Moving of the Spirit of God

Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, we welcome your presence, knowing who it is that's in the midst of the bride, the head come down, spiritual one. And we are your offspring, Lord, by faith we believe that, through what we have seen in this last hour, and identify ourselves with, O God, which is what it should be, even as when you were here in human form, that body of that one born that was called Jesus, people identified with you there. and they were the ones that were the elect. We believe you've never changed. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. So we identify and take our stand with that and believe we are your children. And as children, your own word, Father, said that all your children should be taught of you. We believe we have been taught in this last hour. We've heard from him who is from heaven. We believe these things, Lord. We believe, therefore, you'll help us as we study what the prophet taught us. We give thee glory in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Now we're looking at number 13 on the Easter seal. And in our 12th discussion of the Easter seal, which was last Sunday, we came to the place where Brother Brannon began to illustrate what... we call the power of God or the actual moving and working of the Holy Spirit in the lives of various Bible characters. Now, you'll notice in here that we're watching our language because you

can use different forms of expression and it can mean the very, very same thing. So, Brother Branham was speaking in this message here. And he started to give us illustrations from the Bible of these various Bible characters. And we've always heard their ministries were actually based upon the power of God, the moving of the Holy Spirit, and so on. So as we view these heroes of faith with Brother Branham, let us not forget that Brother Branham is emphasizing that this moving of the Holy Spirit is the same moving and the same spirit, that brought about the resurrection. For as God quickens or makes alive the decomposed flesh, even to the extent of gases, to his promise of immortality, that is, he quickens that particular thing that is there to whom the promise was given, he actually, no matter what conditions it is in, quickens it to the promise, which in this case would be immortality, So God quickens or makes us alive to all other promises that are to be manifested according to his word. So what you're looking at here is that Brother Brown is speaking of Easter seal. He calls Easter actually resurrection. Then he takes a step further where he identifies the resurrection with God who is Holy Spirit. And, of course, the terminology Holy Spirit, from my understanding, what Brother Branham taught, it's the same spirit, Elohim, God, but is used with the understanding of showing the character or what that manifests, and thereby you can tell what spirit it is. So when you see the dead being raised, that is not the devil. When you see objects move around the room and trumpets floating and God knows what, that is not God. When you hear the voice from a little blue light in a meeting telling you things that are in a spiritistic seance, contrary to Scripture, that is not God. God thoroughly identifies himself by what he does starting with nature. So what you're looking at here is we call the Spirit of God. Raising Jesus, because that's what the Bible said, if the Spirit raised him from the dead. Literally, we also find the Bible tells us that God raises the dead. So as we talk about the Spirit of God, we are merely understanding, as we use the term, the Spirit of God moved upon the face, even so on, that there are certain distinct qualities, characteristics. whereby you know it is the Spirit of God. As I said, so many churches today, and Brother Branham was certainly on their backs for it, condemning them, who do not believe in divine healing, and some go so far as to say it's of the devil. Now look, the church that says that that is of the devil has died and will go to the lake of fire. And I'm not sorry for God, and I'm not sorry except for the sense of the people being fooled. But they couldn't be fooled unless they were meant to be fooled. So when you find people who say, well, that the devil healed, or the devil did this, or the devil did that, you've got to come back to the twelfth chapter of the book of Matthew, where they said, no, this is not God that is doing this. This is Beelzebub doing this. He said, you can get away with it because this is the time of the Son of Man, the sacrifice. But when the Holy Spirit comes, and only God can raise the dead, and they knew that. And only God healed the sick, and they knew that. Because in the wilderness journey under Moses, God revealed himself, I am the Lord that healeth thee. So they knew that healing lay within the Lord. So all right, now these people blasphemed at that time and got away with it. But once the Holy Spirit came, after the atonement, Then turning from the truth, completely annulled the atonement. And even went so far as to, they literally blasphemed the Holy Ghost. And when they did, there is no return. Now that's what happened to Missionary Alliance Church and the Nazarenes. That's why Brother Branham saw the Nazarene Church. He might as well have seen the Missionary Alliance Church making love to a corpse. Can you imagine anything so horrendous and terrible as making love to a corpse?

The point is, they're gone. They blasphemed the Holy Ghost. Now, you'll find a lot of them, they say, well, our forefathers made a mistake. And they really, they shouldn't have done it. Now, what did Jesus say about that? He said, you build the tombs of the prophets. You say, if we had been living in the day of our fathers, we would not have done it. You are the ones that did it and are doing it, and you will reap what your fathers sowed.

You say, well, hey, that's a pretty tough set of rules. Look, I don't make the rules.

I'm done making them. I don't write the Bible. I just preach it. Hopefully I'm preaching it right. So, all right. You're seeing here that Brother Branham is taking us very carefully to let us know that this is resurrection power. And as he takes this message and bringing it to our attention, He shows us that absolutely we are in the hour of the resurrection. So therefore now this spirit, which was in our midst and is still in our midst, that Brother Branham pointed out to us, he said he was so kind as to let his picture be taken with me. I just read that last night or the night before. He said that on more than one occasion. You realize that he quoted from Acts the third chapter. That the presence of the Lord was a revival, which was a healing revival. And there's no such thing as a true healing revival unless there is a fresh message. Because God is there doing it for a specific purpose. Now, anybody can understand that on the grounds... that a prophet like Moses and like Paul, like Jesus, like William Branham, although they don't want to be William Branham, so you can put them to one side for the time being, know positively that anybody that's going to be accepted as the voice of God to somebody else, the person that becomes the voice must satisfy the listener that he has the credentials.

What do you think of a bunch of Mormons of which the university, The state of Ohio, OSU has a Mormon as its president, a man named Gordon, who will accept any polygamous horse feet to have had a vision.

And the angel Moroni, and I guess his cousin Bologna was with him, also spaghetti thrown in. And enough golden plates to fill a truck.

