of God. That Moses actually glorified himself. He was the true prophet of God. Today you've got enough golden cappers who have taken the gifts of Almighty God and glorified the presence of the people in their sin. It's

terrible. The

eyes of the people are flowing from God. Out

of the rock regardless. Obedience to the word of God. Now, in spite of these things, and there are many more I suppose that we could look up in numbers concerning Moses' life. No

prophet. Because we're not going to, since I say compare men. But in the recorded word, there is no prophet with a greater ministry. In spite of Moses' problems, trying to serve God and the people as God's infallible prophet, he had many mistakes in his life and

took glory from God. A

prophet, you

know, a lot of people, I never saw the pillar of fine brother Brandon's ministry answer right there. From

among their brethren, unto thee, Moses, and his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall not

hearken unto my words, which he shall speak,

and he, was typed over

here in the book of Acts, the third chapter.

Third chapter.

Unto the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of your brethren, write unto me. Him shall you hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it comes to pass, the

word of God is revealing the word of God. It

was the application

of those in the Lord Jesus Christ. To help us understand the prophets today. The

prophets from Samuel

saw God. We turn to Exodus, the 33rd chapter. They

said, Moses showed... thy glory, O God. And God said, I will make all my goodness pass in the

name of the Lord before thee. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. I will show mercy on whom I show mercy. See, there's your election. He said, Thou canst not see my face, for no man shall no man see me and live. And thou shalt stand upon a rock, and it shall come to pass while my glory passes by, that I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. You hear that when Moses was actually in that cave, he had

gone through the rock. As

I go by, I'll be a drawing so that you can see me like a shadow. You can't get too close. And I'll take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back part. Thy face shall not be seen. Moses allowed this in

contrast to

see God.

...with God by the pillar of... In the third chapter of Exodus, verses 1 to 12, and we don't need to read them all, you will notice here how that God showed Moses the burning bread. Moses turned aside, and God began to converse with him. And from that time on, Moses, while concerning

him, was in constant... from God. Once

God had called him, God didn't understand.

Because in Exodus 32, the people had gone to such a terrible length and done so many things that what happened?

Verses 31 to 35, and Moses returned unto the Lord and said, O this people have sinned a great sin. Make them gods of gold. Now if thou wilt forgive this, they legalize it at

forgiving. I

also commit on your word, Jesus

Christ. Let

not block me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And Moses, whosoever hath sinned, Against me, him will I blot out of my throat. I'm too far. For thou go now, lead the people to the place which I have spoken of thee. Behold, mine angel shall go before thee, never rest. In the day when I visit, I'll visit their sins upon him. And the Lord prayed to the people and so on. You will notice how it is that Moses literally stood in the gap for the people. Himself was a fallible man. His great nature understood because of that, the fallibility of his own human relationships he had in this world. And it was because of that he could plead all the more earnestly to God.

He was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things that he suffered. and was made perfect thereby. This Moses is the only man in all history upon whom the Spirit of God was so great that God could take a spirit off of Moses and put it

in his heart. I heard Brother Branham speaking. It thrilled my heart because I knew I was on the right track. You know, it's kind of handy to know that the one that God speaks a lot. You could speak once in a while to some of us, fellas, that just aren't in that class. It says over here in the book of Moses in Hebrews 7, beginning at verse 23, I saved Moses when he was born. Now it sounds like Moses had something to do with his birth. God gives this man so much credit, you'd almost think he caused his own conception to walk out in power. By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hit three months with his parents because they thought he was a proper child and were not afraid of the king's commandments. By faith, Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. I can't even sign that. That's what God said. Rather to self -reflect from the people of God. Now, he did choose that, but he got scared and ran off. Then to enjoy the precious of sin for a season, esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater than the Christ of Egypt, for he had respect under the recompense reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing to wrath the king. The last I heard he got scared and beat him. Called

the prophet that we look on faith. Well, that's Elisha. He's

got something like these guys.

