ANNOINTED ONES #15

and physical death engulfs the world, as Brother Branham says forth. That's exactly what Branham is saying about he's been anointed with the Holy Spirit. Onward or to the

elect, it is

not difficult to realize the anger and animosity he evokes. He declares that he and he alone has the true ministry of the true word of restoration, and all others are impersonators and deceivers. Now, that's a blank state,

and that's like Jesus said, all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers. He never did explain it fully, go by in history. He's

talking anybody that said they had something would do you good and save you outside of the scripture. He's

a robber because Christ was. He

comes on the scene and he says that everybody else is an impersonator and deceiver outside of this world. Now surely we can understand their fury, which may well be unleashed toward us when Brother Branham categorically places the judgment scene of their white throne rejection right in this hour that we believe to be his appearing amongst us.

is matthew 24 24 and matthew 7 21 which says they're coming that day and they're so -and -so and he said i'll be kind every year so the prophet places matthew 24 24 the deceivers and their rejection in matthew 7 21 and in the same breath speaks of what is going on now as though it were already happening at the white throne for the prophet speaks of the wheat and the tares of sitting down together in the kingdom they are doing it now and will do it soon again at the white throne, which is actually the day after the morn, because a thousand years is in one day. And we find that in Matthew 24, 11 to 14, so we just might look at that where Brother Bannon is speaking, Matthew

22.

And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. And he said unto him, Friend, how came it that he did not have on a wedding garment? He was speechless. and then said the king the servants bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast another darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing the teeth for many are called but fewer chosen he referred that to this very hour sitting down in the assembly listening to the word and not receiving it and so therefore they are cast out also remember eden was god's headquarters or his kingdom on earth and uh at that particular time it was when he was in uh had eaten and adam even divine order that they were able to stretch forth their hand, which they did not do, to eat of the tree of life and live forever. And so we have the tree of life here under eating conditions in the sense they were getting back to Eden very, very rapidly. Now, in looking at this then, what we're talking about, Brother Bran is putting this group of people here at the white throne categorically, which is true according to Malachi 4. Most people don't want to admit that. They simply cannot admit to imminency of the hour and the irremediable conditions. They simply cannot believe it. They think there's something going to happen yet. There's going to be some measure of grace that this thing could be put off. Maybe we can work it out. That is a lie from the pit of hell. It's over. Either this is what the prophet said, Or we've all been food. And when I say all, it's a very, very few people. Very, very few. It's got to be all because time and eternity has come together. And so we're looking at the white throne as no other people did. Everybody is thinking of the great tribulation. And that's true. It should be thought of. But we bypassed it. We're not interested in it. And if the people were smart, they wouldn't be either. They'd be looking at white throne. they don't know that this is that hour they just 24 hours off if you want the prophesying indictment is that these people these prophets and people claim they are known of god and know god but they are imposters and were never known of god as it says in matthew 7. so they're not backsliders penny cost us people

that's like saying well i used to know me when i was 12 years old oh i never knew you i don't know they caught some kind of a fool or liar why

try to make this The further

judgmental

assessment is that since they are of Satan, and Satan is speaking through them, they are just like their father, the devil. They cannot handle the word but are entirely false to it, though genuinely anointed by the Holy Spirit and under those conditions should know the truth. We left off reading where Brother Branham is using Matthew 7 wherein Christ condemns him as the workers of iniquity for using spiritual gifts to vindicate themselves and their organizations before the people. Hope you caught that. You're exactly like Balaam, who prophesied perfectly, but refused the truth of the word as it was in Moses. And Balaam himself died condemned in a battle against the people of Israel, even as today these people will die in Armageddon.

All right, page 45, 193. That's exactly right. When it came to the word you refused, he talked in these false anointments. Old brothers, see the deceiving part? Not prophet exactly, but with the word, true word. vindicated word made manifest you workers of iniquity now what he's saying here in my estimation is this they never rejected brother branham as a true prophet in the works that he did they rejected him as a word prophet which is ridiculous because if anybody's going to know the word the prophet's going to know the word because that's what a prophet's all about but of course they don't believe that anymore a prophet merely foretells a few things and he just drifts along preaching to the others But that's not what we're dealing with here, because when you deal with the prophet Elijah restoring, you're dealing with the larger area. Now, also on top of that, I would say this is what Brother Branham is also saying. These men are prophets to truth. Very, very true. They are prophets in the legitimate sense of their performing genuine signs and wonders and miracles and things. So, therefore, you cannot now say, well, William Branham is no prophet. These people aren't prophets. That's a lie.

Balaam wasn't a prophet. Balaam was truly a prophet, but not the true prophet. Because the true prophet would have been with the Word. As Paul said, if any man makes himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that are here on the commandment.

See what we're saying here. Okay, he said, you workers of iniquity. First of all, they do better. They

could have done it, and they wouldn't do it, because they've been told. He has tried in all ages to impersonate the true Word. We know that, don't we? Now, the first name used to be... personified take the place of act apart so satan is always acting was one with the word tell you what it's all about and people just don't want to accept that the very first place satan showed his hand to mankind was in dealing with the word then what is the last place he's going to show it what's

it going to be in the middle of the same thing as i've said before you look at the end it

analyzes oak at one end and the other end it's a

he's always done it he handled the word under the seventh See, Brother Branham tells us that Satan cannot third pull the word of God. Don't take the third pull as being tremendous manifestation of vindication.

The third pull that we're done there has a ministry in itself. It may be a ministry, but

it's a cost.