An angel from hell appeared, if an angel did appear.

And they have the nerve to call themselves Christians.

Millions of them.

I think there's millions already. Polygamy usually breeds millions. 20 wives, 10 kids apiece, you've got 200 right there.

And they never did quit practicing polygamy. I knew that. The government blinded their eyes. Now they say, we never did quit it because, you know, it's the scripture.

Brother Brandon said, polygamy said it was a thousand times better than Hollywood marriage and divorce, but we know polygamy is wrong.

But you can't tell people anything. No use.

Along this line, Brother Bramman illustrating, he's letting you know that the authentic God, who

in himself is the resurrection, because it is his life that's imparted. So God is resurrection. That same one is here today that we so greatly admire in men of the caliber of Stephen, Philip, Enoch, Noah, and others. And last Sunday we were going to begin paragraph 147 concerning Elijah, of whom we had already spoken. Now, Elijah is very important because Brother Branham is already Elijah number four. The Spirit of God, in the characteristics set forth in the life of this man, and the work set forth in this man Elijah, came on down through Elisha, John the Baptist, and now the Elijah for this hour, which... He's conveniently denied by every Gentile because after all, there are no Gentile prophets, almost to the Jews. Well, I just don't believe in giving everything to the Jews. How do they know for sure that Jesus turned from the Jews and came to the Gentiles? How do they know we haven't got a phony God called Jesus?

See, they're stupid. Spiritually stupid, spiritually negative. They say they believe. They don't believe because Jesus himself was a prophet. And if he wasn't a prophet, forget about being Messiah. I mean, forget it. Moses did not declare that this one coming would be the Savior. He said he would be a judgment prophet. And if you didn't believe him, you were lost. Where

does that leave these half -baked Protestants?

I wonder, where does it leave the Christian, so -called Catholic, anything else? He doesn't believe he's a liar. Anybody can say he believes. And you know what? Perfectly deceived. My wife used to work amongst these poor little kids in Canada. They called it the PBS Provincial Training School. It was a little nut house for kids. And one girl bleached that she was marrying the Prince of Wales. And when the Prince of Wales married, you know, that American, Wallace Simpson, she went into a tizzy. See, you cannot tell a deceived person or a mental person anything. How

are you going to do it? That's why the message at the end of the age is repent, change your mind. But if God does not grant repentance, there is no way you sitting here this morning and I standing up here in front of you can change our minds to the truth. Now, let's get that flat.

Because the world believes the lie.

And that's what the end time ends in, believing the lie. And the lie is, thou shalt not surely die. And men of Walbrook's stature, 80 years of age, is grinning. And hoping he lives to see the rapture, he said, just one thing, he said, I'm going to be glad to miss it, and yet it would be kind of nice to see it. He said, what are they going to say and do when they see all of us missing? He's got it figured out, there might be a million people missing.

Eight people makes one million? Oh, I wish I could make my money do that.

I'd take every bill I could get, turn it into ones, and say, now this is a thousand books. Now, I might get fooled, but I can tell you one thing. The merchant in the cash register doesn't.

So much for human wisdom. 147. Look at Elijah. After his work was finished on earth, he was so full of that quickening power, resurrection power, the Holy Ghost, a portion of God himself, he condemned those Jackie Kennedy haircuts in his day. He told old Jezebel what he thought of her. He told those preachers and priests what was right and what was wrong. They didn't believe him. But he condemned those painted -faced women and things so bad, and he was so full of that quickening power that nothing could harm him. All right, we're looking at the picture here. Brother Branham says, look at Elijah. So we're going to look at him. Now, what are you going to look at? After his work was finished on earth, he was so full of that quickening power, he condemned. All right, when his work was finished on earth. He went and condemned Jezebel, now set forth as Jackie Kennedy. She's the wife of the Catholic president, and she's the style setter of the day and so on. Everybody trying to be like her. Okay? Finished his work on earth. He was so full of the quickening power that he brought a message of condemnation. What

does it mean when he finished his work? Well, if you'll study your scripture carefully, You'll find in chapter 18, he faced the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. And in chapter 19, he received a death threat from Jezebel. In the same chapter, after he fled from her, weary and frightened, so to speak, angels took care of him. And

then over in 1 Kings 19, and I'll go back to that, and

verses 8 beginning, He

rose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of the forty days and forty nights to Horeb. He came thither. Now, notice he came to Horeb. Remember, Malachi tells you to watch Mount Horeb. He came thither out of the cave and lodged there. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I've been very zealous for the Lord of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenants, thrown down thine altars, slain thy prophets of the Lord, and even I and I left alone. I'm here by myself, and they seek my life to take it away. When I'm gone, it's all gone. And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind ran at the mountain, breaking pieces of rock before the Lord, and the Lord is not in the wind. After the wind, an earthquake, and the Lord is not in the earthquake. After the earthquake, a fire, and the Lord is not in the fire. After the fire, still a small voice. All right, what was the still small voice? That was God now speaking, the one from heaven spoke. And it was so Elijah heard, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out and stood in the end of the cave, and behold, there came a voice and said, What doest thou hear, Elijah? He said, I have been very zealous, Lord of hosts, and so on and so on and so on. And the Lord said in verse 15, Now you'll notice in here that this is absolutely the same thing that happened to Brother Branham. Out there, outside of Wilcox, Arizona, several men were with him when a whirlwind came and rent the stones, an actual stone cliff, and rent the rocks out into little particles of triune shape or triangular shape. Particles of stone. Number two, there was an earthquake. Number three, the fire was seen in Sabina Canyon sometime later.

