WHY I'M SO HOMESICK:

Friends; we'll need no sun there, for the Lamb in the midst of the City shall be the Light. The sun will never go down in that City, And it never will, because Christ will be that Light, the anointed One. And the King will come and take His throne for one thousand years to reign.

I'm homeward bound!! :). You ask me why I'm happy? I feel the pull! I'm going up friends. D'ya feel it? He's not coming as a thief. Not to His Bride. Let's go on rejoicing down here! Take a Bible! All these confirm the same Promise!! My!

James 2:5 New King James Version (NKJV)

5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Matthew 25:34 New King James Version (NKJV)

34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Hebrews 11:16 New King James Version (NKJV)

16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

James 1:12 New King James Version (NKJV)

12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Isaiah 65:17 New King James Version (NKJV)

17            “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

Isaiah 64:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

4 For since the beginning of the world
Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

Psalm 31:19 New King James Version (NKJV)

19 Oh, how great is Your goodness,
Which You have laid up for those who fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who trust in You
In the presence of the sons of men!

1 Corinthians 2:9 New King James Version (NKJV)

9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”[a]

I CAN'T EVEN BREATHE! I'M SO EXCITED. RIGHT HERE IN THE BIBLE, AND SO REAL, YOU CAN SEE IT WITH YOUR NOSE :). 
WAIT, ELIEZER, TELL ME MORE:

The Rapture

Preached on Saturday, 4th December 1965 at the Ramada Inn in Yuma, Arizona, U.S.A. (1 hour and 44 minutes) 

32 Now, we are warned, as in the doctrine of this in the last days will be scorned at. If you would... Let's just read that just a minute. It's in II Peter the 3rd chapter. Let's read just a moment on this, the 3rd chapter and the 3rd and 4th verses. Let's see if this isn't right.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lust,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?... since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that is by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and the--and in the water:
Whereby the world that... was, being overflowed with water, perished:

33 Now, we see that the reason that this subject is so lightened at, is because that the prophet here has said that in this last days these scoffers would come saying these things. See? It's predicted. The reason the people are acting today the way they're acting... Why, you certainly are expecting it, because the Bible said that: "In the last days they'd be heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof; from such turn away." Can we look for a impersonation of Truth? Certainly.

191 Oh, my. I remember just my last message in California where I thought I'd never go back again, when I predicted Los Angeles will go beneath the ocean. And THUS SAITH THE LORD, it will. She's done; she's washed; she's finished. What hour? I don't know when, but it will be sunk. Right after that the earthquakes begin to jerk and bound.
You remember, many of you men standing right there, that rock that day when that Angel came down there and that Light and Fire falling from the heaven around the rock when we was standing there, rocks flinging out of the mountain, and falling across there. And she blasted three times hard; I said, "Judgment will strike the west coast." Two days after that Alaska almost sunk.

Friends, this Message of the Hour I make noise about here. the message as He came to William Branham is to bring you back to the Apostolic Faith and it is in this Faith, the only Faith, whereby you must be established and grounded.


"Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth"  (2 Pet.1:10-12).

BYE!!

Whose Shoes Are You Walking In?

SNEAKERS

those who sneak in and out of church

LOAFERS

those who let others do all the work 

BABY SHOES

those that don't want to grow up 

FLIP FLOPS

they make a lot of noise and want to be seen

SANDALS

their testimony is full of holes. woi, am i this one? still thinking :(.

SLIP-ONS

they slip on and off religion as needed 

HOUSE SHOES

they stay at home 

HUSH PUPPIES

they don't say anything for Jesus 

CLOGS

they do a lot of stomping 

BALLERINA SHOES

they tiptoe around 

WADERS

they're not sure if they want in or out

RUBBER BOOTS

their life stays in a mess 

WORK BOOTS

they come prepared to work 

GO-GO BOOTS

they are always on the go 

CAMOUFLAGE BOOTS

they hide not wanting to be seen. funny Christians!

CORRECTIVE SHOES

that help you walk straight and stay straight

The Bible tells us to put on the whole armor of God. That includes shoes :).

The Unchangeable God

34 And we notice, people change. It's got so that people today are not friendly like they used to be. I don't know whether you notice it out here or not, but we sure notice it back in the South and East. People are changing, year by year. They're too much of a hurry. They just got to hurry up and get this done. And run down the road, ninety miles an hour, bumper-to-bumper, and stop in a beer joint and drink, couple hours, 'fore they go home. It's change, in a hurry. Where they going?