He's like God. It

says concerning this man, Moses, in the 10th chapter of the book of Hebrews, and I don't need to read the rest of the 11th chapter. You've got the idea now. But in verse 28, he that disposes law, not

God's law, but Moses' law. And

this is your one thought

of Moses. So

to the Psalms, because in them I see a man, a

certain great man with any great certain ministry, but I see in there a man who loves God. A man who had trials in this life. A man who had trouble. A man who had trouble with people and trouble with himself. And I love the Psalms. I see in the Psalms here that David, after serving God, and he was so careful to serve God, he wouldn't fight Saul. He wouldn't fuck with Saul. When he had a chance to kill the man, he let him ride there. In fact, he got after those who never protected the king when he could have been protected. He was a tremendous, astute Christian. Yet according to 1 Samuel 27, 1 to 7, David has a fainting spell.

This because I think a lot of us have fainting spells. 1 to 7, I shall perish now one day by the hand of God. I've

been serving God, I've lived this life, I've been trying to believe that I am the king, wait for that day of my coronation, I've been trying to wait for the time when God's word gets fulfilled, but he said it looks like it's never going to come to pass and I'm getting pretty tired. Now I think there's only one thing to do is just quit the whole game and go on off and join the blitz and bless God. Your back's right in your hell. I'm going to tell you, it'll relax you for a while, then it'll sure get mixed in a room. Relax

for a while. More

on the coast of Israel, and I'll escape out of his hands.

Of God's people, build

and fight again. Down there to get away from that bunch of Christians. That's

one fellow said, if you want, he

went down there to get away from it all. That's not only his soul, but you will notice in 2 Samuel, when David was given the whole word of God, the word of God became revealed in him. He became the king over Israel. There he was at the time the kings go to battle. David

was home. out some powder and sit in there. He went up on the balcony one night. They said that's the time of prayer. He got to looking around, you know, through his fingers. And he saw a woman. I don't know if she was trying to attract him by being naked or whether she made a mistake. I'm not going to say. But I know she was naked and he wanted her, so he took her. He fell into sin, committing adultery, taking another man's wife. And I want you to know this, brother, sister, what's wrong about organization. And don't let that spirit get in your shirt.

...authority but God. Because when David became king, he took anybody's wife and do what he wanted and he did it. And then if you look to any... of God because of the spirit leading us. Now, I'm not a man, and

I'm not going to say something I've got in my heart. You

say something,

Jeffersonville, Beaumont, or Sayre, or Lima, or God knows where I'll go, and I'll name any place in the country because I call the country. You

can see right here by David, the minute he's ducking, he had people cowed down. The spirit of Oregon is a secret

conclave to attempt to test the depth of people.

The spirit of Christ. If

he had no bearish marrying, he'd have

people he could condemn because he killed a man.

He goes, all men are holy. Down

the bars, the lemon

adultery meant you'd be burned. It's

a case of rape.

He was

the anointed king of Israel. He typed Jesus Christ because the Bible said he'd come out of the root of David. That he would sit upon the throne of David. That he was the son of David. And yet sit upon the throne. All these verses are found in Isaiah 9, 7. John 7, 42. Luke 20, 41 to 44. I don't need to read them because you're well aware of them. This man was the prophet of God. This man was such a prophet. Prophets died above all of their prophets in the first person. They wounded my hands and my feet and so on. All my bones are numbered. Vinegar and gall.

Anointed one. As

concerning him in the book of Romans. It's

on him that justice. He was

an ungodly man in many ways. Not all the ways.

Before that, certain people came from James. He went into the Gentiles, which is what he should have done. But when those from Jerusalem came down, he withdrew himself and separated himself, walking in unbelief.

Because fear is

also carried away with their dissimulation. When I saw they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to pour them all after the man of the Gentiles and not as do the Jews. Why do you compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? You're wrong.

Now, there's a fellow you're going to have an awful job putting a few holes in him. No, sir. I don't have one bit of trouble doing that. I'm here to punch anybody for a hole. I'm so something to him. Get this so deep in our minds and our hearts, it'll take away doubts and barriers and put us all in the realm of blind faith. Because faith is blind.