God wasn't in any of those, but God was in his word which he brought back. And he brought back particularly marriage and divorce, which you will notice is exactly 2 Thessalonians and also Matthew 25. Where in Matthew 25, he divorces the woman who was called his wife. I used to know he was my wife, but I don't know he's my wife anymore. She's divorced. And also, the word in 2 Thessalonians can mean divorce as well as catching up. Various meanings can be found, and they're all applicable. Scripture does that. As Brother Branham said, all Scripture has different meanings. That is compound meanings, and some have even more than that. So, all right. This is at the end of his ministry, which has been fully authenticated. And Brother Branham had a showdown in Chicago with the prophets of Baal, about 1956 or so, if you ever know us, that area.

Also, he ceased to pray for America because judgment had come, she did not repent. And you'll notice that Elijah brings a message of condemnation to the... false religion unto the false prophetess of the false gods, and is typed by a woman. And as he uses Jackie Kennedy there, setting the conduct of women, so he's looking at the church, what her conduct is, and where she is getting her truth, that is her doctrine, which is error, and she is getting it from her false gods. Now you notice, that Brother Branham did not only stop there, or did not just stop there, but he went on and he said he told those priests and preachers what was right and what was wrong. And this is exactly true as you'll notice the opening of the seals, especially in Revelation chapter 22 from verse 10 on ending, 18 and 19, adding and taking a word from it. Now, you'll

notice he also said, that the quickening power is what drove him to condemnation or giving a message of condemnation. The quickening power was what gave him the authority to go to the preachers and priests and said, I condemn this generation.

He was also so full of quickening power that nothing could harm him. Now, he's talking about Elijah. And talking about himself is very true. Because William Branham could never be pinned down by anybody to the extent that that person could ever get the advantage of him. Now, he had many a showdown with people. But God always backed the prophet. He did not back somebody else. There was no time that person could hide. And you know the times he mentioned, especially those two Church of Christ people that came to him in Detroit, how that the Spirit of God... God absolutely revealed their plot to the whole people, and the man, of course, paid the price of his condemnation, which all the diseases he set upon him were not upon him. He brought them on himself. Now, 148, God had fed him from the heavens, took him out, and set him aside. Now, in this particular instance, we know that he was fed by food that the angels brought. We have no problem with that. But we know today, We are referring to the manna which comes from above. As Brother Branham so often said, the new word, the new manna, not that which has been already lost its strength. He was so full of quickening power when it came time to die, the Jordans opened up. And he just walked over. God sent down a chariot and took him home. So full of that quickening power, he became a true, genuine son of God. Now, we're looking at that scripture. This is what Brother Branham said, rather, Scripture to us. God sent down a chariot, and this man gained full immortality. Well, you call it immortality. Actually, God took him away, and we would presume that he was changed into taking away. We have no particular definite Scripture for it. But at this particular time, he was so full of that quickening power, he became a true, genuine son of God. Now, Brother Branham mentioned... that in Elijah's hour, that was the first Elijah, the showdown was Mount Carmel. In the time of the fourth Elijah, which is William Branham, the showdown is Mount Zion. And so we're looking at the fact here that Brother Branham's saying, the quickening power was so great that he became a true, genuine son of God, which in my understanding would absolutely be saying, that this person here is a manifested Son of God, manifested before the people that he was a true, genuine one, especially in contradistinction to those who were not genuine. And we refer specifically to seed as in vine. One is a true vine, one is a false vine. One has the true word. One has a false word. One has a genuine baptism with the Holy Ghost. The others have an anointing upon them. Now, as you look at this anointing upon people, and you are referring to the genuineness of the individual at that particular time, you have to go back to the time of Jesus. To begin to see what lies in this hour because it is in the hour of Jesus wherein John the Baptist, the third Elijah, foreran Jesus and actually saw the miracles and the signs and the wonders. And he said, art thou that he should come looking and so on. You're looking at the time of Jesus when there was Judas there who was the son of perdition. Now, Judas, of course, was one of the twelve apostles. And he was sent out in the 10th chapter of the book of Matthew, I believe it is, and also in the book of Luke, I forget just what chapter. And in there, Jesus said, you will not take script for this or that, but you will go out and you will heal the sick and raise the dead and cast out devils and you will do this and do the other thing. Now, the ordinary believer would like to believe that Judas didn't do that. But Judas literally did that and his name was in the book of life, but of course was taken out of the book of life. Because he was the son of perdition. And Brother Branham said, one of you is the devil or Diabolus. Now, let's just look at Judas going out with the twelve disciples. Now, you better believe that Judas does not go on the side and say, now, hey, over here. Now, eleven of these disciples of Jesus, I'm one of them. Now, there's John and Peter, there's James, there's Bartholomew, there's Thaddeus, Matthew, he named them all off. And he said, those eleven there, but he said, now look at it. They are operating under the power of this Jesus of Nazareth. But I'm not. I don't use his name. I'm on my own. Now, do you think for one minute he said that? Come on. He no more said that than nothing. He was operating under the same rules, under the same name, under the same power, doing the same thing, but he was a serpentine.

Now, let's take Elijah to this day. The Elijah of this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ himself, not a man, God, but it comes by providence. Right there. Picture on the wall.

Doing the works in the person. And God doing this

great thing at the end time. Now, what has happened? It has happened that at the time of Brother Branham, a whole group of disciples rise up. And they say, hey, this is the Bible. This is the Bible. They say Bible days are here again. Oh, that's true. Oh, here's a man sent from God. A hundred percent. Ha, we can do it too. And they go out and they do it.

Somebody say, well, that positivity would be a manifestation of a genuine son of God. Far from it, for many shall come in that day. Saying, have we not cast out devils? Have we not prophesied? Have we not healed the sick and done so and so and so and so and so? He even raised it. He said, I never had a thing to do with you. I never knew you. Why? These people are positively the fruit of false prophets, which means they can do signs and wonders that follow the Word, but they don't have what it takes to prove what comes ahead of the Word, which shows that they are the authority. Now, that's what happened with Luther. He was not a vindicated prophet. Wesley was not a vindicated prophet. The Pentecostal did not have a vindicated prophet. There wasn't one since the time of Paul. To absolutely know that word, you would have to have the author of the word come and explain it to you.