35 You notice, most the women today has wash machines, and electric ironers, and push button dishwashers, and everything like that; and yet they got less time to pray than they ever had.
36 You know, Susanna Wesley had seventeen children. And she, with them seventeen children, packing the water from a spring, and washing on her hands. And yet she could find two or three hours, a day, to pray with her children, with seventeen little fellows. And out of there come a John and a Charles.
37 That's what's the matter today, reason our schools are letting down, no ministers coming in, young men interested. We have need some more, a praying fathers and mothers is what we need, to make our schools fill up. Young men's heart burning with zeal to take the Gospel is what we need. But things are changing.
44 But we find out that the churches change and the people changes. The roads changes. The scenes changes. The politics changes.
45 But there's one thing that does not change, that's God. He remains the same. "I am God, and I change not." No matter how long it is, God has never changed one bit, and He cannot change. What a place! The reason He cannot change is because God is infinite, and anything that's infinite cannot change.

62-0120 - "The Unchangeable God Working In An Unexpectable Way"
Rev. William Marrion Branham

CIRRHOSIS OF THE GIVER

The disease cirrhosis of the giver was discovered in A.D. 34 by the husband-wife team of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1–11). 

It is an acute condition that renders the patient’s hands immobile when he is called on to move them in the direction of his wallet or her purse, and from thence to the offering bag. This strange malady is clinically unobservable in such surroundings as the golf club, supermarket, clothes shop, or restaurant. Some try to use a fake remedy, pointing out to the patients that income tax deductions by KRA can be claimed for giving. The best therapy, and that which leads to a sure and lasting cure, is to get the individual’s heart right with God. This affliction is actually a symptom of a more basic need of the soul.

Prescribed Medication: Frequent doses of Romans 12:1 and Luke 9:23, accompanied by a dash of 2 Corinthians 9:7. This dosage will become quite pleasant if swallowed with a heaping tablespoon of Philippians 4:19!

The Potter, the clay, the fire :)

There will always be a test. God almost always tests us with something that is very special to us or important in our lives. Let's take a brief look at three men of God and how they each handled the test in their life.

Job

Job was a godly man. The Bible says he was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Job had seven sons and three daughters, seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels and five hundred asses, and a very great household of servants. He was the greatest of all the men of the east at that time. Yet in one day, in one moment of time, he lost all he had. Job went through a major testing process.

His best friends, who claimed they were trying to comfort him, only blamed him and criticized him. They told him he must have sinned in order for God to punish him like that. His own wife failed to support him in his darkest hours. Yet he never gave up on God. He never blamed God. He never quit on God and when his testing was finished God gave him a double portion of everything he had lost.
The book of Job was written to show how the righteous suffer, not how sinners suffer. It is a "type" of the Tribulation period. It shows us how frail we are without God's hedge of protection around us. It is meant to strengthen our faith. What people fail to realize is that even though God allowed Satan to afflict Job, God was still in charge and had total control over Satan. If you are a Christian, and you are in a period of testing, God is still in control of the situation. Don't ever forget that. You are not going through that trial alone. God is only a "prayer" away.

David

• David was a great shepherd.

He killed both a lion and a bear with only his hands. (See 1 Samuel 17:34-37)

• David was a great fighter.

He killed the giant Goliath. (See 1 Samuel 17:45-50)

• David was a great king.

He was loved by the nation of Israel. (See 1 Samuel 18:16)

• David was a great musician.

His music soothed the soul of Saul. (See 1 Samuel 16:23)
He was a designer of instruments. (See 1 Chronicles 23:5)

• David was both a humble and an honorable person.

He had the chance to kill Saul twice, as revenge for Saul trying to kill him, but he didn't. (See 1 Samuel 24:1-12; 1 Samuel 26)

WAIT! David was also a great sinner. He committed two sins that in Old Testament times were deserving of the death penalty. Yet God forgave him because David was also a great repenter.
David's test came in the form of lust over Bathsheba which lead to adultery. Make no mistake about it, he failed the test but he got right with God. He didn't let his sin destroy him or his relationship with God. When accused of his sin David confessed and God forgave him. (2 Samuel 12:7 and 13 - And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.).

I have always found this verse interesting because it makes 1 John 1:9 so real. 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." David confessed and as soon as the words were out of his mouth he was assured of God's forgiveness.
David had to pay the penalty for his sins, just like we do, but God did bless him and use him and he is part of the Messianic line.

Peter

Peter went through one of the greatest tests of all. Of the twelve disciples Peter was one of the three men that was closest to the Lord. He was rough and unpolished in his manner and often put his foot in his mouth when speaking but he had a big heart and loved Jesus very much. His test came when Jesus was arrested. He was even told ahead of time what his test would be. He knew in his heart that he could pass it. How could he deny the Lord? But when the test came he failed it. He denied His Lord three times.

Like David, Peter was sorrowful, and he wept bitterly and repented. And God forgave him. Peter went from being a rough fisherman to one of the greatest fishers of men in the Bible. Peter didn't give in to his failure. He got right with the Lord and God used him. There is a great passage in the Bible that tells us this.

(Acts 9:32-35) And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately. And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
Not a "few," not even many, but ALL that saw him, turned to the Lord. What a testimony. What a witness. What a blessing from God. Would that have happened if Peter hadn't gotten right with the Lord? No, of course not.