195 came up to the borderline and quit. Looky here. Reading

a while ago, and I told you to refer back to it, and we'll go for the next couple of minutes. Now, this is again borderline. We want to look at it. they came up to the borderline and they quit now all scholars are familiar with the term borderline and to them it simply means this that you can come to the place where you see something and know in your heart that you should repent and receive the lord jesus christ as your savior and like the seed sown in the ground you might have it might be your experience if the seed fell upon the hard payment and you see i know there's something there but you walk away Well, the birds in the air get that and it's all gobbled up. All right, then there's the one, of course, that falls amongst the thorns and is gravelly. And so the soil is just not right. And it's just not right in your life. So you say, well, no, I just don't think I like that. And

they take the idea and border. They

knew there was a God. They knew there was something real. And they came right to the position where they could say, well, hey, we will step over now because we know there's something really great here. But they don't do it. They do not do it. To understand the history of true borderline, let's go back to what borderline is against what I'm going to talk about today, Brother Branham's illustrating the borderline. We're going to go to the third chapter of Hebrews,

a sort of food, what he's saying here. We

might start then at the seventh verse. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation, or testing, in the wilderness, when your fathers tested me. and proved me, and saw my works for forty years.

So God had to keep them running around the mountain for forty years, and they all dropped dead into his bush.

Wherefore I was great with that generation, and said to all who was in heart, remain the same, they're just full of money.

See, there wasn't any room there. And they have not known my ways. So I swear in my wrath, they should not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there be any evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily what is called today, lest any...

Now you see, the people here were not willing to take the word of a vindicated prophet, lock, stock, and barrel, and say that's it. They had to fuss about it. They had to argue about it. They had to deny it. They had to toss it back and forth amongst themselves. They were strictly in unbelief. done right today and the people who say call themselves message and outside outside they don't give two cents william branham is dead dead dead gone gone

problems right here but

with whom was he great 40 years was it not with them that his cinders that's a spell miss now we've gone by 21 years now it's at 19 to go long

time dead by then to whom swear he that they should not enter his rest but to them to bleed not so we see that they could not enter in because unbelief let us therefore fear lest the promise be left us of entering into his rest any view should seem to come shorter for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them but the priest did not profit them faith in them that heard for we which have believed to enter into rest as he said as i have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world in a certain place of the second day on this wise and god did him did ray from all his works and into this they shall enter into my rest so there's two different recipes there's one where god did his own resting from his work and now you can you can see from yours, which

is merely a type of what's in 2 Thessalonians 1, where we come to rest. It's merely a type of rest. You've got to watch this.

They would not have afterwards spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore rest to the people of God. For he that has entered his rest hath also seen his own works that God did for him. Now your rest will bring the same place that brought God. No more works. It's all over. Let us therefore labor to enter in that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of me. So the greatest labor you and I have got is a battle of the mind, as Brother Brown said on the gate. Now what I want to show you here is this. This is not the same. It's only a... type of what's over in hebrews 6. so when he talks of borderline christian

and say while i see that you're using it only as a type and take a look at this also

the doctrine of christ

go on to perfection consummation complaining again the foundation repentance from dead works in the face of the doctrines of laying on a handsome do

god rid you see there's no need for it because the symbol has already been preached it's been dealt with finishing

it off you finish off the house

he's on top of your house you don't say well hey i'm just going to rip her down build her over again If that's not a house, they can't put the top on. It's

already been established. You don't have to worry about it. Anything going to be done now is where the contractor takes care of the mistakes and finishes the thing off the way the house is supposed to be. That's what you're looking at. This will do, God permit. Did not permit.

Permission would have meant the whole body was complete. This member had been asked through the grace and the love of Almighty God. But it hasn't been. At this time, you're coming here. and at the time of perfection impossible

for those who were once for all in life

and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the holy ghost and have tasted the good word of god and the powers that were to come having fallen away but

now it's today having fallen away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they have crucified themselves the son of god afresh and put him to an open shame now watch for the earth was strengthened in the reign that cometh off about how often That's the word of God, seven times. And bringeth forth herds of meat for them by whom it is dressed. Almighty

God, I, the Lord of the planet, water the standing man's blood by my Father's hand. Receive blessing from God. But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh to cursing, who is to be burned. You're right up to the place of cursing and burning. Which is what? The great tribulation and the lake of fire. You can't separate the two of them anymore. I want you to notice that. Listen.

In the days of Noah, eight... people and the

rest gone this

is god coming up

on the chopping block once more to be crucified as and the people smear and turn away it is over you don't need now

if you think brother any other way than this put

the finger in so

this is all about right now your fingers being in the buzzsaw whether you know it or not so don't look down the road for white throne to get very comfortable with yourself right now and with

no time for carping and like i mentioned this morning about poor apostle paul being you know hit back by the criminal oh you're taking liberty taking it nobody's taking anything from anybody in

ourselves right

down the line this is a showdown whether we're in step with the word of god or not no time for babies anymore and

to examine themselves know where they stand and he says right here this is that time of burning beloved were persuaded better things you and things in a company salvation though thus we speak what things companies have company salvation partaking tasting realizing and knowing that this is yours

So borderline Christian is not what a lot of people think of in terms of

the people who turn down the legitimacy and the authority of a vindicated prophet.

Of what the

experience is without the government of God but in another government. Because under Moses the of God might

be done on earth as it was in heaven because that.

And you've got the same thing now. It'll be done in thy kingdom come. It's the

word of God kingdom. I've made a lot of people. Oh, I'm glad for those nice, fine, wonderful people. Boy, I want to talk with you. You and I are going to have a conference. And would you tell me, I'll back you up.

He said, when God gets a problem, he calls. I'll tell you, God never called on you, neither.

The only input he wants is you and me listening. Too

good a job we did. But you see what we're talking about here? Borderline, listen. Borderline, brother, sister, is right today.

Borderline is epitomized, you might say, in these false anointing. They can come right to the word of God. Say, yes, yes. yesterday, today, and forever. We believe in healing. We believe in raising the dead. We believe in this, this, this. Why, there's even some amongst us that bless God and believe in sovereignty. And some believe in eternal security. We don't turn that down. But this hogwash of a prophet that's

straight and narrow anymore. No bullet off the gunshot.