Now, this man, Elijah, to

lead them out of idolatry, he had to have the definitive proof that he was the mouthpiece of God. Otherwise... You can go from idolatry to idolatry to idolatry, which is what the church has done, until they end up completely confused, worshiping him who calls himself the vicar of Christ, thinking he's the real McCoy. And they're only too happy to do it. So we're looking then at genuine sons of God. This man was a genuine son of God because he fit the mold of the prophets. according to Deuteronomy 18, then even fitted according to a degree. Now notice, to a degree under Moses, because in here he was in a cave. He was taken out where the glory of the Lord was. There were signs and wonders and a voice, but not like Moses. He never spoke face to face with God. But God made himself apparent in signs and wonders. Now, Brother Branham said, God didn't only go down to Egypt with Moses and manifest himself in signs and wonders, but he himself appeared in the pillar of fire upon Mount Sinai. So did he. We even got his picture. So you see, there's prophets and there's prophets. Now, this man positively came on the scene as a 100 % judgment prophet, not a man like the Apostle Paul. Now, at the very end time here, we have a man come on the scene with marvelous signs and wonders preceding the Word, and at the same time proven that he spoke face to face with God, so that even as the Word was given to Paul and remained in a mystery until the end time, which it had to be according to the Word, now we have the same one in the same pillar of fire. Come on down here. Now, he is genuinely manifested as a true son of God. Where does our manifestation come in? Now, you can't do it by signs that follow the word. Oh, we should have more in this church. But that isn't it. It's whether you're in the same mold of the same word. That's what counts at the end time. If you think that you, by signs and wonders, and I do not downgrade them. Hey, look, I wish we had them every day, every minute. Nobody has had them. Nobody's going to. You'd just better believe it. Because you haven't got a record for it. But they're there. Manifestation is there. But the actual truth is what we are looking at here. Tell me, have we passed under the rod of judgment so that we come out on the right side? Because under Elijah there is judgment and confrontation.

Now you can't get by with it. You've got to accept it. There has got to be confrontation. Because there is judgment.

And Brother Branagh said we've gone through that judgment in this hour because it is a judging word. All right.

149. Notice he had a successor.

And his name was Elisha. Now, Elisha had a double portion of this quickening power seed. He had a double portion of it. Now, he preached about 80 years. He's about 80 years old, rather. He took sick and died. Now, he didn't go home like Elisha did. See, both of them represented in the church. Some saints going, some are resting. But notice Elijah taken up in the rapture. Then Elisha went to sleep in God, but full of quickening power. Okay? He said, notice he had a successor. Right away you're going to find people who want to always fill the bill of a successor. All Brother Branham had to do, see, I'm laying a foundation for the great one to come, and right away someone's the great one. I got a sermon the other day, and this fellow said, I'm going to send you my sermon. He come up to the clouds. I said, great, send it. So right off the bat, he tells you, he said, there's a rainbow in the clouds. There's got to be clouds before there's a rainbow. That's very true. Understand that. And then he said, now he said about the sun shining on the clouds, that brings forth the rainbow. And he said that. Now he said he come up to the clouds. That means saints. Now, tell me, where did this kid, he's 50 some, kid.

Where did he get the right to say, clouds are saints?

He's guessing. When I talk to him next time, I'll challenge him.

Say, hey, you can fool yourself, but don't try to fool me. You better give me scripture.

Because I've talked to tougher people than he's ever going to be talked to. I've talked to Brother Branham. You want the toughest guy to stand there.

I've questioned him. I do it all the time. Where does he get it? Where does he get it? What's he done with it? This kid hasn't got a leg to stand on. He said it, that's why it's right.

And people are going to believe him.

He's like the guy that told the poor woman he's going to seduce and take all her money. He said, you know, he said, I got this money, he said, but my bank account hasn't been transferred. Oh, I'll lend you the money. So when her money's all transferred to him, he walks off. Don't believe everything just because somebody says something. He said, give me your bank statement.

Well, he said, I don't think I can insult the guy. Well, I can. It

took a few times for him to insult somebody. What's a little insult? See what I mean? Seduction. A guy says something that sounds good, and they fall for it. Everybody wants to be, brother, a successor.

Now, just a minute. Let's look at this particular picture here. Jesus had a successor. He himself came back in the form of the Holy Ghost. The Elohim came down. When you're looking at the truth, you're looking right back straight at God himself. All right. Now, that's well and good. But there wasn't an Exodus at that time. Now, let's look at the Exodus that took place under the time of Moses because there was an Exodus. Now, did he have a successor? He had a successor who was Joshua. That was a man to lead them in. Now, it was okay down here. Elisha could come and follow. The time of Jesus. It was the Holy Spirit that was his successor. William Branham going off the scene, who is his successor? Joshua, which is the Holy Spirit. So people trying to get this line up and say, well, I want to tell you something. There's this great thing coming to the church now that Brother Branham's gone. Because you see, he just set the platform. And now you just watch these great ministries. I got news here. Brother Branham said the great ministries are over. The great signs are over. You have seen your last sign, which was discernment, which was according to what? Hebrews 4 and 12, based on Genesis 18, where God stood with Abraham and read the heart of Sarah standing there in the tent, set her right on the reading of her heart, and he said to Joshua, this hour is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. So that's what you are looking at. You are not looking at anything else, anybody taking Brother Branham's place under any consideration whatsoever. There isn't any other ministry coming. What's going to happen now is to the Jews. But you try to tell people that they're not going to believe it. And you're going to find all over the place people are risen up to be leaders. They tried to pin leadership on me. They said, Brother Bill, you're the logical person. You wrote the books. And I said, that doesn't mean a thing. I ain't no William Branham. How are you going to follow a man like William Brannan? I can follow William Brannan with no trouble at all if I know what road he's traveling on. Like I could maybe go back to Tucson, the same road he traveled, and I could eat the same meal at the same place. But God doesn't do that.