Job stayed right. David and Peter got right. There are many more examples in the Bible of people who failed the test and God didn't use them anymore or He didn't use them in the way that he originally intended. (Saul lost his kingdom because he took his eyes off the Lord, Moses couldn't enter the Promised Land because of disobedience.) There are many examples of men that passed the test, some after going through tough times, and God used them greatly. (Joseph went to jail rather than commit adultery and he became a great ruler and a saviour of his people, Paul murdered Stephen but was the greatest apostle the world ever knew, the three Hebrew children survived the fiery furnace because they would not compromise and worship idols.)

Spiritual application: Everyone will be tested by fire. Some make it and some don't. Even the most spiritual looking on the outside can be flawed on the inside. It is a matter of the heart. If the heart is not right with God then the Christian will surely crack under God's firing process. I mean, He's the Potter, me, the clay. Clay is tested in fire, is it? I have seen it over and over again with many Christians who say they want to serve the Lord with all their heart no matter what happens. Yet when they were subjected to the fire they cracked and exploded and became useless for God's service.

What are you going to do? What will your test be? Will you succeed or fail? If you fail, will you stay defeated or will you humble yourself and get right and rise again to be used of God? The choice is yours.
Don't be a casualty. Don't be a statistic. Settle it in your heart today.

AMEN! I am blessed.

The Power of Prayer

A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan. 

While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point.
On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital. Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured. I treated him for his injuries and at the same time witnessed to him of the Lord Jesus Christ. I then traveled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident.

Two weeks later I repeated my journey. Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by the young man I had treated. He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines. He said, "Some friends and I followed you into the jungle, knowing you would camp overnight. We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs. But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards."

At this I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone out in that jungle campsite. The young man pressed the point, however, and said, "No sir, I was not the only person to see the guards. My five friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone."

At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day that this happened. The missionary told the congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this story: "On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf. I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong that I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you. Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?"
The men who had met together that day stood up. The missionary wasn't concerned with who they were - he was too busy counting how many men he saw. There were twenty-six.

This story is an incredible example of how the spirit of the Lord moves in mysterious ways. If you ever hear such prodding, to pray for me :), go along with it. Nothing is ever hurt by prayer except the gates of hell.

Find out what your talent is and use it for God's honor and glory.

The cocklebur

162 The choice of your conduct, you could... You can't mix it now. You're either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the inside. See? The cocklebur, many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; I'm going to heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. See? It's exactly right.
163 Look here, you are a outside person. You have five senses that contacts that outside body. God gave you five senses; not to contact Him, your earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear.
Then you have a spirit on the inside of that, and it has five outlets: conscience, and love, and so forth. Five outlets that you contact the spirit world with that, but with your spirit.
Your physical contacts the physical. Your spiritual contacts the spiritual. But inside of that you've got a soul, and that soul is that gene that come from God.

LEADERSHIP 65-1207

Grace...

A man died and approached the Pearly Gates. 

The gateman told him heaven was getting crowded so he had to test people with the point system. If he got to 100 points he could enter. 

The man told the gateman that he gave to the poor. He marked him down for 3 points. The man thought again, then said that he tithed. Gateman added one point. The man, desperately searching his memory, finally said that he never cussed. He added 1/2 a point. 

By now the man got very frustrated and said that at this rate he could only get in by the grace of God. 

Gateman replied: "Come on in!"

IT'S BY HIS GRACE, NOT BY MIGHT. I FEEL GOOD!

GOD?

It's no longer I who live...

Slow Dance!

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round,
Or listened to rain
Slapping the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
Or gazed at the sun fading into the night?

You better slow down,
Don't dance so fast,
Time is short,
The music won't last

Do you run through each day
On the fly,
When you ask, "How are you?",
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed,
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You better slow down,
Don't dance so fast,
Time is short,
The music won't last

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow,
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a friendship die,
'Cause you never had time
To call and say hi?

You better slow down,
don't dance so fast,
time is short,
the music won't last

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It's like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life isn't a race,
So take it slower,
Hear the music
Before your song is over

A CHURCH MEMBER WILL LOOK AT HER

65-0822E A.THINKING.MAN'S.FILTER_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-5 N-6 SUNDAY_

89 Notice, a man looking at her pretty red lips and painted face, and shorts and--and bikinis, and ever what she's got; a real thinking man won't look at her. Now, a man that's a church member will look at her, admire her. But I don't care how she looks to the eye, a thinking man will turn his head. Why? He's been through God's Filter, and he knows to look upon her is adultery in his heart. He don't think she's pretty.
Say, "Isn't she a pretty thing!"
Not to him it isn't. She's a filthy-looking, miserable Jezebel wretch, to a thinking man. A son of God looks upon her with shame that he even belongs to the family she belongs to. That's right. "How could that be my sister and act like that?"
90 See, she pulled through one filter, and he come through another. He won't think she's pretty, not at all. That's not beauty to a real man of God.