We're just to live by faith, and we walk not by sight, but by faith. In 2 Corinthians, the 12th chapter,

Fear you to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome till you forgave me this wrong. Apologize because the word of God in his own mouth was, you are to live for us.

Well, if you can do what you want, you're like Paul, you would be God, you had done right. Because

the day came,

has Peter only got power to exercise his authority? Have not all we apostles got the same authority? Tell me this wrong, I made you an inferior church. But you did not take care of the anointed to God. He apologized. Let's turn to the book of Acts, the 15th chapter and see something else here. Was Paul the sweet, mild -mannered man that we think he was? Yes, he was generally sweet. But there was a time when he got a little out of control

Paul got in the hand. Chapter

21. The

disciples we carried there seven days who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem. Now God knew he was going to do

something. He don't fool God. God let Paul trick himself. He appealed to him and he got shipped out of Jerusalem quicker than somebody can make him a new coat.

Verse 36 to 38. The word of God out from me or came it on the only. And

take himself to be a prophet or spiritual. That he acknowledge that the things that I write are the command of the Lord. Any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. In other words, if they don't understand how the word of God comes to the people by the prophet,

they don't know how the word of God comes by a prophet. Everybody

will admit that he had something great and wonderful. Even his worst critics in an interview with him would say, you really have the spirit of God. But they never believe the word. Why? Because they don't understand how the word comes to a prophet. They

change it only, and you know that you're not a prophet. And shut up.

I've got to work on these guys.

Don't give me your theory, brother, sister, or personal work you learned in some goofball college. Because I've got my Bible.

that a guy from New York, Chicago, why did you even order to call him here? Why should I? So

many verses to make a man see you this day. So many verses to open the door to salvation. So many verses to get him on his feet. I

might work once in a while, but neither

did a man, neither was I taught of it by the revelation of Jesus Christ. This

is the great verse of them all. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. Well,

God's God, and you can't ask, well, you know how it is. I'm not smart enough. You know, God's God. Yeah, God's true. Amen. Just believe God's God. Because

neither, and the word that the

Son of God, Jesus Christ, was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, I notice, He brings in the men who learn from him.

He's got

nausea in the last days too. A

century rendition concerning the last day prophet. But if God is true, they're preaching to William Branham as day and amen, but nobody else is forgetting. I

thought the prophet said he was taking his fast upon.

I thought he told the ministers they were to take this word and teach it. This

message was going to go out. Somebody

want to run that out the door like a bunch of you in New England. That

for the son of God, Jesus Christ was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus. was not yea and nay, but in him was yea for all the promises God will be yea and nay. Paul said, I don't care what my past life was. I know you point your finger at me. I'm telling you, the word that I speak is God's own word and is no less or no more effective than God himself. Get here in a pillar of fire and hold it right to you because it is God's word. And I've told my servants to preach it. And in God's word, it's God's word. And don't you try to change it.

Gentiles, not alike to the Jews,

because the one who turns the hearts of the fathers to the children, and we're the children, we get turned back by the same spirit. to the one that's done.

There's got to be a last day prophet. This prophet will be a man just like all the rest. You want me to tell you something about Abraham? Did you know that after Abraham got renewed in his body and his wife got all young and pretty again that he sinned, he went down to Egypt and Abimelech said, I want that young woman for my wife. And Abraham said, tell him a lie in order to save my neck. After all that God did for him, he

didn't bring out this point, but he brought out the fact that the king, Looked at this young woman, changed back from 90. No, 7, what? He was 100. She was about 20 years younger. She was about 80 then. This young woman changed, looking like a pretty sister. Was old enough.

Can you imagine a little old bitty grandma taking off her cape? Tell

him you're Master Richard's pastor.