Did

God ever gunshot?

But he never ever took the dozens of the time. When

the water, see how he makes

his line for the fish. There's something wrong. Borderline is right today as Brother Branham expressed it. But not borderline. as the baptists talk about it borderline

as the religion talks about it as whether you're going in or not going in they

came up to the borderline and quit now in hebrews 6 we're reading a while ago he said but thorns and thistle which is nigh unto rejection and then we burn borderline now watch you have tasted the heavenly gift taste in other words you've seen it you can't just taste it with your mouth but you saw it and you knew that it was the truth you knew what was the truth This was the genuine McCoy. This was God. You

knew this man had to be a prophet. He had to be something. So you saw. You knew that much. You knew that was the truth. You knew it was the truth. Tasted to him. Were made partakers. And as it fell upon you. Word

of God. Tasted. You saw it was right. The Holy Ghost falling. And then turn away. Denying the very Christ that sanctified you. Called you. And put that anointing upon you. No more sacrifice. I

come out of Canada. This guy named B .G. Leonard. Whether he's living or not, I don't know. The

idea was what you do in the flesh doesn't matter.

Now,

normally, people don't cut too much ice. Roberts and Baker weren't too flamboyant.

They're caught. You see, there's business here being sanctified. Most of these people here do live pretty good lives. They snitch on each other like Jimmy Swagger. Now, what the Bible said, if you've got a man falling, you go and restore him. He wanted to pull the pins off, and now he feels sorry for him. I wouldn't give you two bits for Swagger's chance of the white throne judgment. Before God, knowing this book here, knowing the prophet, I was

thinking about Trinitarian.

Typical Pentecostal. If you spit in the floor, you're going to hell. He's okay.

Legals are all the same. Always condemning somebody. Now, if you've got a word behind it, and you're not condemning at all, you've got to just preach the word. I don't care what those guys do. It's a big deal. A lot of them live good lives. You come right down, you're a fine man. Except for all his money. We can talk about that sometime. Actually, just where he went wrong, where the Scripture does not stand with what he teaches, that's just where he went right wrong. He became a trap. Brother Grant said another thing would be women. But

you know something? I believe somebody trapped him.

He wasn't alone in that thing. It's a dirty work of the cross for him.

Right down the line, popularity, all those things. But they could be fine men. Start out right. But you see, turning away from the Word got a man effect. He said, well, Brother Bill, all the people that come with this Word, will they be purely righteous men? I don't think there was a righteous man outside of Jesus Christ. There could be problems. But I can tell you one thing. You won't go for a legalized so -called adultery by believing in multiple marriages and say, well, you know, polygamy is okay. Brother Brown didn't say polygamy is okay.

It's a thousand times better than a Hollywood marriage and divorce. Let

me tell you something. You know the negative. methodism is a thousand times better than between confucianism but that doesn't mean methodism right so it doesn't mean plagiarism that's just men's evil lusts but normally speaking they live a sanctified life to a degree now now brother brenner said here that these people that have the holy spirit fall upon them according to acts 2 which is right now we're in acts 2 oh we don't bother you you're familiar with it falls upon the good and the bad he said they they say no deny the lord jesus christ about them i want to ask you a question get this one here right over here same thing is here in the form of the holy spirit doing in the form of the spirit what he did when he was here in flesh then who did they crucify they crucified that one right i

said they're going to do it again you

say well look at it my father has been that

one with

father left the will and now you get a piece here

god came on that

denied that he's on the scene because he's doing the same things he did when he was on the scene 2 000 years ago but they're going to deny it

it's unpardonable he said it's the unpardonable sin it's impossible for them to ever come to the knowledge of the truth now these rejecters will positively second coming of christ because they missed the appearing and there's no room where they can repent for it's impossible though

made partakers the holy ghost fell upon the weed seed started in with jesus lord i'm going through and when you hit the word you turn back made partake of the holy ghost nature saw the word manifest then turned away from it it's totally impossible for them to ever see it or come to it that's thus set the script what

he's doing is telling you i have the correct interpretation of the words you listen now heaven and earth will pass away but it won't now those who keep the old original doctrines your old dogmas they

take on gifts they've seen this there is no hope for them now what he says here heaven and earth will pass away but it won't what won't what he's talking about talking about scripture's fulfillment according to his preaching of hebrews 6. i said you're going to watch it all pass away but he said you better believe that this won't why because the righteous will end up in mount zion and the wicked at the white throne to be destroyed now what's he doing he is getting us not only ready for the millennium because at the millennium the heavens and earth do not pass away they're renovated so when heavens and earth pass away this is getting us ready for that hour at the white throne When the heavens and earth are dissolved and we are looking for the new Jerusalem. This is the hour, as he said, of the time and eternity have blended in a union. This is a time when he says wheat will always be wheat and tares will always be tares. And the foolish virgin will always be foolish virgin. In fact, this is that scripture I keep quoting and quoting. I'm hoping you're going to get it 100%. I'm the same way for myself. Revelation 22, beginning at verse 10, the unsealing of the book, the seven seals and thunders. Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand. So whatever prophetic utterances in this book is unsealed at this time. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. It will be. Filthy, filthy still. Righteous, righteous still. Holy, holy still. Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me. To give every man according as his work shall be. That's why I'm thrown.

Not just present, not just the rapture, not just the presentation.

See, he said to the righteous, you're going to get yours, and the unrighteous, you're going to get yours. And this is it. So therefore, time has run out. Mercy runs out. Grace runs out. Everything runs out. It's the end of everything. Seventh seal. And yet people try to tell you the seventh seal isn't open. My

God, have mercy.