PROVERBS 7
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

What you bind on the earth...

MATTHEW 19
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
 
"362 Marriage is honorable, but it should be entered prayerfully and reverently. And genuine love for that woman will bind you together forever. "What you bind on the earth, I'll bind in Heaven." When you walk down the street yonder, she may get old and gray and wrinkled, but that same love you had for her when she was a young, beautiful woman, you'll still have it.
363 You may get stoop-shouldered, bald-headed, and wrinkled-faced and everything else, but she'll love you just like you did when you stand with wide shoulders and curly hair, if it's really God. For you're looking to the time when you've crossed the river yonder, when you'll spring back, again to young men and women, to live together forever. That's God's Eternal promise. He said He would do it." WMB

57-0922E HEBREWS.CHAPTER.SEVEN.2_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN HEB SUNDAY_

DON'T COMPROMISE...

JOHN 6
26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.


"76 How can I do it? I've got to stay with that Message. When, the Angel of the Lord appeared down there on the river, in that Light there as you see; and when It's proved by the government and everywhere else, with science, scientific research, that It's the Truth. And He told me to stay with this Word. Then how could I swap It for a creed? If those men are out there to do that, let them do it. But we was called to preach the Word. Don't compromise. Stand on the Word.
77 So now you see the reason that it's a dangerous thing to try to compromise and do something else, or try to get lifted up within yourself, and say, "Oh, I could do this and make more money. I can do this, and all the brethren will agree with me. I can compromise on this Word, and, oh, ninety-nine percent of their ministers will turn right over, 'That's fine. That's good.'" I know now. Many of them call. What is it? "Loaves and fishes," seeing the people healed, and the discernments, and the powers of God, and so forth, manifested. They get you there, to get meetings, and to get people in the... their churches and things. But when it comes to agreeing upon the Word, they'll get away from It. See?You can't do that. Stay with the Word." WMB. 
 62-1013 THE.INFLUENCE.OF.ANOTHER_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-4 N-11 SATURDAY

Unbelief

Unbelief doesn't destroy God; it doesn't destroy His plan; it doesn't destroy His works; it only destroys the unbeliever. Unbelief only destroys the unbeliever.

62-0128M - Unbelief Does Not Hinder God
WMB

It's the worm at the core that kills the apple

It ain't the robin that pecks the apple that hurts it, it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. That's—that's all our own rottenness among us is what it is, what's killing us, the—the moral de—degrade—decline that we have. 

WMB 50-0813E

Perseverance

And every person on earth, or that's ever been on earth, that ever achieved anything, had… that amounted to anything, had to be perseverant. You've got to be sure, first, what you got your faith anchored in.

63-0113E - "Perseverance"
Rev. William Marrion Branham

Why?

59-0813
Why?

If there's sin in your life, get it out. If there's condemnation, get it out. If there's doubt, get it out. Until you can see perfectly that it's God's will, it's God's plan, and you're included in that, then say, "Sickness, in the Name of Jesus Christ, get away from me." And remember, you might not feel any better for a week. But as soon as you said that word, something happened. God has to keep His Word. That sickness shakes, and he begins to turn loose. He will go if you'll just believe it. Don't doubt. Like Peter walking on the water, He said, "Why did you doubt? Oh, ye of little faith." Just because he was sinking, that had nothing to do with it. Christ had commanded him, and His Word was enough. That's the way we should think it, too.

Events Made Clear By Prophecy

65-0801E
Events Made Clear By Prophecy

This Bible foretells, by prophecy, what day that we're living, and what time we're living, and what kind of a events ought to be taking place. It foretells it exactly to the letter, and has never missed one age, all the time. Not one time has It ever missed, and It won't, for who are predestinated to see it will see it. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him, and all that the Father has given Me will come." It's the Word joining with the Word. It can't do nothing else. We know it, the day that we're living in. But as it has been in every age, people let man put their own interpretation to this Word, and causes them to be blinded to the event that's happened. Same thing it done with the Pharisees and Sadducees.

The Seed Of Discrepancy

65-0118
The Seed Of Discrepancy

Judas only played church. He wasn't really sincere. He didn't actually have faith; he'd have never betrayed Jesus. But he, see, he sowed that seed of discrepancy. He thought that he could make friends with the world, mammon, and also have friendship with Jesus, but it was too late for him to do anything about it. When the dead hour came, when he did this evil thing, he crossed the separating line between going forward and returning back. He had to go on in the way that he went, as a deceiver. He sowed the seed of discrepancy, he tried to find favor with those great organizations of that day, with the Pharisees and Sadducees. And thought he'd make hisself a piece of money, and would be popular among the people. If that doesn't cause so many people to get in that discrepancy, trying to find favor with man! Let's find favor with God, not with man.