There's no plan where anybody would follow Brother Brannan because why? His message would forerun the literal second coming of Jesus Christ and nothing else was added. And people don't even believe that to be the truth. They want him to be the one. But the voice did not say to him, as John the Baptist foreruns, so you will forerun. It says your message. And remember, his ministry was his message. He said, my ministry is to declare that he is here. And once that declaration is made, the same one then that's here he's talking about is the resurrection to raise the dead. And as the dead are raised, we become changed by the same power, and the same power takes us off the earth to the marriage supper. All right. 151. Look at his prophecy just before he died. Now, let me show you. I don't care if you are dead or where you are at. That quickening power never leaves you. Years and years after his death, his meat had rotten away. Skin worms had eaten it up. They were packing a dead man one day. They threw him in on those bones and there was so much quickening power there until the man came back to life again. Hallelujah. Raised up from the dead because that quickening power that was upon that saint of God never left him, stayed right there on those bones. What does that tell you? That tells you that every single atom in your body, no matter what it is, touched by the Holy Ghost because the body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. That's what gets the Holy Spirit in the baptism. That becomes the temple. positively will come back to immortality. There is nothing that can be done about it. Now, he said, just look at his prophecy just before he died. I don't know too much about that, to tell you the honest truth.

Maybe over here in... The

last thing I know about is the illness of Elisha. took Joash. Then when Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died, and Joash the king of Israel came down at him and wept over his face and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof, Elisha said unto him, Take bows and arrows. And he took bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it. Elisha put his hand upon the king's hand. He said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. And Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The error of the Lord's deliverance. And the error of deliverance from Syria. For thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou consume them. And he said, Take arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice in state. And the man of God was wroth with him and said, Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times. Then hast thou smitten Syria till thou hast consumed it. Whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but three times. Now, I don't know of anything that... That's the last prophecy I know of because it says Elisha died and they buried him. And then, of course, things began to take place which were pretty terrible. And as they were going to bury a man, they dumped the man in this place where Elisha's bones were. The body had rotted now and he came back to life. So you look at his prophecy just before he died. And that prophecy was what? It was a prophecy of grace wherein there was deliverance. And the people did not take it. They only took it as far as they wanted to take it. And they got a good victory. They understand certain things are going on. But you see, when they didn't take the arrows here and smite, in other words, did not use what God gave them sufficiently, he said, now, he said, when you could have overcome, you'll only overcome so far. but you'll never get deliverance. And that's exactly where the foolish virgin is. Now, that's the best I can see out of this, what Brother Branham is saying here concerning the prophecy. And I'm just particularly looking at it. You say, well, Brother Vail, you're guessing. Well, all right, I'm guessing. You know, I don't try to tell you a lie. I just say, all I can look at this scripture and see where he's trying to take us, just before he died, there was absolutely a chance for real deliverance, and they blew it. And that's exactly what Brother Branham said about his ministry. And you know something? You go to the ministry of any prophet, and you go to Jesus himself, and you'll find the same thing if you had believed, if you had done it, if you had listened. If, if you've come this far, cut off. All

right, look at his last prophecy. Now, at his last prophecy, which was what? A judgment prophecy. What happened next? They dumped a man upon his bones, and a resurrection took place. Now, what does that tell me? It tells me in this hour there is going to be a resurrection because the successor to William Branham is only one person, which is God himself. And that's the best I can do with it. I hope. Look it. If I'm not right, at least I'm illustrating. Because I can't take doctrine unless I have a specific word for it. But he said, look at his prophecy just before he died. And I looked at it. Now, let me show you. I don't care if you are dead or where you're at. That quickening power never leaves you. Now, what's he telling you right there? That quickening power never leaves you. And who are you? You are body, soul, and spirit. But who's the real you? That brother Brandon said, my ears, my eyes, my nose. Who's me? The soul. So, therefore, now look. John himself said, I wish above all else you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. And remember, at the end time, Jesus Christ himself. Now, we're talking not about the man. We're looking at God himself, Jehovah, Elohim, the Great One. He rises with healing in his wings. And what is healing? Healing is healing. And what is the ultimate? Immortality. Now, what is immortality? It's going to remove every single solitary thing that brings about sickness. So, therefore, unbelief, which is the original sin and only sin. which has as its attribute sickness and death and so on, will be completely removed and will be walking in the perfect faith of vindication of this hour. So what are we looking at? We're looking at the fact if anybody dies, it doesn't matter. You've got the word of truth for your hour because that's a true manifested son. He's going to stand with the word. That's why everybody dies as a martyr. It's not because of what they do.