You put a finger on him, I'll break every bone in your body. But

you're dead, brother. You're dead. And I'm going to tell you what you did. In fact, even in ignorance, you pointed your hand at him. You're a whole bunch of wives and all of your barren, unless you get him, the fellow you call a liar and a rascal. to pray for it, to heed my prophecy. I

don't serve that kind of a God. That's right, most people don't. They've got a God of their imagination, not the God of the Bible. I didn't write the book, but I can preach it.

The word of the prophet, 17,

which says, As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. Noah's days came back, but not Noah. Jesus Christ's days came back, but not Jesus Christ. But the prophet took the mystery, which was a cheap mystery, of God, which was Christ revealed, and brought him before us all, revealed him, and the... He'll

say, well, look at William Branham. Oh, I knew William Branham. He even says himself how he tried to kill five boys. Or four, I forget which. He got so mad he's going to take a gun and kill the sheriff and kill these dogs. But, you know, I don't mind that for one reason. I like a man with guts. He

never lifted one finger against anybody until pervoked and pervoked and pervoked until he finally stood up when he was going to make an end of the whole thing. That's a man regarded as a sinner or not.

Sure, he needed a savior. He

didn't understand his peculiar call. Certainly a box drove him mad at times. Certainly he had to come to a place of issue where he'd seek God and make an issue. But that man speaking was just this caliber as Paul, and man

of God, John the Baptist, and a one -day famine as is the Jesus Christ, as the justified prophet of God on this day. Look at his income tax. I don't care about his income tax here. Look at the time he had his wife's life. I don't care about the time he had his wife's life. I want to be in God's Word and see what God's Word says, not what the human eye says. The human eye says that all these men are ordinary men. but they're not speaking to the people by the power and presence of God in the hand of God. The lips will be cut off in that without mercy. I want to show you something perhaps we missed by understanding the stars wrong. The scripture says that Jesus Christ held seven stars in his right hand. That is not seven objects which bring light to the earth, although that's true. The actual word in the Greek for star, the one that we ought to use, is that which defines the movie star. It is that which defines the dust. The preeminent one amongst many likeness. If you saw John Wesley riding a horse down the road with seven preachers and seven saints, you'd say, well, there's John Wesley and 14 fine or 13 fine people. How do you know? There's 14 more fine people. You wouldn't notice. He would look just like the other people. The preeminent ones. Shut up to John Wesley. There

were many fine theologians who were in Luther's days. Many brilliant scholars. Top of the potting. No doubt Top of the potting was as smart as he was. They were theoreticians. Logicians. and did their best to be theologians. They had read the ancient scholars and all. And you'd see Luther coming down the road, maybe with seven or eight fine scholars, Melanchthon and the rest of them, and they'd say, well, isn't that a fine man? You'd say, well, Brother Luther is 67 more fine men. How old are you? But he was a preeminent one amongst many like him. And when William Brannan came to this earth as a man, born of humble paradise, born of sinners to sinful people, there he stood up amongst the people and they said, well, he's just an ordinary guy. He's not even educated.

one amongst men.

Look into his records. Born the same way you and I were born. Raised on the same kind of food. Had to go through the same type of metabolism. Heir to the same diseases. Heir to the same fantasies of the flesh and the puzzlement of the flesh and the dilemmas of life. Heir to all of them just like you and me. But there stood God's preeminent one. Such not mine anointed. Do my servants no harm. There stood that man fallible just like you and me eating Christ. That one who could be puzzled just like you and me. But brother, sister, when he spoke and came back from God's way, the prophet said, What's the Lord of God?

No wonder when he stood in California and the shaking go down, the Lord said, Lord, it'll go down. When he said this nation has seven marvels and wonders come, and we've got through five of them, there'll be two more to come. As he saw this land in debris, there'll be smoking craters. As he saw the end of this age, there'll be battery that way. You say he's just the man he was, but he was the preeminent one amongst many, said the prophet. What is a prophet, brother, sister? A prophet is a man from the stock of Adam. Got the same old lump of clay. Got some of the flesh the old serpent handed down to him. That's one lump, no difference. Like you and I go through. But there's something about him, brother, he comes back from God. That's the Lord. Heaven and earth will pass away, but he said he wasn't going to pass away. Justice, there's a God who's true. That man's word, justice.