Notice, I'll give you an example. Look at those people that came under Moses' prophecy, came out of that organization, came out of everything under the prophecy. What prophecy? the prophecy that god said would be in that hour 400 years later i'm going to bring them out they saw the great works and the wonders they saw things like that and came up to the borderline of going in say now what's he talking about of coming to the place of the recognition of your part in it of seeing yourself as a part of it knowing that this is what you're looking for pretty

tough statement now lee there comes your name on the book see you've got it fixed up you got it And you that's not here and out in the hookup, Brother Lee Vale sitting here, he's grammarizing the book of the seven churches, and the problem came up with the question, what about your name taken off the Lamb's book of life? Now, actually, the thought in there is not really Lamb's book. That's a little slip of the tongue in my estimation there.

Lamb's life is the original. And life came from it. There's an interjection there. So you could say Lamb's life on the prophetic utterance of William Bramwell. You could just say the book of life because of what it says in Revelation 22 and 19. Let's look at it. And if any man shall take away the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things written therein. Now, since Brother Branham gave us to understand what true baptism with the Holy Ghost really was against the contrary, which was a fictitious baptism, we could then use the same with this. The last book of life and that which they figured is the last book of life. But I'm just laying this in there because about the only thing I can do about this. is read scripture on it, but we realized that Brother Branham did say other places concerning the Lamb's Book of Life, that was unalterable. So, we'll just leave it at just what he says here, but we know here that this is the one that can be taken out of. See, it's puzzled at a lot of ministers, but wait till you get the book, you'll understand if you've got any light, if you've got any light in you. You know how the book treats that one. Notice, now you'll turn your head and won't even look at it if you don't want to see it. Like my mother used to say, you can't get blood out of a turnip. There's no blood in it. In other words, there's nothing to you to be attracted there, so you just leave it be. It's not your desire. Notice, the light has to come. It's not in darkness. The light comes through the darkness, and the darkness perceives it not. William Branham is telling you here that there is no light in this spiritual laodicean church. It's bankrupt. Completely dark. And the light does not come out of the darkness. The light comes from outside. and the darkness doesn't perceive it. Remember the cry to the bride, foolish and wise virgins, was, Behold the bridegroom. It was a cry from the outside, for it says, Come out. Behold

the bridegroom. Come out. So

the cry is on the outside. There is no light on the inside. God even took Moses away from his own group to get his group out, and they were a mixed crowd. Notice now, the anointed ones in this daytime. as moses brought out those children of israel and they listened and got all confused with that great nation up there now israel was interdenominational it had no land had no home it was going to a home we have no church we're going to a church the church of the firstborn the church that's in glory not the church that's on earth by a man the church that's in glory the called of ones predestinated to eternal life and that doesn't mean at this time that we're not a part of it and it doesn't mean that we're not a part of the true church the bride but he's telling you you've got a destination which is far beyond here remember the building blocks that they brought in for solomon's temple which types the bride in certain areas was brought in from the outside already made up but fitted on the spot it was supposed to be which was in israel in jerusalem so here's the 12th chapter adam is talking about here and

he says here in verse 18. about the fact of inheriting this place. For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of trumpet, and the voice of words, which voice that they had heard entreated, that the words should not be spoken of any more. Now this is sort of like the allegory over there in the book of Galatians, where Paul is speaking of the two sons of Abraham, one by the bondwoman, and one by the free. And only the one by the free was recognized. Because the one by the bondwoman was Israel or Jerusalem in the physical flesh, which was in bondage and would never make it. Jerusalem is from above. It's the same thing he's saying. Verse 20. He said, you don't have it. It's

commanded. So much as a beach touched a mountain, it should be stoned or thrust through with the dark. And so terrible was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. But

you are come unto Mount Zion, not unto horror. Mount Sinai. You're not come there. You're come to Mount Zion. unto the city of the living God. Now, where is the city of the living God? It's sure not on earth. Unto the heavenly Jerusalem, which John saw coming down, and to the innumerable company of messengers, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn. That's why Pentecost likes to call himself the general assembly.

Churches like that, you know. You're going to tell yourself, calling yourself something that doesn't mean anything. I can call myself a little red hen. I'm no little red hen. I

can call myself Theodore Roosevelt. It doesn't make me Theodore Roosevelt. And everybody talks about heaven and gold.

calling these names here grace

gospel church doesn't necessarily mean that we're it that people will be believing okay

the general assembly and church is the firstborn which are written in heaven and to god the judge of all and to the saints of just and the spirits of just men made perfect now notice in here that you're coming to this great general assembly and then it jumps in here and says to god the judge of all let me tell you something you don't get in there unless you're judged first bringing

it down from the top where the thing is and how you get in and who's getting in The spirits of just men made perfect. And how are they going to get in? To Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of spring to speak of better things than that of evil. Now watch. This is what you're looking at for this day that Brother Brown is speaking of. See that you refuse not him that speaketh. Not did speak, but is now speaking. For if they escape not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him that is from heaven. Not speaking from heaven. Now the thunders were not in heaven, they were on earth.

Whose voice then shook the earth at that time did. Back there at Mount Zion and when he cried on the cross. But now as he promised saying, this is after Calvary. This is at the end time. We'll prove it. Because this is the city you're going to. And you can't go there and nobody's going there until it's all made up. So he's talking to the people of whom it's made up. Now, whose voice then shook the earth, but now promised yet once more shaken all the earth with heaven. And this word yet once more signified the removing of those things that are shaken. as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. So he's telling you before anybody gets there, they all got to go through this. Now, they got to go through this. This is the evidence of the time to go, starting to go there. There's something which is going to be shaken down. For

we're receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken down. Now, the shakedown is in Hebrews 6, because it wouldn't go in. Do you realize what he's telling you here? Something devolves upon us in the program of God. that does not give us any preeminency of any description we're just one of the boys but it's got to happen to us or this doesn't happen like

the car that was all

but just one little thing was missing to

bring it down to the smallest point the fuse was missing everything was there but somebody put the fuse in now as long as the car was completely made up but except the fuse no dice or

the great generators ready to go and somebody forgot to put a switch in just

like adam laying on the ground god didn't breathe And God had to breathe in. So all signals are gold. They have been in process for 6 ,000 years. But at the end time, there's got to be something. Or the thing gets wiped out.