No. Because unless doing has to do with taking communion a certain way, like the Catholics killed the Protestants and so on, which was their business, and they thought they did right, and it was supposed to be done anyway. I mean, how in the world is somebody going to die of famine if there's no famine? How is somebody going to die of a sword if there's no sword? How are you going to die of persecution if there's no persecution? So come on. You know, how are you going to wear clothes if there's no clothes? So somebody's got to do it, right? Got to do it to you. You're going to suffer? Who's going to make you suffer? What's going to make you suffer? Something's got to be there. So, okay, this is just light. Whoever did it to what? No big deal. It's how are you before God and how are you acting? All right. So, notice this power never leaves you. And he's talking about the resurrection. Okay? Let's go to Ephesians. Are you still with me? Because this is very interesting material. I'm taking my time on this because this is what the prophet says. The prophet says that we've got to hunt in the Bible because it's in the Bible. Ephesians, the first chapter. And he talks about the whole plan of predestination. And it hinges upon trusting in Christ. And it says in verse 13, in whom you trusted after you heard the word of truth. You had to hear it first. The gospel of your salvation, saved by hearing the word. In whom after you believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of His glory. Tells you right there, hey, this is all yours. You've got sealed in. The Holy Spirit. Brother Brown has said you've got the abstract. Now notice, everybody through the ages has the abstract. And at the end time, the great abstract himself in whom is all abstract. You know what I mean? Christ the one, God himself, the one that raised the dead and all. Brings all these promises. He stands there. And he said this power never leaves you. No way, shape, or form. Once you're filled with the Holy Ghost, you are sealed in. Then how can anybody believe you can fall away and get lost? Now, you can fall away to the extent you act like an idiot or a little foolish child that can't be disciplined, doesn't want to walk in the light. But you're never going to get lost because he said he will lose none of them. And no man can pluck them out of my Father's hand. My Father which gave me is greater than all. See? Now, this man's flesh had rotted away. The skin worms had eaten him up. They were packing a dead man one day, threw him in on those bones. There was so much quickening power there until the man came back to life again. All right? That's over here again. Now, remember Romans, the eighth chapter. Now, watch in verse 11. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you. Now, if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you. And remember, it was the Spirit that was there to raise him up. God raises the dead. How do you know that? That's what Abraham believed. What does it say in Abraham here? It says, as it's written, I've made thee a father of many nations. Before him he believed even God, who quickens the dead, and calleth those things which are not as though they were. So therefore, what is he talking about? He's saying here, and if God's Spirit, The same God that raised up Jesus from the dead. That God is dwelling in you. That God that raised up Jesus from the dead is going to quicken your mortal bodies by the part of God's own Spirit that is dwelling in you. How many times is it telling you that? One, two,

at least three times in one verse. You're being told that you are a part. Of the resurrection itself.

I said, Brother Brandon said, well, back here we read it. Well, he said, you're part of the resurrection. God looked down and saw you. On what grounds? Because it was foreknown to him that you would be, and he made it so by predestination. Absolutely. So, all right, you're part of the resurrection. No problem. 152. Oh, remember, we are flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone, if we are his bride. Okay, that's over here in Ephesians, the fifth chapter.

That's the great first church. And Brother Brand said, we've got to return to Ephesus. There's got to be a return to Ephesus. Alpha is omega. Got to go back. Okay. And so we have 5 and 30. We're members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. On what grounds? Because we're united to him. How are you united to him? By the Holy Spirit. Now, the Holy Spirit was in the body of Jesus. God himself came in on the River Jordan. And their God implicitly, the Father, absolutely the fullness of God in drought Him. The great Creator. Everything that God was, was positively in there. Purely and simply Almighty God. Now then, that made God, made Jesus the temple of the Holy Ghost. Lo, a body hast thou prepared for me. No, you're not your body's temple of the Holy Ghost. And therefore, Jesus was the temple. So therefore now, Every single member of the bride of Christ has a little bit of the Holy Spirit, and altogether they comprise the temple to which there is a head. And the headship is here right now, in the form of God being in the form of the Holy Spirit, in the pillar of fire. All right, pretty soon he's going to incarnate himself, taking over. All right, now watch what he says. Here is bride, remember? According to the book of Genesis, they become one flesh. And that's exactly true. See, as Brother Branagh said, God put himself in one temple, in one body, one member. Today he's in many. Now, therefore we now have God in us and with us and above us. Death won't bother that quickening power at all. In other words, death can have no effect at all about what happens. It doesn't matter what happens. There's no, he said, well, if my body got burned. What does it matter if your body got burned? Or what if it disintegrated and went to gases? What does it matter? No problem. Nothing matters.

Here you've got people raised from the dead in the first half of the first resurrection. It doesn't matter at all. See? That's what they were talking to Paul in the resurrection. He said, what body did they come with? Well, they come with a body according to the seed. Well, you came with a body according to a physical seed. Now you're a spiritual seed. So you'll come with a body commensurate to the spiritual. Be immortal, perfect. No sin, nothing can touch you. Not at all. You're in the perfect image of Almighty God as you come back. Absolutely. See? Though skin words destroy this body, in my flesh I'll see God. My flesh. But a changed flesh. Glorified flesh. Caught up. See? And he said in there in 1 Thessalonians 14, he said, I don't want you to be ignorant as sore as those that have no hope. Why? He said it doesn't matter that these people are dying and are dying and will die. He said, no problem. Well, he said, what's going to happen? He said, the Lord's going to descend to heaven with a shout. The voice of the ark came to trumpet God. And he tells us that it didn't crush or rise first. Well, that means there's got to be a resurrection. Paul speaks of that in 1 Corinthians 15. See? Then he said, I show you mystery when all of us sleep, we'll all be changed. And when they're all up here and we're all changed, there's no power in death or the grave. It's over. See? What a hope for an old man like me, seeing my end out yonder soon at 56. That was a prophecy. I don't know if he knew it or not. Ever since I was a little bitty boy, I stood here trying to proclaim this. But now I know that in me, nothing good have I, nothing I've done, but in me is that quickening power. Now, over here in Galatians, the fourth chapter. And Brother Branham believes strong in predestination. You notice what it says. Because you are sons, Galatians 4 and 6, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. All right? What life was in Christ? None other life but the life of God. That same life is in us, given to us because we also are sons. That's what it says over in the book of Hebrews, the same chapter. He's not ashamed to call us brethren because we're all of one source. He said, I've done nothing that I know of that's any good. I have nothing in myself. But he said, I know I'm a child of God. In me is that quickening power. Now, Brother Branham could not say that on any other grounds than the grounds of Revelation chapter 22, 18 and 19. You can't add a word and take a word. There's no way.

See, you've got your guidelines and you've got to go by your guidelines. Because it's only in Revelation chapter 18, 22nd chapter 18 to 19. that this comes to play at the very end time. Now,

Brother Branagh said, There's nothing in me, but in me is that quickening power. Now, remember the time it was in Kansas. How was it? Kansas City? It wasn't Tulsa. Maybe Kansas City or someplace. I forget exactly now. There was a Pentecostal preacher. He had an accident Saturday morning. And they were building a church, and they had the walls braced up, you know.