Satan's Eden Preached on Sunday, 29th August 1965 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A. (1 hour and 23 minutes)

5-4 The god of this world today, the worshipped person of this world today is Satan, and the people are ignorant of worshipping Satan. But it's Satan impersonating himself as the church (See?), as the church. They worship Satan thinking that they are worshipping God through the church, but it's the way Satan has done it.
Oh, you say, "But wait a minute; we preach the Word." Look back here at my text tonight. Satan was the one preached the Word to Eve first. "God has said." See? It's that misconstruing that part of the Scripture that applies to the day. He will let you know all that Jesus did was perfectly well. He will let you know all that Moses did was perfectly well. But when you take the promises that they gave for this day; then that was applied to another age. That's just all he has to do (See?) is to get the people to believe it that way, and that--that's all. For you cannot take one word away from It, or add one word to It, but that's what he does.
5-6 People, ignorantly worshipping Satan, thinking they are worshipping God. As we're warned by prophecy in II Thessalonians that... Let's just read that: II Thessalonians, the 2nd chapter. Let's just get it a moment, if I can right away. I'd like to read that just a... I believe II Thessalonians. I got the Scripture here and say... Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of the Lord Jesus, and by our gathering together unto him,
And see the coming of the Lord and the gathering to Him, as God will gather His people to Him in the last days: the gathering of the people to the Lord, not to the church, to the Lord. ... gathering together unto Him. That ye be not soon shaken in your mind, or troubled--troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as... the day of the Lord is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin... (man of sin, watch what he is now) ... man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, (That was Judas. See?) Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God setteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

24-1 Your voice... You know what? Your actions speak so loud, it drowns your voice. Uh-huh. Let me go to a man, say, "Oh, I... We're all Christians. We belong to church," and strip teases hanging all over his office? It wouldn't make no difference what he's told me; I know better; so would you.
Let a women say she is a Christian with short hair? You know better than that. See? Yes, sir. Let her say she's a Christian wearing paint, and makeup, and shorts, and say she's a Christian? You know better than that. The Word of God teaches you better than that. The Word says she can't do it and be a Christian. She is even dishonorable and everything. How's God going to put a dishonorable thing in His Kingdom? No, sir, not at all. No, sir. Theirselves--it shows their desire.
24-3 You can't get a dove to eat with a buzzard, not at all. A dove don't have any gall. He can't eat that old carrion. If he took a bite of it, it would kill him, and he knows it; but a buzzard can eat most anything he wants to. See? He's got plenty of gall. So then you find out, that's the way it is with the world today, same thing. They're naked, blind, and don't know it. Satan did it by the woman's lust for knowledge, for sex, which she chose by her own choosing.

Quick study: Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed

 COLOSSIANS 1
¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
¹⁶ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
¹⁷ And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
²⁰ And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
²¹ And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
²² In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
²³ If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
²⁴ Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
²⁵ Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
²⁶ Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
²⁷ To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
²⁸ Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
²⁹ Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

 QUOTES FROM => Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed (63-0728)  

 32-2 Now, we find Joseph then, that when... No man could touch or come to Pharaoh without first seeing Joseph. No man can come to the Father only by the Son. And when Joseph left the throne, they sound the trumpets; every knee bowed. "Joseph is coming forth." Glory. Someday every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, when He leaves the throne of His Father (See?) to come forth. Everybody will bear witness that He's the Son of God. You either... It was too late then; do it now. 


41-5 Just like all them other spies did that went over and looked at Canaan. They come over there and said, "Oh, we look like grasshoppers the side of them. We can't take them. The Amalekites, and all these--what they're going to do." And they went back.
And Caleb and Joshua, being thoroughbreds (Amen!) by the Word of God, knowed God said, "I give you that land."
They said, "We're more than able to take it."
It depends on where you're born from. If you're borned of the Word of God, God's Word has the preeminence in His Church. That's what He died for. That's His purpose, that He might be able to achieve to have His preeminence working in His Church. Let the Word of God shine forth first, no matter what anything else looks like. I don't care if the intellectuals says this, that. That has nothing to do with it. God's Word said so, and we're more than able to take it.
"If I preached that in my church," a minister told me, said, "I'd be preaching to four posts in the church."
I said, "I'd preach to that." That's right. God's Word said so. We can do it. God said do it. Amen.


52-4 Same when He reveals Himself to Paul, another predestinated seed... There was Paul going around... He might said, "If I get a hold of that bunch, I'll tear them to pieces, because I'm Dr. Saul. I come up under Gamaliel. ('I come from the Moody Bible, or some other one.' See?) I--I'm a scholar. I know what I'm talking about. I'll tear that bunch of holy-rollers to pieces. And I tell you, great holy father, you just give me the permission to go down there, and I'll arrest every one of them noise makers down there. All this divine healing stuff, we'll stop it." Put it in his pocket and said, "I'm on my road down." And that day, my, about 11 o'clock in the day, a Light showed in his face, and he fell to the earth.