So therefore, receive a king which cannot be moved. Let's have grace. Whereby we may serve God except in reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. What's he talking about? Everything gets burnt up but this. So we press into the kingdom of heaven.

manifested on earth of the presence of God getting us out of here, winding the whole thing up through the white throne into the eternities. Now that's what you're looking at. Now people don't want to look at it that way. There's a sort of buoyancy, a sort of euphoria, you might say, in the people of God so called about the fact,

but there is no understanding of it. That's what we're looking at. Everything is missing. Why is it missing? Because the appearing is missing. You understand what I'm saying? Now look.

It works. I'm

going to revive the old whites.

And he's got the thing. Water doesn't break down. No matter

what water does, it just never has worked out properly. Now they're talking to you. There's

a little part in here. You

read it, but you read it wrong. You don't understand it. So here you are. You're trying to make this. It'll never get your car working if this section is wrong. The answer is no. Then will you ever make Mount Zion if your understanding of the appearing is wrong? The answer is no. Now

you say, well, I don't have the grace that God would do that. Well, I've got the newest grace that God does that.

But you're trying to tell God what his grace is. Grace

doesn't cost you and me a plug nickel. It

costs God everything. Remember what Friedman says, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Go to my house and I'll give you a free meal. Ha, boy, I paid for that.

And he was back in the Garden of Eden. And that wasn't free in the ground. He had to go pick it.

Now a man gets there by the sweat of his brow. That is what he could eat. So let's look at the picture right here now, see? That's the church of the firstborn. Now, we have no church. We're going to a church. The church of the firstborn is Mount Zion. The church that's in glory. They're waiting for us. Not the church that's honored by a man. No way. The church that's in glory. The called on one predestined into eternal life. And what about them? They without us cannot be made.

Can't be finished. They're held here in the scheme of making my car because somebody has got to have the ability. Understand what goes in to make the whole thing work. On

the ground, a perfect man. What had to go in him? God breathing breath of life, which was the Holy Spirit. And Adam began to walk around. Revelation

in this hour of the church in movement. Now what does the world church, Pentecost say? They take Tommy Hicks' vision. He

saw the church all bound down, down like, like, you know, the church

was a sleeping giant. And it began to rouse itself. Oh, rouse

itself, plumper the pit of hell. Sleeping

giant rising. great works and wonders. The great works and wonders, brother, are for one purpose, to point you to a message. It

had its message. Going

to their home, when they came up to the place to cross over, they doubted the word and came back after Joshua and Caleb and those that had gone over and brought back a bunch of grapes to prove to them the land was there, the word of God's promise. Okay, what about these men like all these prophets? In plain English, they went over and brought back the evidence. How'd they go over? They went over in trance and vision. They went over by dreams, went over by trances. Moses went over by face -to -face. Paul went over by face -to -face. And William Branham went over by face -to -face right there. They

went over. They brought it now. The word came back of God's promise. It's a good land, milk and honey. And brought it back on this side to prove it to them. All

right, have we seen the millennium come up? We sure have. Have we seen Mount Zion come? We sure have. The

evidence is here. See, the tally's in.

That's another reason you look at the lotteries. That's a sign of the times. Everybody's taking a chance. Why? They put in their own thinking. Watch me hit the jackpot. I put my thinking in. Hit the jackpot. Oh, I waited 6 ,000 years for this thing. I'm putting my thinking in. I'll hit the jackpot. You're gone. You know what chance you got hitting the jackpot just in the lot of your own? You at least are four times apt to be hit by lightning than winning the jackpot. Not

seven or eight times, but that's

when someone can hit a jackpot. You

can come up with a lot of gifts and a lot of this and that and say, well, hey, I got a me. Because you're not going to have it made. And they brought it back on this side to prove it to them. And they tasted it and said, oh, oh, we can't do it, though. What happened? They perished in the wilderness. They stayed right there and organized themselves and died every one of them. But the ones that went over and brought the fruit back, Joshua and Caleb.

Now, here's something Brother Brand is saying could be hard to understand. Moses was translated, a type of the waiting for the church and the resurrection of the Old Testament and New Testament and the raptured body. See the three there. I might read it this way. Moses was translated a type of the waiting for the church and the resurrection of the Old Testament, New Testament, and living raptured body. See the three there. Have to keep those threes in line. So would the believer and make -believer. See the three kind of unbelievers. Make -believer, unbeliever, believer. They

were the ones that were living. And they went into the promised land. Now, Moses was waiting, it says, for what would be the Old Testament and New Testament. as far as i can see that so in other words what i'm looking at here it could be that the three are the living which are joshua and caleb the old testament and the new testament and that makes up monsign he's waiting for those that tree i don't know i can't see i haven't got that figured out and i don't really try to figure it out because i don't see it i don't see it but he says in here that moses was translated that puts him out of the picture so all right so now you have he's waiting and what's he waiting for resurrection old and new The whole raptured body. Joshua and Caleb are in there already. There's your three as far as I can see it. In other words, right today, what are we waiting for? The Old Testament saints that are dead, they're going to be in. I mean, pardon me, the New Testament saints that are dead. The Old Testament saints are resurrected. They're somewhere.

Because they had bodies. They're gone somewhere.

Now, sound you cannot see, and it'll flatten you too. So you see lots of things you can't see. That resurrected body somewhere, we don't have to see it, but it's out there. Just find its own dimension. So now. We've got Old Testament saints, they're ready for Zion. The dead bride, New Testament, they're ready for Zion in the sense they know God holds it up. That's

it. What's it? Holding everything up from going in,

thwarting his plan of

letting the devil take over. Never did forgive. Further unbelief. When God laid it out and said, listen, how

are they going to come in?