Something happened, whether a wind hit it or something, I don't really remember. But this wall came down and crushed him. They rushed him to the hospital, and they said that he would die because he was so badly injured. And they called Brother Branham. And Brother Branham began thinking about it. He said, well, isn't that something? He said, just like they called Jesus for Jairus' daughter, and they called Jesus for the centurion's...

and things like that, he said. And Jesus would just go down and lay his hands on them. But he said, of course, he said, my hands aren't Jesus' hands. And he said, it'd be nice, he said, but I can see that I'm really not in that particular arena. And a voice spoke to him and said, well, then he began musing. He said, yeah, but it's strange, he said, in meetings, he said, thus saith the Lord, I just lay hands on them and they get tremendous deliverance. And a voice spoke and said, Are the hands any different from what they were to begin with before you laid hands on in the meetings when the anointing was there? And Brother Branham said, No, it's the same hands. Well, he said, All right, then you just go lay hands on them. Don't worry about your hands because there's not your hands anyway. He went down and prayed for the man. The man recovered perfectly. There wasn't anything wrong with the meeting that night, feeling good. A miracle. So Brother Branham never did ever arrogate to himself. anything that was spiritual on the grounds as though he, as William Branham, had produced it. It was something that God gave him, even though he was predestinated from the foundation of the world, it still went back to God, not William Branham. Now notice in 154, It quickened me one day from the things of the world as a young man unto eternal life. All the things that happened, I've seen visions foretold things, he never let them fail. I've spoken in other tongues. I've prophesied. I've done those things by the Spirit of God that dwells in me. That's quickening power. Now, he's talking about the quickening power. As a carnal person, he is quickened to the things of God by the baptism with the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit coming in. He knows now, as he said, one day you'll realize you always were saved. You'll realize that you always were a child. The realization comes with the true baptism. and the true revelation, the Word of Almighty God. Then he said, I've got a ministry on top of that, not just as a young convert, but I've had visions and foretold things. He actually spoke face -to -face with God. He admitted it. I spoke another tongue, prophesied. Well, you know he prophesied so many times, he was pitiful hundreds of times. Told people their dreams, everything else. I've done those things by the Spirit of God that dwells in me. That's quickening power. Now, you notice that in speaking of these things, It is not necessary for anybody to believe that because he is quickened as Brother Branham from the things of the world unto eternal life, which we call the rebirth by the baptism with the Holy Ghost, that all these other things will happen to him because it is said in the Scripture, Do all speak in tongues? Do all prophesy? And the answer is no. He is speaking of his own highly specialized ministry, which was that of a prophet. which particularly were those signs that vindicated him to be the one that had the authority to speak, that God was using him, his voice, and speaking to him. And Brother Branham's referring to that particular quickening power. Now, let's look at the first quickening power. And we find that in Romans, the eighth chapter. And we're going to start at verse 5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. Now you see, let's keep reading. For to be carnally minded is death, to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If so, be the Spirit of God dwelling you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. In other words, it tells you right there, there is no way that you can qualify into sonship outside the baptism with the Holy Ghost. As Paul said in Galatians, because you are sons, God has sent forth his Spirit into your heart whereby you cry, My Father. Now watch. And if the Spirit be in you, and if the Spirit of Christ be in you, The body is dead because of sin. Now it tells you right there you're going to die in spite of the baptism. But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. See? And where do you actually find your ground root for righteousness? All right, it goes right to 1 John where it tells you that Abel was righteous and Cain was unrighteous. They both offered correct sacrifices in the sense that they were good sacrifices. Excellent. but only one was according to the division of the Word. So, therefore, the Word made the difference. It's the same as the Scripture says that since Jesus died, there is no condemnation. He took it away. He said that God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, whose air bleedings do not perish, everlasting life. And then it says, but this is the condemnation. that light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. It tells you specifically that your salvation is word -based. And that's what Paul says in the end time because the word of God that you heard at the end time effectively worked in you and sanctified you and put you apart from the rest.

That's why Brother Branham was a prophet of distinction. The word put him apart from the rest. He was a word prophet.

See, he could come with that word. But it's a very peculiar position he had on the grounds that he never brought the word. He was here interpreting the word, which lined him right exactly with Samuel and threw him into a judgment prophet. The only man that was. He said, I don't pray for America. She's gone. I indict this generation. See, right down the line, the man was a judgment prophet. And along that line, let me warn you, that Brother Branagh said, if you are not a judgment prophet, you watch out. And I think he was talking very specifically to a young man that thought he was a judgment prophet. And he was a complete insane nut is what the poor kid was. I mean, none against him, but my God, he was insane. And he had people fooled. Hey, how mentally gone are you when insane people can fool you?

How hungry are you for something? I never could stand them burger cheese, and I know you can eat it, and I won't kill you. What are these people eating? Maggots.

Limb burger cheese, at least, is not tomane poisoning. It is not full of salmonella to destroy it. Rotten food is. And what's vomit? Table's full of vomit.