53-1 Why? He was a predestinated Seed. God said, "I have chose him. And I'm going to show him what great things he'll suffer for My Name's sake. I'll send him to the Gentiles and disgrace him in every way that they can be disgraced, but yet he'll bear My Name."
Paul went down there till he got all of his ecclesiastical stuff cut off of him, down at the backside of the desert for three years and a half, down there in Arabia, until he learned the Word and the Word become he, and he become a prisoner. Here he come back in chains of love, "All my seminary experience is gone. I'm a prisoner to Jesus Christ. (Amen!) Philemon, my brother, I'm a prisoner of Jesus Christ. I only can speak and say what He tells me."
53-3 God needs prisoners today that'll prison yourself to His will, to His Word. That's what Paul was. No matter how much intellectual he'd learned, he'd knowed God by revelation. Yes, sir. The intellectual went all the way out of the business then when the revelation come, which upon the rock the Church is built. Yes, sir.
Notice, he was a predestinated Seed. The Holy Ghost alone shows you Who He is. There's no man... They'll make you Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and everything else out of it. See? But the Holy Ghost will reveal Him as the Lord God of heaven made manifest, that that is (oh,) Him.


 56-4 A man said the other day to me, standing and talking, he said, "Well, what denomination do you belong to?"
I said, "None."
"What?"
"None," I said, "I belong to a Kingdom."
"Well, how do you join that?"
"You don't join it; you are borned in it."
"What kingdom is that?"
I said, "The mystical Body of Jesus Christ. By one Spirit we're baptized into this Body, borned of His Spirit, then we belong to a Kingdom. And our lives are not Americans; we're not Germans; we're not nothing; we're Christians. We are settled and walk in the Spirit, a love slave from the things of the world. And our rights to the world we sold out and bought this Pearl of great Price, and walk and let the Holy Spirit manifest Itself. That's what His real Church is. That's what you are, or what I am, if we'll let ourselves go and serve God by His Word and not by what some creed says.


58-5 The prophet Paul said, "In the last days the people would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good. (Heady, high-minded. See?), having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away; for this is the kind that goes from house to house and leads silly women laden away with divers lust (with shorts and bobbed hair, and everything else)--led away with divers lust," and say, "It's all right. Ah, they're crazy out there. Don't pay no..." See? Never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.
And these men resisted it as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses: Able to produce a church and produce a group of people just as... But their folly will be made manifest when Jesus takes His Bride and sets Her up here and says, "This is Her," and away He goes with Her. That's right. Their folly will be made known.


 64-4 Why, I went to that tribe of Shangai there. If a young girl isn't married by a certain age, she has to leave the--leave the tribe, take off her tribal paint. She goes into the city; she's just a roustabout. And if she... Before she's married, she has to be tested for her virgincy. If she be found guilty of committing adultery with some man, he--she has to tell who it is, and they're both killed together.
Oh, they can--they can outshine what these so-called... What if you did that in so-called Christians? Ninety-nine percent of them would die before daylight (That's right. Right.), both man and women. You know that's right.


65-3 Now, notice, God making Hisself known. Not... We're not suppose to make converts to Christianity by a government, but by the revelation of Christ in you as God was in Christ. As God was in Christ, Christ in you. When... What God did in Christ, Christ does in you. What signs did God in Christ, Christ does in you. Oh, isn't that beautiful? Oh, my. I like that.
Jesus said at that day (that's this day)--at that day (when this revelation's made known) you will know that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me. (When the revelation's made manifest,) at that day, you shall know that I and the Father are One. I'm in the Father, and the Father's in Me. Then when the revelation comes forth, then it's I in you and you in Me."
There you are. See the manifold threefold... What for? To bring it back. We've got to be...


 82-4 Now, it is promised in the last days that the original faith in the same to be restored to the children of God at the time of the Bride Tree (Malachi 4). God said, "Before the world burns up with fire, behold I send to you Elijah the prophet, and he will restore the faith of the children." Now, that wasn't the first Elijah that come. No, no. Now, we don't teach here Elijah's mantel, and Elijah's blankets, and all those things like that. We just teach the Word of God. See? That's what He said. See, we got all kind of Elijah this and Elijah that, which is nonsense. That's--that's--we know that, That's--I'm not talking about that. And you that's spiritual minded understand. See, the late--hour's getting late and can't put it all on this tape, of course.

AMEN!

I didn't come to you with enticing words of man...

65-0829 SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_

107 And when we lust for knowledge, want a Ph.D., LL.D., it's sin to do so. That's strong statements, but that's the Truth. No matter how strong it is, it's still the Truth, see. To lust for knowledge, understanding!
108 The thing of it is, is, today we don't try to establish the Word of God in the people's hearts. We are trying to establish ourselves. Churches are trying to establish the doctrine of the church, in a person's heart.
109 We are commanded to establish the Word of God. Paul said, "I didn't come to you with enticing words of man, that your faith might rest up in the knowledge of man; but I come to you in power; in manifestations of the Holy Ghost, that your faith might rest in God." There you are.
  