Now, Brother Branham mentions that Baal Peor is a place where God never forgave him, and now he mentions it here, he never forgave him.

Because it's the same thing which is adultery. They commit to groups

of people in an unholy, which is motivated purely by pleasure and sensual appetites and nothing to do with the word of Almighty God. They listen to a false prophet. And then over here, they refuse to go in. They refuse to take the word of a true prophet. So what does this say here? It tells you that you can be escaping and escaping and escaping and come to the final place of escape and coming in. You're here

this morning, brother, because my mommy believes it, my father believes it, my aunt believes it, my uncle believes it. or they do or they don't, and I've been brought up in it, and I see this and that, you better come all the way and know where you stand, make your calling, and find out where your heart is. See if it's in the Word or not. See where your life is. Now, we're not trying to make you people that are so wonderful that there's not one sin amongst us. There'll never be that until we're changed. But I tell you, we ought to be getting less and less sinful in our lives. Not puritanical, but more pure thoughts. More justice and judgment. More ability to...

enemies closing in because remember the great weapon of this

word that on the land what pure living and pure thinking can anybody have than the word of god in his mind about

saint martin here it's closely now the saint martin right which is a godly man named saint martin he ever read a saint martin many of you and i i went down to get it but he wasn't canon spirit

told us to put in the third church aid if paul uranus might be

a soldier but he always believed there was a god somewhere he was and uh could see god out there in nature that's what i'm saying referring to himself of course one day he passed through a city and there was an old bum lying there. It was cold that night. The old one said, give me something to cover me up or I'll die tonight. Nobody would do it. Martin stayed off to one side and watched him for a little while. He only had one coat. He himself would freeze being on duty if he gave it. So he thought, both have a chance to live if I'll divide it with him. So he took his own coat and split it in two with his saber. Wrapped the old bum in it. He wrapped his coat around himself.

Everybody said, look what a funny looking sentry. Look what a looking soldier. Half a coat. That night when he was off duty and lying in bed, he woke up and looked in the room. There stood G. Jesus Christ wrapped in a piece of garment that he put around him. He knew right then, what you front of my little ones, you do have done unto me, to my anointed, lying there. Great servant of God. The church made funny and personally kicked him out and everything else. But he was a prophet of God. But what he said came to pass. There's many that believed him in that age too. Now, of course, he never had what Brother Branham had when it came to saying the prophecies. But also, Brother Branham refers to himself, Brother Branham was kicked out of the church because he was a non -redeemed woman preacher. bible for it and the fella said you do it you're out what do

you wait to go 204 i want to show you how deceiving the devil is of course women never did like him why he's such a perfect one day martin was sitting in his study up came a mighty angel crown on his head golden shoes on laced around his garments of gold said martin you know him and he said i am your lord and savior martin i'm the one that saved you worshiping martin but that prophet knowing there was a little something strange there and kept looking at him he said martin i'm your savior jesus christ worship me don't you know me martin Martin just kept looking at it, scripture running through his mind. He said, Satan, get away from me. He said, you've got a crown on your head, and the word of God says his saints will crown him at the end of the age. Wouldn't that have been Pentecostal big? Watch that word, brother. That's where it pays. Now, he's not really throwing off of the Pentecostal per se. He's just letting you know that that's the people that stand for all the signs and wonders and all these other things and all their dreams and visions, having turned away from the original, which was Brother Branham at the end time. Somebody's got to be Elijah. And if he's not, somebody's going to come and be like you. It's going to go through the same process. They're going to turn it down. Why? Because that's the way it goes. There's not going to be many people saved. This millions now living will never die is stupid.

Hey, I'm going to eat six pounds of candy and not have consumed one calorie. Oh, I'm going to breathe six liters of air and I'll take on 6 ,000 calories. You've got to be nuts.

Something's wrong with your head.

So why say millions living will never die when the Bible says they will?

Look, I came out of Pentecost. out of baptist and they all came out of me too one good cathartic did everything

in the market now body cleansing body why could

pure unmitigated not just diseases you pick up but what causes your diseases true

right now on the just how messed up you are 90 you used an art will soon be you need a cathartic you need a cleansing that's why the blood of christ is stronger than ever was and the life that was in the blood is shed now so we can have better life everybody's talking about life eating better we're eating wonderful here

everything is real. Listen

to me. I'm not here to just give you a line of blarney. I'm not trying to sell you something.

I'm trying to tell you something. Make you understand these things. Everything is right tight to the end. I'm perfect. There's nothing left in the soil. There's nothing left in the food. There's nothing left in this Word of God anymore. It's finished. The only food at all is what you and I are getting now the Prophet brought us. He

came out of here, sure did. The rest is wiggletails. Tell that to anybody but us. They say, what do you mean?

Where is the least corrupted part of the earth? Right down deep where you dig. And that's the only thing in here, brother, sister, that wasn't corrupted. And the prophet took it out so it can't be messed with the other anymore. He dug way down deep under the thunders and the seals and brought it right out. And what came? We

talk about that too. Is that what happened this week? Down

in the coal mine. Prophecy said. At a certain time, when they dug out Christ in the rock, that was the time of the coming. And they dug it out. They're

traitors to their own understanding.

I don't care where you go, brother, sister. I don't care. You men are sitting here, scientists, smarter by me than a million miles. Your

brains will never figure these things.

They've been figured out for us by a prophet laid right before us. Everything lay in nature. Everything lay out here just under your nose. Every newspaper told you all about it. Can't find a word today. Confrontation. The peripheral. Read everything. You've got every word. Plum types everything.

Nature. God. Everything in harmony. You

know why? Because you can prove nothing to all

of the stuff with the sorcerers, which are your farmers.