Oh, I've been through the meal, but thank God, it wasn't a bad meal. Mostly standing by watching. Nothing got hurt. A little angry at times, but even stupidly angry. He said, I've done all these things by the Spirit that dwells in me. Now, he said, that's quickening power. Now, what he's referring to right there, watch, is Ephesians, the third chapter. And I don't know if I've got the written in this old Bible here or not. The actual translation, Ephesians, the third chapter. And I won't find it in chapter two, I can tell you that. Yeah, it says now unto him in verse 20, chapter three, Ephesians, that is able to exceed and get bunnable all we can ask or think according to the power of that work that's within us. It worketh in us. Unto him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ through all ages. Now, you notice that Paul is talking primarily of himself, although including them. And when he does, even primarily himself, he puts it all into the church. As Brother Brown has said, if the hand does it, the body does it. Now, unto him who in the exercise of his power that is at work within us. Oh,

he's kind of blotted here. Anyway, the idea, who in the exercise of his power that is at work within us does things which we could never, ever even dream of. What I'm trying to show you here is this. When this verse is correctly understood, it doesn't mean that God comes in and says, Now, hey, here's the power. Hop to it. It's exactly what Brother Branham said. I have a gift. But I cannot use that gift because that gift uses me. Now, he said, if I try to use that gift and I tell you wrong, where will your confidence be when there's a real showdown? The little girl came and said, you want to know something about a dream? He said, honey, I can't tell you. Now, what we're looking at here is, I don't care how much of God or how much of any gift that God gives you. If you don't let him in you operate his own gift, you are in trouble.

See, this is what the Spirit -filled life and the dead -to -sin life is all about. His brother Branham said, If I have got any gift, it is I can get out of the way. Oh, you

want to go home now and shoot your brains out? You can, you know, with my blessing, because all of us in the same boat, we never know how to get out of the way. Get in the way, yes. But get out of the way, how

many can do it? It's not God withholds anything from us, brother, sister. We withhold it ourselves by getting in his way. We say, give me, and when I got you, I'm going to use you. I've often said concerning these guys that make capital on Jesus, and I'm not saying I'm guiltless and a beautiful Christian up here, but I've watched them in their golden calf scheme, and I've learned one thing. You can buy God for nothing, sell him for millions, but on the day of judgment, he wants his own with interest. And I wouldn't want to be in that day. I hope I'm not. No doubt I've got an answer for a lot of things. No doubt at all. I don't kid myself. But can we learn to get out of the way? Because this is what Brother Branham is saying here. It was the quickening power that did it. But I knew how to get out of the way. See? He said, I know that my Redeemer is living now. And someday when He comes, these bones shall rise again to go meet Him in the air. You may bury me deep. Burn it up. Whatever you want to. That quickening power. is eternal.

What's he saying? Why? He said, if it's eternal, it's got to be God.

And if God is there for a purpose, how are you going to stop him? What is what Daniel said? Nebuchadnezzar said. I think it was Old Nebi said it. One thing he learned. He said, God ruleth in the heavens. And he rules above the armies of the heavens. And he does whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it. And nobody can say, hey, don't do it. Sovereignty of God.

William Branham understood sovereignty. Maybe someday. Well, it's going to be very quickly, let's be honest. We don't believe he's going to be years and years coming. Even the Pope set the deadline for 1992.

I wonder if I can hold out till then. You know what I mean? I don't mean spiritual -wise. Hey, he brought me this far.

And if you went through what I've gone through in my life, refusing many times to be obedient, paying a price, you'd know that they're wrong who say, God will pull you through if you can stand the pull. Whether you can stand the pull or not, he's going to pull you through.

Cut this out of your hands. Whenever I can buck God and think I'm bigger than God, there's something terribly wrong. Now, I can use God the wrong way like Elisha did. I told you about that.

People use God the wrong way for many things. But there's one way where God is pleased. He lies within his own word. And that word lies within you and me. We see the light of the word come forth. And when we do, we know this is it. Let's rise and be this man. God, Heavenly Father, we look again to you now at this time, thanking you for your exceeding grace and goodness and mercy that you gave us today to be together, to talk again concerning what is in your word here and talk concerning what is in our day, which is in the word also, to see those things which we have most assuredly know to be true because we were part of them in the sense that we were the audience. Lord, we were in that which was played to, and we believe exactly what the man said, and we're trying to believe it exactly and trying to formulate it exactly, trusting, Lord, that we're one with it. Even as the prophet said, the conductor gets in the spirit of the composer, and we know, Lord, those in the orchestra then get in the spirit of the conductor, and they all become one. There again we see like God in three. And so, Lord, these things we trust this morning, that there's none of us that are outside the Spirit of God, according to the Word, really understand what is in our hour, that it is to the extent of the perfection of the fulfillment of the Word of God. And truly, that one did descend from heaven with a shout, the voice of Archangel Trump of God. And soon there will have to be a resurrection. And as the prophet said, if we're not bright, there's a bright out there somewhere. There's got to be something somewhere. We know that. We believe, Lord, because we believe that. And put it in with your word in this hour in which we live. We believe, Lord, you've given us eyes to see. And we have a heart to understand, O God. Minds that can repent. Lives, Lord, that are anointed of you and a true anointing of the Holy Ghost. We believe that this morning. And now, Father, may it be that that blessed Holy Spirit within us, that we'll learn to get out of the way. That you can really have the preeminence. Because you can have and you should have. You're God. And whether we thought you're worthy or not doesn't have a thing to do with it. You are worthy because you are God. Very grounds of your majesty, Lord, demands a worship. And I pray our worship will be in spirit and in truth. Even as you desire it. We desire that too. We certainly do. And in our heart of hearts we desire, Lord, that we would honor you and exalt you. And make your name great. And worship you in such a way that love comes from our hearts and our minds and our very beings, Lord, caught up in it all. Now again, we pray, Lord, with that beautiful sweet spirit amongst us this morning because we know he's here. Not looking down the road, not discounting his presence, not going back in the days of the prophet, but knowing our Joshua is the Lord Jesus Christ himself here. Great Holy Spirit, sweet spirit of God, heal the sick amongst us. We're so grateful for every little touch, Lord. Everything you do, Lord, we're grateful for. Looking forward to, as it were, the last flap of those great eagle wings hovering us, bringing healing.

To set every captive alive that's in the bride free from mortality.

Change to immortality to rise to neaten year.

This is our desire, Lord, because we know it's your desire. And now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be all power, honor, and glory through Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior. Amen. Take the name of Jesus.