MATTHEW 24
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

What is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost?

The baptism of the Holy Ghost by a fleshly manifestation or experience is a Pentecostal denominational teaching of the last age, it is certainly not Message or Bible truth, and sadly some who have been raised under this teaching have tried to carry it over as a message of this hour.
The true baptism of the Holy Ghost in this hour does not come by a shiver or a shake, or shouting and rolling on the floor, or some other supernatural encounter regardless of how wonderful and true and even God given these experiences might be. Satan can impersonate all of these things.
One of the mysteries that has been revealed in this hour by the seventh Angel is the mystery of the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation. 

1 PETER 1:23 says, Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
 
There is nothing greater and more life giving than the true word of God in the hour in which you live, the true baptism of the Holy Ghost is to receive the word for your day as revealed to you by the Holy Ghost himself. 

JOHN 16:13a Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.

The doctrine that the serpent taught Eve in the Garden of Eden was that life comes through and by an experience of a sensation involving the flesh, an experience where one can know the time and the place and ‘LOOK BACK’ to the very moment of a fleshly experience when life was conceived. This sounds very true and wonderful to the carnal minded, but it was not Gods way of imparting life then, nor is it his way now.

Mary was chosen to bring forth the literal life of God himself into manifestation; if we study how God achieved this with Mary we will see how we must do the same in this hour.
Firstly God sends Mary an angel with a message, the message was the word of God for that season. At first Mary does not fully comprehend the message spoken by the angel yet in her heart she knew it was from God, she received the voice of the messenger by saying “Let it be unto me according to thy WORD.” After that the angel departed from her, the messenger left the scene, some time after that and without any sensation the life of God Himself began to grow within her.

Eve brought forth life by a "shiver" and a "shake" of a false word experience, it wasn’t Gods way, sure it brought forth life, but it was the wrong kind of life and it produced a hybrid to the word of God that ended in Death. Mary brought forth the true life of God the way God intended it should come, by his spoken word though an angels message and without sensation.
The true evidence of the Holy Ghost is not to be measured by experience, but by the Word that you receive, as Brother Branham said, the true evidence is those who can receive the word for their day, that is the true evidence according to Jesus Himself. He said, 

'JOHN 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.'

Have a look at these quotes, that I have in my archives too:

Remember, the Holy Ghost in this hour is the person of the word which is Jesus Christ revealed personally to you through the voice of the seventh and last Angel (Rev. 10.7) shining light on the scriptures, a son of man (William Branham) revealing the son of man (Jesus Christ). Look at:

 Malachi 4:5-6, ‘Behold, I will send YOU (as with Mary) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD, and he shall by his message (WORD) restore the faith (Holy Ghost) of us children to that of the original faith of our apostolic fathers’. 

I believe it. It's scriptural friends.
  
WORKS.IS.FAITH.EXPRESSED.title SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-1 65-1126
“The Spirit can come out here and anoint you to do certain things, and you do it, but that don't mean you're saved. But think of it. Caiaphas prophesied. Judas cast out devils. See, the Spirit anointed him. There's rain falls on the just and the unjust; the weeds can rejoice with the wheat. But it's what it is at the core. There's where you can, intellectuals can accept and say, "Oh, sure, that looks good. I believe that." That still don't do it. No, sir. And the spirit can actually make witness of it, and still it isn't so. Because if that soul hasn't come from God, it can make all the impersonations out here, but it cannot be real. You can act healing; you can act like you have. You can act like you receive it. Christians can act like they're Christians, and act and be ever so good at it, but that don't mean they're saved. That's exactly right. See? The Spirit can be there, the real genuine Spirit. The Holy Spirit can anoint you; that still don't mean you're saved. It's that inside soul that never dies; it's got Eternal Life. It always was Eternal Life. See? It come from God; it goes to God; it's the soul." 

TESTIMONY.OF.A.TRUE.WITNESS.title JEFF.IN V-15 N-6 61-1105
"Church, that's the reason I can't take the Baptism of the Holy Ghost of crying, shaking, or speaking in tongues, or any sensation. They're all right now. See? Them--them things are all right, but the devil can impersonate that so real. But the Holy Ghost is Deity, God tabernacled in men. It's more than a sensation. It's more than speaking in tongues. It's more than shouting in the Spirit. It's more than weeping. It's more than joining church. It's God living in men, Deity, God Himself tabernacled into that person, when he can speak and it's just the same as God speaking; that's the Church of Jesus Christ."  

PARADOX.A.title CHICAGO.IL V-21 N-3 63-0801
"You might be able to try to say you have; you might be able to show some evidence of some emotion; but unless your life is vindicating what you're professing to have, you still haven't got It. No matter how many emotions, how much you jump, run, sensations, speaking in tongues, or shouting, or whatever you might lay it upon (which is all right, I believe in all that too.), but unless your life copes with your testimony, then you haven't got It. 'Cause the fruit of the Spirit vindicates what you are, just like the fruit of any tree tells what it is. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them."