Philosophies. Saying

to God here,

oh, sir, one

day he'd get in the monastery, he'd have an old saint down there, a bunch of young monks. There was one of them kind of irritable, kind of sassy type of guy. Watch this. He wanted to be something above the rest of them. He wanted to show himself as an authority. Bigger, something bigger, something better, all class, you know, and a great something. He had to be classical. Always wanted the other brethren, no matter what it was. He was arrogant. He wanted

to be somebody he always wanted. He

always wanted to take over. Give him an inch, he'll take a mile. Open one door, boy, they just walk.

You know, there's something wrong with the guy that wants to. He's

abnegated. yourself. All you want to be a big fella in society, see? You follow me where that's at? So he said, he prophesied. He said, the Lord made me a prophet. Also, I'm a prophet. Now, there was one identified prophet, and that was St. Martin. He was a born prophet. So the other man's talking about himself. But this kid, this young fella, this young monk, about 25 years old, said, the Lord has made me a prophet. I'm going to prove it to you. He said, tonight the Lord's going to give me a big fine rope, put it on me, a big white rope, and set me among you. Then all of you shall come up to me, see, and you'll take orders from me. Sounds good, doesn't it? Now, compare that today. I'll be the head of the organization. I'll take care of you.

1975, preaching down there in Macon, invited a certain man in the pulpit, the platformer of the mic. He came there and let the people know, you listen to me. He's over there in New York. They're falling under the power now. So you can tell what he had. If

your monks listen. I went to the Camden one time, there were certain preachers there. He said, they're telling people around here, they've got to listen to you now. He said, Brother Ranscott, as you said that. He mentioned names. I said, I'll win the pulpit and I'll fix that guy. I'll win the pulpit. I'll win the pulpit. I fixed everybody in that pulpit. The same guy, I found out, he made himself an apostle. You've got to listen to him, because his people said, now look. This is the man you're listening to. I went and I said, now listen, Leonard, they're telling this about you. Let's go in the pulpit and tell the people that's a lie. He wouldn't do it. Thorson went to him. He wouldn't listen to Thorson. He

said, I ain't nothing. I've never made myself one thing to do. I can tell you what the prophet said, and that's my business, and that's yours if I tell you. Well, I'll tell you one thing. That's no authority over you or anybody else. You don't have to listen to me.

And you won't make it by listening to me. You've got to be listening. Because I can say this thing until I'm blue in my face and talk with you. And I will find out from you if you know what I'm saying. Because

I haven't got the ability to project it. And you don't have the ability to receive it. Because I'm on a wavelength that you're not on. And you know when you get a jammed radio, you're

not getting the wavelength. Boy, that's nothing but a bunch of static. You

get a TV, you can see a bunch of pictures. And if you can't hear the words, you see the old guy's mouth flapping on the news. You don't know the news. And sometimes you hear a description, but you can't see the picture. You ever listen to a guy talking about a prize fighter,

and then you see,

that's not the guy. I

heard him tell about a ball game. It's on the TV.

Nobody's meant to be a big shot, and there are no big shots. I'm going to tell you something. I recognize nobody in this as though he's a big shot. A guy phoned me. Look,

he said, I'm in the West, you're in the East. He said, look, the people need someone to look to. Not as though he said we're running things. He

said, here's the thing now. He said, they need someone to go to. Who would be like an authority? Well, I said, thank you, brother, and I hung up. Where's John Marmon today? You

want to phone me, ask questions, I'm delighted to help you. But don't phone me as any authority, as though anybody was going to say, you're right, because I can't set myself right. The

Bible says, stiffen it, go with your forefathers.

Teach yourself about this stuff that you've got to listen to, any special person.

I saw a fellow running around the country. First he ran after me, ran after Brother, what do you call him, down there, and jumped in the building. Then he ran after this guy, and this guy got messed up and sinned. Who's he following now? Why don't you just follow Jesus by way of the Word? And I'm doing my best to help you understand some of these things, because I'm taking it word by word, the best I can do. When I hit a tough spot, I tell you it's a tough spot, I know now. When I see something here that's very evident, we just merely talk it over, so it becomes stronger and better for us. That's all. So anyway, he said, I'll take care of the rest of you monks. And sure enough, that night, lights came on in the building, so the writing of St. Martin says, you can read it, it's authentic, it's history, and the lights came on, and the rest of them watched, and here it come. He had on a white robe standing among them, he said, see what I told you? But that was contrary to the word. And it was.

You know why it's contrary to the word? Because God doesn't dress anybody up to put him head of the church. God dresses a man down and gives him a job so that God can be head of the church. You wouldn't get this in Malachi and 1 Corinthians where the church gets an order. Then he went up and got the old dean of the college and he walked up and down a little bit and he said, son, that doesn't sound right. He said, there's only one way, and here it is, there's only one way for us to know. It does look supernatural. Boy, Pentecost would have grabbed the root, sinker, line, and so on. Not just Pentecost. He said miracles may seem all right, but they don't always seem right to the word. Now, we have such a person, an anointed prophet by the name of Martin, come up before him. And the guy said, no, no. Martin hasn't got a thing to do with this. He said, you're going anyhow. And they grabbed him by the arm to take him before Martin and the robe left him. See? Deceive the elected if it were possible. See? They know. Now, it suggests here that even the devil can bring signs that are funny and peculiar.

and she talked about her, she got in the spirit of it. You know, she said, Brother Bill, I think we ought to leave it alone. And she said, I think that's real demon. I said, Sister Ed, it's hell itself because of the company. Just anything to grab anything because the boy was getting messages so -called from his mother. Well, the mother, the house says, if you can help your boy, the

penny calls, yes, penny him.

Anybody can fall for this if you don't know what's going on. And when there's more of this in the spirit realm than there is in the house of God, I can see why Methodists and Baptists and Presbyterians, especially Methodists. We'll fall for that non -spiritual.

Catholic churches fall.