While he didn't clear everything up, he cleared everything up. God wanted it cleared up. That

will come to pass. It's supposed to come to pass. I'm not the judge of how it's going to happen. I'm not the judge of what has happened or will happen, but it'll all be there.

What am I trying to show you this morning? I'm trying to show you one thing. Just get your face up on that and just stand down. You'll be all right. I'm not hurting any false or phony. Sure, maybe you don't understand that. That's okay. Maybe he didn't understand that. That's okay. Well, I thought they should understand. Probably didn't say so. Get off this.

Minister to us, many things they themselves did not know. If there is any puzzlement or hidden secret, don't fuss about it. It's still all right. But I'll tell you, men have lost their faith and men are turning this way and that because they know what I'm talking about. If I were to go to some place and say, Brother, Brian's a prophet. They say, Well, he couldn't because he didn't come to us. He couldn't because he didn't clear this up. He didn't clear that up. What did he say about this? What did he say about that? Don't talk to me about it. Talk to God about it. You

run through the Scriptures. The Bible said what a prophet would be like when he comes, but the world doesn't believe it. They say, A prophet's got to be what I say he is, and I'll believe. Well, that's where you're wrong. It's what God said he is.

You know what they want in this world? I told you last night. All they want in this world, if they want a prophet, they want a prophet to come and save them. The prophet must say that you're exactly right. You get me more of the same. Penny cloth, women's short hair, all painted up and all the way they've been going on. They want to brother down things. Sisters, you're exactly right. Just a little more paint and powder, and you'll look prettier, and the world will love you more, and you'll bring them all to see what the hell it is. And sisters, let me help you with those gifts. As I see you set a bit of company, let's make it down, down, down, down. Here's

a short script from up here in Minnesota. That's all right. You bounce around. You sing your pretty little song. I've been all through this, and my bowels were twisting before I knew when the preacher's around.

Not here to fuck that wind, but I want to say, sister, you've had some disgraces among you. Even worse than the men that they did a terrible job to.

But they warned him to say, well, it's okay. You're just really fine. You're really safe. You just need more of it, honey. Because if you just have more, you've got to do the secret. But he said, you're all wrong. You haven't got what you think you've got. And

they looked at him and they said, well, if he were a real prophet, why'd he have those kind of people around him? That fellow was a homely man around him. I'm not talking about who you think I'm talking about. I'm talking about yours. Because

this boy came to me and said this man he had with him tried to seduce me. I said, sit down, son. He was hungry, and I had a few bucks. Got him a good cake, and why don't you stick their stomachs a bit? You know, they're ready to feel a little better. And I just talked to him and helped. But they said to Peter, he was a prophet. He'd know that was a bad woman. You

think people change? Nope, they're just the same.

Now, listen to me, brother and sister. When Jerusalem is no longer trodden down of the Gentiles, it's all over. Politically. When the mosque of Omar gets removed, the fullness is complete. That's over. The two cycles which run concurrently, though there may be a lapse in time, one longer than the other at the end, at the tail end, whether it be the fullness of the Gentiles or the times of the Gentiles, they both expire about the same time. And if the prophet must come, and he must come according to Scripture, then he must have already come.

Because you're going to have to look in an awful hurry. That doesn't work that fast. They said, well, he couldn't be that prophet after all. He had people around him, you know. And after all, we know what his relations, and as though that were something. They're good people as far as I know. I don't hear any landing in jail and do terrible wicked things like a lot of these prisoners out there have their relations to. Good moral people. Many, many respects. Well, we know about the fact he had a run at the government. Yeah, I know that too. The lawyers told him his name was so good, why let it be dirtied up for a mere $30 ,000 he paid it. I

know another man who couldn't lose his tense to clear his name in his truck. When they said, you're drunk, he said, well, he said, I'd lose my tense. Brother Branham was soon to lose $30 ,000 to glorify God and lose the good name God gave. That's a real man. But they looked around and they said, well, you see, it's this way. He's not the prophet according to us, but he's the prophet according to God, brother and sister. Tell

me what a prophet is. Don't have your own ideas, brother.