ANOINTED.ONES.AT.END.TIME.title JEFF.IN V-5 N-3 65-0725M
 No, they wouldn't stand to be called false Jesus. They wouldn't be--stand to call Jesus; certainly not. That's too plain. Anybody would know that. Anyone would know they wasn't Jesus. ..But they call themself the anointed, and they do signs and wonders almost to deceive the elected. But false christs, anointed ones, shall arise and shall deceive the elected if it were possible." And remember, Jesus never said that them guy's would appear. He said there'd appear false christs: christs, plural, “denominations” and so forth, anointed ones, anointed with a denominational spirit and not the Word. You follow it? Not false Jesus, false christs, false anointed ones. See? 

ONLY BELIEVE :)

Unequally yoked...?

Hebrews, Chapter 7, Part One - 09/15/57
What a blessed privilege that man has that challenge to follow the Lord Jesus, to separate himself from all his carnal associates to follow the Lord. And if any person seems not to behave themself rightly and to present themselves as Christians but love the carnal things, it's best for you to hunt another partner right away. That's right. And if no one will walk with you, there's One Who promised to walk with you: that's the blessed Lord Jesus. He will walk with you.

Questions And Answers - 01/03/54e
The world's got to get in the spirit of the last days before the last days can come, and we're in the spirit of the last days. And God's promised that these things would be here, and that's what we've got. We're in the last days. And men and women are setting asleep and don't realize it.

And the morals - I met a young boy here the other day - Oh, it was sometime ago; it was this last fall. And we were coming into a city. And he was telling me, a young high school boy that was married. He said, "I married this girl, 'cause she was a good girl, and had to marry her before she completed high school." Said, "We haven't had a one turned out a virgin, as far as I know in high school for years around here." See? Just so demoralized...

2nd. Corinthians 6:14-18

14. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

18. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.


Hebrews, Chapter 7, Part Two - 09/22/57
.....Men see some little Jezebel all painted up, you know, and he'll go around fall for her, maybe you got a good wife. And then you call yourself a Christian. Shame on you. You need another dose of the altar. That's right. And some of you women look around at some little old guy with his hair slicked down, enough Vaseline on it to open his mouth.

.....There's fine boys here, Christian boys. A long time ago, when I was pastor here, we used to have just young men's classes. And I'd speak to the young women on Sunday afternoon about sex and things, then the next Sunday afternoon speak to the young men, and try to get those things curbed out.

Some little old girl started going with some little old shrimp downtown here, smoked cigarettes, and had a flask in his pocket, and he drove a little roadster car around town. I couldn't see what she seen in that boy. He wouldn't come to church. He'd set out there, put her in church out here, and then he'd set out there on the outside in his car and wait, wouldn't come in church. She lived in New Albany.

I said, ".....What in the world do you see in that boy? .....he hates the very religion that you have. He despises your Christ. He'd never make you a husband; he'd make you miserable all your life." And I said, "Why, there's fine little Christian boys here that you could go with... Your daddy and mother despises the thoughts of you going out. But you go anyhow, and you think, 'I'm sweet sixteen.'"

She started wearing makeup and running out, and first thing she was in roadhouses. She's gone on to eternity now. ...and You know what the excuse that girl give me back there that she loved that boy? She said, "He's got such cute little feet and he smells so good." Could you imagine that? Perfuming himself up, that's a sissy, not a man.

"Look," I said, "Sister, I'd rather go with a Christian boy that had feet like gravel cars and smelled like a polecat, if he was absolutely a Christian." That's right. True. Yeah, that's excuse, "Such cute little feet and smells so good." The little roadhouse runner finally ruined the life of the girl. It's a shame, disgraceful.

The Serpent Seed - 09/28/58E
Adam had done named all of the creation, everything else. But he wasn't nothing for himself, so He made Him a helpmate: took a rib from his side, closed up the gash, and made a helpmate to him. And man in his spirit was both man and woman. And "a" woman is just a part of "a" man. And when a man takes to himself a wife, and if she's correctly his wife, a God-given wife, she'll be just to him as part of him.

That's the reason you have so many scruples in the marriage. Is because you go out and see some girl with pretty brown eyes, or blue eyes, or something like that, some pretty figure, and you fall for her. First time she has her first baby them teeth comes out, and she gets wrinkled and old, and then you want to kick her out.

And some of you women find some little boy with his hair slicked down, his mammy's lard can half dumped on it, and curly; it'll all fall out. I know that by experience. But what happens? What is it? You fall for that. You ought to pray first, 'cause a woman is part of you.

And if you've embraced a woman to your bosom, and taken her for your wife, and she makes an imprint on you... (We'll say it like this so you'll understand) and any other woman against that bosom won't fit that print. And God will hold you responsible for it. You just remember that.

AMEN!!