You know, you don't even dare operate a gift in the church unless, first of all, you've got a man who can discern spirits to see what spirit it is. Gifts

and the other thing. You know what I'd be screaming for? I'd be screaming, oh, God, make me so one with this word, not just by intelligence, but to the depth of my spiritual soul understanding to stand here and then discern, not in myself, but in the spirit of this word, oh, God, which was sent. Not to be critical, but to know for my good. Any

old thing we find around the country. brother, I just cannot believe it. He's got gifts right on the floor in his church again. And that man knew way, way back. He

knew back then. He's got gifts on the floor. What's he doing?

Any gift that's put in the proper order with men of God can handle those things. I'm for it. But see right here, it couldn't be done. Jesus said, my sheep know my voice. You say, oh, hear my voice. That's his word. Man shall not live a better moment every word. See, the predestined know this. A strange word, a strange voice, they won't follow. That's the way those fellas back there, they wouldn't follow. They knew that Martin was there. a prophet of that age, identified by God through the Word, knew the Word, and then wouldn't stand before it. Now, see, Brother Bram is saying again, it's his self -vindication. They would not come. Of

course, and for those who listen to the Word of God and want it, this is my whole life. What else have I got? This was an example of Brother Bram, and this can be an example for you and me, to be willing to stand before that Word and see where we stand, because that's where we stand before God. You see, how is that? Because if God gave a vindicated Word, which means the truth, and we stand before the truth, And let the truth, you know, discern us. Then we know we stand righteous before God. But if we don't dare stand before that word, we know that we're living a lie. I'm not talking about actions now, first of all. Look, what do you know about actions unless you first of all know about precept? You don't know if your actions are right or wrong.

You may be doing something wrong and think you're right. You may be doing something right and you think you're wrong.

You don't even know the tax laws. And

the IRS doesn't know the tax laws either. They're finally admitting it. papers are getting full of it. For the first time, they're admitting the deceit and every dirty deal they pull out. And now Congress is going to investigate where the IRS has deliberately pushed people to the wall because one guy is set on their hash right now.

I'll give you a word of Brother Brown, the Roman Catholic, with his

own laws against the Constitution. He

doesn't know something he don't know is the unknown.

Brother Brown said, if it don't work, don't do it.

Brother

Brown said, that's now. This moment that's being done while we sing it. I've taken it as my judgment. And I cast my lot with him as the righteous judge. Lord, you said so, I believe it. You're the correct interpreter of this word. You gave what you ought to know. And you're here and you proved it. That's fine by me. I'll take that. Then he will go with us from that point on. Now, do you think he's going to condemn himself? Ha! That

can interpret the law now gets up and condemns himself by giving you bum advice. He'd condemn you and say, I gave you that advice. I wrote the law. I interpreted the law. I told you. Did you do it? Yes. Get in! The

man said, I'm going in.

Can't be affected.

That's your token of pride this morning, brother. I said, Heavenly Father, we come to you in Jesus' name. Now,

Father, we want to stay with you. They

came right up to the place where they could have stayed with you, and they just walked. Now, Father, we're not going to walk off by the grace of God that you give us today, because, Lord, there's something in us that's just not going to walk off, except by grace from the devil, the world, the flesh, and all these other things. Lay it all on the altar, leave it there, and begin to walk with you, as the prophet said, that you said in that vision.

for everybody here.

There's something moving and stirring, Lord, that's so wonderful. We just pray, Father, that you'll help us to get rid of all this heart of unbelief and this mind of unbelief, the raggedy tangles of nature and things in our minds, O God, that are not of you. And let our minds, Lord, open up, open a beautiful sunflower to the sun. And, Lord, we think of sunflowers, we think of that man that sold a painting. He couldn't even get $125 for it. $40 million. Somebody paid a price for the sunflowers. Lord, we believe that that's exactly what's going on today. The sunflowers, every one of the sunflowers that you paid your blood for, more than 40 billions for every single person, you paid in eternity for each one of us. And we like those sunflowers just following you day by day. And the darkness of night, if we can't see, we just drop our heads because it's such a sorrowful condition. But Lord, we don't believe we have to drop our heads like the sunflowers do in natural, but we can keep our faces turned toward you, Lord, with your brightness shining upon us. Redeemed children of Almighty God, it owes a great price to you. You're the pearl, a great price to us. Father, we thank you for this love you bestowed upon us. This goodness, this perfection, Lord, that comes through you. We cannot praise you enough. It just thrills our hearts to know that everywhere we look, if we just want to look, we see Jesus. Everywhere we go, if we just want to go, you're with us, Lord. All of these things show your grace and your mercy. Help us, Lord, to dedicate our lives and our minds to you as never before and be happy in the service of our King, no matter what comes and enlarge our hearts. Until there's no restriction, there's no constrictions anymore. That enlarged heart opens up for the great things of God to be poured in us and through us. Not to be great, Lord. Not to be great. But that great thing of love, mercy, gentleness, patience, kindness. Those things, Lord. Until your name is glorified. It is true that we are read in epistles, but epistles of God. Father, bless each one in divine presence. Don't let there be any sick amongst us, Lord. I pray, Father, as this message was given for healing and restoration. Healing is restoration, Lord. There won't be one of us to continue on in sickness, O God, but day by day reaching upward to that light which is Christ, the healing light. Just take away all those things, Lord, that are wrong about us. Help us, Lord, we pray. But above all, cleanse our hearts and our minds because we know that as they are cleansed, Father, the healing will become much simpler and much easier. For that's what John told us, that our hearts would prosper and our souls would prosper and our minds would prosper and then finally our bodies would prosper. So we commend ourselves. You bring us together for Easter, Lord, and Friday. They're brethren, Lord, and they come. May they come with joy and earnest expectation. May they receive for that which they come, O God. May your people be great givers, Lord, donors toward the meetings here. It most evolves upon us, Lord. Do you realize that? We pray you shall rise to the occasion with your healing, Lord, and your wings rising upon us. Bless us in all these things. We'll be careful to give you the glory because we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. The Lord bless you.