Don't get your own thinking confused up. Just look at what God said. The seven messengers were seven men of preeminence amongst their men just like him. Take Brother Branham down to Kentucky. Put on an old pair of Levi's and his old hat with the rest of the squirrel hunters. There goes another squirrel hunter, bless God. What about him? Well, he's a sweet old guy. He's a squirrel. Now he's a prophet of God. Right? You follow me now? See what I'm trying to get at? Think it.

If David was a prophet king, and we know, we see, how he did not do the things he ought to have done, and he did the things he ought not to have done, the left undone, the things perhaps he should have done. Look at him. Stand up on the last day. That great prophet, forerunning type of Jesus Christ, can stand up and say this, I know that I don't stand here by myself. I'm only standing here because of one reason. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impeach him. He just pulled it all back and said, sure, we're all sinners. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. There is none righteous. What did Jesus say? All that ever came before me, Moses, Samuel, Joseph, Jacob, Abraham, all that ever came were thieves and robbers. God's

hand stolen God's glory.

who said it all here. Is that right? What do you think of the prophets now? Well, I think I'm going to listen.

Because God didn't send down angels. He just turned his office upon him. And he's just trying to say, it's God. He said, you've set God free yet. And my word is free.

You see that? Can you take that in the face of what goes on in this world? Can you take that in the face of Bible history? Or do you still want to crawl back in your shell and start to pull the wool over your eyes and say, well, I just won't think about David being that kind of a guy. You know, I'm going to just dream about him forever. You're going to get snared. If you get snared, just admit it. Just go right with that word. Right down the line. And, Brother Sid, if you begin pointing things, if you believe in that man that had those signs and wonders, if you believe in that man that claimed that 5 ,000 Psalms and 5 ,000, do you believe in that? Yes, I do. But do you believe that his words are true? Sure do. So, you know, it doesn't seem the line of a scripture, but it does if you reveal it. If you're willing to stand on that message? Yes, sir.

Because if the message is the shout, which is the first part of the rapture, and you missed the first part, Brother Sid, You're not going to get step number two and three to make up your mind. Was he a prophet? Did he have the word of God? Is he going to stand on that word? Is that a hope today? Not William Branham might hope, no. But the prophet with the word. William

Branham. And he that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive that prophet's benefit from this. The word of God. The power of God. The word revealed in your life. Remember, there are the people standing on earth today who will have self -death. The Lord revealed in their lives. They'll be changed in their bodies. and suddenly rise. Does that take a prophet? What kind of prophet does the Bible say? Your kind? No. My kind? No.

God bless you. Let's pray.

Gracious Eternal Father, we would ask you, Lord, trembling in fear now that not one person will have misunderstood anything said. That though, my God, something were said in the derogatory ways concerning those great and holy men, but to understand, Lord Jesus, that these were men, all except you as you brought them down, which was yourself brought down as Melchizedek came.

But we're talking, Lord, about these other men. We might picture them all and say it's pretty bleak and it's pretty dark. Oh, God, if we see you in your retentive work revealed and manifested in them, then, Lord, we see ourselves. And when we begin to understand the grace and truth of Jesus Christ, Lord, we thank you that in our day we have the privilege of seeing a Bible problem. Lord, how wonderful to know that we stood in this day when we saw a man like unto all those who wrote that very word. We

stood beside them. Others would say, there's some men, not knowing that amongst us stood a preeminent one, one, a prophet, through whom to hear, Lord, was to hear these. Grant now, Lord, that that same sin

abide upon each one of us. Take that same word, Lord, and reveal it to us in our measure of necessity.

that we, Lord God, may stand in our days. In

essence, your prophet having come to us, your word fulfilled in us, we've caught away in the rapture. Grant that, Lord, because that's my prayer. Pray that you'll accept it

of Jesus Christ, our life. Amen. God bless you.